... 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 ...
... David Zeisberger Centennial David Zeisberger Centennial 17 5 A SCENE AT ZEISBERGER'S GRAVE C L MARTZOLFF From The Ohio Teacher January 1908 A beautiful November day it is One of those rare last days of the autumn time whose minutes pass too lightly for you want to keep them by you One of those days when you are watching the sun and calculate mentally how much of it you have yet to enjoy You know that you cannot have many more such glorious days and you want every bit of this one This is the ...
... JOHN SHERMAN AND THE SILVER DRIVE OF 1877-78 JOHN SHERMAN AND THE SILVER DRIVE OF 1877-78 THE ORIGINS OF THE GIGANTIC SUBSIDY By JEANNETTE P NICHOLS That tour de force the Silver Purchase Act of 1934 is too close to the present to be judged fairly1 While some critics claim that it simply signifies a cowardly unpatriotic surrender to a small group of wealthy mine-owners others suspect that the faithful servitors of those interests--the fourteen senators from the seven silver states--had the ...
... Journal of Ensign William Schillinger 51 Journal of Ensign William Schillinger 51 EDITOR'S NOTE The original manuscript of this Journal was brought to the attention of the Editor by Mr James A Green a life member of the Society whose contributions have appeared in previous issues of the Quarterly Mr Green has for years been deeply interested in the history of Ohio and the Northwest Territory He has made a special study of the career of William Henry Harrison who was born in Virginia but who ...
... THE GREAT MAN IN HISTORY THE GREAT MAN IN HISTORY By PAUL F B L OOMHARDT You will agree with me that credit is due Mr Overman and those who have arranged today's program for their alertness in recognizing the centennial of Carlyle's famous dictum The idea for his Hero lectures seems to have taken shape in his mind between February 27 and March 2 1840 The first of this series of addresses is dated Tuesday 5th May 1840 Expanded to about double the size of the lectures the essays appeared in an ...
... THE WEST IN AMERICAN HISTORY THE WEST IN AMERICAN HISTORY JOHN LEE WEBSTER President Nebraska Historical Society History is to a nation what the faculty of memory is to individuals the basis of all our experience and by means of experience the source of all improvement History knows all things contains all things teaches all things not in winged words which strike the ear without impressing the mind but in great and striking actions The spirit of the world itself is but a great and unending ...
... Hannah Fancher's Notes Hannah Fancher's Notes On Ohio Speech in 1824 edited by JOHN Y SIMON Hannah Fancher of Brown County Ohio was a tireless uplifter of her neighbors In long letters prepared for the newspapers she offered advice on many topics the length of sermons behavior in church how to sing properly the importance of keeping promises even the best method for killing bedbugs1 In 1833 she made a public appeal for forty dollars to have her Rules of Politeness printed an appeal necessary ...
... THE CINCINNATI LANCET-CLINIC THE CINCINNATI LANCET-CLINIC by DAVID A TUCKER JR MD Professor of the History of Medicine University of Cincinnati The Cincinnati Lancet-Clinic was formed in 1878 by the merger of the Lancet and Observer 1842 with the Clinic 1871 It was known as the Lancet and Clinic until 1888 when the hyphenated title was assumed The Lancet and Observer was founded by L M Lawson in 1842 as the Western Lancet a monthly journal It was issued in Cincinnati under his direction for ...
... 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 ...
... The Western Reserve The Western Reserve 259 THE WESTERN RESERVE H OW IT HAS PLAYED AN IMPORTANT PART IN THE HISTORY OF OHIO AND OF THE NATION BY F E HUTCHINS ESQ The Connecticut Western Reserve or as it is commonly called The Western Reserve has from the beginning played an important part not only in the affairs of the State of Ohio but also in those of the United States While there is a very good general idea of what this Reserve now is especially among its own people and those of the State ...
... THE COUNTRY STORE IN AMERICAN SOCIAL HISTORY THE COUNTRY STORE IN AMERICAN SOCIAL HISTORY by THOMAS D CLARK Professor of History University of Kentucky Any rural American over forty years of age and possessed of a sound memory often lets his mind wander back to the countryside and conditions of his youth Many institutions and symbols of the past are reminiscent of a life of peace and contentment There was the country church where he worshipped or perhaps more exactly sat and longed to be out ...
... CHARLES TINKER'S JOURNAL CHARLES TINKER'S JOURNAL A TRIP TO CALIFORNIA IN 1849 edited by EUGENE H ROSEBOOM Professor of History Ohio State University I INTRODUCTION Don't go to California boys Don't go to Oregon There's wealth for you in the Buckeye State And wealth that may be won Aye wealth that may be won boys By true hearts strong and bold Then don't go to California Stay at home and gather gold1 If this somewhat belated appeal had appeared in print in the spring of 1849 the hundreds of ...
... Civil War Letters of George M Civil War Letters of George M Wise Edited by WILFRED W BLACK George M Wise was born at Bellaire Ohio on September 5 1841 After attending Old Washington Academy four years he entered Jefferson College later Washington and Jefferson College prior to his enlistment There he was enrolled in the classical course of instruction After the war he was an accountant An expert in mathematics as well as geometry algebra and trigonometry he added by tens rather than units and ...
... INDEX TO MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH INDEX TO MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY Baker C B 620 Society 595-596 recommends purBaker R C 593 chase of photostat equipment 598Bareis George F 593 620 report as 599 620 621 motion by 627 629 chairman of museum committee 627offers resolution to amend constitu628 634 elected first vice-president tion 630-632 634 elected secretary of Society 634 motion by 634 librarian and editor of Society 634 Battelle Gordon 620 Gard D H 593 ...
... A Surgeon's Mate at Fort Defiance A Surgeon's Mate at Fort Defiance The Journal of Joseph Gardner Andrews For the Year 1795 Edited by R I CHARD C KNOPF On May 4 1792 Joseph Gardner Andrews enlisted in the army of the United States as a surgeon's mate His qualifications for the position were considered adequate by the standards of his day he had graduated from Harvard College in 1785 and since that time had been employed as a schoolmaster at Dorchester Massachusetts Perhaps partly from a spirit ...
... SHAKER MEDICINES SHAKER MEDICINES by HARRY D PIERCY MD When I began the study of this aspect of Shaker industry I was soon impressed with the large volume of material available As I read I became more and more interested because I found here the reflection of the therapeutic means and methods used to heal the sick in the remote past In the famous Papyrus Ebers dating about 1552 Bc are found the names of many herbs and mineral products that have been used by physicians from that early day down ...
... 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 ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 90 Secretary--Harry Brent Mackoy Covington Ky Deputy Secretary - Murray Marvin Shoemaker Cincinnati Treasurer - Howard Sydenham Winslow Cincinnati Registrar - Robert Ralston Jones Cincinnati Historian - John Uri Lloyd Norwood Chancellor - Herbert Jenney Cincinnati Surgeon - Dr Phineas Sanborn Conner Cincinnnati Chaplain - Rev Henry Melville Curtis Cincinnati Gentlemen of the Council - Nathaniel Henchman Davis Cincinnati Edwin C Gashorn Cincinnati Charles Humphrey ...
... 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 ...
... FORTS MIAMI AND FORT INDUSTRY FORTS MIAMI AND FORT INDUSTRY With Mention of Other Forts in and Near the Maumee River Basin BY CHARLES E SLOCUM M D PH D DEFIANCE OHIO There were at least five forts or stockades of defense in the Territory Northwest of the Ohio River in its earlier history that were called Fort Miami namely 1 The first one was built in November 1679 by ReneRobert Cavelier Sieur de la Salle by the River St Joseph of Lake Michigan on rising ground near its mouth Parkman's La Salle ...