... THE TORY PROPRIETORS OF KENTUCKY LANDS THE TORY PROPRIETORS OF KENTUCKY LANDS BY WILBUR H SIEBERT Professor of European History Ohio State University From the days of its earliest settlement down through the American Revolution the Kentucky country was the scene of proprietary projects or hostile activities by Loyalists several of whom were first connected with Fort Pitt and afterward with the British post at Detroit It is needless to say that the hostile activities included more or less ...
... 276 Ohio Arch 276 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VoL 3 with its annual receipts from members' dues interest sale of publications etc will keep it on a plane with the best societies in the country and enable it to do its full share of usefulness The General Assembly has provided for the purchase and preservation of that remarkable earth-work--Fort Ancient-in the Little Miami valley It is the largest and most extensive prehistoric remains now in Ohio The move was most commendable and ...
... THE OHIO DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE THE OHIO DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF B PED By permission of The Ohio Teacher The school histories have always said much about the Mecklenburg Resolutions being the prelude to the Declaration of Independence Indeed some histories make so much of it that you doubt if Thomas Jefferson would ever have mustered up courage sufficient to pen the immortal lines beginning When in the course of human events etc had he not had this brave precedent ...
... UNVEILING OF FORT RECOVERY MONUMENT UNVEILING OF FORT RECOVERY MONUMENT On July 1st at Fort Recovery the splendid monument just erected at that place was unveiled with imposing and fitting ceremonies This monument was the result of the generous appropriation of 25 000 made by Congress It commemorates the defeat of General St Clair on November 4 179 1 and the defeat of the Indians under Little Turtle in the Wayne campaign on June 30th and July 1st 1794 The monument is a beautiful shaft of stone ...
... THE BIRTHPLACE OF LITTLE TURTLE THE BIRTHPLACE OF LITTLE TURTLE BY CALVIN YOUNG It may not be improper to acquaint the reader with what is to be found in the following pages -the design of which is to add some new facts to the history of Little Turtle a distinguished Chieftain of the Miami tribe to portray some new historical sidelights that have heretofore never been published and to revise and enlarge on a former article written by myself on the birthplace of the above named chieftain ...
... AN OHIO ARMY OFFICER OF WORLD WAR I AN OHIO ARMY OFFICER OF WORLD WAR I MAJOR GENERAL JOSEPH T DICKMAN by SISTER MARY CLEMENT STUEVE CPPS The various political and economic upheavals which invariably follow major wars often tend to obscure the history of the men who were personally engaged in the conflicts And men who gave their entire life to a military career and who are necessarily absent from boyhood surroundings are sometimes quickly forgotten by their native localities Joseph Theodore ...
... GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER BY C B GALBREATH Grant Sherman and Sheridan This is the group of Civil War generals which is usually put forward as Ohio's unrivalled contribution to leadership in the great struggle between the North and the South These three have been honored with statues on the famous monument Ohio's Jewels at the northwest corner of the Capitol building of that State in Columbus Grant and Sherman were each born in Ohio and received their appointment to ...
... 634 Ohio Arch 634 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications CUSTER THE MAN OF ACTION ADDRESS BY COLONEL RALPH D COLE Mr Chairman Fellow Citizens Ladies and Gentlemen The character of a man is determined by the reaction of his natural endowments to the spirit of the age in which he lives If he has the power to breast the blows of circumstance the courage to accept the challenge Delivered at New Rumley Harrison County Ohio on the 22nd day of June 1932 on the occasion of the dedication of a ...
... CHARLES DICKENS IN OHIO IN 1842 CHARLES DICKENS IN OHIO IN 1842 BY HEWSON L PEEKE In his work Charles Dickens in America by W Glyde Wilkins the author says Dickens' opinion of the American newspapers was fully expressed in one of his letters to Forster in which he wrote 'of course I can do nothing but in some shape or other it gets into the newspapers All manner of lies get there and occasionally a truth so twisted or distorted that it has as much resemblance to the real fact as Quilp's leg to ...
... OBERLIN'S PART IN THE SLAVERY CONFLICT OBERLIN'S PART IN THE SLAVERY CONFLICT WILBUR GREELEY BURROUGHS A M OBERLIN OHIO Little did the Rev John J Shipherd pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Elyria Ohio realize that in the founding of Oberlin he was to change the destiny of a nation He originated the plan in 1832 In November of the same year with his associate Philo P Stewart formerly a missionary to the Cherokees in Mississippi and at this time living with Shipherd at Elyria he selected the ...
... MINUTES MINUTES 0F THE Sixth Annual Meeting of the Society HELD IN COLUMBUS FEBRUARY 18 AND 1 9 18 91 Thursday February 19th the society came to order in the State Library There being present the following members Wm E Moore of Columbus A A Graham of Columbus N S Townshend of Columbus H A Thompson of Westerville J A Anderson of Columbus L B Wing of Newark Geo F Bareis of Canal Winchester A R McIntire of Mt Vernon D J Ryan of Portsmouth J J Janney of Columbus S S Rickly of Columbus Thos E Van ...
... GENERAL EDWARD S GENERAL EDWARD S GODFREY By HON CALVIN POMEROY GODFREY It sadly befalls one this week as of April fifteenth to record in fidelity the demise of a noble man Putnam County's greatest military figure another of the distinguished martial sons of Ohio--Brigadier General Edward S Godfrey USA Retired That mortal and painless end of a quite meritorious and notable career occurred at the home in Cookstown Burlington County New Jersey at seven o'clock the evening of Friday April 1 1932 ...
... span p --- tr AGRICULTURE Heigh-Ho Come to the Fair Ohio Historical Society Echoes I No 9 September 1962 1 Brief discussion of agricultural fairs in Ohio and the founding of the state fair PORTER Thomas E A Letter Concerning the Early Maple Sugar Industry of Paint Creek Valley Paint Creek Valley Folk Publications No 14 Chillicothe Ohio Paint Creek Valley Folk Research Project 1963 6p Mimeographed ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT ABER Mina E The Rankin House Stop on Underground Railroad Negro History ...
... OLD FORT SANDUSKY AND THE DE LERY PORTAGE OLD FORT SANDUSKY AND THE DE LERY PORTAGE BY LUCY ELLIOT KEELER Local history has its renascence in tradition which passes along from generation to generation hints of names and adventures which appeal at last to some student of the past and send him forth in quest of sources Such traditions have long lingered about the little peninsula at Port Clinton in Ottawa County Ohio traditions of venturesome French monks and traders of an ancient fort destroyed ...
... 18 Ohio Arch 18 Ohio Arch and Hist Society P ublications Time like an ever-rolling stream Bears all its sons away They fly forgotten as a dream Dies at the opening day 0 God our help in ages past Our hope for years to come Be Thou our Guard while troubles last And our eternal home Thou who hearest prayer for Jesus' sake give ear to these our prayers and praises which we sum up in the words of our Lord Our Father Who art in heaven Hallowed be Thy name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done on earth ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 419 his trustees that he would not serve unless they would pledge themselves to raise an endowment fund They decided to start at once The financial committee which will have charge of raising the fund consists of L P Baldwin D Z Norton and W S Hayden Its power to name other members is unlimited Until the endowment fund is raised the museum will be supported as for the past two years in part on its guarantee fund and in part from the proceeds of a lecture course The ...
... WASHINGTON'S TOUR TO THE OHIO AND ARTICLES WASHINGTON'S TOUR TO THE OHIO AND ARTICLES OF THE MISSISSIPPI COMPANY Introduction and Notes by Archer Butler Hulbert Author of Washington and the West Historic Highways Etc It is always interesting to recall that the earliest accurate account of the Ohio Valley is from the pen of Washington This account is found in two manuscripts now preserved in the Library of Congress one of which is entitled Remarks amp Occurrs in October when November came it is ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY The annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society will be held in the Museum and Library Building Saturday September 9 1922 The forenoon session which opens at nine o'clock will be devoted chiefly to reports of officers and the various committees of the Society Matters of more than ordinary importance will be ...
... A FLIGHT ACROSS OHIO THE ESCAPE OF A FLIGHT ACROSS OHIO THE ESCAPE OF WILLIAM WELLS BROWN FROM SLAVERY by W EDWARD FARRISON Chairman Department of English North Carolina College at Durham It was January 1 1834 On the previous night Captain Enoch Price a commission merchant and steamboat owner of St Louis Missouri had arrived on his steamer The Chester in Cincinnati This was a pleasure as well as a business trip and on it the captain had brought his family and also several of his house slaves ...
... INDIAN BOUNDARY LINE INDIAN BOUNDARY LINE W S HANNA MILLERSBURG The Indian Boundary Line sometimes known as the Greenville Treaty Line or Wayne's Treaty Line had its origin in the closing events of the Revolutionary War As an historical land mark it has no equal in the early history of this country Around its history cling many of the most stubborn and sanguinary conflicts and border outrages that so distinctly marked the closing of the eighteenth century On every good map of Ohio it will be ...