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New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 498, 27 October 1882, Page 13

The origin of the word " Hoosier " is now discussed by the rlndiana papers, but Dr. Aaron Wood, the oldest Methodist clergyman in that State, appears to have settled it by an incident he relates to the Michigan City Dispatch, aa follows :—": — " A learned foreigner by the name of Leniinouski, formerly a soldier under Napoleon, during the years intervening between 1823 and 1830 lectured extensively on the wars of Europe to tbs pioneers of this State. In his discourses the valour of the Hussars was conspicuous, but his accent was not Bngl'sh and be pronounced that body boosiers. During the excavation of the canal at the falls of tbo Ohio through Kentucky a young man from Washington County, Indiana, on the grounds one day fought and whipped three Ken tuck ians. Highly elated at the conclusion, amid a torrent of backwoods profanity, he exclaimed, ' I'm a hoosier,' from Leminouski's proaounciation of Hussar. From that day to th« present the term has been applied to all' citizens of Indiana."