P 289 William Henry Harrison Presidential Collection

              P 289
William Henry Harrison Presidential Collection
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OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Manuscripts/ Audiovisual Collections
P 289
William Henry Harrison Presidential Collection
Ca. 1818- 1960
OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION
Number:
P 289
Title:
William Henry Harrison Presidential Collection
Creator:
Ohio Historical Society
Dates:
Ca. 1818- 1960
Media:
Photographs, postcards, prints, ephemera
Quantity:
0.30 cubic feet
Location:
Ohio Historical Center
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE COLLECTION
William Henry Harrison was the ninth President of the United States, and the first from Ohio. He was born in 1773 in Virginia. He was home schooled as a boy, and attended Hampden Sidney College in Richmond, Virginia where he studied medicine. In 1791 he was commissioned as an ensign in the First Infantry of the Regular Army and began his career as a frontier soldier. In 1792, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and became the aide- de- camp of General Anthony Wayne. He fought at the Battle of Fallen Timbers and then did garrison duty at North Bend, Indiana and Fort Washington in Cincinnati. In 1798, he resigned from the army.
In 1798, he was appointed Secretary of the Northwest Territory by President John Adams and was influential in obtaining passage of the act for the division of the territory into the states of Ohio and Indiana. In addition, he negotiated several land treaties with Native Americans that gave control of large amounts of land to settlers. In 1811 he won a battle against Tecumseh at Tippecanoe. His next military obligation was the War of 1812 in which he recaptured Detroit with the aid of Commodore Perry. At the battle of the Thames in 1813 he defeated British