Business and Professional Women’s Club The Business and Professional Women’s (BPW) Club was organized on May 1, 1935, as an offshoot of the , a… Read More »Business and Professional Women’s Club
Bush Stadium After the 1930 season. Norman Perry, owner and president of , announced plans to build a new baseball stadium on… Read More »Bush Stadium
Owen Joseph Bush Born on October 8, 1887, and a native of the eastside of Indianapolis, Bush began his career playing for local… Read More »Owen Joseph Bush
Burns and James In 1926, Lee Burns and Edward D. James formed an architectural partnership. Both men were Butler University graduates, and although… Read More »Burns and James
Lee Burns Born on April 19, 1872, in Bloomfield, Indiana, Burns graduated from and, as a young man, worked for the Bowen-Merrill… Read More »Lee Burns
Burger Chef In 1957 Frank Porter Thomas, an uncle of famed musician and Peru, Indiana, native, Cole Porter, opened a pilot restaurant… Read More »Burger Chef
William B. Burford Born on November 18, 1846 and a native of Independence, Missouri, Burford came to Indianapolis at age 15 to serve… Read More »William B. Burford
John Tomlinson Brush Brush was a native of Clintonville, New York. He was born on June 15, 1845. When orphaned at age 4,… Read More »John Tomlinson Brush
Walter Bruetsch Born on November 25, 1896, and educated in Heidelberg, Germany, Bruetsch became a scholar of Latin and Greek, but the… Read More »Walter Bruetsch
Moses Broyles Broyles was born an enslaved person near Centerville, Maryland. At the age of four, he was separated from his parents… Read More »Moses Broyles
