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and the Post Office would have normally been closed. However, on that particular morning, Vincennes Postmaster John B. Cogan opened the doors to the public at 7:30 in the morning.During that long and busy day, there was a special ceremony in local Harrison Park, where Assistant Postmaster General Walter Meyers (who had once been an Indianapolis attorney) gave the main address. It was announced that Percy Nightingale, a blind man who had the concession to operate a magazine stand in the Post Office, had First Day Covers for sale. After a very busy day, the Post Office closed at 6 pm. By July 15, Vincennes Postmaster Cogan was able to mail a letter to the Assistant Postmaster General in Washington stating that the final tally for the number of First Day Covers cancelled was 359,643. An amazing 1,200,000 stamps had been sold, with total sales amounting to $21,427.00.When Governor Harrison left the Indiana Territory, he resumed his military career, and eventually rose to the rank of major general. In 1813, he decisively defeated Indian and British forces at the Battle of Thames in Canada%u2014an engagement in which Chief Tecumseh was killed. After resigning from the army for good in 1814, Harrison served in various political offices, including the Ohio Senate and U.S. Senate. However, he was in the relatively low position of Clerk of Courts for Hamilton Co. Ohio when he was elected to the Presidency in 1840. Regrettably, three weeks after his inauguration, he became severely ill, and after nine days in bed, despite (or because of) medical treatment, which included bloodletting and purging, he died. Harrison was laid to rest in North Bend, Ohio.Although he was a very minor character in Indiana%u2019s history, William and Anna%u2019s son, John Scott Harrison, was indirectly responsible for the passage of laws in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Michigan that would allow medical schools to use the unclaimed bodies of paupers, orphans, the insane, and prisoners for anatomical dissection. Prior to that, body snatching was a common way to acquire cadavers for students to dissect.. The new laws were promulgated after significant public outcry when John died, and his remains were secretly dug up by body snatchers, then sold to the Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati. In 1813, the Indiana Territorial capital moved from Vincennes to Corydon, and 3 years after that, on December 11, 1816, Indiana was admitted as the 19th state in the Union. By that time, it had a population of 63,897. Jonathan Jennings was elected as Indiana%u2019s first Governor and served in Corydon. In 1825, the state capital moved to Indianapolis.When the Indiana Territory was first formed in 1800, Indians vastly outnumbered whites. Through the relentless efforts of Harrison and others, most were killed, or forced off their land to allow for increasing white settlement. Others