... WHAT WE OWE TO THE PAST WHAT WE OWE TO THE PAST BY NEVIN 0 WINTER The student of history is generally attracted by events which occurred at some remote place It is another illustration of distance lending enchantment In Europe I have seen Americans tramping over the scenes of battles which had no significance in the world's history They were simply scenes of conflicts between rival factions in local disturbances Some of these same Americans have passed by battlefields near their own homes ...
... 260 Ohio Arch 260 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications DISCOURSES OF REV RHEES Through the courtesy of Mr George A Katzenberger president of the Greenville Ohio Historical Society we have received duplicate copies of two discourses by Rev Morgan John Rhys delivered at Greenville on July 4 and 5 respectively in the year 1795 before the officers and army of Major General Anthony Wayne Rev Morgan John Rhys or as it is also printed Rhees was born in Graddfa Llanfabon Glamorganshire South Wales ...
... 362 Ohio Arch 362 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 4 A DESCRIPTION OF FORT ANCIENT WARREN KING MOOREHEAD The members of the Society and also the readers of THE ARCHAEOLOGIST have a special interest in the earthworks and enclosures of the Mississippi Valley The former are proud to be possessers and preservers in company with the State of Ohio of the most extensive prehistoric fortification of the United States The latter as students of antiquities are interested in facts obtained ...
... 302 Ohio Arch 302 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications THE FIRST COURT IN OHIO From the American Pioneer The first court held northwest of the river Ohio under the forms of civil jurisprudence was opened at Campus Martius Marietta September 2d 1788 It will be remembered that on the preceding 7th of April General Rufus Putnam with forty-seven men had landed and commenced the first permanent settlement in what is now the state of Ohio General Harmar with his regulars occupied Fort Harmar ...
... JOSEPH E JOSEPH E WEINLAND REBUILDER OF SCHOENBRUNN BY ROBERT M WILKIN Our meeting tonight is occasioned by the departure of our president from our community and his resignation as president of this Association and chairman of the Schoenbrunn Committee The purpose of the meeting is to take account of his services and express our gratitude for what he has done and what he has been We meet as historians and retrospection is the business of historians Historians look back through the years put ...
... REMARKS OF I REMARKS OF I N STURTEVANT DD I HAV E an ambition to speak on this occasion I wish to make a statement in the line of what has been said to-day which it may be bold for me to make and yet there is a fire in my bones that will not let me rest unless I make it I have looked to-day on the cemeteries here the burial places of the Indians-nothing left of these but the monuments of their day the cemetery where sleep the dead the soldier heroes of four wars and somehow filled as I have ...
... AMERICANS BEFORE COLUMBUS AMERICANS BEFORE COLUMBUS BY GERARD FOWKE We have become so accustomed to thinking of Columbus as the original and only discoverer of America the western continent that we quite overlook several important points which should be considered in this connection The principal item is one which we know so well that we often fail to remember it at all and this is that when Columbus made his landing he found not a desert not a wilderness but a well-inhabited country Then as ...
... 424 Ohio Arch 424 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications pass through the Governor's office for he holds the veto power and we are equally indebted therefore to good Governor Judson Harmon who has long been a member of our Society and taken a deep and active interest in its proceedings We had a very delightful and successful voyage through the Governor's office Governor Harmon is not able to be present in person but we are greatly favored in having with us his good Secretary Honorable George ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE VANISHED BISHOPRIC-AN INTERESTING BIT OF OHIO HISTORY The Catholic Historical Review for July contains for people of Ohio a vastly interesting paper A Vanished Bishopric of Ohio dealing the rile French settlement at Scioto or Gallipolis on the Ohio River and the proposition to establish thereat a Catholic bishopric some time about the year 1789 the year that Bishop John Carroll was appointed to the See of Baltimore with jurisdiction over all the United States It ...
... CORNSTALK THE INDIAN CHIEF CORNSTALK THE INDIAN CHIEF BY MRS ORSON D DRYER Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top When the wind blows the cradle will rock A certain queer little cradle hanging from a limb of a tree in a great green forest about the year 1720 is rocking to and fro as the soft summer wind sways the branches above it It is a gay and pretty cradle soft and warm with the skin of the moose and gorgeous with bird feathers and brightly colored quills of the porcupine and from it shine out ...
... THE SIEGE OF FORT MEIGS THE SIEGE OF FORT MEIGS EARL A SALIERS Ohio State University The War of 1812 furnishes perhaps a fewer number of notable achievements accomplished on land than any other of our wars The lack of a regular army and the consequent dependence upon militia would have made it difficult for an efficient general to execute a prolonged campaign while the position which a section of the country took against the war rendered success still more difficult Despite ill preparation and ...
... FRIENDS AND THE SHAWNEE INDIANS AT FRIENDS AND THE SHAWNEE INDIANS AT WAPAKONETA By HARLOW LINDLEY About the beginning of the last century two bands of Shawnee Indians are known to have been settled on lands in the vicinity of the present town of Wapakoneta Ohio In the year 1809 these Indians began to receive attention from the Friends of Ohio Yearly Meeting In order to assist them in adopting civilized modes of living they built for them a saw and grist mill on their lands and some of the ...
... INDIAN ATTACK ON FORT DUNLAP INDIAN ATTACK ON FORT DUNLAP STEPHEN DECATER CONE Mr Cone is a resident of Hamilton Ohio During a long life he has been a student of Ohio history has written many articles for publication and with Mr Bert S Bartlow was one of the co-editors of the Centennial History of Butler County-- EDITOR In the far-famed Miami valley nine miles below Hamilton on the banks of the Miami river more than one hundred and fourteen years ago there occurred an incident of our pioneer ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA OHIO DAY IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS At the regular monthly meeting of the Executive Committee of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical society held Friday July 18 1902 Professor C L Martzolff trustee presented a scheme to have the public schools throughout the state celebrate the admission of Ohio into the Union on March 1 1903 He proposed that the Society through a committee prepare a program of exercises for that occasion such program to consist of historical ...
... THE STUDY OF HISTORY--A HINDRANCE OR A HELP THE STUDY OF HISTORY--A HINDRANCE OR A HELP IN THE PERFECTING OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION By K C LEEBRICK This statement was made by Nicholas Murray Butler at the 184th Commencement of Columbia University June 1 1938 Ideas and principles as well as kings can abdicate There are many disturbing signs--and not in Europe or in Asia alone--that Democracy is moving in no small measure unconsciously toward abdication The long and steady progress of ...
... ABORIGINAL HISTORY OF BUTLER COUNTY ABORIGINAL HISTORY OF BUTLER COUNTY AFTER a brief popular discussion of the evidences of pre-glacial man in France England and New Jersey Mr MacLean spoke of the analogy between the situation of the gravel terraces along the Miami in Butler county and those in which the remains of man have been found in the other places referred to Like the terraces on the Delaware at Trenton New Jersey where Dr C C Abbott had found rough stone implements of pre-glacial age ...
... THE SALE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE THE SALE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE AT the beginning of the Revolutionary War the State of Connecticut claimed the strip of land lying within her charter limits forty-one degrees and forty-two degrees two minutes north latitude extending from the Delaware River to the Mississippi River The State of Pennsylvania also claimed so much of this strip as lay within her charter limits that is east of a meridian line five degrees west of the Delaware A bitter controversy ...
... Minutes of the Annual Meeting 691 Minutes of the Annual Meeting 6 91 An aye and nay vote being taken the Chairman was in doubt as to the result and called for a standing vote The result of this vote was Aye 16 nay 11 The resolution was duly adopted Colonel Hayes moved and it was seconded that a committee be appointed to revise the constitution The Chairman being in doubt as to result of an aye and nay vote called for a standing vote The vote resulted as follows Aye 7 nay 14 The motion was ...
... STATE SOVEREIGNTY IN OHIO STATE SOVEREIGNTY IN OHIO BY JEAN DICK CHEETHAM The doctrine of state sovereignty was the natural outgrowth of conditions which existed in the American colonies1 in the Articles of Confederation the doctrine assumed definite form each state was to retain its sovereignty freedom and independence and this was the element of weakness that undermined the Confederation it hindered the acceptance of the Constitution by the States and delayed their union it was made the ...
... SIEUR DE LA SALLE SIEUR DE LA SALLE The Great French Explorer Along the Maumee and Wabash Rivers in the years 1669 and 1670 BY CHARLES E SLOCUM M D PH D DEFIANCE OHIO M Jean Talon Intendant of New France wrote to Louis XIV king of France under date of loth October 1670 that he had dispatched persons of resolution who promise to penetrate further than has ever been done the one to the West and to the Northwest of Canada and the others to the South West and South Paris Document I New York ...