Benjamin Stites

Benjamin Stites (1749–1804) was an American pioneer and one of the earliest Anglo-American settlers in the Miami River region of the Northwest Territory. He is best known for leading the first group of settlers to the Symmes Purchase and for founding Columbia, one of the earliest settlements in present-day Cincinnati, Ohio.

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