... MAJOR-GENERAL ARTHUR ST MAJOR-GENERAL ARTHUR ST CLAIR HON ALBERT DOUGLAS M C A brief synopsis of this address was delivered by Mr Douglas at the annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Page Hall O S U March 22 1907 - EDITOR At the centennial celebration of Ohio statehood held at Chillicothe in May 1 90 3 I had the pleasure of offering the following preamble and resolution Recognizing that the people of Ohio have for one hundred years done injustice to the name ...
... THE OHIO DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE THE OHIO DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF B PED By permission of The Ohio Teacher The school histories have always said much about the Mecklenburg Resolutions being the prelude to the Declaration of Independence Indeed some histories make so much of it that you doubt if Thomas Jefferson would ever have mustered up courage sufficient to pen the immortal lines beginning When in the course of human events etc had he not had this brave precedent ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS JOSEPH BADGER THE FIRST MISSIONARY TO THE WESTERN RESERVE BY BYRON R LONG A preliminary word to the writing of this document is not unlike that which I wrote to the last article furnished for publication in this historical record In the sketch of Isaac N Walter printed in the April number of 1915 I dwelt at some length on the story of the Christian denomination with which he labored for many years as a minister My own personal connection ...
... BOWMAN'S EXPEDITION AGAINST CHILLICOTHE BOWMAN'S EXPEDITION AGAINST CHILLICOTHE May-June 1779 Draper MSS Border Forays 5 D chap 27 pp 1-20 The following account of Captain Bowman's expedition against Chillicothe on the Little Miami in 1779 is from the original manuscript of the Draper collection in the archive department of the Wisconsin Historical Society Madison Wisconsin During the past summer 1910 through the courtesy of Dr Reuben Gold Thwaites Secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society ...
... strike a blow at the Indians they would 142 Ohio Arch 14 2 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications not soon forget St Clair's army built Fort Washington at Cincinnati Ohio Sept 6th 1791 advanced twenty miles and built Fort Hamilton on the east bank of the Great Miami This fort was to be headquarters for supplies All the spring and summer he had been drilling and equipping his army While what were offered as reasons for his defeat such as raw ...
... THE CENTENNIAL OF MIAMI UNIVERSITY THE CENTENNIAL OF MIAMI UNIVERSITY A H UPHAM PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH MIAMI UNIVERSITY The third week of June was marked by a highly significant and somewhat unusual occasion down in the southwest corner of Ohio Miami University old mother Miami was celebrating the completion of her first centenary of corporate existence and he r children unto the third and f o u r t h generation came from the corners of the earth bringing t r i b u t e of congratulation a n d g ...
... MEMOIR OF ANTOINE LAFORGE MEMOIR OF ANTOINE LAFORGE A Gallipolis Manuscript 1790 Translated from the original French by Laurence J Kenny S J St Louis University The accompanying document is a copy of a manuscript heirloom that has been cherished for more than a century among the descendents of Pierre Antoine Laforge one of the early French settlers of Gallipolis It brought them into possession of the modest inheritance referred to at its close and it has given substance and vraisemblance to ...
... OHIO IN AFRICA OHIO IN AFRICA By EDWARD WESLEY SHUNK The fortunes of the American Colonization Society and its auxiliaries in Ohio were at an extremely low ebb in the 1840's and the failure of the Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851 to aid the cause further depressed its members Yet an amazing spurt of activity in the 1850's almost turned the tables The appointment of a really competent agent David Christy added to the collections from Ohio until the yearly contributions averaged over 2000 ...
... JOSEPH HOUGH AN EARLY MIAMI MERCHANT JOSEPH HOUGH AN EARLY MIAMI MERCHANT By R PIERCE BEAVER There were many forces which bound the Miami country to the South--the political dominance of men of southern birth family ties ecclesiastical relations the attitude towards the negro and above all commercial relations The last influenced all the other forces and brought with economic dependence on the South a common way of thinking with it especially in matters of economics and politics This ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTOROHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS FOR THE YEAR 1887 WITH ABSTRACTS OF ADDRESSES AND PAPERS PRESENTED BEFORE THE SOCIETY COLUMBUS January 14th 1887 The Society met in the Senate Chamber in the State House F C Sessions First Vice President in the chair The Secretary reported that four active members had been received since the last meeting and that several donations had been made to the museum Among the donations were a surveyor's ...
... THE OHIO BOUNDARY OR THE ERIE WAR THE OHIO BOUNDARY OR THE ERIE WAR1 WHEN the great Ordinance of 1787 was passed by Congress it was agreed by all the States present that six of the articles known as the articles of compact should not be repealed except by the joint consent of Congress and the States concerned The fifth of these irrevocable articles provided that not less than three nor more than five States should be formed out of the region of country known as the Northwest Territory In case ...
... SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO VALLEY SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO VALLEY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Marietta Ohio November 27 and 28 1908 On Friday and Saturday November 27 and 28 1908 the Ohio Valley Historical Association held its second annual meeting at Marietta Ohio the first annual meeting was held a year previous in Cincinnati the proceedings of which meeting were briefly reported in the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY for January 1909 The complete proceedings of ...
... THE HARRISON TABLE ROCK AND BALL'S THE HARRISON TABLE ROCK AND BALL'S BATTLEFIELD On Saturday September 10 1910 the anniversary of Perry's Victory on Lake Erie 1813 two of the most important historical sites on the route of the Harrison Trail through Sandusky County were marked with bronze tablets and appropriate unveiling exercises by the ladies of the Colonel George Croghan Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution We publish the report of the proceedings as appeared in The Fremont Daily ...
... FORT MORROW SOLDIERS OF THE WAR OF 1812 FORT MORROW SOLDIERS OF THE WAR OF 1812 HONORED According to an early historian of Marion County Ohio Nathaniel Wyatt Sr exchanged 80 acres of military land in Pickaway County for a tract of 200 acres in Section 3 Waldo Township Marion County On this tract he built the Wyatt Brick Tavern and on it was also built Fort Morrow in the year 1812 Wyatt's Hotel was comprised in the enclosure of the pickets made from split slats around the old fort The old ...
... INFLUENCE OF PENNSYLVANIA ON OHIO INFLUENCE OF PENNSYLVANIA ON OHIO BY W H HUNTER The celebration of the Centennial of the State has led to much discussion regarding the ethnological history of Ohio As a contribution to this subject we present the address delivered by W H Hunter of Chillicothe at a banquet given in Philadelphia several years ago by the Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish society which has for its object the preservation of historical data - E O R THE PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN - While in ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XXV INDEX TO VOLUME XXV A Academies - Female - Concluded Academies - Williams' Mrs School E Canonsburg 54 Williams' Mrs chool 6 Co-educational 21irt ins choo 6 Columbia Female Institute 21 First in Ohio 129 Curricula in 1 126 130 Gallia 23 Davidson 54 Greenfield 127 Dayton 127 Growth of idea of 119 Discipline at 128 Johnson's Choctaw 88 East Liberty 133 Lancaster at 126 Lancastrian system in 127 Female - List of in Ohio before 1840 120 Beatty's at Steubenville 13 Medina County ...
... CALEB ATWATER VERSATILE PIONEER CALEB ATWATER VERSATILE PIONEER A RE-APPRAISAL By HENRY C SHETRONE BACK EAST Educator minister lawyer and antiquarian advocate of internal improvements co-founder of Ohio's school system Ohio's first historian intellectual and social pioneer of the Middle West Such was Caleb Atwater of Massachusetts New York--and Ohio Without an understanding of the times in which Caleb Atwater lived particularly of his years in the East before coming to Ohio one might well ...
... 128 Ohio Arch 128 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Hurrah for our Country May she ever be free Hurrah for our Patriots On land or on sea Who gave this Liberty to you and to me We will hold their deeds and memory bright While the Sun and the Moon give us this light To their principles we boys will be true And we will live and die for the Red White and Blue The speaker of the day was Hon Henry J Booth who delivered the following address ADDRESS OF HON HENRY J BOOTH In the midst of the ...