... Miamie the Indians keeping runners continually before our advance guards At half past two in the evening of the 8th we arrived in sight of the town and forts a plain of half a mile in width laying between us I had an opportunity of viewing the situation and motion of the enemy near their works I had scarcely time to make those dispositions necessary before the action commenced on our left wing and in a few minutes became almost general with a ...
... Miami just south of Miami was the last place Miami is worth our commemoration Now that we have the automobile there is the more reason that all the places that were scenes of military events in our early days should be marked The automobile is the great teacher of local geography--War --said Lord Pitt is the great teacher of geography True ...
... BLAST-FURNACES OPERATED BY THE BLAST-FURNACES OPERATED BY THE SEPARATIST SOCIETY OF ZOAR OHIO BY E J BOGNAR A most important contribution to the success of the Separatist Society of Zoar was iron ore The village of Zoar was founded in 1817 by 300 or more Separatists who had embarked early that spring from Wurtemburg1 Germany The party was led by one Joseph M Bimeler2 and the desire for religious freedom brought them to this country where they settled in the inviting wooded region of the ...
... 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 ...
... THE COPUS BATTLE CENTENNIAL THE COPUS BATTLE CENTENNIAL BY REV EUGENE ELLIS WILLIAMS Sept 15 191 2 the day of the centennial of the Copus Battle was a very gloomy day with rain from early morning until evening But despite the inclement weather about 1000 people gathered in Milligan's grove near the Copus monument situated near Mifflin ten miles east of Mansfield At 11 o'clock Prof G F Wright of Oberlin called the meeting to order and after singing America Rev Eugene E Williams offered prayer ...
... THE OHIO BOUNDARY OR THE ERIE WAR THE OHIO BOUNDARY OR THE ERIE WAR1 WHEN the great Ordinance of 1787 was passed by Congress it was agreed by all the States present that six of the articles known as the articles of compact should not be repealed except by the joint consent of Congress and the States concerned The fifth of these irrevocable articles provided that not less than three nor more than five States should be formed out of the region of country known as the Northwest Territory In case ...
... Railroad was unpopular and Railroad but the 216 Ohio's Fugitive Slave Law 217 Ohio's Fugitive Slave L aw 217 cordial willingness of the State of Ohio to enact stringent measures for the return of slaves escaping from their masters The General Assembly of Kentucky passed resolutions authorizing the appointment of commissioners to wait upon the Governor and General Assembly of Ohio in the ...
... NOTEHISTORICAL NOTEHISTORICAL R W M'FARLAND OXFORD OHIO People familiar with the early annals of the West know something of Simon Kenton They know also of the rivalry between him and Leitchman for the hand of a young lady-that Kenton was unsuccessful in his suite-that there was a fight in consequence and that in the first encounter Kenton again lost but in the second by wrapping Leitchman's long hair about a sapling Kenton won and so severely beat his opponent that thinking him fatally injured ...
... Miami Stillwater Plainfield Fairfield Center and Salem41 The Quakers were a non-proselyting and unaggressive sect and their outlook on life had much in common with the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians the New England Puritans and the Methodists They believed in a divinely inspired religion The Bible was taken literally and as a consequence the thou shalt not's were reshaped into a series of well-defined Blue Laws They also favored education as it ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 297 Section 2 That the care and control of the site of Fort Laurens located in Tuscarawas county Ohio and being the first fort established west of the Ohio river shall be vested in the board of trustees of the Ohio archaeological and historical society who shall hold the lands and property thereon subject to such use as the general assembly may by law direct Section 3 That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act and defraying the expenses of the ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 101 under discussion the tide was against the enactment on the ground that the Society did not merit the State's aid Mr Griffin hastily summoned the writer to the cloak-room of the House and asked a full explanation of the situation It was given Mr Griffin returned to the floor and in a most vigorous argument and enthusiastic plea changed the prevailing sentiment and carried the bill through He was the friend of the Society and deserves the kindliest thought and most ...
... Miami University The first school house was the Riley school at Columbia In 1815 a Lancastrian seminary was founded at Cincinnati with 420 pupils and was chartered afterward under the name of Cincinnati College Thus schools schoolmasters and books early diffused knowledge among the pioneers of the Valley The scholastic ambition of our forefathers was fed gradually but surely Public opinion in the West shaped itself around the nucleus of ...
... Miamis upon that river and the Wabash The vagrant Mingoes who had villages upon the Scioto were of all the Indians the most vindictive against the Virginians100 A few renegade Cherokees also took part in the war No nation however as a whole took up the hatchet except the Shawanese Logan - The Mingo Chief Logan - The Mingo Chie f 163 Logan upon his arrival at Chillicothe learned that Levis' army was rapidly approaching the Scioto He saw ...
... Miami on the Maumee Miami but the fighting was mainly confined to the use of fists in The Toledo War over The Black Swamp of the Maumee basin The excitement spread to Vistula Port Lawrence Tremainsville and Monroe and the files of the old Toledo Gazette the Michigan Sentinel and the Detroit Free Press tell the story in all its gory details Ohioans were denounced as nullifiers by their ...
... Little Jim now living age Little Jim the son of Big Jim and the greatgrandson of Tecumseh is at present the chief of the Absentee Shawnees Recently a writer living in Oklahoma has thus described one branch of the ancestry of Thomas Wildcat Alford Many many years ago a wandering band of Indians stole a little girl from an English settlement ...
... Miami of Ohio You can have no idea of the envy of the Atlantic and Southern countries of the rising prosperity of the North-western states We shall probably have to rely upon our own resources and expect little from the federal government A joint resolution has just passed both houses to adjourn on the 15th The Tariff was reported this morning by the committee--with some amendments to reduce ...
... Miami River in latitude Miami Valley never again Miami University preached to the adherents of their faith the Associated Reformed and now the United Presbyterians Here Miss Ellen McMechen later Mrs Charles K Smith and Miss Jane McMechen later Mrs Jessie Corwin taught school Here the children of the early settlers were taught their A B C's ...
... Miami Exporting Company Miami-Wabash 273 Wolfe Miami Letter to Joseph Reed 134 14 Letter to Robert Patton 167 Marches regiment to Rapids of the Removal of Remains of 172 Ohio 145 Retires from Army 142 156 Marriage of 150 Returns to regiment 135 Member of Harmar Court of InRevolutionary War in 129 quiry 151 Sketch of 127 Methods as Chief ...
... Miami Trace crossed Paint Creek We told our neighbor Major Mahary about it We gave Uncle Ben notice as he had two good dogs We made up our company and put off to the place and camped just where the Rock Mill now stands six miles above Greenfield That evening all turned out but found no sign of bears That night there fell a great snow a foot deep So this was a failure the common fate of hunters We all came home much disappointed My most ...