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Francis Scott Key DC1
1779-1843. The author of our National Anthem was a lawyer, patriot, community leader and poet. His home and law office stood approximately 100 yards west of here. Francis Scott Key lived there from 1803 to about 1833 with his wife, the former Mary Taylor Lloyd of Annapolis, Maryland, and their six sons and five daughters. The house was demolished in 1947 after years of neglect by various owners. During the war of 1812, British troops had invaded and captured Washington in August of 1814. They set fire to the Capitol, the White House and most Federal buildings. as they withdrew to their ships they took Dr. William Beanes prisoner because he had arrested some stragglers among the British troops for looting. The popular and respected 35-year-old George Town lawyer, Francis Scott Key, came to the aid of friends seeking Dr. Beanes' release. Under a flag of truce approved by President James Madison, key set out with Colonel John Stuart Skinner, an American agent for prisoner exchange. They located the British fleet and boarded Admiral Cochrane's Royal Navy Flagship. Key successfully arranged for Dr. Beanes' release. However, lest they reveal the British plans to attack Fort McHenry and Baltimore, they were detained under guard aboard their ship. Throughout the night of September 13-14, 1814, Key stood on deck watching the bombardment of Ft. McHenry. At dawn Key's anxiety was relieved. Our flag was still there! Key began to compose a poem on the back of a letter.guard aboard their ship. Throughout the night of September 13-14, 1814, Key stood on deck. After the release following the British defeat, Key continued to work on his poem. On the next day, he showed it to a relative, Judge Joseph Hopper Nicholson, a Fort McHenry's defender. Nicholson was so moved he immediately had broadsides of the poem printed and circulated. That poem became The Star Spangled Banner. Francis Scott Key's law practice continued to flourish. He was three times appointed to the post of U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. He was active in anti-slavery causes, advocated the establishment of public schools, negotiated a treaty in 1833 between the Creek Indians and settlers in Alabama, and was a vestryman of St. John's Church as well as a founder of Christ Church in George Town. On a trip to Baltimore in 1843, Francis Scott Key died of pneumonia on January 11 at the home of his eldest daughter, Mrs. Charles Howard. He is buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery near his birthplace in Frederick, Maryland. The high standards which guided Francis Scott Key's life continue to be an example to all Americans.
The Sons of Daniel Boone MO393
They Have Been Overlooked by Historians In Missouri the Boone's sons, Nathan, Jesse, and Daniel Morgan Boone, and grandson James Callaway played significant roles. Some are listed here:
Treaty Monument - Portage des Sioux MO361
Portage des Sioux was of considerable importance during the War of 1812. An American military force was stationed here to intercept the enemy on their way to attack St. Louis. A blockhouse was built on the island directly downstream of the town. A fort was also located on the Mississippi River below town. This fort and site were washed away by high water in 1844. On July 4, 1815, the war having closed, the Indians of nineteen different tribes which had been in hostility to the Americans, were invited to assemble in council at Portage des Sioux to treaty for peace. Among the tribes who signed the treaty were the Potawatomies, Piankeshaws, Sioux, Omahas, Kickapoos, Osages, Iowas, Kansas, and the party of the Sacs [Sauks] and Foxes. The treaty carries the signature of three white commissioners, William Clark, of the Lewis and Clark expedition; Ninian Edwards, the governor of the territory of Illinois; and Auguste Chouteaux, a prominent figure in fur trade west of the Mississippi River. These treaties at last ended the War of 1812 in Missouri.
Portage des Sioux MO360
The seal of this town is a circle with two bands encircling a field, with an extended view representing a portion of that plane of country immediately above the junction of the rivers. [The Missouri River and Mississippi River] The "armorial achievement" is simple, yet highly suggestive, and commemorates the incident above related [The Naming of Portage des Sioux MO362]. It consists of a party of Sioux with canoes on their shoulders, and is surrounded with the words "Seal of the town of Portage des Sioux." During the thirty year period following the Louisiana Purchase, the tribes living in Missouri relinquished their claims to Missouri lands by a series of treaties, and moved south and west into the Kansas and Oklahoma region. The first of these treaties, entered into November 3, 1804, between the United States and the Sauk and Fox at Portage des Sioux, was, according to Black Hawk, made without authority having been given to the chiefs who negotiated it. Ill feeling among the Indians over this treaty, which ceded an extensive territory, caused a schism between Sauk and Fox, and was the alleged cause for the depredations on white settlers during the War of 1812.
Zachary Taylor National Cemetery KY-1412
Gen. Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), distinguished lifetime soldier and twelfth President of United States, buried here in family cemetery. Commissioned Lt. 1808. Served in War of 1812; Black Hawk War, 1832; Seminole War, 1836-43. Major Gen., 1846. Active leader in Mexican War, 1846-47. Western Army Command, 1847. Elected President, 1848. Died in office.
Winchester Veterans Memorial IL363
Clarkston, Constantine Curry, Nicholas Ebey, George McEvers, James Patterson, Solomon Stout, Jesse Summers, Joseph WAR OF 1812 Arnold, Major George Arnold, Michael Arnold, Johnas Beall, Alexander Buchanan, Jeremiah Bulmer, Isaac Clark, George W. Chance, William Cochran, George Crawford, Samuel Cumby, William Frame, Col. William Fowler, William Funk, Samuel Hart, Dr. Robert Hawk, Robert Hicks, Aaron B. Lowe, Aquilla Marks, David Mills, James Ray, Edwards Sappington, Benonia Thomas, Edward Watt, David BLACK HAWK WAR~1831-1832 Col. Daniel Leib Maj. James B.Young
{Memorial list the names of all lost from the county in all wars: Persian Gulf, Iraq, Granada, Vietnam, Korean, World War II, World War I, Civil War, Mexican War, Spanish American War, War of 1812, Black Hawk War & Revolutionary War.}
Confluence, Missouri River & Mississippi River MO335
Neighbouring inhabitants, and proceeding on under a jentle brease up the Missourie..." William Clark, May 14, 1804
boldness of an intruder, for a moment recoils...and views in silent majesty the progress of the stranger." Major Amos Stoddard, War of 1812
War of 1812 Veterans Memorial IL338
TO SOLDIERS OF 1812 THE 51 KNOWN AND ALL OTHERS BURIED IN MORGAN COUNTY ILLINOIS
Thomas Carlin IL298
Thomas Carlin, sixth Governor of Illinois (1838-1842), was an early settler of Illinois and a prominent figure in organizing Greene County and establishing Carrollton as its county seat Born in Kentucky in 1789, Carlin came to the Illinois Territory and served in the War of 1812. He settled on farm land, part of which is now Carrollton. He served as the county's first sheriff (1821), as a captain in the Black Hawk War Militia (1832), as a senator (1825-33), and as a land office receiver (1834). He died in 1852 and is buried in the Carrollton City Cemetery.
Doniphan MO279
Doniphan On the hills above lovely Current River, Doniphan was founded, 1847, and became the seat of Ripley County in 1860. George Lee gave 50 acres for the town and named it for Mexican War Col. Alexander W. Doniphan. The county, organized in 1833, is named for War of 1812 Gen. E.W. Ripley. Van Buren, the first county seat, was in the area detached from Ripley to form Carter County in 1859. The Irish wilderness, land of legend and romance, lies in northwestern Ripley and in adjoining counties north and west. There in 1858, Father John Hogan, attracted by cheap government land, founded a Catholic colony. By 1859, forty families, many of them Irish, had settled in the area and the colony chapel was built near Pine in Ripley County. The colony disappeared during the Civil War. In the war, brutal guerrilla bands overran the county and in Sept., 1864, Doniphan was burned by Union troops as Confederate Gen. Sterling Price's army was moving into Ripley County from Arkansas. Devastated by the war, Doniphan grew with the coming of a branch of the Missouri Pacific R.R. in 1883 and development of a lumber industry. Here in the eastern border of Missouri's Ozarks, Doniphan is the seat of a lumbering and general farming county. Attracted by plentiful game, fine waterways, and fertile bottom land, Southern pioneers settled the area in the early 1800's. Lemuel Kittrell was Doniphan's first permanent settler, 1819. During the early 1900's, Doniphan was the center of a leading railroad tie producing area in the U.S. At the peak, the Missouri Tie and Lumber Co. cut some 35,000,000 feet of logs a year in northwest Ripley County. After 1905, the denuded land was uncared for until made a part of Clark National Forest in the 1930's when it was put under a program of reforestation. Mounds built by prehistoric Indians have been found in the county, an area utilized in modern times by Osage and by migrating bands of Cherokee and other tribes whose village-camps were built along the Current. The Osage ceded claims to the region, 1808. The Natchitoches Path, noted Indian trail to the Southwest, ran through southeastern Ripley County crossing the Current River at Pitman's Ferry, Ark., some 12 miles south of Doniphan. Display # 21 - 30 of 191 |