... The Shaker Community of Warren County The Shaker Community of Warren County 251 THE SHAKER COMMUNITY OF WARREN COUNTY ITS ORIGIN RISE PROGRESS AND DECLINE By J P MACLEAN PH D INTRODUCTION Located three miles west of Lebanon Ohio is the seat of the bishopric of the Shaker communities west ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY On August 19 1904 a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the conference room of the Public Library with the following members present Mr Geo F Bareis Col John W Harper Prof B F Prince Hon D J Ryan Secretary E O Randall and Mr E F Wood representing Mr S S Rickly Letters of regret on account of inability to attend were received from Mr W H Hunter Chillicothe Hon ...
... NEWS FROM THE OHIO NEWS FROM THE OHIO Extract of a letter from a Gentleman at the Muskingum to the Printer of the MASSACHUSE T TS SPY written on the spot where the first city of that territory is to be built1 ADELPHI May 16th 1788 MR THOMAS I embrace the earliest opportunity of communicating to you such information as I am capable of giving respecting the Western Country in general and in particular of that part purchased by the Ohio Company With respect to the country in general and even of ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS LORAMIE AND PICKAWILLANY The following articles concerning the stations forts and early settlements known respectively as Pickawillany and Loramie were obtained by the Editor of the Quarterly from the Rev William Bigot now a resident of Dayton These articles contain much first-hand information relating to the location of the historic points in question The sketch of Father Bigot - pronounced Bego - is by the Editor For further discussion on ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 101 under discussion the tide was against the enactment on the ground that the Society did not merit the State's aid Mr Griffin hastily summoned the writer to the cloak-room of the House and asked a full explanation of the situation It was given Mr Griffin returned to the floor and in a most vigorous argument and enthusiastic plea changed the prevailing sentiment and carried the bill through He was the friend of the Society and deserves the kindliest thought and most ...
... medicines and tied them to the rafters of their cabins to dry until needed Often when women went to spend the day with each other herbs were exchanged with much valuable information regarding their uses Frequently the women were forced to ride alone through the woods night or day to aid the sick and needy Mrs Gun who with her husband accompanied the first surveying party to the Western Reserve was known as a competent nurse and in addition to ...
... THE TAYLOR-LIVINGSTON CENTENARY IN FRANKTHE TAYLOR-LIVINGSTON CENTENARY IN FRANKLIN COUNTY On the 9th day of June 1904 a reception was given by Mr and Mrs Henry C Taylor at their country place Westcrest situated on the National Road west bank of Big Walnut creek in Truro township to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the family history in Franklin County The invitation issued to the guests on this occasion was in the following form 1804 TAYLOR-LIVINGSTON 1904 MR AND MRS HENRY C ...
... LUCAS SULLIVANT TABLET DEDICATED LUCAS SULLIVANT TABLET DEDICATED On Saturday December 9 1927 the Franklin County Pioneer Association founded in 1866 met in the southwest room of the Franklinton Public School Building for the purpose of unveiling and presenting to the city a bronze tablet marking the home of Lucas Sullivant founder of Franklinton The house that Lucas Sullivant built or a part of it is now incorporated in the larger buildings of the House of the Good Shepherd and it was by the ...
... 52 Ohio Arch 52 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The name Croghansville for the village was probably first suggested by Josiah Meigs Commissioner of the General Land Office in a letter from Washington City April 12 1816 in which among other words are these If it were left to me to name the town at Lower Sandusky I should name it in honor of the gallant youth Col Croghan -and should say it should be Croghansville The name is still preserved in that of the school on the hill on the East ...
... 26 Ohio Arch 26 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications The largest was Cincinnati with 115 000 and in them all there were less than 2 00000 o f population The following y ear the convention assembled which framed the new constitution for the state of Ohio That convention provided and laid down an ironclad rule that all cities should be governed by a general law and that there should be no special charters That perhaps was not an unreasonable rule at that time for then there were but the nine ...
... FORT INDUSTRY--AN HISTORICAL MYSTERY FORT INDUSTRY--AN HISTORICAL MYSTERY BY WALTER J SHERMAN Upon the south wall of an old brick mercantile building at the northeast corner of Monroe and Summit Streets Toledo hangs a faded inscription reading as follows viz This building stands on the site of Fort Industry a stockade erected by General Anthony Wayne in the year 1794 as a safeguard against the British who then held Fort Miami It was garrisoned by a company of United States troops under the ...
... JAMES BACKUS CITIZEN OF MARIETTA 1788-1791 JAMES BACKUS CITIZEN OF MARIETTA 1788-1791 By JOSEPHINE E PHILLIPS There are about 150 Horses Sixty Cows amp Seven Yoak of Oxen here The Emigrants that pass down the river for Kentucky amp other parts of the Western Country are amazing We have a militia formed who assemble every Sunday amp are fined for not attending We have preaching or service read regularly once a week likewise a school Thus wrote James Backus1 from Marietta to his parents in ...
... THE WYANDOT MISSION THE WYANDOT MISSION EMIL SCHLUP The present generation can scarcely comprehend the hardships and privations the early missionaries had to endure when the Ohio country was in a wilderness state But brave men risked their lives in promulgating the Christian doctrine among the aboriginals of the forest The earliest Protestant denomination to enter the new field were the Moravians Christian Frederick Post who had been a missionary among the Moravian Indians in New York and ...
... TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MARCH 22 1907 The Twenty-second Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Library and Museum Room of the Society Page Hall Ohio State University at 2 00 P M March 22 1 907 The following members were present Judge J H Anderson Columbus Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Mr A J Baughman Mansfield General R Brinkerhoff ...
... REMINISCENCES OF A PIONEER REMINISCENCES OF A PIONEER EDITED BY CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF B PED The following reminiscences are from the pen of a Highland county pioneer one Thomas Rogers who as the recital reveals was born a Virginian and at the close of the American Revolution moved with his family to Kentucky and thence in 1795 with the Massie party journeyed to Paint Creek vicinity of Chillicothe and there abided This recital of the scenes of early times in Ohio is worthy of preservation and ...
... THE CHILLICOTHES THE CHILLICOTHES BY R W MCFARLAND LL D In any pioneer history of Ohio or of the West in general the word Chillicothe is found as the Indian name of a town As there were several of these it may be well to mention some points so as to identify the one intended 1 Chillicothe-Howe's Ohio and other histories speak of a town of this name on the Great Miami river It was on the site of the present city of Piqua 2 ChillicotheOften called Old Chillicothe This was about three miles north ...
... TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY June 9 1 90 6 The Twenty-first Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the lecture room of the V M C A Building Columbus at 1 30 P M June 9 19 06 The following members were present Rev J W Atwood Columbus Judge J H Anderson Columbus Prof M R Andrews Marietta Mr E H Archer Columbus Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Gen R ...
... 210 Ohio Arch 210 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Presbyterianism on Walnut Hills have all aided to make the Church History of the Ohio Valley the record of its civilization and progress And not alone in Cincinnati but throughout the Western Country this influence was felt Upon the Bible's sacred page The gathered beams of ages shine And as it hastens every age But makes its brightness more divine More glorious still as ages roll New regions blessed new powers unfurled Expanding with ...
... BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTHWORKS OF BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTHWORKS OF OHIO PREPARED BY MRS CYRUS THOMAS FOR THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Continued from page 200 ANY observers in the State who have facts concerning the earthworks of Ohio in addition to those here stated will confer a favor upon the world by forwarding such information to Professor G F Wright Oberlin 0 the member of the Editorial Committee in charge of this department by whom the facts will be classified and published in a future ...
... medicines from the East and abroad to augment the supply of homegrown herbs and homemade salves Margaret Blennerhassett brought over the mountains vaccine matter and herself vaccinated the children of the vicinity The Blennerhassetts bought books--and loaned them freely They gave dances and teas and less formal affairs Mrs B begs of you to invite Mrs E Sproat to her what do you call it wrote Blennerhassett Tradition has it that there were many ...