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F is c e W e e Only On Lov , The S e e e ec i g of Chapult p . ’ T he S e e oldi r s Dr am , T h e F e arm r , H S unting ong , S th e R e A e ong of agg d ttorn y , T he F e e ar w ll , ’ Ge e e S eec n ral Lytl s Last p h , K A P e Company . o m , M c e Last ar hing Ord r , M c e e a c -s im il e L ast ar hing Ord r to Brigad in f , Ex c c R e tra ts from Offi ial ports , E WILLIAM HAINES LYTL . In the Appendix to his Geography and History of the Western States , published in Cincinnati in 1 8 2 8 , Timothy Flint gives a personal narrative from the pen of General Lytle , whom he describes “ as a distinguished and respectable citizen of the who rom State of Ohio , has been in that countryf Ike be innin who has g g, and probably seen as much ” of its progress as any other man in it . t e The narrative , fresh and suggestive in style , lete p with interest, relates how its writer, a lad 1 nine years old, came with his father, in 7 79, from the Pennsylvania to West, descending the Ohio , 1 80 — in the spring of 7 , in one of sixty three large arks, or Kentucky boats, some of which were in occupied by families, others by young men tending to explore the country . The number of ” fighting men on board, says Lytle , was nearly ” ” a thousand . My father, he continues , had WIL IAM HAI E 2 L N S LYTLE . been a practiced soldier in the former wars of the as country, and had been stationed, such , three years at Pittsburgh . He was, of course , versed in the modes , requisites and stratagems of Indian ” warfare . On the 1 2 th of April the fleet halted at the mouth of the Licking, and discovered an Indian encampment on the Ohio shore opposite . A considerable force crossed the river and the In was dians fled . The boy Lytle among the sol - diers on this occasion . Fifty one years later General Lytle died in his own house which was built near this scene of his youthful ventu re against the Indians . m The two Lytles , father and son , both na ed William , are distinguished from each other in our early histories by their military titles, the elder holding the rank of colonel , the younger that of general . The family stock is of Irish origin . Colonel William Lytle was commissioned captain by Governor Morris, of Pennsylvania, in the year 1 0 an d 7 5 , he served in the old French and Indian War . General William Lytle , like his father, became a famous Indian fighter and pioneer . At the age BE 3 RO RT TODD LYTLE . of fifteen he was put in command of a war party under the direction of the adventurous Daniel 1 8 1 2 - Boone . In the war of , he was major gen 1 82 8 An eral of Ohio militia, and in , President drew Jackson appointed him surveyor—general of the public lands of Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan . was L tleto wn now He founder of y , Williamsburg, C lermont county, Ohio, from which village he 1 8 1 removed to Cincinnati , where he died in 3 . General Robert Todd Lytle , third son of Gen eral William Lytle , was born in Williamsburg, in ’ 1 80 4 . Coming to Cincinnati with his father s 1 8 1 0 was family in , he educated in the old Cin c innati College , and then studied and practiced law . After. serving a term in the Ohio Legisla 1 8 ture , he was elected , in 34 , to a seat in the ni National Congress . The next public o ce he was - filled that of surveyor general , to which he was appointed, as his father had been , by Jack was son . Once more he chosen Representative in the Ohio Legislature ; and , later, was commis sioned m - ajor general of the Ohio militia, a rank his held by his father before him , and after by illustrious son . was Robert T. Lytle a person of fine presence , ' 4 WI LLI AM na m es LYTLE . a . courteous gentleman , an accomplished scholar His ability in conversation , and as an orator at was a as the bar and on the stump , so m rked to win him universal admiration . In the democratic i fam liarity of political fellowship , his constituents ” O as delighted to call him rator Bob, just Cor win’ s followers showed affectionate loyalty by ” huzzaing for Old Tom . 0 1 8 2 On November 3 , 5 , Robert Lytle married Miss Elizabeth Haines, of New Jersey, a lady of h rare culture and beauty . T eir children were one son , William Haines Lytle , the subject of this i memoir, and two daughters, Joseph ne R . and i Elizabeth Ha nes Lytle . Robert T . Lytle died 1 8 -five in New Orleans, in 39 , aged only thirty , and his wife survived him but two years . r On the east side of Law ence street, midway between Third and Fourth , Cincinnati , stands a spacious old mansion surrounded by a broad lawn and shaded by trees . This is the Lyt le residence , built by General William Lytle in 1 8 1 0 - , and now occupied by his grand daughter, Mr s. wa Josephine R Foster . It s the first brick residence of its grade erected in the city . When Andrew Jackson made his only visit to Cin cin THE LYTLE MANSION . 5 ’ held nati, he was General Lytle s guest, and a t he levee , or Old Hickory reception , in south parlor of this mansion . ho itab le Under its p roof, the Lytle house has — welcomed many noted visitors statesmen , mili tary officers, journalists, and foreign travelers . Always have its doors been Open to such as sought or had won distinction in any department of art, science , or literature . Among these were Powers, the sculptor, Mitchel, the astronomer, - Read and Fosdick , the poets . The book shelves, are cabinets , and walls rich in family mementoes — ofii c ial of four or five generations autographs, commissions, portraits, silhouettes, souvenirs of military interest and of patriotic devotion . In this house , the home of his father and of his grandfather, was born William Haines Lytle , on 2 1 8 2 6 .