... County held at Urbana on County Historical Society County delegation Mrs County Historical Society both in interest and attendance proved to be the most successful of any in its history The society under the administration of Gen R Brinkerhoff President and Mr A J Baughman Secretary is ...
... THE WYANDOT MISSION THE WYANDOT MISSION EMIL SCHLUP The present generation can scarcely comprehend the hardships and privations the early missionaries had to endure when the Ohio country was in a wilderness state But brave men risked their lives in promulgating the Christian doctrine among the aboriginals of the forest The earliest Protestant denomination to enter the new field were the Moravians Christian Frederick Post who had been a missionary among the Moravian Indians in New York and ...
... County Registry Office Chatham Ontario FAIRFIELD ON THE RIVER THAMES HAMIL 19 FAIRFIELD ON THE RIVER THAMES HAMIL 19 Between the road and the river where the land seems never to have been cultivated since Fairfield was destroyed there are a number of apple trees as well as large and ancient hawthornes similar to those described by Shirreff over one hundred years ago These are evidently descendants of those planted by the Moravians The apple ...
... THE OHIO BOUNDARY OR THE ERIE WAR THE OHIO BOUNDARY OR THE ERIE WAR1 WHEN the great Ordinance of 1787 was passed by Congress it was agreed by all the States present that six of the articles known as the articles of compact should not be repealed except by the joint consent of Congress and the States concerned The fifth of these irrevocable articles provided that not less than three nor more than five States should be formed out of the region of country known as the Northwest Territory In case ...
... County he stopped at an County Ohio by G W Hill M County was Jacob Newman County by Hill The Copus County gives the following County 4 From this time
... County officials order of County Signatures of James County with many signatures 1813-17 Military reports of the war letters from Jacob Lindley J P R Bureau R Meigs Lucy Petit Thomas L Pierce William Woodbridge Dudley Woodbridge Sr John Woodbridge Julia Trumbull Woodbridge William Petit In addition to military affairs these letters tell ...
... County organized a force of 1000 men and on the 30th of August had them concentrated at Urbana ready to march Here let me read an extract of a letter he wrote to Gov Meigs at that time Gov MEIGS URBANA Aug 30 1812 Gov MEIGS SIR-With all the exertion we could make we are not in a situation to make a campaign in the wilderness When I issued orders for an immediate preparation for a march I caused an examination of the public arms and although ...
... ADDRESS OF JOSEPH F ADDRESS OF JOSEPH F TUTTLE DD PRESIDENT CHAPIN represents Wisconsin and the Congregational Church He brings a commission from Governor Rusk I don't know whom I represent One of the chief elements of success in Manasseh Cutler as a negotiator was not mentioned yesterday in the very beautiful and exhaustive discussion which was given by the gentleman who made the address He was spoken of as a brave man as a man of learning a man of courtesy but I think that one great element ...
... 178 Ohio Arch 178 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 MIGRATIONS AND THEIR LESSONS SERMON PREACHED IN THE OPERA HOUSE SUNDAY BY WASHINGTON GLADDEN OF COLUMBUS By faith Abraham when he was called obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance and he went out not knowing whither he went-Heb ix 8 This is the first notice in ancient records of that great movement westward which occupies so many chapters of the history of the human race From that unknown country ...
... establishment said there is a young lady from New York that one is from Virginia and this pointing to another is one of our new Buckeye girls A few years later the Hon S S Cox a native Buckeye and then a resident of Ohio made a tour of Europe and wrote home a series of bright and interesting letters over the nom de plume of A Buckeye Abroad which were extensively read and helped still further to fix the name and give it character The Buckeye ...
... County Almost within sight of the capitol building on the west bank of the Scioto River ten miles north of Columbus where the Wyandot Club has erected a monument to mark the spot where the noted Indian Chief Leather Lips was executed was enacted a thrilling tragedy in the summer of 181O While some of the pioneers residing along the Scioto can relate incidents connected with the execution of this Indian Chief handed down by their ancestors the ...
... Ross and Highland district James Dickey one of our oldest settlers formerly of Amestown Amos Dunham of Pomeroy D B Linn editor of the McConnelsville Enquirer and C A McGraw of the Herald At the close of the dinner the following toasts were read 1 The day we celebrate April 7th 1788 2 The Orator of the Day Address at Marietta Ohio 1858 Address at Marietta Ohio 1858 203 3 The Ordinance of 1787-The charter of freedom framed by the wisdom and ...
... establishment of the Federal Government on the 4th of March 1789 During the present week the people of Ohio have duly celebrated this event and it is eminently proper for this Association in this formal way and in the capital of the nation to recognize the centennial of the admission of its state into the Federal Union It is the only time in a hundredyears such a celebration would have been appropriate and it will be another hundred years ...
... establishment of the first permanent settlement at Marietta and the election of Washington as President of the United States he found frequent occasion to express his abiding faith in the future of the region that he explored in his earlier years Of the settlement at Marietta he said No colony in America was ever settled under such favorable auspices as that which has just commenced at the Muskingum Information property and strength will be ...
... EARLY HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY EARLY HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN OHIO ON July 13th 1 854 the anniversary of the Ordinance of 1787 there assembled at Neil's New Hall Columbus Ohio a large delegate convention representing every town in the State having for its purpose to fuse into one practical organization all political elements which opposed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and were ready to resist the extension of slavery into Kansas and Nebraska A similar convention met on ...
... establishment of law and order in a frontier settlement In his administration of the affairs of government he was industrious capable and just He was possibly wanting in political tact and probably his military training caused him to expect too much obedience and reverence for law in a frontier people 6 At Natchez Winthrop Sargent found his second wife and in its neighborhood he built the brick mansion which he named Gloster Place Here his two ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 581 Reviews Notes and Comments 581 the entire list of the regiment before finding the name of the soldier whose record is sought If the name of his regiment is not given the quest is almost hopeless In such cases it is a great saving of time to write at once to the War Department at Washington for the record This will not be necessary in searching for the record of a World War veteran Any person having access to this World War Roster can readily without assistance ...
... County Ohio is proud of County Society In another few hundred years this tree may be forever lost but the site shall remain and let us hope that posterity may suitably commemorate with a monument of bronze the world famed speech of the great Mingo Chief Logan Dr G Frederick Wright President of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society received the deed from the hands of Mrs Jones and ...