Indiana Auto Manufacturers - 1909

This list of Indiana-based auto manufacturers is yet another item from a special Sunday edition of the Indianapolis Star that touted the excitement of the upcoming first automobile races at the new Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The date was August 15, 1909.
 
This list of Indiana automobile manufacturers in 1909 is a handy reference for researchers just getting familiar with Hoosier automobile history. Some names are better known than others, some are flat out obscure. There are 36 brands in all, and only Marmon survives today, albeit in a very different configuration as part of Marmon-Herrington.
 
The firms listed are:
 

• American Motor Car Company (Indianapolis)
• American Simplex (Mishawaka)
• Anderson, Anderson - not sure what the story on this one is. The only auto manufacturer I am aware of by the name of "Anderson" was base in South Carolina but Anderson, Indiana was a manufacturing center and it is possible some of this company's cars were built there.
• Apperson, Kokomo
• Auburn, Auburn
• Black Crow, Elkhart
• Champion, East Chicago - would like to find information on this company.
• Coppock, Decatur
• Cole, Indianapolis
• Empire, Indianapolis
• Great Western, Peru
• Haynes, Kokomo
• Inter-State, Muncie
• Kiblinger, Auburn
• Lambert, Anderson
• Laporte, Laporte
• Lawter, Newcastle
• Leader, Knightstown
• Marion, Indianapolis
• McIntyre, Auburn
• Maxwell-Briscoe, Newcastle
• Marmon, Indianapolis
• National, Indianapolis
• Overland, Indianapolis
• Premier, Indianapolis
• Rex, Indianapolis
• Richmond, Richmond
• Rider Lewis, Muncie
• Senator, Ridgeville
• Simplicity, Evansville
• Sterling, Elkhart
• Studebaker, South Bend
• Tincher, South Bend
• Waverley, Indianapolis
• Webb, Vincennes - I believe this was a "fire apparatus" company founded by race driver A.C. Webb.
• Zimmerman, Auburn

 
I have also included an attachment that is a white paper cataloguing various Indiana auto manufacturers.