... County in which she lived County and so far as I County this legend which grossly maligns Mary Harris is told No evidence of its truth is anywhere offered but the reader is expected to accept it without proof and that expectation has been largely justified I have sought diligently to ...
... SHAKER MISSION TO THE SHAWNEE INDIANS SHAKER MISSION TO THE SHAWNEE INDIANS BY J P MACLEAN A B PH D INTRODUCTION It is but a slight exaggeration to state that the aborigines of this country have been made the objects of conversion from all the religious sects that have found a domicile within our borders Under the civilizing influence of the dominant exotic race the American savage has constantly gone down It is not the fault of Christianity nor of the civilization of the nineteenth century ...
... County In the Virginia papers there were only occasional direct communications from the West This was to be expected since emigrants from Virginia stopped on the way in Western Virginia or else in Kentucky and then made their way into the Old Northwest Nevertheless considerable news from this region filtered into the Old Dominion through Kentucky or else from Winchester where the road to the Wilderness c
... THE ANCESTRY OF THE OHIOAN THE ANCESTRY OF THE OHIOAN A M COURTENAY D D The following is a portion of an address delivered in Zanesville by Rev Courtenay who for many years has been an enthusiastic student of Ohio history upon which subject he has delivered many admirable addresses He has written frequently in prose and in verse for current reviews magazines and journals He wrote for and read at the Ohio Centennial Celebration the poem entitled The Ohio Century-EDITOR At a recent notable ...
... establishments and later the establishment of these relations the rights of the original inhabitants were in no instance entirely disregarded but were necessarily to a considerable extent impaired They were admitted to be the original occupants of the soil with a legal as well as a just claim to retain possession of it and to use it according to their own discretion but their right to ...
... County Soldiers and County but particularly in memory of Major George Croghan and the gallant defenders of Fort Stephenson on the 2 d of August 181 2 The sudden and unexpected death of President Hayes's beloved wife June 21st 1889 came as a great shock not only to himself but to the community at large and a great number of friends gathered at Spiegel Grove to show their respect and love ...
... THE WESTERNIZATION OF NEW ENGLAND THE WESTERNIZATION OF NEW ENGLAND ALBERT BUSHNELL HART LL D Mr Hart is professor of American History at Harvard University the author of many standard and popular works on United States History In 1902 he was chosen editor-in-chief of the co-operative history of the United States projected under the auspices of the American Historical Association The article herewith published was the address deliverd by him at Marietta on the occasion of the erection of a ...
... establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof Baptists have labored and others have entered into their labors not knowing whence came the blessings in which they often rejoice 3 Baptists stand for a faithful obedience to the commands of the Lord Jesus Christ They do not profess to be above criticism They are too painfully aware that they do not in all things come up to the divine requirements They often quote to themselves ...
... County Pioneer Association County Pioneer Association The occasion can not fail to be of great interest and I regret that my engagements here are such as will make it impossible for me to be present My paternal grandfather Col David Cobb whose compatriots in arms settled Marietta in 1788 was I believe interested personally in that enterprise I can not doubt the coming celebration will be one ...
... County Ohio Through its County August 20 1794 This County Historical Society County History -- Frank County -- Pupils of Camden County Historical Society
... County for a quota of one hundred volunteers how he turned aside from his cherished profession the law and turning his horse toward Hillsboro made his first speech the next day in the public square In two days two full companies were raised That little army of the 4th United States Infantry with the brigade of General Finley took up its toilsome march through the dense forests of four hundred miles through Ohio and Michigan and shared the ...
... THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE E 0 RANDALL In that striking and stirring century known as the sixteenth began the voyages of discovery and the expeditions for occupancy by the Anglo Saxon and the Gaul of the North American continent The French were led by Jacques Cartier who in 1534 entered the Gulf of St Lawrence Other chivalrous and adventurous Frenchmen followed with various experiences until 1608 when Samuel Champlain encamped upon the Heights of Quebec and established a ...
... REMARKS OF REV REMARKS OF REV B W ARNETT DD MR CHAIRMAN LADIES AND GENTLEMEN There are times in the history and in the life of individuals when language fails to express the throbbings and longings as well as the aspirations of the heart and I find myself sir this evening without words to express my sentiments to you and to this intelligent audience the representatives of this great Commonwealth of ours But your call to me to say a word1 was a command which I could not disobey without feeling ...
... County Pennsylvania on the fifteenth of July 1823 Scotash the Wyandot who escaped although badly wounded in the hand as had been shown swam the river and hid until night came on when he re-crossed the stream found the dead body of his brother who was shot by Andrew Poe on the shore and buried his as well as he could where a tree near by had turned up the earth9 He then made his way homeward ...