... CLARK'S CONQUEST OF THE NORTHWEST CLARK'S CONQUEST OF THE NORTHWEST BY E O RANDALL The French were the first to discover and explore the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys While the English were establishing colonial settlements between the Alleghany mountains and the Atlantic coast the French adventurers were locating missionary stations military posts and trading centers on the Great Lakes and the river ways of the Northwest Such lodging places in the western wilderness were Detroit Vincennes ...
... NEWS and NOTES SEVERAL LANDMARKS in American history which are of importance to Ohio historiography and which were published many years ago have been reprinted in a series called American Classics in Political Economic and Literary History being issued by Frederick Ungar Publishing Co Inc of New York They are My Autobiography by S S McClure The Acquisition of Political Social and Industrial Rights of Man in America by John Bach McMaster The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier by Ralph ...
... 526 Ohio Arch 526 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications and accoutrements Wayne could not safely go directly down and thereupon he dug an oblique shelf-road in the breast of the declivity downward -- eastward a distance of about one hundred feet and thereby the army descended to the floor of the valley and crossed the stream The shelf-road is not the pitch It is the expedient made in breast of the pitch or declivity It is a very interesting well-preserved remnant of Wayne's Preble Trail It ...
... 414 Ohio Arch 414 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of their devotion It remains for us to take up the full burden of citizenship and to consecrate our lives to the task of making our country worthy of the sacrifices that have been made by those who in countless numbers have given their lives for its establishment and its preservation With a great price have our privileges of citizenship been purchased Woe ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABOLITION Emigrant Aid Society of Montgomery County 16 Abolition issues 5-30 passim Administrative issues Ohio House of Representatives Partisanship in the Ohio House of Representatives 19001911 An Analysis of Roll-Call Voting by John M Wegner 146-170 Agriculture The Carmichael Case Animal Science At The Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station 1905-1921 by Chris Cumo 31-41 Ahlers John F 131n 19 Air Commerce Act 125 Airmail Act Kelly Law 126 127 Airmail False ...
... BENJAMIN F BENJAMIN F WADE AND THE ATROCITY PROPAGANDA OF THE CIVIL WAR By HARRY WILLIAMS The atrocity propaganda issued in the North during the Civil War flowered in bewildering abundance from a variety of persons and agencies Heads of governmental departments semi-official bodies editors members of Congress and private individuals devoted their efforts to the dissemination of tales of cruelties and barbarisms practiced by the Confederate Government and its soldiery1 Although these ...
... WASHINGTON AND THE OHIO IN 1770 AS WASHINGTON AND THE OHIO IN 1770 AS SEEN BY A VOYAGER IN 1932 BY EDMOND S SINDLINGER On October 5 1770 George Washington set out on his historic journey to the Ohio country This journey was made in the interest of the Virginia soldiers who had fought in the Indian wars and had been promised western lands as a reward for their services He arrived at Fort Pitt on October 17th Here he obtained two boats a large one for himself and seven companions and a canoe for ...
... ZANE'S TRACE ZANE'S TRACE CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF The first road maker in our country was the buffalo His successor was the Indian Instinct told the buffalo where to make his path Nature which is another name for instinct prompted the red man in marking his trail The white man came and reason told him that the red man and the buffalo had selected the driest shortest and most practicable routes of migration This is only another way of saying that the geography of any country determines its history ...
... Historical News Historical News The University of Chicago and the University of Virginia are sponsoring the publication of a new and complete edition of the papers of James Madison The editors will appreciate information about the location of letters by or to James Madison or his wife especially letters in private possession or among uncalendared manuscripts in the collections of public or private institutions Information should be addressed to The Papers of James Madison 1126 East 59th Street ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA A CHAPTER OF CORRECTIONS R W MCFARLAND History is never free from imperfections Particularly is this true of the collected and collated records and data of pioneer periods--the beginnings of history This is most natural as the memoranda are furnished by different authorities who discern the events recorded from various points of view or who are not accurate in their method of statement The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society endeavors to gather and ...
... DEDICATION OF MONUMENT TO GEORGE DEDICATION OF MONUMENT TO GEORGE ROGERS CLARK Enthusiastic interest was manifest at the dedication of the monument to George Rogers Clark August 8 on the site of the battle of Piqua near Springfield Ohio It was here on August 8 1780 that George Rogers Clark and his little army of Kentucky frontiersmen vanquished the Shawnee Indians and burned their village This was a punitive expedition provoked by the incursions of the Indians into the territory south of the ...
... 314 Ohio Arch 314 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications THE REV JOHN HECKEWELDER BORN AT BEDFORD ENG MARCH 12 1743 DIED AT BETHLEHEM PA JANUARY 2 1 1823 AGED 80 YEARS LESS 50 DAYS BY THE REV WM H RICE VICE PRESIDENT MORAVIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY LIFE MEMBER OF THE PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND LIFE MEMBER OF THE OHIO ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY One hundred years ago to-day September 29 1898 Rev John Heckewelder then a man about fifty-five years old moved into the First House of ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Fall Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be October 13-14 1989 at Ohio University The Missouri Valley History Conference sponsored by the University of Nebraska at Omaha's History Department will be held March 8-10 1990 Those interested in further information concerning the conference should contact Jerold Simmons Program Coordinator MVHC Department of History University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha Nebraska 68182 The Pennsylvania Historical and ...
... Brief Biography of William Henry Holmes 517 Brief Biography of William Henry Holmes 517 of powwow as we could traded some matches for some arrows and gave them bread to eat It appears that they were really trying to find their lariats and possibly to claim them We watched them so closely that they failed to steal anything and we saw them depart at last with feelings of relief These fellows came more nearly up to my notion of what bad Indians were than any mortals I had heretofore seen We ...
... Popular Errors in Regard to Mound Builders Popular Errors in Regard to Mound Builders 40 1 in the vicinity and to decorate them in such way as they can even though the interments may have taken place many years previously would it be any greater mark of respect or affection to add little by little to a mound under which one of their tribe was buried Will any one possessing the slightest knowledge of the power of hereditary influences pretend that a Logan a Corn Planter a Red Jacket or a host ...
... ORIGIN RISE PROGRESS AND DECLINE OF THE ORIGIN RISE PROGRESS AND DECLINE OF THE WHITEWATER COMMUNITY OF SHAKERS LOCATED IN HAMILTON COUNTY OHIO BY J P MAC LEAN While engaged in collecting the material for the article on West Union I engaged in a correspondence with Elder Charles H Sturr general manager of the Whitewater community He invited me to make him a visit and I should have the freedom of all the archives of the society I determined at once to accept the invitation and although the ...
... 406 Ohio Arch 406 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications HISTORIC BEGINNINGS OF THE OHIO VALLEY W J HOLLAND D D LL D Carnegie Institute Pittsburg Pa The Ohio River and the Ohio Valley are from the standpoint of the geologist of very recent origin There was a time when the greater part of the water which is discharged through this great stream found its way to the valley of the St Lawrence and thence to the Atlantic Ocean At the glacial epoch the great continental glacier creeping down toward ...
... Howells' Campaign Biography Howells' Campaign Biography Of Rutherford B Hayes A Series of Letters Edited by LEO P COYLE In 1860 William Dean Howells wrote the campaign Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin his first venture in the field of biography Sixteen years later his literary position assured Howells again projected a campaign biography This time the subject was Rutherford B Hayes who occupied the White House from 1877 to 18811 The second campaign book avowedly ...
... 480 Ohio Arch 480 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications a brief description of the service of each and a roster of officers and men We are told that Fairfield County is credited with a service enrollment of 1821 in the World War There is a complete list of these alphabetically arranged This is followed by a brief account of Women in the Service The concluding chapter After Armistice Day details the return of the soldiers who survived the perils of camp and field the organization of the ...
... THE ARKANSAS TRAVELLER THE ARKANSAS TRAVELLER By THOMAS WILSON U S NATIONAL MUSEUM WASHINGTON D C Some years of my teens were passed in the town of Salem Columbiana county Ohio This was before any railroads passed through that country I remember the first meeting of citizens ever held there under the direction of Mr Zadok Street for the purpose of securing subscriptions of money or right-of-way for the construction of what was then to be the Ohio amp Pennsylvania Railway afterwards the ...