... County Pa spoke as follows The only excuse that I have for now coming before you is that my home is in Erie Pennsylvania a place so linked with the great national event the anniversary of which we are here celebrating that as one of her citizens I would be less than an American if I shrank from the performance of any duty to which I might be here called by your committee The end of the year 1812 found the war going on with the great territory ...
... settlement alone in order to get a musket which he had hidden and toward evening returned safely home again without having met any evilminded persons 6th the sermon in the service was based on Luke 21 25-36 8th Brother Luckenbach went with Charles Henry to Colonel Bay at New Philadelphia on business and had the opportunity to become acquainted with him and to talk with him about several things concerning the Indian congregation In these days ...
... County Historical Society County delegation Mrs County Historical Society both in interest and attendance proved to be the most successful of any in its history The society under the administration of Gen R Brinkerhoff President and Mr A J Baughman Secretary is doing splendid work and gathering much historical material concerning the
... settlement upon not only this Northwest Territory but also upon the United States and the whole world They will indicate how the spirit of liberty that saved and dedicated this section to free institutions thus turned the balance in favor of freedom as against slavery and saved this Republic with its recognition of human rights to be the beacon light and cheer and encouragement to the liberty-loving people of the whole civilized earth These ...
... settlement of the question At settlement became quite settlement was as far off as settlement and his party was growing in power A presidential election was imminent and the would-be office holders wanted to take their seats in Congress and elsewhere They wanted their share of the ...
... Unveiling of Fort Recovery Monument Unveiling of Fort Recovery Monument 427 whose loss was unusually great but also to the British who stood as sponsors to the movements of the tribesmen for the British were not only redoubling their assistance to the tribes supplying them with arms and munitions but were in their own behalf taking bold measures of offensive warfare For it was at this time April 1794 that under the orders of Governor Simcoe three British companies commanded by Colonel Richard ...
... County which will put the Society in position to lay the Park out with some landscape gardening and beautify it with trees It is also planned to employ a caretaker at a moderate salary who will occupy the park house and keep it in respectable condition After the proposed improvements are made funds should be provided for the erection of an appropriate monument near the highway and the site of the fort bearing an inscription setting forth ...
... settlements on the Maumee but La Demoiselle refused to do so and induced so many of his tribesmen to settle in his village called by the English Pickawillany that it became one of the largest and most important Indian towns in the West it was also a center of English trade and influence In June 1752 it was attacked by a strong force of Ottawas from the Upper Lakes under the command of Charles Langlade they captured the village killed and ate ...
... Sermon by Rev Sermon by Rev John Moncure 221 SERMON BY REV JOHN MONCURE RECTOR OF ST PETER'S CHURCH TEXTRemember the days of old consider the years of many generationsDeuteronomy 32 7 A hundred years in the history of a place affords a fruitful subject for study When we gaze through the vistas of past events and consider the whys and the wherefores and when we thus are brought into realization of the fact that the things which once appeared to men as through a glass darkly by the light of a ...
... County may be said to be County through Wyandot County By some it is County Indians in Union County 273 road from Van Wert to Fort Wayne was cut through by my grandfather and two of his brothers Over this road many moving from the east ...
... The Presbyterians of Ohio The Presbyterians of Ohio 211 ABSTRACT OF THE SERMON ON THE PRESBYTERIANS OF OHIO BY REV SYLVESTER F SCOVEL PRESIDENT OF WOOSTER UNIVERSITY WOOSTER OHIO PREACHED IN THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH The Christian is a cosmopolitan Every land is his fatherland since God is his father So every Christian is brother to all other Christians Yet we may have a just concern which shall be special for our country and our church We have a century of Presbyterian experience behind ...
... settlements to hurry forward reinforcements and supplies The garrison suffered greatly from lack of food and was more than once on the point of mutiny Finally in December Winchester was ordered to proceed to the Rapids badly equipped for winter campaigning as his men were The expedition in which the troops suffered untold hardship ended in the disaster and massacre of the River Raisin But Croghan escaped the fate of others of his regiment by ...
... settlements the organization and admission of the state the various treaties with the Indians come in for their share of attention Ohio's attitude and share in the second war with England is especially well handled Mr Atwater was a genuine Ohioan He was not a Jingo by any means but he loved his state and believed in its citizens He knew what every other fair minded student of history knows that the War of 1812 meant more to the people of Ohio ...
... settlement of Ohio and the settlement begun at the mouth of the Muskingum The River of the Elk's eyes and its junction with the Ohio the beautiful river on April 7th 1788 was so rapid that the wilderness soon was peopled to such degree that the state with its present boundaries was admitted to the Union in 1802 Its people with those of the other portions of the Territory bordering on the ...
... 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 ...
... settlement at Marietta Putnam settlement of the Harmonists The river was the route to the Birkbeck-Flower establishment in Illinois Beside the Ohio was published the first broadside in favor of the Erie Canal at Mt Pleasant Ohio the first anti-slavery sheet in America appeared in Cincinnati with her heart's blood as she once confided in a friend Mrs Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin at Marietta ...
... settlement By the same token settlement of differences As settlement of their settlement might be there was settlement of disputes As a settlement of difficulties and
... settlement and first decade of the French colony at Gallipolis That most romantic and unique project of the Scioto Company in which an American syndicate sought to exploit what Mr Sibley calls An unholy enterprise among the Parisians just previous to the outbreak of the French Revolution As the writer says the story of the deception of these people by American land speculators is of touching interest The Bastile had been destroyed and the dark ...
... settlements of the James and Potomac in Virginia Sir Galahad upon his white charger adventuring forth in search of the Holy Grail does not lay stronger hold upon the imagination than does this lone woman upon her black horse riding in sunshine and darkness in frozen bleakness or dewy spring dawns through rugged canyons and beautiful valleys over lofty mountains and densely wooded hills in the holy cause of freedom Such is the instinctive ...
... settlement of Plymouth settlements with earth walls and raised earth platforms for the council house or medicine tent They had corn fields and garden beds but no domestic animals Their mode of life clothing houses implements their religious ideas were those of the Indian at the time of Columbus They belonged to the stone age but had passed out of the lowest stage of barbarism to the somewhat ...