The following are biographies and/or genealogies of those who were officially connected to Indiana’s canals, worked on them or had businesses related to them.
Click on highlighted names to learn more about those canawlers.
| Name | Find A Grave | Canal Business |
|---|---|---|
| Armitage, Valerius | N/A | W&E Contactor – FTW Feeder Dam / Delphi |
| Atcheson, David | 109068689 | Annapolis / Coke Oven Pottery / Canal Shipper |
| Aveline, Francis | 19635459 | W&E Contractor – Sylvan Lake / FTW Hotel |
| Babbs, Noah | Rising Sun, IN | Miami Canal worker 1825-28 Hamilton Co OH |
| Backus, Abner | 145406689 | W&E Ohio Portion Civil Engineer – Toledo |
| Bailey, Callum Jr. | 34048788 | Toll Collector – Terre Haute |
| Baker, Andrew | 84552589 | Canal Contractor / Boater / Mill – Parke Co |
| Ball, Cyrus | 19310031 | Toll Collector – Lafayette 1840 |
| Ball, Owen | 112053107 | W&E Contractor – Lafayette |
| Ball, William | 15565881 | Resident Engineer W&E S. Div. Terre Haute |
| Banes, Jonathan | 41720996 | WW Superintendent – Metamora |
| Barlow, Jirah | 11654783 | W&E Toll Collector – Lagro |
| Barton, Gaylord G. | 30553586 | Board of Trustees W&E Canal / Washington IN |
| Bayless, Lott | 159055338 | Board of Trustees W&E Canal / Allen Co IN |
| Beach, Silas C. | 26334843 | Traveler -Allegheny Portage RR / Vigo Co IN |
| Beadle, W. H. H. | 5993484 | Capt 31st Ind Inf / Lived near Howard IN |
| Beard, John | 21273614 | IN Senate – Supporter W&E- Crawfordsville |
| Bechtol, Charles | 73729359 | W&E Canal Worker – Huntington |
| Bennett, Oliver | 70694177 | Store Owner on O&E Canal – Navarre OH |
| Benson, Erastus | 74490971 | Canal Warehouse/Montezuma Basin/Wabash Ferry |
| Bird, Oehmig | 53317426 | State & Local Politician – W&E Canal Superv |
| Blee Family | 82850335 | History of Home & Family Aboite Twp FTW |
| Boden, Augustus | 35342081 | Boatman -“The Swan” to Miami 1843 |
| Bolinger, George Washington | 35342081 | Boatbuilder – FTW & Roanoke |
| Bowsher, Joseph | 23504593 | Built Gristmill – Sugar Creek |
| Bradfield, Thomas | 34570685 | W&E Canal Contractor – Logansport |
| Britton, Richard | 27283392 | W&E Canal Contractor – Peru “Old Dickey” |
| Brown, John | 111984610 | Stonemason / Canal House FTW |
| Brown, Norman | 41412578 | Worker – Erie / O&E / W&E / Attica IN |
| Burns, Joseph | 82000881 | Resident Montezuma owned Burns Ferry |
| Byers, Zachariah | 160007713 | Owner Rockport Mills – Shipper W&E |
| Campbell, John Tenbrook | 81585288 | Canal Construction detailed in 1907 article |
| Cannon, Joe | 10158 | 8 yrs Speaker of US House /Annapolis IN /Danville IL |
| Carpenter, Willard | 15035200 | Evansville Canal & Railroad / Willard Library |
| Carter, Chauncy | 34643135 | Super. W&E Canal – Miami Co |
| Carter, J. Newlin | 34143206 | Shipped – W&E- Parke Co |
| Carter, Thomas | 26671300 | W&E Contractor/Stone Quarry/Foundry Hollow |
| Case, Reed | 36550593 | Contractor Canal in Carroll Co /Businessman |
| Christman, Nicholas | 97570300 | FTW Driver on W&E Canal / Farmer – Yoder |
| Cissna, Robert | 38815946 | Mill Operator – Wabash – Lock 16 |
| Cockrum, William Monroe | 25646857 | Warehouse at Dongola / Pork Packers |
| Coe, Isaac | 45907990 | Physician / Fund Commissioner / Fraud |
| Coffin, William Gaston | 140602395 | W&E Shipper / Sugar Creek Foundry / Lawyer |
| Coleman, Thomas | 7847651 | Driver O&E / Whse Lagro/ Banker Lafayette |
| Columbia, Dana | 65039950 | FTW Boat Captain – moved to Junction OH |
| Comparet, Charles | 61369470 | Recollections of Early FTW canal events |
| Comparet, David | 16165326 | Committee 1843 Celebration FTW – Whse |
| Comparet, Francis | 82870608 | Boat Builder / Canal Basin / Hotel /Mill |
| Comstock, Charles | 15099208 | Contractor W&E / Boat Builder / Roanoke |
| Conklin, Benjamin | 96313132 | Cambridge City / Mill / Hagerstown Canal |
| Conner, Samuel | 7888027 | W&E Canal Contractor – Parke Co |
| Conover, Aaron | 36070826 | Early Canal history -Terre Haute |
| Conwell, Abraham | 136063024 | Connersville resident – Canal Events |
| Conwell, James | 47105183 | Laurel resident / Minister / Canal Promoter |
| Cook, Henry | N/A | Cincinnati – boat driver Miamia & Erie |
| Cooper, William | N/A | Worked on W&E Canal – Fountain Co |
| Cotton, William | 101834492 | Whitewater Canal worker – Connersville |
| Cunningham, John | 53664535 | Contractor Battle Ground W&E Canal |
| Darby, Joseph | 52589707 | Worker Central Canal / Miami Co later |
| Davis, George Dutch | 131695601 | Canal Boat Captain – W&E Canal – Toledo |
| Davis, Oliver Perry | 67607468 | Parke Co Businessman / Wabash Ferry owner |
| Deardorff, Robert | 96441307 | Worked on O & E Canal moved to Lafayette |
| DePuy, John | 39839440 | Physician – Lagro / Wabash |
| Digby, William | 19243643 | 1825 founded Lafayette IN / Marque Lafayette |
| Dodson, Samuel | 35277032 | W&E Contractor on Summit at Riley |
| Dole, William | 117538872 | Partner William Kile at Clinton Locks Parke |
| Donaldson, Walter | 75800473 | Parke Co Judge / Co commisioner / Rockville |
| Douglass, William | 34645585 | W&E canal boat operator – Logansport |
| Dowling,Thomas | 15565889 | Board of Trustees W&E Canal – Terre Haute |
| Downing, Andrew | Green Co. | Richland Iron Furnace Bloomfield Greene Co |
| Driscoll, Daniel | 36496453 | Canal Worker Lagro & Wabash Co |
| Drover, Henry F. | 67808914 | Huntington (Drovertown)Canal Boat & Business |
| Dunn, David M. | 54816201 | Board of Trustees W&E Canal |
| Dunn, George | 7782648 | Lawrenceburg Congressman/RR promoter/ IN Treas |
| Edgerton, Alfred | 7116871 | FtW land/canal & RR promotor Politician |
| Edmonston, Benjamin | Haysville Farm | Board of Trustees W&E Canal |
| Edsall, Samuel | 65597973 | Part-Owner/ Rudisell saw mill & Orff grist mill FtW |
| Edsall, William | 19662399 | Surveyor/ Contractor W&E Ft Wayne/ Businessman |
| Elward, James | 36497610 | Lagro – hauled stone , farmer |
| Embree, Elisha | 7779398 | Princeton Judge/lawyer /politician plat Port Gibson |
| English, Robert | 36497778 | Huntington Patent Waste Gate / Carrollton Bridge |
| Fairfield, Asa | 83729545 | Canal Boat Captain – W&E Canal – Ft Wayne “Indiana” |
| Farquhar, John | 7666403 | Asst. Surveyor WW canal / Richmond Brookville canal |
| Finney Family | Annapolis | Parke-Co. |
| Fisher, Stearns | 38833982 | Super. W&E Canal – Wabash Co |
| Fitch, Nathaniel | 47218593 | Canal Worker / married Sarah Delong Allen Co |
| Fleming, William | 54404231 | 1876 Purchase W&E Lafayette- State Ln |
| Fletcher, Calvin | 19836853 | Indianapolis politician / Visit along W&E Canal |
| Ford, Gayle | 96594588 | Capt. The Patriot 1st to Connersville |
| Forrer, Samuel | 98766074 | Ohio Canal Contractor/Commissioner/IN Contractor |
| Frybarger, George | 96106591 | Connersville Businessman, Banker, Postmaster |