... RIVALRY BETWEEN EARLY OHIO AND KENTUCKY RIVALRY BETWEEN EARLY OHIO AND KENTUCKY SETTLERS The following article by a well-known historical writer recently appeared in one of the daily prints It throws an interesting side-light upon the early settlements on the Ohio-EDITOR The very first road that was laid out by engineers to lead to Cincinnati was referred to in the following advertisement in an issue of the Kentucky Gazette published at Lexington and edited by John Bradford dated September 6 ...
... 96 Ohio Arch 96 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications so on Professor Siebert is a careful and painstaking student and has exercised discriminating judgment as to what is necessary for the proper educidation of his subject He gives under each chapter the list of authorities which he has consulted or which may be further examined by those who desire more exhaustive study of the various topics The book is accompanied by an excellent appendix giving a chronological outline of the historical ...
... THE BEGINNINGS OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH THE BEGINNINGS OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH IN OHIO by OPHIA D SMITH The doctrines of Emanuel Swedenborg were introduced in America near the close of the eighteenth century twelve years after Swedenborg's death In 1784 James Glen a Scottish Newchurchman came to Philadelphia to deliver the first Swedenborgian lectures ever heard in this country This was three years before Robert Hindmarsh in London organized the first New Jerusalem society in the world ...
... 234 Ohio Arch 234 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications In the fall of 1816 the state offices were removed from Chillicothe to Columbus and on the first Monday of December of the same year the legislature began its first session in the then new state house in Columbus The proprietors having finished the public buildings and deeded the two ten acre lots to the state agreeably to their proposals at this session they presented their account for the erection of the public buildings and by an act ...
... A QUAKER SECTION OF THE UNDERGROUND A QUAKER SECTION OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN NORTHERN OHIO BY PROFESSOR WILBUR H SIEBERT of the Ohio State University One of the main lines of the Underground Railroad which traversed Ohio from south to north began at Ripley in Brown County on the Ohio River and ran through Highland Fayette Madison Franklin Delaware Marion Morrow and Richland counties to Greenwich in Huron whence branches ran to the lake north through Erie County and northeast through ...
... THE CONQUEST OF THE INDIAN THE CONQUEST OF THE INDIAN BENJAMIN R COWEN CINCINNATI Portion of an address delivered by General Cowen on the 28th of June 1904 at the placing of the tablet in commemoration of the Harrison-Tarhe Peace Conference We have heard the story of the historic incident this monument is designed to commemorate eloquently told by the Regent of the Columbus Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution That society has rendered a valuable service in the erection of this ...
... THE DUNMORE WAR THE DUNMORE WAR BY E O RANDALL Secretary Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society The American colonists had fought the French and Indian war1 with the expectation that they were to be in the event of success the beneficiaries of the result and be permitted to occupy the Ohio Valley as a fertile and valuable addition to their Atlantic coast lodgments But the war over and France vanquished the royal greed of Britain asserted itself and the London government most ...
... WAYNE AND THE TREATY OF GREENE VILLE WAYNE AND THE TREATY OF GREENE VILLE by DWIGHT L SMITH It has generally been assumed that the chief architect of the Treaty of Greene Ville at the end of the Indian Wars in the Old Northwest was General Mad Anthony Wayne The discovery of hitherto unknown manuscript material however furnishes documentary evidence that Wayne was operating under very specific orders from the war department Further a draft treaty for his guidance and use predetermined to a ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Prehistoric Antiquities of Indiana By Eli Lilly Indianapolis Indiana Historical Society 1937 293p illus Within the past few years there has been a renewed and intensified interest in the study of archaeology in the United States As a result much new evidence has been brought to light and new methods and techniques have been evolved for securing and interpreting archaeological facts In the Middle West the Indiana Historical Society has played a leading part in the ...
... THE DIVIDE THE DIVIDE The Water-Shed of Richland County Ohio BY A J BAUGHMAN The far-famed barn from the eaves of which the rain-falls flow from one side into Lake Erie and from the other to the Ohio river is situate near Five Corners in Springfield township seven miles west of Mansfield Richland County on the West Fourth street or Leesville road That this barn is not a myth but an actual reality can be verified by a visit to the locality The farm upon which the building stands is owned by C ...
... MOBBING THE SHAKERS OF UNION VILLAGE MOBBING THE SHAKERS OF UNION VILLAGE J P MACLEAN PH D It may be affirmed that of all the Christian sects of America not one is less aggressive or lives more within itself than that known as The Shakers or more properly speaking The Millennial Church It is true that in its early history it possessed a little missionary zeal but this was not of the offensive kind In common with all the sects it placed its own doctrines to the front proclaiming them to be the ...
... A Survey Of Publications A Survey Of Publications In Ohio History Archaeology And Natural History August 1954-July 1955 Co m piled by S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE BRANDT George A Jr A Survey of the Development of Dairying and the Dairy Industry in the Toledo Milkshed Area Northwest Ohio Quarterly XXVII 1955-56 8-27 BROMFIELD Louis From My Experience The Pleasures and Miseries of Life on a Farm New York Harper amp Brothers 1955 355p Personal experiences on Malabar Farm in Ohio and ...
... 474 Ohio 474 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications would be to detract from the estimate in which the work might be held The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society cannot of course agree to sanction such vagaries Respectfully R W MCFARLAND ITINERARY OF THE SECRETARY On August 18th Secretary Randall made a trip to Chillicothe and procuring conveyance drove out some seven miles to the location of the Harness Mounds where Prof W C Mills Curator of the Society's Museum was conducting his ...
... Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 631 Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 631 MUSEUM COMMITTEE 1 The Committee desires to extend SPECIAL invitations to certain cities and communities to visit the Museum on certain week days or Sunday afternoons 2 The Committee suggests that the Library retain the use of the south rooms of the main building for the present and suggests that the present Board of Directors' Room and Director Mills' Office Rooms be set aside and fitted up for special ...
... THE INDIAN IN OHIO THE INDIAN IN OHIO With a Map of the Ohio Country BY H C SHETRONE ASSISTANT CURATOR Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society FOREWORD The accompanying narrative is offered in response to an apparent demand for a briefly comprehensive account of the aboriginal inhabitants of the territory comprised within the State of Ohio The need of such an addition to the already extensive literature on the subject is suggested by frequent inquiry on the part of visitors to the ...
... A Survey of Publications A Survey of Publications In Ohio History and Archaeology August 1958 -- July 1959 Compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE HENLEIN Paul C Cattle Kingdom in the Ohio Valley 1783-1860 Lexington University of Kentucky Press 1959 198p ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT KUHNS Frederick Irving The American Home Missionary Society in Relation to the Antislavery Controversy in the Old Northwest Billings Montana published by the author 1959 53p ARCHAEOLOGY ALLMAN John C An Interesting ...
... FLATBOATING DOWN THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI FLATBOATING DOWN THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI 1867-1873 Correspondence and Diaries of the William Dudley Devol Family of Marietta Ohio PART I edited by ROBERT LESLIE JONES Professor of History Marietta College I The phrase flatboating down the Ohio is apt to evoke a mental picture of an immigrant family setting off from Pittsburgh aboard a broadhorn or of a group of backwoodsmen from almost any tributary taking advantage of the spring freshets to get their ...
... EDUCATION IN TERRITORIAL OHIO EDUCATION IN TERRITORIAL OHIO BY W ROSS DUNN In tracing the beginnings of education in that part of the old Northwest that later became Ohio the historian naturally turns to that much noted work of the decadent Congress of the Articles of Confederation the Northwest Ordinance or the Ordinance of 1787 His efforts are not unrewarded for Article Three contains the oft quoted declaration that schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged However this ...
... DOCUMENTS DOCUMENTS AN UNSUCCESSFUL NEGOTIATION FOR REMOVAL OF THE WYANDOT INDIANS FROM OHIO 1834 edited by DWIGHT L SMITH Instructor in History Ohio State University It did not take long for the frontiersman and his government to realize the impossibility of his pushing westward into new lands for purposes of hunting trapping and settling without reckoning with the Indian who inhabited the lands in which he desired to hunt trap and settle According to the white man's concepts of ownership and ...
... GENERAL INDEX TO VOL GENERAL INDEX TO VOL XLIV A E F--166th Infantry 365 American history 328 333 A L A 357 American Land Board 439 Adams Andrew 172 American liberty 315 Adams George 308 American Library Association see A L Adams James 449 A Adams John opposed Society of CincinAmerican medicine 451 nati 84 American Museum of Natural History 282 Adams John Quincy opposed Society of American Nation 350 Cincinnati 84 American people 312 318 Adams S 449 American Political Leaders 350 Adams Samuel ...