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DIGGRAPHICAL
ISTORY
ILLUSTRATED
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GENEALOGY COLLECTION
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ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 02399 2115
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Biographical History
OF
Northeastern Ohio
· Embracing the Counties of
OF
Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake.
FORT WAYNE & ALLENDD. , UND
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Containing Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States, with a Biography of each, together with Portraits and Biographies of Joshua R. Giddings, Benjamin F. Wade, and a large number of the Early Settlers and Represent- ative Families of to-day.
" Biography is the only true history."-Emerson.
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CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY. 1893.
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PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES.
George Washington
9
John Adams
14
Thomas Jefferson
20
James Madison 26
James Monroe
32
Andrew Johnson
93
John Quincy Adams
38
Ulysses S. Grant
96
Andrew Jackson
47
R. B. Hayes
102
Martin Van Buren
52
J. A. Garfield.
109
Chester A. Arthur
113
Grover Cleveland
117
Benjamin Harrison
120
Zachary Taylor
68
Millard Fillmore
72
Franklin Pierce
76
James Buchanan
80
Abraham Lincoln
84
William Henry Harrison
56
John Tyler
60
James K. Polk.
64
12.23-64
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
A
Beckwith, P. G 172
Callow, William 561
Beckwith, Russell. S67
Calvin, R. W .344
Beede, M. W. 290
Canada, P. A. 590
Aldrich, D. B.
842
Aldrich, E. T. C.
196
Bellard, T. H.
.894
Carey, H. C ..
729
Alexander, J. W.
.313
Allen, A. I.
1016
Allen, A. T.
460
Allen, J. E.
220
Allen, R. G.
.666
Allyn, Jeremiah
.312
Alvord, Horace.
915
Amsden, A. O
.387
Amsden, G. W.
554
Anderson, C. W.
902
Anderson, G. S.
789
Blish, George .640
Blood, B. M .. .510
Chapman, F. L. 868
Cheney, P. H. 254
Cheney, Thomas. 298
Cheney, W. A 851
Childs, C. O. 924
Clapp, E. J. 701
Clark, E. G.
620
Ashley, R. L
. 636
Ashley, S D
.335
Atkin, Ira .. .961
Atkinson, W. T. .388
Atwater, M. L.
794
Atwood, Alonzo. 594
Atwood, S. B .328
Avery, C. A.
938
B
Bacon, D. N. 319
Bacon, Horace 316
Badger, L. D 209
Bailey, D. L. 503
Baker, B. K. 738
Baker, C. D
258
Baker, O. P ..
992
Baldwin, L. I.
215
Ballard, Warren
615
Barber, S. D
318
Barnes, O. M ..
601
Barrett, J. A.
383
Bushnell, H. N. .582
Cowin, A. C. . 463
Cowles, Geo. R. 569
Crafts, Edward. 705
Cram, Lowell. 888
Crary, C. G. 500
Creesy, L. T 633
Cronin, C. J. 770
Crosby. D. L. 198
Crosby, F. E 376
Crowell, D. 733
Crowell, W. H 1023
Curtiss, G. C ..
394
Carver, L. D 801
Case, I. F. 926
980
Bissell, P. E. .508
Case, Thomas.
242
Blair, H. J .819
Blair, Robt. 441
Chambers, J. E. 976
Chapel, D. S. 642
Andrews, B. M
570
Andrews, E. L 1007
Andrews, Hial. 890
Andrews, J. C. 787
Andrews, J. H. 749
Andrews, Oliver.
.399
Appleby, W. W
.587 .181
Boyce, J. H .. .330
Brainard, C. P. 1014
Clark, J. H 247
Clay, J. I. . 335
Cleveland, E. R.
527
Cleveland, G. H. 759
Coe, H. H. 413
Cole, Hezekiahı. . 913
Cole, LaGrande.
979
Coleman, Francis. 155
Coman, L. E. $98
Conant, M. 362
Connell, G. H .. 282
Converse, John H. 568
Converse, J. O .. 424
Cook, Alpheus. 790
Cook, J. H. .540
Cook, S. H.
349
Coon, C. H.
.993
Coon, Jacob
270
Corlett, W. A. 833
Corning, N. D. 369
Cossitt, D. S .. . .276
Burridge, E.
.628
Barrett, L. W
310
Bassett, R. A.
346
Bates, Ira 714
· Bates, Reuben 793
Beales, C. L.
359
C
Cadwell, Hon. Darius .834
Cadwell, J. P. 116
Beckwith, A. J 656
Caldwell, J. A .. .167
Beckwith, A. R 269
Callander, Adam .905
Beckwith, H. P. 172 Callander, F .905
Bell, S. A. . .901
Carey, C. E
865
Bender, W. E. .879
Carlin, T. J. 621
Benjamin, W. .351
Betts, C. G .444
Carter, D. O.
445
Carter, J. A. .364
Betts, E. J. .235
Bishop, C. D. .815
Bishop, F. J. 692
Case, Stephen.
Chamberlain, W. C. 772
Chapin, F. H. 486
Blood, F. B .. 219
Bodman, S. E .599
Bohill, H. .327
Bosworth, H
702
Bouey, George .422
Branch, H. J. .709
Brayman, L. E. .996
Breed, Franklin .607
Brett Burt. . .272
Brewster, R. L. .817
Brown, E. A.
1018
277
Brown, J. H 884
Brown, James. 242
Brown, Mrs. Oliver. 1012
Brown, S. W
949
Bugbee, F. M
.483
Bunker, William.
895
Bunnell, Geo. H.
.781
Bunnell, O. F.
.739
Burch, F. E.
.676
Burlingham, L. J.
.962
Burnett, D. D
.426
Burr, Eldridge 1007
Burridge, B. M. .525
Coughlan, G. E. 674
Bushnell, J. C. A 186
Buss, S. B. 873
Buss, William G .149
Beals, A. E. 234 Beals Ethener. 234
Beardsley, P. A 283
Brown, Ezra. .
Arner, A. L
Blakeley, Henry. .229
Carpenter, D. R 658
Betts, Edwin 1019
Adams, Thomas. 284
V
CONTENTS.
D
Follett, A. .876
Hall, Theodore. .325
Follett, N
.675
Hamilton, H. P. 357
Ford, G. H.
765
Harbach, T. S. 395
Ford, H. J.
.343
Hardy, E. G .. .616
Darling. O. C
213
Ford, J. E ..
899
Harmon, Albert. . 639
Davis, M. L.
982
Davis, R. W.
139
Dean, Charles B.
965
De Hart, C. P.
230
Deming, W. S.
762
Fredericks, J. N.
194
Harrington, A 256
Denton, F. E.
784
French, J. B
859
Harrington, F. 187
De Voe, C. W
451
French, N ..
.642
Harris, Henry. .807
Devoe, Fred H
.476
Devoe, H. A ...
1013
Dickenson, E. M
428
Dickinson, G. W
207 464
Dillon, Eli. .
447
Hartson, J. A.
850
Dillon, G. W. S ..
712
Dimmick, O. A.
785
Dodge, H. J.
684
Dodge, J. J.
.841
Dole, M. V
835
Doolittle, M. R.
314
Dorman, Miles.
281
Gates, 717
Hawley, T. E. 177
Doty, P. B. 320
652
Gates, W. K .. .533
Hay, Alex ... 150
Hayward, Samuel. 480
Heath, William 975
Henry, E. S. 398
Henry, George 228
Hershey, S. B
168
Hervey, J. A.
514
Hickok, S. C.
442
Eddy, L. S. 849
Giddings, J. R.
.125 Higgins, C. O
900
Edson, Royal 154
Gilchrist, W L
Hilliard, M. M
.745
Ellen, J. S.
423
Goddard, C. R.
907
Hills, E. L
171
Elliott, A. B .. 1021
Goddard, M.
.678
Hine, H. H
472
Emmett, H. H. 523
Goodrich, J. E.
.908
Hoffman, Wm
1001
Ensign, E. F. 897
Gould, E. E. 257
Hollenbeck, S, D.
.596
Graves, E. J.
.788
Hooper, H.
399
Hoose, C ..
944
Hopkins, C. H.
.402
Hopkins, W. W. 967
Green, Alonzo .243
Green, F. D. .631
Farnham, E. 983
Green, Perry .366
Horton, W. P 231
Hoskins, A. O. .218
Felch, G. L
578
Gridley, O. B.
.881
Hosmer, H. L .. .449
Felch, I. P.
932
Griffin, George
297 Hotchkiss, David. .259
Hotchkiss, H.
Houghton, G. A
.708
Fenton, C. J.
494
Griswold, E. B
891
House, C. F. .
.381
Field, Albert. 326
Gross, E. C ..
. 193
Howard, P. D.
.611
Field, Mrs. George 298
Grover, C. T ..
.681
Howells, Wm. C. 261
Fifield, J. M .. 975
Gudmundson, J. 771
Howells, Wm. Dean 184
Hoyt, T. E .. 497
Hubbard, A. F 137
Fitch, O. H
917
Hubbard, Henry
189
Fitch, Winchester .920
Hall, E. B. .618
Hall, George 842
Hubbard, N. .253
Fitzmaurice, J .923
Hall, H. II. .945
Hubbard, R. W .899
Flower, W. R. 463
Hall, II. IL. 134
Iludson, A. S. 752
Fobes, S. B.
.648
Hall, S. E. 618
Hugaboon, D. C.
.854
Harmon, R. P. 929
Fortune, Frank
.488
Harper, A. J. 275
Fowler, W. H ..
614
Harper, Lewis .526
Denton Family
783
Freeman, R
.875
Harrington, A. F 769
Devney, J. P. .
304
French, N. E .333
Harris, W. S. 709
Frisbie, A. B 410
Harris, W. S. 718
Harrison, J. J .565
Hart, D. B. .920
Hart, T. G .. . 277
G
Haskell, J. W. 203
Haskell, W. C. 698
Hatch, E. R ... . 666
Hathaway, J. C. 723
Galpin, A. F 470
Hathaway, I. N 173
Gardner, A. L. .680
Havens, H. N 855
Gates, A. W. .567
Hawley, T. R. 179
Douglass, E. E.
170
Downing, A. D.
610
Downing, B. F 828
Downs, W. H
566
Germond, N. A
249
Giddings Bros.
903
Giddings, H. F
.583
E
Giddings, J. A.
246
Goodrich, J. W. 605
Holcomb, D. R
.553
Ensign, G. L 760
Evans, A. C.
786
Graves, R. R
272
Graves, W .. .840
F
Gray, M. E. 1027
Fairbanks, W. F 935
Fargo, Dan H. 653
.499
Griffiths, A. H. .931 .846
Fenton, Charles
593
Griswold, C. E
411
Fifield, Josiah. 544
Fitch, E. H. 919
H
Hubbard, J. C. 996
Fitch, Z. R. 151
Hubbard, M. L .360
Fitts, C. H. 743
Hopper, W. G ... 448
Hopwood, H. C .925
Fassett, Henry 221
Gaylord, Levi. 249
Gee, F. E.
.363
Gerald, Abel.
.558
Dickson, J. A
Frost, N. C. 630
Fuller, F. J. 985
Harmon, Edwin .637
Forshey, W. W.
981
Harmon, John. .157
Fortney, David.
347
Ford, Seabury.
766
Dalin, A. 388
Daniels, S .. 950
Gaffney, John 874
Gager, J. D. 838
Dow, J. M.
152
Green, W. L. .896
Fenton, A. E
vi
CONTENTS.
Hughes, I. F.
860
Lawyer, C .. . .751
Moffet, 747
Hulbert, F 953
Lawyer, C., Jr.
214
Montgomery, C.
931
Huibert, H.
.978
Lee, N. O.
.315
Moodey, Robert A. 378
Hulbert, J. D. .. 141
Leland, L. G 973
Moody, M. S 845
Humphrey, J. O
491
Leonard, C. B 736
Moore, G. E.
968
Humphrey, R. C
.324
Lilly, F.
646
Moore, F. C .. 456
Hunt, H. S.
819
Lindsley, A. H 153
Moore, Philip 995
Huntley, D. L.
1017
Lintern, Matthew
.958
Morford, C .. R. 148
Huntley, W. T.
727
Lloyd, R. T.
711
Morgan, Enos
831
Hurlburt, E G.
973
Loftus, Martin 419
Morgan, J. L.
273
Hurlburt, G ..
885
Loomis, F. R. .452
Morley, Albert
375
Hurst, G. A
543
Loveland, A. 873
Morley, B. D.
731
Huston, O. L 941
Lowe, J. W .650
Morley, E. W 363
Hyde, P. G.
847
Luce, A. B .555
Morley, J. S.
.341
Morley, T. M
870
I
Isham, M. B . 1020
J
Main, W. L
450
Jaques, C. W. 404
Jerome, G. W 386
Manchester, E ..
.469
Jerome, H. F.
757
Manchester, H. J.
309
Jerome, T. C.
989
Manley, B.
761
Johnson, D.
649
Mann, B. E. 1006
391
Johnson, R. M.
417
Mapes, O. L. .
998
Jones, E. E. .
199
Marquett, Wm. F .661
Jones, Samuel 321
Marsh, H. J. ..
.372
Judd, John 182
Marsh, S. W
.372
Judson, Hiram
238
Martin, A. B.
.874
Judson, J. H
237
Judson, L. E.
587
Marvin, James .453
Mason, F. H. .385
Mason, J. K.
418
Nettleton, Mrs. Elizabeth 836
Norris, G. T. .839
Keen, W. J. .670
Keener, E. D. 889
Mason, W. F ..
.992
Massingham, S. J.
.292
Kellogg, Martin and Amos 239
Mather, Wm. D.
663
Kellogg, Mrs. Paulina. . 248
Mathews, W. M
1000
Kelly, Thomas.
727
McCall, W. H.
.144
Keyes, Henry
991
Keyes, M. B.
811
McIntosh, J. B.
552
Osborn, J. L.
690
Kile, Robert.
889
Mckean, J. E.
.742
Kile, Salem
940
McKelvey, H. C.
.195
Kimball, A. 595
432
King, C. H.
799
McMullin, D. B
.. 306
King, J. H. 274
McNutt, C. A.
.659
King, Richard. 937
McNutt, C. J.
.382
Palmer, Chester 493
Palmer, D. G. 293
Palmer, F. E.
380
Kinney, Ira .. 683
Merrell, C 778
809
Parker, F. F. . 632
Parker, Geo. D. 414
Parker, H. E.
848
Metcalf, James
.401
Parker, M. F.
428
Parker, O. N.
647
Metcalf, E. R
164
Parker, Z.
921
Metcalfe, W. S
.601
Parmly, J. .368
Large, Crawford. 466
Miller, T. B ..
.862
Patch, Laban. .356
Lathrop, B. P. 624
Mills, C. A.
.603
Pearce, J. J. . 299
Latimer, C. M. 832
Miner, W. U
.673
Pease, Irwin 183
Laughlin, A. P 379
Mixer, H. A
672
Pease, Philo. 573
Law, David. .706
Moffet, A. 748
Peck, C. L. 1011
224
M
Morrison, F. A.
704
Mahaffey, G. 188
Morrison, F. E.
230
Morrison, H. L.
.437
Morse, E. L. 236
Morse, G. H. 250
Morton, Oran. 412
Moses, H. H.
354
Johnson. E. A
999
Manning, J. P
Mullen, E. L.
721
Joiner, V. R. T 438
March, C. C. .421
Munger, Geo. P.
708
Munger, H. S.
307
Munger, R. B
462
Munger, W. H. .308
Munsell, J. F.
323
Martin, J. S .. 882
N
K
Mason, Ransom
.951
North, S. S 844
Northway, S. A. 317
Norton, J
585
0
Oatman, C 513
Olds, C. J. 531
Olmsted, John. 662
Osborn, S. C. 233
Osborne, C. W 545
Osborne, D. C. 145
P
Page, Noah 983
Kingdom, J. G. 710
McNutt, Curtis 448
Kingsley, M. 542
McVitty, James
.342
Kingsley, S. R 860
Means, Henry. .551
Pardee, I. H. 234
Parker, D. H. . 665
Knapp, C. W.
303
Knapp, Obed. 143
Kunkle, H. M. 586
L
Metcalf, George.
402
Lampman, W 797
Lampson, E. L. .580
Metcalf, A
780
Metcalf, J. Q.
1024
Mckinnon, W. S
.471
King, Ardelia C.
McMackin, C.
.895
Kennedy, B. F 495
McCray, N. S.
.942
McGiffert, J. N .520
Nearpass, J. V 516
Mason, S. D .. . 962
Kelley, D. E. 398
Maltbie, H. .337
Mosher, John 556
Moss, C. N 795
Lyon, Roveri .481
Morris, Wm. M
.
Merriam, E. D
vii
Peck, S. W. .241
Robertson, D. S 279
Spencer, P. R. .223
Pelton, Charles 430
Rockafellow, M. C .904
Spencer, W. E
.883
Rodgers, A. L. .584
Spinenweber, J. P
.571
Pelton, John.
720
Rodgers, C. F. 856
Spitler, Noah
393
Rodgers, J. C. 691
Springer, D. M.
479
Rogers, H. E 592
Stanley, W. F.
562
Petrie, S. 397
Phelps, Alfred 822
Phelps. N. T.
.536
Phelps, O. M.
.559
Ruggles, W. H. .411
Stebbins, L. C
.623
Phelps, S. W
1015
Russell, C. .385
Steins, B. F 813
Phillips, A. G.
864
Russell, George
814
776
Pierce, D. C
338
Pike, Walter
.957
S
Stevens, J. F .345
· Stiles, A. W
909
Stiles, E. H.
208
Pomeroy, O.
604
Sanborn, C. M. .767
Stillman, A. S.
.389
Stillman, S. O
.539
Sawdey, C. H .. .721
Stoll, E. F
403
Stone, E. A
735
Pope, D. L.
1005
Sawyer, V. C.
322
734
Post, C. R. 400
Saxon, James
730
Stone, R. E
892
Seeley, B ..
.376
Stone, Ward B.
1020
Seymour, S.
.307
Shaffer, Henry
.506
Shatto, H. J. .
.664
Shattuck, O. A
614
Shaylor, L. K .301
Streeter, G. A 455
Strong, A. A. 678
Strong, A. W 756
Strong, D. F. 625
Strong, E. T
.409
Strong, J. N. 933
.200
Stults, S. S.
861
Sturtevant, L. P
288
Sunbury, C. T.
1004
Sutherland, H. A.
751
Smead, J. P.
.865
Sweet, G. L
407
Smead, S, M.
.311
Sweet, J. S. .380
Sweet, M. E. 509
Sweet, S. E. 557
Swezey, N. J. .563
T
Talcott, R. H .695
Tatgenhorst, C 546
Taylor, E. E. 211
Taylor, L. 803
Taylor, T. J
.997
Teed, J. O.
792
Thayer, B. E
Thayer, L. A. . .549
Thompson, A. W 928
Thompson, B. F. 753
Thompson, E .. 879
Thompson, J. D. 502
Smith, R. S
603
Thompson, P. T. 927
Tilden, D. C. 724
Tisch, J. J.
964
Richards, G. A 821
Smith, Wm. O
689
Tisdel, W. C. 490
Richardson, T. 459
Rieg, J. P .764
Risdon, Elial. .810
Ritter, Levi .. 170
Roberts, J. W.
.729
Snyder, B. S. 534
Tombes, II. C. 535
Spencer, C. M. 627 Towell, P. II. 4:5
Stratton, S 489
Strauss, A 818
Shellito Bros .571
Shepard, H. .420
Quiggle, O. P.
626
Quiggle, T. J.
576
Quincy, David.
883
R
Rand, C. C. .739
Rand, E. H. .946
Rand, H. C.
686
Rand, S. M. 657
Raser, G. B. 416
Rasey, J. A. 352
Rathbone, A. G 439
Rathbun, G. W.
431
Raynolds, G. K.
Smith, A. K.
.685
Smith, Danford
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Redington, J. W 1009
Reed, H.
741
Smith, G. W 790
Smith, H. K.
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.396
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Stafford, A. H. 947
Rote, R. O .280
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Stebbins, J. K
.383
Stevens, A. E .957
Pitcher, H. P 778
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Strader, P. W. 726
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CONTENTS.
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Woodbury, H. B 986
Townsend, M. D.
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Webb, Oliver. 671
Worden, Joseph 775
Truman, D. II
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Webster Brothers 713
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Webster, E. M 634
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Giddings, J. R. 125
Wade, E. C.
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Wade, S. M.
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Harmon, John
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Warner, Jonathan .245
Wilson, George. 263
Sherwood, Wm. H. 477
Warner, M. J. 217
Wilson, S. C. 340
Simonds, C. S 285
Warren, John .417
Winans, J. C. 482
Wade, B. F. 129
Warren, P. O.
.943
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Woodbury, B. B.
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Wright, M. W. 521
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Wright, Thaddeus
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Clapp, E. J 701
Coe, H. H .. 413
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Wilcox, Sylvester. 724
Wiley, C. O .877
Wade, B. F
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Wilkins, C. M.
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Wilkins, J. W.
.539
Harmon, Edwin
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Goodrich, J. W. 605
Ward, Jonathan .392
Williams, H. E.
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Hubbard, N.
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Wright, D. P. 1002
Tuttle, F. W. .886
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GEORGE WASHINGTON.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON.
EORGE WASHING- TON, the " Father of his Country" and its first President, 1789- '97, was born Febru- ary 22, 1732, in Wash- ington Parish, West- moreland County, Virginia. His father, Augustine Wash- ington, first married Jane But- ler, who bore him four chil- dren, and March 6, 1730, he married Mary Ball. Of six children by his second mar- riage, George was the eldest, the others being Betty, Samuel, John, Au- gustine, Charles and Mildred, of whom the youngest died in infancy. Little is known of the early years of Washington, beyond the fact that the house in which he was born was burned during his early child- hood, and that his father thereupon moved to another farm, inherited from his paternal ancestors, situated in Stafford County, on the north bank of the Rappahannock, where he acted as agent of the Principio Iron Works in the immediate vicinity, and died there in 1743.
From earliest childhood George devel- oped a noble character. He had a vigorous constitution, a fine form, and great bodily strength. His education was somewhat de-
fective, being confined to the elementary branches taught him by his mother and at a neighboring school. He developed, how- ever, a fondness for mathematics, and en- joyed in that branch the instructions of a private teacher. On leaving school he re- sided for some time at Mount Vernon with his half brother, Lawrence, who acted as his guardian, and who had married a daugh- ter of his neighbor at Belvoir on the Poto- mac, the wealthy William Fairfax, for some time president of the executive council of the colony. Both Fairfax and his son-in-law, Lawrence Washington, had served with dis- tinction in 1740 as officers of an American battalion at the siege of Carthagena, and were friends and correspondents of Admiral Vernon, for whom the latter's residence on the Potomac has been named. George's inclinations were for a similar career, and a midshipman's warrant was procured for him, probably through the influence of the Admiral; but through the opposition of his mother the project was abandoned. The family connection with the Fairfaxes, how- ever, opened another carcer for the young man, who, at the age of sixteen, was ap- pointed surveyor to the immense estates of the eccentric Lord Fairfax, who was then on a visit at Belvoir, and who shortly after- ward established his baronial residence at Greenway Court, in the Shenandoah Valley.
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Three years were passed by young Wash- ington in a rough frontier life, gaining ex- perience which afterward proved very es- sential to him.
In 1751, when the Virginia militia were put under training with a view to active service against France, Washington, though only nineteen years of age, was appointed Adjutant with the rank of Major. In Sep- tember of that year the failing health of Lawrence Washington rendered it neces- sary for him to seek a warmer climate, and George accompanied him in a voyage to Barbadoes. They returned early in 1752, and Lawrence shortly afterward died, leav- ing has large property to an infant daughter. In his will George was named one of the executors and as eventual heir to Mount Vernon, and by the death of the infant niece soon succeeded to that estate.
On the arrival of Robert Dinwiddie as Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia in 1752 the militia was reorganized, and the prov- ince divided into four districts. Washing- ton was commissioned by Dinwiddie Adju- tant-General of the Northern District in 1753, and in November of that year a most important as well as hazardous mission was assigned him. This was to proceed to the Canadian posts recently established on French Creek, near Lake Erie, to demand in the name of the King of England the withdrawal of the French from a territory claimed by Virginia. This enterprise had been declined by more than one officer, since it involved a journey through an ex- tensive and almost unexplored wilderness in the occupancy of savage Indian tribes, either hostile to the English, or of doubtful attachment. Major Washington, however, accepted the commission with alacrity ; and, accompanied by Captain Gist, he reached Fort Le Bœuf on French Creek, delivered his dispatches and received reply, which, of course, was a polite refusal to surrender the posts. This reply was of such a character
as to induce the Assembly of Virginia to authorize the executive to raise a regiment of 300 men for the purpose of maintaining the asserted rights of the British crown over the territory claimed. As Washing- ton declined to be a candidate for that post, the command of this regiment was given to Colonel Joshua Fry, and Major Washing- ton, at his own request, was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel. On the march to Ohio, news was received that a party previously sent to build a fort at the confluence of the Monongahela with the Ohio had been driven back by a considerable French force, which had completed the work there be- gun, and named it Fort Duquesne, in honor of the Marquis Duquesne, then Governor of Canada. This was the beginning of the great "French and Indian war," which con- tinued seven years. On the death of Colonel Fry, Washington succeeded to the com- mand of the regiment, and so well did he fulfill his trust that the Virginia Assembly commissioned him as Commander-in-Chief of all the forces raised in the colony.
A cessation of all Indian hostility on the frontier having followed the expulsion of the French from the Ohio, the object of Washington was accomplished and he re- signed his commission as Commander-in- Chief of the Virginia forces. He then pro- ceeded to Williamsburg to take his seat in the General Assembly, of which he had been elected a member.
January 17, 1759, Washington married Mrs. Martha (Dandridge) Custis, a young and beautiful widow of great wealth, and de- voted himself for the ensuing fifteen years to the quiet pursuits of agriculture, inter- rupted only by his annual attendance in winter upon the Colonial Legislature at Williamsburg, until summoned by his country to enter upon that other arena in which his fame was to become world wide.
It is unnecessary here to trace the details of the struggle upon the question of local
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self-government, which, after ten years, cul- minated by act of Parliament of the port of Boston. It was at the instance of Virginia that a congress of all the colonies was called to meet at Philadelphia September 5, 1774, to secure their common liberties-if possible by peaceful means. To this Congress Colonel Washington was sent as a dele- gate. On dissolving in October, it recom- mended the colonies to send deputies to another Congress the following spring. In the meantime several of the colonies felt impelled to raise local forces to repel in- sults and aggressions on the part of British troops, so that on the assembling of the next Congress, May 10, 1775, the war prepara- tions of the mother country were unmis- « takable. The battles of Concord and Lex- ington had been fought. Among the earliest acts, therefore, of the Congress was the selection of a commander-in-chief of the colonial forces. This office was unani- mously conferred upon Washington, still a member of the Congress. He accepted it on June 19, but on the express condition he should receive no salary.
He immediately repaired to the vicinity of Boston, against which point the British ministry had concentrated their forces. As early as April General Gage had 3,000 troops in and around this proscribed city. During the fall and winter the British policy clearly indicated a purpose to divide pub- lic sentiment and to build up a British party in the colonies. Those who sided with the ministry were stigmatized by the patriots as " Tories," while the patriots took to them- selves the name of " Whigs."
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