... THE OLD NATIONAL ROAD-THE HISTORIC THE OLD NATIONAL ROAD-THE HISTORIC HIGHWAY OF AMERICA BY ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT I THE MIDDLE AGE The middle ages had their wars and agonies but also their intense delights Their gold was dashed with blood but ours is sprinkled with dust Their life was intermingled with white and purple ours is one seamless stuff of brown - RUSKIN A person can not live in the American central west and be acquaintance with the generation which greets the new century with feeble ...
... Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association 401 that I know of in Columbus still resting in the old desk where its owner a distinguished scientific man of Ohio left it over thirty years ago still undisturbed unless it be by the prying fingers of curious little grandchildren The men who settled this region preserved the letters received by them and in cases of importance copies of their own letters These should be found published or copied ...
... CAPTAIN HYATT CAPTAIN HYATT Being the Letters Written During the Years 1863-1864 to His Wife Mary By Captain T J Hyatt 126th Ohio Volunteer Infantry1 Edited by Hudson Hyatt Here are the letters written by an officer at the front during the War Between the States to his wife Though only one side of the correspondence has been preserved through the ensuing years it is sufficient for us to learn the vicissitudes of his love for his wife and their two small boys of the problems of debts and new ...
... LAND GRANTS FOR EDUCATION IN THE OHIO LAND GRANTS FOR EDUCATION IN THE OHIO VALLEY STATES BY CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF In the discussion of the subject at hand I find I am con fronted with three very positive limitations First because the story of land grants for education is one that even the most investigating historian can find but little new general material upon which to write Second the program committee has wisely limited the time in which the subject may be presented However laudable this ...
... ST ST CLAIR'S DEFEAT AN ORATION DELIVERED BY JUDGE SAMUEL F HUNT ON THE CENTENNIAL OF THE DEFEAT OF GENERAL ARTHUR ST CLAIR AND ON THE OCCASION OF THE RE-INTERMENT OF THE DEAD WHO FELL IN THE ENGAGEMENT ON THE BATTLEFIELD FT RECOVERY O OCT 16 1891 It is said that for more than six hundred years after the battle of Morgarten the Swiss peasantry gathered on the field of battle to commemorate those who had fallen for freedom We have assembled to-day in the same spirit to do honor to the gallant ...
... THE OHIO FRONTIER IN 1812 THE OHIO FRONTIER IN 1812 DIARY OF THE INDIAN CONGREGATION AT GOSHEN ON THE RIVER MUSKINGUM FOR THE YEAR 1812 WRITTEN BY REV BENJAMIN MORTIMER In the Summer of 1798 David Zeisberger accompanied by several brethren of the Moravian Colony departed from their then temporary home the town of Fairfield on the Thames in Canada and proceeded to the Tuscarawas Valley where they founded the settlement called Goshen located seven miles northeast of Gnadenhutten In the party of ...
... 302 Ohio Arch 302 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications it to go beyond what is now the confines of Pickaway Township Further the Cresaps of the present are of the opinion that Logan should have been consistent with the words of his message by his attendance at the Treaty when only six miles distant notwithstanding his threatening note of July 1774 to Captain Michael Cresap tied to a War Club and left in the house of Roberts after Logan had massacred the family Also Logan was inconsistent ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA HISTORY OF THE MAUMEE RIVER BASIN There has just appeared from the press of Bowen amp Slocum Indianapolis and Toledo a History of the Maumee River Basin from the earliest account to its organization into counties The author is Dr Charles Elihu Slocum a life member of the Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society he has contributed many interesting and valuable articles to its Quarterly and for many years has been an indefatigable and enthusiastic student of ...
... THE EVOLUTION OF THE OHIO-ERIE BOUNDARY THE EVOLUTION OF THE OHIO-ERIE BOUNDARY BY REGINALD C M'GRANE D A R Fellow University of Cincinnati The question of boundaries has always been a source of trouble Nations have been arrayed against each other wars have been fought diplomats have argued and demagogues have harrangued over such disputed points Sometimes Providence in its unaccountable way has helped to solve the question by placing natural limits between race and race or between nation and ...
... THE MIDDLE WEST AND THE COMING THE MIDDLE WEST AND THE COMING OF WORLD WAR I by ARTHUR S LINK Associate Professor of History Northwestern University It is difficult to avoid elaborating the obvious in describing the general attitude of the leaders and people of the Middle West toward the European War from its outbreak until the intervention of the United States in 1917 Nourished as they had been upon a tradition of the uniqueness of American democratic virtue and upon the concept of the ...
... 300 Ohio Arch 300 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 TRUDE CHRISTINA ANNA CHRISTINA ANNA SALOME and ANNA ELIZABETH Besides these there were five adults one man S CHAPPIHILLEN the husband of Helen together with four women and thirteen babes not yet baptized and the following members of the Mission at Schoenbrun who happened to be at Gnadenhutten to-wit NICHOLAS and his wife JOANNA SABINA ABEL HENRY ANNA and BATHSHEBA the last two daughters of Joshua the founder of Gnadenhutten in all ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments Reviews Notes and Comments 2 99 NEXT PRESIDENT AN OHIOAN The Republican National Convention in Chicago June 12 nominated Senator Warren G Harding on the tenth ballot for President of the United States The Democratic National Convention in San Francisco July 5 nominated Governor James M Cox on the forty-fourth ballot for President of the United States The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is a strictly non-partisan institution but because of the ...
... 346 Ohio Arch 346 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications became captain of Company C of that regiment He served with distinction through the Civil War and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel He was again in the Legislature in 1867-1868 and was Speaker in the latter year In 1876 he was elected United States senator and twice afterward re-elected He died in 1891 before the close of his third term His life history as presented by Connelley in this volume is an inspiration to every healthy ...
... THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE OHIO CANALS THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE OHIO CANALS GEORGE WHITE DIAL LOCKLAND OHIO The observant passenger on the Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton railway between Cincinnati and Troy Ohio will catch short glimpses of a broad ditch filled with sluggish water Winding its way through the beautiful Miami and Maumee valleys it follows the railroad for miles now on this side of the tracks now on that ofttimes close beside the river hidden by the foliage of the willows and the ...
... 104 Ohio Arch 104 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications New England and all the colonies Her uniqueness historically speaking lies in the fact that hers was the first soil settled by the United States New England was peopled by the Puritans and others from Old England New York by Dutch and English Pennsylvania by Quakers and Germans and Scotch-Irish Virginia again by the English but quite different from those of Massachusetts and Connecticut Maryland by still another element and so on Of the ...
... John A John A Bingham 331 JOHN A BINGHAM ADDRESS OF HON J B FORAKER ON THE OCCASION OF THE UNVEILING OF MONUMENT IN HONOR OF HON JOHN A BINGHAM AT CADIZ OHIO OCTOBER 5 1901 Mr Chairman and Fellow Cit izen s The private life and character of John A Bingham were the special possessions of this community You were his neighbors and friends He came and went in your midst You were in daily contact with him You knew him under all the varying circumstances of his long and eventful career You saw him ...
... MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY April 12 1 946 Meeting in Executive Session at 11 00 AM and 400 PM The following members of the Board were present Johnson Eagleson Miller Amos Belden Coppock Florence Holzer MacLean Rightmire Wittke and ex-officio Governor Lausche and Hissong A tentative program covering the Society's activities for the coming year being presented by the President it was ...
... Reviews and Comments 317 Reviews and Comments 317 education He overcame this and other handicaps and reached the limit of his days crowned with success To his friends he was loyal and he had the faculty of binding others to himself with a friendship as loyal as his own Employes were thoroughly devoted to his interests To those in need he was generous He was charitable without ostentation He was public-spirited and gave freely for the upbuilding of Columbus Beneath a rugged reticent and ...
... 104 Ohio Arch 104 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications OHIO HISTORY DAY AT THE LOGAN ELM A large and appreciative audience assembled in Logan Elm Park near the grand old tree which gives it its name to celebrate Ohio History Day on October 7 1923 The local papers gave generous space to this notable event The Union Herald prefaces an extended account as follows The celebration of History day at Logan Elm Park Sunday was attended by from 1500 to 1800 people from all over central Ohio and the ...
... Boundary Line Between Ohio and Indiana Etc Boundary Line Between Ohio and Indiana Etc 127 BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN OHIO AND INDIANA AND BETWEEN OHIO AND MICHIGAN SPECIAL REPORTS OF T C MENDENHALL SUPERINTENDENT OF UNITED STATES COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY AND A A GRAHAM SECRETARY OF THE OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Sixty-ninth General Assembly of Ohio authorized the Governor to cause an examination of the boundary lines between Ohio and Indiana and Ohio and Michigan to be made It has for some time ...