... establishments of our capital city Since his death his son James R Kilbourne has directed the affairs of this company Colonel Kilbourne the founder of Worthington and joint founder of Bucyrus when he reached manhood's estate became an ardent Whig and was identified with that party until the time of his death In 1840 at Columbus he presided over the famous Whig convention which nominated William Henry Harrison for the presidency Colonel ...
... BOUNDARY AND JURISDICTIONAL PROBLEMS BOUNDARY AND JURISDICTIONAL PROBLEMS OF THE KENTUCKY-OHIO BORDER BY EUGENE O PORTER The Ohio River forms parts of the boundaries of five states and in so doing advances two problems first that of the actual boundary of each state on the river and second that of the jurisdictionwhich each state may exercise on the river In other words Virginia in her deed of cession of the Old Northwest to the Government of the Confederacy in 1784 and in her enabling act for ...
... County Brown T J Kenton's County Haynes J M Fremont County XXIV 138-69 Summit County Brouse E W Akron County Gnadenhutten County Gilliland A B Some
... establishments at Quebec and Montreal At those places were collected all the noblesse the bishop the colleges of the Jesuits there was concentrated all the pomp and splendor which belonged to the French government in this part of America and all that was imposing in the Canadian state as well as the Church The emigrants in the lakes were of more humble origin who were dispatched to these posts to build them up and arranging convenient depots ...
... County within this Colony and that the Sheriffs take Care the same be done accordingly Given at the Council Chamber in Williamsburg on the 19th Day of February in the 27th Year of his Majesty's Reign Annoque Domini 1754 ROBERT DINWIDDIE GOD SAVE THE KING But it is oftentimes the intangible rather than the tangible that awakens and keeps awake interest I cannot believe Washington's lively interest in the West can be explained wholly by the ...
... David Zeisberger Centennial David Zeisberger Centennial 179 Slumber on and may Christians of whatever creed Bow their heads to the altered condition And as years roll along with eternity speed Give thy tomb its deserved recognition Slumber on in the vale far away from thy birth Where pure beauty and plenty fail never Where thy victories were in the efforts put forth For the Race almost vanquished forever SITE OF LICHTENAU Regarding the location of Lichtenau founded by Rev David Zeisberger of ...
... CHARACTERISTICS AND ACHIEVEMENTS CHARACTERISTICS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF DAVID ZEISBERGER REV WILLIAM N SCHWARZE M A Professor of Historical Theology Moravian College and Theological Seminary Bethlehem Pa In the middle of the eighteenth century Nathaniel Seidel and David Zeisberger were deputed by the Board controlling Moravian activity in America to report to Count Zinzendorf and his coadjutors in Europe the character which the mission among the Indians was assuming as well as to explain its ...
... 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 ...
... County Virginia July 26 County Ohio August 11 1828 He was Secretary and Acting Governor of the Northwest Territory following the removal of General Arthur St Clair member of the Convention which framed the first constitution for Ohio in 1802 and United States Judge for the district of Ohio from March 3 1803 until the day of his death He was a brother-in-law of Nathaniel Massie the two ...
... Ross Counties are not indifferent to the importance and significance of this occasion for they all seem to be present The preservation of this historic spot is assured by the acceptance on the part of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society of the deed delivered today The tract of ground conveyed includes the magnificent old elm whose generous shade we are now enjoying Several centuries have passed since its growth began and for ...
... establishment as a separate organization in this land dates back to but a very few years previous to the founding of this town In the Handbook of the General Convention of the United States by Bishop Perry of Iowa appears these words concerning the first meeting for organization of the church in America which occurred May 11 1784 A single sheet of foolscap faded and yellow with age contains the records of the preliminary gathering of clergy ...
... establishments last year we employed an army of 345000 men Their wages amounted to 1 2300000 0 and the things which they made were of the value of more than 800000000 Applause This shows how our state has grown and prospered But it is not of our material wealth of which we should be most proud Ohio has been engaged in better business During all these 100 years she has been engaged in the work of raising splendid men and women who have added ...
... establishment of a system of grades and the classification of pupils now became a possibility This possibility involved the evolution of a course of graded study the adoption of canons and methods of promotion and the provision of suitable text-books These problems rested heavily on the hands of such men as Harvey Henkle Rickoff and Cowdery for many years Some people now believe perhaps most people that these problems were solved too ...
... 80 Ohio Arch 80 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications arrive at its position till the first assault was nearly over After a volley or two in which the British sustained some slight loss the troops at this point also were ordered to retire The loss amounted to 26 killed 29 wounded and missing and 41 wounded most of them slightly and brought away total 96 The Americans state their loss at one killed and seven wounded Considering the way in which they were sheltered and the circumstances of the ...
... County69 He had some hope County D M Massie Nathaniel Massie Cincinnati 1896 205 71 Worthington to Nathaniel Macon July 23 1801 MS Letter Book of 1801 Library of Congress 116 72 MS Diary private Oct 12 13 and Nov 1 73 Worthington to Senator William B Giles November 17 1802 Carter Territorial Papers III 257 74 Journal of the Convention printed in D J Ryan From Charter to Constitution Ohio ...
... County Bible Society which County N Y He received a thorough education and graduated in medicine in time to serve in the war of 1812 Coming west soon after the war the doctor first stopped at Williamsport W Va a town across the Ohio from Marietta where he taught school until he removed to McConnelsville In the latter place he also taught ...
... County New York and here County This gives record County New York Here it County New York from which County became the center of attack on the part of the Indian forces under Brant Here it was in A Grave in the Wilderness A Grave in ...
... County and a fort at the County At the last named County He had not time in the space allotted him to tell all that the colored man of Ohio was doing He is ambitious loves office and never lets one escape him For a number of years there has been a colored member in the Legislature There were better chances for the colored man in Ohio than ...
... County Virginia July 25 175311 The fort was not built that year however for Washington records in his journal January 6 1754 on that day as he was returning from his mission to the French forts he met seventeen horses loaded with material and stores for the fort12 In February Governor Dinwiddie sent a company of troops to aid the men of the Ohio Company in the erection of the Fort13 Work had not been begun on the fort on January 6 1754 when ...
... establishments all along Lake establishment for trade perhaps with a stockade for defense against the English and their Indian allies When the English got possession of Lake Erie and its tributaries in 176 0 a military post was planted somewhere on Sandusky Bay Ensign Paully and a squad were captured there in 1763 at the uprising of Pontiac's conspiracy and most of them murdered on the spot ...