...Seminole war by General Jackson nearly a hundred years ago. Because of this it bore the name Old Hickory. In later years it was mounted as a ship's gun on the Kate Hastings, one of the vessels of Henry Hastings of Medford. Still later it was given by him to George Nichols, who had it for some years, and who at last loaned it for exhibition in another town. We are told it was to a club, Wild Goose by nam...