 Thomas Barr, son of Daisy Douglas Barr, prominent Quaker minister, Klan official, and first woman to serve as vice-chair of the Indiana Republican Party (United States), attended Earlham College and was a KKK campus recruiter.Hoagy Carmichael recorded "Stardust" for the first time in Richmond at the Gennett recording studio.Famed trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong was first recorded at Gennett as a member of King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band.