The Tiffin River is a tributary of the Maumee River, approximately 75 mi (121 km) long, in southeastern Michigan and northwestern Ohio in the United States. It drains a primarily rural farming region in the watershed of Lake Erie. The upper reaches of the river in Michigan and in Ohio north of Burlington are sometimes called Bean Creek.
It rises in southeastern Michigan along the Hillsdale-Lenawee county line, approximately 12 mi (19 km) east of Hillsdale. It flows east into Lenawee County, then generally SSW into northwestern Ohio across western Fulton County. At Stryker it turns to the south for its lower 15 mi (24 km), following a highly meandering course and joining the Maumee from the north 2 mi (3 km) west of Defiance.
Edward Tiffin was born in Carlisle, England, on June 10, 1766, and attended the Latin school in that city.
Tiffin, like many other Virginians, felt the appeal of the West, and in 1798, emigrating with his family and that of Thomas Worthington and their recently manumitted colored servants, settled in the wilderness village of Chillicothe on the banks of the Scioto River in the Ohio country.
Tiffin, who was thirty-two years old at the time, has been described as a vivacious, florid-faced English gentleman of medium height with pleasant manners and extraordinary conversational powers.
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