Simon Kenton (1755 – 1836). United States frontiersman and soldier in
West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio. He was a friend of Daniel Boone,
Simon Girty, Spencer Records, Thomas S. Hinde, Thomas Hinde, and Isaac
Shelby. He served the United States in the Revolution, the Northwest
Indian War and the War of 1812. Surviving the gauntlet and ritual
torture, in 1778 he was adopted into the Shawnee people. He married
twice and had a total of ten children.
He was a friend and business associate of
William Ward.
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Over six feet tall, with long red hair, Kenton was a scout and woodsman as well as the settlers' friend."
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Simon Kenton was more than six feet tall and had long red hair, a massive man with an oversized personality."
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