... A GRAVE IN THE WILDERNESS A GRAVE IN THE WILDERNESS BY BYRON R LONG When one considers the amount of material collected and published having to do with the story of Ohio and the Northwest Territory he is apt to hesitate before he sets himself the task of adding to that collection So many details of that history have been published already that one fears he may be traversing the same grounds when he attempts to narrate a detail that has grown familiar to him through personal and intimate ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Territorial Papers of the United States Compiled and edited by Clarence Edwin Carter Volumes VII-VIII Indiana Territory 1800-1816 U S Dept of State Publications Nos 1383-1384 Washington D C Government Printing Office 1939 2v 784 p 496 p 200 150 The Library of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society has received volumes VII and VIII of the Territorial Papers of the United States compiled and edited by Dr Clarence Edwin Carter of the Department of State ...
... A Civil War Diary of William McKinley A Civil War Diary of William McKinley Edited by H WAYNE MORGAN IN APRIL 1861 news came to Ohio that secessionists had fired on Fort Sumter the long-dreaded civil war was at hand and the last hopes of compromise vanished in the smoke of battle Ohio home of so many conflicting forces had her share of southern sympathizers but she was prepared to stand by the Union cause even if it meant war Recruiting agents mingled with politicians and orators through the ...
... Life was hard and toilsome in the early years of Ohio statehood for those souls who left warm eastern firesides and crossed the Alleghenies into the new western land In the first years of their settling long hours of work and the necessities of bare existence left little time for correspondence with family and friends The letters that have been preserved show the writers to be unusually literate for the time and place and they take on added significance in view of their scarcity An unusual ...
... A HARMAR SESQUICENTENNIAL SYMPOSIUM A HARMAR SESQUICENTENNIAL SYMPOSIUM By Louis A WARREN The program this evening has been arranged in the form of a symposium in memory of the 150th anniversary of General Joseph Harmar's expedition against the Miami Indians here at Fort Wayne in 1790 We are pleased indeed to have three able speakers who can speak with authority on the various phases of the expedition You will observe on your program that the subjects to be discussed will approach the general ...
... 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 ...
... ROBERT YOST HIS BOOK ROBERT YOST HIS BOOK Rob't Yost his Book made for the purpose of noting down our Marching and what we seen and expericet while in the united States service beginning at St Clearsville Ohio Sept the third Eighteen hundred and thirteen and continued to note down as we march AN ORIGINAL JOURNAL REPRODUCED AS WRITTEN The original of this Journal is now in the possession of J W Yost a direct descendant of Robert the author Mr J W Yost had the Journal reproduced in exact ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XXIII INDEX TO VOLUME XXIII A Banks - Concluded Agriculture Ideal pioneer plantation 250 Exchange 320 Possibilities of Ohio 232-256 Franklin of Columbus 319 Akron Founder of 284 287 Legislation regulating 314 Algonquins 107 Mechanics' Savings Institute 320 Allen Gov William 35 Notes issued by 313 315 American-British Peace Treaty 28 Ohio State 316 Americanists Visit of 381 Pioneer bankers 318 American State Papers Extracts from Private 321 relating to Dohrman 227 Thompson's ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS MONUMENTS TO HISTORICAL INDIAN CHIEFS BY EDWARD LIVINGSTON TAYLOR This is the second contribution of Mr Taylor upon the subject The first will be found on page 1 Volume IX O A and H Society Publication-E 0 R In the July number of the Archaeological and Historical Quarterly for the year 1 900 I gave some account of the history of the monuments that have been erected by white men to commemorate the memories of noted men of the Indian or Red ...
... 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 ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XIII INDEX TO VOLUME XIII A Articles - Concluded Abolition in Ohio 50 History of Ft Hamilton Miller Adams County - 97 Todd's Trace in 318 Historic Worthington Parsons 71 Trebor Tavern in 307 John Brough Hooper 40 Zane's Trace in 318 Kenton's Gauntlet at Chillicothe Agriculture Prehistoric people engaged Brown 483 in 189 Marcus A Hanna Dick 355 American Economic Association MeetOhio in the Spanish and Philippine ing of 288 War Anderson 551 American Historical Association 121 K ...
... UNVEILING OF THE CRESAP TABLET UNVEILING OF THE CRESAP TABLET LOGAN ELM PARK-OCTOBER 1916 On Saturday October 21 1916 an interesting ceremony was held at Logan Elm Park under the auspices of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society The program arranged by Mr Frank Tallmadge comprised the erection of a flag staff and the unfurling of the stars and stripes the dedication of a log cabin not a modern imitation but a well preserved relic of the real thing a left over of the pioneer days ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION -- GEORGE WASHINGTON'S VOYAGE ON THE OHIO RIVER IN 1770 BY C B GALBREATH When public announcement was made of the approach of the bicentennial of the birth of George Washington and the Congress of the United States provided for an elaborate celebration of this event many states appropriated money and appointed commissions in order that the period designated by the National Government might be properly observed The ...
... LETTERS FROM DR LETTERS FROM DR JOSEPH STRONG TO CAPTAIN JOHN PRATT Edited b y LOCKWOOD BARR The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine Vol XIII No 4 March 1941 published extracts from the biography of Doctor Joseph Strong Yale 1788 written by one of his descendants Lockwood Barr Yale 1905 Since that publication there have been found in the Connecticut State Library fourteen heretofore unknown letters written by Dr Strong during 17931 795 while serving in the Legion of General Anthony Wayne in ...
... KENTON'S GAUNTLET AT CHILLICOTHE KENTON'S GAUNTLET AT CHILLICOTHE T J BROWN WAYNESVILLE OHIO The question of the identity of Old Town near Xenia with the Chillicothe where Kenton ran the gauntlet the first time has been thoroughly discussed in previous issues of the QUARTERLY and in my opinion the evidence in favor of it is decidedly satisfactory Prof McFarland's testimony seems conclusive of itself while the traditions bearing upon the question reach back to the earliest settlement of that ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 161 mouth begin to move and approaching the immobile features silent for centuries he placed his ear to the stone lips and heard a sound like a subdued murmur you're another As Artemus Ward would say of this controversy of the critics it would be funny if it were not serious The Mound Builders builded better than they knew Their works are food for thought and subjects for study Certain it is that they were a vast and enterprising and interesting race whence and ...
... 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 ...
... CAPTAIN HYATT CAPTAIN HYATT Being the Letters Written During the Years 1863-1864 to His Wife Mary By Captain T J Hyatt 126th Ohio Volunteer Infantry1 Edited by Hudson Hyatt Here are the letters written by an officer at the front during the War Between the States to his wife Though only one side of the correspondence has been preserved through the ensuing years it is sufficient for us to learn the vicissitudes of his love for his wife and their two small boys of the problems of debts and new ...
... FORT INDUSTRY--AN HISTORICAL MYSTERY FORT INDUSTRY--AN HISTORICAL MYSTERY BY WALTER J SHERMAN Upon the south wall of an old brick mercantile building at the northeast corner of Monroe and Summit Streets Toledo hangs a faded inscription reading as follows viz This building stands on the site of Fort Industry a stockade erected by General Anthony Wayne in the year 1794 as a safeguard against the British who then held Fort Miami It was garrisoned by a company of United States troops under the ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY DECEMBER 1887 THE WESTERN LAND POLICY OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT FROM 1763 TO 1775 THE ink with which the treaty of Paris was written was hardly dry when Great Britain took a very important step in the line of a new land policy Just how much this step meant at the time is a matter of dispute but the consequences flowing from it were such as to mark it a distinct new departure Previous to the French and Indian war England had virtually affirmed ...