military officer
Rufus Putnam.
American military officer (1738-1824) who fought during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War
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About Rufus Putnam
Rufus Putnam was an American military officer who fought during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. As an organizer of the Ohio Company of Associates, he was instrumental in the initial colonization by the United States of former Native American, English, and French lands in the Northwest Territory in present-day Ohio following the war.
Everything about Rufus Putnam →- Occupation
- military officer, judge, politician, surveyor
- Position held
- Trustee of Ohio University, Chairman Town Meeting
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- April 9, 1738
- Died
- May 4, 1824