The Reluctant American: A Dramatic History of the Cessna/Cissna Family.

Having survived six Indian Wars and the American Revolution, Joseph Cissna now faced the most demanding challenge of his life. Frontier politics in the fledgling republic were chaotic and dangerous. It took a special type of courage to stand in the gap between your neighbors and the special interests that sought to dominate them. Joseph Cissna had started life as a refugee from France's persecution of the protestants. He had come to Pennsylvania to live under English freedom. Kidnapped by Indians he became a member of the Ottawa Nation. Returning to his home he became an Englishman again. Joining the American side of the Revolution he became a patriot. Following the war he returned to English rule. And in the last years, he returned to America as a community leader and Patriot. He never walked a paved road, but spent his life on the forested paths of Early America.