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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harmar , Josiah 1753 -1813 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harrison , William Henry 1773 -1812 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hayne , Robert young -1839 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hull , William 1753 -1825 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hunt , Henry Jackson 1819 -1889 (search)
Hunt, Henry Jackson 1819-1889
Military officer; born in Detroit, Mich., Sept. 14, 1819; graduated at West Point in 1839; served in the war with Mexico; and in May, 1861, was promoted to major of artillery.
In September he became aide to General McClellan, with the rank of colonel, and in September, 1862, was made brigadiergeneral of volunteers.
In the battle of Bull Run he commanded the artillery on the extreme left.
He was chief of staff of the Army of the Potomac in the campaign on the Peninsula, and continued with that army as one of its most efficient and useful officers until the close of the war. He was brevetted brigadier-general and major-general in the regular army in 1865; commissioned colonel of the 5th Artillery in 1869; retired in 1883; and appointed governor of the Soldiers' Home in Washington, D. C., in 1883.
He died in Washington, Feb. 11, 1889.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hunters' Lodges. (search)
Jefferson, Fort
A fortification built by Col. George Rogers Clark (q. v.), on the west side of the Mississippi.
He had designed to extend his invasion to Detroit, but troops to reinforce him had been added to the force of another bold leader (see Shelby, Evan), and he had to abandon the undertaking.
Jefferson, then governor of Virginia, gave instructions for the occupation of a station on the Mississippi River between the mouth of the Ohio and the parallel of 36° 30′; and in the spring of 1780 Clarke chose a strong position 5 miles below the mouth of the Ohio, whereon he built Fort Jefferson.
Here the Americans planted their first sentinel to watch over the freedom of the navigation of the Father of wate
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jungman , John George 1720 -1808 (search)
Jungman, John George 1720-1808
Clergyman; born in Hockheimer, Germany, April 19, 1720; became a lay evangelist to the Indians in 1742; ordained a deacon in the Moravian Church in 1770.
Jungman was one of the earliest pioneers in the territory of the Ohio.
In 1781 Jungman was taken prisoner by the Hurons and confined in the fort at Detroit.
At the close of the war of the Revolution Jungman continued his missions among the Indians in Michigan, but, broken in health, he was obliged to give up his labors in 1785.
He died in Bethlehem, Pa., July 17, 1808.
Kenton, Simon -1836
Born in Fauquier county, Va., April 3, 1755.
Supposing he had killed in an affray a rival in a love affair when he was sixteen years old, he fled to the wilderness west of the Alleghany Mountains, where he was the friend and companion of Daniel Boone in many daring feats.
He was in expeditions against the Indians, was captured by them, and taken to Detroit.
Escaping from a Brit-
Simon Kenton. ish prison there in 1779, he distinguished himself in resisting the invasion of Kentucky by the British and Indians in that year.
Finally, after an expedition against the Indians on the Miami, he settled (1784) near Maysville.
He accompanied Wayne in his expedition in 1794.
In 1805 he was seated near the Mud River, in Ohio, and was made brigadier-general of militia.
In 1813 he served under Governor Shelby at the battle of the Thames.
Beggared by lawsuits because of defective titles to lands, he lived in penury many years.
In 1824 he appeared at Frankfort, Ky.,