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  2. List of early settlers of Marietta, Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Andrews, Martin R.: History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, Biographical Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois (1902). Barker, Joseph: Recollections of the First Settlement of Ohio, Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio (1958) original manuscript written late in Joseph Barker's life, prior to his death in 1843.

  3. Samuel Prescott Hildreth - Wikipedia

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    Samuel P. Hildreth in his younger days Samuel P. Hildreth in his latter days Samuel P. Hildreth marker at Mound Cemetery (Marietta, Ohio). Samuel Prescott Hildreth (1783–1863) was a pioneer physician, scientist, and historian, authoring numerous scientific and historical works.

  4. Ebenezer Sproat - Wikipedia

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    Ebenezer Sproat (February 9, 1752 – January 7, 1805), surname also spelled Sprout, was an officer of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, a pioneer to the Ohio Country, and one of the founders of Marietta, Ohio, the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory.

  5. History of Ohio - Wikipedia

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    The Bellwether: Why Ohio Picks the President (Ohio University Press, 2016) Lamis, Alexander, and Brian Usher. Ohio Politics (2007) 544pp. Maizlish, Stephen E. The Triumph of Sectionalism: The Transformation of Ohio Politics, 1844–1856 (1983) Miller, Richard F. States at War, Volume 5: A Reference Guide for Ohio in the Civil War (2015).

  6. Jonathan Alder - Wikipedia

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    Jonathan Alder (September 17, 1773 – January 30, 1849) [1] was an American pioneer, and the first white settler in Madison County, Ohio. [2] As a young child living in Virginia, Alder was kidnapped by Shawnee Indians, and later adopted by a Mingo chief in the Ohio Country. He lived with the Native Americans for many years before returning to ...

  7. Ohio Company of Associates - Wikipedia

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    Map of Ohio showing the boundaries of the Ohio Company Purchase on the lower right. Rufus Putnam Pioneer wagon. The Ohio Company of Associates, also known as the Ohio Company, was a land company whose members are today credited with becoming the first non-Native American group to permanently settle west of the Allegheny mountains.

  8. Why are Ohioans called buckeyes? The term was once an insult

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    The buckeye is the Ohio state tree and the Ohio State mascot. ... and the Miami Country on the 26th Day of December 1833,” “Biographical and Historical Memoirs of the Early Pioneer Settlers of ...

  9. John Leavitt (Ohio settler) - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Western Reserve in 1826. Capt. John Wheeler Leavitt (1755–1815), born in Suffield, Connecticut, was an early settler of Ohio's Western Reserve lands, where members of his family had bought large tracts from the state of Connecticut, and where Capt. Leavitt became an early innkeeper, politician and landowner in Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio.