... Rosscounty and also of Old Town north of Xenia in Greene county but the preponderance of evidence is strongly in favor of the Piqua site We give however what seems to be the main if not the only authority for the location of the site near Xenia The American Pioneer volume I 496 Ohio Arch 496 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications second ...
... The Croghan Celebration The Croghan Celebration 75 I greet thee Thou art just in time To tell of victory most sublime Though told in unconnected rhyme Thou art welcome in Ohio But since thou canst thyself speak well Now let thy thundering voice tell What bloody carnage then befell The foes of great Ohio And then she thundered loud PROCTOR'S REPORT OF THE BATTLE OF FORT STEPHENSON The following letter recently unearthed by Col Webb C Hayes in the Canadian Archives at Ottawa is most interesting ...
... County of Kent and County of Kent dead or alive but without success as those loyal men could not be bought The silver cup I now hold in my hand was at that time taken from the Gaspee In May 1776 the Legislature of Rhode Island passed an act renouncing all allegiance to the King of Great Britain and ten days before the battle of Bunker Hill the same Legislature purchased and armed two sloops ...
... County It was executed Jan 3 1921 and recorded Jan 28 1921 We believe it is of the utmost importance that the Budget Committee of the Society be instructed by the Board of Trustees to use their utmost endeavor to secure a suitable appropriation from the legislature so that the conditions of the above deed may be fully complied with Respectfully submitted Signed W J SHERMAN Chairman On motion the report was approved and ordered placed on file ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE OHIO RIVER It was one of Pascal's thoughts that rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go Surely it is that primeval and pioneer man has followed the courses of great streams because along those channels have been found the lines of least resistance On the rivers and their banks therefore has history found its favorite haunts Dry up the currents of the Tigris the Euphrates the Danube the Tiber the Rhine the Seine and the Thames and you ...
... establishment of a botanical establishment that hereafter may decorate and attract Notice and may point it out to the neighboring States as a Superior more Happy and a more polished form of government Of course all this was highly commendable--and Governor Simcoe must have had a fine sense of selfsatisfaction in building such magnificent air-castles not in Spain but in Canada I have read ...
... establishments by gaining the establishments were of sufficient size and importance to command some attention from the colonial governments and from the mother country Therefore when Sir William Johnson in the latter part of 1763 proposed that a certain line should be run back of the Northern colonies beyond which no settlement should be made until the whole Six Nations should think proper ...
... establishment of a Post He says I found it ill-adapted for such a purpose as well from its position as from its relation to the navigation of the lake The water is so shallow that barks standing in cannot approach within a league of the portage There being no island or harbor to which they could resort for shelter they would be under the necessity of riding at anchor and discharging their loading by batteaux The frequency of squalls would ...
... establishment of an establishment of the court of establishment of The Hague establishment of the court of arbitral justice To an American the activities leading to these conferences and the work in the conferences are most pleasing This Nation distinctively stands for peace Our bringing ...
... SIEGE OF FORT MEIGS SIEGE OF FORT MEIG S The Cleveland Herald and Gazette of June 3 1840 printed an extract from a speech delivered by the brave Col John O'Fallon at the raising of the log-cabin in St Louis This was during the famous Log Cabin Campaign summer and fall of 1840 The speech reflecting the political and public sentiment of the time will be read with interestEDITOR Colonel O'Fallon-who it may be stated delivered his speech from the ramparts of a miniature Fort Meigs -was an aid of ...
... County They have taken great interest in the work of our Society and it has gained many friends and strong supporters in that section of the state C L MARTZOLFF C h airma n The Secretary reported that at the last annual meeting a committee consisting of Professor G Frederick Wright Hon D J Ryan and Mr E O Randall were appointed to revise the constitution of this Society and report said revision at this annual meeting This committee after ...
... establishment and its preservation With a great price have our privileges of citizenship been purchased Woe be to him who is recreant to this trust and who in the presence of those who have laid down their lives for their country shall use the privileges thus secured for them for selfish gains regardless of the public good ADDRESS OF MRS JOHN T MACK Madam Regent Daughters of the American Revolution and Friends I bring greeting to you today ...
... County and its Founder County and its Founder 361 County and its Founder County and its Founder 363 County and its Founder County and its Founder 365
... CONSTITUTION OF CONSTITUTION OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY1 ARTICLE I Name and Location Section 1 This Society which is organized as a corporation not for profit under the laws of the State of Ohio shall pursuant to its Articles of Incorporation be known as The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and shall have its offices at Columbus Ohio where its principal business shall be transacted ARTICLE II Purposes Section 1 The purposes of this Society as set ...
... establishment affected the State in which it was founded Has it left an impress that can be shown through the first century of our history Can we read it on the pages of our history of to-day-the end of the cycle The annals of few States in our Union present a more striking array of names than Ohio and few States possess a local history more conspicuous in our country's life A State founded on the principles established on these shores one ...
... County still bear his name County The position of Fort Laramie was fully discussed in this Quarterly about five years ago It follows that the passage on page 279 wherein it is stated that the line from the Tuscarawas runs west to Loramie's Store is wholly wrong 444 Ohio Arch 444 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Again page 279 The French settlers did not locate at the mouth of the ...
... County after the Secretary County was named for Major-General Alexander Hamilton second president general of the society The commander of Fort Washington Major John Doughty was a member of the Cincinnati as was also General Elias Dayton for whom the city of Dayton is named St Clair's connection with the city and the society need not be mentioned again Many of the original members of the ...
... County Surveyor Justice of County Auditor ampc to those of a Representative and Senator in the General Assembly of the State At various intervals from 1808 to 1832 he was returned a member of one or the other of the branches of the State Legislature stations which he occupied NINETEEN YEARS ably and faithfully discharging his public duties and meeting with the smiles of approval on returning ...