... Benjamin Harrison who at Benjamin Harrison from the grave and it was later discovered by General Harrison in the pickling vat of the Ohio Medical College A great sensation was caused by the discovery The remains of the old man were reinterred in the same grave and a guard was kept over them for several weeks This was in the latter part of May 1878 and Colonel L W Irwin who is taking such ...
... Benjamin Franklin the borough and one of its main streets had been named Thus the founding of Franklinton the initial borough of Columbus For over a quarter of a century Lucas Sullivant here lived--built the first brick home of the borough-- married Sarah Starling a Kentucky girl of royal Eng- Franklinton at Time of Death of Lucas Sullivant 171 Franklinton at Time of Death of Lucas Sullivant 171 lish lineage who through her generosity and ...
... Benjamin Tappan Fenton Lawson J Resor B F Hunt George Graham F W Dury and W Manser Mr Williams was sent to Boston to investigate a New- 120 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 120 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Church school there and on his return opened the Cincinnati school in January 18 40 at first in the basement of the church on Longworth Street then in a beautiful and commodious edifice with apartments large ...
... Benjamin Drake and E D Mansfield Cincinnati in 1826 Cincinnati 1827 7 Charles B Galbreath Thomas Jefferson's Views on Slavery in Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society Publications Vol XXXIV Columbus 1925 8 John F Schemmerhorn and Samuel J Mills West of the Alleghanies Hartford 1814 III SECONDARY AUTHORITIES A Caleb Atwater History of Ohio Cincinnati 1838 B Jacob Burnet Notes on the Northwestern Territory Cincinnati 1847 C Robert E ...
... PONTIAC'S CONSPIRACY PONTIAC'S CONSPIRACY BY E 0 RANDALL For a century and a half 1600-1750 France and England had been rivals for the possession of the fairest part of the North American continent Each nation had acquired a fixed tenancy but the extent of those respective holdings was unequal France by her discoveries and occupancies had preempted Canada the region of the Great Lakes and the Ohio and Mississippi valleys England through her colonies the New England Coast from near the Gulf of ...
... Bland Summer-Autumn 2003 pp 87-92 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2003 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved The State of Ohio as Seen by Traugott Bromme Translated by Richard L Bland The title page of Bromme's publication click to view larger image Introduction During the early part of the 1800s Europeans came to the United States in large numbers One such person was Traugott Bromme Bromme born near Leipzig in 1802 came to the United States in 1821 where he ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR THE CAPTURE OF OLD VINCENNES This is the title of a timely and most interesting volume edited by Dr Milo M Quaife Managing Editor of the Mississippi Valley Historical Review It includes the original narratives of George Rogers Clark the leader of the American expedition and Sir Henry Hamilton Lieutenant Governor of Detroit The special occasion for the appearance of ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS THE GNADENHUETTEN CENTENNIAL SEPTEMBER 29 1798 One hundred years ago the Rev John Heckewelder moved into the First House which he and his helpers built on the east bank of the Muskingum Tuscarawas River where he founded Gnadenhuetten as a Moravian Church settlement of whites To commemorate the Centennial Anniversary of its founding Gnadenhuetten was visited by a concourse of seven thousand men women and children This estimate of the number ...
... BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTHWORKS OF BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTHWORKS OF OHIO PREPARED BY MRS CYRUS THOMAS FOR THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Continued from page 200 ANY observers in the State who have facts concerning the earthworks of Ohio in addition to those here stated will confer a favor upon the world by forwarding such information to Professor G F Wright Oberlin 0 the member of the Editorial Committee in charge of this department by whom the facts will be classified and published in a future ...
... Benjamin Butterworth Secretary of the Columbian Exposition There was a fair sized audience Admittance was by invitation Among the prominent people present were Governor Wm McKinley Hon L B Wing Representative W H Dicks T Ewing Miller Hon L N Bonham Hon J H Bingham S S Rickly Prof J A Shawan Prof H A Thompson E L Hinman Gen John Beatty and others In the absence of Mr F C Sessions President of the Society Gen R Brinkerhoff Vice President ...
... 432 Ohio Arch 432 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications FIFTH SESSION At the Saturday afternoon session under the direction of Professor A E Morse of Marietta College the following papers were read and at the conclusion the members of the Association extended a most hearty vote of thanks to the President and officers of instruction of Marietta College where the meetings were held and to the people of the city of Marietta whose thoughtful care and attention had resulted in so successful a ...
... ANTOINE FRANCOIS SAUGRAIN DE VIGNI ANTOINE FRANCOIS SAUGRAIN DE VIGNI THE FIRST SCIENTIST OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY N P DANDRIDGE M D In presenting my address which custom has made one of the duties of the presiding officer I shall depart somewhat from the practice of my predecessors and instead of bringing before you some medical question based on my own work or attempting a discussion of some topic now of active interest I shall take you to the backwoods and try and interest you in the life ...
... AN EARLY PROPOSAL FOR A STATE AN EARLY PROPOSAL FOR A STATE POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL BY ROSCOE H ECKELBERRY Assistant Professor Dept of History of Education Ohio State University The proposal by Governor Ethan Allen Brown of Ohio on January 8 1819 for the establishment of a state polytechnic school must have been one of the earliest in this country The early governors of Ohio like those of many of the other states were far ahead of the legislatures in their educational vision and their conviction of ...
... TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY May 31 1911 The twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Hunter Society Room Page Hall Ohio State University Columbus Ohio at two o'clock P M Wednesday May 31 1911 The following members were present Prof M R Andrews Marietta Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Mr A J Baughman Mansfield Mr H E Buck Delaware Mr C H ...
... DIARY OF A MORAVIAN INDIAN MISSION DIARY OF A MORAVIAN INDIAN MISSION MIGRATION ACROSS PENNSYLVANIA IN 1772 Translated and edited by AUGUST C MAHR Professor of German Ohio State University The travel diary presented in these pages deals with the migration of Indian convert members of the Moravian Church from northeastern to northwestern Pennsylvania in the summer of 1772 Undertaken as a measure of extreme necessity and directed by two competent missioners this expedition carried out only in ...
... MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO September 9 1922 MORNING SESSION The meeting was called to order by Treasurer Wood who moved that President James E Campbell act as Chairman of the meeting The motion was duly seconded and carried The following members were present Hon James E Campbell Prof B F Prince General J Warren Keifer George F Bareis Edward Orton Jr Henry J ...
... Benjamin Armand 54 Jean M Benjamin Harrison then Benjamin Tupper Rev Manasseh Benjamin Tupper Samuel H Benjamin Walker to France Benjamin F Leonard He was a
... Benjamin H Hibbard and Paul W Gates led an attack on the land speculator Gates criticized speculators for driving up the price of land and withholding the best lands from market claiming that their policies forced settlement to proceed sporadically and caused high rates of farm tenancy among settlers instead of outright ownership However since the 1940s revisionist historians have promoted a different view one more favorable to the speculator ...
... THE HISTORIC RURAL CHURCH1 THE HISTORIC RURAL CHURCH1 BY Roy E BOWERS The historic rural church of the Northwest Territory of which Tallmadge is a distinguished example has passed through three phases and is now entering a fourth This is especially true of Ohio These phases are First that of rapid energetic and often heroic pioneering This in Ohio ended about 1830 Second that of tension and conflict ending with the Civil War Third that of prosperity and slow decline through the Civil War to ...
... OHIO IN McGUFFEY'S TIME OHIO IN McGUFFEY'S TIME By GEORGE W RIGHTMIRE Indians--Wayne's Treaty 1795 The Ohio of McGuffey's time was very new it began in 1788 at Marietta and the next year at Cincinnati but little progress was possible until Territorial issues were settled with the Indians--not only the Indians but the British who held many posts long after the Treaty of 1783 in violation thereof and exerted a strong influence over the northwest country After suffering two severe defeats from ...