Ohio's Founding Fathers (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780595750399)

Arthur St. Clair, Governor of the Northwest Territory, warned friends in Congress that the frontier settlers of Ohio were too indigent and ignorant to form a constitution and government for themselves. This is the story of the men who proved him wrong.

The author describes the beginning of Ohio through the lives of its founding fathers. Founding fathers include the thirty-five delegates to the convention held in Chillicothe in November, 1802, which decided that Ohio should become a state and then drafted its first constitution, as well as twenty additional men whose activities before and after the convention round out the story of the state's beginning.

Revolutionary War veterans, Indian fighters, eastern aristocrats, Appalachian mountain men, and immigrants from Scotland, Ireland, and England combined their talents to lay the foundation for one of the greatest states in the nation.

Author: Fred J. Milligan
ISBN-10: 0595750397
ISBN-13: 9780595750399
Publisher: iUniverse
Language: English
Published: 09/14/2003
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.38w x 1.08d