* Samuel H. Huntington ( 1765 – 1817 ), American jurist, Governor of Ohio

He was the son of David Bacon ( 1771 – 1817 ), a missionary among the Indians in Michigan and founder of the town of Tallmadge, Ohio.

* Charles Henry Langston ( 1817 – 1892 ), born free, one of two men tried and convicted after Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, abolitionist and political activist in Ohio and Kansas.

* Charles Henry Langston ( 1817 – 1892 ), one of two tried and convicted after Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, abolitionist and political activist in Ohio and Kansas.

Knoxville served as capital of the Territory South of the River Ohio and as capital of Tennessee ( admitted as a state in 1796 ) until 1817, when the capital was moved to Murfreesboro.

* 1817: Edward Tiffin, Surveyor General of the Northwest and former Governor of Ohio, commissioned William Harris to rerun the line.

The Smith family moved westward again to Ohio and settled in Green Township or what is now called Ashland County in 1817.

In 1817, the Kentucky Senate drafted a resolution that proposed opening a dialogue between the newly installed governor of Kentucky, Gabriel Slaughter, and the governors of Ohio and Indiana for the purpose of passing laws in those states calling for the capture and return of runaway slaves from Kentucky.

Samuel H. Huntington ( October 4, 1765 – June 8, 1817 ) was an American jurist who was the third Governor of Ohio from 1808 to 1810.

After briefly serving during the War of 1812, Trimble served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1816 to 1817 and then in the Ohio State Senate from 1818 to 1826.

He was appointed to the Ohio Supreme Court in 1810 and was re-elected in 1817.

He served in the Ohio State Senate from 1810 to 1817.

* Reverend Philander Chase ( 1817 )-First Episcopal Bishop of Ohio

The 1817 Treaty of Fort Meigs reduced the Wyandotte lands drastically, leaving the people only small parcels in Ohio.

After the war he resumed his duties as Indian Agent and interpreter, being a signatory to Treaties at Detroit ( 1807 ), Brownstown ( 1808 ), Maumee ( 1817 ), St Mary ’ s, Ohio ( 1818 ), Saginaw ( 1819 ) and Chicago ( 1821 ).

On January 9, 1817, the Ohio Legislature directed Ohio's Governor, the same Thomas Worthington, to negotiate a deal with Clinton.

The state leaders commenced a war on the bank in 1817, convening a committee to study proposed taxes of the bank with the purpose to drive it out of Ohio.

Three reservations were granted to the Shawnee in Ohio by the 1817 Treaty of Fort Meigs: Wapakoneta, Lewistown, and Hog Creek.

By 1817, the United States had created the Hog Creek Reservation for the local Shawnee, covering portions of what would become Allen and Auglaize counties, and including part of present-day Lima.

By 1817, the Shawnee, as well as the other Algonquian-speaking tribes in the region, had ceded all their lands to the United States.

Mission San Rafael Arcángel was founded in 1817 as a medical asistencia (" sub-mission ") of the Mission San Francisco de Asís as a hospital to treat sick Native Americans of the Bay Area, making it Alta California's first sanitarium.

In 1817, he was one of two commissioners ( along with Duncan McArthur ) who negotiated the Treaty of Fort Meigs, which was signed September 29 of that year with several Native American tribes.

He went to India where he entered the 23rd Bombay Native Infantry on May 25, 1817.

From 1817 to 1825, Fort Mitchell gradually emerged as a center of commerce for trade with Native Americans.

His father, Dillon O ' Brien ( 1817 – 82 ), novelist, was born in Tullabeg, Co. Roscommon, Ireland and educated there, he emigrated to the USA, working as a teacher among Native Americans in the Wisconsin town of La Pointe, on Madeline Island before settling his family in St Paul, Minnesota in 1863 to work with Archbishop John Ireland helped establish many Irish Catholic colonies in Minnesota.

* 1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.

* 1817 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician ( d. 1874 )

* 1874 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician ( b. 1817 )

He served nine years as a volunteer 1st class, midshipman, and shipmate, including one year in the English Channel and Bay of Biscay ( 1809 ), four years at the Cape of Good Hope and in the East Indies ( 1809 – 14 ), two and a half years on the North American and West Indian stations ( 1814 – 16 ), and a year and a half in the Mediterranean ( 1817 – 18 ).

* 1817 – Lewis A. Armistead, American Confederate general ( d. 1863 )

March 5 ) – June 28, 1836 ) was an American statesman and political theorist, the fourth President of the United States ( 1809 – 1817 ).

* 1817 – Henry David Thoreau, American writer and philosopher ( d. 1862 )

* 1817 – Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman ( b. 1759 )

* 1817 – Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general ( d. 1876 )

* 1817 – John Bigelow, American statesman and author ( d. 1911 )

* 1891 – William Ferrel, American mathematician ( b. 1817 )

Thomas McKean ( March 19, 1734 – June 24, 1817 ) was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle, in New Castle County, Delaware and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

* Tadeusz Kosciuszko, hero of the American Revolution and Polish patriot leader, died of typhoid Fever in Switzerland, 1817.

* April 11 – Edward Canby, American general ( b. 1817 )

* April 20 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician ( b. 1817 )

* May 6 – Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher ( b. 1817 )

* April 15, 1817 – The first American school for the deaf opens in Hartford, Connecticut.

* June 21 – Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier ( d. 1817 )

* March 19 – Thomas McKean, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence ( d. 1817 )

* James W. Denver ( 1817 – 1892 ), American 19th century politician, for whom the Colorado capital is named

Henry David Thoreau ( July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862 ) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.

In foreign policy, Clay was the leading American supporter of independence movements and revolutions in Latin America after 1817.

He also helped re-organizing the American Academy of the Fine Arts in 1808 served as its president between 1813 and 1817.