... Railroad Map prepared by W D Railroad Map prepared by W D Fulton secretary of state A V Donahey auditor of state Joseph McGhee attorney general Columbus Ohio 1918 Rand McNally and Company Sectional Map of Ohio New York 1910 ...
... Miamies whose eastern Miami Shimeamee and the Ottawah-se-pee or Maumee river of Lake Erie The Shawanese and the Delawares it is believed were occupants of a part of the fore-mentioned country merely by sufferance of the Wyandots whose right of dominion seemed never to have been called in question excepting by the Mingoes or Five Nations The Shawanese were originally powerful and always ...
... Little Turtle the chief of Little Turtle Upon the very first discharge the unfortunate little company of white men were heartlessly abandoned by the greater part of their escort but even in the face of all this and superior numbers they fought bravely and obstinately Gradually their ranks were thinning It was then in the crucial moment that ...
... THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SECOND MORAVIAN MISSION THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SECOND MORAVIAN MISSION ON THE PETTQUOTTING by FRED COYNE HAMIL Assistant Professor of History Wayne University New Salem the original Moravian mission on the Pettquotting now the Huron River in northern Ohio was abandoned in 1791 after four troublous years In 1804 another settlement of Christian Indians was made close to the old site but it too failed after a few years and had to be given up This second venture had its ...
... Miamis Eel Rivers Weas Miami River then westerly to Fort Recovery thence southwesterly to the Ohio River opposite the mouth of the Kentucky River All lands east and south of the above line became the land of the United States and this famous trail was then used as a highway by our hardy pioneers to whom it offered a great thoroughfare from the Lakes to the Ohio River Now my good friends we ...
... FRIENDS AND THE SHAWNEE INDIANS AT FRIENDS AND THE SHAWNEE INDIANS AT WAPAKONETA By HARLOW LINDLEY About the beginning of the last century two bands of Shawnee Indians are known to have been settled on lands in the vicinity of the present town of Wapakoneta Ohio In the year 1809 these Indians began to receive attention from the Friends of Ohio Yearly Meeting In order to assist them in adopting civilized modes of living they built for them a saw and grist mill on their lands and some of the ...
... COMMODORE ABRAHAM WHIPPLE COMMODORE ABRAHAM WHIPPLE A PAPER BY HIS GREAT-GRANDSON DAVID FISHER MR PRESIDENT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN - From the printed circular I hold in my hand I read the seventh of April 1888 is a day in which the immediate descendants of the first settlers of Marietta principally have an interest As a descendant of Commodore Whipple it is with emotions of reverence pleasure and pride that I am permitted to be present at the Centennial Celebration of Marietta and pay respect to ...
... Little Big Horn where General Custer and his command were exterminated is cited as an evidence of Indian cruelty in war but which was the attacking party and where was the battle field That fight was in broad daylight and far within the lines of the Indian reservation It was horrible in the result-only less so than some other incidents I shall cite The army under Custer had followed the Indians to their homes and made the attack resulting in ...
... Miami which they formally Miami wanted to see and talk with him General Wayne was a great soldier and a great citizen of America and it is most fitting that a monument to his memory be erected at the scene of the Battle of Fallen Timbers The City of Toledo is honored indeed by the presence of distinguished guests on this occasion and before this meeting is over I am sure it is going to ...
... Miami Rivers and was reserved by the Old Dominion to satisfy the land warrants issue to its soldiers of the Revolution Its first settlements were at Manchester in 1791 and at Chillicothe in 1796 which latter became not only the center of this projection of Virginia into Ohio but to a good degree of the political and social life of the whole Territory in the earlier years It was the seat of the first legislatures and of the capital until 1813 ...
... ANDREW POE'S ENCOUNTER WITH INDIANS ANDREW POE'S ENCOUNTER WITH INDIANS From the Draper Mss Border Forays 5 D-Chap 29 Wisconsin Historical Society Archives Andrew Poe was born the thirtieth of September 1742 in Frederick county Maryland George Poe the father of Andrew died while the latter was in his teens He remained at home until he became of age living with his mother and an elder brother Not long after the termination of Pontiac's War he came to the neighborhood of Pittsburgh where he ...
... Little Chief INTERPRETERS Jonathan Pointer William Walker Robert Armstrong Samuel Brown George J Clark Silas Armstrong TEACHERS IN THE MISSION SCHOOL Miss Harriet Stubbs Miss Margaret Hooper Liberty Prentice Mrs H E Gibbs Asbury Sabin And Wives of Missionaries Jeane Parker Matron Mrs Jane Riley Lewis M Pounds John Stewart's Last Words BE FAITHFUL The Wyandot Mission The Wya n dot Mission 181 The rebuilt Wyandot Mission Church was rededicated ...
... GREATNESS OF OHIO GREATNESS OF OHIO Address delivered at the Centennial Celebration of the Admission of Ohio into the Federal Union held under the Auspices of the Ohio Republican Association of Washington City May 23 1903 BY HON D K WATSON PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION One hundred years ago a portion of what was known as the Northwest Territory was admitted as a State into the Federal Union By an act of Congress the people of the future state were to give it a name Subsequently the name Ohio ...
... Miami surveying and Miami flowed swiftly and deep By which if any of these agencies Filson met his fate is not known Not long after his death it was whispered abroad that he had turned his back voluntarily on the rude civilization of the frontier and had cast in his lot with the Indians Contemporary chroniclers however recorded it as a fact that he had been killed by Indians Few mementoes of ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOI XXVI No 1 JANUARY 1917 TARHE AND THE ZANES The Editor of the QUARTERLY has seen occasional references to the tradition or fact if it be the latter that Isaac Zane married a daughter of Tarhe the Crane Learning that General Robert P Kennedy was familiar with and an authority on this matter having gotten his information at first hand from members of the Zane family we wrote the General concerning the same and received the following reply which we regard worthy of ...
... a 314 LOGAN AND THE LOGAN LEM LOGAN AND THE LOGAN LEM BY DR HOWARD JONES I have been asked to tell you something about this piece of land upon which we have assembled today and what this meeting commemorates This is easy and yet difficult easy because the subject is replete with interesting history difficult because the time allotted is too short to treat the subject in a very comprehensive or even an understandable manner It was in 1911 that I made the proposal to Mrs Wallace to purchase ...
... Miami Bowman was LittleMiami they found LittleMiami The property sold amounted when apportioned off to about 11O pounds to each man little however was ever collected or ...
... Miamis and Ohio where in the early settlement of the State it was found growing in great abundance and because of the luxuriance of its foliage the richly colored dyes of its fruit and its ready adaptation to the wants and conveniences of the pioneers it was highly prized by them for many useful purposes It was also well known to and much prized by the Indians from whose rude language comes its name Hetuck meaning the eye of the buck because ...