... Editorialana Editorialana 503 My friends as mayor of the city and as a representative of her citizens I accept for the city as a mark to the memory of the heroes who moved by a spirit of patriotism made it possible that we might live in our now pleasant homes This unpretentious mark of our love and gratitude to them will last longer than the granite shaft that will some day be erected to their memory by our citizens The Historical Society of our little city deserves the gratitude of our hearts ...
... 82 Ohio Arch 82 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 CONTEMPORARY DESCRIPTION OF OHIO IN 1788 In 1888 Mr John H James of Urbana Ohio whose collection of historical works is hardly excelled published a translation of a French pamphlet used by Mr Barlow and his associates in Paris when engaged in the sale of lands in the Ohio country The pamphlet says Mr James in his introduction was published in French and English the French copy being a translation of the English copy first published ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 293 reliable history only can be produced This book is especially interesting at this time owing to the revival of interest in the achievements of George Rogers Clark in the Northwest Territory and the voyages of research and exploration by William Clark a younger brother of George Rogers who with Meriwether Lewis led the expedition across the continent from 1803 to 1806 by which the extent and resources of the Louisiana Purchase were first made known to the American ...
... CALEB ATWATER CALEB ATWATER CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF It is as Ohio's first historian that Caleb Atwater is best known But had he never written his History of Ohio his efforts to provide an educational system for the state and the record he made in Archaeology might in themselves be sufficient reason for placing his name in Ohio's Hall of Fame Caleb Atwater was a versatile peculiar eccentric and visionary individual From the world's material point of view his life might not be reckoned a success He ...
... arrayed in autumnal arrayed in colorful and appropriate Bicentennial Celebration Washington on Ohio River 23 Bicentennial Celebration Washington on Ohio River 23 costumes The river was cleared of traffic and the boats with the representatives of George Washington and his party arrived in impressive form and were welcomed by the Indians The Pittsburgh Press of October 22nd which gives its ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS THE BEGINNING OF THE OHIO COMPANY AND THE SCIOTO PURCHASE BY MAJOR E C DAWES The beginning of the year 1783 saw the Revolutionary war virtually at an end although the final treaty of peace was not signed until September third The colonies had achieved their independence at the price of the lives of many and the fortunes of all of their defenders The Continental currency despite the fiat of the government had long since ceased to be of value ...
... TALLMADGE TOWNSHIP TALLMADGE TOWNSHIP E O RANDALL Six miles east of Akron the thriving official center of its county in almost its pristine solitude pioneer simplicity and primitive picturesqueness lies the quiet little village of Tallmadge Its two or three hundred contented inhabitants go their way today as undisturbed by the social follies or the commercial whirl distant but one hour's travel as though they were lodged in some vast wilderness inaccessible to the inroads of society's ...
... 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 ...
... Boundary Line Between Ohio and Indiana Etc Boundary Line Between Ohio and Indiana Etc 127 BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN OHIO AND INDIANA AND BETWEEN OHIO AND MICHIGAN SPECIAL REPORTS OF T C MENDENHALL SUPERINTENDENT OF UNITED STATES COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY AND A A GRAHAM SECRETARY OF THE OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Sixty-ninth General Assembly of Ohio authorized the Governor to cause an examination of the boundary lines between Ohio and Indiana and Ohio and Michigan to be made It has for some time ...
... The Centennial of Perry's Victory The Centennial of Perry's Victory 63 an approximation of the same moral responsibility for nations in dealing with each other that both good form and law impose upon individuals dealing with each other in society It will always be a source of regret to me that when England and France were willing to enter into general and unlimited arbitration treaties with us and the treaties were signed they failed for lack of ratification by the Senate They would not have ...
... Introduction of Methodism in Ohio Introduction of Methodism in Ohio 165 INTRODUCTION OF METHODISM IN OHIO BY REV I F KING D D Dr King is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University in the class of 1858 He received the degree of D D from Miami University For forty-three years he has served in the ministry of his church and for fourteen years was a presiding elder in the Ohio ConferenceEDITOR The recent celebration at Delaware Ohio of the one hundredth anniversary of the introduction of Methodism in ...
... 584 Ohio 584 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The Tymochtee remains the 'Bend' remains the 'High Bank' remains and these monuments retain their relative positions substantially as they have existed for the last 150 years The actors in the tragedy have long since joined the silent majority but the early undisputed tradition yet lives in the memory of living witnesses and under the walnut trees in the bend of the creek just across from the High Bank is the 'exact spot' where the great ...
... arrayed in the rough though not unpicturesque garb of their tribes the wrought skin of the elk the deer and the buffalo with the cincture of the war eagle only worn by warriors of eminence crowning their heads with necklaces of bear claws and other trophies while richly embroidered moccasins covered their feet and they gazed with awe mingled with dread and suspicion at the strange scenes before them or listened to the chant of the mass or ...
... 160 Ohio Arch 160 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications HEMISPHERE - EXTRA COLUMBUS OHIO SEPT 17TH 1834 BIOGRAPHY OF GOV ROBERT LUCAS BY A CITIZEN OF COLUMBUS THE life and services of all public men holding high official stations in the government of the country are a species of public property and it is right and proper that the body of the people who are subject to be called upon to act directly upon the merits and fitness of candidates for popular favor should be made acquainted with ...
... Ohio's Monument to General Anthony Wayne 37 Ohio's Monument to General Anthony Wayne 37 the cabinet of President Hoover in Honorable Walter F Brown Postmaster-General Had he been present he would have been accorded a most generous welcome Naturally unusual interest centered in the distinguished guest William Wayne of Paoli Pennsylvania He is a lineal descendant of General Anthony Wayne a successful business man and a former member of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania Asked if he had held ...
... 264 Ohio Arch 264 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications disclosed by the falling in of walls it is hoped that further explorations may develop additional tablets and other important relics In this connection it may not be inappropriate to state that an inscribed stone was taken from another mound of the Grave Creek system many years ago and deposited in the museum of Hampden-Sydney College Virginia It cannot be found but Doctor Marters member of the House of Delegates who carried the relic ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY On September 19 1904 a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the rooms of the society Page Hall O S U with the following members present Mr George F Bareis Col John W Harper Mr W H Hunter Prof B F Prince Secretary E O Randall Hon D J Ryan Hon S S Rickly Prof G F Wright and Mr E F Wood The Secretary presented the resignation of Professor J P MacLean as Trustee 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 ...
... FORT GREEVILLE TRADITIONS FORT GREEVILLE TRADITIONS JAMES OLIVER ARNOLD Four walls of wood growth of hickory walnut oak ash and elm mingled with maples and undergrowth so dense that a horseman could not pass so tall that its shade cast a gloom about and between these walls a clearing and military fort Beyond another clearing and a cabin built of logs lighted by a little window The heavy oaken door swung on wooden hinges the curling smoke from the chimney made of lath grass and clay and the ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 66 NUMBER 2 APRIL 1957 The Removal of the Wyandots from Ohio By CARL G KLOPFENSTEIN The history of the removal of the Woodland Indians of the eastern half of the United States to new homes in the West in the 1830's and 1840's under the auspices of the United States government was a significant phase of the westward movement of the white man across the continent--if only for the fact that it was one solution employed in ...