... CHIEF LITTLE JIM GREAT-GRANDSON CHIEF LITTLE JIM GREAT-GRANDSON OF TECUMSEH In volume XXXIV of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly pages 143-153 appeared a contribution entitled Tecumseh and His Descendants gleaned from authentic records furnished by Thomas Wildcat Alford scholarly and cultured gentleman one of the great-grandsons of the famous chieftain Tecumseh born in Ohio and later one of the most intrepid and resourceful leaders of the confederate tribes in their campaigns ...
... DAVID ZEISBERGER'S HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN DAVID ZEISBERGER'S HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN AMERICAN INDIANS EDITED BY ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT AND WILLIAM NATHANIEL SCHWARZE INTRODUCTION The present volume reproduces the manuscript written in German by the Moravian hero-missionary The Reverend David Zeisberger at his mission home beside the Muskingum River in Ohio in the years 1779 and 178 0 Though there is extant a most excellent biography of this noble man The Life and Times of David Zeisberger by ...
... 102 Ohio Arch 102 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications was introduced by Mr Burdell and asked to invoke the Divine blessing REVEREND NAPHTALI LUCCOCK Our Father's God from out whose hand The centuries fall like grains of sand We stand in this sunlit hour of privilege with grateful hearts for the splendid inheritance thou hast given us in the midst of the years We thank thee for the happy memories which crowd our hearts and for the great opportunities which open before us Put thy blessing ...
... BYRON D BYRON D FRUEHLING AND ROBERT H SMITH Subterranean Hideaways of the Underground Railroad in Ohio An Architectural Archaeological and Historical Critique of Local Traditions During the decade that preceded the Civil War the underground railroad became increasingly active in Ohio and elsewhere in the north1 Although underground originally may have had much the same figurative connotation that it has today in expressions such as underground newspaper it was almost inevitable that the term ...
... INDEX I NDEX A hunters 57 hunted in the spring 57 love of nuts 57 skins of little value Aboriginal Races of North America The 57 King of 58 fond of pigs 58 see Drake seized women and children 58 more Account of the History Manners and common in Iroquois country 58 and Customs of the Indian Nations An panther fight 60 sacrificed to dead see Heckewelder 140 Achewilens a rich man 146 Beard pulled out 12 Achsunnami1unschi Delaware name for Beaver season 13 described 61 scarce sugar maple 48 in ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS BIG BOTTOM AND IT S HISTORY CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF The history of Big Bottom has no claim on being unique unless the recent action of Mr Obadiah Brokaw in erecting a monument at his own expense to mark the site of the blockhouse can demand such distinction The events connected with this historic ground are decidedly type studies Its early history is but representative of and part of that general conflict between the Indian and the white man Its ...
... 502 Ohio Arch 502 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications PROLIFIC OHIO LUCIEN SEYMOUR The following poem was recited by the author at the unveiling of the Perry's Victory Monument at Hotel Victory Put-in-Bay Ohio July 8 1907 The sun never shone on a country more fair Than beautiful peerless Ohio There's life in a kiss of her rarified air Ohio prolific Ohio Her sons are valiant and noble and bright Her beautiful daughters are just about right And her babies God bless them are clear out of ...
... 276 Ohio Arch 276 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VoL 3 with its annual receipts from members' dues interest sale of publications etc will keep it on a plane with the best societies in the country and enable it to do its full share of usefulness The General Assembly has provided for the purchase and preservation of that remarkable earth-work--Fort Ancient-in the Little Miami valley It is the largest and most extensive prehistoric remains now in Ohio The move was most commendable and ...
... CHARLES DICKENS IN OHIO IN 1842 CHARLES DICKENS IN OHIO IN 1842 BY HEWSON L PEEKE In his work Charles Dickens in America by W Glyde Wilkins the author says Dickens' opinion of the American newspapers was fully expressed in one of his letters to Forster in which he wrote 'of course I can do nothing but in some shape or other it gets into the newspapers All manner of lies get there and occasionally a truth so twisted or distorted that it has as much resemblance to the real fact as Quilp's leg to ...
... Lake County and its Founder Lake County and its Founder 361 LAKE COUNTY AND ITS FOUNDER BY WILLIAM STOWELI MILLS LL B OF BROOKLYN N Y HISTORICAL ADDRESS DELIVERED IN PAINESVILLE LAKE COUNTY 0 JULY 21 1901 AT THE CEREMONIES OF THE UNVEILING OF THE STATUE OF EDWARD PAINE Mr President Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-- It is related that when the residents of a New England town proposed to pay homage to a former townsman in a ceremony similar to this a good old ...
... OLD FORT SANDUSKY AND THE DE LERY PORTAGE OLD FORT SANDUSKY AND THE DE LERY PORTAGE BY LUCY ELLIOT KEELER Local history has its renascence in tradition which passes along from generation to generation hints of names and adventures which appeal at last to some student of the past and send him forth in quest of sources Such traditions have long lingered about the little peninsula at Port Clinton in Ottawa County Ohio traditions of venturesome French monks and traders of an ancient fort destroyed ...
... Ohio Researches into Archaeology Ohio Researches into Archaeology 151 incidentally in correcting a number of errors with regard to the ancient monuments of Ohio due to the superficial nature of the examinations and measurements made by different writers and the errors deliberate or otherwise in their descriptions The book is a most valuable contribution to archaeology and the state society is to be congratulated upon its enterprise in securing its preparation and publication OHIO RESEARCHES ...
... AFTERNOON SESSION AFTERNOON SESSION ADDRESS OF PROFESSOR CARL E GUTHE Chairman Sater called the meeting to order at 2 p m After a few well chosen remarks he introduced Prof Carl E Guthe University Museums of the University of Michigan who delivered an address which was heard with the closest attention entitled Outdoor Guiding in History and Prehistory Professor Guthe spoke as follows OUTDOOR GUIDING IN HISTORY AND PREHISTORY BY CARL E GUTHE The phrase outdoor guiding if considered in the ...
... BEGINNINGS OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD BEGINNINGS OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN OHIO by WILBUR H SIEBERT Professor Emeritus of History Ohio State University The presence of fugitive slaves in Ohio was evidently one of the reasons for the enactment of the Black Laws by the General Assembly in January 1804 These laws provided that any one harboring or secreting such objectionable intruders or obstructing their owners in retaking them should be fined from 1O to 50 for each offense It was also ...
... ARE THE HOPEWELL COPPER OBJECTS PREHISARE THE HOPEWELL COPPER OBJECTS PREHISTORIC BY WARREN K MOOREHEAD At the Washington meeting of the American Anthropological Association held conjointly with Section H of the American Association for the Advancement of Science I read a brief paper on the Hopewell copper objects and it is now my wish to present a more extended communication on the subjest Mr Clarence B Moore whose valuable work in southeastern United States is so favorably known to all who ...
... OLD FORT SANDOSKI OF 1745 AND THE SANDUSKY OLD FORT SANDOSKI OF 1745 AND THE SANDUSKY COUNTRY LUCY ELLIOT KEELER My story will be confined to the sixteen miles which separate Fort Stephenson at the Lower Falls of the Sandusky river now Fremont from the banks of Lake Erie at the mouth of the Portage river Port Clinton the point visited by all Indians and French in coming from or going to Detroit and the northwest and later the point from which General Harrison's army left American soil to ...
... THE ARKANSAS TRAVELLER THE ARKANSAS TRAVELLER By THOMAS WILSON U S NATIONAL MUSEUM WASHINGTON D C Some years of my teens were passed in the town of Salem Columbiana county Ohio This was before any railroads passed through that country I remember the first meeting of citizens ever held there under the direction of Mr Zadok Street for the purpose of securing subscriptions of money or right-of-way for the construction of what was then to be the Ohio amp Pennsylvania Railway afterwards the ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XVIII No 2 A PRIL 190 9 NEWLY ELECTED TRUSTEES It will be noted in the report of the Annual Meeting of the Society held March 2 1909 that two life members of the Society were newly elected trustees for the ensuing three years They were Messrs Caleb Hathaway Gallup and Walter Charles Metz Below we give brief sketches of the lives of the gentlemen in question Mr Metz has been a member of the Society for some years and has been a student in archaeological lines Mr ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF GENERAL WAYNE'S TREATY OF GREENVILLE AUG 3 1895 PRAYER BY REV JOHN POYNTZ TYLER O God who art the blessed Potentate the King of kings and the Lord of lords the Almighty Ruler of nations we adore and magnify Thy glorious name for all the great things which Thou hast done for us We render Thee thanks for the goodly heritage which Thou hast given unto us for the civil and religious privileges which we enjoy and for the ...
... UNVEILING OF FORT RECOVERY MONUMENT UNVEILING OF FORT RECOVERY MONUMENT On July 1st at Fort Recovery the splendid monument just erected at that place was unveiled with imposing and fitting ceremonies This monument was the result of the generous appropriation of 25 000 made by Congress It commemorates the defeat of General St Clair on November 4 179 1 and the defeat of the Indians under Little Turtle in the Wayne campaign on June 30th and July 1st 1794 The monument is a beautiful shaft of stone ...