American pioneer and soldier, born in Dutchess County, NY, on the 14th of June 1772. At the age of eighteen he was a volunteer in General Josiah Harmar’s expedition against the Miami Indians; took part in Indian warfare in Kentucky and Ohio; settled in Chillicothe in 1795 as a surveyor, and acquired wealth. He was elected member of the Ohio legislature in 1805; became major-general in command of the Ohio militia in 1808; commanded the First Ohio Volunteers during the War of 1812; was included in the surrender of General William Hull, at Detroit, but was freed from all responsibility and appointed brigadier-general in 1813; placed in command of the Western army in 1814, when General Harrison resigned; was elected member of Congress from Ohio in 1813, but declined to leave the army; was mustered out June 15, 1815; was commissioner to treat with the Indians in 1816–17; by this treaty, ratified in 1818, vast territories were transferred from the Indians to the government; was speaker of the house of representatives of Ohio in 1817–19; elected to Congress, as a Clay Democrat (1823–25); governor of Ohio (1830–32). He died near Chillicothe, OH, April 28, 1839.
