Gov. William Hendricks and Ann Parker Paul

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Husband Gov. William Hendricks ^{1 2}

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           Born: 12 Nov 1782 - Ligonier Valley, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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         Father: Abraham Hendricks (      -      ) 2 3
         Mother: Ann Jamison (      -      ) 2 3

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Wife Ann Parker Paul

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1 M John Abraham Hendricks ⁴

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2 M Hon. Thomas H. Hendricks ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Gov. William Hendricks

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He was a Democratic-Republican member of the House of Representatives from 1816 to 1822, the third Governor of Indiana from 1822 to 1825, and an Anti-Jacksonian member of the U.S. Senate from 1825 to 1837. He led much of his family into politics and founded one of the largest political families in Indiana. His term as governor was spent repairing the state's finances to later enable large scale internal improvements. The establishment of the basic framework of the state's public school system and the transfer of the capital from Corydon to Indianapolis also occurred during his term. Hendricks County was named in his honor.

On the farm he grew to man's estate and educated himself laboring at different occupations to make the money for his support during his school and college life. Among other labors he was a hand in a powder mill for one year. He afterwards taught school and by great economy while engaged in that calling was enabled to enter college at Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, and was graduated from there in the class of 1810. After his graduation he went west to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he read law in the office of Mr. Corry, and was admitted to the bar. In 1812 he went to Madison, Indiana, where he afterwards became one of the most prominent men of the state and where he spent the remainder of his life.
In 1814 he was elected a member of the Territorial legislature. In June, 1816, he was appointed secretary of the convention to form a State Constitution which convened at Corydon, the seat of government and the first capital of the state. In August, 1816, he was elected as the first and sole representative to Congress from the state and served three successive terms until 1822, when he was elected the second Governor of Indiana. During the last year of his term as Governor he was elected to the U. S. Senate and resigned the office of Governor in order to take his seat in the Senate on March 4, 1825. He was re-elected to that body in 1850 and was a conspicuous leader in the Senate for twelve years. He made the journey from Indiana to the Capital usually on horseback as far as Ligonier Valley thence to Washington by stage. On one of these journeys his wife accompanied him riding the entire distance from Indiana to Washington on horseback. Governor Hendricks' political opinions were truly democratic. When he was a candidate for Governor of Indiana he had no opponent and no other men in the history of the state was ever so honored. On the 16th of May, 1850, he died on his Indiana farm. The literary degrees of A. B. in 1810, A. M. and L. L. D. were conferred upon him by the Washington college of Pennsylvania. From 1816 to 1837 he served without intermission the people of Indiana in the three highest offices within their gift and was by far for over a decade of years the most popular man in the state.

Governor Hendricks' eldest son, John Abraham, was captain in the Mexican war and a colonel in the war of the Rebellion. A brother and a nephew sat in the State Senate, and another nephew, the Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, received the highest honors his State could confer upon him. He was elected United States Senator, Governor of the State, Vice-president of the United States in 1884, and has gone to his grave.

1 Wm. H. Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Lane S. Hart, Publisher, 1883), Pg 200.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 536.

3 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 368.

4 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 537.