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Profile of John Wesley Hardin
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John Wesley Hardin |
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26th May 1853 |
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Bonham, Texas, USA |
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John Hardin (1753-1792) was an officer in the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War.
Born in Fauquier County, Virginia, he was a noted marksman and hunter. In 1774, he was made an ensign in the militia and was wounded in a skirmish with the Indians. In the Revolution, he was a lieutenant in General Morgan's army. After the war, he settled in Washington County, Kentucky in 1786. He subsequently was promoted to colonel and engaged Indians north of the Ohio River. In 1792, George Washington sent him to negotiate a peace with the Shawnee Indians. In what is now Shelby County, Ohio he met with some of the Shawnee, who offered to escort him to their village but that night they killed him.
The town of Hardin, Ohio and Hardin County, Ohio are named for him. Hardin County, Kentucky is also named for him; in 2004 (?) the county's school district opened John Hardin High School in Elizabethtown, also named after him.
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