... Benjamin now also desires to become acquainted with us we must go home with him His wife while a single woman was led to the Lord by my first sermon and God be praised I find her still so disposed Her present husband is very kind to us On this short night's journey I baptized 5 children for a poor and very ignorant man Under the circumstances I had doubt as to what to do Both father and mother were extremely ignorant But I thought this I can't ...
... THE ORIGIN DESCRIPTION AND SERVICE OF FORT THE ORIGIN DESCRIPTION AND SERVICE OF FORT WINCHESTER WITH MENTION OF SOME OF THE PERSONS AND EVENTS CONNECTED WITH IT BY CHARLES E SLOCUM M D PH D DEFIANCE O From the earliest record until the building of the Miami and Erie and the Wabash and Erie Canals along its course the Maumee River was known to be a great thoroughfare and we have good right to infer that the Aborigines from their first appearance in this region until the historic times made its ...
... Benjamin Drake's Life of Tecumseh The Siege of Fort Meigs The Siege of Fort Meigs 52 5 ment of three hundred men and the task of completing the defenses began immediately3 It will be to advantage at this point in our narrative to attempt a description of Fort Meigs and its environment The Maumee4 flows in a northeasterly direction from the western boundary of the State of Ohio and empties into Maumee bay at the western extremity of Lake Erie ...
... WILLIAM EVES MOORE WILLIAM EVES MOORE 1823-1899 William Eves Moore D D LL D was born in Strasburg Pa April 1st 1 823 His parents Jacob Moore M D University of Pennsylvania 1818 and Sarah Faris Moore came of Scotch-Irish ancestors who after the siege of Derry migrated to the northern part of Newcastle county Delaware and for generations held office in the same Presbyterian church and owned the original farm land given by grant of Wm Penn Returning from Strasburg to Delaware Dr Moore's father ...
... Benjamin Shepherd as administrator of the Hubbard estate brought suit against the owners of the boat on the ground of negligence But the court while admitting the defendants guilty of negligence denied judgment on the ground that Ohio courts lacked jurisdiction inasmuch as the negligence had occurred beyond low-water mark24 Several years later in 1877 the Fish Commission of Ohio in its report concerning fish culture in the State considered ...
... A Surgeon's Mate at Fort Defiance A Surgeon's Mate at Fort Defiance The Journal of Joseph Gardner Andrews For the Year 1795--II Edited by RICHARD C KNOPF In this second installment of the Andrews journal which covers the months of May June July and August 1795 the author again records the flow of events through this crossroads outpost of the American army He notes the movement of Indian delegations towards Greene Ville the arrival and departure of chiefs the coming and going of traders the ...
... WILLIAM CORTENUS SCHENCK PIONEER AND WILLIAM CORTENUS SCHENCK PIONEER AND STATESMAN OF OHIO By FRED B JOYNER It is the purpose of this sketch to resurrect from oblivion a pioneer and statesman of early Ohio William Cortenus Schenck For some time I have been studying the life of Robert Cumming Schenck the illustrious son of this early pioneer Through a study of the Schenck papers now in my possession through the courtesy of Mrs J Sprigg McMahon of New York City I have become convinced that the ...
... EUROPEAN INFLUENCE ON EARLY WESTERN EUROPEAN INFLUENCE ON EARLY WESTERN EDUCATION BY WILLIS L GARD To-day we look upon education as a process by means of which the individual acquires experiences that tend to modify conduct and that aid in meeting new situations in life These experiences are acquired through tradition and the school Often the most effective part of an individual's education comes as the result or incidental experiences in an effort to subjugate his environment These ...
... Benjamin Rush Cowen who will tell us what the monument before us means and what it is to us Monument on the Site of Fort Washington Monument on the Site of Fort Washington 5 ADDRESS OF GENERAL COWEN Ladies and Gentlemen-I congratulate you on account of the auspicious circumstances under which we meet here this afternoon to assist in the performance of a patriotic duty Our national condition is such as to justify expressions of pride and ...
... Benjamin Oviatt of the Benjamin Oviatt who married Benjamin was the progenitor of the Trumbull County Oviatts T D OVIATT Warren O February 15th 1889 Almost incredible is the recital of the hardships and sufferings from savage cruelty to which the early emigrants of our western set- ...
... SAMUEL LEWIS PROGRESSIVE EDUCATOR IN THE SAMUEL LEWIS PROGRESSIVE EDUCATOR IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF OHIO BY ALSTON ELLIS It has been said that great men have the shortest biographies By this rule Methusaleh while the oldest was also one of the greatest men that ever lived for in Genesis it is said that all the day of Methusaleh were nine hundred and sixty-nine years and then came the inevitable-he died This is the whole story save that he was the father of numerous sons and daughters and ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA BIG BOTTOM MASSACRE DEDICATION It is one hundred and fifteen years since the little band of pioneers were massacred in their fort at Big Bottom on the Muskingum This settlement was an off-shoot of the one at Marietta It was the remotest outpost of the Ohio Company Scarcely had Marietta been settled when there pushed out from the protecting walls of Fort Harmar small bands of settlers to build homes and clear the fields in other favorable locations Belpre on the Ohio ...
... Benjamin Lincoln being Benjamin Franklin indulged Benjamin Tupper they founded Benjamin Harrison Jr an original member of the Virginia Society of the Cincinnati He had seen in Kentucky and was again to see in Ohio Lieutenant-Colonel Zachary Taylor later to win fame in Mexico as Old Rough ...
... BOWMAN'S CAMPAIGN OF 1779 BOWMAN'S CAMPAIGN OF 1779 Copied and published by permission of the Wisconsin Historical Society from the Draper MSS Bedinger Papers A-Vol I pp 19-31 inclu-EDITOR Started about 1st of June-and continued about 4 weeksvide page - for bear killing Holder commanded a company-not over 20 or 25 belonged to Boonesboro-the remainder in neighboring Stations if any then settled marched to Lexington thence on to the mouth of Licking When near the mouth here one of the party ...
... Benjamin C Howard Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States New York 1883-1890 V 281-2 ALILUNAS FUGITIVE SLAVE CASES IN OHIO 183 ALILUNAS FUGITIVE SLAVE CASES IN OHIO 1 83 by virtue of his power as Peter Driskill's attorney Parrish said he would accept nothing less than a judge's authority and told Jane and her boy to go within his house Suit was brought against Parrish in violation of the Fugitive Slave ...
... Benjamin Ashby Clerk but it Benjamin Wilson was Benjamin Wilson's brothers Benjamin Wilson became a Colonel in the Revolution He and his brother John were delegates to the Virginia convention which ratified the Constitution of the United States It is a great honor you have conferred upon ...
... Benjamin S Youngs and Benjamin S Young and Benjamin S Youngs and Benjamin S Youngs and Benjamin Seth Youngs published his Transactions of the Ohio Mob called in the public papers 'an expedition against the Shakers' This also escaped ...
... A FAMILIAR TALK ABOUT MONARCHISTS A FAMILIAR TALK ABOUT MONARCHISTS AND JACOBINS AN ADDRESS BY WILLIAM HENRY SMITH WHEN I received an invitation to address the Historical Society here to-night the suggestion was made by a member of your committee that I take the life and public services of John Brough for my theme Born within the limits of your city the son of one of the pioneer fathers it were fitting that he should be remembered on an occasion of such historical interest It was gratifying to ...
... MITCHENER'S LEGEND OF THE WHITE MITCHENER'S LEGEND OF THE WHITE WOMAN AND NEWCOMERSTOWN BY GEORGE F SMYTHE Mr C W Butterfield in his History of Ohio says1 Mark Kuntz upon the Tuscarawas with an Indian wife and Mary Harris upon the Walhonding with an Indian husband were it may be proper here to mention the first white settlers of Ohio so far as any authentic records disclose My interest at present is concerned with this Mary Harris There may indeed have been white women in Ohio before Mary ...
... MINUTES MINUTES OF THE TENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE Ohio State Archaeological and Historical SOCIETY HELD AT COLUMBUS OHIO FEBRUARY 19 1895 The eleventh meeting tenth annual of The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Library room of the State Capitol on the afternoon of February 19 1895 General R Brinkerhoff the President in the chair The following members were present B W Arnett Wilberforce W E Moore Columbus N S Townshend Columbus Chas Parrott Columbus S S Rickly ...