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	John Cleves Symmes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Besides being the governor's daughter, she was John Jay (United States diplomat and jurist who negotiated peace treaties with Britain and served as the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1829)) 's sister-in-law.
		This land was known as the Symmes Purchase (additional info and facts about Symmes Purchase), and was the cause of considerable controversy in his lifetime and after.
		Symmes' nephew John Cleves Symmes Jr (additional info and facts about John Cleves Symmes Jr) fought in the War of 1812 (A war (1812-1814) between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_cleves_symmes.htm (712 words)

	North Pole A Yawning Hole? - NY - March 1, 1896
		In 1818 Symmes issued a circular "to all the world," in which he said: "I declare the earth is hollow and habitable within, containing a number of solid, concentric spheres, one within the other, and that it is open at the poles twelve or sixteen degrees.
		Symmes was a gallant, daring soldier, and his name was honorably mentioned on many occasions in the reports of his commanding officers.
		The theory of Symmes was that the earth is not a solid mass thrown off ages ago from the sun in a molten condition, which has gradually cooled from, the surface inward.
	ku-prism.org /polarscientist/hollowworld/mar11896nyhw.html (1084 words)

	John Cleves Symmes, Jr.: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Cleves Symmes (1779 - May 1829) was born in New Jersey (A Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies) to Timothy Symmes.
		He joined the United States Army (The army of the United States of America; organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare) in 1802 and rose to the rank of Captain during the War of 1812 (A war (1812-1814) between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France).
		Symmes himself never wrote a book of his ideas (too busy on the lecture circuit) but others did.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/J/Jo/John_Cleves_Symmes,_Jr.htm (425 words)

	Encyclopedia: John Cleves Symmes
		Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison (1775 - 1864), wife of President William Henry Harrison and the grandmother of President Benjamin Harrison, was nominally First Lady of the United States during her husbands one-month term in 1841, but she never entered the White House.
		John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States Oil painting by Gilbert Stuart, 1794 John Jay (December 12, 1745 â€“ May 17, 1829) was an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat and jurist.
		John Cleves Symmes Jr (1779 - 1829) nephew of John Cleves Symmes.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John_Cleves_Symmes (1951 words)

	John Cleves Symmes, Jr.
		John Cleves Symmes (1779 - May 1829) was born in New Jersey to Timothy Symmes.
		In some local dealings he used the name Junior to distinguish himself from his prominent uncle John Cleves Symmes.
		He died in May of 1829 and is burried in Symmes Park at Hamilton, Ohio.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/John_Cleves_Symms,_Jr..html (166 words)

	John Cleves Symmes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He was the son of the Rev. Timothy Symmes (1715-1756) and Mary Cleves (died c 1746) of Suffolk County, New York on Long Island.
		Symmes bought 330,000 acres from the Congress in 1788.
		President George Washington signed the U.S. Patent (deed) on September 30, 1794 conveying to Symmes 248,250 acres plus a surveying township (23,040 acres), in trust, for an academy.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/j/jo/john_cleves_symmes.html (515 words)

	John Cleves Symmes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Cleves Symmes (1742-1814) was a delegate to the Continental Congress from New Jersey, and later apioneer in the NorthwestTerritory.
		Anotherdaughter Anna Tuthill Symmes was born in 1775 near Morristown, before hiswife died in 1776.
		Besides being the governor's daughter, she was John Jay 's sister-in-law.
	www.therfcc.org /john-cleves-symmes-129925.html (507 words)

	John C. Symmes' Hollow Earth Writings
		John Cleves Symmes, the author of the Theory of Concentric Spheres, was born in New Jersey about 1780, and died at Hamilton, Ohio, 1929.
		Symmes imagines that the sea extends quite through the outer sphere, in many places, and that seals, whales, and herrings are in the custom of passing through.
		John Cleves Symmes, the author of the theory of concentric spheres, was the son of Timothy Symmes, of New Jersey...
	olivercowdery.com /texts/1818symm.htm (15417 words)

	John Cleves Symmes
		SYMMES, John Cleves, jurist, born on Long Island, New York, 21 July, 1742; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, 26 February, 1814.
		He was a delegate from Delaware to the Continental congress in 1785 and 1786, a judge of the superior court of New Jersey, and afterward chief justice of the same state.
		Harrison.--His nephew, John Cleves, soldier, born in New Jersey in 1780; died in Hamilton, Ohio, 28 May, 1829, entered the army as an ensign in the 1st infantry, 26 March, 1802, was a captain in the war of 1812, and served with credit at the battle of Niagara and in the sortie from Fort Erie.
	www.famousamericans.net /johnclevessymmes (543 words)

	John Cleves Symmes, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His son, Americus Symmes, erected a Hollow Earth monument above his grave.
		Some think it was written as a satire of Symmes ideas, and believe they identified the author as an early American author named Nathanial Ames who wrote other works, including one that might have served as the inspiration of Moby Dick.
		His follower James McBride wrote Symmes' Theory of Concentric Spheres in 1826.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Cleves_Symmes,_Jr. (388 words)

	Symmes Township, Hamilton County, Ohio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Symmes Township is a township of Hamilton County, Ohio.
		The township was named by John Cleves Symmes, who originally owned most of the county as a result of his land purchase, known as the Symmes Purchase.
		The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symmes_Township,_Hamilton_County,_Ohio (219 words)

	Station Information - Cleves, Ohio
		Cleves is a village located on the Ohio River in western Hamilton County, Ohio.
		The village is named for John Cleves Symmes who lived here, laid out the original town site, and sold lots.
		According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 4.1 km² (1.6 mi²).
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/c/cl/cleves__ohio.html (380 words)

	Encyclopedia: John Cleves Symmes, Jr.
		A Princess of Mars (1912), which opened Burroughs’ Barsoom series of novels, is set on Mars and features the heroic Earthling John Carter as he battles with various green, yellow and fl men and wins the hand of the red-skinned (and oviparous) princess Dejah Thoris.
		Tarzan is a remarkable creation, and possibly the best-known fictional character of the century, owing in part to the Tarzan films, particularly those of the 1930s starring Johnny Weissmuller.
		Though Harrison came from one of the best families of Virginia, Judge Symmes did not want his daughter to face the hard life of frontier forts; but eventually, seeing her happiness, he accepted her choice.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Cleves-Symmes,-Jr. (386 words)

	Hollow Earth and Cleves Symmes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Symmes believed that the earth is made up of a series of concentric spheres, with 4,000-mile-wide holes at the north and south poles.
		To the rest of the world, Symmes is remembered, if at all, as the inspiration for Edgar Allen Poe's early science-fiction tale of a hollow earth, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838).
		Yet Symmes was a pioneer of sorts, a man who encouraged generations of independent thinkers to imagine a new earthly geology and to dream of a fabulous race which secretly shares the planet with surface humanity.
	www.disorganization.com /danbala/History/Symmes.html (729 words)

	Symzonia
		The Newton of the West: John Cleves Symmes, Jr.
		In 1818 John Cleves Symmes, Jr., a former American soldier in the War of 1812, sent a pamphlet to all the major institutions of learning in the United States.
		In this pamphlet he wrote, "I declare the earth is hollow, habitable within; containing a number of solid concentric spheres; one within the other, and that it is open at the pole twelve or sixteen degrees.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /symzonia.html (416 words)

	Symmes Major proponent for Holl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Major proponent for Hollow Earth was John Cleves Symmes who proposed an expedition to the polar opening in 1818.
		One author thinks it was written as a satire of Symmes ideas, but he may have been confused with a similar titled book appearing in 1923 which WAS a satire of Symzonia.
		Symmes himself never wrote a book of his ideas but others did.
	www.professorfringe.com /he_theories/symmes.htm (457 words)

	First Ladies' Biographical Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Cleves Symmes, born 21 July, 1742, Colonel of the Continental Army during American Revolution, associate justice on the New Jersey Superior Court (1778-1785), delegate from Delaware to the Continental Congress (1785-1786), Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1787), died 26 February, 1814 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
		For the first three years after the death of her mother, Anna Symmes was raised by her father but as an officer in the Continental Army, he was unable to fully care for her.
		It is known that Judge Symmes initially opposed the marriage on the basis that a military career was not stable enough to support a wife and family but relented once he came to know and admire the character and strength of his new son-in-law.
	www.firstladies.org /Bibliography/AnnaHarrison/FLMain.htm (2180 words)

	John Cleves Symmes envisioned Queen City
		John Cleves Symmes - a colonel in the Revolutionary War, delegate to the Continental Congress, judge of the Northwest Territory, and developer of Southwest Ohio - died in Cincinnati on Feb. 26, 1814.
		In 1788, Symmes, who had served as a justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, became one of three judges in charge of the Northwest Territory - which encompassed what are now the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and part of Minnesota.
		Symmes had hoped his own land near the Great Miami would end up as the site of a Queen City of the West.
	enquirer.com /editions/2003/02/26/loc_ohiodate0226.html (251 words)

	Symmes Township, Greater Cincinnati - GoCincinnati (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Symmes Township bears the name of John Cleves Symmes whose purchase of the lands be-tween the two Miami rivers (the Miami Purchase) in 1788 led to the founding of Cincinnati.
		Symmes is served by Sycamore, Indian Hill and Loveland school districts.
		The new Symmes Regional Branch Library is the largest branch in the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library System.
	homefinder.cincinnati.com /communities/east/symmes_township.html (407 words)

	Ohio Moments: Anna Symmes Harrison helped tame wilderness
		Anna Symmes was born in New Jersey in 1775.
		Her father, John Cleves Symmes, a colonel in the Continental Army, disguised himself as a British soldier and carried Anna on horseback through enemy lines to Long Island, N.Y. There, she was cared for by her maternal grandparents during the war.
		She was unable to attend her husband's inauguration as president in March 1841 because she was ill. A month later, she was in North Bend packing for the trip to Washington when she got word that the president had died.
	enquirer.com /editions/2003/02/25/loc_ohiodate0225.html (271 words)

	Anna Symmes Harrison
		Anna Tuthill Symmes, American first lady(March 4—April 4, 1841), the wife of William Henry Harrison, ninth president of the United States, and grandmother of Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president.
		The daughter of John Cleves Symmes (a soldier in the American Revolution and a judge) and Anna Tuthill Symmes (who died when her daughter was one year old), Anna was raised by her maternal grandparents.
		In 1858 Anna's house was destroyed in a fire, and she spent the remaining six years of her life with her son John Scott Harrison, the only one of her children to outlive her.
	www.northbendohio.org /AnnaSymmesHarrison.html (383 words)

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		The soldier who made his reputation at the Battle of Tippecanoe and parlayed it to the presidency owned a lot of land around Cleves and named the village in 1818 to honor his father-in-law, John Cleves Symmes.
		Harrison and Symmes were disappointed that Cleves didn't boom and the village a dozen miles west of downtown Cincinnati remained sleepy until a few years ago.
		That's when suburbia finally sprawled into tiny Cleves and sparked a feud between several hundred newcomers in $250,000 homes and 2,000 old-timers in $50,000 houses.
	www.cincypost.com /news/1998/cleves051398.html (520 words)

	Anna Symmes Harrison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Anna Symmes Harrison (1775-1864) was the wife of William Henry Harrison, who served as president of the United States for only 30 days.
		They were, in order of birth, Elizabeth Bassett, John Cleves Symmes, Lucy Singleton, William Henry, Jr., John Scott, Benjamin, Mary Symmes, Carter Bassett, Anna Tuthill, and James Findlay.
		John Scott became the father of President Benjamin Harrison.
	www2.worldbook.com /features/presidents/html/harrison_anna.htm (310 words)

	Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison
		It was a long trip and a difficult one even by steamboat and railroad, with February weather uncertain at best, and she at age 65 was well acquainted with the rigors of frontier journeys.
		As a girl of 19, bringing pretty clothes and dainty manners, she went out to Ohio with her father, Judge John Cleves Symmes, who had taken up land for settlement on the "north bend" of the Ohio River.
		Though the young man came from one of the best families of Virginia, Judge Symmes did not want his daughter to face the hard life of frontier forts; but eventualy, seeing her happiness, he accepted her choice.
	clinton5.nara.gov /textonly/WH/glimpse/firstladies/html/ah9.html (447 words)

	Symmes Family Genealogy Forum
		John Cleves Symmes (Jr) in Germany 1860s - Francis Parker 11/20/03
		Re: Abigail Symmes-- Massachusetts 1755 - brenda stull 9/22/02
		Re: John Cleves Symmes - Robert Hewitt 6/11/02
	www.genforum.genealogy.com /symmes (170 words)

	John Cleves Symmes (Jr) in Germany 1860s
		Seeking information on John Cleves Symmes (Jr), born about 1825, son of John Cleves Symmes, the Hollow Earth theorist, and brother of Americus Symmes.
		Symmes Jr was in Germany in the 1860s, married to Marie or Maria Lepowitz (sp?); they had a young son nicknamed "Puddy" (don't know the son's name.
		Re: John Cleves Symmes (Jr) in Germany 1860s kenneth o.tuttle 8/08/04
	genforum.genealogy.com /symmes/messages/22.html (88 words)

	Hollow-Earth Theories: A List of References: Science Reference Guides (Science Reference Services,Library of Congress)
		Matthews, Thomas J. A lecture on Symmes' theory of concentric spheres, read at the Western Museum.
		Symmes, John C. The Symmes theory of concentric spheres, demonstrating that the earth is hollow, habitable within, and widely open about the poles.
		Compiled by Americus Symmes from the writings of his father, Capt. John Cleves Symmes.
	www.loc.gov /rr/scitech/SciRefGuides/hollowearth.html (912 words)

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