John Cleves Symmes
1824–95
American army officer. West Point Military Academy graduate. Son of John Cleves Symmes (1780–1829). Invented iron bridges and variety of breech-loading fire arms.
Sources
Letter from J. C. Symmes, 6 February 1874
McBride 1869–71
New York Tribune, 24 March 1895, p. 7.
Bibliography
McBride, James. 1869–71. Pioneer biography: sketches of the lives of some of the early settlers of Butler County, Ohio. 2 vols. Cincinnati: R. Clarke & Co.
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