As part of the Bicentennial Celebration of St. Marys, Ohio the Bicentennial Committee is pleased to announce that on Wednesday, May 10th at 6:00 p.m. Andrew Olson will be at The St. Marys Grand Opera House to discuss the six separate but pivotal treaties that were signed in St. Marys, Ohio in fall of 1818 between the US Government and the Wyandot, Seneca, Shawnese, and Ottawas; the Wyandot; the Potawatomi; the Wea; the Delaware; and the Miami. These treaties brought vast amounts of land under control of the United States and affected the people living in the area in many different ways by opening up the virgin land in both Ohio and Indiana for settlement.
Arthur Andrew Olson III is an amateur historian who focuses on the Midwest’s pioneer era. Olson has authored Forging the Bee Line Railroad, 1848-1889: The Rise and Fall of the Hoosier Partisans and Cleveland Clique, and several unpublished manuscripts, as well as a series of articles about the 1818 treaties published in Connections: The Hoosier Genealogist, published by the Indiana Historical Society. These articles can be found in the Local History room of the St. Marys Community Public Library. He holds a bachelor of science degree from Miami University and a JD degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Chicago-Kent College of Law.
For more information about this free event contact the St. Marys Community Public Library at 419-394-7471 or by email at stmaryshelp@seolibraries.org.
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