Jeremiah Sullivan

ID: 2759 ~ Source: Historic Madison, Inc. ~ Creator: Photographed by Sarah Karns

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Oil portrait of Jeremiah Sullivan (date and artist unknown). Sullivan was a lawyer, an early state legislator and later a state Supreme Court justice. He suggested the name Indianapolis for our state capital city during a legislative meeting in the original state capital in Corydon.

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Jeremiah Sullivan House

By Historic Madison, Inc.

Could Jeremiah Sullivan ever imagine how important he and his family would become? Or that his house would jumpstart a nationally recognized preservation movement?” In 1816 twenty-three year old Jeremiah Sullivan joined a rising flood of…