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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Ohio, (search)
. 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 Lucas18321836DemocraKinley, Jr18921896Republican. Asa S. Bushnell18961900Republican. George K. Nash1900——Republican. United States Senators. Name.No. of Congress.Term. John Smith8th to 10th1803 to 1808 Thomas Worthington8th to 10th1803 to 1807 Return Jonathan Meigs.10th to 11th1809 to 1810 Edward Tiffin 10th to 11th1807 to 1809 Stanley Griswold 11th1809 Alexander Campbell11th to 13th1810 to 1813 Thomas Worthington11th to 13th1811 to 1814 Joseph Kerr13th to 14th1814 to 1815 Jeremiah Morrow13th to 1
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ohio, (search)
opened at Cincinnati......1819 First steamboat on Lake Erie......1819 William S. Rosecrans born at Kingston......Dec. 6, 1819 William Tecumseh Sherman born at Mansfield......Feb. 8, 1820 Population: 581,295, 14.1 to the square mile; fifth State in population......1820 Ulysses S. Grant born at Point Pleasant......April 27, 1822 Rutherford B. Hayes born at Delaware......Oct. 4, 1822 County tax of 1/2 mill levied for the support of common schools......1825 Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr., one of the first settlers of Marietta and governor of the State, 1810-14, dies at Marietta......March 29, 1825 Great tornado, the Burlington storm, passes through Licking county......May 18, 1825 Ohio and Lake Erie Canal begun, Governor Clinton, of New York, removing the first shovelful of earth......July 4, 1825 Maumee Canal begun......1825 Lafayette visits Ohio; received with great honor......1825 Ohio Mechanics' Institute established at Cincinnati......1828 Count
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Van Horne, Thomas B. (search)
Van Horne, Thomas B. Military officer; conspicuous in the War of 1812-15. In August, 1812, Governor Meigs sent Captain Brush with men, cattle, provisions, and a mail for Hull's army. At the Raisin River, Brush sent word to Hull that he had information that a body of Indians under Tecumseh was lying in wait for him near Brownstown, at the mouth of the Huron River, 25 miles below Detroit, and he asked the general to send down a detachment of soldiers as an escort. Hull ordered Major Van Home, of Colonel Findlay's regiment, with 200 men, to join Brush, and escort him and his treasures to headquarters. The major crossed the Detroit from Hull's forces in Canada, Aug. 4. On the morning of the Thomas B. Van Horne. 5th, while the detachment was moving cautiously, Van Horne was told by a Frenchman that several hundred Indians lay in ambush near Brownstown. Accustomed to alarmists, he did not believe the story, and pushed forward his men in two columns, when they were fired upon fr