If you: 1  are in receipt of a campaign badge for service during a war or in a campaign or expedition; OR. 2  are a disabled veteran, OR. 3  are in receipt of an Armed forces Service Medal for participation in a military operation, OR.  are a recently separated veteran (within the last 3 years), AND.
After five years in development, Butler University opened on November 1, 1855, as North Western Christian University at 13th Street and College Avenue on Indianapolis' near north-side at the eastern edge of the present Old Northside Historic District.
The Miami-Erie Canal passed through Butler County and connected the Ohio River at Cincinnati to Lake Erie near Toledo. The highest per capita concentration of veterans in the whole country from one war is in Butler County. That war was the Vietnam War. Six counties border Butler County -- Preble, Montgomery, Warren, Hamilton, Franklin (Indiana), and Union (Indiana). Miami University in Oxford was the first college established west of the Allegheny Mountains.