... LEE SOLTOW LEE SOLTOW Inequality Amidst Abundance Land Ownership in Early Nineteenth Century Ohio As the great trans-Appalachian West opened to settlement in the years after the founding of the Republic Americans saw in the virtually unlimited lands of the interior the promise of a prosperous citizenry and a healthy body politic Most believed that those rights declared self-evident in the ringing words of the Declaration of Independence must be firmly grounded in a social fabric characterized ...
... PIONEER LIFE IN ASHTABULA COUNTY PIONEER LIFE IN ASHTABULA COUNTY BY JOSEPH A HOWELLS The days of the pioneers are past We may move into and settle a new country -- or a new part of our country -- but with the settler or immediately following him come the telegraph the railroad the printing office telephone electric lights water works churches and long before the first child born in the settlement is of age the place is an old town or city with all the modern improvements comforts and vices No ...
... strike for freedom The strikes the Ohio nine strike tyrants See the compact organization which proves that an integument is necessary to a vigorous body from the enclosure of a blood-corpuscle to the retaining walls of a vast civilization See the step they keep in the witness against a false individualism and even against an independent ...
... DANIEL PRESTON DANIEL PRESTON Thomas Kelsey Hardluck Entrepreneur In the years following the close of the War of 1812 a wave of economic speculation swept through the West The Treaty of Ghent which ended the war offered nothing in concrete terms beyond a much desired peace But if the United States had not won the war against the powerful British Americans could at least revel in the knowledge that they had not lost it either They quickly forgot the many near-disasters that the nation ...
... AN ANCESTOR OF OHIO MEDICINE AN ANCESTOR OF OHIO MEDICINE FAIRFIELD MEDICAL SCHOOL 1812-1840 by HOWARD DITTRICK Over the scenic terrain of northern Pennsylvania along the Allegheny and Susquehanna rivers through picturesque Wyalusing and historic Azilium we turned northward toward the Mohawk Valley of central New York The purpose of our pilgrimage was to visit the historic village of Fairfield and so we proceeded through the Royal Grants along West Canada Creek as it came tumbling down from ...
... MIAMI UNIVERSITY CALVINISM AND THE ANTIMIAMI UNIVERSITY CALVINISM AND THE ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT 1 By JAMES H RODABAUGH Miami University is a daughter of the Old Northwest Its origins may be traced to the land grant made by Congress to John Cleves Symmes in 1787 According to the contract among the lands of the Symmes Purchase one township was to be reserved for an academy or college After years of controversy and litigation during which Symmes sold the reserved lands Congress in 1803 granted in ...
... 22 Ohio Arch 22 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications A centennial means a hundred years and does seem a long stretch of time and rather strangely I have heard accounts given by Major Croghan at only second hand for it happened that in 1845-6 when my father the late General Thomas J Wood U S A who graduated from West Point in 1845 was serving on the staff of General Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War Major Croghan at that time Colonel and Inspector General was also on the staff of General ...
... strike him kept begging the captain to spare him saying he was a mason and would build him a fine large house or do any work for him 'Run for your life' said the chief to him 'and don't talk now of building houses' The captain turned his back upon him and our mason now began to run but received many a hard blow one of which nearly brought him to the ground which if he had fallen would have decided his fate He however reached the goal sadly ...
... 196 Ohio Arch 196 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 The following is an abstract of the discourse delivered to the Methodists of Gallipolis by the Rev David H Moore D D of Cincinnati Editor of the Western Christian Advocate THEME - PHILOSOPHY OF METHODIST SUCCESS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God hath led thee-Deut viii 2 It is worthy of note that the successful peopling of North America was providentially ...
... MINUTES MINUTES OF THE NINTH ANNUAL MEETING STATE LIBRARY ROOM STATE CAPITOL COLUMBUS OHIO February 20 1894 The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met in annual session with the President Gen Roeliff Brinkerhoff in the chair The following members were present Gen Roeliff Brinkerhoff President Mansfield Rev Wm E Moore Vice President Columbus S S Rickly Treasurer Columbus E O Randall Secretary Columbus Prof Geo F W right Oberlin Judge W J Gilmore Columbus George F Bareis Canal ...
... FRANKLINTON AT THE TIME OF THE DEATH FRANKLINTON AT THE TIME OF THE DEATH OF LUCAS SULLIVANT BY ANDRE W DENNY RODGERS III Dedication ceremonies of the monument erected to Lucas Sullivant and the pioneers of Franklin County in the Franklinton Cemetery Our mood this afternoon is one of retrospect This afternoon we lift away the gray mists of more than a century to move among the valiant pioneer spirits of the borough of Franklinton Today this is Franklinton and the time is the ninth day of ...
... 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 ...
... ADDRESS AT MARIETTA OHIO 1858 ADDRESS AT MARIETTA OHIO 18581 BY HON THOMAS EWING EDITED BY C L MARTZOLFF ATHENS OHIO Ladies and GentlemenWe meet to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the first landing of our Pioneer Fathers on the shores of the Ohio in the North Western Territory An age-the full age allotted to men has elapsed since that hardy band of brave men and brave women fresh from the war of the Revolution a few of the boldest and most adventurous of the relics of that war through ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XXIII INDEX TO VOLUME XXIII A Banks - Concluded Agriculture Ideal pioneer plantation 250 Exchange 320 Possibilities of Ohio 232-256 Franklin of Columbus 319 Akron Founder of 284 287 Legislation regulating 314 Algonquins 107 Mechanics' Savings Institute 320 Allen Gov William 35 Notes issued by 313 315 American-British Peace Treaty 28 Ohio State 316 Americanists Visit of 381 Pioneer bankers 318 American State Papers Extracts from Private 321 relating to Dohrman 227 Thompson's ...
... AN INDIAN CAMP MEETING AN INDIAN CAMP MEETING REV N B C LOVE The greater part of the following data the writer had from Levi Savage in 1885 He was at this time old and blind but in possession of his mental faculties His memory seemed clear and tenacious I wrote down at the time what he said word for word and from this written account I draw also from government and church publications A camp meeting was held by the Christian Wyandots on the east side of the Sandusky river opposite the big ...
... WAYNE'S PEACE WITH THE INDIANS OF THE OLD WAYNE'S PEACE WITH THE INDIANS OF THE OLD NORTHWEST 1795 by DWIGHT L SMITH Instructor in History Ohio State University Far from being the least of the many problems with which the United States had to contend at its beginning was the settling of difficulties between the Indians and whites on the frontier If the new nation were to grow in size as apparently it was doing the native Indians would have to be removed absorbed or extirpated either ...
... GEOGRAPHIC INFLUENCES IN THE HISTORY OF GEOGRAPHIC INFLUENCES IN THE HISTORY OF MILAN OHIO BY CHARLES G SHATZER Professor of Geology Wittenberg College Springfield Ohio Any one who seeks to glean the facts of the local history of northwestern Ohio for the period of the '40's and '50's from conversation with the men whose experience reaches into that period will hear repeated frequently the name Milan If interest prompts the question Where and what was Milan he will be told in terms of marked ...
... strike dumb the man who criticises another for doing what he does and split the tongue of the man who agitates the people for the purpose of selling that agitation at so much per year some problems would now disappear as the mist before the sun Wednesday morning the chairman Harry Brent Mackoy called the meeting to order and introduced Professor Callahan of West Virginia University THE PITTSBURGH-WHEELING RIVALRY FOR COMMERCIAL HEADSHIP ON THE ...
... OUR GLAMOROUS HISTORY OUR GLAMOROUS HISTORY By R CL YD E FO RD A long time ago Pericles once said in a memorial day address outside the walls of Athens that it was fitting to remember the dead who had fallen on the fields of battle but also Athenians must never forget by what principles of action and deeds of valor Athens had risen to power and become great When we turn to our own history we can discover principles of action and deeds of valor to defend them that stir our souls It's that ...
... SERVICES OF THE OHIO COMPANY IN DEFENDSERVICES OF THE OHIO COMPANY IN DEFENDING THE UNITED STATES FRONTIER FROM INVASION WHEN General Putnam undertook the superintending of the Ohio Company and landed with his organized force of pioneers at Marietta on April 7th 1788 he assumed a more important and difficult task than that of opening a wilderness for cultivation and providing houses and homes for settlers On his way out from Massachusetts he stopped over in New York and made himself thoroughly ...