... settlement at the foot of a settlement an important river crossing was laid out in 1792 by Joseph Parkinson who named it Williamsport but until its incorporation in 1833 it was commonly called Parkinson's Ferry Encyclopaedia Brittanica 14th ed XV 729 66 Washington Pennsylvania laid out in 1781 at the site of a Delaware Indian village Incorporated as a borough in 1810 it was chartered as a ...
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... Minutes of the Annual Meeting 567 Minutes of the Annual Meeting 567 of the earth my people urged me to make four requests-First that the flame of their fireplace may not sway to and fro sickness Second that their weapon may be sharpened on both sides Success in war Legends say that there was once a race that had a sharp bony structure growing out on both sides of their forearms for use in war Third that the number of days I left behind me may be proportionately divided among my relatives ...
... County is also available If you need more information about these publications or would like to request an order form write to Firelands Historical Society 4 Case Avenue Norwalk Ohio 44857 A Biography of America is a new twenty-six-part instructional video series developed by WGBH Boston and AnnenbergCPB in cooperation with the Library of Congress and the National Archives and Records Administration The series is designed for use in college or ...
... About WS 2003 Winter-Spring 2003 Contents Staff and Advisory Board OHS Board of Trustees Instructions for Authors PDF of these pages Click page numbers to view articles PDF links are also provided for printing articles Can't read PDFs Get Adobe Acrobat Reader ARTICLES 4 Richest and Best Is the Wine of the West The Ohio River Valley and the Jewish Frontier by Amy Hill Shevitz PDF of this article 19 A High School to Remember The Greenfield Legacy of McClain Harris and Ittner by Virginia E ...
... BOOK NOTES BOOK NOTES Women In Kentucky By Helen Deiss Irvin Lexington The University Press of Kentucky 1979 134p photographs source listing Another contribution to the Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf series this work outlines the history of the Kentucky women from 1775 through the 1930s The six chapters focus on the lives of settlers workers and reformers without doting on the contributions of exceptional Kentucky women Based upon published diaries autobiographies biographies and newspapers ...
... About WS 2004 Winter-Spring 2004 Contents Staff and Advisory Board OHS Board of Trustees Instructions for Authors PDF of these pages Click page numbers to view articles PDF links are also provided for printing articles Can't read PDFs Get Adobe Acrobat Reader ARTICLES 4 Communication Technology Transforms the Marketplace The Effect of the Telegraph Telephone and Ticker on the Cincinnati Merchants' Exchange by Bradford W Scharlott PDF of this article 18 Steubenville Ohio and the ...
... settlement in the State and settlement While the Valvoja settlement at Ashtabula Harbor Of these only two manifested any signs of longevity the Valvoja which appeared for nearly five years and the Yhdysvaltain Sanomat which was in existence for nine years10 After August Edwards' removal to Minneapolis in 1893 the Ohio Finns were without a ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue Miss HELEN MARY CARPENTER is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University with graduate training in Columbia University She is now teacher of history in the Norwalk Ohio high school GEORGE A KATZENBERGER is an attorney-at-law at Greenville Ohio He has previously written articles for the QUARTERLY on Major David Zeigler and Major George Adams EM ERSON F GREENMAN is curator of archaeology in the Ohio State Museum LLOYD EMERSON SIBERELL is the author of A ...
... ROBERT BUTLER ROBERT BUTLER Book Notes The Story of Independence By Grace Miller Elizabeth Spellman Kathryn Boyer and Robert Boyer Independence Ohio Independence Historical Society 1979 248p drawings photographs appendices bibliography index This book is an example of local narrative history at its best The authors have concentrated on the story of one town in Ohio's Western Reserve and the record of its changes and growth While the book begins with a brief discussion of the geographic ...
... Minutes of the Fall Business Meeting Minutes of the Fall Business Meeting Of the Ohio Academy of History Tiffin October 12 1956 The fall meeting of the Ohio Academy of History was held at Heidelberg College The president of the Academy Dr Grover C Platt called the business meeting to order and requested Dr Robert W Twyman of Bowling Green to act as temporary secretary for the purpose of taking minutes Thirty persons were present The president called the attention of those assembled to the fact ...
... County Ohio By James O County congregation and as with the previous two he makes an original contribution to Ohio's local religious history Lehman presents a detailed account of Oak Grove's Amish Mennonites covering their activities over the century and a half since their organization in the early nineteenth century The work is more than just religious history using the Mennonites as his ...
... settlement to the present Written by Albert Hamilton the book sells for 195 For more information contact the Catholic Conference of Ohio 22 South Young Street Columbus Ohio 43215 The Spirit of '76 An American Portrait is now available from Notes and Queries 55 Notes and Queries 55 Quail Hill Association Box 1776 Fallbrook California 92028 for 795 Written by Willard F Gordon this illustrated biography of Archibald M Willard contains a ...
... County Ohio these he procured from a dealer The specimens are clearly not Ohio specimens and are typical Georgia finds Further the country has been flooded with spurious artifacts with complete records furnished by dealers throughout the country The commercially inclined collector destroys the mounds and village sites merely for the relics they find blotting out forever what might be of great importance to the archaeologist who will sooner or ...
... Minutes of the Meeting of the Minutes of the Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History Columbus April 8 1961 T HE OHIO ACADEMY o f History held its twenty-eighth annual meeting at the Ohio State Museum on April 8 1961 Two concurrent sessions were held in the morning and two in the afternoon Robert L Gilmore of Ohio University presided over the Latin American history section at which Father Charles E Ronan SJ of Xavier University delivered a paper entitled Clavigero Eighteenth Century Voice of ...
... 126 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 126 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY during the past year Mr Johnson President Mr Eagleson First VicePresident Mr Lindley Secretary and Mr Miller Treasurer be reelected for the coming year and that the secretary be instructed to cast the ballot for their re-election This motion seconded by Mr Spetnagel was unanimously approved Mr Johnson asked that the secretary draft letters to the two retiring members of the Board of Trustees Mr ...
... settlements and techniques the details of the Wilson-Hoover experience in using food relief as a solution to Communist penetration the history of the Red Hunt and the role of government in business Socially-minded novelists aside from their skill or lack of it have shown discernment in recognizing the contemporary bearings of race in the Reconstruction era or of ideologies in the role of Tom Paine or Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Such contemporary ...
... PRESENTATION OF RARE COLLECTION BY PRESENTATION OF RARE COLLECTION BY PROFESSOR EMERSON VENABLE After adjourning to the Library as above noted the following proceedings were had SECRETARY GALBREATH Mr Emerson Venable teacher author and writer will present the Dolores Cameron Venable Memorial Collection in honor of his late wife MR EMERSON VENABLE Mr Galbreath and Members of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society I regret that my daughter Evelyn Venable is unable to be present on ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 101 Reviews Notes and Comments 101 who figured in the stories and afterward led to an appreciative study of life on the plains with scarcely any depreciation in his estimate of the spectacular character of Buffalo Bill A famous Iowa writer has declared that nothing lies like history and expresses the opinion that we must go to the imagination for realities This is a part of his apology for writing a romance of the famous Johnny Appleseed While we are not prepared at ...