Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-06-08

*Captain Hemau Oyiatt, OF Rich
field, who lived in Hudson at rhe time
of the capture of Bigson, says:
"Blgson was brought to my house,
bare footed, and begged of me n pair
of moccasins. to keep his feet from
freezing. ] was going to give him Il
pair when. Major Rogers threatened
to put me under guard. if | did, and
he was taken away without any"
In "Ohio, its history and antiqui-
ties" page III, it is said:
"'rhe narrator has seen this old
frost-bittcu chief, Bigson, who had
been almost frozen to DEATH" etc.
In 1871 Onondaga George, with q
large body of Indians We're found
stationed along the river without
any apparent obicct.-The Indians
We're sulky and hostile, and Capt.
George, as he was called would flour
ish his tomahawk and Scalping knife
IN apparent defiance. After few days
they disappeared as suddenly as they
appeared, and have not been seen
since. Three days after their depar-
rure news came of the Battle of Tippe-
canoe. 1t was then evident that they
were a part OF the great Indian plan
for eXterminatng the whites. and had
the issue of that battle been different,
Capt George with his band would
have destroyed all the scattered set
Elements west of the Cuyahoga.- -
During the time they remained they
kept look OUT on a high bluff
point west of the place where the
second lock is located at Old Por-
tagc.
Their runners brought intelligence OF
the Indian defeat, to them, three days
before the news reached the whites.
ON the bursting out of the war of
ISL, SO important was the Old Por
tage deemed as II military post, that
| Gen Wadsworth, with Il portion OF
the army, was stationed there on the
bank west of the two locks; but sc
| signal had been the defeat of the In
dians at Tippccanoe, that few If any
] have ever returned to their favoritt
| hnunts on the Cuyahoga, or traverset
their warpath across the Portage
Their council fires are eXtinguished
the warwhoop is still-thc war-patl
untrodden. The furnace stands on tn,
cold council hearth the shuttle ant
the mill are heard instead of the war
whoop and the railroad and cana
occupy the warpath, Most of then
have gone with their chief, Tecumseh
to the Great Spirit; the survivors hav,
been driven to the setting sun--civil
i2aticu has been advanced by their de
struction, but humanity weeps owe
the wrongs, and extinction, OF the Re,
man of the forest.
ON the extinction of the Indian title
settlers began to flock ill., In 1Sl
Maj. Spcer, Amos Spicer, Paul an,
H. Williams made settlement littl
east of the present corporation, wher
Maj Spicer, and his lady, formerl.
Mrs. Williams, still reside on the oil,
location, surrounded by his own, an,
the descendants of the others.
Immediately on the location of tn
Ohio canal Gen. Perkins and Pau
Williams laid out Akron, and 1t begal
to improve. The first house orecte,
was the building on the corner of Mai
and Exchange streets, now occupies
by Mr.. Mcdonald as n tavern. Tn
timber was cleared from the Groun
where it stands, and the house erect
cd, in September, 1928, after the tow
was located. but before 1t was nance
In 1927 Akron had become u Por'
and Woolsey Wells, Esq, was Al
torney at Law, Justice of the Peac,
, Postmaster and Canal Collector 70
p the Port of Akron. have in IN
= cabinet of curiosities, his desk, abou
I two feet by eighteen inches, tina
contained in It's pigeon holes, all III
files, and documents of his multifar
i Gus offices, He, with Major Mill
f Joshua King, and Joseph Keller, tn
n last of whom kept little log grocery o
n the bank north of the Summit hous
Il then composed the business part {
Akron