... County He always retained until his death a great reverence and affection for Chief Crane It may be safely said of Crane that he was the most influential chief in bringing about the celebrated Treaty of Greenville He had the discernment to see that the battle of Fallen Timbers had broken the military power of the Indians of the northwest and that peace was the only safety for his tribe and race so he made haste to have the principal tribes ...
... County Michigan at the age of seventy years and thus passed away the last and most noted chief of the once powerful Pottawattamie tribe As a separately organized tribe they no longer exist At the time of his death all the leading papers of Chicago published notices of the event with sketches of his life and character and these were widely copied throughout the press of the country At once steps were taken to have his remains buried in ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XXVI No 2 APRIL 1917 FORT LAURENS PURCHASED It will be recalled that the autumn winter and spring of 1777-8 was the period of the low ebb of the cause of the Colonial Revolutionists In the late spring of 1778 while Washington was just emerging from Valley Forge George Rogers Clark entered upon the daring expedition to save the Northwest to the Colonies The British-Canadian authorities were planning not only to circumvent Clark but to carry the war into Africa by ...
... County Pursuing County then then Clendenins near Lewisburg where the family was horribly massacred or taken into captivity with the single exception of Mrs Clendenin who made her escape after being taken prisoner and finally reached friends She wandered around for nine days and nights with nothing to eat but an onion and salt which she found in a deserted house Cornstalk was one of the ...
... HARRISON-TARHE PEACE CONFERENCE HARRISON-TARHE PEACE CONFERENCE COL E L TAYLOR COLUMBUS On the 28th of June 1 90 4 the Columbus Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution did themselves and their organization great honor by placing in Martin Park in the western part of the City of Columbus a large bowlder of igneous origin bearing a very handsome designed tablet in commemoration of the important council or conference which General William Henry Harrison had with the chiefs of certain ...
... establishment of home government within its limits The Connecticut School Fund which amounts to something more than two million dollars consists wholly of the proceeds of those lands and of capitalized interest Hon C D Hine the Secretary of the State Board of Education questions the current opinion that this fund has promoted the cause of public education He said two or three years ago The School Fund derived from the sale of Western lands ...
... 102 Ohio Arch 102 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications war for independence would have been greatly at variance with the desires of the American people Authorities for the above article are John J Jacob's Biography of Michael Cresap Olden Time-Monthly historical paper printed by Nevin B Craig at Pittsburg 1847 Statement of George Rogers Clark Washington-Crawford Correspondence-Butterfield Doddridge's Notes Narrative of Capt John Stewart Pennsylvania Archives McKiernan's Border History-W H H ...
... establishment of a State government in the Eastern division Mr Jefferson's party was coming into power and much desired the numerical strength sure to be derived from the admitted State When the act was submitted to Congress for its sanction the objections thereto were able to defeat its passage and the compact remained in its original form Some of the members of this Assembly had incurred the displeasure of certain citizens of Chillicothe ...
... County of Hamilton and changed the name of the town from Losantiville to Cincinnati after that of the society organized by the officers of the Revolutionary army of which he was a prominent member William Goforth William Wells and William McMillan were appointed Judges of the Court of Common Pleas I Brown Sheriff and Israel Ludlow Prothonotary or Clerk and officers of the militia were appointed As at Marietta before Governor St Clair arrived ...
... 40 Ohio Arch 40 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 MAJOR JOHN BURNHAM AND HIS COMPANY Mr Barlow had written Colonel Duer early in December 1789 that huts must be built on land opposite the mouth of the Great Kanawha to accommodate at least one hundred persons The cost of these huts was to be paid by the agent of the immigrants upon their arrival In March 1790 General Rufus Putnam as agent for the Trustees for the Scioto Associates employed John Burnham of Essex Massachusetts to ...
... TARHE-THE CRANE TARHE-THE CRANE EMIL SCHLUP UPPER SANDUSKY Probably no other Indian chieftain was ever more admired and loved by his own race or by the outside world He was either a true friend or a true enemy Born near Detroit Michigan in 1742 he lived to see a wonderful change in the great Northwest Being born of humble parentage through his bravery and perseverence he rose to be the grand sachem of the Wyandot nation This position he held until the time of his death when he was succeeded by ...
... County Lieutenant The County between the Ohio and Kentucky Rivers then the feeblest and most exposed part of Kentucky Several stations were destroyed and the party began a leisurely retreat to the Blue Licks where they were overtaken by a hastily-gathered force of backwoodsmen Boone was with them and advised that an attack be postponed until other troops known to be on the way could come up ...
... establishment of such of the establishment But although the establishment of the federal union that they are confirmed in these expectations by a view of the beforementioned act of the legislature of New York submitted to their consideration that this act is expressly calculated to accelerate the federal alliance by removing as far as ...
... ORATION OF HON ORATION OF HON JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER LL D The last decades of our century bristle with centennial anniversaries the landmarks of human progress in the free institutions of a Christian civilization The Old World with its crowded populations with its social orders and castes and its despotic forms of government was stagnant and unhealthful Commerce reached forth its bold and eager arms for new fields for human enterprise and a larger and freer civilization Motives of gain mingled ...
... Ross Counties are not indifferent to the importance and significance of this occasion for they all seem to be present The preservation of this historic spot is assured by the acceptance on the part of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society of the deed delivered today The tract of ground conveyed includes the magnificent old elm whose generous shade we are now enjoying Several centuries have passed since its growth began and for ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF GENERAL WAYNE'S TREATY OF GREENVILLE AUG 3 1895 PRAYER BY REV JOHN POYNTZ TYLER O God who art the blessed Potentate the King of kings and the Lord of lords the Almighty Ruler of nations we adore and magnify Thy glorious name for all the great things which Thou hast done for us We render Thee thanks for the goodly heritage which Thou hast given unto us for the civil and religious privileges which we enjoy and for the ...
... establishment of the fort there establishment of the Ohio river boundary as their purpose This declaration found ready response among the savages and became the slogan under which all the tribes were now united Their hostility threatened every settler Indian bands roamed the forests from river to lake The conflict was constant It was a duel to the death The shooting down of men and the ...
... establishments of this company establishment of manufactures establishment would produce a establishment and maintenance of schools and of a University29 shed an especial lustre on these settlements and inspire the hope that by the particular attention which has been given to education ...
... County near Circleville It County and one to Samuel Huntington Governor of Ohio in 1808 whose early home in Painesville Township is still standing The Old Northwest Chapter at Ravenna has marked the spot where Captain Samuel Brady immortalized the little lake which bears his name by erecting a granite marker there Last fall at the conference when it was suggested that the D A R of Ohio mark ...