This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...Clark This picture represents the "Savior of the Northwest" at the height of his military career. George Rogers Clark was born in Virginia in 1752. His birthplace is only a mile and a half from Monticello, the old home of Thomas Jefferson. The Clark family is of English origin. The founder of the family in America came ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...Clark This picture represents the "Savior of the Northwest" at the height of his military career. George Rogers Clark was born in Virginia in 1752. His birthplace is only a mile and a half from Monticello, the old home of Thomas Jefferson. The Clark family is of English origin. The founder of the family in America came to this country almost as early as the Pilgrim Fathers did. Soon after coming here, he married a Scotch girl who was known as "the red-haired beauty." This fact may account for the large amount of red hair in the Clark family. The mother of George Rogers Clark was Ann Rogers, a member of an old and prominent Virginia family. George Rogers Clark was a member of a family of ten--six boys and four girls. When the Revolutionary War broke out several of the boys enlisted in the American army for regular service, while George Rogers made a plan of his own for striking the British in the Northwest. One of his brothers joined him in this undertaking. The young Clark didn't spend very much time in school. He was a man of action rather than a student. He was able to write a fairly good letter but his spelling and grammar were rather poor. He was good in mathematics and, like Washington, was quite skillful as a surveyor. He was soon attracted by the loud call of the Northwest and, when he was nineteen, he went across the mountains to explore and to survey. He liked the country and, apparently, was earning considerable money. In a letter to his father he said: "I get a good deal of cash by surveying on this river." Clark, however, was more of a soldier than a surveyor, and soon after this time (1775), when the Shawnee Indians were making war upon Boone and his followers, we find him in Kentucky righting for the settlers. Cla...
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