A MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, OF OHIO. ARY BY JAMES HALL. Philadelphia: KEY & BIDDLE, 23 MINOR STREET. THE NEW YORK ASTOR, LENOX AND Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year 1836, by KEY & BIDDLE, in the clerk's office of the district court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania. Stereotyped by John Fagan.....Philadelphia. PREFACE. In preparing for the press a work lately published, containing sketches of the History of the Western States, the author became possessed of a large number of facts, connected with the public services of General Harrison. They would properly have formed a part of the work alluded to; but as that had already swelled to a larger size than had been anticipated, as these would form in themselves a connected narrative, and as they relate to an individual whose name is now placed before the people of the United States, under circumstances calculated to awaken curiosity in regard to his history-it has been thought best to arrange these materials into a separate volume. It is mostly a compilation from other writers; among which the author especially acknowledges his obligations to Dawson, the biographer of General Harrison; and to M'Affee, the historian of the late war. |