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Cincinnati, Ohio, today is a metropolitan area with a population of over two million people. In 1790, when nine-year-old Oliver Spencer set out for the area with his family from "New-Jersey," it was only a two-year-old frontier settlement named Losantiville—although the name had been changed to Cincinnati by the time they arrived—and it was so sparsely settled that two natives of the Shawnee tribe were able to grab him and march him through what is now the heart of a busy metropolitan area ...