... MONUMENTS TO HISTORICAL INDIAN CHIEFS MONUMENTS TO HISTORICAL INDIAN CHIEFS BY EDWARD LIVINGSTON TAYLOR It will always seem strange that the Indian tribes erected no monuments of an enduring character to mark the last resting place of their dead especially so as they had constantly before them the example of the burial mounds of the race that preceded them in the occupancy of the country as well as the later example of the white race whose custom of marking the graves of their dead was ...
... DAVID ZEISBERGER DAVID ZEISBERGER REV JOHN GREENFIELD Memorial delivered Sunday Nov 15 1908 in Nazareth Pa That ye be not slothful but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promisesHebrews 612 Our congregation celebrates today a threefold festival We commemorate first of all the powerful experience made by our Fathers November 13 1741 that Jesus Christ is the Chief Shepherd and Head of the Church We celebrate in the second place our annual congregation festival for it ...
... Benjamin Franklin Of course he dined with Franklin and went to the theater several times He also called on his old companion in arms the Marquis de Lafayette who ruined me with the greatest affection and politeness imaginable He visited the zoo and saw many animals from 230 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 230 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Africa and India which he had never seen before He did all the things that ...
... The Croghan Celebration The Croghan Celebration 27 ADDRESS OF HON CHARLES W FAIRBANKS VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I am gratified indeed to be present and participate with you for a brief while upon this historic occasion I have not come to make a formal speech nor did I come to make you a speech at all According to the programme I am to indulge only in a few remarks What I shall say to you shall be born of the moment I have brought with me no well-turned phrases I have come simply to ...
... Benjamin Mark Simon and John Benjamin was a soldier in the revolutionary war and died in Philadelphia in the course of the war Mark born 1749 was also a soldier and died in 1785 Simon was born April 3 1755 4 Ohio Arch 4 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications and John in 1757 After the latter came west he lived many years in Mason county Kentucky but the date of his death is not found in ...
... THE CHARITY SCHOOL OF KENDAL THE CHARITY SCHOOL OF KENDAL Edited by HARLOW LINDLEY The discovery of an Agreement between Adam W Heldenbrand and the Charity School of Kendal dated November 27 1863 has aroused interest to learn more about this Ohio educational institution and the unique contract enacted there In the winter of 1810-11 one Thomas Rotch left Hartford Connecticut and explored Ohio as far south and west as Cincinnati Springfield and Urbana On this trip Rotch made notes about the ...
... THE KENDAL COMMUNITY THE KENDAL COMMUNITY WENDALL P FOX MASSILLON The following article concerning the Kendal Community was secured for publication through the courtesy of Mr Wendall P Fox of Massillon Ohio Mr Fox in an explanatory letter to the Editor makes the statement a portion of which we use as a preface to the article itself-E 0 R PREFACE According to the History of Stark County the first settlers came to Perry township in the summer of 1806 Perry township included the territory ...
... Benjamin Logan and Silas Harlan as Captains they marched to Lexington meeting at that point a company from Boonesborough commanded by Captain John Holder These two companies were there reinforced by another headed by Captain Levi Todd they marched from Lexington by way of the Little North Fork of Elkhorn encamping the first night near its mouth Their second encampment was on a small branch of Mill Creek about two miles northward from Lee's ...
... THE ORDINANCE OF JULY 13TH 1787 THE ORDINANCE OF JULY 13TH 1787 TH E intrinsic merits of that organic law which was enacted by the old Continental Congress on the 13th of July 1787 for the Government of the Territory Northwest of the river Ohio have been so fully discussed and are so well understood that any attempt in that direction would be little more than a repetition of views already familiar to an intelligent audience Its merits can now be measured by its fruits Results are its monument ...
... DENTAL EDUCATION IN OHIO DENTAL EDUCATION IN OHIO 1838-1858 By EDWARD C MI LLS DDS With the unprecedented tide of immigration to Ohio during the early decades of the nineteenth century came the physician as a necessary adjunct to the widely scattered communities for the preservation of health and the consequent prosperity of those sturdy pioneers His praises have been largely unsung because in addition to his administrations to the medical needs of the community his attention was necessarily ...
... Benjamin Harrison of Gen Benjamin F Prince the Editor and Secretary of the Springfield General Centennial Committee we have received a neatly bound volume of some 300 pages giving a full account of the proceedings of the Centennial celebration of Springfield Ohio held at that place August 4 to 10 1901 Professor Prince holds the chair of history and political science in Wittenberg University ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATINOS BUCKEYE STATION BUILT BY NATHANIEL MASSIE IN 1797 BY MORTEN CARLISLE Shrouded in the mists of obscurity and but little known except to a few of the older generation in and about Manchester Ohio this old house built by the famous surveyor General Nathaniel Massie stands today mute evidence of the excellence of his work and a link between the throbbing life of the present day and those hardy pioneers whose toil and suffering made possible the ...
... Eggleston 2d district James Elliott 3d district David Heaton 4th district T Cunningham 5th district Dr J J Paul 6th district Wm Allison 7th district W H P Denny 8th district J Corvin 9th district Homer Elliott 10th district E Nye 11th district Joshua R Giddings 12 district Henry B Carrington 13th district Joseph Root 14th district Norton S Townshend 15th district Joseph W Vanze 327 328 Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly 328 Ohio ...
... 442 Ohio Arch 442 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications General Braddock did not live to realize all the evil consequences which his defeat brought upon the frontiers The road which he had opened from the Potomac to within seven miles of Fort Duquesne became again an Indian warpath In the three years following this battle it was used by a few small parties of French and many bands of Indians as an open road to the Potomac whence they ravaged the English settlements in Virginia Maryland and ...
... Benjamin Tappan president-judge of the Fifth Circuit from 1816 to 1823 later published a small volume referred to in the Ohio Digests as Tappan's Report See remarks by Judge Moses M Granger Randall and Ryan op cit Vol V p 117 208 Ohio Arch 208 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications the State and held court once a year in each county Provision was also made for courts of common pleas The State was divided into three circuits with a ...
... 64 Ohio Arch 64 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications and of course there is a constant demand for new vessels Further along after traversing a portion of the Ohio river the same author writes The boats which float upon the Ohio river are various--from the ship of several hundred tons burden to the mere skiff Very few if any very large vessels however are now built at Pittsburgh and Marietta but the difficulties incident to getting them to the ocean have rendered such undertakings infrequent ...
... 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 ...
... REFUGEES TO AND FROM CANADA AND THE REFUREFUGEES TO AND FROM CANADA AND THE REFUGEE TRACT BY EDWARD LIVINGSTON TAYLOR All that part of the City of Columbus which lies east of the Scioto River and between Fifth Avenue on the north and Steelton on the south a distance of four and one-half miles is on what is known in law and history as the Refugee Tract which was as we shall hereafter see set apart by the government for the benefit of Refugees from Canada and Nova Scotia This territory comprises ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 351 Reviews Notes and Comments 351 action makes very little change in the status of the Society while it offers large opportunities for co-operation with the various branches of the Department of Education The Superintendent of Public Instruction now becomes ex-officio a member of our Board of Trustees ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION FOR SOLDIERS OF THE WORLD WAR A constitutional amendment providing for issuing bonds for adjusted compensation for service in the World War was ...
... FORTS LORAMIE AND PICKAWILLANY FORTS LORAMIE AND PICKAWILLANY BY R W MCFARLAND LL D One of the functions of an Historical Society is or at least ought to be to criticize doubtful and inexact statements in works professing to be History and where practicable to make known the truth Let us apply this principle to some of the statements made by different writers in reference to the places named at the head of this article But first it is well to give the location of the forts both of which were ...