From The Indianapolis Times, Thursday, February 12, 1925: The lack of a suitable memorial to Abraham Lincoln in Indianapolis was today, the anniversary of his birth, occasion for discussion of the late Henry C. Long’s bequest of $10,000 (2023: $181,770) to the city for a memorial to the Great Emancipator. When Long died in 1901, his will provided funds for the “erection of a bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln” near the southeast corner of University Park. However, E. Walter Jarvis, parks superintendent, said the park commission regretted very much the memorial cannot be built because the site is now a part of the War Memorial Plaza. Paul Comstock, Indiana World War Memorial Commission secretary, said he knew of no reason why the commission would object to the erection of the statue as the law provides University Park remain a park.