OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 640 Today's Topics: #1 Fw: Bio History--Know Your Ohio-- ["Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <006501beef30$ec91cf40$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Bio History--Know Your Ohio-- John D. Rockefeller part 2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: kathi kelley To: Sent: Sunday, August 15, 1999 9:12 PM Subject: Bio History--Know Your Ohio-- John D. Rockefeller part 2 In the year of 1860, the year of profits of $17,000 and doing business of $450,000, caused the expansion of the commission business. Maurice Clark and John Rockefeller, drew $1000 each from the profits. Renting more space for expansion, Maurice brought into the business his brothers, James and Richard Clark, to work for the firm, and Maurice became the buyer. John Rockefeller also brought in his brother, William. The war came on and as neither partner went to the front, they had full chance to take advantage of the opportunity for produce business a great army gives. A greater chance then furnishing army supplies, lucrative as most people found that, was in the oil business.[So Clark and Rockefeller began to think.] and in 1862, an Englishman of ability and energy, one Samuel Andrews, asked them to back him in starting a refinery. They put in $4000 and promised to give more if necessary. Rockefeller and the Clark brothers' investment converted Andrews distillery into a refinery. Rockefeller was only a silent partner and this firm became Clark & Andrews. James Clark was delegated to represent their interests at the plant in Titusville, PA. Now Andrews was a mechanical genius. He devised new processes, made better and better quality of oil, got larger and larger percentages of refined from his crude. The refinery grew big, and Clark and Rockefeller soon had $100,000 or more into it. In the meantime Cleveland was growing as a refining center. The business which in 1860 one of the most promising industries of the town. It was but the beginning-so Mr Rockefeller thought-and in that year he sold out his share of the commission business and put money into the oil firm of Rockefeller and Andrews. In the new firm Andrews attended to the manufacturing. The pushing of the business, the buying and selling, fell to Rockefeller. This was the year of 1863 and they went under the name of Andrews, Clark & Co. In 1864, Rockefeller married Laura C Spelman in Ceveland. From the start, Rockefellers effect was tremendous. He had the frugal man's hatred of waste and disorder, of middlemen and unnecessary manipulation, and he began a vigorous elimination of these from his business. The residuum that other refineries let run into the ground, he sold. Old iron found its way to the junk shop. He bought his oil directly from the wells. He made his own barrels. He watched and saved and contrived. The ability with which he made the smallest bargain furnishes topics to Cleveland story-tellers to-day. Low voiced, soft-footed, humble, knowing every point inevery man's busness, he never tired until he got his wares at the lowest possible figure. " John always got the best of the bargain," old men would tell you in Cleveland today. and they wince though they laugh in telling it. "Smooth," "a savy fellow" is their discription of him. To drive a good bargain was the joy of his life. " The only time I ever saw John Rockefeller enthusiastic," a man told his friends, " was when a report came in from the creek that his buyer had secured a cargo of oil at a figure much below the market price. He bounded from his chair with a shout of joy, danced up and down, hugged who ever was in sight, threw up his hat, acted so like a madman that I have never forgotten it." He could borrow as well as bargain. The firm's capital was limited, growing as they were, they often needed money, and had none. Borrow they must. Rarely if ever did Mr. Rockefeller fail. There is a story handed down in Cleveland from the days of Clark and Rockefeller, produce merchants, which is illustrative of his methods. One day a well-known and rich business man stepped into the office and asked for Mr. Rockefeller. He was out, and Clark met the visitor, " Mr Clark," he said, you may tell Mr. Rockefeller, when he comes in, that I think I can use the $10,000 he wants to invest with me for your firm, I have thought it over." " Good God" cried Clark, " we don't want to invest $10,000. John is out right now trying to borrow $5,000 for us." It turned out that to prepare him for a proposition to borrow $5,000 mr. Rockefeller had told the gentleman that he and Clark wanted to invest $10,000! " And the joke of it is," said Clark, who used to tell the story, " John got the $5,000 even after I had let the cat out of the bag. Oh, he was the greatest borrower you ever saw!" These qualities told . The firm grew as rapidly as the oil business of the town, and started a second refinery-William A Rockefeller and Company. They took in a partner, H.M. Flagler, and opened a house in New York for selling oil. Of all these concerns, John D. Rockefeller was the head. Five years after he became an active partner in the refining business, Mr. Rockefeller combined all his companies into one--- The Standard Oil Company. *********************************************** ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 15:38:22 -0400 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <006d01beef31$64a62a80$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Bio History--Know Your Ohio-- Ohio in war of 1812 pt 1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: kathi kelley To: Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 12:17 AM Subject: Bio History--Know Your Ohio-- Ohio in war of 1812 pt 1 Historical Collections of Ohio Know your Ohio by Darlene E. Kelley ********************************************** The War of 1812 in Ohio --- Part 1 Hull's Campaign-- 1812 On April 12, 1812-- Governor Return J. Meigs, of Ohio, issued an order to the Major Generals of the middle and western divisions of the state to bring respective proportions of their men to rendezvous at Dayton on April 29th. May 20th-- William Hull arrives in Dayton on his way to take over command of the Army. May 25th-- Hull takes over command of the army at Dayton. June 1st -- Army marches from Dayton to Staunton, a small village on the east bank of the Miami River. June 6th -- Meigs holds a council with the Shawnee, Mingo, and Wyandot chiefs at Urbana and gets them to agree to adhere to the terms of the Treaty of Green Ville [1795]. Army leaves Staunton for Urbana. June 7th -- Army arrives in Urbana. June 9th --Council is held at Urbana by Hull and Meigs with 12 chiefs of the Shawnee, Mingo, and Wyandot nations to obtain their permission to march the Army through their territory. Permission was granted. June 10th -- 4th United States Regiment under the command of Lt. Col James Miller arrives at Urbana to Hull's force. June 11th -- Col Duncan McArthur and his regiment are detached to cut a road for the Army as far as the Scioto River. June 16 -- Army moves to King's Creek, three miles from Urbana. Fort McArthur, consisting of two blockhouses, is begun on the banks of the Scioto, strengthed by stockades. June 18th -- WAR IS DECLARED. June 19th -- Army arrives at Ft McAthur. June 21st -- Col James Findlay and his regiment are ordered to cut a road from Ft. McArthur to Blanchard's Fork. June 22nd -- Army marches only 16 miles from Ft.McArthur, stops because of rain. Erects Ft. Necessity. A detachment of Capt Andrew Dill's company left as a garrison for Ft. McArthur. June 25th -- Army marches to Ft Findlay, blockhouses with a stockade on the southwest side. June 26th-- Col Lewis Cass and his regiment sent ahead to cut a road to the Rapids of the Maumee River. The balance of Capt Andrew Dill's Company left as a garrison for Ft Findley. June 30th -- Army arrives opposite the scene of the Battle of Fallen Timbers. The baggage is put on a small boat under orders to go to Detroit. Thirty officers and privates are put on board to protect it under the command of Capt. Cyrenius Chapin. A second open boat for the sick is sent along. July 1st -- Army moves away from Rapids of the Maumee. Lt Davidson and a detachment are left to build a blockhouse. July 2nd -- Army arrives at the River Raisin. July 3rd -- Army arrives at River Huron. July 4th -- Army builds a bridge over River Huron. July 5th -- Army leaves River Huron, moves past Brownstown, Maguage, Rivers DeCorce and Roach, and arrives at Spring Wells, the lower end of the Detroit settlement, opposite Sandwich. July 6th -- Col Lewis Cass is sent with a flag of truce to Malden, commanded then by Col. Thomas B. St. George. He is refused admission. July 7th -- Five pieces of artillery are brought down from Ft. Detroit and placed on the banks in front of the army opposite Sandwich. A council is held by Hull with chiefs of th Wyandot, Shawnee, Pottawattamie, Seneca, and Mohawk. The Indians profess to be friends of the United States. July 8th -- Hull moves the army to the rear of Detroit to be out of the way of bombardment from Sandwich July 11th -- McArthur's regiment is sent by Hull to Spring Wells to decoy the British from Detroit. This trick works and British troops moved to a spot opposite McArthur's men. Jul 12th -- The regiments of James Miller amd Lewis Cass cross into Canada in the morning without opposition, the entire movement taking only 15 minutes. The crossing place is about 1 mile above Detroit. The American encampment is made on the farm of British Col Baubee and headquarters are established in a brick house on the farm. Hull issues a proclamation to Canadians offering them protection if they do not oppose the Americans. Jul 13th -- Capt. Henry Ulty with 40 men is sent to Malden to reconnoiter. About 9 miles from the camp he find a place where there had been about 200 Indians [near a bridge over Turkey Creek]. A farmer tells them that many Indians are inthe neighborhood. This causes a general alarm and the camp of the army is fortified with a breastwork on all sides except that next to the river. Jul 14th -- A detachment from James Sloan's calvalry is sent up the river to reconnoitre. At 8 P.M. it is reported that a body of Indians had gone up the river. Col Duncan McArthur with 100 men is sent to pursue them, together with a rifle corps from James Findley's regiment. They find nothing that night. Jul 15th -- Col Duncan McArthur's force comes up with the Indians at the Ruskin River, 24 miles above Sandwich, but the Indians flee. Capt Richard Smyth's Detroit dragoons sent to River Thames to get provisions. They encamp 1/2 mile from its mouth near the house of Issac Hull, a nephew of Gen Wlliam Hull. Next day, they continue up the river, secure all boats they can find, and take back 200 barrels of flour,400 blankets, guns, and military stores, for which receipts are given. They return to camp on the 17th. July 16th -- Col's Lewis Cass and James Miller are sent towards Malden with 280 men. Jul 17th -- Michillimackinac falls. The British force which takes it consists of 46 regulars, 260 Canadian Militia, and 715 Indians. The army proceeds to a bridge over Aux Canards River. A debate ensues as to whether to hold it. It is decided not to do so and the army marches back to camp-- a fatal mistake. In the evening the British re-take the bridge and defend it with breastwork. Meanwhile, the British ship, the Queen Charlotte, sails up the straits, firing on the American side. Hull stays at Sandwich, but issues a general order stating that when the United States takes Malden, private property, will be held sacred. Jul18th -- Col Duncan McArthur and his men are sent to relieve Capt Josiah Snelling's company about 1 mile above the Aux Canards bridge at the Petit Cote settlement. Mc Arthur goes off to reconnoitre the bridge and finds the the planks have been torn off and a battery erected at the south end of it, manned by 60 regulars,150 Canadian militia, 25 dragoons,and 50 Indians. Nearby is the Queen Charlotte. At first skirmish takes place when Mc Arthur's men are fired upon and the Indians charge across the bridge, but they are driven back by the Americans. Tecumseh then stops the Indian retreat and rallies his men and a second skirmish takes place. Mc Arthur sends back for ammunition and then retreats. Col Lewis Cass is sent with 150 men and a 6-pounder to reinforce McArthur. The two meet at Turkey Creek Bridge about sunset, nine miles from camp. Both forces return to Petit Cote for the night. Next day they return, fire a few shots and return to camp. Jul 21st --Gen Hull returns to Detroit, leaving the army on the Canadian side. Hull stays in Detroit and the command of the army devolves upon Duncan McArthur. Jul 24th -- Maj James Denny is sent with the three companies of militia [117 men], against the Indians on the Aux Canards River. He marches on the night of the 24th and forms an ambush at Petit Cote the next morning. A French-Canadian spy is captured. on the 25th they march in view of the enemy. A few Indians come up at noon, are fied upon, and flee. Later a battle ensues and the Americans retreat to Turkey Creek Bridge. They have six killed and two wounded. The British supposedly have double this number of casualties. Jul 28th -- The report that Michillimackinac has fallen reaches Detroit and the actions of Gen Hull in Upper Canada are arrested. Aug 4th -- Maj Thomas Van Horn is sent to reinforce Capt Henry Brush's supply detachment which is at the River Raisin with supplies destined for Detroit. Van Horn's detachment runs into an ambush of Indians near Brownstown and he retreats to the River DeCorce. Of his detachment of 24 men, 17 are reported killed and several wounded. Aug 7th -- A council is held at headquarters with the purpose of making an immediate attack on Maiden. All unnecessary baggage is ordered sent back to Detroit. The army is to have seven days provisions on hand. However, after these plans are made, the whole army is ordered to return to Detroit. Aug 8th -- Six hundred men are sent under Col James Miller to relieve Henry Brush. They run into trouble on the 9th about 2 miles below the Maguage Village. The British and Indians retreat about two miles, at which time the United States troops stop their pursuit. In this skrmish 18 were killed and 60 wounded of the American force. The British troops were under the command of Maj Adam Muir. Aug 10th -- Col James Miller becomes ill and the whole detachment returns to Detroit rather then continuing on to relieve Capt Henry Brush at River Raisin, only 22 miles away. Aug 12 -- Maj James Denny evacuates the fortifiction at Gowles on the canadian shore, the last American force left in Canada. A boat with a flag of truce is sent from Detroit to sandwich, the headquarters of Gen Isaac Brock. Hull denies he sent the flag. At this juncture the col's of the Ohio Volunteers and Gen J. Taylor of Kentucky counsel together and suspect the abilities and fidelity of Gen Hull. A letter is sent to Gov Return J. Meigs by Lewis Cass asking that reinforcements be sent, which letter is endorsed by the Col's and Gen Taylor. Aug 13th -- The British are seen marching up from Sandwich to a point directly oppsite Detroit, but Hull will not allow them to be fired upon and thus they continue unmolested. Aug 15th -- The British are building batteries on their side of the river and the Americans are dong the same on their side. Gen Hull is undetermined what to do. Col's Lewis Cass and Duncan McArthur are against capitulating.Gen Hull then sends a letter to Gen Brock saying that the Americans would not capitulate. Gen Brock then tells Hull to surrender or be exterminated. However, as soon as Hulls refusal to surrender is received by the British, they opened fire on Detroit. The Americans return the fire and silence the enemies guns for a few minutes. Maj. Thomas Jessup and Quartemaster Dugan go to Spring Wells to locate a battery there as it looks as if the British will try a crossing from Sandwich at that point. The Queen Charlotte is also in this area. Maj. Jessup wants a 24-pounder there but Hull only allows a 6-pounder and refuses to let Jessup take a detachment across the river. Cross fire begins in the Spring Wells area and is kept up untl late at night. About 11P.M. the British land at Spring Wells and advance toward the fort without opposition. American forces are not allowed to fire on them, though the British keep up the fire on the fort. Aug 16th-- Gen William Hull raises a white flag and goes to see Gen Isaac Brock. The British firing ceases and the capitulation is under way. At noon the British troops under Brock, march into the fort at Detroit and the American forces march out. Col Duncan McArthur, who was not at the fort at the time of the capitulation, arrives back just in time to be included in the surrender and when he hears of it he goes back to the River Rouge. At This point British officers show him the capitulations and he must surrender. A garrison of 250 British is placed at the fort at Detroit under Col Henry Procter. *********************************************** continued in part 2-- Harrison's 1st Campaign--. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 15:39:51 -0400 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <007301beef31$99af6fc0$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Bio History --Know Your Ohio -- Ohio in war of 1812 pt 2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: kathi kelley To: Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 4:31 PM Subject: Bio History --Know Your Ohio -- Ohio in war of 1812 pt 2 *********************************************** Historical Collections of Ohio Know Your Ohio by Darlene E. Kelley *********************************************** The War of 1812 in Ohio --Part 2 Harrison's First Campaign --1812 On Aug 15, 1812, The regiments of Kentucky volunteers, which had been organized on the north side of the Kentucky River under the command of Col's John M.Scott, William Lewis, and John Allen, are ordered into service, under the requisition of the War Department. The 17th U.S. Regiment, under the command of Col Samuel Wells, is to march with the detachment and rendezvous at Georgtown in Scott County where Gen John Payne is to receive the command. About 2,000 assemble. Aug 16 -- The Kentucky detachment is paraded and reviewed by Gov Charles Scott of Kentucky and addressed by the Rev James Blythe of Transyvania University and Henry Clay. Aug 17th -- The Kentucky detachment is inspected by Brigade Maj William Garrard. Aug 19th -- The Kentucky detachment is marched for Newport and Cincinnati. They arrive the 24th at Newport where they hear of the surrender of Detroit. They draw arms and equipment on the 25th and 26th and cross over to Cincinnati on the 27th. Aug 25th -- William Henry Harrison, having been appointed to command the Kentucky troops, calls for a corps of 500 volunteers. R.M. Johnson, William S Hunter, and John Logan are appointed as his aides. Aug 28th -- William Henry Harrison, in general order of this date from Cincinnati, orders the Kentucky troops to march toward Dayton by way of Lebanon on the 29th, Harrison follows the trops and catches up with them on the 31st, after they had passed Lebanon a few miles and were about 40 miles from Cincinnati. Sept 1st -- The Kentucky troops, under Harrison, arrive at Dayton and leave for Piqua the next day. On this march, from Dayton to Piqua, an express informs Harrison that he has been appointed a Brigadier General as of Aug 22 and assigned the command of all forces in Indiana and Illinois territories, with instructions to consult and cooperate with Gen Hull and Gov Benjamin Howard. Harrison declines accepting the appointment pending Eustis' [Sec of war] hearing about Hull's defeat. He also wants to know how much sub-ordinate, he will be to Gen James Winchester. Sept 3rd-- The Kentucky troops arrive at Piqua. Haring that Fort Wayne is besieged, Harrison detaches Col Allen's regiment with two companies from Lewis' and one from Scott's regiments to make forced marches to Fort Wayne. A regiment of Col Adams was also advancing towards Ft Wayne and was as far as Shane's Crossing [Rockford, Ohio]. This consisted of 700 men. Sept 4th -- Harrison receives word that a British-Indian frce is coming from Malden to join the Indians besieging Ft Wayne. This force had left Malden on Aug 18th. Sept 5th -- William Henry Harrison makes a speech to the troops, asking those who are afraid to serve against Ft Wayne to step out of ranks. One man did and was hoisted to a rail and dumped into the waters of the Miami River. Sept 6th -- The remainder of the Kentucky troops march from Piqua for Ft Wayne, having waited an extra day because of shortages of flints. They overtake Allan's regiment early on the 8th at the St Mary's River, Girty's Town. Maj R.M. Johnsn arrived on thee 8th with a corps consisting of companies of Capts Arnold and Johnson and a company from Mason County Kentucky, under the command of Capt Ward. This brings the army to a strength of 2,200. Sept 9th -- Foot troops leave Girty's Town. The mounted volunteers stay behind until noon to elect officers. R.M. Johnson is elected for command. In the evening th entire army arrives at the camp of Col Adams at Shane's Crossing. R.M. Johnson's volunteers encamp 1/2 mile above the main army. Sept 10th -- Harrison's army marches late from Shane's Crossing. The 17th U.S. Regiment, together with the regiments of Col Wells and Allen, form the night column at 200 yards distance from the road. The troops of Col Lewis and Scott form the left column at the same distance. A battalion under Gen Lytle is the van and Capt Garrard's mounted unit from Kentucky also is in the van. Spies are sent out all around the flanks, front and rear. Wagons and baggage is in the center. Sept 11th -- Lt Suggette, the adjutant of Johnson's battalion, is sent with 20 men as an advance party for Harrison's army. They fall in with a party of Indians. This was the first engagement of Harrison's army. There is no loss of men. The army is within 20 miles of Ft Wayne. Sept 12th-- Harrison's army arrives at Ft Wayne where they are joyously greeted. The Indians had fled the evening before. They had invested the fort for the ten days previous. As a ruse against the defenders of the Fort, the Indians had made several pieces of wooden cannon by boring out pieces of timber and strengthening the with iron hoops, not very effective. The army encamped around the fort where the remains of what had once been a thriving little village, which had been burned by the Indians. Sept 13th -- William Henry Harrison decides to divide the army into two divisions to be sent to the Indian towns. The first division is composed of the regiments of Lewis and Allen, plus Garrard's horsemen and is placed under the command of Gen Payne. They are directed to go to the Miami Villages at the forks of the Wabash. The other division is composed of one battalion of Johnson's men and the Ohio mounted men of Adams, to be commanded by Col Wells. They are to destroy the Pottawattamie village on Elk Hart River. This latter division did not want to go and wanted to go home. Of these, Gen Lytle and Maj Dunlap, with 150 men, decided to stay, while the others returned home. Sept 15th -- Payne's division arrives at the forks of the Wabash and find the village deserted, but destroyed the houses and the crops. After destroying some other villages, they return to Fort Wayne on the 18th. Sept 16th-- Wells' division goes to Elk Hart village, but finds it deserted. The town and fields of Five Medals Town [Elk Hart village] are destroyed and the division arrives back at Ft Wayne on the 18th. Sep 17th -- Col James Simrall arrives at Ft Wayne with 320 dragoons and a company of riflemen under Capt Farrow of Montgomery County, Kentucky. Harrison, next day, sends them to Little Turtle's Town to destroy all of it except those buildings built by the United States for Little Turtle. This is done and the detachment returns to Ft Wayne on the 19th. Farrow's company is then placed under Maj Johnson, whose battalion thus becomes some 250 strong. Sept 18th-- Gen James Winchester arrives at Ft Wayne to take command of the first troops which has marched from Kentucky to reinforce the Nothwest Army. Sep 19th-- Gen James Winchester takes over the command of the Kentucky troops gathering there. Sept 20th-- William Henry Harrison with mounted men and Jennings regiment arrive at St Mary's. The balance of the Infantry have not arrived. The regiments of Barbee, Poague, and Jennings arrive at Newport early in Sept with Simrall's dragoons, but are detained until they can draw arms, etc. Dragoons had to be armed with muskets, as no swords or pistols are available. All foot troops have arrived by Sept 20th. ********************************************** to be continued in part 3-- -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #640 *******************************************