... 84 Ohio Arch 84 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications INVOCATION BY REV IRVING MAURER 0 God bless us in this hour with worthy memories We thank Thee for the life of this friend of ours for his genial presence and his noble heart We thank Thee for his faith in the simple virtues for his confidence in the ways of the people for his trust in Thee Grant to us as we think of him in this fellowship of kindred spirits a more steadfast loyalty to the institutions which were dear to him that for each ...
... Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association 403 faded manuscripts for you and put the same into type-written form so that editors will readily accept them or you may not have historic mat ter so much at heart as the writer of these lines has nor have been taught by an honored historian a dear husband how to handle historic facts The leaders of the morning's conference then reported briefly upon their correspondence preparatory to the ...
... A CHRONOLOGY A CHRONOLOGY By WILLIAM D OVERMAN 1822--First effort at organizing a historical society in Ohio 1831--Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio 1875--Ohio Archaeological Society founded at Mansfield 1885--OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY organized Allen Granberry Thurman president Albert Adams Graham secretary 18 87--Francis Charles Sessions second president publication of the first QUARTERLY in June 1888--Centennial Celebration at Marietta April 7 1889--Society ...
... DARD HUNTER THE MOUNTAIN HOUSE AND DARD HUNTER THE MOUNTAIN HOUSE AND CHILLICOTHE By LLOYD EMERSON SIBERELL It is interesting to note that Dard Hunter was born in the little manufacturing town of Steubenville on the majestic Ohio River This town's chief bid for noteworthiness so the inhabitants and historians say lies in the fact that it was one of the very first settlements in the great Northwest Territory some claim it is second only to Marietta Fort Steuben having been erected there in 1789 ...
... An Ohio Farmer's Account of Morgan's Raid An Ohio Farmer 's Account of Morgan's Raid Edited by ARVILLE L FUNK A LTH OUG H OHIO contributed soldiers to all of the major battles of the Civil War the state itself was to know war only through an exciting thirteen-day invasion of its borders by The Thunderbolt of the Confederacy General John Hunt Morgan and his Confederate cavalry division The purpose of the raid through Kentucky Indiana and Ohio in July 1863 was to divert federal troops in these ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 591 Reviews Notes and Comments 591 THE DUNMORE TREATY In the hope that some trace might be discovered of the Dunmore Treaty to which references were made in the meeting of the McGuffey Society at the Logan Elm an account of which is published in this issue Governor James E Campbell President of the Society on August 3 addressed a letter to the American Ambassador at London England to which he has received the following answer DEAR SIRI have been instructed by the ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XVIII No l JANUARY 1909 SERPENT MOUND TOWER It will be recalled that the Seventy-Seventh General Assembly 1908 in the appropriations for the Society made provision by a special appropriation of 500 for the erection of a tower at Serpent Mound At the meeting of the Executive Committee held July 16 1908 the matter of making a contract and supervising the erection of this tower was placed in charge of a special committee consisting of Treasurer Wood and Secretary ...
... COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS REMBRANDT and THE OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY b y WILLIAM C KEENER A FEW MONTHS ago the Metropolitan Museum of Art shocked the public and certainly surprised the museum world by paying the remarkable sum of 2300000 for Rembrandt's painting of Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer It was an historic occasion and one filled with more than its share of drama Socialites art dealers critics collectors and museum people gathered for the sale in the austerely ...
... INDEX TO THE MINUTES OF THE FORTY-FIRST INDEX TO THE MINUTES OF THE FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY AND THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Archaeological and Historical Society gifts to Museum 623-624 list of acholds Annual Meeting 607 urges cessions 624-629 the Seip Mound completion of Building 607-608 need 630 American Anthropological Assofor expansion of Building 656-658 ciation Central section at the MuArchives Committee on appointed 608 seum 630 re-elected 668 Donahue ...
... strike 310 Pitt family 223 Pulte Joseph H 339-40 345 Pittsburgh 74 263-4 319 361 390 410 Pulte College 340 John May at 1 4 stopover for Punkari Jacob 150 GENERAL INDEX 439 GENERAL INDEX 439 Puky Stephen 133 Revolution of 1848 143 276 of 1863 Puritan hymns 73 143 of 1917139 147 257 Putnam Benjamin 32 Revolutionary War see American Putnam David J R 25 Revolution Putnam Douglas 26 32-3 Rhine Palatinate 18 Mennonites in282 Putnam Eliza 32-3 ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Society members might be interested in adding this information to their list of little known facts During 1895 this Society did not publish Ohio History's predecessor The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly but instead subsidized a two-year-old journal published in Waterloo Indiana The Archaeologist The publication moved to Columbus Ohio and for the next nine monthly issues it became the official organ of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical ...
... CASUALTIES OF BATTLE OF FALLEN CASUALTIES OF BATTLE OF FALLEN TIMBERS In order to determine as far as possible the casualties at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in January 1931 Mr W B Davis of Washington D C was employed to consult the records of the War Department This he did In his letter of transmittal he says among other things I find a great many records covering the period of August 20 1794 are missing When the British burned the White House many of the records were stored there and were ...
... WILLIAM M WILLIAM M DONNELLY Keeping the Buckeye in the Buckeye Division Major General Robert S Beightler and the 37th Infantry Division 1940-1945 On 15 October 1940 Major General Robert S Beightler and the 37th Infantry Division of the Ohio National Guard reported for what was supposed to be a one-year tour of Federal service Five years later Beightler and the Buckeye Division returned to Ohio Its original mission had been to expand to full wartime strength and train draftees from Ohio at ...
... The Story of a Flag 417 The Story of a Flag 417 SKETCH OF GENERAL J WARREN KEIFER From Who's Who in America KEIFER J WARREN born in Bethel Township Clark County Ohio January 30 1835 the son of Joseph and Mary Smith Keifer educated at Antioch College married Eliza Stout of Springfield Ohio March 22 1860 In law practice at Springfield Ohio since January 12 1858 president of Lagonda National Bank since 1873 Major of the 3rd Ohio Infantry April 27 1861 Lieutenant-Colonel February 12 1862 Colonel ...
... THOMAS WILDCAT ALFORD 338 THOMAS WILDCAT ALFORD THOMAS WILDCAT ALFORD A GREAT-GRANDSON OF TECUMSEH Among the interesting persons present at the unveiling of the George Rogers Clark monument near the site of the Battle of Piqua the birthplace of Tecumseh was Thomas Wildcat Alford a lineal descendant of that great Shawnee chieftain According to the Handbook of American Indians edited by Frederick Webb Hodge and published by the Bureau of American Ethnology Big Jim who died in 1905 was the ...
... 408 Ohio Arch 408 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications That was my first impression and Dr Schlesinger's that the Archaeological Museum will become in time the mecca for county historians or as he phrased it a laboratory for scientific historical research experiment synthesis and exploitation - forever We are still receiving papers from 67 of the 88 Ohio counties in many cases two or three papers from a county making about 150 papers in all scrap-books are being formed steadily by daily ...
... The Reds of 1869 by DAVID QUENTIN VOIGT We are a band of baseball players From Cincinnati City We come to toss the ball around And sing to you our ditty And if you listen to the song We are about to sing We'll tell you all about baseball And make the welkin ring The ladies want to know Who are those gallant men in Stockings red they'd like to know When the victorious 1869 Red Stockings were on tour they introduced themselves by singing the team's official song set to the tune of Bonnie Blue ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Academy of History Spring Meeting will be held April 28-29 2000 at Otterbein College in Westerville Ohio For further information contact Richard Spall Ohio Wesleyan University Department of History Delaware Ohio 43015 The Academy now has a Home Page at lthttpoahhistoryohiostateedugt Nominations for the Ohio Academy of History Public History Award are sought for the award to be presented at the annual spring meeting of the OAH Public history projects ...
... THE BUCKEYE THE BUCKEYE BY ALICE WILLIAMS BROTHERTON The rose and the thistle and the shamrock green And the leek are the flowers of Britain The fleur-de-lys on the flag of France In a band of blood is written But what shall we claim for our own fair land What flower for our own fair token The golden rod or the tasseled maize For each has its own bard spoken Oh the tasseled corn for the whole broad land For the Union no power can sever But the buckeye brown for the Buckeye State Shall be our ...
... strike Love's chord with clumsy hand You'll feel the melody I tried to playyou'll understand To E O Randall the Library was more than a trust He regarded it as an object of love to be affectionately cared for And through all the years that he was one of its Trustees he lavished upon it the best of his time and thought To one who knows the relation of Mr Randall to the Library there cannot but occur the inscription that adorns the north ...