... 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 ...
... County This was in 1812 County citizen who was County After the manner of County it was not as a County surveyor and there County who ran the lines but the legislative enactment ...
... establishment especially as Messrs Symmes Glover and Moore traveled all the way to Chillicothe probably on horseback for the purpose of being initiated That the order did not spread more widely throughout the State may be accounted for partially by the triumph of the Republican principles and especially by the breaking out of hostilities with Great Britain This was a matter of deep concern at the time and party politics became lost in ...
... 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- Editorialana Editorialana 585 tlements were exposed With very few of the comforts of life and none of its luxuries they penetrated deep into the dark and unbroken forest erected their rude habitations and placed within their unembellished walls their wives ...
... THE SIEGE OF FORT MEIGS THE SIEGE OF FORT MEIGS EARL A SALIERS Ohio State University The War of 1812 furnishes perhaps a fewer number of notable achievements accomplished on land than any other of our wars The lack of a regular army and the consequent dependence upon militia would have made it difficult for an efficient general to execute a prolonged campaign while the position which a section of the country took against the war rendered success still more difficult Despite ill preparation and ...
... Dedication of Ohio's World War Memorial 445 Dedication of Ohio's World War Memorial 445 closer relationships they can now be put aside The spirit of the times has changed The suggestion is offered stripped of details but in its larger aspect it carries no thought of physical or financial consolidations no thought of interference no abandonment of individual activities May we not hope that in the very spirit of this meeting here today there will be shown the seed of united unselfish wellordered ...
... 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 ...
... establishment of the government by Council under the King's command the colonists began to undergo hitherto undreamed-of hardships As Dr Wertenbaker says Thus was the immigrant to Virginia beset on all sides with deadly perils If he escaped the plague the yellow fever and the scurvy during his voyage across the Atlantic he was more than apt to fall a victim to malaria or dysentery after he ...
... Winthrop Sargent 273 Winthrop Sargent 273 became adopted amongst them his head shaved painted etc as is their custom upon such occasions and has since by his own account been much in favor with them He relates that he has been with them to the British posts Michilmackinac particularly That they are there equipped with all the necessaries to come to war against the United States--march out upon these occasions under English colors and are received when they return with scalps with military ...
... 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 ...
... WASHINGTON AND THE OHIO IN 1770 AS WASHINGTON AND THE OHIO IN 1770 AS SEEN BY A VOYAGER IN 1932 BY EDMOND S SINDLINGER On October 5 1770 George Washington set out on his historic journey to the Ohio country This journey was made in the interest of the Virginia soldiers who had fought in the Indian wars and had been promised western lands as a reward for their services He arrived at Fort Pitt on October 17th Here he obtained two boats a large one for himself and seven companions and a canoe for ...
... THE NAMING OF MARIETTA THE NAMING OF MARIETTA By JOSEPHINE E PHILLIPS Our city is called Mari-etta was the brief postscript by which General Samuel Holden Parsons informed his friend Manasseh Cutler of the important event1 On the following day in a letter to his wife he explained more fully Our city's name in honor of the Queen of France is composed of her two Christian names--Marie Antoiniette2 In the manuscript record book of the Ohio Company3 the announcement was made with flourishes and ...
... Thirty-First Annual Meeting Thirty-First Annual Meeting 109 Mound These are to be sold at the park by the custodian at 25c cloth bound and 10c paper bound The revenue derived from this sale will be turned over to the Treasurer of the Society Mr Wood In October we had the steel observation tower at the mound repainted We also had the barn and the fences on the property whitewashed and in October under the direction of a landscape gardener and through his courtesy we planted seventy ornamental ...
... County may be said to be County through Wyandot County By some it is County Indians in Union County 273 road from Van Wert to Fort Wayne was cut through by my grandfather and two of his brothers Over this road many moving from the east ...
... The Presbyterians of Ohio The Presbyterians of Ohio 211 ABSTRACT OF THE SERMON ON THE PRESBYTERIANS OF OHIO BY REV SYLVESTER F SCOVEL PRESIDENT OF WOOSTER UNIVERSITY WOOSTER OHIO PREACHED IN THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH The Christian is a cosmopolitan Every land is his fatherland since God is his father So every Christian is brother to all other Christians Yet we may have a just concern which shall be special for our country and our church We have a century of Presbyterian experience behind ...
... A Surgeon's Mate at Fort Defiance A Surgeon's Mate at Fort Defiance The Journal of Joseph Gardner Andrews For the Year 1795 Edited by R I CHARD C KNOPF On May 4 1792 Joseph Gardner Andrews enlisted in the army of the United States as a surgeon's mate His qualifications for the position were considered adequate by the standards of his day he had graduated from Harvard College in 1785 and since that time had been employed as a schoolmaster at Dorchester Massachusetts Perhaps partly from a spirit ...
... 38 Ohio Arch 38 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications THE BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE September 10 1813 BY MRS JOHN T MACK It was a fair morning in September a gentle breeze was blowing down the lake rippling the water A little American fleet lay peacefully at anchor in the beautiful island-locked bay of South Bass Island its brave young commander and sturdy men anxiously waiting for the sign of a coming hostile sail A few days before with the Union Jack vauntingly flying they had passed the British ...