Editing Vermillion County, Indiana (section)

==Notable people==
[[Image:HenryDWashburn.JPG|thumb|right|150px|Henry Washburn]]
[[Image:Claudematthewsindiana.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Claude Matthews]]
[[Image:Ernie Pyle.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Ernie Pyle]]
[[Henry D. Washburn|Henry Dana Washburn]] was born in Vermont in 1832; in 1850 he moved to Vermillion County, studied law, and opened a practice in Newport in 1853. He served in the Civil War on the Union side as a lieutenant colonel and later as a general; after the war he was elected to the [[United States House of Representatives]] and served through 1869. In 1870 he headed an expedition which explored the area that later became [[Yellowstone National Park]]. He died 1871 in Clinton and is buried at Riverside Cemetery.<ref>{{cite web
  |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000172
  |title=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: Washburn, Henry Dana
  |publisher=United States Congress
  |access-date=December 19, 2010
}}</ref>

[[Claude Matthews]] was the governor of Indiana from 1893 to 1897. He was born in Kentucky in 1845; he moved to Vermillion County in 1867 and became a prominent farmer. He was elected [[Indiana Secretary of State]] in 1890, and governor in 1893. He died in 1898 in Indianapolis and is buried in Clinton; he was 52 years old.<ref>{{cite book
  |editor=Gugin, Linda C.
  |editor2=St. Clair, James E.
  |title=The Governors of Indiana
  |publisher=Indiana Historical Society Press
  |location=Indianapolis, Indiana
  |year=2006
  |isbn=0-87195-196-7
  |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780871951960/page/n227 204]–208
  |url-access=registration
  |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780871951960
  }}</ref>

[[Ernie Pyle]] was born on a farm near Dana in 1900. He served for three months in the United States Navy Reserve at the end of World War&nbsp;I; after the war he attended [[Indiana University]] but left before graduating to take a newspaper job. He served for several years as the managing editor at the ''Washington Daily News'', and later became the nation's first aviation columnist. He began as a roving correspondent in 1935, and became a war correspondent when the United States entered World War&nbsp;II. His work during the war earned him a [[Pulitzer Prize]]. He died in combat in 1945.<ref>{{cite news
  |url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0803.html
  |title=Ernie Pyle Is Killed on Ie Island; Foe Fired When All Seemed Safe
  |newspaper=The New York Times
  |date=April 19, 1945
|access-date=December 19, 2010
}}</ref>

[[Ken Kercheval]] was born in Clinton<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tribstar.com/news/local_news/hometown-boy-embraces-promise-i-made-clinton-native-ken-kercheval/article_98ee1181-8d40-5580-818c-39c4801be484.html|title = Hometown boy embraces 'Promise I Made': Clinton native Ken Kercheval takes role in Dreams Come True production}}</ref> in 1935 and became an actor in 1962; he is best known for his role as "Cliff Barnes" in the television series ''[[Dallas (TV series)|Dallas]]''.

[[Dana Trent|Dana Lewman]] lived in Vermillion County until she was six. She is best known for the Breaking Good podcast.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tribune-Star |first=Mark Bennett |title='Breaking Good' in rural America |url=https://www.tribstar.com/features/valley_life/breaking-good-in-rural-america/article_3fe8ccad-0cb3-5437-93fe-ab876b312816.html |access-date=October 10, 2022 |website=Terre Haute Tribune-Star |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Tribune-Star |first=Mark Bennett |title=Revisiting a hard past to help others |url=https://www.tribstar.com/features/valley_life/revisiting-a-hard-past-to-help-others/article_df891516-b9c1-58a4-8f67-620b3c39f053.html |access-date=October 10, 2022 |website=Terre Haute Tribune-Star |language=en}}</ref> The five-part series chronicles her early life and teenage summers in various towns within the county, including Dana and Clinton.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 24, 2021 |title=J. Dana Trent turns her drug-dealing childhood into a podcast about poverty and faith |url=https://religionnews.com/2021/09/24/j-dana-trent-turns-her-drug-dealing-childhood-into-a-podcast-about-poverty-and-faith/ |access-date=October 10, 2022 |website=Religion News Service |language=en-US}}</ref>