GREENCASTLE  , a

city and the county-seat of Putnam county, Indiana, U.S.A., about 38 m . W. by S. of Indianapolis and on the Big Walnut river . Pop . (1900) 3661; (1910) 3790 . It is served by the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St . Louis, the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville, the Vandalia, and the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern (electric) railways . It has manufactures of some importance, including lumber, pumps, kitchen-cabinets, drag-saws, lightning-rods and tin-plate, is in the midst of a blue grass region, and is a shipping point for beef cattle . The city has a Carnegie library and is the seat of the de Pauw University (co-educational), a Methodist Episcopal institution, founded as Indiana Asbury University in 1837, and renamed in 1884 in honour of Washington Charles de Pauw (1822-1887), a successful capitalist, banker and glass manufacturer . The total gifts of Mr de Pauw and his family to the institution amount to about $600,000 . Among the presidents of the university have been Bishop Matthew Simpson, Bishop Thomas Bowman (b . 1817), and Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes (b . 1866), all of the Methodist Episcopal church .

The university comprises the Asbury

College of Liberal Arts, a School of Music, a School of Art and an Academy, and had in 1909-1910 43 instructors, a library of 37,000 volumes, and 1017 students . Greencastle was first settled about 182o, and was chartered as a city in 1861 .