... BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTHWORKS OF BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTHWORKS OF OHIO THE following bibliography was prepared by Mrs Cyrus Thomas under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution and is published by permission from the manuscript copy Its publication will serve two ends In the first place to impart information already obtained and in the second place to solicit information supplementary to what is here contained Any observers in the State who have facts concerning the earthworks of Ohio in ...
... Introduction of Methodism in Ohio Introduction of Methodism in Ohio 165 INTRODUCTION OF METHODISM IN OHIO BY REV I F KING D D Dr King is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University in the class of 1858 He received the degree of D D from Miami University For forty-three years he has served in the ministry of his church and for fourteen years was a presiding elder in the Ohio ConferenceEDITOR The recent celebration at Delaware Ohio of the one hundredth anniversary of the introduction of Methodism in ...
... THREE CENTURIES OF THE MAUMEE VALLEY THREE CENTURIES OF THE MAUMEE VALLEY By M M QUAIFE The name Maumee is a variant of Miami and comes from the Miami Indian tribe When the French first came into the Northwest they found the Miami living in eastern Wisconsin Following LaSalle's advent in the Illinois country they moved southward around Lake Michigan and for many years c 16901702 one of their important towns was located in the presentday Chicago Loop Eventually they journeyed eastward to the ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY AUGUST 1963 -- JULY 1964 compiled by s WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE DURAND Loyal Jr The Major Milksheds of the Northeastern Quarter of the United States Economic Geography XL 1964 9-33 Ohio areas shown in twenty milksheds STOVER Stephen L Ohio's Sheep Year 1868 Agricultural History XXXVIII 1964 102-107 ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT McPHERSON James M The Fight Against the Gag Rule Joshua Leavitt and Antislavery Insurgency in the Whig Party 1839-1842 ...
... JOHNNY APPLESEED-JOHN CHAPMAN JOHNNY APPLESEED-JOHN CHAPMAN HIS MEMORY HONORED WITH A MONUMENT AT MANSFIELD 0 Exercises of a unique and interesting character were held at Mansfield Ohio on the afternoon of November 8 1 900 It was the dedication in the Sherman-Heineman Park of the monument to the memory of John Chapman otherwise and more popularly known as Johnny Appleseed one of the historic characters of early Ohio and particularly of the pioneer days of Richland county The weather was not ...
... UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF DR UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF DR DANIEL DRAKE By ALICE MCGUFFEY RUGGLES In the winter of 1847-48 Dr Daniel Drake then professor at the Louisville Medical Institute dashed off late at night after strenuous days of teaching and research the Reminiscential Letters to His Children published in 1879 in the Ohio Valley Historical Series under the title Pioneer Life in Kentucky This little book is the most vivid first-hand account of a pioneer boyhood in that region ever written ...
... 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 ...
... PROCEEDINGS OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE MAUMEE VALLEY INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL CONVENTION SEPTEMBER 27-29 1940 EDITORIAL By HARLOW LINDLEY Because of the uniqueness of the Maumee Valley International Historical Convention organized to commemorate the place of the Maumee Valley in American history it seems eminently proper that its records should be permanently preserved and since the heart of the valley is within the limits of the State of Ohio it is logical that the Ohio State Archaeological ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS THE BEGINNING OF THE OHIO COMPANY AND THE SCIOTO PURCHASE BY MAJOR E C DAWES The beginning of the year 1783 saw the Revolutionary war virtually at an end although the final treaty of peace was not signed until September third The colonies had achieved their independence at the price of the lives of many and the fortunes of all of their defenders The Continental currency despite the fiat of the government had long since ceased to be of value ...
... LUCY BACKUS WOODBRIDGE PIONEER MOTHER LUCY BACKUS WOODBRIDGE PIONEER MOTHER January 31 1757--October 6 1817 By LOUISE RAU Distant secluded still the little village of Grand-Pre Lay in the fruitful valley At the confluence of the Ohio and the Muskingum Rivers hidden beneath its giant elms and maples Marietta named for the fascinating Marie Antoinette takes one back to bygone days when Ohio was a wilderness peopled by red men Here in the foothills New England made her first outpost during the ...
... ANDREW BIRTLE ANDREW BIRTLE Governor George Hoadly's Use of the Ohio National Guard in the Hocking Valley Coal Strike of 1884 During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the United State experienced a large number of labor strikes that involved outbreaks of violence While the causes of this violence are both numerous and varied some students of labor history cite the intervention of police forces as a major catalyst1 Indeed the list of clashes between police and labor during this ...
... BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTHWORKS OF BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTHWORKS OF OHIO PREPARED BY MRS CYRUS THOMAS FOR THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Continued from page 200 ANY observers in the State who have facts concerning the earthworks of Ohio in addition to those here stated will confer a favor upon the world by forwarding such information to Professor G F Wright Oberlin 0 the member of the Editorial Committee in charge of this department by whom the facts will be classified and published in a future ...
... THE FATHER OF THE McGUFFEYS THE FATHER OF THE McGUFFEYS By ALICE McGUFFEY MORRILL RUGGLES The McGuffey Readers are becoming classics and their authors William Holmes and Alexander Hamilton McGuffey legendary figures But as yet little has been told about the father of the two sedate gentlemen who first dispensed literature to the American masses This was Alexander Sandy McGuffey in his youth one of the most famous scouts on the western frontier He was born in Wigtownshire Scotland November 22 ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 70 NUMBER 3 JULY 1961 The British Indian Department and The Abortive Treaty of Lower Sandusky 1793 By REGINALD HORSMAN IN THE EARLY FALL of 1792 a general council of the Indian nations of the Old Northwest was held at the junction of the Maumee and the Auglaize rivers in what is now northwestern Ohio The Indians who gathered there were jubilant for their attempts to resist the American advance into the Old Northwest had met ...
... 276 Ohio Arch 276 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications his pedantry King James little understood the hidden meaning of the sea-to-sea extension Under this charter of 1609 modified by that of 1612 Virginia held until the formation of the federal constitution in 1788 In reading of Mr Avery's work we are tempted to halt and linger at particularly important and interesting events The reader reluctantly leaves his story which we again commend to both the general reader and the close student Both ...
... THE FIRST STEAMBOAT ON THE OHIO THE FIRST STEAMBOAT ON THE OHIO NELSON W EVANS How many of the intelligent reading people of the state know when the first steamboat plowed the waters of the Ohio Where was it built its dimensions and cut the name of the owner and of the boat and the particulars of its first voyage To Nicholas J Roosevelt belongs the honor of first building a steamboat and with it navigating the Ohio But before telling the story it would be well to observe the condition of ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATINOS BUCKEYE STATION BUILT BY NATHANIEL MASSIE IN 1797 BY MORTEN CARLISLE Shrouded in the mists of obscurity and but little known except to a few of the older generation in and about Manchester Ohio this old house built by the famous surveyor General Nathaniel Massie stands today mute evidence of the excellence of his work and a link between the throbbing life of the present day and those hardy pioneers whose toil and suffering made possible the ...
... GENERAL JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE-- GENERAL JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE-- The Canadian Governor Who Attempted to Make Ohio a Part of Canada Annual Paper by JAMES A GREEN Historian of the Club American visitors to Canada are always struck with the beauty and charm of Lake Simcoe which is situated fifty miles north of Toronto in the midst of one of the most fertile regions of Ontario It is a lovely lake blue as Como Joined to it by a short and narrow strait is Lake Couchicing equally lovely In the city park of ...
... IN DEX IN DEX A PAGE Abolition Achilles Pugh publishes paper on 305 Scotch-Irish sentiment on 297 A Century of Statehood Address Nash 25 Acolhuans The Review of 104 Adams John Q Jeremy Bentham's works presented to Ohio by 365 On W orthington Thomas 357 Addresses - A Century of Statehood Nash 25 George Croghan Williams 375 Greatness of Ohio W atson 310 Kossuth before Ohio Legislature 114 Manly at Centennial Celebration 1 McClintick at Centennial Celebration 6 The First Constitution Ryan 11 ...
... BUFFALO CHILD LONG LANCE VISITS OHIO BUFFALO CHILD LONG LANCE VISITS OHIO The visit of Buffalo Child Long Lance to Ohio and his address before the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society will long be remembered by those who were so fortunate as to hear and greet him He had been invited to speak on Ohio History Day at Logan Elm Park It was found however that by coming a few days earlier he could be present at the annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society to ...