Tt post jul 27 2015 - c

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Has a movie ever been made about the brutally hilarious Toledo War? I've always thought that it would make a humorous stage play with a courtroom setting.

I think that the stabbing by Two Stickney was the only injury in the war. I believe that "combatants" got lost among the Great Black Swamp vegetation. The Frostbitten Convention sounds interesting.

Yes, Major Benjamin Stickney named his sons One and Two. That must have influenced George Costanza who had planned to name his child Seven.

Blade story about Benjamin Franklin Stickney:

The eccentric rap came largely from Mr. Stickney's decision to name his sons One and Two. His apparent reasoning, according to legend, was that the boys could name themselves when they grew older, but they never did.

Mr. Stickney had wanted to name his three daughters after states, but his wife forbid it for the first two. He won out after the birth of his last child, born at Fort Wayne in 1817. He called her Indiana.

Mr. Stickney, one of Toledo's founding fathers, was controversial and complicated, to say the least. He was brilliant as well, and a man of numerous talents. Historian. Linguist. Author. Mineralogist. Land speculator. Spy. Postmaster. Justice of the peace. Indian agent.

Mr. Stickney, who played a role in the starting this newspaper, was all of those things and more.

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