... 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 ...
... DIARY OF A MORAVIAN INDIAN MISSION DIARY OF A MORAVIAN INDIAN MISSION MIGRATION ACROSS PENNSYLVANIA IN 1772 Translated and edited by AUGUST C MAHR Professor of German Ohio State University The travel diary presented in these pages deals with the migration of Indian convert members of the Moravian Church from northeastern to northwestern Pennsylvania in the summer of 1772 Undertaken as a measure of extreme necessity and directed by two competent missioners this expedition carried out only in ...
... SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON'S JOURNEY AROUND SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON'S JOURNEY AROUND LAKE ERIE By CATHALINE ALFORD ARCHER Lake Erie and its borders have received some unusual attention lately including the explorations and early settlements Herewith is some pertinent material which seems not to have been reckoned with but which seems essential to the full story Harlan Hatcher's Lake Erie 1945 for example presumably the latest and best-organized account of the period does not mention the journey of Sir ...
... 146 Ohio Arch 146 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications COLONEL THOMAS CRESAP BY MRS MARY LOUISE CRESAP STEVENSON To write the history of Colonel Thomas Cresap is to write the Colonial History of Maryland and Virginia and more or less of Ohio To recount the story of these colonies is to tell the story of the Revolution The rehearsal of that noble struggle would involve much of the history of the great powers of Europe and you might conclude we were like Tennyson's brook and would 'go on ...
... 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 ...
... Fort St Fort St Clair 519 attack that Lieutenant Hale was killed and Madison was wounded The Indians were forced to retreat some distance where they then took a stand and in turn forced the militia back This zigzag method of fighting was carried on for some time until the Indians and all but six of the horses were lost sight of at about the place where Eaton is now located The exact number of Indians killed in this battle is not definitely known though two were left and are buried at the fort ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS JOSEPH BADGER THE FIRST MISSIONARY TO THE WESTERN RESERVE BY BYRON R LONG A preliminary word to the writing of this document is not unlike that which I wrote to the last article furnished for publication in this historical record In the sketch of Isaac N Walter printed in the April number of 1915 I dwelt at some length on the story of the Christian denomination with which he labored for many years as a minister My own personal connection ...
... THEBATTLE OF PICARDY THEBATTLE OF PICARDY HEROIC SERVICE OF THREE OHIO SOLDIERS In an article of absorbing interest Frank H Simonds in the Review of Reviews for March 1920 describes the great German offensive which began March 21 1918 The Germans called this the Kaiser's Battle the English have named it the Second Battle of the Somme but it will probably be more generally and permanently known as the Battle of Picardy In the number of men engaged and the losses it was the greatest battle in ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA PURCHASE OF FORT ANCIENT The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is to be heartily congratulated over the final accomplishment of its efforts extending through many years of securing entire possession of Fort Ancient It has been a long and stubborn siege with many vicissitudes and delays and dis couragements but the last walls of the enclosure have finally been taken and the Society now holds the fort It is necessary to repeat some ancient history in ...
... ME -SHE -KUN-NOGH -QUAH ME -SHE -KUN-NOGH -QUAH OR LITTLE TURTLE-1783-1812 N B C LOVE D D O River weird historic water What tales of bloody human slaughter What scenes of hate and tragic acts What woeful pictures solemn facts Thou couldst before the world portray What greed and hate and wrong betray No subject claimed the attention of President Washington more after the close of the War of the Revolution 1784 up to his death 1799 than the settlement and occupancy of the territory ceded to the ...
... SKETCHES OF JOHN AND ANN SIMPSON DAVIS SKETCHES OF JOHN AND ANN SIMPSON DAVIS THEIR FORBEARS AND DESCENDANTS BY EVA SELLS JAEGER The History of every Family is a romance -- to those who search its pages a poem --Lamartine The history of the state of Pennsylvania from which came John and Ann Simpson Davis is unique in the manner of settlements made there as it offered an asylum for all mankind To this state came the Swedes who settled along the Delaware River the Dutch from Holland who in turn ...
... Minutes of the Meeting of the Minutes of the Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History Columbus March 26 1960 THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY held its twenty-seventh annual meeting at the Ohio State Museum on Saturday March 26 1960 Two concurrent sessions were held in the morning and two in the afternoon John Hall Stewart of Western Reserve University acted as chairman of the modern European history section at which James M Laux of the University of Cincinnati delivered a paper on De Gaulle in Power ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS SIMON KENTON PROF R W M'FARLAND SECTION I PRELIMINARY NOTE It may seem to many people that enough has already been written both of Boone and Kenton the first having been the most prominent early settler of Kentucky the second having been the scout who did probably more than any one else not excepting Boone himself to save the settlers from the tomahawk and scalping knife of the Indian By Boone's own account it appears that he John Finley ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XXVI No 2 APRIL 1917 FORT LAURENS PURCHASED It will be recalled that the autumn winter and spring of 1777-8 was the period of the low ebb of the cause of the Colonial Revolutionists In the late spring of 1778 while Washington was just emerging from Valley Forge George Rogers Clark entered upon the daring expedition to save the Northwest to the Colonies The British-Canadian authorities were planning not only to circumvent Clark but to carry the war into Africa by ...
... DUNCAN McARTHUR THE MILITARY PHASE DUNCAN McARTHUR THE MILITARY PHASE By C H CRAMER Duncan McArthur had won his military spurs before the War of 1812 broke out and had been commissioned a general in the State Militia In the spring of 1812 with war looming on the horizon Congress authorized the President to organize a number of volunteers who were to be ready to march on short notice The Ohio quota was 1200 men1 McArthur ordered his militia division to assemble and used his forensic powers in ...
... THE ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART THE ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART BY MARY MCMULLIN JONES In 1925 the Exeter Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Hampshire published a small book entitled The Order of Military Merit the Honor Badge of the Continental Army In this book is given all that is known about the oldest decoration for valor in existence except the Cross of St George of Russia This brief sketch was compiled with great difficulty as the Book of Merit provided for in General ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XXIII INDEX TO VOLUME XXIII A Banks - Concluded Agriculture Ideal pioneer plantation 250 Exchange 320 Possibilities of Ohio 232-256 Franklin of Columbus 319 Akron Founder of 284 287 Legislation regulating 314 Algonquins 107 Mechanics' Savings Institute 320 Allen Gov William 35 Notes issued by 313 315 American-British Peace Treaty 28 Ohio State 316 Americanists Visit of 381 Pioneer bankers 318 American State Papers Extracts from Private 321 relating to Dohrman 227 Thompson's ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 125 WHIP-POOR-WILL Whip-poor-will to which reference is made in preceding pages of this issue was the youthful newspaper venture of two lads Wilson Lindsley Gill and Emilius Oviatt Randall aged respectively fourteen and fifteen years Fortunately a complete file of this paper is in the possession of Mrs E O Randall through whose courtesy we are able to present accurate information concerning it together with extracts and illustrations The paper ...
... HENRY BOUQUET HENRY BOUQUET HIS INDIAN CAMPAIGNS BY J C REEVE MD LL D W R UNIV A little book in the French language has recently come to hand which deserves more than a passing notice It is the brief life of a man of high character and fine achievement and it records service of the greatest value which he rendered to our country in one of the darkest periods of its early history It is a book of about one hundred pages printed at Geneva in 1 909 and is one of a series published under the ...
... SOME HISTORY FROM AN UN-HISTORICAL REGION SOME HISTORY FROM AN UN-HISTORICAL REGION BY A B GILLILAND The title may sound somewhat paradoxical but there are regions which owing to their geographical location have had so very little to do with the making of history that they are spoken of as of no historical importance yet may not be devoid of historical occurrences that may be of some interest Such Van Wert County may be said to be situated in the northwest part of Ohio away from the regions ...