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- Hiram Cassel Boone lived in Meade Co., Ky. He left a written statement regarding his descent from George Boone III.
He was the richest and most influential man in the county; among his friends were Jonathan Jennings, Governor; John Tipton, Senator; Ratliff Boone, Representative in Congress, of Indiana; and Henry Clay, Senator from Kentucky. He was urged to go to Congress, but refused to be a candidate. He owned a large farm on the Ohio River, with a fine brick house, which is still standing and owned by his son, Hiram C. Boone 2d. He was a man of education and refinement. His pictures show a very striking resemblance to his distinguished cousin Col. Daniel Boone, a grand-niece of whom was his first wife. At the time Squire Boone, Jr., left Kentucky (about 1807), taking with him all of his own family and all of Samuel Boone's, Hiram C. Boone moved to Indiana with the rest. In 1811 a Captain Smith was sent to Harrison County to raise a company of soldiers to go to the relief of Fort Harrison. Hiram Boone entered actively into the work of securing the men. When finally or-ganized the men objected to Captain Smith, who generously told them they might select their own captain, and that any one could offer who chose. Boone, who was then but a boy, stood for election. The men were drawn up, and instructed by Captain Smith, that at the command of "March" they would line up with the man they wished to command them. Every soldier, save one-a relative of Smith-marched to Boone. Boone was commissioned Captain of the 1st Regiment of Militia of Ind-iana Territory, by William Henry Harrison, Governor and Commander in Chief, June 26, 1811. This service is officially known as "The Cam-paign of the Wabash." (See Act of Congress, approved April 10, 1812, for the relief of the officers and soldiers.) February 27, 1813, he was commissioned Major of the 5th Regiment of the Militia of Indiana Territory; his service was that of fighting the Indian allies of Great Britain in the War of 1812. (See Act of Congress approved March 3, 1813.) Commission signed by John Gibson, Acting Governor. April 26, 1817, he was commissioned Colonel of the 5th Regiment of Militia of the State of Indiana. From then until his death he was always called Colonel Boone. Commission signed by Jonathan Jennings, Governor.
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