... THE COPUS BATTLE CENTENNIAL THE COPUS BATTLE CENTENNIAL BY REV EUGENE ELLIS WILLIAMS Sept 15 191 2 the day of the centennial of the Copus Battle was a very gloomy day with rain from early morning until evening But despite the inclement weather about 1000 people gathered in Milligan's grove near the Copus monument situated near Mifflin ten miles east of Mansfield At 11 o'clock Prof G F Wright of Oberlin called the meeting to order and after singing America Rev Eugene E Williams offered prayer ...
... DEDICATION OF THE LOGAN ELM DEDICATION OF THE LOGAN ELM BY MISS MAY LOWE CIRCLEVILLE The second day of October 1912 marked an epoch in the history of Pickaway county Ohio for that day witnessed an event unusual even in the history of a nation This was the transfer with appropriate ceremonies of the famed Logan Elm which with the turning over of certain papers at the hands of the President of the Pickaway Historical Association to the President of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society ...
... Note - Historical Note - Historical 443 Adieu to the roads which for many a year I traveled each Sabbath the gospel to hear The news was so joyful and pleased me so From hence where I heard it it grieves me to go Farewell my white friends who first taught me to pray And worship my Savior and Maker each day Pray for the poor native whose eyes overflow With tears at our parting Alas I must go NOTE - HISTORICAL In the excellent article On the Origin of Ohio Place Names printed in the July issue ...
... 578 Ohio 578 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications stead it is now believed they are the remains of sacred places half temples where the dead were prepared for burial which was by cremation Inside this enclosure were divisions corresponding in a way to the family burying lot and in these the ashes and the trinkets of the dead were deposited When these were full the enclosure was filled up and the mound thus erected became a sort of monument not to one person or one family but to the dead of ...
... THE INDIAN THOROUGHFARES OF OHIO THE INDIAN THOROUGHFARES OF OHIO BY ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT History tells of two Ohios151the old and the new The old Ohio was that portion of the American Hinterland drained by the Ohio and Allegheny rivers which together formed la Belle Riviere of New France It included the territory between the Alleghenies the Mississippi and the great lakes save as we except the country of Illinois which early in history became a territory distinct by itself as the meadow ...
... arrayed against each other in the grapple of death are so many and neutrals are so few Hence when the present war is ended whether in victory or through exhaustion whether celebrated by triumphal entries into conquered capitals or terminated by the mutual withdrawal of shattered ranks from the bloodsoaked fields of conflict to their homes where nearly every house will be a house of mourning the influence of America will be exerted to establish ...
... BOWMAN'S CAMPAIGN-1779 BOWMAN'S CAMPAIGN-1779 BY HENRY HALL A Survivor Bourbon Co Ky From the Draper MSS in the Archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society Notes taken in April 1844 From Henry Hall of Bourbon Co Ky born near Phila 24th May 1760-Apr 1844 Mr Hall was in Wm Harrod's company of about 60 men from the Falls of Ohio Edward Bulger who was subsequently killed at the Blue Licks was ensign of Harrod's company Mr Hall does not think James Harrod nor John Haggin were out-recollects but ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA ARCHAELOGICAL AGITATION Elsewhere in this Quarterly we publish quite a snappy symposium concerning Fowke's Book The Archaeological History of Ohio published by our Society in April last Mr Fowke's volume is well calculated to stir the bones of the Mound Builders and their modern investigators It is of course distinctly understood that the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society does not stand sponsor for Mr Fowke's archaeological views much less for his ...
... THE ORIGIN DESCRIPTION AND SERVICE OF FORT THE ORIGIN DESCRIPTION AND SERVICE OF FORT WINCHESTER WITH MENTION OF SOME OF THE PERSONS AND EVENTS CONNECTED WITH IT BY CHARLES E SLOCUM M D PH D DEFIANCE O From the earliest record until the building of the Miami and Erie and the Wabash and Erie Canals along its course the Maumee River was known to be a great thoroughfare and we have good right to infer that the Aborigines from their first appearance in this region until the historic times made its ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Frontier Ohio 1788-1803 By Randolph Chandler Downes Ohio Historical Collections III Columbus Ohio The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1935 280p maps 250 Students of Ohio history will be grateful to the author for presenting this vivid and accurate account of the origins of the Commonwealth Professor Randolph Chandler Downes has examined and cited in a wealth of footnotes a great variety of widely scattered manuscript collections as well as the ...
... NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTURE OF ABEL JANNEY NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTURE OF ABEL JANNEY BY THE INDIANS IN 17821 FROM THE DIARY OF ABEL JANNEY On the 12th day of March 1782 about break of day as I and my two companions were lying in our blankets about half a mile from the Ohio river on the Indian's side near the mouth of the Great Kenhaway2 river We were surprised by a shout of Indians who came rushing upon us When I heard the noise I spoke to my two companions and said rise up here are Indians when ...
... arrayed against each array of armies dread was the Disposition finally brought about but Thru a long warfare rude With patient hardihood By toil and strife and blood The soil was won In the preparation of this article I wish to acknowledge the many valuable suggestions of my instructor Professor Isaac Joslin Cox of the University of Cincinnati ...
... 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 ...
... Centennial Celebration Centennial Celebration 11 The court house square was soon covered with stone and lumber for the present building but the corner stone was not laid until July 12th 1855 when the Hon Thomas Scott and myself had the honor of delivering addresses on the occasion from a point where the northeast pillar of the portico now stands Such was my personal connection with the building on whose frontage we have this day placed a tablet commemorating 'The site on which stood the first ...
... array of officers in full uniform Behind was a detachment of soldiers In his front were the Indians Around all were the inhabitants of the region far and near with many a mother and maid as interested spectators The General began to speak in calm and measured tones befitting the grave occasion but an undefined oppression seemed to hold all in suspense as with silent and almost breathless attention they waited the result of the General's words ...
... array the chief in command proclaimed in a loud voice Vive le Roi and that possession was now taken of the country in the name of the King The royal arms were affixed to a neighboring tree and a Proces Verbal was drawn up and signed as a memorial of the ceremony The same formality was adopted at the burial of each succeeding plate This proces verbal was in the following form and in each instance was signed and witnessed by the officers present ...
... CELORON'S JOURNAL CELORON'S J O URNAL 1 EDITED BY REV A A LAMBING INTRODUCTORY NOTE It is now almost two years since I read a paper before the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania on Celoron's expedition down the Allegheny and Ohio rivers in the latter part of the summer of 1749 The subject attracted considerable attention at the time and between those who culled from me and those who cudgeled me the local public have become pretty well acquainted with the movements of the French in this ...
... GEORGE CROGHAN GEORGE CROGHAN BY CHARLES RICHARD WILLIAMS PH D LL D Address delivered at Spiegel Grove Fremont O August 1 1903 before the George Croghan Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution on the occasion of the celebration of the ninetieth anniversary of the battle of Ft Stephenson Mr Williams is editor of The Indianapolis NewsE O R I Happy the country that has no history is an old old saying It falls trippingly on the tongue It passes current at unquestioned value in the ...
... GEORGE WASHINGTON'S INTEREST IN THE GEORGE WASHINGTON'S INTEREST IN THE OHIO COUNTRY BY C B GALBREATH February 22nd will be the bicentennial anniversary of the birth of George Washington We are apt to think of him as a stately heroic figure far remote from us in time and space Two hundred years is a comparatively brief period in the life of a nation Only four generations have passed away since the death of Washington Many are now living who read in the newspapers at the time the announcement ...
... THE SANDUSKY RIVER THE SANDUSKY RIVER LUCY ELLIOT KEELER The Russian peasant's phrase The road that runs would have appealed to the primitive people who in generations past paddled upon the waters and occupied the valley of the Sandusky River For some eighty miles it traces a winding way through northwestern Ohio rising in the Palmer Spring of Richland county flowing through Crawford Wyandot Seneca and Sandusky counties its mouth directly north of its source and its general course forming a ...