... Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association 183 Records of the Synod of Pittsburgh 1802-1832 Centenary Memorial Volume of Presbyterianism in Western Pennsylvania Papers by Darlington and Veech History of Pittsburgh by N B Craig 1851 History of Pittsburgh by Sarah H Killikelly 1906 History of Pittsburgh by Erasmus Wilson 1898 EARLY RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN THE MUSKINGUM VALLEY BY C L MARTZOLFF OHIO UNIVERSITY The dominant note in the ...
... THE MIAMI COUNTRY 1750-1815 THE MIAMI COUNTRY 1750-1815 AS DESCRIBED IN JOURNALS AND LETTERS by ELIZABETH FARIES Senior Assistant Reference and Catalog Department Dayton Public Library During the late 1700's and the early 1800's the Miami Country was a definite geographic area in the Northwest Territory This area has been defined as a region of approximately 5000 square miles in southwestern Ohio with a small adjoining wedge of southeastern Indiana It was particularly the land that forms the ...
... 1902 member of the Young Men's Library and Reading Room Association of Norwalk free public library member of its board of trustees and chairman of its executive committee since 1903 He is a member of the Norwalk Board of Commerce and prominent in the business interests of the city In 1888 he with other friends founded' the financially successful Home Savings amp Loan Company of Norwalk became one of its directors and its president which ...
... COMMENTS NOTES AND REVIEWS COMMENTS NOTES AND REVIEWS THWING'S SKETCH OF OHIO In Pearson's Monthly for February is the first of a series of articles which that magazine proposes to publish on The Story of the States This first article very fittingly is devoted to Ohio It is from the pen of Charles F Thwing D D LL D President of the Western Reserve University at Cleveland Ohio It is a very entertaining and informing monograph on our native state In a condensed form Mr Thwing gives the leading ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORIOHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS FOR THE YEAR 1886 WITH ABSTRACTS OF ADDRESSES AND PAPERS PRESENTED BEFORE THE SOCIETY COLUMBUS January 13th 1886 THE Society was called to order in the Chamber of the House of Representatives in the State House by Professor L D Brown The report of the Secretary showed the addition of ten members since the last meeting and several valuable donations to the library and museum The special committee ...
... THE PROPOSED TOWN OF CORNISH OHIO THE PROPOSED TOWN OF CORNISH OHIO By DONALD W FERGUSON As a part of the study of westward expansion of the United States the story of paper towns--towns which never survived their founders or which existed only in the imagination of their promoters--fills an interesting chapter The plan of Lystra Kentucky reproduced in Charles O Paullin's Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States New York 1932 is a very good example of the definiteness with which ...
... OHIO'S SQUATTER GOVERNOR WILLIAM OHIO'S SQUATTER GOVERNOR WILLIAM HOGLAND OF HOGLANDSTOWN BY RANDOLPH C DOWNES What student of Ohio history would have dreamed that it would eventually be proved that Arthur St Clair was not the first resident governor to exercise the duties of that high office over the white inhabitants of the territory that now forms the domain of the Buckeye State Who would have thought that for almost one hundred and fifty years there has existed in the columns of the ...
... Mills has been persistent in bringing to light the hidden secrets of the mounds the hilltop forts the lowland enclosures and the village sites of the Scioto Valley The work of his able assistant Mr H C Shetrone has been evidenced by his scholarly writings on this subject the last of which 'The Culture Problem in Ohio Archaeology' published in the American Anthropologist for AprilJune 1920 reflects credit upon his spirit of research careful ...
... WARREN KING MOOREHEAD WARREN KING MOOREHEAD Warren King Moorehead noted archaeologist and director of the Department of American Archaeology of Phillips Academy Andover Massachusetts for thirty-one years died in the Massachusetts General Hospital Thursday January 5 1939 Dr Moorehead who had retired from Phillips Academy in June 1938 was taken ill while on a European tour and had been in poor health following his return Dr Moorehead was a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and ...
... 1902 he was chosen editor-in-chief of the co-operative history of the United States projected under the auspices of the American Historical Association The article herewith published was the address deliverd by him at Marietta on the occasion of the erection of a tablet on the Marietta College Campus October 18 1906 commemorating the Ohio Company of Associates-EDITOR Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane ...
... SOME HISTORY FROM AN UN-HISTORICAL REGION SOME HISTORY FROM AN UN-HISTORICAL REGION BY A B GILLILAND The title may sound somewhat paradoxical but there are regions which owing to their geographical location have had so very little to do with the making of history that they are spoken of as of no historical importance yet may not be devoid of historical occurrences that may be of some interest Such Van Wert County may be said to be situated in the northwest part of Ohio away from the regions ...
... Mills editor of the Central Christian Herald and a leader in the Presbyterian Church 1831 Freeman G Cary founder and first president of Farmer's College Theophilus L Dickey Assistant Attorney-General of the U S Duncan F Keener president of the Louisiana Constitutional convention 1833 Charles Anderson scholar-statesman offered appointment as Assistant Secretary of State and served as a war governor of Ohio Benjamin W Childlaw the great Sabbath ...
... THE MEMORIAL STRUCTURE AT MARIETTA THE MEMORIAL STRUCTURE AT MARIETTA REPORT OF A COMMITTEE OF THE OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MADE APRIL 6 1888 THE erection of a monumental structure at Marietta to commemorate the important historical events that became a fulfillment of the past as well as the foundation of the future when on the 7th day of April 1788 the pioneer band settled down upon the virgin soil of the Northwest Territory has been a favorite object in the proceedings of ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 67 NUMBER JULY 1958 Nine Letters of Nathaniel Dike On the Western Country 1816 - 1818 Edited by DWIGHT L SMIT H IN JUNE OF 1816 a young prospective lawyer set out from Haverhill Massachusetts to seek his fortune in the West As was not unusual then for one who traveled a long distance he wrote home letters of considerable length to describe his journey and the new land to which he came But in this instance the traveler was a ...
... THE CHARITY SCHOOL OF KENDAL THE CHARITY SCHOOL OF KENDAL Edited by HARLOW LINDLEY The discovery of an Agreement between Adam W Heldenbrand and the Charity School of Kendal dated November 27 1863 has aroused interest to learn more about this Ohio educational institution and the unique contract enacted there In the winter of 1810-11 one Thomas Rotch left Hartford Connecticut and explored Ohio as far south and west as Cincinnati Springfield and Urbana On this trip Rotch made notes about the ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 68 NUMBER 2 A P R I L 1 9 5 9 The Survey of the Seven Ranges By WILLIAM D PATTISON THE AMERICAN RECTANGULAR LAND SURVEY SYSTEM established in the land ordinance of 1785 was first put into effect in the Seven Ranges of eastern Ohio Despite the publication of important contributions to the history of Ohio which have dealt with various aspects of the Seven Ranges interesting and significant parts of the survey story have remained ...
... 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 ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 641 Forty-First Annual Meeting 641 PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE WORK OF RESTORING AND PARKING OF THE MOUND CITY GROUP IN CAMP SHERMAN ROSS COUNTY OHIO Under instruction of the Director the Curator of Archaeology spent the month of October 1 9 25 on the preliminary work of restoring the Mound City Group of Prehistoric Earthworks located in Camp Sherman Chillicothe Ohio preparatory to converting the area turned over to the Society by the War Department into a State Park ...
... 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 ...