... 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 ...
... 1902 pp 402 628 The four 1902 p 882 Membership in the General Assembly of Ohio 271 Membership in the General Assembly of Ohio 271 on the amendment no indication of the true sentiment of the people on this question The Republican State Convention unanimously endorsed the amendment126 In the Democratic Convention the Committee on Credentials reported adversely This report was adopted after a ...
... Mills Curator to make Mills prepared a Mills read two papers Mills is now engaged in the construction of an exact miniature reproduction of the Serpent Mound These models will be exhibited at the forthcoming Jamestown Exposition ...
... 366 Ohio Arch 366 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications HUDSON CENTENNIAL APPENDIX DAVID HUDSON AND HEMAN OVIATT Hudson is town four Range ten and was purchased of the Connecticut Land Company by David Hudson Birdseye Norton Nathaniel Norton Stephen Baldwin Benjamin Oviatt and Theodore Parmele for fifty-two cents an acre In the original survey it was laid down as a swamp township and in order to make it equal to the average townships there was annexed to it from the equalizing townships 10000 ...
... 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 ...
... PIONEER SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL MASTERS PIONEER SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL MASTERS BY D C SHILLING One of the most striking facts found in a study of the history of the Ohio Valley is the early appearance of the log schoolhouse When the primitive conditions of the country together with the everpresent danger from Indian attacks are taken into consideration one is forced to conclude that only a sincere and abiding faith in the efficacy of popular education prompted the pioneers to make the sacrifices ...
... 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 ...
... Ohio Valley Hist Ohio Valley Hist Ass'n Fifth Annual Meeting 31 engaged strong and able men at all points along the river Pittsburgh ever at the front in enterprise has contributed her full share It is our good fortune to have homes in this Valley dear to many of us as our birthplace and to all of us by fond memories and cherished associations We who love the Valley and the River here pay tribute to all who have labored for and through their labors have advanced the improvement of the greatest ...
... THOMAS JEFFERSON'S VIEWS ON SLAVERY THOMAS JEFFERSON'S VIEWS ON SLAVERY BY C B GALBREATII To one who has read the works of Thomas Jefferson it would seem that there should be no question in regard to his views of slavery Because such question has been raised reiterated and made a matter of public record and because his attitude has been thus questioned by many prominent in the early history of Ohio it may not be out of place to review here the testimony offered in regard to the real views that ...
... THE INDIAN MOUND MIAMISBURG OHIO THE INDIAN MOUND MIAMISBURG OHIO This mound is located on the upland about a mile southeast of town and is the largest of its kind in the world It was originally about eighty-five feet in height but was reduced to sixty-five feet by digging of exploring parties It measures about three hundred feet in diameter at the base In 1869 a number of citizens sunk a shaft from the top to two feet below its base So far as startling revelations are concerned the ...
... THE OHIO PROSPECTUS FOR THE YEAR 1775 THE OHIO PROSPECTUS FOR THE YEAR 1775 BY A J MORRISON TOLEDO The extended advertisement given below in part1 although not strictly applicable to the whole of the territory of Ohio today is of interest for several reasons This statement skilfully colored as it is brings out very well the idea of the Ohio country as it must have been in many minds at the beginning of the Revolution The imagination is afforded material - what would have been the result if ...
... 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 ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XX INDEX TO VOLUME XX A Articles - A vanishing race 48 Abolitionists - Brady's Leap 457 Arguments of 280 Birthplace of Little Turtle 236 Dresser's experiences in the South Celebration of the surrender of Gen 281 John H Morgan 368 Fairbank Calvin 283 Cincinnati Municipal election of 1828 Foster Abbey Kelley 280 255 Foster Stephen 280 Delaware in the days of 1812 61 Oberlin aided by 276 Early Steamboat travel on the Ohio Oberlin at 270 River 378 Thompson George 282 Editorialana ...
... THE WORTHINGTON MEDICAL COLLEGE THE WORTHINGTON MEDICAL COLLEGE By JONATHAN FORMAN M D Those of you who drove in to this meeting may have noted as you approached Columbus the remnants of our pioneer days which still set forth clearly the identity of our original settlers Those of you who came from the west or southwest along highways 3 40 or 42 should have been impressed with the large farms with the original masters' houses set way back from the road reminiscent of Virginia from where came ...
... ORATION OF HON ORATION OF HON GEORGE F HOAR THERE are doubtless many persons in this audience who have gathered here as to their Father's house They salute their Mother on her birthday with the prayer and the confident hope that the life which now completes its first century may be immortal as liberty If we were here only to do honor to Marietta-to celebrate the planting of this famous town coeval with the Republic seated by the beautiful river her annals crowded with memories of illustrious ...