IN HCR0028

Honors Paul Dresser on the 100th anniversary of "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" being designated as Indiana's official state song on March 14, 1913

Recognizes Dresser (born Johann Paul Dreiser, Jr. in Terre Haute on April 22, 1858) as one of the most important composers of the 1890s and "the greatest of American popular song writers"

Notes that the song achieved unprecedented commercial success with 1,471 copies sold in a single day at one department store

References Dresser's home in Terre Haute's Fairbanks Park, designated as a state shrine and memorial in 1967 and listed by the National Music Council as "A Landmark of American Music"

Acknowledges that "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" reflects Dresser's love for Indiana and the beauty of the state's most vital water resource, the Wabash River