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Nathan Boone (1780–1856) was a veteran of the War of 1812, a delegate to the Missouri constitutional convention in 1820, and a captain in the 1st United States Regiment of Dragoons at the time of its founding, eventually rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel.
print. Nathan Boone, the youngest child of Daniel and Rebecca Bryan Boone, was born on March 2, 1781, at Boone’s Station, near present-day Athens, Kentucky. At the age of seven he moved with his parents to a farm near Point Pleasant at the mouth of the Kanawha River in what is now West Virginia.
BOONE, NATHAN (1781–1856). Explorer and military officer Nathan Boone, born on March 2, 1781, was the youngest son of Daniel and Rebecca Bryan Boone. Nathan Boone utilized important family connections to make his own mark in Missouri and Oklahoma history.
In Oskaloosa. …was founded there by Captain Nathan Boone, nephew of Daniel Boone, who explored the area in 1835. Settled by Quakers in 1843, it takes its name (meaning “the last of the beautiful”) from a wife of the Seminole chief Osceola. Iowa’s first coal was mined near there by Welsh miners… Read More.
Born March 2, 1781, in Boone’s Station, Kentucky, Nathan Boone was the tenth and final child born to Daniel and Rebecca Boone. He grew up alongside his father, later following in his footsteps as a soldier and trailblazer.
Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Boone distinguished himself as a soldier, pioneer, legislator, and administrator. His leadership and resourcefulness in many pioneering exploits aided in the opening of the West for settlement.
The Boones’ last home, preserved at Nathan and Olive Boone Homestead State Historic Site, is now a place to travel back to the 1830s. Come explore the Boone home and the cemeteries associated with it, and learn more about one of the families that defined early Missouri.
