... NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTURE OF ABEL JANNEY NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTURE OF ABEL JANNEY BY THE INDIANS IN 17821 FROM THE DIARY OF ABEL JANNEY On the 12th day of March 1782 about break of day as I and my two companions were lying in our blankets about half a mile from the Ohio river on the Indian's side near the mouth of the Great Kenhaway2 river We were surprised by a shout of Indians who came rushing upon us When I heard the noise I spoke to my two companions and said rise up here are Indians when ...
... BOWMAN'S CAMPAIGN OF 1779 BOWMAN'S CAMPAIGN OF 1779 Copied and published by permission of the Wisconsin Historical Society from the Draper MSS Bedinger Papers A-Vol I pp 19-31 inclu-EDITOR Started about 1st of June-and continued about 4 weeksvide page - for bear killing Holder commanded a company-not over 20 or 25 belonged to Boonesboro-the remainder in neighboring Stations if any then settled marched to Lexington thence on to the mouth of Licking When near the mouth here one of the party ...
... 472 Ohio Arch 472 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications who had an opportunity to be present at the sessions or read the reports in the public press Colonel Galbraith was elected Department Commander at the first state convention of the American Legion held in Ohio He was elected National Commander on September 29th two years to the day after he performed the act of heroism which won for him the Distinguished Service Cross His citation for this honor reads For extraordinary heroism in action ...
... THE SANDUSKY RIVER THE SANDUSKY RIVER LUCY ELLIOT KEELER The Russian peasant's phrase The road that runs would have appealed to the primitive people who in generations past paddled upon the waters and occupied the valley of the Sandusky River For some eighty miles it traces a winding way through northwestern Ohio rising in the Palmer Spring of Richland county flowing through Crawford Wyandot Seneca and Sandusky counties its mouth directly north of its source and its general course forming a ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XIII INDEX TO VOLUME XIII A Articles - Concluded Abolition in Ohio 50 History of Ft Hamilton Miller Adams County - 97 Todd's Trace in 318 Historic Worthington Parsons 71 Trebor Tavern in 307 John Brough Hooper 40 Zane's Trace in 318 Kenton's Gauntlet at Chillicothe Agriculture Prehistoric people engaged Brown 483 in 189 Marcus A Hanna Dick 355 American Economic Association MeetOhio in the Spanish and Philippine ing of 288 War Anderson 551 American Historical Association 121 K ...
... array of employee benefit programs 11 Akron Times Press Feb 19 1936 12 Ibid Feb 20 1936 12 OHIO HISTORY 12 OHIO HISTORY notably insurance athletic and stock and home-ownership plans13 A unique feature of the Goodyear effort was the flying squadron a select group of production workers who were trained to perform any task in the factory Their assignment was to prevent delays that would curtail production in the integrated complex14 The ...
... 526 Ohio Arch 526 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications and accoutrements Wayne could not safely go directly down and thereupon he dug an oblique shelf-road in the breast of the declivity downward -- eastward a distance of about one hundred feet and thereby the army descended to the floor of the valley and crossed the stream The shelf-road is not the pitch It is the expedient made in breast of the pitch or declivity It is a very interesting well-preserved remnant of Wayne's Preble Trail It ...
... 260 Ohio Arch 260 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications DISCOURSES OF REV RHEES Through the courtesy of Mr George A Katzenberger president of the Greenville Ohio Historical Society we have received duplicate copies of two discourses by Rev Morgan John Rhys delivered at Greenville on July 4 and 5 respectively in the year 1795 before the officers and army of Major General Anthony Wayne Rev Morgan John Rhys or as it is also printed Rhees was born in Graddfa Llanfabon Glamorganshire South Wales ...
... MAJOR-GENERAL ARTHUR ST MAJOR-GENERAL ARTHUR ST CLAIR HON ALBERT DOUGLAS M C A brief synopsis of this address was delivered by Mr Douglas at the annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Page Hall O S U March 22 1907 - EDITOR At the centennial celebration of Ohio statehood held at Chillicothe in May 1 90 3 I had the pleasure of offering the following preamble and resolution Recognizing that the people of Ohio have for one hundred years done injustice to the name ...
... THE ANTHONY WAYNE ESSAY CONTEST THE ANTHONY WAYNE ESSAY CONTEST The Anthony Wayne Memorial Legislative Committee during the winter of 1944-45 in cooperation with the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and the Ohio State Department of Education sponsored a contest among the public parochial and private schools in Ohio on the subject of Anthony Wayne and the Indian Wars in Ohio 1790-1795 Several thousand students from all over the State entered the contest Winning essays in the ...
... THE MIAMI COUNTRY 1750-1815 THE MIAMI COUNTRY 1750-1815 AS DESCRIBED IN JOURNALS AND LETTERS by ELIZABETH FARIES Senior Assistant Reference and Catalog Department Dayton Public Library During the late 1700's and the early 1800's the Miami Country was a definite geographic area in the Northwest Territory This area has been defined as a region of approximately 5000 square miles in southwestern Ohio with a small adjoining wedge of southeastern Indiana It was particularly the land that forms the ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 431 Reviews Notes and Comments 431 SENATOR ROBERT L OWEN AT THE LOGAN ELM Mr E L Spetnagel a life member of our Society writes an interesting letter to Mr Tiffin J Gilmore thanking him for a circular containing a cut of the Logan Elm and the text of the speech of Chief Logan that made the tree famous He speaks of a family reunion last June and the enjoyment of two brothers and other members of his family in making a visit to this grand old tree Continuing Mr ...
... THE ORIGIN DESCRIPTION AND SERVICE OF FORT THE ORIGIN DESCRIPTION AND SERVICE OF FORT WINCHESTER WITH MENTION OF SOME OF THE PERSONS AND EVENTS CONNECTED WITH IT BY CHARLES E SLOCUM M D PH D DEFIANCE O From the earliest record until the building of the Miami and Erie and the Wabash and Erie Canals along its course the Maumee River was known to be a great thoroughfare and we have good right to infer that the Aborigines from their first appearance in this region until the historic times made its ...
... arrayed against each other in the grapple of death are so many and neutrals are so few Hence when the present war is ended whether in victory or through exhaustion whether celebrated by triumphal entries into conquered capitals or terminated by the mutual withdrawal of shattered ranks from the bloodsoaked fields of conflict to their homes where nearly every house will be a house of mourning the influence of America will be exerted to establish ...
... array of officers in full uniform Behind was a detachment of soldiers In his front were the Indians Around all were the inhabitants of the region far and near with many a mother and maid as interested spectators The General began to speak in calm and measured tones befitting the grave occasion but an undefined oppression seemed to hold all in suspense as with silent and almost breathless attention they waited the result of the General's words ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY DECEMBER 1887 THE WESTERN LAND POLICY OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT FROM 1763 TO 1775 THE ink with which the treaty of Paris was written was hardly dry when Great Britain took a very important step in the line of a new land policy Just how much this step meant at the time is a matter of dispute but the consequences flowing from it were such as to mark it a distinct new departure Previous to the French and Indian war England had virtually affirmed ...
... array of governmental records both of the State and Nation 2 the most complete collection in this country of Ohio newspapers dating from the territorial period to the present time 3 topographical histories being the annals of the counties cities and localities of the State 4 thousands of pamphlets on all subjects and 5 bound volumes of magazines for the past hundred years To a great library everything is welcome It should by all means be ...
... A VISIT IN 1929 A VISIT IN 1929 TO THE SITES IN WESTERN OHIO OF FORTS BUILT BY GENERALS ARTHUR ST CLAIR ANTHONY WAYNE AND WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON BY JAMES A GREEN CHAPTER I On the Fourth of July 1929 I made a patriotic pilgrimage visiting the sites of some of the forts erected in western Ohio in St Clair's and Wayne's Indian Campaigns and by Harrison in the War of 1812 As showing the immeasurable difference between the slow and laborious progress of our early armies and the speed of the modern ...
... THE CHILLICOTHES THE CHILLICOTHES BY R W MCFARLAND LL D In any pioneer history of Ohio or of the West in general the word Chillicothe is found as the Indian name of a town As there were several of these it may be well to mention some points so as to identify the one intended 1 Chillicothe-Howe's Ohio and other histories speak of a town of this name on the Great Miami river It was on the site of the present city of Piqua 2 ChillicotheOften called Old Chillicothe This was about three miles north ...
... GEORGE CROGHAN GEORGE CROGHAN BY CHARLES RICHARD WILLIAMS PH D LL D Address delivered at Spiegel Grove Fremont O August 1 1903 before the George Croghan Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution on the occasion of the celebration of the ninetieth anniversary of the battle of Ft Stephenson Mr Williams is editor of The Indianapolis NewsE O R I Happy the country that has no history is an old old saying It falls trippingly on the tongue It passes current at unquestioned value in the ...