History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . rom the testimony of one who unquestionablyknew whereof he spoke. That one was no less a per-sonage than the Hon. Thomas H. Benton, UnitedStates senator from Missouri, who, in his ThirtyYears in the United States Senate (vol. i. p. 676),, Gen. Sam Houston was born in the State ofVirginia, county of Rockbridge; he was appointedan ensign in the army of the United States duringthe late war with Great Britain, and served in theCreek campaign under tlie banners of Jackson. Iwas the
History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . rom the testimony of one who unquestionablyknew whereof he spoke. That one was no less a per-sonage than the Hon. Thomas H. Benton, UnitedStates senator from Missouri, who, in his ThirtyYears in the United States Senate (vol. i. p. 676),, Gen. Sam Houston was born in the State ofVirginia, county of Rockbridge; he was appointedan ensign in the army of the United States duringthe late war with Great Britain, and served in theCreek campaign under tlie banners of Jackson. Iwas the lieutenant-colonel of the regiment to whichhe belonged, and the first field-officer to whom he re-ported. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. iti F. II. .ts in soils, where souietiii goKl wliich the owner knows not of.—\- Swift. Fideleo Hughes Oliphant was the third son andfourth in theorder of birth of a family of ten children Iplate engraving accompanying tliis sketch is from adtaken wlion he was between fifty years of agxdlent likeness of tlie original at that peiiod of hi= ^y^^^. 7 GEORGES TOWNSHIP. 583 —four sons and six daughters—of John and SarahOliphaiit. Hughes, the subject of this sketch, wasborn on the 4th of January, 1800, at Old FairfieldFurnace, on Georges Creek, in Georges township, Fay-ette Co., Pa. Of this old furnace, the rival of anotheron Jacobs Creek, Westmoreland County, Pa., for thedistinction of being the first at which pig iron wasmade west of the Allegheny Mountains, in which bothlocalities have zealous advocates, nothing but thecinder pile and some of the larger stones of the stackremain to mark the spot where its proprietors,])iotieers in what has grown to be the great industryof Western Pennsylvania, saw and heard their firstbantling heave and sigh. His father, Col. John Olipliant, was born in ChesterCounty, Pa., and his mother, Sarah McGinnes, bornin Philadelphia, Pa., was the only child of a sea-cap-tain, who wa
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