As it Were: Simon Kenton made quite a name for himself in Ohio s early days
Ed Lentz
Simon Kenton was a genuinely extraordinary figure in the early history of Ohio.
A frontiersman, Kenton was Ohio’s answer to Kentucky’s Daniel Boone. In fact, he knew Boone quite well and had saved Boone’s life in an early battle against British and Native American warriors.
And he was a man who knew central Ohio quite well and often traveled back and forth across the great Darby and Pickaway plains.
Kenton was born in Virginia in 1755 and grew up farming with his family at what was then the edge of the frontier.