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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Ohio, (search)
n the 14th, pledged the entire power and resources of the State for a strict maintenance of the Constitution and laws of the general government by whomsoever administered. These promises and pledges were fulfilled to the utmost, the State furnishing to the National army during the war 317,133 soldiers. Population in 1890, 3,672,316; in 1900, 4,157,545. See United States, Ohio, in vol. IX. Territorial governors Name.Term BeganTerm expired.Politics. Arthur St. Clair17881802.... Charles W. Byrd18021803.... State governors. Edward Tiffin18031807.... Thomas Kirker18071808.... Samuel Huntington18081810.... Return Jonathan Meigs18101814.... Othniel Looker18141814.... Thomas Worthington18141818.... Ethan Allen Brown18181822... Allen Trimble18221822.... Jeremiah Morrow18221826.... Allen Trimble18261830.... Duncan McArthur18301832.... Robert Lucas18321836Democrat. Joseph Vance18361838Whig. Wilson Shannon18381840Democrat. Thomas Corwin18401842Whig. Wilson Shannon184
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
Many surveys overlapped: lawsuits followed, with confusion of titles, and many settlers lost their land......1779 Governor of Virginia appoints William Fleming, Edmund Lyne, James Barbour, and Stephen Trigg commissioners for Kentucky. At their first court at St. Asaph's, the first claim considered was that of Isaac Shelby's to settlement and pre-emption for raising a crop of corn in the county in 1176 ......Oct. 13, 1779 In retaliation for Colonel Clarke's successes in Illinois, Colonel Byrd, of the British army, is sent against Ruddle's and Martin's stations in Kentucky, captures them, and retreats with plunder and prisoners to Detroit......June 22, 1780 County of Kentucky divided into Jefferson, Fayette, and Lincoln counties......Nov. 1, 1780 Fort Jefferson, built on the Mississippi River, 5 miles below the mouth of the Ohio. Besieged by Chickasaw Indians, reinforced by General Clarke from Kaskaskia, and soon after abandoned as too remote to hold......1780 Captain