Post by Matthew S. Schweitzer on Jan 8, 2004 15:39:50 GMT -5
Here is a link to a short biography of the famous Wyandot Chief Tarhe.
www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/oh/newspapers/natives/tahre.txt
Long overshadowed by other famous chiefs like Tecumseh and Bluejacket, Tarhe was arguably one of the most important and pro-American Indian chiefs in Ohio. In his youth he naturally opposed white expansion into Ohio in the 18th century, and fought against the Americans both in the Revolution and during the Ohio Wars of the 1790s, being severely wounded at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. He was one of the prominent signers of the Treaty of Greenville in 1795 and adamantly held to his agreement to live peacefully with the white settlers that soon flowed into the Ohio lands. Tarhe was long remembered as a friend of the whites and even went so far as to serve with William Henry Harrison in the War of 1812 against Tecumseh's pro-British Indian confederacy. Tarhe's agreement to fight against his own people in the war has been seen as an act of faithful friendship by the Ohio settlers, but was denounced as an act of betrayal by the Indian tribes that remained hostile to the Americans in the Old Northwest.
Tarhe lived out the remainder of his life at Cranetown, on the Wyandot reservation at Upper Sandusky. His daughter, Myerrah, married the white Indian Isaac Zane, who went on to found the town of Zanesfield, OH in Logan County. Fortunately for him, Tarhe did not live to see the Wyandot removal to Kansas in 1843. They were the last Indian tribe to leave Ohio.
There is a monument to Chief Tarhe in Upper Sandusky, OH. The Inscription reads simply:
www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/oh/newspapers/natives/tahre.txt
Long overshadowed by other famous chiefs like Tecumseh and Bluejacket, Tarhe was arguably one of the most important and pro-American Indian chiefs in Ohio. In his youth he naturally opposed white expansion into Ohio in the 18th century, and fought against the Americans both in the Revolution and during the Ohio Wars of the 1790s, being severely wounded at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. He was one of the prominent signers of the Treaty of Greenville in 1795 and adamantly held to his agreement to live peacefully with the white settlers that soon flowed into the Ohio lands. Tarhe was long remembered as a friend of the whites and even went so far as to serve with William Henry Harrison in the War of 1812 against Tecumseh's pro-British Indian confederacy. Tarhe's agreement to fight against his own people in the war has been seen as an act of faithful friendship by the Ohio settlers, but was denounced as an act of betrayal by the Indian tribes that remained hostile to the Americans in the Old Northwest.
Tarhe lived out the remainder of his life at Cranetown, on the Wyandot reservation at Upper Sandusky. His daughter, Myerrah, married the white Indian Isaac Zane, who went on to found the town of Zanesfield, OH in Logan County. Fortunately for him, Tarhe did not live to see the Wyandot removal to Kansas in 1843. They were the last Indian tribe to leave Ohio.
There is a monument to Chief Tarhe in Upper Sandusky, OH. The Inscription reads simply:
TARHE
Distinguished Wyandotte Chief
AND Loyal American
Died 1818 at Cranetown
Distinguished Wyandotte Chief
AND Loyal American
Died 1818 at Cranetown
