... CLARK'S CONQUEST OF THE NORTHWEST CLARK'S CONQUEST OF THE NORTHWEST BY E O RANDALL The French were the first to discover and explore the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys While the English were establishing colonial settlements between the Alleghany mountains and the Atlantic coast the French adventurers were locating missionary stations military posts and trading centers on the Great Lakes and the river ways of the Northwest Such lodging places ...
... WASHINGTON AND OHIO WASHINGTON AND OHIO E O RANDALL LL M The many-sidedness of Washington presents an unfailing field of study in his character and career His varied accomplishments in each of which he was facile prince ps again and again quicken our interest in and increase our admiration for the foremost figure in American annals So glorious was he in the pomp and circumstance of the War ...
... COMMODORE ABRAHAM WHIPPLE COMMODORE ABRAHAM WHIPPLE A PAPER BY HIS GREAT-GRANDSON DAVID FISHER MR PRESIDENT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN - From the printed circular I hold in my hand I read the seventh of April 1888 is a day in which the immediate descendants of the first settlers of Marietta principally have an interest As a descendant of Commodore Whipple it is with emotions of reverence pleasure and pride that I am permitted to be present at the Centennial Celebration of Marietta and pay respect to ...
... SOME DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF OHIO SOME DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF OHIO BY GEORGE DAVENPORT KRATZ AKRON In undertaking to edit the following expresses and communications I have made no attempt to form any connection between them or to draw any conclusions from the import of the letters taken separately The nature of the communications prohibits such a procedure My part has been merely to preface ...
... OHIOOHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS BUCYRUS CENTENNIAL The centennial of the city of Bucyrus Ohio was most appropriately celebrated in a program of exercises extending from October 2 to 5 1921 There were addresses by Honorable Harry L Davis Governor of Ohio Honorable Hugh ...
... THE ANCESTRY OF THE OHIOAN THE ANCESTRY OF THE OHIOAN A M COURTENAY D D The following is a portion of an address delivered in Zanesville by Rev Courtenay who for many years has been an enthusiastic student of Ohio history upon which subject he has delivered many admirable addresses He has written frequently in prose and in verse for current ...
... 276 Ohio Arch 276 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VoL 3 with its annual receipts from members' dues interest sale of publications etc will keep it on a plane with the best societies in the country and enable it to do its full share of usefulness The General Assembly has provided for the purchase and preservation of that remarkable earth-work--Fort Ancient-in the Little Miami valley It ...
... northeasternOhio became known as the Connecticut Western Reserve and more generally as the Western Reserve It was the western part of this Reserve to the extent of five hundred thousand acres which Connecticut released to the fire sufferers in 1792 Hence comes the name the Firelands of the Western Reserve Although Congress by resolution on September 14 1786 accepted the deed of cession42 the ...
... ISRAEL PUTNAM ISRAEL PUTNAM READ BY MRS II G EDGERTON BEFORE THE COLONEL GEORGE CROGHAN CHAPTER D A R In the days when forests covered most of New England when the Indian war-whoop still echoed on its borders when children ate corn-meal porridge from pewter porringers and their elders stirred their hot drinks with a poker heated in the fireplace -- in those good old days two centuries ago there was born one of the great heroes of our Nation To be more exact on January 7 1718 in an old ...
... NINTH ANNUAL REPORT NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Ohio State Archaeological and Historical SOCIETY TO THE GOVERNOR From February 19 1893 to February 19 1894 To th e HON WILLIAM MCKINLEY Governor of Ohio SIR-The eighth annual report of this Society was a resume of the work to that time chiefly along lines connected with the department of American Archaeology and History at the World's Fair Since ...
... 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 ...
... 256 Ohio Arch 256 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications ADDRESS OF HON SAMUEL H DOYLE DELIVERED AT GREENVILLE OHIO AUGUST 3 1895 Ladies and Gentlemen I come to you from the adjoining State to join with you in this celebration We have a common interest in this historic event with you I will detain you but a few minutes We have been together ...
... northeasternOhio The acreage in the upper tail of the distribution is much larger than could have been farmed without hundreds of farm laborers or leaseholders and must be considered as expanses that would be later subdivided into many parcels The settlement of the state was not uniform and of course this affected the patterns of farm size One can picture the region as it developed from one ...
... 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 ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORIOHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS FOR THE YEAR 1886 WITH ABSTRACTS OF ADDRESSES AND PAPERS PRESENTED BEFORE THE SOCIETY COLUMBUS January 13th 1886 THE Society was called to order in the Chamber of the House of Representatives in the State House by Professor L D Brown The report of the Secretary showed the addition of ten members ...
... OHIOOHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY Vol II SEPTEMBER 1888 No 2 ISRAEL WARD ANDREWS DD LLD MEMORIAL ADDRESS BEFORE THE OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY DELIVERED AT MARIETTA JUNE 26 1888 BY WILLIAM P CUTLER A CHRISTIAN missionary was discussing the grand problem of immortality with a learned Chinese philosopher ...
... northeastern border with Rhode Island Among inherited and acquired characteristics he would utilize were his physical countenance and deportment As he matured he carried himself with understated self-confidence Though he dressed in black he was no somber cleric He might be revered for his position as a religious authority but his style was that of a sociable and learned counselor A pen portrait left by a grandson depicts Cutler's appearance as ...
... BOOK NOTES BOOK NOTES L IFE JOURNALS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF REV MANASSEH CUTLER LLD By his Grandchildren William Parker Cutler and Julia Perkins Cutler Two volumes Cincinnati Robert Clarke amp Co 1888 The diary correspondence and papers of Dr Cutler ought to throw a flood of light upon many events in the early history of the Northwest and upon the policy of the old Congress in organizing and providing for the settlement of the region beyond the
... KENTON'S GAUNTLET AT CHILLICOTHE KENTON'S GAUNTLET AT CHILLICOTHE T J BROWN WAYNESVILLE OHIO The question of the identity of Old Town near Xenia with the Chillicothe where Kenton ran the gauntlet the first time has been thoroughly discussed in previous issues of the QUARTERLY and in my opinion the evidence in favor of it is decidedly satisfactory Prof McFarland's testimony seems conclusive of itself while the traditions bearing upon the ...
... 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 ...