... Sermon by Rev Sermon by Rev John Moncure 221 SERMON BY REV JOHN MONCURE RECTOR OF ST PETER'S CHURCH TEXTRemember the days of old consider the years of many generationsDeuteronomy 32 7 A hundred years in the history of a place affords a fruitful subject for study When we gaze through the vistas of past events and consider the whys and the wherefores and when we thus are brought into realization of the fact that the things which once appeared to men as through a glass darkly by the light of a ...
... Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 595 Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 595 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO OCTOBER 2 1924 Present Messrs Campbell Bareis Prince Goodman Johnson Wood Furniss and Dawes On motion of Mr Wood duly seconded James E Campbell was elected President of the Society Professor Prince moved that George F Bareis be elected First Vice President of the Society At the suggestion of ...
... Battle Flags of Ohio Battle Flags of Ohio 249 If you will incorporate this letter I will be much obliged It will explain why I was not there and will also show that I appreciated the patriotic and significant character of the occasion Trusting that this will meet with your approval and again thanking you for the kindness you have shown me in this matter which I assure you is highly appreciated I remain Very truly your etc Signed J B FORAKER HON D A LIGGITT Rushsylvania Ohio TRIBUTE OF EX-GOV ...
... 9 0 FLINT RIDGE FLINT RIDGE BY WILLIAM C MILLS INTRODUCTORY NOTE The explorations and studies recorded in this paper on Flint Ridge were undertaken for the purpose of securing for exhibition in the State Museum a complete collection of the various kinds of flint found at Flint Ridge as well as the implements used in quarrying the flint from its natural bed A preliminary examination of Flint Ridge beginning at its western edge in Hopewell Township Licking County Ohio extending eastward and ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS PREHISTORIC EARTHWORKS IN WISCONSIN A B STOUT University of Wisconsin In presenting this subject it seems best to the writer to treat somewhat in detail the various classes of earthworks and then to give a summary for the state as a whole with a brief discussion of the archaeological area to which it belongs With this plan in view the various artificial earthen structures in Wisconsin of prehistoric origin at least the greater number are ...
... OPENING REMARKS OPENING REMARKS by JOHN W BENNE TT On behalf of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and the Ohio State University I want to welcome you all to this first meeting of the organization tentatively entitled Ohio Valley Historic Indian Conference Our discussions today will be general rather than specific a matter of viewpoints and perspectives of the three disciplines represented in the meeting--archaeology ethnohistory and history We hope this will be the ...
... BOWMAN'S CAMPAIGN OF 1779 BOWMAN'S CAMPAIGN OF 1779 Copied and published by permission of the Wisconsin Historical Society from the Draper MSS Bedinger Papers A-Vol I pp 19-31 inclu-EDITOR Started about 1st of June-and continued about 4 weeksvide page - for bear killing Holder commanded a company-not over 20 or 25 belonged to Boonesboro-the remainder in neighboring Stations if any then settled marched to Lexington thence on to the mouth of Licking When near the mouth here one of the party ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR A VISIT FROM BENJAMIN LUNDY A letter of Ruth Galbreath wife of Nathan Galbreath dated New Garden Ohio 2nd mo 3rd 1833 contains among other things a description of a visit from Benjamin Lundy which may be of interest to readers of this issue of the QUARTERLY as it expresses the regard of Columbiana County Quakers for this reformer and bears testimony to the fact that ...
... MUSKINGUM RIVER IMPROVEMENT MUSKINGUM RIVER IMPROVEMENT THE McCONNELSVILLE LOCK-OLD AND NEW IRVEN TRAVIS The beginning of the improvement of the Muskingum dates back to 1827 when on January 17th the following resolution was passed by the General Assembly Resolved That the Board of Canal Commissioners deem it expedient and authorize an examination and survey of the Muskingum River from Marietta to a point most convenient for a connection with the Ohio Canal to ascertain the practicability of ...
... FOREWORD FOREWORD BY DR WM W PENNELL As a native of Holmes County and one of its residents for many years my earliest recollections cling to the things that claimed the attention of its people at a very interesting period Among these were the threat of war between the North and South if Lincoln should be elected president runaway slaves and the story Uncle Tom's Cabin These were not peculiar to that county conditions there could have been duplicated a thousand times The threat had no deterring ...
... SERVICES OF THE OHIO COMPANY IN DEFENDSERVICES OF THE OHIO COMPANY IN DEFENDING THE UNITED STATES FRONTIER FROM INVASION WHEN General Putnam undertook the superintending of the Ohio Company and landed with his organized force of pioneers at Marietta on April 7th 1788 he assumed a more important and difficult task than that of opening a wilderness for cultivation and providing houses and homes for settlers On his way out from Massachusetts he stopped over in New York and made himself thoroughly ...
... 378 Ohio Arch 378 Ohio Arch and His Society Pu bli cations ST CLAIR'S DEFEAT AS TOLD BY AN EYE-WITNESS--FROM ORIGINAL MSS BY FRAZER E WILSON GREENVILLE O It is refreshing to read an original account of any important battle especially when the field of action is near at hand Of the 600 survivors of St Clair's unfortunate army probably quite a number wrote narratives which have been lost or destroyed in the wreck of time The General's own report and the description of Benjamin Van Cleve have ...
... PRESENTATION OF PORTRAITS OF PRESENTATION OF PORTRAITS OF AMERICAN INDIANS BY GENERAL EDWARD ORTON JR During the spring of 1924 an exhibit of the work of a rising young American artist Mr W Langdon Kihn of New York was shown in this city and was found to consist wholly of original portraits of American Indians made from life in their own homes under conditions which reduced their natural embarrassment timidity or superstitious fear of portraiture to a minimum thus greatly favoring truthful and ...
... 394 Ohio Arch 394 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications productive but Fact as related to this venture may well congratulate itself that here the richest of soil only awaits cultivation The Ohio Magazine will endeavor to afford the people of this state a monthly medium for their enlightenment and entertainment with the aid of the pen brush and camera It will try to stand for Ohio character and represent what is best in Ohio manhood and womanhood It will seek a special sphere in which it ...
... KANSAS' DEAD IN FRANCE KANSAS' DEAD IN FRANCE BY WHITTIER C MITCHELL Leans from his warrior's heaven down John Brown Immortal Madman Brown Who shamed a nation by a deed Bolder than that of Winkelreid Swept to his dauntless breast the spears Of Freedom's foes and ere her tears Streamed on his bier with God's own fire Enkindled Slavery's funeral pyre That by its glare might all men see That all are bond till all are free He leans and smiles A measured tread Echoes up from the trenches red New ...
... 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 ...
... 286 Ohio Arch 286 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The program began at 2 o'clock Hon E O Randall presided and after a very brief preliminary address introduced Mrs Jones who read the following paper PRESENTATION SPEECH OF MRS HOWARD JONES One hundred and thirty-eight years ago this October momentous events were happening in this beautiful valley of the Scioto and history was being made in this fertile Pickaway plain-land East of us about seven miles at Camp Charlotte were about fifteen ...
... INTRODUCTORY REMARKS INTRODUCTORY REMARKS By PHILIP C NASH LADIES AND GENTLEMEN It is my very great pleasure and honor to declare open the sessions of the Maumee Valley International Historical Convention It was 146 years ago that the Battle of Fallen Timbers was fought and all the events that we are commemorating in this Convention occurred more than a century ago There has been an orderly and gradual development of civilization in this neighborhood and in this country ever since those days ...
... 234 Ohio Arch 234 Ohio A rch and Hist Society Publications right we must be just as scrupulous in doing justice to the man of great wealth as in exacting justice from him Wrongdoing is confined to no class Good and evil are to be found among both rich and poor and in drawing the line among our fellows we must draw it on conduct and not on worldly possessions Woe to this country if we ever get to judging men by anything save their worth as men without regard to their fortune in life In other ...
... 142 Ohio Arch 142 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications LAST EDITORIAL The following from The Columbus Evening Dispatch of September 2 1 919 is believed to be the last editorial contribution from Mr Randall to that paper It may be considered his final word on a subject to which he had given much thought and on which he had frequently written WHO WERE THE MOUND BUILDERS The remarkable discoveries recently unearthed by the exploring department of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical ...