... COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS THE POWDER HORN by WILLIAM G KEENER and DONALD A HUTSLAR OUR COUNTRY MUST AND SHALL BE DEFENDED WE WILL ENJOY OUR LIBERTY OR PERISH IN THE LAST DITCH In a parlor game these ringing phrases might be attributed to a Samuel Adams or a Patrick Henry They belong instead to one Tim Tansel Together with a running deer the arms of the United States a young lady vaguely representing Liberty four equestrian military figures and a tribute to A Gin Jackson they comprise the ...
... AMERICAN ABORIGINES AND THEIR SOCIAL AMERICAN ABORIGINES AND THEIR SOCIAL CUSTOMS REV J A EASTON PH D Mr Easton was a native Ohioan born at Sinking Springs Highland County August 9 1852 His father and grandfather like himself were ministers in the Methodist Episcopal Church Eugene Easton his son the distinguished American newspaper correspondent in the Boer War is the present owner of Fort Hill Highland County which is crowned by one of the most interesting and best preserved prehistoric ...
... 432 Ohio Arch 432 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications blood in his veins Senator Curtis of Kansas also points with pride to his Indian ancestry HISTORIC MEDALLIONS The Greenville Advocate of February 22 contains an extended article by Mr George A Katzenberger announcing the moving of the Second National Bank of Greenville to its new building on the 24th of that month The new home of the bank has appropriate medallions prints of which were distributed on post cards These are described in ...
... OLD FORT SANDOSKI OF 1745 OLD FORT SANDOSKI OF 1745 G FREDERICK WRIGHT President Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Mr Charles A Hanna's criticism of the inscription on the tablets placed on the site of Old Fort Sandusky and of the addresses made at the unveiling of these tablets are too serious to be permitted to pass without correction First-Mr Hanna's loose habit of observation may be inferred from his first statement that the bronze tablet on the West Face was erected under ...
... THE FAIRPORT HARBOR VILLAGE SITE THE FAIRPORT HARBOR VILLAGE SITE BY RICHARD G MORGAN AND H HOLMES ELLIS PREFACE The Indian village site described in this report was explored by the Department of Archaeology of the Ohio State Museum in cooperation with the Harding High School of Fairport Harbor Ohio The existence of the site was brought to the attention of the Museum by Mr Elijah H Brown principal of the high school Through the efforts of Mr Brown permission was secured to excavate the site ...
... 390 Ohio Arch 3 90 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications a fondness for history itself Dr Naylor's book is having the large sale it well deserves It is published by the Saalfield Publishing Company Akron Ohio BLENNERHASSETT AGAIN In the July 1901 number of the QUA R TE R LY we made somewhat extended allusion to the then current July Century article by Therese Blennerhassett-Adams entitled The True Story of Harman Blennerhassett In the same number we noticed briefly Prof W H Venable's ...
... 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 ...
... 268 Ohio Arch 268 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications PRESERVATION OF HARRISON'S TOMB A sentimental motive prompted Colonel Russell B Harrison son of the late ex-President of the United States to come to Cincinnati yesterday He had a case in the United States Court but his important reason for the visit was to have a conference with his distant relative Colonel Lewis W Irwin in regard to inducing the United States Government to take over the burying ground at North Bend where the tombs of ...
... David Zeisberger Centennial David Zeisberger Centennial 179 Slumber on and may Christians of whatever creed Bow their heads to the altered condition And as years roll along with eternity speed Give thy tomb its deserved recognition Slumber on in the vale far away from thy birth Where pure beauty and plenty fail never Where thy victories were in the efforts put forth For the Race almost vanquished forever SITE OF LICHTENAU Regarding the location of Lichtenau founded by Rev David Zeisberger of ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 261 plained Indeed the annotations themselves have a value second only to the text which they explain They constitute a compendium of information that evidences the faithfulness and enthusiasm with which Mr Connelley has performed his work We cite only one instance especially interesting to Ohio readers It is Mr Connelley's note on the meaning of the word Ohio He says Ohio is derived from the Iroquois The original is variously spoken in the different dialects In ...
... ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO SATURDAY MARCH 29 1930 The Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met in annual session pursuant to call at 1 o'clock p m In the absence of President Johnson Vice-President George F Bareis presided Trustees present Bareis Orton Wood Spetnagle Goodman Florence and Hinkle Director Shetrone and ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 109 Marietta could not have been surpassed The place and time of the next annual meeting was left in the hands of the Executive Committee The proceedings in full of the meetings above including addresses etc will be published either in a later number of The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Quarterly or in a separate publication by the same Society PALEOLITHIC MAN IN THE WESTERN RESERVE The following article was written by P P Cherry and published in ...
... 296 Ohio Arch 296 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications This is a little volume just issued from the press in which the author recounts A tale of the Mound Builders The location of the events of the story is mainly at Serpent Mound and Marietta at which latter place the author locates the capital or abiding place of the king of the Mound Builders whom he calls Oko The story is not intricate and is simply and speedily told It is an imaginative portrayal of the life and character of the Mound ...
... 30 Ohio Arch 30 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Battle of Point Pleasant Treaty twenty years before was its beginning Had the pioneers been successful in that conflict the Americans would not have rebelled It would have shown the impossibility of success But Colonel Lewis was successful and Anthony Wayne was successful The Revolution culminated in independence but not for Ohio until Wayne fought the last battle that gave our people instead of England the land upon which we now stand ...
... The Presbyterians of Ohio The Presbyterians of Ohio 211 ABSTRACT OF THE SERMON ON THE PRESBYTERIANS OF OHIO BY REV SYLVESTER F SCOVEL PRESIDENT OF WOOSTER UNIVERSITY WOOSTER OHIO PREACHED IN THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH The Christian is a cosmopolitan Every land is his fatherland since God is his father So every Christian is brother to all other Christians Yet we may have a just concern which shall be special for our country and our church We have a century of Presbyterian experience behind ...
... THE KIRTLAND PHASE OF MORMONISM THE KIRTLAND PHASE OF MORMONISM By W J MCNIFF Kirtland Ohio was but a stepping stone for the Mormons as they restlessly pushed on towards the setting sun Somewhere in the West they planned a city of Zion Their leader prophesied a land of milk and honey gleaming with alabaster towers where righteousness would reign in the hearts of man The Kirtland phase came as an interlude between the future Zion of Missouri and the scornful attitude of the New Yorker In 1 827 ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR DEATH OF HONORABLE DANIEL J RYAN Early Friday morning June 15 1923 Daniel Joseph Ryan Vice President of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society breathed his last He had been in poor health for some time but the end came unexpectedly He passed without pain from the repose of sleep to the repose of death This announcement brings sadness to the members of ...
... Big Bottom and Its History Big Bottom and Its History 21 the rocky fortresses of the Appalachians Puritan and Cavalier looked down together upon the fair valley of the Ohio To them it was as the revelation to the prophet on Pisgah - the Promised Land They were permitted to enter But to hold it they fought with stubborn tenacity Every foot was contested But forward went this army across the prairies of Indiana and Illinois until the smoke curled from the settler's cabin on the banks of the ...
... Marching Through South Carolina Marching Through South Carolina Another Civil War Letter Of Lieutenant George M Wise Edited by WILFRED W BLACK Sherman's march through Georgia was accomplished On December 20 1864 General William J Hardee retreated from Savannah toward Charleston and from Savannah in the middle of January Sherman launched his campaign through the Carolinas with an army of 60000 marching in two broad columns The march through Georgia had been regarded as a picnic but it was not ...
... Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 577 Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 577 end of the biennium but the improvement of the grounds has not yet been started We wish at this time to submit the following extract from the deed of conveyance to the Society from Miss Clarissa C Moor of the tract referred to above Provided always and these presents are upon this express condition that the premises hereby conveyed shall be used for a park and monument site and approaches Said grantee its successors and assigns ...