Notable People

General Robert S. Foster,
officer in the Civil War

Lincoln Dixon,
U.S. Congressman

Sarah T. Bolton,
pioneer poet

Shirley Dare,
magazine writer

John C. New,
U.S. Consul General to Great Britain and publisher of the Indianapolis Journal

Ovid Butler,
founder of Butler University

Horatio C Newcomb,
Mayor of Indianapolis

Phyllis Jackson,
author

William Forsyth,
artist

Theodore Steele,
artist

James Whitcomb Brougher,
author

Albert Edward Wiggam,
author

Hannah Milhous Nixon,
Mother of President Nixon

Alexander Campbell,
founder of the Christian Church and Bethany College

Henry Ward Beecher,
came to Vernon early in the Civil War and made a plea for Lincoln and the Union at the Courthouse

Lord Flanigan,
English nobleman, was at one time a citizen of Vernon