Ohio History Journal

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OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL

OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL

SOCIETY

 

REVIEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS

 

BY THE EDITOR

 

DR. DANIEL DRAKE'S MEMOIR OF THE MIAMI

COUNTRY, 1779-1794

The April-September number of the Quarterly Pub-

lications of the Historical and Philosophical Society of

Ohio prints a very interesting and historically valuable

monograph from an unpublished manuscript in the li-

brary of the Wisconsin Historical Society. It is edited

by Dr. Beverly W. Bond, Jr., associate professor of his-

tory in the University of Cincinnati. We quote briefly

from his informing explanatory note:

 

The occasion for writing the Memoir was a celebration

that was planned at Cincinnati for December 26, 1838, in honor

of the semi-centennial of the first permanent settlement all the

present site of the city. A committee, appointed by the city

council to make arrangements, invited old pioneers to come as

guests of the city for the day, and arranged an elaborate pro-

gram, including literary exercises at the First Presbyterian

Church. Here "the most interesting and important feature"

of the program was to be the "historical discourse" by Doctor

Daniel Drake, and it is the manuscript of this address which

is being published in the present volume. To aid Doctor

Drake in securing material for his address, the committee is-

sued a circular letter, asking for historical facts and anecdotes

relating to the pioneer history of the settlements in the Miami

country. The response to this appeal was widespread, and

many of the letters that were received have been preserved in

the Drake Papers.

(641)

Vol. XXXII--41.