... Benjamin Brokaw who came to Belmont County from New Jersey His mother was Mary Smith They were both of Dutch descent About 1830 they moved to Morgan County settling near New Castle in Meigsville Township Mr Brokaw yet remembers the great Muskingum flood of 1832 when White's Mill near his home was carried away Mr Brokaw attended the rude school of that pioneer day The school at which he was a pupil was taught by Timothy Eastman who later became ...
... FIRST CATHOLIC CHURCH IN OHIO FIRST CATHOLIC CHURCH IN OHIO The question is often asked When did the Catholic Church first make a permanent settlement in Ohio We have diligently sought the desired information From Hon W B Archer member of the Senate of the 81st General Assembly we recently received the following communication which seems to settle the question of the first Ohio Catholic Church - EDITOR In compliance with your request I give a brief statement of what is known as the East Fork ...
... THE OHIO CANAL THE OHIO CANAL AN ACCOUNT OF ITS COMPLETION TO CHILLICOTHE BY GEORGE PERKINS About this time 1831 the news of the completion of the Ohio Canal reached our village This immense undertaking was brought about by the lack of proper means of transportation The roads throughout the state were primitive The wagons that traversed them were inadequate to transport products and needed goods and a universal sentiment was aroused for building a canal Uncle John Briggs and Samuel Probst ...
... Benjamin Seth 406 Military Companies in 400 Shaker Diary of 403 Officers in 401 Ohio's part in 384 459 324 325 Premonitions of 457 Z Troops raised for 400 Zanesville - Urbana at 396 Bank of 320 Warren CountyLegislature convenes at 436 Shakers Expedition against in 403 Ziegler Major DavidWashington George-- Ability as disciplinarian 135 Commends Governor Tiffin 454 Adjutant-General of Ohio 163 Memorial services at Ft Washington Ancestry of 128 ...
... History of Archaeological Society 571 History of Archaeological Society 571 long I shall honor his grave with a better tombstone and write an inscription upon it that will inform the passerby who occupies that lonely spot Give my respects to old Uncle Dan Allman tell him I should be glad to hear from him Accept of these lines and remember a Son a Brother and his little family Goodbye Mother and Friends WILLIAM WARNER SARAH WARNER ALI C E WARNER the babe PROSPECTIVE ENDOWMENT OF THE HAYES ...
... Eggleston I Local Study 1 Eggleston 1 Extend the study of the primitive life and the pioneers from the locality to other parts of the State and country and bring out the friendly relations and the struggles between the Indians and white people 430 Ohio Arch 430 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications II Study Individual Pioneers 1 The first Governor of Boston 2 Marquette 3 William Penn and ...
... FIRST BATTLE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FIRST BATTLE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BY W H HUNTER CHILLICOTHE This article was prepared for and read by author at the Banquet of the Ohio Society of the Sons of the American Revolution held at the Neil House Columbus April 19 1902 It is herewith published at the request of the editor of the Quarterly-E 0 R At the time the dreadful battle of Point Pleasant was fought at the mouth of the Kanawha river on October 10 1774 the American colonies were in ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA NEW TRUSTEES OF THE SOCIETY REV WILLIAM HENRY RICE D D Among the historic characters who played a thrilling and imperishable part in the early annals of Ohio were the three Moravian missionaries Christian Frederick Post David Zeisberger and John Heckewelder From the last named in direct descent is the Rev W H Rice for many years past a life and active member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and at the last annual meeting February 26 elected a ...
... Old Fort Sandoski of 1745 and The Sandusky Forts Old Fort Sandoski of 1745 and The Sandusky Forts 375 hoga River is a mere assertion without any foundation in fact Neither Colonel Whittlesey Mr A T Goodman nor Judge Baldwin long officers of the Western Reserve Historical Society at Cleveland on the Cuyahoga River and all extremely anxious to prove the importance of their own locality ever thought of claiming the Cuyahoga River for the White River From the foregoing it appears that Mr Hanna's ...
... Benjamin Goodin Cincinnati July 23 1798 St Clair Papers 2428-31 Petition to the Territorial House September 28 1799 St Clair Papers 2448n Address of the Leg Council and House of Representatives to his Excellency Governor St Clair November 1800 St Clair Papers 2515-16 Bond Foundations 2428-29 164 OHIO HISTORY 164 OHIO HISTORY St Clair's opposition to statehood also threatened Massie's interests The Chillicothe Junto as Massie and his ...
... THE INDIAN THOROUGHFARES OF OHIO THE INDIAN THOROUGHFARES OF OHIO BY ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT History tells of two Ohios151the old and the new The old Ohio was that portion of the American Hinterland drained by the Ohio and Allegheny rivers which together formed la Belle Riviere of New France It included the territory between the Alleghenies the Mississippi and the great lakes save as we except the country of Illinois which early in history became a territory distinct by itself as the meadow ...
... 30 Ohio Arch 30 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications not to enslave men but to make men free to enlarge in a vast degree the zone of Republican government All honor to George Croghan and his heroic band All honor to the soldiers of the revolution All honor to the soldiers of the Mexican war All honor to the soldiers of the Union All honor to the soldiers of the Spanish-American war The American people honor them They honor them each and all They hold them forever within the embrace of their ...
... Benjamin Franklin June 18 1787 See the author's Guillotin Thinks of America OSAH Quar XLVII 1938 132-3 26 Brackenridge Recollections 36-7 MCDERMOTT GALLIPOLIS 1792-1811 293 MCDERMOTT GALLIPOLIS 1 792-1811 293 and one of their two traveling companions were killed by Indians Saugrain and the fourth man saved their lives only after great pain and difficulty27 Mme Saugrain Brackenridge found was an amiable young woman but not possessing as much ...
... Monument at Fort Jefferson Monument at Fort Jefferson 113 5 PRESENTATION Geo A Katzenberger 6 UNVEILING Elizabeth D Robeson 7 MILITARY SALUTE Gun Squad Co M 3rd Regt 8 STAR SPANGLED BANNER Drum Corps 9 ACCEPTANCE ON BEHALF OF THE PUBLICProf J T Martz 10 HISTORIC ADDRESS Judge J I Allread 11 YANKEE DOODLE Drum Corps 12 A WORD FROM THE RED MEN L E Wills 13 BENEDICTION Rev G W Berry ADDRESS OF FRAZER E WILSON SECRETARY GREENVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY One hundred and sixteen years ago to-day a ...
... Benjamin F Wolfe These encampments have been often confounded with each other History is rich in incidents which occurred on the banks of the Sippo and the Congo They are both small streams situate but a short distance apart the former entering the latter about two miles from its confluence with the Scioto The troops of Dunmore and Lewis united numbered two thousand five hundred officers and men Their formidable presence planted at the very ...
... JOHNSON'S ISLAND JOHNSON'S ISLAND BY HEWSON L PEEKE This island lies three miles north of Sandusky in the bay It is nearly a mile long half a mile wide and contains about three hundred acres rising gradually in the center to a height of fifty feet It was originally covered with heavy timber and was a favorite resort of the Indians who came there to fish feast and torture their captives Its first owner was E W Bull and it was originally called Bull's Island until 1852 when it was called ...
... A VISIT IN 1929 A VISIT IN 1929 TO THE SITES IN WESTERN OHIO OF FORTS BUILT BY GENERALS ARTHUR ST CLAIR ANTHONY WAYNE AND WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON BY JAMES A GREEN CHAPTER I On the Fourth of July 1929 I made a patriotic pilgrimage visiting the sites of some of the forts erected in western Ohio in St Clair's and Wayne's Indian Campaigns and by Harrison in the War of 1812 As showing the immeasurable difference between the slow and laborious progress of our early armies and the speed of the modern ...
... Unveiling of Fort Recovery Monument Unveiling of Fort Recovery Monument 435 we see emblazoned daring and unselfish deeds of heroes who have scaled the walls of duty and gained the parapets of the City beyond And too what a lesson it conveys Its white teaches purity of purpose its red typifies the blood which has been so freely shed in its defense and its blue with its constellations reminds us of fidelity fidelity to our God fidelity to ourselves fidelity to The Star Spangled Banner Oh long ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS THE INDIAN TRIBES OF OHIO -HISTORICALLY CONSIDERED A PRELIMINARY PAPER BY WARREN KING MOOREHEAD MEMBER OF THE VICTORIA INSTITUTE PREFACE In looking through a large number of historical and ethnological books recently I was impressed by the fact that we have no single work devoted exclusively to Ohio Indians and that the student of the tribes of the Ohio Valley in historic times must peruse numerous volumes and pamphlets in order to gain a ...
... Benjamin Tappan Jeremiah Morrow and Ebenezer Buckingham Samuel Geddes one of the Erie Canal engineers was employed by the commissioners During the next two years his parties hunted down the various water courses camping here and there in the wilderness to ascertain the level and to gauge the water-flow in every stream To accomplish this work they were compelled to cut their way through the virgin forests and swamps transporting with them all ...