Americus Symmes
1811–96
American farmer and populariser of the Symmes theory of a hollow earth. Son of John Cleve Symmes (1780–1829). Born in Bellefontaine, Missouri; moved to Kentucky in 1850.
Sources
Letter from J. C. Symmes, 6 February 1874
McBride 1869–71
Nelson and Runk eds. 1894.
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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