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Sno & Antimony: Indy LbNA #44761

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Nov 29, 2008
Location:
City:Indianapolis
County:Marion
State:Indiana
Boxes:1
Planted by:Lindsays Snowman
Found by: Jennifer Ruggles
Last found:Mar 27, 2016
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Nov 29, 2008
Catharine Merrill

From Wikipedia: “Catharine Merrill (1824-1900) was one of the first female university professors in the United States. She studied literature in Germany and taught in Cleveland, Ohio and Crawfordsville, Indiana. In 1867 she was appointed as the Demia Butler Professor of English at North Western Christian University, now known as Butler University. This was the first endowed chair at an American university designated for a female professor, and it made Merrill only the second female professor in the country (she was preceded by Maria Mitchell at Vassar College). She was the first to use the lecture method for a subject other than science.

During the Civil War she served as a nurse in Kentucky. After the war she was asked by Indiana Governor Oliver P. Morton to write a history of Indiana's soldiers in the war. It was published anonymously as The Soldier of Indiana in the War for the Union (2 vol, 1866, 1869). She also published The Man Shakespeare and Other Essays in 1902.

She met John Muir when he lived in Indianapolis in 1866-1867, and helped take care of him when he temporarily lost his vision in an accident. This began a life-long friendship, and Muir wrote a tribute to Catharine after she died entitled Words from an Old Friend.

Clue
Catharine Merrill is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery in section 7. A map of the cemetery will help you find this section since the sections seem to be randomly numbered.
Drive around section 7 until you find the Merrill marker. From Catharine’s headstone, take a reading of 260 degrees. Walk 25 paces until you are at a blue “14.” Walk another 18 paces at the same reading until you see the Marsee family plot. Continue 25 more paces at the same heading until you find the bench memorializing the 20th Anniversary Bag Lady Tour. From this spot, take a reading of 280 degrees and walk 22 paces to a tree where Indy is hidden.

Please hide well with bark and sticks so that the letterbox can not be seen.