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General Samuel Dale, the "Daniel Boone of Ala- bama," in honor of whom Dale county, Alabama, is named.
Colonel Jo Hamilton Daveiss, rival of Henry Clay as an orator and first western lawyer to appear before the Supreme Court of the United States, killed at Tippecanoe, in honor of whom counties in four States are named .*
Dr. Samuel Doak, member of the Franklin con- vention and who established in 1788-89 a school in Washington county, Tennessee, the first classical school west of the Alleghenies, forerunner of Wash- ington College, Tennessee.
The Drakes of the Cumberland country, of whom was the rough and fearless Joseph Drake, killed at Boonesborough in 1778.
Captain Jaeob Drennon, who was with the Me- Afees in Kentucky in 1773 and an officer in the British army, killed on the Ohio in 1787.
Colonel Alexander Dunlap, who after leaving his fort at Clover Liek, in Virginia, became the first permanent settler between the northwest of Lex- ington, Kentucky, and the Kentucky river, in Woodford county, the "asparagus patch of Ken- tucky," and was a founder of the famous Pisgah academy, a forerunner of Transylvania University.
*He spelled his name Daveiss. The United States postal department spells the name in these four counties in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Missouri, Daviess.
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Colonel James Dunlap, soldier, legislator, Presi- dential elector and Whig candidate for governor of Ohio.
General Richard G. Dunlap, commander of East Tennesseeans in the Florida war (supra).
Judge Williamson Dunn, ranger captain of In- diana, said to have refused an election to the United States Senate.
Captain John Edmondson, killed at the River Raisin, in honor of whom Edmondson county, Ken- tucky, is named.
Colonel William Edmondson, a captain in the Cherokee expeditions of 1776 and 1777.
Captain James Estill, killed at Estill's defeat, in' honor of whom Estill county, Kentucky, is named.
General James M. Estill, fascinating and cour- ageous political leader of pioneer politicians in the spectacular politics of California in the '50s.
General Robert Evans, founder of Evansville, In- diana.
Andrew Ewin, clerk of the court of the Cumber- land Compact.
Baker Ewing, delegate to the Virginia assembly from a Kentucky county and first registrar of the land office of Kentucky in 1788.
General Robert Ewing, Kentucky legislator and general officer in the war of 1812.
Captain John Finley, who explored Kentucky in 1773, was conductor of Daniel Boone to that state, and was commander at Wheeling against the west- ern Indians.
Colonel William Fleming, state legislator for many years from Madison county, Alabama, and Presidential elector from that state in 1825.
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Colonel G. R. Clark Floyd, who gallantly com- manded a regiment at Tippecanoe.
Judge John Garber, justice of the supreme court of Nevada and admitted leader of the San Fran- cisco bar when it was one of the ablest in the country.
Captain James Gay, border scout and who with his brothers-in-law aided in the establishment of a Kentucky industry by bringing the first improved cattle into that state before the "seventeens" came.
Colonel John H. Gibson, lieutenant colonel wounded at New Orleans and quartermaster in the Florida war, in honor of whom Gibson county, Tennessee, is named.
Ishom Gilham, sheriff in 1812 of Madison county, Illinois, when it comprised the northern half of that state and the present State of Wisconsin, of a family whom an old chronieler credits to a great extent with defeating the convention or slavery party in Illinois in 1824 and keeping Illinois a free state.
The Gillespies, of Gillespie's fort, Tennessee, where the gallant defense against Indian massacre was made.
Captain James Givens and his son, Captain Rob- ert Givens, who with Thomas Sharpe.Spencer, the "Chevalier Bayard of the Cumberland valley," and others, in 1778, were the first Anglo-Saxons to plant corn in that valley.
Edward J. Glasgow, United States consular representative at Guaymas, Mexico, in 1841, over- land trader and captain with Doniphan's men at the battle of the Sacramento.
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Dr. Hugh J. Glenn, largest wheat grower in the world during his life and Democratic candidate for governor of California, in honor of whom Glenn county, California, is named.
Captain Isaac Graham, leader of the Graham af- fair in California in 1840, a movement not well un- derstood by historians.
Colonel William Graham, of North Carolina, com- mander of a regiment in the Cherokee expedition of 1776.
Mason Greenlee, who "located" the Greenlee group of mines in Arizona, in honor of whom Green- lee county, Arizona, is named.
Andrew Greer, a member of the first court of the county of Washington, North Carolina, this county then comprising the present Tennessee.
General Adam Guthrie, who commanded at the battle of the Saline, west of Shawneetown, Illinois.
Colonel James A. Hadley, mighty hunter of the Great Plains and companion thereon of the Grand Duke Alexis.
Major Andrew Hamilton, who during the Revo- lution took out a body of Virginians to relieve the westerners.
Joseph Hamilton, Tennessee judge.
John Hays Hammond, mining engineer in South Africa and a figure in the Jameson raid (supra).
Captain Samuel Handley, a fighting man who was captured on the Nickajack expedition.
Abraham Haptonstall, member of the first explor- ing expedition in 1773 on the site of Louisville, and who, with Colonel Richard Taylor and Hancock Taylor, in 1769 made the first trading voyage by Anglo-Saxons down the Ohio past the Falls (Louis- ville), going as far as the Yazoo.
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Archer Harman, railroad builder in South Amer- ica and the "dictator of Ecuador."
Matthias Harman, who made the first settlement in eastern Kentucky.
Colonel Creed Haymond, captain of the Sierra Grays under Colonel "Jack" Hays in the campaign against Chief Winnemucca in Nevada in 1860, which broke the chief's power, and mighty head of the legal department in the early days of the Southern Pacific Railroad in the western United States.
Colonel John C. ("Jack") Hays, commander at the battle of the Salado in 1842, commander of the advance company of the Somervell expedition, who stormed Independence Heights at Monterey, first sheriff of San Francisco, a founder of Oakland, Cal- ifornia, and who with his troops broke the power of the Nevada Indians in 1860, in honor of whom Hays county, Texas, is named.
Colonel Robert Hays, a commander of the expe- dition resulting in the battle of Coldwater, Ala- bama, in 1787.
George Hendricks, captured with the salt makers at the Blue Lieks in Kentucky, carried by the Kick- apoos to the Wabash, and who became a resident of Illinois in 1786.
The Reverend Moses Montgomery Henkel, mis- sionary to the Wyandotte Indians.
John Smith Herring, superintendent of the survey of the Virginia military lands of the West.
The Reverend Robert Hopkins, missionary to the Dakota Indians.
Samuel Houston, commander-in-chief of the Texan armies, in honor of whom Houston county, Minnesota, Houston county, Tennessee, and Hous- ton county, Texas, are named (supra).
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Dr. Alfred Young Hull, editor and legislator, in- strumental in moving the capital of Iowa from Iowa City to Des Moines.
Major William L. Hunter, large landholder, of Texas.
Anderson Hutchinson, Texan leader and law part- ner of Senator Henry S. Foote, in honor of whom Hutchinson county, Texas, is named.
Mrs. Mary Ingles, one of the first white women in Kentucky, captives of the Indians.
William H. Jack (supra), author of the Turtle Bayou resolutions in Texas, and his brother, Patrick C. Jack, of Texas, in honor of both of whom Jack county, Texas, is named.
John Gabriel Jones, elected by a popular assem- bly in Kentucky in 1776, with General George Rog- ers Clark, to represent the Kentucky country in the Virginia assembly, and instrumental in estab- lishing the county of Kentucky, killed by the In- dians.
Captain William Kincaid, a worthy of Woodford county, Kentucky.
Colonel James Knox, leader of the Long Hunters to the West in 1769-71, a party composed largely of Augusta county men, the results of whose ex- plorations were important.
Colonel James Lauderdale, who fell at New Or- leans, in honor of whom Lauderdale county, Ala- bama, Lauderdale county, Mississippi, and Lauder- dale county, Tennessee, are named.
Major William Lauderdale, who carried the flag farthest into the Indian country in Florida, by es- tablishing Fort Lauderdale in that state in 1830.
Captain James Leeper, Tennessee Indian scout and a signer of the Cumberland Compact, whose
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marriage in 1780 to Miss Susan Drake was the first wedding west of the Cumberland mountains, killed by the Indians in 1781.
Major Andrew Lewis,* who in 1756 erected Fort Loudon in what is now Monroe county, Ten- nessee, the first edifice built by men of British de- scent in that state (supra).
General John Lawson Lewis, who as a young man was courier to General Andrew Jackson at New Orleans.
Joshua Lewis, one of the three commissioners for taking possession of the Louisiana purchase.
The Reverend Andrew Youell Lockridge, mission- ary to the Georgia Cherokees.
Stephen D. Logan, jurist, of Illinois, in honor of whom Logan county, Illinois, is named.
General William Logan, who went to Kentucky in 1775 and was one of the ablest of the Indian campaigners, in honor of whom Logan county, Ken- tucky, and Logan county, Ohio, are named.
Colonel Robert Love, colonel of a regiment en- gaged against the Chickamaugas in 1778, state legislator, Presidential elector and one of the com- missioners who ran the North Carolina-Tennessee boundary in 1821.
Samuel Love, first settler in Hawkins county, Tennessee.
General Thomas Love, active in the Tipton-Sevier controversy, North Carolina and Tennessee legis- lator and one of the commissioners who ran the North Carolina-South Carolina boundary in 1814.
*Afterward General Andrew Lewis, who commanded at the battle of Point Pleasant, where the power of the Indians of the Ohio valley was broken, a brother of Colonel Charles Lewis, the "hero of Point Pleasant," who fell there, in honor of whom Lewis county, West Virginia, is named.
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Colonel William Lowther, a volunteer under Gen- eral George Rogers Clark and who in 1787 became colonel of the Northwest Territory of Virginia.
The McAfees, first homemakers of Kentucky.
General James Haggin McBride, state legislator, judge in Southwest Missouri, and brigadier-gen- eral of Confederate Missouri State troops, who saved the day at Wilson's creek, where some of his unarmed companies performed the feat, astonishing even in American history, of marching to the front and being shot down until enough Federals were killed and driven back, so that the unarmed com- mand might in this manner obtain muskets.
Major William McBride, member of the first county court of Kentucky, for the county of Lin- coln, killed at the battle of the Blue Licks.
Colonel Alexander K. McClung, duellist and lieu- tenant-colonel in the Mexican war of Colonel (after- wards President) Jefferson Davis' first Mississippi regiment, "composed of the best born, the best ed- ucated and wealthiest young men of the state," and who rode side by side with his colonel and was wounded at the memorable charge at Monterey (supra).
Francis McConnell, explorer with others of the Elkhorn country of the Blue Grass in 1775, and founder of McConnell's station, near, now in, Lex- ington, Kentucky.
Colonel Mark L. McDonald, most extensive min- ing stock broker of California at the height of the world's greatest gambling in mining stocks and candidate for United States senator from Cali- fornia.
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The MeDowells of Kentucky, of whom was Judge Samuel MeDowell, president of the first constitu- tional convention of Kentucky.
The McFarlands of Jefferson county, Tennessee, of whom were Colonels John MeFarland and Robert MeFarland.
Major Hugh MeGary, Indian hunter of Kentucky, whose impetuosity at the Blue Licks, in the opinion of some, caused the loss of that battle.
Lieutenant Hugh W. MeKee, U. S. N., killed in leading the American attack on the Corean forts at Kwang-hoa Island in 1871, in honor of whom Fort MeKee was named.
John MeKee, early appointee to the head of the United States land office at Edwardsville, Illinois.
Colonel John MeKee, Indian agent in 1812 for the Chickamaugas, largely instrumental in 1813 in causing the Choetaws and Chickamaugas to side with the whites against the Creeks, one of the com- missioners in 1829 to negotiate the treaty of Dane- ing Rabbit, and who, with the father of Vice Ad- miral David G. Farragut, was one of the "first Tennesseeans" (supra).
Colonel William R. MeKee, who fell with the "orphaned Kentuckians" at Buena Vista.
"Wild Cat" (John) MeKinney, first schoolmas- ter at Lexington, Kentucky, afterward the "Ath- ens of the West."
John MeKnight, associate of General Thomas James in the expedition of 1821-22 to the Southwest, the first to trade in the Comanche country, and a member of the James-MeKnight expedition of 1822- 24, upon which latter he was killed in Oklahoma by the Indians.
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Robert McKnight, commander of the expedition to Santa Fe in 1812, the second private expedition of Americans to the Southwest and possibly the first private expedition over the route traversed.
Thomas McKnight, in 1822 member of the first city council of St. Louis, in 1826 first civil agent of the United States Government at the Upper Mis- sissippi lead mines, in 1836 member of the first coun- cil of Iowa Territory, in 1838 first receiver of the United States land office in Iowa, and in 1846 first Whig candidate for governor of Iowa.
Jolın McMahan, first register of the county of Washington, this county then comprising the pres- ent Tennessee.
William McMillan, a founder in 1787 and office- holder of Fort Washington, now Cincinnati, Ohio (supra).
Captain John McMurtry, who was one of the seven prisoners taken by the Indians at the Blue Licks, who was compelled to run the gauntlet, who fell finally at Harmar's defeat and whose name is conspicuously written on the battle monument at Frankfort, Kentucky.
John McNabb, a member of the first court of the county of Washington, North Carolina, this county then comprising the present Tennessee.
Governor George Madison, wounded while with St. Clair in 1792, a major at Frenchtown and who was captured at the Raisin (supra).
James Wiley Magoffin, trader and United States consular agent at Chiluahua in the '20s, the "blood- less conqueror of New Mexico, who fired no gun."
Colonel Casper Mansco (Mansker), who after being a guide to the Sandy Creek expedition of
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Augustans to the Ohio in 1756, and a Long Hunter, was the pilot of Tennessee pioneers.
General William L. Marshall, U. S. A., in honor of whom Marshall's pass, Colorado, is named (supra).
General Joseph Martin, Powell's valley agent of the Transylvania Company during the first settle- ment of Kentucky and Indian agent of Virginia from 1777 to 1789.
Colonel William Martin, of Sumner county, Ten- nessee, who was engaged in protecting the Tennes- see settlements in 1787.
General George Matthews, brigadier general on the Florida frontier, early expansionist and com- missioner to receive Florida if offered to the United States, but who co-operated with his filibuster ex- pedition and deposed the Spanish authorities (supra).
Dr. David Maxwell, who is accredited with writ- ing the first constitution of Indiana and establish- ing its school system.
Colonel Joseph L. Meek, mountain man, whose influence carried the day at Champoeg, Oregon, in the establishment there in 1843 of the first Amer- ican civil government west of the Rockies, and who brought in 1847 the message to protect Oregon to his family connection, President Polk.
Return Jonathan Meigs, 3rd, legislator, jurist and Indian agent for the Cherokees and Creeks, in honor of whom Meigs county, Tennessee, is named.
Samuel A. Merritt, prominent citizen of Califor- nia and Delegate from Idaho Territory to the United States Congress.
Colonel John Montgomery, associate of General George Rogers Clark in the Kaskaskia campaign,
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first sheriff of Davidson county, Tennessee, in which Nashville is located, founder of Clarksville, Ten- nessee, and commander of the Nickajack expedi- tion of 1794, killed by the Indians, in honor of whom Montgomery county, Tennessee, is named.
Major L. P. Montgomery, hero of the battle of Horseshoe Bend, in honor of whom a county and the capital of Alabama are named.
Captain James Moore, leader in 1781 of the first party of Americans into Illinois.
The Reverend James Moore, president of Tran- sylvania University and a James Lane Allen char- acter.
General James Biggs Moore, ranger captain in Illinois in the war of 1812, first sheriff of the then large county of Monroe, Illinois, and Indian fighter.
The Reverend William McCutchan Morrison, African missionary in the Congo.
Captain Alexander Neeley, Tennessee associate of the Bledsoes, killed by the Indians near Bledsoe's Lick, Tennessee.
Colonel Samuel Newell. member of the Franklin convention.
Stephen F. Nuckolls, legislator of Nebraska Ter- ritory, active in gaining statehood for that terri- tory, mining operator in Colorado and first Dele- gate from Wyoming Territory to the United States Congress, in honor of whom Nuckolls county, Ne- braska, is named.
Colonel William Patterson, member of the first legislature of Iowa Territory in 1838, member of the Iowa constitutional convention of 1857, mayor of Keokuk, one of those credited with having pre- vented the "Iowa-Missouri war" and packer mag- nate of the Mississippi valley.
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Colonel James Patton, nabob of western Virginia, who with others from Augusta county and else- where made an expedition to the West in 1748, pos- sibly as far as Kentucky.
General Andrew Piekens, who served in the eam- paign against the Cherokees in 1782, in honor of whom Pickens county, South Carolina, is named.
Colonel James Poage, founder of Ripley, Ohio, the abolition center.
General John Poage, Kentucky soldier.
General Alexander Posey, commander of a bri- gade in the Black Hawk war.
Emory Rains, immigrant to Texas in 1826 and member of the Senate of the Republic of Texas, the Texas constitutional convention of 1845 and the Texas state legislature, in honor of whom Rains county, Texas, is named.
Captain John Rains, Long Hunter, Indian fighter and favorite seout of General James Robertson, "father of Tennessee."
Lieutenant Sevier MeClellan Rains, U. S. A., killed with his detachment at Craig's mountain, in the worst massacre of Americans by the Indians in Howard's Idaho campaign in the Nez Perce war of 1877.
General Jonathan Ramsey, legislator of Missouri.
General Isaac de B. Read, Indian fighter of Flor- ida and duellist, assassinated on the streets of Tal- lahassee.
Moses Renfroe, leader of the first settlers into the rich Montgomery county, Tennessee, country.
General William Reniek, respected citizen of Ohio.
Archibald Rhea, of Rhea's fort, near Knoxville, Tennessee.
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Colonel Alexander Robertson, member of the Vir- ginia convention of 1788 from Kentucky and Vir- ginia legislature of 1789 from Kentucky, and "who built the first fine house in Kentucky"-a distinc- tion claimed by others.
Major Andrew S. Rowan, U. S. A., who "carried the message to Garcia" in Cuba.
George Ruffner, Indian fighter of the Seioto.
Captain Robert Russell, who with his brother, Colonel William Russell, used their company to protect the settlers at Nashville in 1780 while they raised their first crop of corn.
Colonel William Russell, boy pioneer of fifteen, with Colonel Daniel Boone in Kentucky, legislator of Virginia and Kentucky, with Wayne, Scott and Wilkinson in their campaign against the Indians, conspicuous at Tippecanoe, commander of the ex- pedition against the Peoria Indians, commander of the Indiana, Illinois and Missouri frontiers and com- mander of the old 7th infantry regiment, U. S. A .- part of which was consolidated in 1815 with parts of other regiments to form the present 1st infantry regiment, U. S. A .- in honor of whom Russell county, Kentucky, is named.
General William Russell, U. S. A., who in addi- tion to his career in the East, was a member of the party of Long Hunters in Tennessee, in honor of whom Russell county, Virginia, is named (supra).
Colonel William H. Russell, who led the Russell party to California in 1846 and was first provisional secretary of state of California.
General George Rutledge, member of the Ten- nessee state senate and constitutional convention, military commander of East Tennessee and who
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was in Christian's campaign against the Cherokees and Shelby's campaign against the Chickamaugas.
Captain John Peter Salling, western hunter and adventurer in 1742, who was captured by the Cherokees, carried down the Ohio to the Mississippi, taken by the French as a spy, placed on a vessel for France, but captured by a British cruiser and landed at Charleston, South Carolina.
Colonel John Sawyers, who conducted Gilbert Christian and William Anderson, both from Au- gusta county, in an exploring trip as far as Haw- kins county, Tennessee, in 1768-69.
William ("Turkey Hill") Scott, who in 1794 went to Illinois and who founded the Turkey Hill set- tlement, known far and wide to carly Illinoisans.
The Seviers of Tennessee, of whom was General John Sevier, U. S. A. (supra), commonwealth build- er, in honor of whom Sevier county, Tennessee, is named.
"Bonny Kate" Sevier (formerly Sherrill), popu- lar heroine of Tennessee and wife of General John Sevier, U. S. A.
Jacob K. Shafer, California '49er, leading citizen and Delegate from Idaho Territory to the United States Congress.
General Daniel Smith, secretary of state of the Territory South of the Ohio River and brigadier general of the Miro District, Tennessee, in honor of whom Smith county, Tennessee, is named (supra).
Colonel William Snodgrass, who after having been chief of scouts for Colonel William Campbell, the "hero of King's Mountain," also from Augusta
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county,* was lieutenant colonel of Tennesseeans at Horseshoe Bend in the Creek war.
John Steele, secretary of state of Mississippi and commissioner to treat with the Cherokees.
General Jolın Dunlap Stevenson, one of the ablest captains in Doniphan's march to Mexico, which "like Xenophon's, was the most extraordinary march in the military annals of its time" (supra).
Major Samuel Stevenson, associate of Colonel Alexander Dunlap in the settlement of Woodford county, the "asparagus patch of Kentucky."
Milton Sublette, the "thunderbolt of the Rockies," and part owner of Fort Laramie.
Captain William Sublette, who with Robert Campbell erected in 1834 Fort William, later called Fort Laramie, the first permanent post and build- ing in Wyoming, where passed thousands of the immigrants to the Pacific coast, and who was in command at the battle with the Blackfeet in 1832.
General Nathaniel Taylor, scout on the Tennessee frontier, a soldier of the Creek war and who was in command of a Tennessee brigade in the war of 1812 and with General James Winchester defended Mobile when threatened by the British.
Bishop William Taylor, missionary in California, Australia, the West Indies, the East Indies and Africa, of which latter he was Methodist Episcopal bishop.
Captain James Thompson, guard to Colonel Wil- liam Christian upon the Cherokee campaign of 1776.
*In the index of the "Descriptive List of the Manuscript Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin," there are a number, but not all of the officers of Augusta origin at King's Mountain, with General George Rogers Clark and in the Revolutionary warfare in the Carolinas. Colonel William Campbell had no important western experience and is therefore not to be found above.
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Judge Frank Tilford, member of the ayunta- miento of San Francisco while it was still a pueblo, first city recorder of San Francisco, who caused the first endowment ever bestowed on a San Francisco public school, holder of other offices in Nevada and California and gifted orator.
William L. Todd, one of the heads of the Swasey- Todd party to California in 1845 and the member of the Bear Flag party, attempting to establish the Republic of California, who painted the Bear Flag, the California emblem now used everywhere in that state.
Colonel Stephen Trigg, killed at the battle of the Blue Licks, in honor of whom Trigg county, Ken- tucky, is named.
Colonel William A. Trimble, who defended Fort Erie on the Canada side, established the post of Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and co-operated with Gen- eral Andrew Jackson in his Florida expedition of 1818 and capture of St. Mark's and Pensacola, Florida (supra).
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