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CELEBRATION AND HOME COMING
FINDLAY, OHIO
BIOGRAPHY.
Colonel JAMES FINDLAY was born in Penn-
sylvania, 1775, He married Miss Jane Irwin, and
about 1795 moved to Cincinnati, Ohio.
In the War of 1812, he was colonel of a regi-
ment, which was the advance guard of Gen. Hull's
army on the march from the Scioto River to the
Maumee. On this march, he began the erection
of Fort Findlay, named in his honor, and from
which, the City of Findlay, Ohio, derives its name.
He was general of the Ohio Militia; a member
of Congress, 1825-1833. He died in 1835.
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COLONEL JAMES FINDLAY.
WEEK OF AUGUST 18TH.1912.
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FORT FINDLAY ERECTED-SUMMER DE 1812
CENTA
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HOME CONTAINS
USED AS A MILITARY STOREHOUSE
EVACUATED IN THE SPRING OF 1815.
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THE FORT FACED MAIN STREET, SOUTH BANKY
OF THE BLANCHARD RIVER, FINDLAY, O.
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W. W. Wickerham
- Detroit,
Harpers Hospital. Much.
THE NAMED IN HONOR OF COLONEL JAMES FINDLAY.
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