... JOEL WRIGHT CITY PLANNER JOEL WRIGHT CITY PLANNER by ALFRED J WRIGHT Associate Professor of Geography Ohio State University The original plan for Columbus laid off by order of the General Assembly for the seat of Government for the State of Ohio was prepared by Joel Wright of Warren County This was in 1812 fifteen years after the founding of Franklinton whose sesquicentennial Columbus is celebrating in 1947 Events of this year cause us to turn attention to this Warren County citizen who was ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 111 living authorities He informed me at that time that he had been trying to induce Professor Wright to visit Wadsworth for that purpose Every one who is acquainted with Capt T D Wolbach knows that it is utterly impossible for him to deceive Habit makes character and his word alone is worth most men's bond WERE THE MOUNDS USED FOR DWELLINGS As a sample of the various curious theories advanced by different writers concerning the purposes of the mounds we give the ...
... 422 Ohio Arch 422 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications FOURTH SESSION At the Saturday morning meeting President Randall turned the program over to Prof F P Goodwin of Woodward High School Cincinnati who conducted the meeting in the interest of teachers of history After some preliminary remarks regarding the value of local history as illustrative of national movements and of methods designed to utilize it in this way Mr Goodwin introduced the chief speaker of the morning Prof Arthur W Dunn ...
... 372 Ohio Arch 372 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER IN THE VALLEY OF THE LITTLE MIAMI BY WILLIAM ALBERT GALLOWAY M D VICE PRESIDENT OHIO SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION In considering The Revolutionary Soldier in the Valley of the Little Miami I am impressed with the significance of the territorial enactments which particularly designated his settlement in this beautiful and fertile location The territory granted by King James I to the company which founded the ...
... FORT MORROW SOLDIERS OF THE WAR OF 1812 FORT MORROW SOLDIERS OF THE WAR OF 1812 HONORED According to an early historian of Marion County Ohio Nathaniel Wyatt Sr exchanged 80 acres of military land in Pickaway County for a tract of 200 acres in Section 3 Waldo Township Marion County On this tract he built the Wyatt Brick Tavern and on it was also built Fort Morrow in the year 1812 Wyatt's Hotel was comprised in the enclosure of the pickets made from split slats around the old fort The old ...
... 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 ...
... Mills distant about 6 Mills great was the Millsburgh had neglected to erect a block house as they were instructed to do and now felt the need of one Into this cabin they brought a few of their most valuable goods with all the tubs kettles and pails they could muster which Captain Rogers directed to be filled with water from the creek for ...
... 300 Ohio Arch 300 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 TRUDE CHRISTINA ANNA CHRISTINA ANNA SALOME and ANNA ELIZABETH Besides these there were five adults one man S CHAPPIHILLEN the husband of Helen together with four women and thirteen babes not yet baptized and the following members of the Mission at Schoenbrun who happened to be at Gnadenhutten to-wit NICHOLAS and his wife JOANNA SABINA ABEL HENRY ANNA and BATHSHEBA the last two daughters of Joshua the founder of Gnadenhutten in all ...
... OHIO RAILROADS OHIO RAILROADS BY R S KAYLER STATE COMMISSIONER OF RAILROADS Ohio was among the first of the States to commence the building of railroads As early as 1832 when there were but two hundred and twenty-nine miles of railroad in operation in the United States a special charter was granted by the State of Ohio for the construction of a railroad to extend from Sandusky Huron County to Dayton Montgomery County a distance of one hundred and fifty-six miles The road was completed as far ...
... EARLY JOURNEYS TO OHIO EARLY JOURNEYS TO OHIO BY B F PRINCE Professor in Wittenberg College The contest for the lands west of the Ohio river began centuries ago It was a goodly land in the eyes of the savages as well as those of the white man A short survey of the Indian occupation will help us to understand the fierce contest between the French and English for domination in this region There is a conflict of opinion as to conditions in that territory from about 1650 to 1740 A great war of ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 283 and calls out 'Let them go' and the superb roan leaders that have been prancing waiting for the word dash off But after all Kirkersville attained to something more than local fame It was in the summer of 1865 just after the end of the Great Rebellion when I was stationed at Watertown arsenal near Boston Colonel Kingsbury our commanding officer was a classmate of General Sherman and when the latter came to Boston he hurried out to the arsenal to see his old cadet ...
... GREATNESS OF OHIO GREATNESS OF OHIO Address delivered at the Centennial Celebration of the Admission of Ohio into the Federal Union held under the Auspices of the Ohio Republican Association of Washington City May 23 1903 BY HON D K WATSON PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION One hundred years ago a portion of what was known as the Northwest Territory was admitted as a State into the Federal Union By an act of Congress the people of the future state were to give it a name Subsequently the name Ohio ...
... The Croghan Celebration The Croghan Celebration 35 HISTORICAL ADDRESS BY BASIL MEEK ESQ FREMONT OHIO We have met today on this ground famous in history because of the victorious defence of Fort Stephenson then standing on this spot by Major George Croghan and the band of heroes under his command ninety-three years ago--not only to commemorate that brilliant achievement but also to further consecrate and make sacred the spot by the re-interment of the remains of its gallant defender To Col Webb ...
... IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDY OF ARCHAEOLOGY IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDY OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN OHIO IN no State of the Union are there more objects of archaeological interest than in Ohio and never before were we so well prepared to study them successfully as at the present time Pre-eminently is it the case with such objects as our earthworks that they need to be studied by comparison with other such works the world over Their treasures of knowledge cannot be rendered by themselves nor even with all the ...
... Potts Summer-Autumn 2002 pp 101-120 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Visions of America 17871501788 The Ohio of Reverend Manasseh Cutler By Louis W Potts Manasseh Cutler SC 2324 Ohio Historical Society Collections During the winter of 1786 the Congregational minister at Ipswich Hamlet later Hamilton took time from tending his flock of seventy or so congregants to jot his secular musings to Jeremy Belknap a fellow ...
... SENECA JOHN INDIAN CHIEF SENECA JOHN INDIAN CHIEF HIS TRAGIC DEATH ERECTION OF MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY COMPILED BY BASIL MEEK SENECA JOHN Not much is known pertaining to the direct biography of Seneca John The most that we have is incidental to and related in the story of his execution He belonged however to a prominent family of his tribe and was one of four brothers or rather of three full brothers named Comstock Steel and Coonstick and himself a half brother of the three named Comstock was a ...
... THE OHIO BOUNDARY OR THE ERIE WAR THE OHIO BOUNDARY OR THE ERIE WAR1 WHEN the great Ordinance of 1787 was passed by Congress it was agreed by all the States present that six of the articles known as the articles of compact should not be repealed except by the joint consent of Congress and the States concerned The fifth of these irrevocable articles provided that not less than three nor more than five States should be formed out of the region of country known as the Northwest Territory In case ...
... Mills reel 99 years old Mills assessors return of Mills and others were among those who subscribed to the shares of this company and became residents of the then western country Gen Parsons was sent to New York to secure from Congress a tract of lands on the Ohio He did not succeed and Dr Cutler was appointed by the directors of the ...