...arrayed they did not fear In Jesus' presence to appear Immediately at the conclusion of this address the great concourse joined in singing The Saviour's Blood and Righteousness In one of the hollow places under the trees near the Monument the aged and beloved Bishop Van Vleck who has labored many years in the Tuscarawas Valley took his position and spoke briefly but impressively upon the scenes enacted in the Cooper Shop on the day of the ...
... arrayed against each array of the facts the inferences therefrom and condensation of his argument indicated the later character of the jurist Genial in his friendships taciturn but never reticent ingenuous kind and courteous in manner he had not only the confidence of the bar but their love and affection And his retirement from the bench to accept the presidency of a railroad combination by ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA TRUSTEE MEETING AT SPIEGEL GROVE On Thursday June 30th the Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society held a regular meeting at the residence of Colonel Webb C Hayes Spiegel Grove Fremont Ohio It was a most interesting and memorable occasion Colonel Hayes had invited the Trustees to be his guests the day named above and day before and on Wednesday noon the the 29th several of the Trustees upon their arrival at Bellevue enroute to Fremont were met ...
... DOCUMENTS DOCUMENTS AN UNSUCCESSFUL NEGOTIATION FOR REMOVAL OF THE WYANDOT INDIANS FROM OHIO 1834 edited by DWIGHT L SMITH Instructor in History Ohio State University It did not take long for the frontiersman and his government to realize the impossibility of his pushing westward into new lands for purposes of hunting trapping and settling without reckoning with the Indian who inhabited the lands in which he desired to hunt trap and settle According to the white man's concepts of ownership and ...
... array shouted vives for their king and then re-entering their canoes resumed their journey and at the forks of the Allegheny and the Monongahela floated down the majestic current of La Belle Reviere upon which its discoverer La Salle had floated three quarters of a century before The leaden plate burial ceremony was encored at the mouth of French creek Pa Kanawha in West Virginia the Muskingum and Little Miami rivers in Ohio At the mouth of ...
... REMINISCENCES OF A PIONEER REMINISCENCES OF A PIONEER EDITED BY CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF B PED The following reminiscences are from the pen of a Highland county pioneer one Thomas Rogers who as the recital reveals was born a Virginian and at the close of the American Revolution moved with his family to Kentucky and thence in 1795 with the Massie party journeyed to Paint Creek vicinity of Chillicothe and there abided This recital of the scenes of early times in Ohio is worthy of preservation and ...
... FORT ST FORT ST CLAIR CELEBRATION OF ST CLAIR DAY No history of the Northwest Territory would be complete without conspicuous reference to what is now Preble County Ohio Through its primeval forests General Arthur St Clair in the autumn of 1791 marched on his ill-fated expedition to disastrous defeat by the Indians near the present site of Fort Recovery to return later in disorderly retreat Over the same route General Anthony Wayne advanced with his legions by careful stages in October 1793 to ...
... A LETTER FROM COLONEL JOHN ALLEN A LETTER FROM COLONEL JOHN ALLEN BY EDGAR B WESLEY John Allen author of the following letter was the son of James Allen and was born in Rockbridge County Virginia on December 30 17721 The family moved to Kentucky in 1787 and settled near the present Hustonville Lincoln County John experienced the usual excitements of the frontier and on one occasion pursued a band of Indians down Rolling Fork into what is now Casey County2 About 1790 the family moved to ...
... A VISIT IN 1929 A VISIT IN 1929 TO THE SITES IN WESTERN OHIO OF FORTS BUILT BY GENERALS ARTHUR ST CLAIR ANTHONY WAYNE AND WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON BY JAMES A GREEN CHAPTER I On the Fourth of July 1929 I made a patriotic pilgrimage visiting the sites of some of the forts erected in western Ohio in St Clair's and Wayne's Indian Campaigns and by Harrison in the War of 1812 As showing the immeasurable difference between the slow and laborious progress of our early armies and the speed of the modern ...
... REMARKS OF REV REMARKS OF REV B W ARNETT DD MR CHAIRMAN LADIES AND GENTLEMEN There are times in the history and in the life of individuals when language fails to express the throbbings and longings as well as the aspirations of the heart and I find myself sir this evening without words to express my sentiments to you and to this intelligent audience the representatives of this great Commonwealth of ours But your call to me to say a word1 was a command which I could not disobey without feeling ...
... SPIEGEL GROVE SPIEGEL GROVE THE HOME OF RUTHERFORD B HAYES LUCY ELLIOT KEELER Memorials take many forms and the gift to the State of Ohio for the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society of that portion of Spiegel Grove the beautiful homestead of President Hayes through which runs for a half mile the old Harrison Trail of the War of 1812 is one of the most interesting commendable and generous gifts of recent years The deed from Colonel Webb C Hayes to the State of Ohio for the Harrison Trail ...
... THE DEBT OF THE WEST TO WASHINGTON THE DEBT OF THE WEST TO WASHINGTON BY ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT To us of the central west the memory of Washington and his dearest ambitions must be precious beyond that of any other American whether statesman general or seer Under strange providential guidance the mind and heart of that first American was turned toward the territories lying between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi and it is to be doubted if any other portion of his country received so much of ...
... Franklinton-An Historical Address Franklinton -A n Historical Address 59 FRANKLINTON--AN HISTORICAL ADDRESS By GENERAL JOHN BEATTY A few rods from where we are assembled to-day the waters of the Olentangy unite with those of the Scioto and together flow down to the Ohio thence to the Mississippi and so onward to a gulf of the Atlantic ocean Southwardly from the place where the two streams meet there was at the time to which we propose to refer a broad handsome stretch of valley land where good ...
... 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 ...
... 24 Ohio Arch 24 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications their loss was far heavier than that suffered by Wayne's soldiers Following the Battle of Fallen Timbers many Indians fled to Detroit the British headquarters and General Wayne departed for Fort Defiance He did not live long to enjoy the honor of his victory dying two years later One of General Wayne's last acts was to receive from the British Fort Miami which they formally surrendered in 1796 in pursuance to a treaty negotiated by Chief ...
... The Western Reserve The Western Reserve 259 THE WESTERN RESERVE H OW IT HAS PLAYED AN IMPORTANT PART IN THE HISTORY OF OHIO AND OF THE NATION BY F E HUTCHINS ESQ The Connecticut Western Reserve or as it is commonly called The Western Reserve has from the beginning played an important part not only in the affairs of the State of Ohio but also in those of the United States While there is a very good general idea of what this Reserve now is especially among its own people and those of the State ...
... HULL'S TRACE OR TRAIL HULL'S TRACE OR TRAIL BY GEN ROBT P KENNEDY In the early times the roads or passages cut through the heavy timber of the country were called traces or trails and thus we read about Zane's trace the roadway cut by Ebenezer Zane his brother Jonathan and his son-in-law John McIntyre from Wheeling on the Ohio River in Virginia to the Limestone on the Ohio River in Kentucky the first trace roadway or passage from the East to this section of the great northwest The trace which ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS THE C ROGHAN CELEBRATION LUCY ELLIOT KEELER It was not bad usage of the old Romans to bring down from its niche the waxen image of an eminent ancestor on the anniversary of his natal day to recall his features and achievements to their own minds and impress them upon the younger generation A like tribute the patriotic citizens of Fremont Ohio pay from time to time to their local hero Major George Croghan on the anniversary of that notable ...
... Report of the 44th Annual Meeting 637 Report of the 44th Annual Meeting 637 associated with not only academic work but state historical work in years past an officer of the Indiana Historical Society and editor of the Indiana Magazine of History who for a time left the state of Indiana and was engaged in educational work in one of the colleges of Pennsylvania It was an opportunity that came to me a few years ago when leaving the state historical work in Indiana to recommend Dr Coleman as my ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA FORT STEPHENSON CELEBRATON August 2d 1906 was the ninety-third anniversary of the gallant defense of Fort Stephenson the site of which is now the center of the attractive and enterprising city of Fremont The heroic and unparalleled holding of the little stockade fort by Major George Croghan on August 2d 1813 against some two thousand British troops under General Proctor and an equal number of Indian braves under Chief Tecumseh is one of the most memorable events not ...