Early biographers estimated his year of birth as 1734, but subsequent historians uncovered a birth date of March 23, 1736, which in the modern calendar system means that he was born in 1737.
Early biographers estimated his year of birth as 1734, but subsequent historians uncovered a birth date of March 23, 1736, which in the modern calendar system means that he was born in 1737.
Early biographers estimated his year of birth as 1734, but subsequent historians uncovered a birth date of March 23, 1736, which in the modern calendar system means that he was born in 1737.
He reportedly attended the University of Edinburgh before being apprenticed to the renowned physician William Hunter. In 1757, St.
He served under General Jeffery Amherst at the capture of Louisburg, Nova Scotia, on July 26, 1758.
On April 17, 1759, he received a lieutenant's commission and was assigned under the command of General James Wolfe, under whom he served at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham which resulted in the capture of Quebec City. ==Settler in America== On April 16, 1762, he resigned his commission, and, in 1764, he settled in Ligonier Valley, Pennsylvania, where he purchased land and erected mills.
Clair met Phoebe Bayard, a member of one of the most prominent families in Boston, and they were married in 1760.
On April 17, 1759, he received a lieutenant's commission and was assigned under the command of General James Wolfe, under whom he served at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham which resulted in the capture of Quebec City. ==Settler in America== On April 16, 1762, he resigned his commission, and, in 1764, he settled in Ligonier Valley, Pennsylvania, where he purchased land and erected mills.
Clair and the Struggle For Power in the Old Northwest, 1763–1803" (Dissertation.
On April 17, 1759, he received a lieutenant's commission and was assigned under the command of General James Wolfe, under whom he served at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham which resulted in the capture of Quebec City. ==Settler in America== On April 16, 1762, he resigned his commission, and, in 1764, he settled in Ligonier Valley, Pennsylvania, where he purchased land and erected mills.
He was the largest landowner in Western Pennsylvania. In 1770, St.
Clair became a justice of the court, of quarter sessions and of common pleas, a member of the proprietary council, a justice, recorder, and clerk of the orphans' court, and prothonotary of Bedford and Westmoreland counties. In 1774, the colony of Virginia took claim of the area around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and some residents of Western Pennsylvania took up arms to eject them.
In January 1776, he accepted a commission in the Continental Army as a colonel of the 3rd Pennsylvania Regiment.
He was appointed a brigadier general in August 1776, and was sent by Gen.
He took part in George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River on the night of December 25–26, 1776, before the Battle of Trenton on the morning of December 26.
Clair with the strategy that led to Washington's capture of Princeton, New Jersey, on January 3, 1777.
Clair was promoted to major general in February 1777. In April 1777, St.
Clair was forced to retreat at the Siege of Fort Ticonderoga on July 5, 1777.
In 1778 he was court-martialed for the loss of Ticonderoga.
Clair was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1780. =="President of the United States in Congress Assembled"== St.
Clair was a member of the Pennsylvania Council of Censors in 1783, and was elected a delegate to the Confederation Congress, serving from November 2, 1785, until November 28, 1787.
Clair was a member of the Pennsylvania Council of Censors in 1783, and was elected a delegate to the Confederation Congress, serving from November 2, 1785, until November 28, 1787.
Clair was a member of the Pennsylvania Council of Censors in 1783, and was elected a delegate to the Confederation Congress, serving from November 2, 1785, until November 28, 1787.
Chaos ruled the day in early 1787 with Shays's Rebellion in full force and the states refusing to settle land disputes or contribute to the now six-year-old federal government.
On February 2, 1787, the delegates finally gathered into a quorum and elected St.
Clair's presidency, the Philadelphia Convention was drafting a new United States Constitution, which would abolish the old Congress. ==Northwest Territory== Under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which created the Northwest Territory, General St.
He was then made governor of the Northwest Territory in 1788, and then the portion that would become Ohio in 1800.
In 1789, he succeeded in getting certain Native Americans to sign the Treaty of Fort Harmar, but many native leaders had not been invited to participate in the negotiations, or had refused to do so.
Mutual hostilities led to a campaign by General Josiah Harmar, whose 1,500 militiamen were defeated by the Native Americans in October 1790. In March 1791, St.
Mutual hostilities led to a campaign by General Josiah Harmar, whose 1,500 militiamen were defeated by the Native Americans in October 1790. In March 1791, St.
In October 1791 as an advance post for his campaign, Fort Jefferson (Ohio) was built under the direction of General Arthur St.
Clair had been a petitioner for a Charter for Nova Caesarea Lodge #10 in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1791.
Clair resigned his army commission in March 1792 at the request of President Washington, but he continued to serve as Governor of the Northwest Territory. A Federalist, St.
He was then made governor of the Northwest Territory in 1788, and then the portion that would become Ohio in 1800.
Politically out-of-step with the Jefferson administration, he was replaced as governor in 1802. ==Early life and career== St.
He thus played no part in the organizing of the state of Ohio in 1803. The first Ohio Constitution provided for a weak governor and a strong legislature, in part as a reaction to St.
Clair ( – August 31, 1818) was a Scottish-American soldier and politician.
Clair died in poverty in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, on August 31, 1818, at the age of 81.
Kent State University, 2005) online ==External links== Ohio Memory Ohio History Central The Hermitage – home of Arthur St.
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