... Boundary Line Between Ohio and Virginia Boundary Line Between Ohio and Virginia 67 ARGUMENT CONCERNING BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN OHIO AND VIRGINIA BY SAMUEL F VINTON May it please your honors I cannot but regret that my learned friend the Hon John M Patton who opened this case for the Commonwealth of Virginia has somewhat impaired the value of so good an argument by the introduction into it both at its commencement and conclusion of a topic so very foreign to the subject now under consideration To ...
... THE OHIO-COLUMBUS CENTENNIAL THE OHIO-COLUMBUS CENTENNIAL August 26-September 1 1912 BY OSMAN C HOOPER On February 14 1 912 Columbus had been for a hundred years a habitation and a name and the capital of Ohio prospective or actual It was on St Valentine's day 1 812 that the legislature sitting at Zanesville the second of the temporary capitals of the young State took the final action locating the permanent capital on a site which was described as the highbanks of the Scioto opposite ...
... 362 Ohio Arch 362 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications dedicatory exercises in honor of the battle which occurred near this spot on July 30 1813 when Major Ball's squadron Second Light Dragoons U S Army while escorting Colonel Wells of the Seventeenth U S Infantry from Major General Harrison's headquarters at Fort Seneca to relieve Major Croghan of the command of Fort Stephenson for alleged insubordination in refusing to evacuate the fort was ambushed by Indians but gallantly charged them ...
... 206 Ohio Arch 206 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications V O L 3 But still its mission is to the regions beyond its position in the advancing columns is on the front line Its business is to find and drive the enemy leaving to the slower-moving forces the work of fortifying and garrisoning the conquered provinces Its muster roll begins with those of Caesar's household and ends not until it includes the faithful Onesimus Quenchless zeal for souls is and must forever be its characteristic a ...
... GENERAL HARMAR'S EXPEDITION GENERAL HARMAR'S EXPEDITION BY BASIL MEEK FREMONT OHIO JOSIAH HARMAR was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania in 1753 and there died in 1813 He was a captain in the First Pennsylvania Regiment Continental Army Lieutenant Colonel of the same and served till the close of the Revolutionary War He was in Washington's army from 1778 to 1780 In 1783 he was made Brevet Colonel First U S Regiment In 1787 he was breveted Brigadier General by Congress and assigned to duty in ...
... Benjamin Tomlinson in Jacob's Life of Cresap pp 107-109 Both these accounts are from parties themselves who participated in the affair and the only ones extant not second-handed They disagree as to the date of the transaction and in that regard both are in error Valentine Crawford to Washington 7 May 1774 in Dep of State Washington Compare also Amer Arch 4th series Vol I p 345 with G R Clark's letter to S Brown 17 June 1798 The testimony of ...
... Benjamin Franklin Thomas Pownal and others petitioned the King for the right to purchase 2400000 acres of land on the south side of the Ohio River on which to found a new government After the delays incident to such business this petition was granted by the King in council in 1772 Slow progress was made in perfecting the details but the price of the land was finally fixed the plan of government agreed upon and the patent actually made ready ...
... 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 ...
... Benjamin Trabeu Lieut James Benjamin Wilson Capt John Benjamin Wilson whose name Benjamin Wilson Daniel Benjamin Wilson named David Benjamin being the oldest
... TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MARCH 2 1909 The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Hunter Law Society Room Page Hall Ohio State University Columbus Ohio at two p m March 2 1909 The following members were present Prof Martin R Andrews Marietta Mr E H Archer Columbus Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Mr A J Baughman Mansfield Mr Martin B ...
... THE SANDUSKY FORTS THE SANDUSKY FORTS BY CHARLES A HANNA NEW YORK Several addresses on Old Fort Sandusky and the inscriptions on the monument erected last spring near the site of one Sandusky Fort were printed in the October 1912 number of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society's Qu arterly Some of these addresses and inscriptions are so full of inaccuracies misleading statements and incorrect inferences that they should be corrected The bronze tablet on the west face of the ...
... CAPTAIN THOMAS MORRIS ON THE MAUMEE CAPTAIN THOMAS MORRIS ON THE MAUMEE By HOWARD H PECKHAM In any historical celebration of the Maumee Valley Captain Thomas Morris may justly claim a brief mention He was the first British officer to ascend the Maumee River I say officer because it is possible that one or two Pennsylvania traders may have penetrated that far into Ohio in the 1740's or 1750's But Morris did something else too He has left us two accounts of his Maumee adventures--one a ...
... ANNE BAILEY ANNE BAILEY VIRGIL A LEWIS Mr Lewis is the State Historian of West Virginia the author of The History of West Virginia and many valuable publications concerning the early historical events in the Ohio Valley All that was earthly of Anne Bailey the Pioneer Heroine of the Great Kanawha Valley that has not crumbled to dust has been removed to Point Pleasant and re-interred in Tu-EndieWei Park It is therefore now time to eliminate from the story of her wonderful career and life of ...
... Remarks of J Remarks of J V Jones 175 REMARKS OF J V JONES ESQ LADIES AND GENTLEMENIt would hardly be proper for me to say fellow-citizens for the reason of having been absent from your county for nearly fifty-eight years During that time many changes have been wrought in the city of Gallipolis and Gallia county Eighty-one years ago a young married couple might have been seen slowly wending their way on horseback down the slopes of the Blue Ridge and foot-hills of the Allegheny Mountains of ...
... Rise and Decline of Private Rise and Decline of Private Academies in Albany Ohio by Ivan M Tribe The nineteenth century witnessed the establishment of numerous private educational institutions commonly known as academies These academies were especially widespread in states north of the Ohio River and could be found both in the cities and in rural villages1 One Ohio town which boasted a succession of these schools was Albany incorporated in 1842 a small farm village in southwestern Athens ...
... 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 ...
... JOEL WRIGHT CITY PLANNER JOEL WRIGHT CITY PLANNER by ALFRED J WRIGHT Associate Professor of Geography Ohio State University The original plan for Columbus laid off by order of the General Assembly for the seat of Government for the State of Ohio was prepared by Joel Wright of Warren County This was in 1812 fifteen years after the founding of Franklinton whose sesquicentennial Columbus is celebrating in 1947 Events of this year cause us to turn attention to this Warren County citizen who was ...
... 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 ...
... CATHERINE GOUGAR CATHERINE GOUGAR Probably the Earliest Pioneer Resident of Ohio Who Has Descendants Living Upon the Original Place of Settlement BY FRANK WARNER M D D SC COLUMBUS OHIO On the farm of Alfred Immell situated on the pike from Columbus to Chillicothe some ten miles north of the latter city lies buried Catherine Gougar Her remains have lain here since 1801 when she died at the age of sixty-nine years She died within two years of the establishment of Ohio as a State and within view ...
... Benjamin F Butler of New York for his legal opinion and he responded that until Congress gave express assent to the Ohio boundary the disputed territory must be considered as belonging to Michigan This reply embarrassed the President exceedingly It was his duty having asked the Attorney-General for his opinion to follow it and in the expression of to-day call Governor Lucas down But Ohio was a great State It was as it has since been and ...