*GENERAL RUFUS PUTNAM was a self-educated man, a person of vision, living in that dangerous time when the United States of America was on the verge of becoming unique in all the world. Rufus was not the charismatic and flamboyant figure that his more-famous cousin, Israel Putnam, was, but he was daring in his own right, venturing out into what was still wilderness of Ohio (the lands beyond Fort Pitt) to make a new and hopefully better life for his family and the entire community waiting for him back in Rutl
In 1886, Mary Cone compiled “ The Life of Rufus Putnam ”… including excerpts from Putnam’s own memoirs and extracts.
“GENERAL RUFUS PUTNAM was a self-educated man, a person of vision, living in that dangerous time when the United States of America was on the verge of becoming unique in all the world. Rufus was not the charismatic and flamboyant figure that his more-famous cousin, Israel Putnam, was, but he was daring in his own right, venturing out into what was still wilderness of Ohio (the lands beyond Fort Pitt) to make a new and hopefully better life for his family and the entire community waiting for him back in Rutl