... MARIETTA COLLEGE AND THE OHIO COMPANY MARIETTA COLLEGE AND THE OHIO COMPANY A Review of Professor Arthur G Beach's History BY WAYNE JORDAN A college history that is also an outstanding contribution to the general historical literature of Ohio has been published in connection with the 100th anniversary of the present charter of Marietta College and the 138th of the founding of Muskingum Academy The book is entitled A Pioneer College--The Story of Marietta1 and was written by Arthur G Beach ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR THE CAPTURE OF OLD VINCENNES This is the title of a timely and most interesting volume edited by Dr Milo M Quaife Managing Editor of the Mississippi Valley Historical Review It includes the original narratives of George Rogers Clark the leader of the American expedition and Sir Henry Hamilton Lieutenant Governor of Detroit The special occasion for the appearance of ...
... County by Mr William H County is a natural or artificial work After some discussion it was voted that the Executive Committee appoint a committee of five among whom should be a geologist an archaeologist and a topographical engineer of repute to investigate the works in question examine them and report to the society the result of their investigation There being no further business of ...
... County see Henry Howe Historical Collections of Ohio Norwalk 1896 I 668-81 52 John Melish Travels Philadelphia 1812 II 115-7 Melish arrived at Gallipolis on September 4 1811 ...
... County of Franklin and State of Ohio 3 Said Society is formed for the purpose of promoting a knowledge of archaeology and history especially of Ohio by establishing and maintaining a library of books manuscripts maps charts etc properly pertaining thereto a museum of prehistoric relics and natural or other curiosities or specimens of art or nature promotive of the objects of the Association-said library and museum to be open to the public on ...
... KENTON'S CHILLICOTHE KENTON'S CHILLICOTHE BY T J BROWN WAYNESVILLE OHIO Having been born and lived most of my life in Greene county and within easy driving distance of Old Town the site of what I learned to designate as New Chillicothe and having known when a boy about 1840 an old Indian fighter who was a participant in the ill-conducted Bowman expedition intended to capture and destroy that village I read up very early in life all the ...
... County paid Br Mortimer a County of Tuscarawas County Ohio to the congregations of the United Brethern in Pennsylvania and the adjacent States Dear brethern amp sisters We heartily salute you all particularly those who are personally known to us as our dear brethern George H Loskiel John Heckewelder and John G Cunow and our dear sisters ...
... establishment of the foundations of a radical political and social order west of the Appalachian Mountains Their goal was to create and to develop not only the wilderness but society to cultivate both fields and human relationships in order to create a world in which people acted as if they were parts of something larger than families and local communities15 Cutlers radical assumption was that both a prosperous economy and a stable society ...
... County p 42 39 A village of Loups is marked on the west side of the river in Father Bonnecamp's map 40 Of what tribe this village was composed the Journal does not state For the name Riviere au Boeufs -French Creek-see Researches vol I p 17 note 41 This rock has long been known as The Indian God Mr Marshall p 14 1 says It is nearly twenty-two feet in length by fourteen in breadth I have seen it at different times and am certain that it is not ...
... Ross district The autumn Ross and Jackson counties and named in honor of Samuel Finley Vinton Mr Vinton was a Representative in Congress twenty-two years in all from 1823 to 1837 and again from 1843 to 1851 He then voluntarily withdrew from the turmoil of public life and most positively declined a re-election While Mr Vinton was still in Congress the venerable exPresident John Quincy Adams ...
... 260 Ohio Arch 260 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications DISCOURSES OF REV RHEES Through the courtesy of Mr George A Katzenberger president of the Greenville Ohio Historical Society we have received duplicate copies of two discourses by Rev Morgan John Rhys delivered at Greenville on July 4 and 5 respectively in the year 1795 before the officers and army of Major General Anthony Wayne Rev Morgan John Rhys or as it is also printed Rhees was born in Graddfa Llanfabon Glamorganshire South Wales ...
... WAS THE PONTIAC UPRISING A CONSPIRACY WAS THE PONTIAC UPRISING A CONSPIRACY by WILBUR R JACOBS Instructor in American History Santa Barbara College University of California Ever since Francis Parkman wrote his classic account of the Indian war of 1763 historians have questioned the exact nature of the origin of Parkman's so-called conspiracy of Pontiac Contemporary manuscripts reveal that there were enough abuses suffered by the Indians at the hands of the whites to justify in the minds of the ...
... County GRANVILLE In the County At that meeting County was held at the County Ohio in 1806 and when he reached the farm he had entered he and his family left the wagon and built a fire and prepared in the unbroken forest their evening meal After it was served he had family worship in ...
... County Bible Society which County N Y He received a thorough education and graduated in medicine in time to serve in the war of 1812 Coming west soon after the war the doctor first stopped at Williamsport W Va a town across the Ohio from Marietta where he taught school until he removed to McConnelsville In the latter place he also taught ...
... a 482 UNVEILING OF TABLET AT CAMPUS MARTIUS UNVEILING OF TABLET AT CAMPUS MARTIUS A number of interesting functions attended the unveiling of the tablet on the Campus Martius House September 28 1921 as the most historical spot in the state The exercises were conducted under the auspices of the Daughters of the American Revolution who selected this spot and presented the tablet On the evening of September 27 Mr Edward MacTaggart threw open his stately old home The Anchorage to the members of ...
... County Historical and Pioneer Society This address was the last delivered by Mr Curtis his death occurring a few weeks later and is printed from the manuscript in the author's handwriting now in the possession of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 243 244 Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly 244 Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly beautiful city There were but two frame structures then standing on the town ...
... 166 Ohio Arch 166 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications to live before he has had a chance for self-realization Why cut off a man's opportunities in his youth Why rob him of the holy right to live and to make the best of himself There are doubtless moments of exhiliration and glory in the dangers of battle but these are as nothing when balanced against the wholesale slaughter of men Herein then lies the secret of our anti-war spirit Not that we would not fight if necessary No people is more ...