... CONSUL WILSHIRE BUTTERFIELD-HISTORIAN CONSUL WILSHIRE BUTTERFIELD-HISTORIAN BY W H HUNTER Consul Wilshire Butterfield the famous Historian was born near the village of Colosse Oswego County New York July 28 1824 He was of Knickerbocker stock his father's people coming to America in 1634 His parents Amroy Butterfield and Mary Lamb Butterfield immigrated from Brattleboro Vermont to the State of New York Consul Wilshire Butterfield died at his home in South Omaha Nebraska onMonday September 25 ...
... ISRAEL PUTNAM ISRAEL PUTNAM READ BY MRS II G EDGERTON BEFORE THE COLONEL GEORGE CROGHAN CHAPTER D A R In the days when forests covered most of New England when the Indian war-whoop still echoed on its borders when children ate corn-meal porridge from pewter porringers and their elders stirred their hot drinks with a poker heated in the fireplace -- in those good old days two centuries ago there was born one of the great heroes of our Nation To be more exact on January 7 1718 in an old ...
... MINUTES MINUTES Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society HELD IN COLUMBUS MARCH 6 AND 7 189 0 The Society convened in the hall of the House of Representatives at 730 p m and was called to order by the President F C Sessions Esq The usual annual address of the President was omitted as the reports of the committees and officers would cover all essential points Dr Edmund Cone Brush of Zanesville was introduced and read an address upon The Pioneer Physicians of the Muskingum Valley The address is ...
... Unveiling of Fort Recovery Monument Unveiling of Fort Recovery Monument 435 we see emblazoned daring and unselfish deeds of heroes who have scaled the walls of duty and gained the parapets of the City beyond And too what a lesson it conveys Its white teaches purity of purpose its red typifies the blood which has been so freely shed in its defense and its blue with its constellations reminds us of fidelity fidelity to our God fidelity to ourselves fidelity to The Star Spangled Banner Oh long ...
... 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 scholars who strive for the philosophy of life as well as ...
... Index Index Saunders Richard Erie Railroad 7 Scale and Scope The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism by Alfred D Chandler Jr rev 61-63 Scarlet Woman of Wall Street The See Erie Lackawanna Railway Company Scharff Virginia Taking the Wheel Women and the Coming of the Motor Age rev 64-66 Schob David E Schob book rev 147-148 Scioto Company The 117 Scioto River 119 120 Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks One Hundred Years of Preservation and Resource Management California History by Lary M ...
... THE OHIO DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE THE OHIO DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF B PED By permission of The Ohio Teacher The school histories have always said much about the Mecklenburg Resolutions being the prelude to the Declaration of Independence Indeed some histories make so much of it that you doubt if Thomas Jefferson would ever have mustered up courage sufficient to pen the immortal lines beginning When in the course of human events etc had he not had this brave precedent ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA PRELIMINARY ANNUAL MEETING On May 14 1912 the following circular was issued to the members of the Society According to the provisions of the Constitution of the Society the Annual Meeting of the Society should be held not later than the last day of May It is earnestly desired that the Annual Meeting this year be deferred until after the bids have been received and if possible the contracts made with the builders for the erection of the building for the Society at ...
... 452 Ohio Arch 452 Ohio Arch and H ist Society Publications For God shall dwell among us and men shall say The former bitter things are passed away Gone are our strifes and banished all our fears For here is love that wipes away all tears Here is the rest for which our souls have striven This is the city that came down from heaven WHY OHIO IS GREAT At the dinner participated in on Tuesday August 27 at the Southern Hotel by the Descendants of Ohio Governors the following address was made by Prof ...
... edited by edited by JOSEPH E WALKER Plowshares and Pruning Hooks for the Miami and Potawatomi The Journal of Gerard T Hopkins 1804 Post-Revolutionary War Americans saw in the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains the means to redress the economic ills inherited from the war and its interruptions of trade Settlement west of Pittsburgh was handicapped during much of the 1790s by the hostility and military success of the midwestern Indian tribes Yet as Curtis P Nettels wrote in that decade as ...
... 148 Ohio Arch 148 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications Really of what value to any one are the opinions of Mr Fowke The society cannot afford to become sponsors for Mr Fowkes' eccentricities It is far better that the entire edition be suppressed and all the books sent out recalled than that the society should suffer from this most inconsiderate of books If the Executive Committee will take such action it will not only meet with my approval but I will advocate the same before the entire Board ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XX No 4 OCTOBER 1911 GENERAL BRINKERHOFF Elsewhere in this Quarterly we give notice of the death of General Brinkerhoff with an extended account of his busy and useful life and many of its prominent achievements But no written record of the life of such a man can adequately present what he really was to the world in which he lived The inestimable outflow of a beautiful and true character ever loyal to the highest ideals of life cannot be recorded cannot be duly ...
... ABORIGINAL HISTORY OF BUTLER COUNTY ABORIGINAL HISTORY OF BUTLER COUNTY AFTER a brief popular discussion of the evidences of pre-glacial man in France England and New Jersey Mr MacLean spoke of the analogy between the situation of the gravel terraces along the Miami in Butler county and those in which the remains of man have been found in the other places referred to Like the terraces on the Delaware at Trenton New Jersey where Dr C C Abbott had found rough stone implements of pre-glacial age ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS ennsylvania Agriculture and Country Life 1640-1840 By Stevenson Whitcomb Fletcher Harrisburg Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission 1950 xiv605p Paper 250 cloth 300 For two centuries prior to 1840 agriculture dominated the economic life f Pennsylvania and during much of that period the breadbasket of America was replenished from the abundant harvests of her fields In e years that followed 1840 the raising of wheat ceased to be the farmers' ainstay and the dairy ...
... CATHERINE GOUGAR CATHERINE GOUGAR Probably the Earliest Pioneer Resident of Ohio Who Has Descendants Living Upon the Original Place of Settlement BY FRANK WARNER M D D SC COLUMBUS OHIO On the farm of Alfred Immell situated on the pike from Columbus to Chillicothe some ten miles north of the latter city lies buried Catherine Gougar Her remains have lain here since 1801 when she died at the age of sixty-nine years She died within two years of the establishment of Ohio as a State and within view ...
... edited by edited by MICHAEL SPEER Autobiography of Adam Lowry Rankin At a time when American historians are turning more toward quantitative techniques and psychological analyses of individuals the autobiography of Adam Lowry Rankin provides a refreshing first-person account from a man who partook of some of the most important activities of his day1 This work is an interesting commentary on nineteenth century America and provides insight into the motives activities and methods of those ...
... THE ULRICH GROUP OF MOUNDS THE ULRICH GROUP OF MOUNDS BY TRUMAN B MILLS The Ulrich group of mounds have been so named by reason of the location of two of the mounds upon the farm of Mr Joseph Ulrich situated about two and one-half miles west of Farmersville in Jackson township Montgomery county Ohio Six or more mounds comprise the group four of which were examined by the writer during the summer months of 1916 and 1917 Except for one mound-that located upon the farm formerly owned by Mr J H ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews An Ohio Portrait By George W Knepper Columbus The Ohio Historical Society 1976 282p illustrations maps index 2000 An Ohio Portrait is one of a growing list of publications resulting from the bicentennial which raises the hope that whatever the ultimate assessment may be of other phases of this national birthday celebration it will be viewed in the future as having provided the same kind of noteworthy stimulus to publications in the field of state and local history as ...
... CENTENNIAL OF MINER FAMILY CENTENNIAL OF MINER FAMILY The celebration of the Miner family June 7 1 90 6 at the old homestead on Green Lawn Avenue was an occasion well worthy of permanent note Mrs Mary Wharton eighty-five years of age youngest daughter of Isaac Miner and the sole survivor of his children issued an invitation to her friends and neighbors in the following form 1806 Spero ut fidelis 1906 MRS MARY WHARTON REQUESTS THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY AT THE CENTENNIAL OF THE MINER FAMILY ...
... PAUL C PAUL C BOWERS JR GOODWIN F BERQUIST JR Worthington Ohio James Kilbourn's Episcopal Haven on the Western Frontier One of the most significant developments to occur in this country in the aftermath of the American Revolution was the settlement of the old Northwest Territory beyond the Ohio River Families from the Atlantic states streamed west in ever-increasing droves establishing countless new communities in the region now occupied by the states of Ohio Michigan Indiana and Illinois ...