Moving with his father, by 15 he was working in Fort Wayne, Indiana at the Hobby House Restaurant owned by the Clauss family.

When his father prepared to move again, Dave decided to stay in Fort Wayne, dropping out of high school to work full-time at the restaurant.

After his discharge in 1953, Thomas returned to Fort Wayne and the Hobby House.

In the mid-1950s, Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Col. Harland Sanders came to Fort Wayne to find restaurateurs with established businesses in order to try to sell KFC franchises to them.

D. Bayless Lodge No. 359 Fort Wayne, Indiana, and a member of the Shriners ; he received the honorary 33rd degree in 1995.

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* 1871 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

The Hawks shifted from " Tri-Cities " ( the area now known as the Quad Cities ) to Milwaukee ( in 1951 ) and then to St. Louis, Missouri ( in 1955 ); the Royals from Rochester, New York to Cincinnati ( in 1957 ); and the Pistons from Fort Wayne, Indiana to Detroit ( in 1957 ).

* 1790 – Warriors of the Miami tribe under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.

* 1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.

Draining into Lake Erie, the Maumee River was not necessarily well-suited for large ships, but it did provide an easy connection to Indiana's Fort Wayne.

" The dispute prompted the family to move again, to Fort Wayne, and convert to the Presbyterian church.

In Fort Wayne, Marshall attended high school, graduating in 1869.

** Vernon Jordan is shot and critically injured in an assassination attempt in Fort Wayne, Indiana by Joseph Paul Franklin ( the first major news story for CNN ).

* Fort Wayne Female College is founded ; it will later be renamed Taylor University.

The defense group, centered around Fort Wayne, IN, remained independent under the Magnavox Electronic Systems name, first under Philips and later in the Carlyle Group, until it was acquired by Hughes Electronics in 1995.

The remainder of the operations now falls under Raytheon's Network Centric Systems in Fort Wayne, IN.

Whistler was replaced by Captain Nathan Heald, who had been stationed at Fort Wayne, Indiana.

* S. C. A. N, Stop Child Abuse and Neglect, non-for profit organization based in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Lombard was born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

She spent her early childhood in Fort Wayne, near the St. Mary's River.

Lombard's Fort Wayne childhood home has been designated a historic landmark.

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Burlington aviator John J. Burns suggested the parade ground southwest of Fort Ethan Allen, and soon a dozen hastily-summoned National Guard pilots were bringing their wide-winged `` Jenny '' and DeHaviland two-seaters to rest on the frozen sod of the military base.

It ticked over smoothly, idling while Fogg exchanged mails with the armed messenger from Burlington at Fort Ethan Allen, and one from Montpelier and Barre at the St. John field.

At Fort Ethan Allen the ever-present wind off Lake Champlain could readily flip a puny man-made thing like an airplane if the pilot miscalculated.

When the American Revolutionary War broke out, Allen and the Boys seized the initiative and captured Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775.

In late April, following the battles of Lexington and Concord, Allen received a message from members of an irregular Connecticut militia that they were planning to capture Fort Ticonderoga, requesting his assistance in the effort.

Allen, shortly after Arnold's departure on the raid, decided, after his successes at the southern end of the lake, to take and hold Fort St. John himself.

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.

** American Revolution: Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, leading the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont, capture Fort Ticonderoga.

When the American Revolutionary War started in 1775, Ethan Allen and a troop of his men, along with Connecticut Colonel Benedict Arnold, marched up to Lake Champlain and captured the strategically important military posts at Fort Ticonderoga, Crown Point, and Fort George, all in New York.

During the New England Flood of November 1927 he was sent to Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, to assist with a detachment of the 1st Engineers.

A funeral service was held in the chapel at Fort Myer, Virginia, after which Groves was interred in Arlington National Cemetery next to his brother Allen, who had died of pneumonia in 1916.

The county was named after the old Fort Ellsworth, which was named in honor of 2nd Lieutenant Allen Ellsworth of the 7th Iowa Cavalry ( Company H ), who supervised construction of the fort in 1864.

Based in Fort Wayne, Indiana and covering 11 counties in Northeast Indiana — Adams, Wells, Jay, Huntington, Allen, DeKalb, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben, Whitley, Kosciusko. Anthony Wayne Area Council

Zanesville is a town in Allen and Wells counties in the U. S. state of Indiana, southwest of Fort Wayne.

The city is bounded by Goddard Road and Brest to the north, M-85 / Fort Street and Quarry Road to the east, Pennsylvania Road to the south, and Allen Road to the west.

, members of the Readington Township Committee are Mayor Thomas S. Auriemma ( term of office as mayor / councilmember ends December 31, 2012 ), Deputy Mayor Julia C. Allen ( term as deputy member ends 2012 ; term on council ends 2014 ), Betty Ann Fort ( 2012 ), Frank L. Gatti ( 2014 ), Beatrice Muir ( 2012 ).

Fort Shawnee is a village in Allen County, Ohio, United States with a population of 3, 855 as of the 2000 U. S. census.

It is located about halfway between the cities of Lima and Wapakoneta and is adjacent to the village of Fort Shawnee in Allen County.

The township contains the following communities: Armbrust, Bovard, Carbon, Centerville, Darragh, Eastwood, Emmonston, Evanston, Fort Allen, Foxtown, Grapeville, Hannastown, Haydenville, High Park, Hunker, Lincoln Heights, Luxor, Maplewood Terrace, Midway, Radebaugh, St. Clair, Stonevilla, Swede Hill, White Hill, and West Point City.

On March 23, 2011, a funnel cloud briefly appeared over the Greensburg and Hempfield areas just around 4: 45 PM and eventually touched down as an F2 tornado, causing widespread damage to scores of homes in the Fort Allen neighborhood and in neighboring Sewickley Township.

Fort Bend County owns and operates the Bates M. Allen Park, located just outside the city limits of Kendleton.

In his 1991 book Secession: The Morality of Political Divorce From Fort Sumter to Lithuania and Quebec, philosophy professor Allen Buchanan outlined limited rights to secession under certain circumstances, mostly related to oppression by people of other ethnic or racial groups, and especially those previously conquered by other peoples.

* Allen Buchanan, Secession: The Morality Of Political Divorce From Fort Sumter To Lithuania And Quebec, Westview Press, 1991.

However, Steven Fortriede, director of the Allen County Public Library ( ACPL ) and author of the 1978 Johnny Appleseed, believes another putative gravesite, one designated as a National Historic Landmark and located in Johnny Appleseed Park in Fort Wayne, is the correct site.