... UNVEILING OF THE CRESAP TABLET UNVEILING OF THE CRESAP TABLET LOGAN ELM PARK-OCTOBER 1916 On Saturday October 21 1916 an interesting ceremony was held at Logan Elm Park under the auspices of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society The program arranged by Mr Frank Tallmadge comprised the erection of a flag staff and the unfurling of the stars and stripes the dedication of a log cabin not a modern imitation but a well preserved relic of the real thing a left over of the pioneer days ...
... 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 ...
... 492 Ohio Arch 492 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications From the ruins of this first estate we have the smiling landscape the green grass the fertile fields of waving grain We have the advantages ease comfort conveniences luxuries of modern civilization For the generation that first came to this goodly land and rough-hewed the way there is lasting remembrance and perpetual honor In their lives there was a seriousness of purpose that is not characteristic of the later generation In the midst ...
... EARLY DAYS IN OHIO EARLY DAYS IN OHIO FROM LETTERS AND DIARIES OF DR I A LAPHAM Increase Allen Lapham at the time of his death regarded as the most distinguished scholar of his state Wisconsin was for many years a citizen and state official of Ohio He was born in Palmyra N Y in 1811 and while as a boy laborer working on the construction of the Erie Canal became interested in the study of nature and her various phases The subsequent results of his studies were embodied in fortyfive different ...
... THE ROUSH FAMILY IN AMERICA THE ROUSH FAMILY IN AMERICA Their Contribution to the New Country BY REV L L ROUSH In these days when almost every one is writing and when so many details of history are brought out of their hiding-places by some historian especially equipped for that purpose and whose chief business is to bring to the public eye such discoveries one hesitates before he sets himself to the task of adding anything to this voluminous collection However no student dares venture far ...
... 128 Ohio Arch 128 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Hurrah for our Country May she ever be free Hurrah for our Patriots On land or on sea Who gave this Liberty to you and to me We will hold their deeds and memory bright While the Sun and the Moon give us this light To their principles we boys will be true And we will live and die for the Red White and Blue The speaker of the day was Hon Henry J Booth who delivered the following address ADDRESS OF HON HENRY J BOOTH In the midst of the ...
... THE DIARY OF JOHN BEATTY JANUARY-JUNE 1884 THE DIARY OF JOHN BEATTY JANUARY-JUNE 1884 Part III edited by HARVEY S FORD Head Librarian Toledo Blade Wednesday March 26 1884 The newspaper correspondents have for the last month been urging me to give them an interview on the political situation What they mean by an interview is a carefully prepared dialogue between the correspondent who asks the questions or is represented as asking them and the interviewed person so called who writes both ...
... MATTHIAS LOY MATTHIAS LOY Leader Of Ohio's Lutherans by C GEORGE FRY Among the names of the pioneers who labored to establish a strong Lutheran Church in Ohio that of Matthias Loy deserves a prominent place At the time of his death in 1915 he was regarded as one of the most distinguished theologians of the Lutheran faith in the United States1 and in his long and productive life he had been a Churchman of varied attainments and wide usefulness pastor professor editor author and church leader2 ...
... PIPE'S CLIFF PIPE'S CLIFF A J BAUGHMAN MANSFIELD Pipe's Cliff is the highest point of a ledge of fragmentary rocks that for a mile or more skirt Pleasant Run Valley on the north nine miles southeast of Mansfield Richland county Ohio The cliff is named for Captain Pipe a chief of the Monsey branch of the Delaware Indian tribe Captain Pipe's home was at Jeromeville on the Jerome Fork of the Mohican from 1795 to 1812the period between the signing of the treaty of Greenville and the war of 1812 He ...
... ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT CHASE Helen Richland County and Underground Railroad Ohio Genealogical Society Report V No 4 August 1965 2 4 GARA Larry ed Brilliant Thoughts and Important Truths A Speech of Frederick Douglass Ohio History LXXV 1966 3-9 HOWARD Victor B The Slavery Controversy and a Seminary for the Northwest Journal of Presbyterian History XLIII 1965 227-253 Shelby Quaker Served Underground Railroad Ohio Genealogical Society Report V No 4 August 1965 3 Concerns Stephen Blanchard ...
... Ohio's Monument to General Anthony Wayne 37 Ohio's Monument to General Anthony Wayne 37 the cabinet of President Hoover in Honorable Walter F Brown Postmaster-General Had he been present he would have been accorded a most generous welcome Naturally unusual interest centered in the distinguished guest William Wayne of Paoli Pennsylvania He is a lineal descendant of General Anthony Wayne a successful business man and a former member of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania Asked if he had held ...
... Dedication of the Hayes Memorial Dedication of the Hayes Memorial 475 THE MEMORIAL BUILDING The Memorial Building a beautiful structure of classic architecture stands among the great trees to the north of the Hayes Residence facing the entrance from Hayes Avenue It is of light grey Ohio sandstone from the Amherst quarries and of ample proportions Broad steps between bronze pedestals bearing ornamental lights lead up to the pillared portico and great bronze doors Upon entering the building the ...
... PSYCHIATRIC PROGRESS IN OHIO 389 PSYCHIATRIC PROGRESS IN OHIO 389 mental illness they were eager to consult psychiatrists of the Veterans Administration or in private practice Thus the public as a whole has gained considerably from this tremendous growth of psychiatry Some of the secrecy and shame which people felt when consulting a psychiatrist has faded Indeed some individuals are as proud of speaking about their psychiatrists as the patients who speak enthusiastically about their operations ...
... THE JOURNAL OF A VERMONT MAN IN OHIO 1836-18421 THE JOURNAL OF A VERMONT MAN IN OHIO 1836-18421 edited by LEROY P G RA F Professor of History University of Tennessee In 1836 when he was thirty-one Oren Wiley left his family and friends in Saxtons River Vermont to accept employment in a tin shop in Ohio City Ohio a new settlement located along Lake Erie on the west side of the Cuyahoga River opposite Cleveland Three years later he moved to Dayton Ohio where he lived until his return to New ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 321 Reviews Notes and Comments 321 setts He has a national and international reputation for his contributions to botany and horticulture From 1888 to 1897 he was editor of Garden and Forest He has contributed extensively to publications of the Smithsonian Institution and is author of numerous monographs Winthrop Sargent VII is complimented on page 91 of the volume as follows Winthrop Sargent of the seventh generation the eleventh of that name will always be ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABOLTIONISTS amp the South 1831-1861 The by Stanley Harrold rev 195-196 Act to Organize and Discipline the Militia An 37 Adjutant General Ohio office of 26 28 37 African-American soldiers 34-35 149n 14 Agnew Margaret Mrs Harman Blennerhassett 137-138 Agriculture 80-81 Aides-de-Camp Ohio office of 26 29 Akron Beacon Journal 10-11 Alcoholic camphor 180 Alexander Charles C book rev 205207 Allen Howard W book rev 112-113 Allopathic medicine 177 Ambassadors and ...
... A Visit to the Ohio State Prison in 1837 A Visit to the Ohio State Prison in 1837 Edited by MERTON L DILLON ONE OF THE MANY SOCIAL PROBLEMS that demanded solution in the early nineteenth century was how best to deal with convicted criminals The answer provided by the system inaugurated in 1823 at the state prison at Auburn New York enjoyed great vogue among penal reformers and set the fashion in American prison administration for the next half century The Auburn system required the isolation ...
... THE FIRST NEWSPAPER OF THE NORTHWEST THE FIRST NEWSPAPER OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY THE EDITOR AND HIS WIFE C B GALBREATH The first newspaper published northwest of the Ohio River was edited by William Maxwell a Revolutionary soldier After the recognition of our national independence he set out for the great west to seek fortune in the new field that called many worthy brave and adventurous spirits He crossed the Alleghanies proceeded to Pittsburg came down the Ohio and took up his abode in ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS BIG BOTTOM AND IT S HISTORY CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF The history of Big Bottom has no claim on being unique unless the recent action of Mr Obadiah Brokaw in erecting a monument at his own expense to mark the site of the blockhouse can demand such distinction The events connected with this historic ground are decidedly type studies Its early history is but representative of and part of that general conflict between the Indian and the white man Its ...
... WHAT WE OWE TO THE PAST WHAT WE OWE TO THE PAST BY NEVIN 0 WINTER The student of history is generally attracted by events which occurred at some remote place It is another illustration of distance lending enchantment In Europe I have seen Americans tramping over the scenes of battles which had no significance in the world's history They were simply scenes of conflicts between rival factions in local disturbances Some of these same Americans have passed by battlefields near their own homes ...