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stimulation of his firm assurance that
all is well here below and all will
be better in the world beyond. His life
was above reproach, his career
an inspiration. None knew him but to
love him, none named him but to
praise.
No organization with which he was
connected seemed to give
him greater pleasure than the
Archaeological and Historical Society.
Its field of investigation, its province
of collecting and preserving the
records of the past and its work of
storing the same for future gen-
erations of students, particularly
appealed to his intellectual activities
and his fondness for knowledge of what
has been, what is and what may
be. In the pantheon of those who have
been most potent in the origin
and growth of this Society-the memory of
no one will be more per-
manent or more revered than that of
Roeliff Brinkerhoff.
SITE OF FORT GOWER.
An interesting and informing volume
could be written on Little
Journeys to Historic Sites in Ohio, and
it is one of the dreams of the
Editor of the Quarterly to some
day put forth such a volume. Mean-
while, as time permits such "little
journeys" are being made. It was
on a brilliant day last August (1911)
that the Editor "tripped" to what
in some respects is one of the most
historic sites in Ohio. Many articles
have been penned and published on the
pioneer forts of Ohio. No
state in the Northwest Territory can
boast of as many stockades in
the early days as can the Buckeye
commonwealth. Romantic, dramatic
and patriotic are the records of many of
them. The French fort of
1745 at the mouth of the Sandusky, the
scene of Nicholas' conspiracy;
the stockade defense at Loramie's on the
Pickawillany, the scene of
the prelude of the contest between the
French and the British for the
Northwest Territory; the first fort
built by the Americans, in the
American Revolution, the famous Fort
Laurens near the present site
of Bolivar; Fort Stephenson (Fremont) on
the Sandusky, the scene of
the siege of Croghan's little band
attacked by Proctor and his British
veterans aided by Tecumseh and his horde
of western savages, in the
War of 1812; there are few stories in
warfare equal to it for display of
bravery and patriotism. But the fort
least known to general history
-for it is not mentioned by any of the
leading historians-and yet
most significant in western annals, for
an event connected therewith,
is Fort Gower at the mouth of the
Hocking, or Hockhocking, as it was
once called from the Indian name
"Hockin-hockin."
It was the year 1774 in the month of
June that the English Parlia-
ment passed the detested Quebec Act-an
affirmation of the previous
so-called Quebec Act of 1763. This act
of 1774, provided a government
for the Province of Quebec, embracing
the territorial domain west
and north of the Ohio River-known later
as the Northwest Territory.