... 180 Ohio Arch 180 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications dience wherein were many of our martyred President's intimate friends the full significance of the rendition of his loved hymn The orator of the day was the Hon Judson Harmon of Cincinnati whose address is herewith given ADDRESS OF JUDSON HARMON There are no States at whose celebrations Ohio is not a fitting guest From those older than herself came the men and women who opened her soil to the sunshine and replaced the shifting wigwams ...
... township On that night at a township and studying the township was finally organized 1 81 9 it was named in his honor A more recent structure at the old site is now known as Baer's Mill Adams is also referred to in Charlotte Reeve Conover's volume Concerning the Forefathers Mrs Catherine Patterson Brown stating in her Memoirs Colonel ...
... BRADY'S LEAP BRADY'S LEAP BY E 0 RANDALL In what is known as Tract 29 issued in 1875 by the Western Reserve Historical Society the tradition-as the Tract calls it-of Brady's leap is related That a famous leap by Brady was made at the place generally designated as the site there is little or no doubt The time and attending circumstances of the achievement are much in dispute and wrote Mr L V Bierce in 1856 the numerous traditions respecting Brady's Leap across the Cuyahoga River and many other ...
... 374 Ohio Arch 374 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Upon whose bosom snow has lain Who intimately lives with rain Poems are made by fools like me But only God can make a tree' After the formal reading of Logan's Speech by John R Horst from McGuffey's Fourth Reader edition of 1853 informal addresses were made by J W Johnson of Circleville editor of the Democrat and Watchman Professor C C Miller of Lancaster and Mrs Orson D Dryer of Shepard Ohio Mrs Dryer's contribution to the day's ...
... COLONEL JOHN O'BANNON COLONEL JOHN O'BANNON NELSON W EVANS It is and has been utterly impossible to fix with absolute certainty the date or place of the birth of Colonel John O'Bannon It was not later than the year 1756 and may have been several years previous The place as near as can be determined was called Neville Virginia John Presley and Morgan Neville prominent officers in the Revolutionary War were her kinsmen and likely brothers We are not certain as to her father's name From the best ...
... 366 Ohio Arch 366 Ohio Arch and Hist Society P ublications some on board the fleet to take their second position nearer Canada They arrived a little before sunset that day at East Sister Island while General Harrison and Commodore Perry in the Ariel made a reconnoissance of the enemy's coast It was not until the morning of the 27th that they began this last journey across the lake One account says the day was fine and a propitious breeze made their passage a pleasing pastime It was a sublime ...
... FRIENDS AND THE SHAWNEE INDIANS AT FRIENDS AND THE SHAWNEE INDIANS AT WAPAKONETA By HARLOW LINDLEY About the beginning of the last century two bands of Shawnee Indians are known to have been settled on lands in the vicinity of the present town of Wapakoneta Ohio In the year 1809 these Indians began to receive attention from the Friends of Ohio Yearly Meeting In order to assist them in adopting civilized modes of living they built for them a saw and grist mill on their lands and some of the ...
... edited and translated by edited and translated by PHILLIP J WOLFE and WARREN J WOLFE Prospects for the Gallipolis Settlement French Diplomatic Dispatches More than two centuries have passed since Gallipolis Ohio City of the Gauls was founded by French settlers It was on October 17 1790 that a group of French immigrants first set foot on the banks of the Ohio and found some eighty log huts awaiting them As colonists of the Scioto Company they had arrived in Alexandria Virginia and in other ...
... GENERAL JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE-- GENERAL JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE-- The Canadian Governor Who Attempted to Make Ohio a Part of Canada Annual Paper by JAMES A GREEN Historian of the Club American visitors to Canada are always struck with the beauty and charm of Lake Simcoe which is situated fifty miles north of Toronto in the midst of one of the most fertile regions of Ontario It is a lovely lake blue as Como Joined to it by a short and narrow strait is Lake Couchicing equally lovely In the city park of ...
... WATER HIGHWAYS AND CARRYING PLACES WATER HIGHWAYS AND CARRYING PLACES E L TAYLOR COLUMBUS The 2d day of May 1497 was one of the most eventful for great results for good of any in human history On that day John Cabot a Venetian by birth but who was then living at the old sea-faring town of Bristol on the west coast of England with eighteen hardy British sailors weighed anchor on the small but good ship Matthew and passed out upon the broad and turbulent waters of the Atlantic on a voyage of ...
... WAYNE AND THE TREATY OF GREENE VILLE WAYNE AND THE TREATY OF GREENE VILLE by DWIGHT L SMITH It has generally been assumed that the chief architect of the Treaty of Greene Ville at the end of the Indian Wars in the Old Northwest was General Mad Anthony Wayne The discovery of hitherto unknown manuscript material however furnishes documentary evidence that Wayne was operating under very specific orders from the war department Further a draft treaty for his guidance and use predetermined to a ...
... Ohio Valley Hist Ohio Valley Hist Ass'n Fifth Annual Meeting 31 engaged strong and able men at all points along the river Pittsburgh ever at the front in enterprise has contributed her full share It is our good fortune to have homes in this Valley dear to many of us as our birthplace and to all of us by fond memories and cherished associations We who love the Valley and the River here pay tribute to all who have labored for and through their labors have advanced the improvement of the greatest ...
... Unveiling of the Cresap Tablet Unveiling of the Cresap Tablet 141 vation of their historic sites mounds circles squares and the tokens of a bygone civilization found therein To you and to your keeping we present this Tablet and are happy in so doing We realize that you and the great State of Ohio are leading in the procession of progress To you the custodian of the glories of the past peoples records and their trophies of valor we consign this Tablet and leave it under your protection and that ...
... townships in Crawford County a copy of which Act I herewith transmit to the Department I am under the impression that the operation of these laws will have a considerable effect on the minds of the Indians If it be thought advisable by the Department I will keep the negotiation open upon my own responsibility without asking from Government any further appropriationsand will improve every favorable opportunity to effect a negotiation in ...
... township lines Near the townships Filson suddenly disappeared one night Not a sign or vestige of him was ever seen again nor did any word come from him There had been Indians in the neighborhood there were ferocious wild beasts not far away the Great Miami flowed swiftly and deep By which if any of these agencies Filson met his fate is not known Not long after his death it was whispered ...
... GENERAL SIMON KENTON GENERAL SIMON KENTON By ALBERT L SLAGER Introduction By ORTON G RUST There are Homeric men in every age men filled with the spring of life superabundant a perpetually flowing fountain of youth men whose every action attracts the attention of their fellow men and whose lives count for human progress Simon Kenton was such a man Tradition as well as history has placed him among the strong the swift the brave an explorer of hitherto unexplored regions and a pathfinder for the ...
... UNVEILING OF THE CRESAP TABLET UNVEILING OF THE CRESAP TABLET LOGAN ELM PARK-OCTOBER 1916 On Saturday October 21 1916 an interesting ceremony was held at Logan Elm Park under the auspices of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society The program arranged by Mr Frank Tallmadge comprised the erection of a flag staff and the unfurling of the stars and stripes the dedication of a log cabin not a modern imitation but a well preserved relic of the real thing a left over of the pioneer days ...
... ST ST CLAIR'S DEFEAT FRAZER ELLS WILSON GREENVILLE OHIO Author of the valuable little volume entitled The Treaty of Greenville published 1894-E 0 R Probably the most disastrous defeat ever suffered by the Americans at the hands of the Red Men was that of the army of Gen Arthur St Clair on the east branch of the Wabash near the present western boundary of Ohio November 4th 1 791 Both for the number of men killed and the blighting effect on the frontier settlements was this disaster noted and ...
... townships Congress hesitated townships to be given townships to be given township shall fall or may townships number eight and townships number eight and
... ISRAEL PUTNAM ISRAEL PUTNAM READ BY MRS II G EDGERTON BEFORE THE COLONEL GEORGE CROGHAN CHAPTER D A R In the days when forests covered most of New England when the Indian war-whoop still echoed on its borders when children ate corn-meal porridge from pewter porringers and their elders stirred their hot drinks with a poker heated in the fireplace -- in those good old days two centuries ago there was born one of the great heroes of our Nation To be more exact on January 7 1718 in an old ...