Benjamin Stites
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Benjamin Stites (1749–1804) was an American pioneer and one of the earliest Anglo-American settlers in the Miami River region of the Northwest Territory. He is best known for leading the first group of settlers to the Symmes Purchase and for founding Columbia, one of the earliest settlements in present-day Cincinnati, Ohio.[1]
Stites was born in New Jersey in 1749. Before migrating west, he worked as a trader along the Ohio River and became familiar with the region’s geography and settlement potential.[2]