On This Day | Heroes of American History

Washington, who was over six feet tall, whose father died when he was eleven, who received his education from the outdoors and practical men, not from books, who was awkward with women, who at 16 was a public surveyor, who made a perilous 1,000-mile journey in dead winter through Indian country to warn the French away from the Ohio Valley and fell into an ice-filled river from a raft, who saved the British army under Braddock after a surprise attack during the French and Indian war;

1939-11-09 | Ward County Independent