... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLIANCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Alliance Mrs Fred Donaldson President The Alliance Historical Society is cooperating with other groups in the observance of the centennial of Alliance this summer A series of events is planned culminating in those of the week of August 26 - September 2 1950 Copies of old pictures of Alliance are being made by the society which is also publishing a centennial history of the city AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES Cincinnati ...
... GENERAL JOSHUA WOODROW SILL GENERAL JOSHUA WOODROW SILL BY ALBERT DOUGLAS FOREWORD With some sixty years intervening since the Civil War and with the generation of men and women to whom it was a fearful reality almost all gone from earth it cannot be hoped that many who knew him personally will read this slight memoir of one of Ohio's great and best soldiers of that war But to these few and especially to those who have urged me to use the letters and memoranda in my hands for the preparation ...
... THE LEATHER WOOD GOD THE LEATHER WOOD GOD FROM NARRATIVE TO NOVEL by HASKELL S SPRINGER In 1916 at the age of seventy-nine William Dean Howells published the last great novel of his long career Less than four years later he was dead In writing The Leatherwood God Howells was fulfilling a long-time intention to make use of his enthusiasm for the history of his native Ohio as well as -- in the way of an old man -- returning to the recollections of his boyhood1 His source for the basic story of ...
... GOOD WILL ON ANCIENT BATTLEGROUNDS GOOD WILL ON ANCIENT BATTLEGROUNDS By CARL WITTKE In Dr Quaife's announcement of plans for the Maumee Valley International Historical Convention I found the title and the theme for my address this evening The purpose of the Convention in the words of its general chairman is to cultivate and deepen our pride in the historical heritage which is the common possession of four great commonwealths and to assemble in pleasant association men and women of good will ...
... GEORGE CROGHAN GEORGE CROGHAN BY CHARLES RICHARD WILLIAMS PH D LL D Address delivered at Spiegel Grove Fremont O August 1 1903 before the George Croghan Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution on the occasion of the celebration of the ninetieth anniversary of the battle of Ft Stephenson Mr Williams is editor of The Indianapolis NewsE O R I Happy the country that has no history is an old old saying It falls trippingly on the tongue It passes current at unquestioned value in the ...
... THE DUNMORE WAR THE DUNMORE WAR BY E O RANDALL Secretary Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society The American colonists had fought the French and Indian war1 with the expectation that they were to be in the event of success the beneficiaries of the result and be permitted to occupy the Ohio Valley as a fertile and valuable addition to their Atlantic coast lodgments But the war over and France vanquished the royal greed of Britain asserted itself and the London government most ...
... 124 Ohio Arch 124 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications GAINING THE DUNMORE TREATY AFTER THE BATTLE OF POINT PLEASANT IN WHICH HE FOUGHT IN THE HAMPSHIRE COUNTY VIRGINIA REGIMENT CAPTAIN MICHAEL CRESAP WAS PRESENT HERE AND A SIGNER OF THE DUNMORE TREATY IN OCTOBER 1774 CAPTAIN MICHAEL CRESAP'S COMPANIONS IN ARMS EBENEZER ZANE GENERAL GEORGE ROGERS CLARKE COLONEL BENJAMIN WILSON BENJAMIN TOMLINSON AND OTHERS CORRECTED LOGAN'S MISTAKE IN ASSOCIATING CAPTAIN CRESAP WITH THE YELLOW CREEK AFFAIR ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA TRUSTEE MEETING AT SPIEGEL GROVE On Thursday June 30th the Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society held a regular meeting at the residence of Colonel Webb C Hayes Spiegel Grove Fremont Ohio It was a most interesting and memorable occasion Colonel Hayes had invited the Trustees to be his guests the day named above and day before and on Wednesday noon the the 29th several of the Trustees upon their arrival at Bellevue enroute to Fremont were met ...
... THE INDIAN VILLAGE OF CUSH-OG-WENK THE INDIAN VILLAGE OF CUSH-OG-WENK BY THOMAS H JOHNSON COSHOCTON The generations who were active participants in the events which constitute the early history of Ohio having passed away it seems to me the imperative duty of those now living whose early life overlapped the survivors of the active participants in the stirring events of that earlier period to place on record any recollections they may have of the stories told by those old survivors tending to ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS PREHISTORIC EARTHWORKS IN WISCONSIN A B STOUT University of Wisconsin In presenting this subject it seems best to the writer to treat somewhat in detail the various classes of earthworks and then to give a summary for the state as a whole with a brief discussion of the archaeological area to which it belongs With this plan in view the various artificial earthen structures in Wisconsin of prehistoric origin at least the greater number are ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY AUGUST 1964 - JULY 1965 compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT Antislavery Movement Began in 1817 Ohio Genealogical Society Report V No 3 June 1965 2 On Jefferson County and the free-labor store at Mount Pleasant BAUER Katherine S Abolition and the Purdys Summit County Historical Society Bulletin XVIII No 6 June 1965 2 A family living at North Springfield ARCHAEOLOGY Artifacts from Collection of Tom Hall Ohio Archaeologist XV ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Territorial Papers of the United States Compiled and edited by Clarence Edwin Carter Volumes VII-VIII Indiana Territory 1800-1816 U S Dept of State Publications Nos 1383-1384 Washington D C Government Printing Office 1939 2v 784 p 496 p 200 150 The Library of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society has received volumes VII and VIII of the Territorial Papers of the United States compiled and edited by Dr Clarence Edwin Carter of the Department of State ...
... 480 Ohio Arch 480 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications a brief description of the service of each and a roster of officers and men We are told that Fairfield County is credited with a service enrollment of 1821 in the World War There is a complete list of these alphabetically arranged This is followed by a brief account of Women in the Service The concluding chapter After Armistice Day details the return of the soldiers who survived the perils of camp and field the organization of the ...
... 542 Ohio Arch 542 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications small colleges and that some of our best citizenship found its inspiration in these institutions All of these colleges have had men and women of more than usual rank and standing in our commonwealth and I am proud to recognize their contribution to Ohio citizenship They have not been very exclusive in this because they have always exported their best to other colleges We have present Professor Beverly W Bond Jr from the University of ...
... THE PURITANIC INFLUENCE IN THE THE PURITANIC INFLUENCE IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY 1788-1803 BY WINFRED B LANGHORST After the close of the Revolutionary War the rapid movement of settlers over the Appalachian range brought the frontier to eastern Tennessee and Kentucky and to the Monongahela and the Ohio Rivers East of this ever-shifting frontier land values were rising and land speculators and emigrants were searching the West for cheap and fertile lands1 The reports of the Indian traders had ...
... WAYNE AND THE TREATY OF GREENE VILLE WAYNE AND THE TREATY OF GREENE VILLE by DWIGHT L SMITH It has generally been assumed that the chief architect of the Treaty of Greene Ville at the end of the Indian Wars in the Old Northwest was General Mad Anthony Wayne The discovery of hitherto unknown manuscript material however furnishes documentary evidence that Wayne was operating under very specific orders from the war department Further a draft treaty for his guidance and use predetermined to a ...
... 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 Early History and During the Revolution Ohio in Early History and During the Revolution 395 OHIO IN EARLY HISTORY AND DURING THE REVOLUTION BY E 0 RANDALL PH B L L M Secretary Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society President Ohio Society Sons of the American Revolution No territory in the new world at least perhaps not in the old presents so much of interest at once to the archaeologist and the historian as the inland portion of America now and for a century designated as the ...
... TERRY A TERRY A BARNHART James McBride Historian and Archaeologist of the Miami Valley James McBride of Hamilton Ohio was a man of many parts At various junctures of his busy life McBride's multifarious activities embraced merchandising architecture banking civil engineering and several avenues of public service As respectable as those attainments were however his most enduring contributions were made as an amateur historian and archaeologist McBride is a prime example of the antiquarian ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Constitutional History of the United States 1826-1876 A More Perfect Union By Homer C Hockett New York Macmillan Company 1939 405p 300 The first volume of this series The Blessings of Liberty was reviewed in the QUARTERLY XLIX 1940 292-94 In it Professor Hockett discussed the colonial background the Revolutionary Period and the first third of a century under the new Constitution Here he treats of the slavery controversy but to minimize the boredom of readers who ...