Eleanor Kinzie (née Lytle, later McKillip; fl.
At the age of nine, Eleanor Lytle was captured by Native Americans in a raid on her father's house near Pittsburgh.
[1][2] She was a captive of a Seneca tribe for four years and was adopted into the family of Chief Cornplanter.
He was later killed in 1794 by friendly fire at the future location of Fort Defiance at the Miami Rapids.
[3] A play called The Captivity of Eleanor Lytle was presented in the children's theater of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.