... ADDRESS OF HON ADDRESS OF HON RUTHERFORD B HAYES MR PRESIDENT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN - The good fortune of the settlement at Marietta continues up to this very hour We can congratulate each other upon the privilege of having heard the eminent Senator from Massachusetts We can congratulate him that he has connected his name for all the centuries to come with the most fortunate colonization that ever occurred on earth Whenever hereafter century after century this ceremony and celebration shall be ...
... Benjamin Franklin and John Sargent being among the latter petitioned the crown for a grant of a large portion of the vast country on the Ohio which had been ceded to the king by the Indian nations at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix 1768 It was proposed to create out of this grant a new province or government west of Virginia The extent of the territory asked for included southern Ohio as far west as the Scioto This Walpole grant was conceded in ...
... Benjamin Tupper1 by whom he Benjamin Tupper who had been an officer in the Continental Army was one of the chief promoters in the settlement of Marietta Ohio where he died It is possible therefore that Winthrop Sargent's first marriage took place in what is now the state of Ohio 2 William McIntosh was born at Shone near Inverness Scotland in 1740 saw much and important service under Wolfe ...
... Benjamin Ruggles Ethan A Benjamin Tappan who was its first president P B Wilcox Secretary J C Wright Ebenezer Lane and Arius Nye The membership came from many parts of the state and the attendance was usually small This is readily understood when it is remembered that transportation was difficult and slow in these early years and it required considerable sacrifice of time and effort to make ...
... Unveiling of the Cresap Tablet Unveiling of the Cresap Tablet 141 vation of their historic sites mounds circles squares and the tokens of a bygone civilization found therein To you and to your keeping we present this Tablet and are happy in so doing We realize that you and the great State of Ohio are leading in the procession of progress To you the custodian of the glories of the past peoples records and their trophies of valor we consign this Tablet and leave it under your protection and that ...
... LUCAS SULLIVANT--HIS PERSONALITY AND LUCAS SULLIVANT--HIS PERSONALITY AND ADVENTURES BY MISS JANE D SULLIVANT Aside from court records and a few lingering oral traditions the principal source of information concerning the life and personality of Lucas Sullivant is to be found in the Family Memorial written and published for private distribution by his youngest son Mr Joseph Sullivant in 1873 Upon this source all subsequent histories of Franklinton and even of Columbus and Franklin County have ...
... Benjamin Hart Weathersfield Conn was born in Watertown Washington county O January 5 1823 Under stress of extreme poverty he gained his education by sheer force of will and after one term at Ohio Medical College Cincinnati entered upon practice at Marietta 1844 Twenty years later entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College graduating thence M D in March 1864 Is a member of the Ohio State Medical Society elected in 1854 of the American Medical ...
... Dedication of the Hayes Memorial Dedication of the Hayes Memorial 4 31 very graciously doffed his hat in recognition of the honor thus paid him When it was suggested to him that these were the boys who would help him in Mexico in case the situation came to that he very earnestly and seemingly sadly remarked Yes yes I know but we hope and pray they will not be needed Immediately upon the arrival of Secretary Baker the real dedication of the Memorial the Grove and the Mansion was begun ...
... Benjamin Hibbard A History Benjamin Gilman of Benjamin 22128 127 144574 Benjamin Gilman was Benjamin Ives Gilman 127 22128 John McIntire 10 2405 Rufus Putnam 33 3120 Information on acreage was either not available or doubtful in six ...
... Benjamin Harrison's first wife and several former students of Miami most prominent of whom was Thomas E Thomas In 1838 they formed an organization known as the Reformers or Conservatives or Ministers and Elders of the Presbyterian Church who declined to adhere to either division This asso- MIAMI UNIVERSITY RODABAUGH 69 MIAMI UNIVERSITY RODABAUGH 69 ciation held a number of conventions and published on the Bishop press at Oxford a magazine ...
... CALEB ATWATER VERSATILE PIONEER CALEB ATWATER VERSATILE PIONEER A RE-APPRAISAL By HENRY C SHETRONE BACK EAST Educator minister lawyer and antiquarian advocate of internal improvements co-founder of Ohio's school system Ohio's first historian intellectual and social pioneer of the Middle West Such was Caleb Atwater of Massachusetts New York--and Ohio Without an understanding of the times in which Caleb Atwater lived particularly of his years in the East before coming to Ohio one might well ...
... COLONEL JAMES KILBOURNE COLONEL JAMES KILBOURNE BY C B GALBREATH Colonel James Kilbourne one of the founders of Bucyrus was a prominent pioneer of Ohio He was born at New Britain Connecticut October 19 1770 He was descended from an ancient Scottish family but his ancestors for many years had lived in England before emigrating to America His father who was a farmer encouraged his son to make his home with Mr Griswold the father of Bishop Griswold of the Protestant Episcopal Church in order that ...
... Benjamin Lincoln Beverly Randolph and Timothy Pickering were appointed commissioners and careful plans and instructions were made to insure the desired outcome An understanding was not reached because the Indians demanded the Ohio River as their southern boundary as the sine qua non of any treaty of peace19 In the meantime the Americans were well aware of the situation and were amply preparing so that another defeat such as St Clair's in 1791 ...
... Benjamin Tupper They marched up a path that had been cut and cleared through the forest to Campus Martius Hall stockade where the whole countermarched and the judges Putnam and Tupper took their seats The clergyman Rev Dr Cutler then invoked the divine blessing The sheriff Colonel Ebenezer Sproat one of nature's nobles proclaimed with his solemn 'O Yes' that 'a court is opened for the administration of evenhanded justice to the poor and the ...
... Benjamin Thompson the mason Benjamin Rush which is an Benjamin Allen Nathaniel Benjamin Allen Nathaniel Benjamin Allen Nathaniel Benjamin F History of the Ohio Penitentiary Ohio ...
... Benjamin Ellicott Jonathan Benjamin Ellicott helped to organize a company which was unsuccessful in boring for coal in Baltimore in 1816 Elias Ellicott an active anti-slave man helped to organize the public water works in Baltimore in 1803 and the next year Jonathan Ellicott was elected a director of that company Thomas M orre was a Baltimore shipbuilder Evan Thomas a member of the ...
... 578 Ohio 578 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications stead it is now believed they are the remains of sacred places half temples where the dead were prepared for burial which was by cremation Inside this enclosure were divisions corresponding in a way to the family burying lot and in these the ashes and the trinkets of the dead were deposited When these were full the enclosure was filled up and the mound thus erected became a sort of monument not to one person or one family but to the dead of ...
... Benjamin F Butler He regarded the claims of Michigan to the territory as the better of the two and was strengthened in this opinion by the President and members of the cabinet But the good people of Ohio were very firm in their determination to possess this territory and the Attorney-General hoped the matter might be brought to an amicable settlement by a compromise Accordingly two commissioners Rush and Howard were sent out to inquire into ...
... 480 Ohio Arch 480 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications a brief description of the service of each and a roster of officers and men We are told that Fairfield County is credited with a service enrollment of 1821 in the World War There is a complete list of these alphabetically arranged This is followed by a brief account of Women in the Service The concluding chapter After Armistice Day details the return of the soldiers who survived the perils of camp and field the organization of the ...
... edited and translated by edited and translated by PHILLIP J WOLFE and WARREN J WOLFE Prospects for the Gallipolis Settlement French Diplomatic Dispatches More than two centuries have passed since Gallipolis Ohio City of the Gauls was founded by French settlers It was on October 17 1790 that a group of French immigrants first set foot on the banks of the Ohio and found some eighty log huts awaiting them As colonists of the Scioto Company they had arrived in Alexandria Virginia and in other ...