... Lake County and its Founder Lake County and its Founder 361 LAKE COUNTY AND ITS FOUNDER BY WILLIAM STOWELI MILLS LL B OF BROOKLYN N Y HISTORICAL ADDRESS DELIVERED IN PAINESVILLE LAKE COUNTY 0 JULY 21 1901 AT THE CEREMONIES OF THE UNVEILING OF THE STATUE OF EDWARD PAINE Mr President Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-- It is related that when the residents of a New England town proposed to pay homage to a former townsman in a ceremony similar to this a good old ...
... GEOGRAPHIC INFLUENCES IN THE HISTORY OF GEOGRAPHIC INFLUENCES IN THE HISTORY OF MILAN OHIO BY CHARLES G SHATZER Professor of Geology Wittenberg College Springfield Ohio Any one who seeks to glean the facts of the local history of northwestern Ohio for the period of the '40's and '50's from conversation with the men whose experience reaches into that period will hear repeated frequently the name Milan If interest prompts the question Where and what was Milan he will be told in terms of marked ...
... 164 Ohio Arch 164 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 RIO GRANDE COLLEGE-REV J M DAVIS PRESIDENT When asked but a few hours ago to take part in the exercises of this forenoon I gladly consented for in my opinion no interest that has been developed in Gallia county in the first century of its settlement is more worthy of being brought to remembrance and notice than its educational interests and my connection for a number of years with Rio Grande college enables me to set forth briefly ...
... Ohio Valley Hist Ohio Valley Hist Ass'n Fifth Annual Meeting 27 with after the first half of the year 1818 the state grant remaining on the statute book a dead letter and the whole matter receiving adjudication by the decision of Chief Justice Marshall in 1824 in the well known case of Gibbons vs Ogden Even before the trials of April 1817 boats had been springing up everywhere By 1819 there were over sixty in western waters and from this period the west with the changes wrought by the ...
... 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 ...
... 10 Ohio Arch 10 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications paternalistic policy by the national government These potent matters extending to the very foundation of our national fabric are closely connected with the history of the navigation of the Ohio River and are to form topics for discussion during these sessions One hundred years have brought vast changes to this City It is doubtful to-day whether French workmen would have to be imported for shipyard laborers in this vicinity or whether it ...
... FLATBOATING DOWN THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI FLATBOATING DOWN THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI 1867-1873 Correspondence and Diaries of the William Dudley Devol Family of Marietta Ohio PART II edited by ROBERT LESLIE JONES Professor of History Marietta College V More material remains from William Dudley Devol's fourth flatboating expedition than from the other three put together In addition to the letters which passed back and forth it includes two diaries covering the first six weeks of his trip printed ...
... OHIO AND WESTERN EXPANSION OHIO AND WESTERN EXPANSION BY PROFESSOR WILLIS ARDEN CHAMBERLIN DENISON UNIVERSITY Wonderful opportunity matched by daring enterprise - that is the formula to account for the marvelous development of the Buckeye State The growth of Ohio is the epitome of national expansion Its transformation from the wilderness in which roamed savage Redmen and wild beasts prowled to the present well-ordered commonwealth is the epic of American civilization Ohio was the first orderly ...
... A JOURNEY FROM BALTIMORE TO LOUISVILLE IN A JOURNEY FROM BALTIMORE TO LOUISVILLE IN 1816 DIARY OF WILLIAM NEWTON MERCER Edited by EDWIN ADAMS DAVIS and JOHN C L ANDREASSEN Introduction William Newton Mercer surgeon and planter banker and philanthropist Unionist and Confederate was one of the most noted citizens of middle nineteenth century New Orleans He was born in Cecil County Maryland in 1792 scion of a well known family and after being educated in medicine under Dr Benjamin Rush at the ...
... 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 ...
... 420 Ohio Arch 420 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications between Fort St Clair and Fort Jefferson the following is an authentic account of that affair Lieut Lowrie of the second and Ensign Boyd of the first and second sub legions with a command consisting of about ninety noncommissioned officers and privates having under their convoy twenty wagons loaded with grain and commissaries' stores were attacked between daylight and sunrise seven miles advanced of Fort St Clair on the morning of the ...
... 82 Ohio Arch 82 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 CONTEMPORARY DESCRIPTION OF OHIO IN 1788 In 1888 Mr John H James of Urbana Ohio whose collection of historical works is hardly excelled published a translation of a French pamphlet used by Mr Barlow and his associates in Paris when engaged in the sale of lands in the Ohio country The pamphlet says Mr James in his introduction was published in French and English the French copy being a translation of the English copy first published ...
... BUILDING A COMMERCIAL SYSTEM BUILDING A COMMERCIAL SYSTEM FRANK P GOODWIN It is the purpose of this paper to trace the commercial development of the Miami Country1 from the date of settlement to the beginning of the steamboat era in 1817 It is presented as a representative study of commercial growth under economic conditions that were colonial in character The history of the locality has been used to illustrate principles of early commercial development common to the Ohio Valley Within that ...
... Ohio Valley Hist Ohio Valley Hist Ass'n Fifth Annual Meeting 35 nized the cheering by standing upon his automobile and waving his hat Grant street Fifth avenue and Wood street were lined with thousands The moment the automobile bearing the President appeared in Water street it was the signal for the beginning of one of the greatest ovations ever extended a nation's chief executive in this day Every boat tooted whistles as did locomotives and factories The spectators cheered People on the ...
... PROCEEDINGS 219 PROCEEDINGS 21 9 SOME PROBLEMS OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORIOGRAPHY1 By WALTER L DORN Among the multiple tendencies which inspire historians of every variety in our day one of the strongest is a synthetic or comparative study of history Although national histories are still being written in all the countries of western society there is a keen consciousness everywhere that national history in its isolation does not constitute an intelligible field of historical study Comparative ...
... 86 Ohio Arch 86 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications one officer and myself went to New York on recruiting service That was in 1814 I remained in New York about two years When we left New York we marched with recruits to fill up the companies stationed on the northern frontier I had re-enlisted on the 23d of November 1816 for five years We marched to Sackett's Harbor and I was there assigned to Company D Second Infantry The other recruits were distributed at the different stations I was ...
... Remarks of Gov Remarks of Gov James E Campbell 161 REMARKS OF GOVERNOR JAMES E CAMPBELL It was a long-deferred pleasure one year ago on the 19th of October to make my first visit here I learned after arriving that it was an auspicious day being the ninety-ninth anniversary of the landing upon the banks of yonder river of the little band of French settlers who founded this handsome and flourishing city During an address to the people who gathered on that occasion to hear the political ...
... DANIEL HOSMER GARD DANIEL HOSMER GARD At the close of the American Revolution when the Great West was still an unknown vastness save from the tales brought out by leather and fur clothed traders or scouts fortune and fancy invited and beckoned the settlers of the Colonies to come and partake of its virgin fertility The Continental Congress which was without funds desiring to strike the popular chord pleasing to the ear of those who had fought and starved in this dismal battle for Freedom ...
... 632 Ohio Arch 632 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications DIVISION OF SEIP MOUND PARK Wages 560 Office Supplies 100 Printing 1300 Building Materials 4290 Taxes 958 Cash Advanced to H C Shetrone Director 38682 45890 DIVISION OF JAMES E CAMPBELL PARK Wages 30612 Landscaping 22942 Improvements 158253 211807 Cash advanced Geo Rogers Clark Memorial Commission 15111 For sundry purposes and later refunded 250926 For sundry purposes to be refunded 29132 295469 Transferred to Permanent Fund 42500 Cash ...
... Report of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting 345 Report of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting 345 The bicentennial of the birth of George Washington was extensively celebrated within the past year An extended account of the pageant representing Washington's journey on the Ohio River in 1770 was published in the QUARTERLY for January 1933 The Ohio History Conference at a meeting here went on record in favor of the preparation of a check-list of newspapers Within the past year through the ...