... Ohio's Monument to General Anthony Wayne 19 Ohio's Monument to General Anthony Wayne 19 of governing the world So long as force may be invoked in behalf of injustice and wrong so long must force be ready to meet and crush force when thus employed as Washington said We must keep ourselves in a reasonable posture of defense Applause After more than one hundred and fifty years of nationality the sword of Washington and Wayne was never drawn except in defense of American rights or human rights and ...
... settlement north of the settlements along the tidal settlements of this country What more can be said for the church and community in those early days than that it had such a man as Dr Chidlaw for its spiritual and intellectual leader and that it so held itself as to be worthy of such leadership Wales as you all know was a famous center of ...
... County of Darke in the Village of Greenville O A U S military fort in the latter days of the 17th century where General Wayne bid the Indians all adieu The military engineers then laid their roads on the high ways above the lowlands swamps and fallen timber and so narrow that the wheels of the conestoga wagons would touch the undergrowth and trees in passing to the fort Through lands so wet and ruts and mud so deep that to ride the saddle ...
... Logan Elm Park It was Logan Elm Park chiefly in Logan Elm meeting said he that I would have been glad to shake the hand of each and every one of them had that been physically possible And later he added If ever my work brings me within a hundred miles of Columbus I shall certainly make a detour to visit the city I have enjoyed every moment ...
... settlement of the vast territory of the West and its development into the sisterhood of states that now crown our flag with their cluster of forty-five stars That battle though small both in numbers and instruments of warfare was yet one of the great sea battles of the world-great because fought with a bravery and daring that startled the world-led by a commander who showed himself to be one of the world's heroes and great because stupendous ...
... 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 ...
... settlements and to avoid an indiscriminate massacre of the innocent with the guilty The Government for this purpose assembled in the northwest three separate columns of troops The first under Gen Crook who was to strike from Ft Fetterman the second under Gen Gibben who was to march westward from Ft Ellis in Montana and the third under Gen Terry who was to move southwest from the little village of Bismarck in the north of Dakota Territory all ...
... settlement was first made it settlement of the town and remained so until the last winter at all seasons of the year When the ground was cleared near the well a great many logs that laid nigh were rolled into it to save the trouble of piling and burning them These with the annual deposit of leaves etc for ages had filled the well nearly full but still the water rose to the surface and had ...
... GREATNESS OF OHIO GREATNESS OF OHIO Address delivered at the Centennial Celebration of the Admission of Ohio into the Federal Union held under the Auspices of the Ohio Republican Association of Washington City May 23 1903 BY HON D K WATSON PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION One hundred years ago a portion of what was known as the Northwest Territory was admitted as a State into the Federal Union By an act of Congress the people of the future state were to give it a name Subsequently the name Ohio ...
... Old Fort Sandoski and the De Lery Portage Old Fort Sandoski and the De Lery Portage 37 1 Indians which eventually led to his dismissal from the service His distinguished engineer Montresor was left to rebuild the fort which however was only partially accomplished There is not much more recorded concerning the portage of old Fort Sandoski until the War of 1812 when after the victory of Commodore Perry on September 10 1813 General Harrison with his entire army moved down from his headquarters at ...
... settlement before leaving Lexington For many years Cridland attempted to have Kentucky take the picture and frame without success When in 1852 he left Lexington for Cincinnati and Dayton Ohio for reasons given later and for the same reasons he forfeited his contract with Kentucky and the picture remained in his gallery in Dayton until 1890 The picture was then taken to the home of his eldest son my uncle Thomas H Cridland in Dayton and ...
... County Gaumer K J LoganCounty Ohio Pioneer County Ohio XXXVII 86-100 County Historical Material in the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Library XLV 95-150 Wright A R Sources for Ohio World War History in the Papers of ...
... County by W H Hunter The County Ohio J P MacLean County Ohio P M Wetmore County By W H Hunter 6 The County Compiled by W H County 13 Twelfth Annual
... settlements and subsequent war settlement more or less settlement are all ingredients settlement in North America1 Perhaps it was not unnatural that England should claim not only the coast that the Cabots had discovered but all of the country back of it At all events six of her thirteen ...
... settlements induced me to settlement seems to have increased a little since my observations of 1793 The Indians are now troublesome about it lately have stolen five horses killed a man also up the Scioto River and a short distance across the Ohio have killed and taken two or three of a family which notwithstanding the peace concluded with the Indians lately by General Wayne has so much ...
... settlements in Virginia Maryland and Pennsylvania General Braddock's expedition was a failure The road which he left through the wilderness proved throughout the war a benefit to the enemy and an injury to his own countrymen but in later years as a route for immigrants coming to settle in the Upper Ohio Valley and afterwards as a communication between the Potomac and the Monongahela it proved to be this unfortunate man's most useful and most ...
... GEORGE WASHINGTON AT THE GEORGE WASHINGTON AT THE GREAT BEND OF THE OHIO RIVER GUY-HAROLD SMITH There is a tradition that George Washington took a short cut across the Great Bend of the Ohio River in the autumn of 1770 when he made his journey to the Kanawha River Since Washington went down stream as far as the Kanawha he had to cover that section known as the Great Bend both on the down stream journey and on his return It is only logical that he might want to hasten his journey by cutting ...
... County Pa October 15 and County Felter's History of the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati Ohio The Old Northwest Genealogical Quarterly and recollections of the descendants of the pioneers The illustrations were kindly furnished by Mrs Fredonia Case Frauk Welling Willis C Parsons and W F Griswold Esq ...