... ORIGIN OF INDIAN NAMES OF CERTAIN STATES ORIGIN OF INDIAN NAMES OF CERTAIN STATES AND RIVERS BY WILLIAM E CONNELLEY Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society Explanations of the origin of certain Indian names are varied and conflicting The writer submits the following authoritative statements relative to the derivation and meaning of the names of the states of Iowa Missouri Mississippi Ohio and Kentucky and the rivers Ohio Mississippi Missouri and Neosha IOWA The Iowa Indians called ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS JOSHUA REED GIDDINGS A CHAMPION OF POLITICAL FREEDOM BY BYRON R LONG There never was a time perhaps when there was less need for furnishing material for readers than just now The worldwar has been productive of thot and action such as has enlisted thousands of good writers who are keeping record of incidents and are setting down impressions which are moving the souls of men as profoundly as any that human life has experienced The excuse for ...
... 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 ...
... DIARY OF A MORAVIAN INDIAN MISSION DIARY OF A MORAVIAN INDIAN MISSION MIGRATION ACROSS PENNSYLVANIA IN 1772 Translated and edited by AUGUST C MAHR Professor of German Ohio State University The travel diary presented in these pages deals with the migration of Indian convert members of the Moravian Church from northeastern to northwestern Pennsylvania in the summer of 1772 Undertaken as a measure of extreme necessity and directed by two competent missioners this expedition carried out only in ...
... 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 ...
... KENTON'S CHILLICOTHE KENTON'S CHILLICOTHE BY T J BROWN WAYNESVILLE OHIO Having been born and lived most of my life in Greene county and within easy driving distance of Old Town the site of what I learned to designate as New Chillicothe and having known when a boy about 1840 an old Indian fighter who was a participant in the ill-conducted Bowman expedition intended to capture and destroy that village I read up very early in life all the adventures I could find connected therewith As to the ...
... LUCAS SULLIVANT TABLET DEDICATED LUCAS SULLIVANT TABLET DEDICATED On Saturday December 9 1927 the Franklin County Pioneer Association founded in 1866 met in the southwest room of the Franklinton Public School Building for the purpose of unveiling and presenting to the city a bronze tablet marking the home of Lucas Sullivant founder of Franklinton The house that Lucas Sullivant built or a part of it is now incorporated in the larger buildings of the House of the Good Shepherd and it was by the ...
... David Zeisberger Centennial David Zeisberger Centennial 17 3 signified his great satisfaction and comfort when his Indian brethren who watched with the dying saint sang some of the Delaware hymns for the dying which he had rendered into their vernacular years ago And thus on the afternoon of November 17th he fell asleep amid the prayers of his brethren and the singing of his converts after the benediction had been spoken in the name of the church On the following Sunday at noon after funeral ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS OHIO'S MONUMENT TO GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE UNVEILED ADDRESS OF HONORABLE JAMES W GOOD SECRETARY OF WAR IN HOTEL COMMODORE OLIVER HAZARD PERRY TOLEDO OHIO SEPTEMBER 14 1929 In introducing the Secretary of War Toastmaster Mr Grove Patterson spoke as follows Now ladies and gentlemen I am sure that I speak for the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society under the auspices of which this monument was constructed and these exercises ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XX No 1 JANUARY 1911 JEFFERSON'S ORDINANCE OF 1784 Frequent inquiries have come to the Editor of the Quarterly concerning the nature of Jefferson's Ordinance of 1784 for the organization of the Northwest Territory and its bearing upon the later Ordinance of 1787 In reply to such inquiries we submit the following As early as the fall of 1776 and at various times later up to the final peace agreement of 1783 Congress by resolution pledged bounty lands to those ...
... TECUMSEH THE SHAWNEE CHIEF TECUMSEH THE SHAWNEE CHIEF E O RANDALL Among the savage races of history no one is more extraordinary unique or fascinating in character and custom in action and achievement than the aborigine who roamed the forests of North America before and at the arrival of the European discoverers and settlers Then roved the Indian As free as nature first made man Ere the base laws of servitude began When wild in woods the noble savage ran In these people so peculiar and ...
... The Croghan Celebration The Croghan Celebration 73 three tremendous cheers The day was a glorious one for the cause of freedom This of course foreshadows the civil war Who used Old Betsy last asks the Journal of January 23 1857 It has been standing in the street for several weeks now Captain Parrish should see to this old servant In a long article on the celebration of August 2 1 860 the Journal says At 6 o'clock Captain Parrish brought out 'Old Betsy' and fired a salute of thirteen rounds ...
... THE CONQUEST OF THE INDIAN THE CONQUEST OF THE INDIAN BENJAMIN R COWEN CINCINNATI Portion of an address delivered by General Cowen on the 28th of June 1904 at the placing of the tablet in commemoration of the Harrison-Tarhe Peace Conference We have heard the story of the historic incident this monument is designed to commemorate eloquently told by the Regent of the Columbus Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution That society has rendered a valuable service in the erection of this ...
... 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 ...
... ZANE'S TRACE ZANE'S TRACE CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF The first road maker in our country was the buffalo His successor was the Indian Instinct told the buffalo where to make his path Nature which is another name for instinct prompted the red man in marking his trail The white man came and reason told him that the red man and the buffalo had selected the driest shortest and most practicable routes of migration This is only another way of saying that the geography of any country determines its history ...
... 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 and associated together in four of the great important events that have touched the Northwest When Wolfe met the French at Quebec this territory was ...
... 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 the date of that report our labors have been principally directed toward completing in the best manner ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE ADOPTION OF OHIO'S FIRST CONSTITUTION The Centennial of the adoption of the Constitution of Ohio was celebrated at Chillicothe Saturday November 29 1 902 by the unveiling of a tablet marking the site of the first state house of Ohio which is the site of the present court house The weather was very inclement snow and rain interfering with the ceremonies to the extent at least that the audience was small and the ...
... 72 Ohio Arch 72 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications vindication of national honor and the only certain protection of vital interests is in respecting the nationality of others and in trusting for justice to the growing conscience of the race codified in international law and expressing itself through international arbitration On that as on a sure foundation rests the hope of the world's peace Once men dreamed of peace through the world sovereignty of some master mind like Alexander or some ...
... 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 ...