1. John Ridge went to Cornwall, Connecticut, to study at the Foreign Mission School.
14 Facts About John Ridge
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John Ridge met Sarah Bird Northrup, of a New England Yankee family, and they married in 1824.
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John Ridge was born to the Cherokee chief Major Ridge and his wife Sehoya around 1802 in their village of Oothacaloga, near present-day Calhoun, Georgia.
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John Ridge studied at the nearby mission school run by the Moravian Brethren at Spring Place, Cherokee Nation.
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John Ridge's father sent him to the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut, in 1819, where he learned reading and writing in English and other subjects typical of classical middle-class education at the time.
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John Ridge was among the first Cherokee men to marry a European-American woman.
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John Ridge began to participate in the political affairs of the Nation.
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John Ridge became a leading member of the National Council, along with his cousin Elias Boudinot and his father's protege, John Ross.
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John Ridge was highly respected by all the tribes across the Southern United States for his abilities and faithfulness to Indian welfare.
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The Creek knew that Senator Andrew Jackson thought highly of Major John Ridge, who had served with him in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend during the Creek Wars.
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John Ridge stressed that the National Council had not approved the 1825 treaty, making it illegal.
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John Ridge gave the speech to General Edmund P Gaines, the commander of the US Army in Georgia.
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John Ridge reluctantly began to think that removal, which he had previously opposed, was inevitable.
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John Ridge hoped to persuade the Nation of what he saw as the only way out of its dilemma.