... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Beginnings of the U S Army 1783-1812 By James Ripley Jacobs Princeton New Jersey Princeton University Press 1947 497p including bibliography and index 500 This handsomely bound beautifully printed and heavily footnoted volume relates in considerable detail and in extremely readable form the military history of the United States from the end of hostilities with Britain in 1783 to their outbreak again in 1812 It is the first of several volumes that will carry the ...
... THE INDIAN THOROUGHFARES OF OHIO THE INDIAN THOROUGHFARES OF OHIO BY ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT History tells of two Ohios151the old and the new The old Ohio was that portion of the American Hinterland drained by the Ohio and Allegheny rivers which together formed la Belle Riviere of New France It included the territory between the Alleghenies the Mississippi and the great lakes save as we except the country of Illinois which early in history became a territory distinct by itself as the meadow ...
... FORT ST FORT ST CLAIR CELEBRATION OF ST CLAIR DAY No history of the Northwest Territory would be complete without conspicuous reference to what is now Preble County Ohio Through its primeval forests General Arthur St Clair in the autumn of 1791 marched on his ill-fated expedition to disastrous defeat by the Indians near the present site of Fort Recovery to return later in disorderly retreat Over the same route General Anthony Wayne advanced with his legions by careful stages in October 1793 to ...
... SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON'S JOURNEY AROUND SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON'S JOURNEY AROUND LAKE ERIE By CATHALINE ALFORD ARCHER Lake Erie and its borders have received some unusual attention lately including the explorations and early settlements Herewith is some pertinent material which seems not to have been reckoned with but which seems essential to the full story Harlan Hatcher's Lake Erie 1945 for example presumably the latest and best-organized account of the period does not mention the journey of Sir ...
... 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 ...
... JOSIAH HARMAR AND HIS INDIAN EXPEDITION JOSIAH HARMAR AND HIS INDIAN EXPEDITION By HOWARD H PECKHAM When the Revolutionary War ended the new United States of America faced a problem that is acutely familiar to us today Nobody wanted to remain in the Army or Navy At the conclusion of the Revolution there were probably 20000 to 30000 men under arms The single unifying aim of the war -- independence from Great Britain - - appeared to have been won at least on the battlefield Acknowledgement of ...
... THE HARRISON TABLE ROCK AND BALL'S THE HARRISON TABLE ROCK AND BALL'S BATTLEFIELD On Saturday September 10 1910 the anniversary of Perry's Victory on Lake Erie 1813 two of the most important historical sites on the route of the Harrison Trail through Sandusky County were marked with bronze tablets and appropriate unveiling exercises by the ladies of the Colonel George Croghan Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution We publish the report of the proceedings as appeared in The Fremont Daily ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XXIII INDEX TO VOLUME XXIII A Banks - Concluded Agriculture Ideal pioneer plantation 250 Exchange 320 Possibilities of Ohio 232-256 Franklin of Columbus 319 Akron Founder of 284 287 Legislation regulating 314 Algonquins 107 Mechanics' Savings Institute 320 Allen Gov William 35 Notes issued by 313 315 American-British Peace Treaty 28 Ohio State 316 Americanists Visit of 381 Pioneer bankers 318 American State Papers Extracts from Private 321 relating to Dohrman 227 Thompson's ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XVII INDEX TO VOLUME XVII A Twenty-third annual meeting of O Adena 185 189 A amp I S 132 Description of 191 Washington's Tour of the Ohio Distinguished visitors to 191 and articles of The Mississippi Allread James I Address of 120 Company 431 Amos J O Sketch of Loramie village Atwater Caleb mention of 254 by 9 B ArchaeologyBacon David - Collection in 144 Cabin site of 289 Mound Builders and the Lost Tribes Death of 292 208 Discomfiture of 290 Some Ohio Investigations in 94 ...
... 64 Ohio Arch 64 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications and of course there is a constant demand for new vessels Further along after traversing a portion of the Ohio river the same author writes The boats which float upon the Ohio river are various--from the ship of several hundred tons burden to the mere skiff Very few if any very large vessels however are now built at Pittsburgh and Marietta but the difficulties incident to getting them to the ocean have rendered such undertakings infrequent ...
... FIRST CATHOLIC CHURCH IN OHIO FIRST CATHOLIC CHURCH IN OHIO The question is often asked When did the Catholic Church first make a permanent settlement in Ohio We have diligently sought the desired information From Hon W B Archer member of the Senate of the 81st General Assembly we recently received the following communication which seems to settle the question of the first Ohio Catholic Church - EDITOR In compliance with your request I give a brief statement of what is known as the East Fork ...
... FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT oF THE OHIO STATE ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR FEBRUARY 24 1898 TO FEBRUARY 1 1899 GEN R BRINKERHOFF President E O RANDALL Secretary COLUMBUS O JANUARY 1899 275 To His Excellency Asa S To His Excellency Asa S Bushnell Governor of Ohio I herewith have the honor to submit the fourteenth annual report of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society covering the year February 24 1898 to February 1 1899 With very ...
... Address of Governor McKinley Address of Governor McKinley 207 ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR McKINLEY DELIVERED AT GREENVILLE OHIO AUGUST 8 1895 INTRODUCTION BY J R KNOX - The people of Ohio like to see their Governor the soldiers of the army like to see their old comrade everybody wants to see McKinley and I have the pleasure now fellow citizens of presenting to you Governor McKinley of Ohio who will now address you Mr President Ladies and Gentlemen Your president has said that the people of Ohio want ...
... KENTON'S CHILLICOTHE KENTON'S CHILLICOTHE BY T J BROWN WAYNESVILLE OHIO Having been born and lived most of my life in Greene county and within easy driving distance of Old Town the site of what I learned to designate as New Chillicothe and having known when a boy about 1840 an old Indian fighter who was a participant in the ill-conducted Bowman expedition intended to capture and destroy that village I read up very early in life all the adventures I could find connected therewith As to the ...
... SKETCH OF CORNSTALK SKETCH OF CORNSTALK 1759-1777 The following sketch of Cornstalk is from the Draper MSS Border Forays 3 D Chap XVIII in the possession of the Wisconsin Historical Society Madison Wisconsin It is herewith published for the first time through the courtesy of Dr Reuben GoldThwaites Secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society-EDITOR The early history of Cornstalk1 is involved in obscurity During those eventful years of Indian attack and massacre between 1754 and 1763 there can ...
... THE ZOAR SOCIETY APPLICANTS THE ZOAR SOCIETY APPLICANTS FOR MEMBERSHIP By EDGAR B NIXON The Society of Separatists of Zoar Ohio was one of the more successful of the many cooperative communities which appeared in this country during the last century Zoar was founded by German peasants and artisans who emigrated from Wurtemburg in 1817 to escape the civil and ecclesiastical persecution to which they had been subjected as members of the Separatist faith The Separatists were dissentients from the ...
... JONATHAN ALDER JONATHAN ALDER COL WM CURRY The tales of adventure and bloodshed related by the early pioneers of Ohio of their dangers and hardships have been familiar to me since boyhood Among others of whom I heard many harrowing stories related by my father and other pioneers was of Jonathan Alder who was at one time a resident of Union county Ohio and a noted pioneer and frontiersman Like Captain Samuel Davis the famous Indian fighter he was taken captive by the Indians and the latter part ...
... 56 Ohio Arch 56 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications emphasized by the hundreds of Japanese lanterns strung along either bank and in sweeping festooons across the big Lake Erie bridge Near the bridge and extending across the river were seven of the largest boats in the river bearing huge electric transparencies upon which appeared six-foot letters spelling the name Croghan which was also seen in a set piece The hit of the evening was the reproduction of Fort Stephenson on the southern ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XXVI No 2 APRIL 1917 FORT LAURENS PURCHASED It will be recalled that the autumn winter and spring of 1777-8 was the period of the low ebb of the cause of the Colonial Revolutionists In the late spring of 1778 while Washington was just emerging from Valley Forge George Rogers Clark entered upon the daring expedition to save the Northwest to the Colonies The British-Canadian authorities were planning not only to circumvent Clark but to carry the war into Africa by ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies BRECKSVILLE EARLY SETTLERS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Brecksville Mrs Eddy Burke Fosnocht President New officers of the association are Mrs Eddy Burke Fosnocht president and treasurer Ernest Green first vice president Mrs Elmer Lewis second vice president Mrs Walter Lister secretary and Harriet Wright curator Trustees are Rev J Chandler Adams Mrs Albert Birdsall Benjamin P Forbes Ernest Green Mrs Elmer Lewis Ray Thayer and Dr Charles K Teter ...