... ARNOLD SHANKMAN ARNOLD SHANKMAN Soldier Votes and Clement L Vallandigham in the 1863 Ohio Gubernatorial Election The Ohio gubernatorial election of 1863 was a hotly contested election with overtones extending to the national level The nation was engaged in a bitter civil war which showed no signs of terminating and many citizens of the Buckeye State were rapidly tiring of the conflict A large number of Ohio Democrats were dissatisfied with the Lincoln administration's handling of the war and ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS LORAMIE AND PICKAWILLANY The following articles concerning the stations forts and early settlements known respectively as Pickawillany and Loramie were obtained by the Editor of the Quarterly from the Rev William Bigot now a resident of Dayton These articles contain much first-hand information relating to the location of the historic points in question The sketch of Father Bigot - pronounced Bego - is by the Editor For further discussion on ...
... SKETCH OF CORNSTALK SKETCH OF CORNSTALK 1759-1777 The following sketch of Cornstalk is from the Draper MSS Border Forays 3 D Chap XVIII in the possession of the Wisconsin Historical Society Madison Wisconsin It is herewith published for the first time through the courtesy of Dr Reuben GoldThwaites Secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society-EDITOR The early history of Cornstalk1 is involved in obscurity During those eventful years of Indian attack and massacre between 1754 and 1763 there can ...
... ANCIENT CORRESPONDENCE ANCIENT CORRESPONDENCE FROM SAMUEL LINTON WAYNESVILLE O TO ABEL SATERTHWAITE PHILADELPHIA Samuel Linton was the fifth child of Benjamin and Jane Cowgal Linton and was born in Bucks county Pa December 17th 1741 He was reared a farmer yet learned the trade of a weaver He married May 10 1775 Elizabeth Harvey who was born March 8th 1748 They had six children Samuel Nathan David Jane Elizabeth and James who in turn with the exception of James raised large families During the ...
... RICHARD M RICHARD M BUDD Ohio Army Chaplains and the Professionalization of Military Chaplaincy in the Civil War While the study of military chaplains is fascinating if only because of the apparent incongruity of peacemakers serving in an institution of warmakers military chaplaincy during the American Civil War is of particular interest because of the insight it offers into the development of the office of chaplain While chaplains had been appointed by Congress as far back as 1775 their role ...
... Historical News Historical News A GENERAL REORGANIZATION of the headquarters staff of the National Trust for Historic Preservation has been announced by Robert Garvey Jr executive director William J Murtagh formerly assistant to the director now heads a newly created department of education and Mrs Helen Duprey Bullock formerly historian and editor directs the department of information which issues Preservation Ne w s a new monthly publication Newly appointed to the staff is Robert G Stewart ...
... Young Charley Dawes Goes to the Young Charley Dawes Goes to the Garfield Inauguration A Diary Edited by ROBERT H FERRELL CHARLES GATES DAWES vice president of the United States under Calvin Coolidge 1925-29 was a youth of fifteen when he left his home in Marietta Ohio and with his father--just elected to congress--went off to Washington early in 1881 to see James A Garfield inaugurated as president Young Charley was impressionable His interests were properly those of a person of his years ...
... WAYNE'S PEACE WITH THE INDIANS OF THE OLD WAYNE'S PEACE WITH THE INDIANS OF THE OLD NORTHWEST 1795 by DWIGHT L SMITH Instructor in History Ohio State University Far from being the least of the many problems with which the United States had to contend at its beginning was the settling of difficulties between the Indians and whites on the frontier If the new nation were to grow in size as apparently it was doing the native Indians would have to be removed absorbed or extirpated either ...
... Edited by Edited by DARYL E JONES JAMES H PICKERING A Young Woman in the Midwest The Journal of Mary Sears 1859-1860 Born in Greenwich Massachusetts on March 31 1838 and trained as a music teacher Mary E Sears was twenty years old in the winter of 1859 when she began keeping a journal of her daily thoughts and activities while emigrating West to join family members in Ohio and Illinois During the following two years she recorded a multitude of experiences which span both distance and social ...
... 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 ...
... CORNELIUS SEDAM AND HIS FRIENDS IN CORNELIUS SEDAM AND HIS FRIENDS IN WASHINGTON'S TIME1 BY MRS EMMA S BACKUS Cincinnati Ohio The old days were great because the men who moved in them had mighty qualities --THEODORE ROOSEVELT Grand old times with a grand old father This tribute to the times and the man was penned by a son of the subject of this sketch in 1885 when Matthew Sedam then residing at Terre Haute Indiana wrote reminiscently to his younger brother David at Cincinnati recalling early ...
... ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGE ON THE BEAUTIFUL RIVER ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGE ON THE BEAUTIFUL RIVER MADE IN 1749 UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MONSIEUR DE CELORON BY FATHER BONNECAMPS MONSIEUR It was not possible for me last year to give you an account of my voyage on the Beautiful River All the vessels had left Quebec when I reached it I could it is true have written you by way of New England but I had many things to say to you which prudence would not allow me to send through the hands of the English ...
... 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 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 ...
... JOHN BROWN AT HARPER'S FERRY AND JOHN BROWN AT HARPER'S FERRY AND CHARLESTOWN A LECTURE BY S K DONOVAN This lecture by Colonel S K Donovan was delivered a number of times in Ohio but was never before printed The original manuscript is in the possession of his sister Miss Sallie Donovan of Delaware Ohio by whose permission it is now published Colonel Donovan once stated to the writer that he was the first newspaper correspondent to reach Harper's Ferry after the raid began When he arrived there ...
... THE OPENING SCENES OF THE REBELLION THE OPENING SCENES OF THE REBELLION BY COLONEL S K DONAVIN In the spring of 1861 I was a reporter and traveling correspondent on the Daily Exchange newspaper of the City of Baltimore When the telegraph announced that Mr Lincoln had reached Pittsburg en route for Washington City to be inaugurated President of the United States I left Baltimore by the Northern Central Railway for the purpose of meeting him and noting the incidents of his journey When I reached ...
... DIARY OF IMPRISONMENT 51 DIARY OF IMPRISONMENT 51 Saturday 29 Very cold night--heavy frost No ax to be had My mess tried to make an apology for last nights treatment but I told them that I had been with my friend--out upon such selfishness Such is the action of a large portion of the prisoners Cannot send letters through without a CS stamp on them Wrote yesterday to wife but am waiting to get a stamp Lt Thos Hare gave me a stamp and I put the letter in the box Slept with Lt Anderson 3rd Iowa ...
... BRADY'S LEAP BRADY'S LEAP BY E 0 RANDALL In what is known as Tract 29 issued in 1875 by the Western Reserve Historical Society the tradition-as the Tract calls it-of Brady's leap is related That a famous leap by Brady was made at the place generally designated as the site there is little or no doubt The time and attending circumstances of the achievement are much in dispute and wrote Mr L V Bierce in 1856 the numerous traditions respecting Brady's Leap across the Cuyahoga River and many other ...
... DEDICATION OF BRONZE TABLETS TO DEDICATION OF BRONZE TABLETS TO MAJOR JOHN MILLS AND TECUMSEH FRAZER E WILSON Early in the spring of 1927 the Greenville Historical Society through the services of the Piqua Granite Company transported to Greenville two large granite boulders to be used as historical markers The first was about four and one-half feet square and is shown in the illustration accompanying this article It was found along the Nashville Road about four miles west of Greenville and was ...
... 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 ...