... WILLIAM ALLEN TRIMBLE WILLIAM ALLEN TRIMBLE UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM OHIO MARY MCARTHUR THOMPSON TUTTLE A woman's way of writing History differs essentially from the conventional style and methods approved by great historians It is well that this is so for the student of history obtains thus now and then a lighter more transparent atmosphere a more sympathetic view of a life than could be presented by the massive outlines of the great ...
... agriculture rude cabins canoe building amusements the council fire prisoners running the gauntlet and burning at the stake Let us go back however for some two centuries In 1534 Cartier found on the present sites of Quebec and Montreal Indian tribes who were in fierce combat with the peoples to the south of them - the Senecas and kindred Iroquois nations Between Cartier's last voyage to the St Lawrence in 1543 and the arrival of Champlain in ...
... ADDRESSES OF SUNDAY EVENING APRIL ADDRESSES OF SUNDAY EVENING APRIL EIGHTH ADDRESS OF REV A L CHAPIN DD MY CHRISTIAN FRIENDS AND FELLOW CITIZENS -My connection with this celebration is so peculiar that I shall crave a moment simply to explain it This occasion has been looked forward to by many of your people and not by the people of Marietta or the people of Ohio alone Many months ago Dr Andrews whom I chanced to meet spoke to me of the ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XIII INDEX TO VOLUME XIII A Articles - Concluded Abolition in Ohio 50 History of Ft Hamilton Miller Adams County - 97 Todd's Trace in 318 Historic Worthington Parsons 71 Trebor Tavern in 307 John Brough Hooper 40 Zane's Trace in 318 Kenton's Gauntlet at Chillicothe Agriculture Prehistoric people engaged Brown 483 in 189 Marcus A Hanna Dick 355 American Economic Association ...
... THE KNOWLEDGE OF COAL AND IRON IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF COAL AND IRON IN OHIO BEFORE 1835 BY PAUL WAKELEE STODDARD Today Ohio is one of the great coal-producing centers of the world a position which it has maintained for close on to a century The real starting-point of the development of the mineral resources of the state was the First Geological Survey which took place in the third decade of the ...
... 414 Ohio Arch 414 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of their devotion It remains for us to take up the full burden of citizenship and to consecrate our lives to the task of making our country worthy of the sacrifices that have been made by those who in countless numbers have given their lives for its ...
... UNVEILING OF FORT RECOVERY MONUMENT UNVEILING OF FORT RECOVERY MONUMENT On July 1st at Fort Recovery the splendid monument just erected at that place was unveiled with imposing and fitting ceremonies This monument was the result of the generous appropriation of 25 000 made by Congress It commemorates the defeat of General St Clair on November 4 179 1 and the defeat of the Indians under Little Turtle in the Wayne campaign on June 30th and July 1st 1794 The monument is a beautiful shaft of stone ...
... INDEX VOLUME XXI INDEX VOLUME XXI Adams County Petroglyphs found in 213 Articles-Concluded Alder Jonathan Indians capture 266 The Indian village of Cush-og-wenk Anderson Judge Jas H - 432 Consul at Hamburg 490 The library at Paddy's Run 462 Political life of 490 Twenty-seventh annual meeting of Relations with Pres Lincoln 490 Society 468 Sketch of 489 Ashland CountySociety interest in 491 Hill's history of 383 Animals - Indians in 380 Bones of found in Jackson Co 192 Pioneer settlers of 384 ...
... agriculture and was for years an active member of the Massachusetts Agricultural Society He was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society of the Essex Historical Society and of the American Antiquarian Society He founded the Dane law professorship in Harvard College in 18 29 In 1831 he contributed liberally to the fund for the erection of the Dane Law College thus giving to the Cambridge Law School an assured place and opening up to it ...
... GOVERNORS OF OHIO 1803-1903 GOVERNORS OF OHIO 1803-1903 JEAN DICK CHEETHAM In accordance with the provisions of the constitution of 1802 Schedule Sec 6 an election for governor members of the general assembly etc was held on the second Tuesday of January 1803 Edward Tiffin being elected Chief Executive The General Assembly convened at Chillicothe on the first Tuesday of March 1803 but it was ...
... 576 Ohio Arch 576 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications FORT MEIGS FORT AMANDA FORT MIAMI AND THE BATTLEFIELD OF FALLEN TIMBERS The Chairman of the Committee Mr W J Sherman read the report as follows FORT MEIGS The Fort Meigs Commission has continued improvements at this historic spot during the past year devoting particular attention to the landscaping and planting of the grounds where ...
... 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 ...
... OHIO IN AFRICA OHIO IN AFRICA By EDWARD WESLEY SHUNK The fortunes of the American Colonization Society and its auxiliaries in Ohio were at an extremely low ebb in the 1840's and the failure of the Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851 to aid the cause further depressed its members Yet an amazing spurt of activity in the 1850's almost ...
... agriculture and was a pioneer in its promotion and in getting the farmers to meet cooperatively in handling their farm products to compare opinions as to livestock merit and the best mode of cultivating wheat corn and vegetables He was the prime mover in establishing the Muskingum County Agricultural and Manufacturing Society According to J Hope Sutor he was a representative citizen of Muskingum County well known as a merchant farmer and ...
... 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 ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA TABLET ON SERPENT MOUND It will be recalled that during the visit of Prof F W Putnam of Harvard University to the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held in Columbus August 1899 that gentleman stated to the officers of our Society that if we would accept repair and suitably preserve and guard the property known as Serpent Mound then in the possession of the Peabody Museum that the trustees of that institution would transfer to us said ...
... northeastern or southeastern quarters Samuel Lewis is not aware that the schools of the Reserve are any better than those of any other section He says they get their teaching done more cheaply by employing women and 420 Ohio Arch 420 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications that he thinks the schools of Geauga and Portage Counties are as ...
... BRADY'S LEAP BRADY'S LEAP BY E 0 RANDALL In what is known as Tract 29 issued in 1875 by the Western Reserve Historical Society the tradition-as the Tract calls it-of Brady's leap is related That a famous leap by Brady was made at the place generally designated as the site there is little or no doubt The time and attending circumstances of the achievement are much in dispute and wrote Mr L V Bierce in 1856 the numerous traditions respecting Brady's Leap across the Cuyahoga River and many other ...
... Note - Historical Note - Historical 443 Adieu to the roads which for many a year I traveled each Sabbath the gospel to hear The news was so joyful and pleased me so From hence where I heard it it grieves me to go Farewell my white friends who first taught me to pray And worship my Savior and Maker each day Pray for the poor native whose eyes overflow With tears at our parting Alas I must go NOTE - HISTORICAL In the excellent article On the Origin of
... THE PROPOSED TOWN OF CORNISH OHIO THE PROPOSED TOWN OF CORNISH OHIO By DONALD W FERGUSON As a part of the study of westward expansion of the United States the story of paper towns--towns which never survived their founders or which existed only in the imagination of their promoters--fills an interesting chapter The plan of Lystra Kentucky reproduced in Charles O Paullin's Atlas of the ...