Peter J. McGuire

Historical marker location:

(back yard of) 451 North 8th Street, Terre Haute, Indiana

( Marker can be reached from North 8th Street south of Spruce Street.)

Marker installed: 1990

Father of Labor Day.

The notorious bank robber John Dillinger was born in Indiana in 1903. He gained national notoriety during the Great Depression for a string of daring bank robberies and was eventually shot and killed by law enforcement in 1934.