Cornplanter, Seneca chief, 1732?-1836

LC control no.	n 85364057
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Cornplanter, Seneca chief, 1732?-1836 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Abeel, John, Seneca chief, 1732?-1836 Garganwahgah, Seneca chief, 1732?-1836 Gayëntwahgöh, Seneca chief, 1732?-1836 Gyantwahia, Seneca chief, 1732?-1836 Gy-ant-wa-kia, Seneca chief, 1732?-1836 Kaythwahkeh, Seneca chief, 1732?-1836 Ki-en-twa-ke, Seneca chief, 1732?-1836 Koeentwahka, Seneca chief, 1732?-1836 O'Bail, John, Seneca chief, 1732?-1836 O'Ball, John, Seneca chief, 1732?-1836 O'Beale, John, Seneca chief, 1732?-1836
Associated country	Seneca Nation of Indians
Birth date	1732?
Death date	1836-02-18
Found in	Brush, E.H. Iroquois past and present, c1901: t.p. (Cornplanter) OCLC data base, 4/4/88 (OCLC #3227876: hdg.: Cornplanter, Seneca chief, 1732?-1836) Chief Cornplanter (Gy-ant-wa-kia) of the Senecas, c1998: p. 53 (the child's Indian adult name was Gy-ant-wa-kia, meaning one who plants; later became widely known as Chief Cornplanter) p. 56 (b. about 1738) p. 221 (d. Feb. 18, 1836) Cornplanter, 2007: ECIP t.p. (Cornplanter) galley (Cornplanter; Gyantwahia; kaythwahkeh; John O'Bail; Cornplanter was a Seneca by birth; his father was a white fur trader from Albany; transformed from the Dutch Abeel to O'Bail; alternative spellings--Abiel, O'Beale, O'Ball can also be found) Draper, Lyman Copeland. Notes of border history, 2017: Appendix (Gayëntwahgöh; Cornplanter; Ki-en-twa-ke; The Planter; literally, "by what one plants"; son of John O'Bail; Seneca war chief, Wolf Clan; d. Feb. 18. 1836) United States Statutes at large, 1846: volume 7, page 16 (Seneca Abeal.: Kayenthoghke) Hodge. Handbook of America Indians north of Mexico, 1907-1910 (Cornplanter; variously written Garganwahgah, Koeentwahka, etc.; a Seneca chief, known also as John O'Bail, supposed to have been born between 1732 and 1740; He was one of the parties to the treaty of Ft. Stanwix in 1784; died Feb. 18, 1836)