... edited by edited by JOSEPH E WALKER Plowshares and Pruning Hooks for the Miami and Potawatomi The Journal of Gerard T Hopkins 1804 Post-Revolutionary War Americans saw in the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains the means to redress the economic ills inherited from the war and its interruptions of trade Settlement west of Pittsburgh was handicapped during much of the 1790s by the hostility and military success of the midwestern Indian tribes Yet as Curtis P Nettels wrote in that decade as ...
... Mound Builders' Fort within Toledo's Limits Mound Builders' Fort within Toledo's Limits 381 MOUND BUILDERS' FORT WITHIN TOLEDO'S LIMITS BY S S KNABENSHUE TOLEDO OHIO It will probably surprise most of the readers of the Quarterly to be told that there once existed an ancient defensive earthwork on the banks of the Maumee within the present city limits The writer was unaware of the fact until some time ago when he found a reference to it in a somewhat rare book-the first volume of the ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS COLONEL WILLIAM CRAWFORD1 BY JAMES H ANDERSON UPPER SANDUSKY OHIO May 6 1896 Hon J H Anderson Columbus Ohio DEAR JUDGE I am directed by the officers of the Wyandot County Pioneer Association to extend you an invitation to deliver an address at the picnic to be held at Crawford Thursday June 11 on the occasion of the 114th anniversary of the burning of Colonel William Crawford Hoping to receive a favorable answer so that you can be duly ...
... RELIGION IN THE WESTERN RESERVE RELIGION IN THE WESTERN RESERVE 1800-1825 DISTINCTIVE CHARACTER OF WESTERN RESERVE RELIGION BY HAROLD E DAVIS In the years following the Revolution the frontiersman fighting with Nature for the first-fruits of the virgin soil was not primarily religious That this is so students of the American frontier are constantly asserting Only when Nature and the Indian gave surcease from terror and labor did the frontiersman find need for the milder excitement-religion ...
... CATHERINE GOUGAR CATHERINE GOUGAR Probably the Earliest Pioneer Resident of Ohio Who Has Descendants Living Upon the Original Place of Settlement BY FRANK WARNER M D D SC COLUMBUS OHIO On the farm of Alfred Immell situated on the pike from Columbus to Chillicothe some ten miles north of the latter city lies buried Catherine Gougar Her remains have lain here since 1801 when she died at the age of sixty-nine years She died within two years of the establishment of Ohio as a State and within view ...
... 378 Ohio Arch 378 Ohio Arch and His Society Pu bli cations ST CLAIR'S DEFEAT AS TOLD BY AN EYE-WITNESS--FROM ORIGINAL MSS BY FRAZER E WILSON GREENVILLE O It is refreshing to read an original account of any important battle especially when the field of action is near at hand Of the 600 survivors of St Clair's unfortunate army probably quite a number wrote narratives which have been lost or destroyed in the wreck of time The General's own report and the description of Benjamin Van Cleve have ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF GENERAL WAYNE'S TREATY OF GREENVILLE AUG 3 1895 PRAYER BY REV JOHN POYNTZ TYLER O God who art the blessed Potentate the King of kings and the Lord of lords the Almighty Ruler of nations we adore and magnify Thy glorious name for all the great things which Thou hast done for us We render Thee thanks for the goodly heritage which Thou hast given unto us for the civil and religious privileges which we enjoy and for the ...
... TALLMADGE TOWNSHIP TALLMADGE TOWNSHIP E O RANDALL Six miles east of Akron the thriving official center of its county in almost its pristine solitude pioneer simplicity and primitive picturesqueness lies the quiet little village of Tallmadge Its two or three hundred contented inhabitants go their way today as undisturbed by the social follies or the commercial whirl distant but one hour's travel as though they were lodged in some vast wilderness inaccessible to the inroads of society's ...
... 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 ...
... SKETCHES OF LIFE MEMBERS SKETCHES OF LIFE MEMBERS ANDERSON JAMES HOUSE-Born March 16 1833 at Marion O Son of Judge Thomas Jefferson Anderson and Nancy Dunlevy Educated in public schools and the Marion Academy and Ohio Wesleyan University Graduated from law department of the Cincinnati College in 1854 immediately began practice Elected Mayor of Marion in 1855 and later Prosecuting Attorney of the county Married in 1856 to Princess A Miller Appointed March 1865 by President Lincoln United States ...
... SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society TO THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE AND THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY BY E O RANDALL SECRETARY COLUMBUS OHIO JANUARY 1901 383 OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY FROM FEBRUARY 1 1900 TO FEBRUARY 1 1901 Elected by the Trustees GEN ROELIFF BRINKERHOFF -- -- President GEN GEORGE B WRIGHT ------- First Vice-President GEO F BAREIS --------- Second Vice-President HON S S RICKLY - - --------- ...
... FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society FOR THE YEAR FEBRUARY 1 1899 TO FEBRUARY 1 1900 GEN R BRINKERHOFF PRESIDENT E O RANDALL SECRETARY COLUMBUS OHIO JANUARY 1900 345 OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY FROM FEBRUARY 1 1899 TO FEBRUARY 1 1900 ELECTED BY THE TRUSTEES GEN ROELIFF BRINKERHOFF President REV WM E MOORE D D LL D Vice-President HON S S RICKLY Treasurer EDWIN F WOOD Assistant Treasurer E O RANDALL PH B LL ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XVI INDEX TO VOLUME XVI A Atwater Caleb 451 Avery's History of United States 508 Aborigine Use of term 407 Axes Copper 154 155 157 158 Aborigines See Indians Aztecs 425 The 421 Confederacy of 431 Addresses Dodge Samuel D 18 Fairbanks Chas W 27 Harris Andrew L 30 Meek Basil 35 Bailey Anne Sargent Family connecMoore J P Groghan Celebration tion of 344 at 52 Heroism of 345 Randall E 0 31 Life of 341 Allen County Welsh churches in 223 Ball's Battle 47 48 Welsh settlements in 222 ...
... Dedication of Ohio's World War Memorial 463 Dedication of Ohio's World War Memorial 463 Finally a State Museum of History here in Ohio must take advantage of its exceptional opportunity to cooperate with the regional historical museums in the commonwealth After all your purposes are a common one namely to preserve and to teach the history of Ohio--your task is general theirs is particular The ideal State Museum which I have tried to picture should be applied to all the local museums A system ...
... THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE SIEGE OF THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE SIEGE OF FORT MEIGS PERRYSBURG JULY 27 1913 BY LUCY ELLIOT KEELER Hadst thou my three kingdoms to range in said James the First to a fly and yet must thou needs get into my eye Which homely speech might be paraphrased for the present purpose of introduction to this subject to read Had Great Britain and America their vast extent of territory and all the ocean between to range in and must they needs select the shores of ...
... TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING O F THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY May 13 1910 The twenty-fifth annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Hunter Society Room Page Hall Ohio State University Columbus Ohio at 230 P M Friday May 13 191O The following members were present Prof Martin R Andrews Marietta Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Mr A J Baughman Mansfield Mr T B Bowers Columbus Mr H E ...
... TWENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE TWENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY JUNE 2 1905 The Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the lecture room of the Y M C A Building Columbus Ohio at 230 P M June 2d 1905 The following members were present Rev J W Atwood Columbus Judge J H Anderson Columbus Prof M R Andrews Marietta Mr E H Archer Columbus General R Brinkerhoff Mansfield Mr George F Bareis ...
... 280 Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly 28 0 Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly present war in such manner that the said lands be sold out or otherwise disposed of for the common benefit of all the states and that the money arising from the sale of those lands or the quit rents reserved thereon may be deemed and taken as part of the monies belonging to the United States and as such be appropriated by congress towards defraying the expences of the war and the payment of ...
... medicines According to medicines from his residence medicines even when he was scarcely able to be out of his bed or actually confined to it Dr Tiffin for many years was subject to occasional attacks of severe nervous headaches which gradually advanced upon him and during the last four or five years of his life most of his time was spent ...
... THE OHIO-COLUMBUS CENTENNIAL THE OHIO-COLUMBUS CENTENNIAL August 26-September 1 1912 BY OSMAN C HOOPER On February 14 1 912 Columbus had been for a hundred years a habitation and a name and the capital of Ohio prospective or actual It was on St Valentine's day 1 812 that the legislature sitting at Zanesville the second of the temporary capitals of the young State took the final action locating the permanent capital on a site which was described as the highbanks of the Scioto opposite ...