... THE INDIAN VILLAGE OF CUSH-OG-WENK THE INDIAN VILLAGE OF CUSH-OG-WENK BY THOMAS H JOHNSON COSHOCTON The generations who were active participants in the events which constitute the early history of Ohio having passed away it seems to me the imperative duty of those now living whose early life overlapped the survivors of the active participants in the stirring events of that earlier period to place on record any recollections they may have of the stories told by those old survivors tending to ...
... Winthrop Sargent 237 Winthrop Sargent 237 WINTHROP SARGENT'S DIARY WHILE WITH GENERAL ARTHUR ST CLAIR'S EXPEDITION AGAINST THE INDIANS Much has been written of the ill-fated expedition of Arthur St Clair against the Indians in 1791 While serving as Governor of the Northwest Territory he was appointed Major General in the United States army on March 4 of that year An expedition against the Indians was assembled and organized at Fort Wash ington Considerable difficulty was experienced in fitting ...
... WESTERN OPINION AND THE WAR OF 1812 WESTERN OPINION AND THE WAR OF 1812 BY JOHN F CADY M A I The determining factor in any situation is the active positive element involved in it In the realm of physics for example force is measured by the product of mass and velocity but the direction of movement is determined by the positive active velocity not by the passive mass acted upon So it is in historical and political movements The desires and convictions of the positive progressive group are of ...
... JOSEPH VANCE AND HIS TIMES JOSEPH VANCE AND HIS TIMES BY BENJAMIN F PRINCE Professor of History and Political Science Wittenberg College Springfield Ohio The men who made Ohio for its first fifty years were persons of remarkable character and quality Four or five states gave choice selections for the settlement of that region They proved themselves good and true for the work they had to do and brought honor and success to the interests committed to their care Connecticut Pennsylvania Maryland ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR OHIO HISTORY IN THE SCHOOLS History and Geography of Ohio by William M Gregory Head of the Geography Department Cleveland School of Education and William B Guitteau Director of Schools Toledo Ohio Ginn and Company Publishers New York and Columbus 1922 It is to be regretted that in the educational system of our State there is no legal mandate to teach Ohio history ...
... OHIO'S MONUMENT TO GENERAL ANTHONY OHIO'S MONUMENT TO GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE UNVEILED September 14 1929 is a date long to be remembered in the annals of Ohio and other states represented at the dedicatory ceremonies incident to the unveiling of a monument to Major General Anthony Wayne a hero of the Revolution and the border wars with the Indians in the valleys of the Miami and Maumee Rivers The sites of his major achievements in the post-Revolutionary period of his career-the battle of Fallen ...
... ANCIENT CORRESPONDENCE ANCIENT CORRESPONDENCE FROM SAMUEL LINTON WAYNESVILLE O TO ABEL SATERTHWAITE PHILADELPHIA Samuel Linton was the fifth child of Benjamin and Jane Cowgal Linton and was born in Bucks county Pa December 17th 1741 He was reared a farmer yet learned the trade of a weaver He married May 10 1775 Elizabeth Harvey who was born March 8th 1748 They had six children Samuel Nathan David Jane Elizabeth and James who in turn with the exception of James raised large families During the ...
... LARRY L LARRY L NELSON Cultural Mediation Cultural Exchange and the Invention of the Ohio Frontier There was little rest for Alexander McKee during the autumn of 1793 Over the course of the preceding three years a loose confederation of Native Americans from along the Maumee River Valley had looked to their British allies for assistance In their campaign to expel the United States from the Ohio Country the northwestern tribes had already frustrated two American expeditions into the region In ...
... HARRISON'S GREAT SPEECH HARRISON'S GREAT SPEECH At the Wonderful Log Cabin Campaign Meeting at Ft Meigs in 1840 Closely intertwined with the coming dedication of the Fort Meigs monument at Perrysburg is the history of a gathering which rivaled numerically the meeting which will take place there when the monument is dedicated in September The occasion was a speech by General Harrison in 1840 then a candidate for the presidency and 40000 persons assembled to hear his address When modes of travel ...
... Dedication of the Hayes Memorial Dedication of the Hayes Memorial 4 31 very graciously doffed his hat in recognition of the honor thus paid him When it was suggested to him that these were the boys who would help him in Mexico in case the situation came to that he very earnestly and seemingly sadly remarked Yes yes I know but we hope and pray they will not be needed Immediately upon the arrival of Secretary Baker the real dedication of the Memorial the Grove and the Mansion was begun ...
... FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society FOR THE YEAR FEBRUARY 1 1899 TO FEBRUARY 1 1900 GEN R BRINKERHOFF PRESIDENT E O RANDALL SECRETARY COLUMBUS OHIO JANUARY 1900 345 OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY FROM FEBRUARY 1 1899 TO FEBRUARY 1 1900 ELECTED BY THE TRUSTEES GEN ROELIFF BRINKERHOFF President REV WM E MOORE D D LL D Vice-President HON S S RICKLY Treasurer EDWIN F WOOD Assistant Treasurer E O RANDALL PH B LL ...
... The Firelands Grant The Firelands Grant 435 THE FIRELANDS GRANT BY CLARENCE D LAYLIN This article is the outgrowth of a paper read before the Political Science Club of Ohio State University The discussion which followed the reading of the paper among members of that club led to further investigation the result of which is the article as here produced-EDITOR In treating of the settlement of new countries the general and proper method is to recite the history of its pioneer days Without the ...
... Indian River and Place Names in Ohio Indian River and Place Names in Ohio By AUGUST C MAHR It can be safely claimed that as a rule North American Woodland Indians when penetrating into a given region first traveled by canoe on that region's main river and then proceeded upstream on the major tributaries as far as they were navigable and promised a sufficient food supply Again and again they would branch off from the respective tributary ascending side streams which offered prospects either of ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 223 injustices combined with the unfair and oppressive policy of Governor Berkeley and his failure to quell the Indian uprisings led at last to the rebellion of the downtrodden planters under the leadership of Nathaniel Bacon a descendant of Lord Bacon Bacon led the planters successfully against the Indians and protected the frontiers then drove out Berkeley and remained master of Virginia until his death a few months later when Berkeley once more assumed control Then ...
... Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 623 Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 623 Mr Smith thinks no executor has been appointed up to this time He will learn definitely in regard to this soon If the Society thinks it of sufficient importance to acquire the Mound now is the time to institute active measures Signed B F PRINCE Chairman FORT LAURENS PARK The situation at Fort Laurens Park one mile east of Bolivar Ohio has been unsatisfactory for a long time Very little has been done since the ...
... The Pioneer Poet Lawyer The Pioneer Poet Lawyer 3 05 THE PIONEER POET LAWYER BY N B C LOVE D D A volume lies before me the property of the Way Library Perrysburg Ohio It is called THE FOREST RANGERS It is a tale of the northwest wilderness of 1794 Wayne's March and battles are a prominent feature with possible incidents connected therewith both of fact and fiction The author was Andrew Coffinberry Wright and Leg were the publishers Columbus Ohio 1842 I do not know how large the edition or the ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA HISTORY OF JEROME TOWNSHIP UNION COUNTY OHIO In this interesting addition to the local history of Ohio the author Colonel W L Curry has preserved the facts and traditions in the life of a typical American community He has given to the third generation from the pioneer a thrilling account of Indian warfare and interesting stories of that period of settlement The record will be invaluable to the historian of the future It presents with vivid detail the life trials and ...
... 476 Ohio Arch 476 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The Functions of Museums and the Question of Special Exhibitions by Frederic A Lucas American Museum of Natural History The Museum Point of View in Botany by E L Morris Brooklyn Institute Museum A Celestial Sphere-An Appartus Installed to Promote Interest in Astronomy by Dr W W Atwood Chicago Academy of Sciences The Educational Work of a Natural History Museum by W W Atwood Chicago Academy of Sciences The Deutaches Museum at Munich by ...
... THE LUDLOW LINE THE LUDLOW LINE R W MCFARLAND It is well known that Virginia claimed most of the territory northwest of the Ohio river by reason of the grants made by the sovereign of England to the colonists In 1784 in accordance with a formal request made by Congress in 178 0 Virginia ceded to the United States all her claims to the territory reserving only the lands between the Scioto and the little Miami rivers This tract is usually called the Virginia Military District It was reserved for ...
... II II BRIEF HISTORY OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY BY T H E EDITOR The Pioneers of Territorial Ohio seem to have been conscious of the fact that they were making history Intimations of this are found in the addresses and letters of St Clair and his associates and on the printed pages of William Maxwell's Centinel of the NorthWestern Territory The first definite movement of an organization to collect the materials of this early history appears to have been consummated ...