... FORT McARTHUR FORT McARTHUR The following address delivered by the late Dr A W Munson on Memorial day of 1895 at Shingle Grove near Ft McArthur burying ground was read at a recent D A R meeting in Kenton and will be especially interesting to our readers now as this year 1912 marks the centennial of the founding of the old fort Comrades and FriendsWe have met here on this pleasant afternoon of May 30 1895 in this beautiful grove beneath these grand forest trees around these graves to do honor ...
... A HARMAR SESQUICENTENNIAL SYMPOSIUM A HARMAR SESQUICENTENNIAL SYMPOSIUM By Louis A WARREN The program this evening has been arranged in the form of a symposium in memory of the 150th anniversary of General Joseph Harmar's expedition against the Miami Indians here at Fort Wayne in 1790 We are pleased indeed to have three able speakers who can speak with authority on the various phases of the expedition You will observe on your program that the subjects to be discussed will approach the general ...
... Life was hard and toilsome in the early years of Ohio statehood for those souls who left warm eastern firesides and crossed the Alleghenies into the new western land In the first years of their settling long hours of work and the necessities of bare existence left little time for correspondence with family and friends The letters that have been preserved show the writers to be unusually literate for the time and place and they take on added significance in view of their scarcity An unusual ...
... THE MIAMI COUNTRY 1750-1815 THE MIAMI COUNTRY 1750-1815 AS DESCRIBED IN JOURNALS AND LETTERS by ELIZABETH FARIES Senior Assistant Reference and Catalog Department Dayton Public Library During the late 1700's and the early 1800's the Miami Country was a definite geographic area in the Northwest Territory This area has been defined as a region of approximately 5000 square miles in southwestern Ohio with a small adjoining wedge of southeastern Indiana It was particularly the land that forms the ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS THE C ROGHAN CELEBRATION LUCY ELLIOT KEELER It was not bad usage of the old Romans to bring down from its niche the waxen image of an eminent ancestor on the anniversary of his natal day to recall his features and achievements to their own minds and impress them upon the younger generation A like tribute the patriotic citizens of Fremont Ohio pay from time to time to their local hero Major George Croghan on the anniversary of that notable ...
... ROBERT YOST HIS BOOK ROBERT YOST HIS BOOK Rob't Yost his Book made for the purpose of noting down our Marching and what we seen and expericet while in the united States service beginning at St Clearsville Ohio Sept the third Eighteen hundred and thirteen and continued to note down as we march AN ORIGINAL JOURNAL REPRODUCED AS WRITTEN The original of this Journal is now in the possession of J W Yost a direct descendant of Robert the author Mr J W Yost had the Journal reproduced in exact ...
... 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 ...
... ANNE BAILEY ANNE BAILEY VIRGIL A LEWIS Mr Lewis is the State Historian of West Virginia the author of The History of West Virginia and many valuable publications concerning the early historical events in the Ohio Valley All that was earthly of Anne Bailey the Pioneer Heroine of the Great Kanawha Valley that has not crumbled to dust has been removed to Point Pleasant and re-interred in Tu-EndieWei Park It is therefore now time to eliminate from the story of her wonderful career and life of ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XVI INDEX TO VOLUME XVI A Atwater Caleb 451 Avery's History of United States 508 Aborigine Use of term 407 Axes Copper 154 155 157 158 Aborigines See Indians Aztecs 425 The 421 Confederacy of 431 Addresses Dodge Samuel D 18 Fairbanks Chas W 27 Harris Andrew L 30 Meek Basil 35 Bailey Anne Sargent Family connecMoore J P Groghan Celebration tion of 344 at 52 Heroism of 345 Randall E 0 31 Life of 341 Allen County Welsh churches in 223 Ball's Battle 47 48 Welsh settlements in 222 ...
... ISAAC NEWTON WALTER ISAAC NEWTON WALTER PIONEER PREACHER OF OHIO BYRON R LONG The writer while yet a small boy rummaging among the books in an old library came across a volume of thrilling interest The title of the book was The Pioneer Preacher written by a blind man who served his country in conspicuous places first as a pastor and then over a period of about twenty years as chaplain of the Senate and House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States This versatile man's name was ...
... THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TREATY OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TREATY OF GREENE VILLE BY PRESTON SLOSSON To Voltaire is ascribed the remark that Penn's Treaty with the Indians was the only treaty not sworn to and the only one not broken No doubt he did not intend his epigram to be taken too seriously but it is tragic truth that most treaties whether signed in European palaces or in rough frontier forts with great civilized nations or with primitive savage tribes have been broken But if Voltaire had ...
... ANNE SARGENT BAILEY ANNE SARGENT BAILEY MRS JAMES R HOPLEY The quality of bravery is capable of varied definitions The brave endurance of outward conditions not subject to improvement or of pain not subject to amelioration the brave advance into the decreptitude of years without loss of vital interests or active optimism the bravery of those pronounced incurable and who know themselves likely to die violent painful or loathsome deaths the fortitude of others who await terrible physical ordeals ...
... 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 ...
... KENTON'S GAUNTLET AT CHILLICOTHE KENTON'S GAUNTLET AT CHILLICOTHE T J BROWN WAYNESVILLE OHIO The question of the identity of Old Town near Xenia with the Chillicothe where Kenton ran the gauntlet the first time has been thoroughly discussed in previous issues of the QUARTERLY and in my opinion the evidence in favor of it is decidedly satisfactory Prof McFarland's testimony seems conclusive of itself while the traditions bearing upon the question reach back to the earliest settlement of that ...
... edited by edited by JOSEPH E WALKER The Travel Notes of Joseph Gibbons 1804 Introduction With General Anthony Wayne's victory over the Indians of the Northwest Territory in 1794 and the resultant Treaty of Greene Ville settlement in eastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania became relatively safe A stream of migrants moved across the mountains and up from the South in sufficient numbers that Ohio could claim statehood in 1803 Why did a family leave the security of eastern Pennsylvania to take ...
... TALLMADGE TOWNSHIP TALLMADGE TOWNSHIP E O RANDALL Six miles east of Akron the thriving official center of its county in almost its pristine solitude pioneer simplicity and primitive picturesqueness lies the quiet little village of Tallmadge Its two or three hundred contented inhabitants go their way today as undisturbed by the social follies or the commercial whirl distant but one hour's travel as though they were lodged in some vast wilderness inaccessible to the inroads of society's ...
... 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 ...
... 146 Ohio Arch 146 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications COLONEL THOMAS CRESAP BY MRS MARY LOUISE CRESAP STEVENSON To write the history of Colonel Thomas Cresap is to write the Colonial History of Maryland and Virginia and more or less of Ohio To recount the story of these colonies is to tell the story of the Revolution The rehearsal of that noble struggle would involve much of the history of the great powers of Europe and you might conclude we were like Tennyson's brook and would 'go on ...
... A Surgeon's Mate at Fort Defiance A Surgeon's Mate at Fort Defiance The Journal of Joseph Gardner Andrews For the Year 1795 Edited by R I CHARD C KNOPF On May 4 1792 Joseph Gardner Andrews enlisted in the army of the United States as a surgeon's mate His qualifications for the position were considered adequate by the standards of his day he had graduated from Harvard College in 1785 and since that time had been employed as a schoolmaster at Dorchester Massachusetts Perhaps partly from a spirit ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Territorial Papers of the United States Compiled and edited by Clarence Edwin Carter Volumes VII-VIII Indiana Territory 1800-1816 U S Dept of State Publications Nos 1383-1384 Washington D C Government Printing Office 1939 2v 784 p 496 p 200 150 The Library of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society has received volumes VII and VIII of the Territorial Papers of the United States compiled and edited by Dr Clarence Edwin Carter of the Department of State ...