City Directory 1868 - Akron-Summit County Public Library

12 AKRON BUSIS!ESS DIRECTORY.
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and ever proved faithful to his trust. Such mas tho
gr:~titnde-such the reward besinwed by the whites.*
" In 1611 Onondaga George, with a large body of Indians
were foiind statiollcd illong the rirer without any apparent
ob,jcct. The Iildinns were snlky and hostile, and Captain
Goorge, as he mas called, \ronlcl flouris11 his tonlahawk and
scalping lrniIe in apparent defiance. After a few days they
disappeared as suddenly as they appeared, and have not been
seen here since. Three days after their departure news came
of the Battle of Tippecanoc. It wns then ovident that they
mere a part of the great Indian plan for exterminating the
whites, end llnd the issue of that battle been different, Capt.
George with his band wonlcl hare destroyed all the scattered
settlcmellts west c f the Cuyahoga. During the time they remainecl
they bept a '1001; out' on a high bluff point west of
the place where the sccond lock is locatecl Lt Old Portage.
$'Their runners bronght i~~telligcnce of the Indian defeat
to them, thrcc days before the news reached the whites.
" On the bursting out of the war of 1812, so important
mas the Olcl Portage deeluecl as a military post, that General
TVadsworth, with a portion OF tlic army, was stationed tlierc
on the b,znlr west oE the two LPC~:~'; but SO sigt~al had been
the clefent of the Indians at Tippecnn~c, tl~at few, if any, have
el-el- retnrncd to their favorite haunts on tho Cuyahoga, or
traversed their vmr-path across the Portage. Their co~mcil
fir08 arc extinguished-the war-whoop is still-the mar-path
untrodden. The fnrliacc stands on the oold council hearththe
shuttle and the mill are lleard instead of the war-whoop
--and the railroad and the canal occupy the war-path. Most
of them have gone with their chief, Tecnmseh, to the Great
Spirit ; the survivors have been driven to the setting suncivilization
has been advanced by their destrnction, but hu-
. manity weeps over the wrongs and extinction, of thc Red
Inan of the forest.
"On the extinction of thc Indian title, settlers began to
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*-'Cnpt. IIcmaii Oviatt, of I~ichficld, who lived in Huclson at the tin~~
of tlie capture of 3igson, says:
" ' Uigson was brought to my housc, barc-Sooted, and bcggcd of me 8
pair of nioccnsins, to Itccp his Sect from freezing. I was goinlr lo give
11il)i n pair, when Major Itogcr thrcatcncd to pot rnc undcr guarc?if I did,
and llc wns taken anr:ly witllout any.
"In ' Ohio, its histol-y n~ld antiqnities,' p?gc 417, it is said:
*'The narrator has seen this frost-bitten chef, Uigson, who had 1 iecn
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Dozen to dcnth,' ctc.
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