... GENERAL MASON AND HIS LETTER ON RAILROADS GENERAL MASON AND HIS LETTER ON RAILROADS B F PRINCE Almost every community of considerable size and age has furnished one or more characters who have been prominent for a life and acts that were for the good of that special locality and often for the state or nation at large One who stood in this threefold relation was Hon Samson Mason of Springfield Ohio Mr Mason was born in the state of New York in 1793 He attended the public schools of the day ...
... Benjamin and Sally Logan3 In Benjamin Logan was one of the most famous of Kentucky pioneers He was in Lord Dunmore's War in 1774 visited Kentucky in 1775 and moved in the following year and founded Logan's Station one mile west of Stanford Lincoln County He took part in many Indian expeditions was a member of the conventions of 1792 and 1799 and served repeatedly in the Legislature He moved ...
... Benjamin Suckiant Abraham Brown never joined Stephen Shippy never joined John Hunt never joined Daniel Armstrong Elisha Guild Peleg Hart William Tatson William Wilson A true copy made from the original list Attest Signed EFFIE M PR I CKETT For State Librarian FOURTH COMPANY Conn archives War X227ab Pay roll for Joseph Hait's Company Stamford December 20 1764 Vol XXXVI--41 642 Ohio Arch 642 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Men's Names ...
... WAS THE PONTIAC UPRISING A CONSPIRACY WAS THE PONTIAC UPRISING A CONSPIRACY by WILBUR R JACOBS Instructor in American History Santa Barbara College University of California Ever since Francis Parkman wrote his classic account of the Indian war of 1763 historians have questioned the exact nature of the origin of Parkman's so-called conspiracy of Pontiac Contemporary manuscripts reveal that there were enough abuses suffered by the Indians at the hands of the whites to justify in the minds of the ...
... REPORT OF ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF REPORT OF ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY HELD IN THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING OF THE SOCIETY MARCH 26 1 931 The Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met in annual meeting March 26 1931 at 2 o'clock p m in the trustees' room of the Museum and Library Building The following members were present Johnson Bareis Florence Orton Spetnagel Goodman and Hinkle ...
... Benjamin Seth Youngs and Benjamin Seth Youngs was Benjamin S Youngs arrives Benjamin S Youngs set out in search of the Indians and on the 23rd arrived at their village now Greenville Ohio When we came in sight of the village the first object that attracted our view was a large frame ...
... DE CELORON'S EXPEDITION TO THE OHIO IN 1749 DE CELORON'S EXPEDITION TO THE OHIO IN 1749 BY 0 H MARSHALL The extensive territory lying between the Ohio River and Lake Erie has been the theatre of many remarkable historical changes Its earliest inhabitants left no record of their origin or history save in the numerous tumuli which are scattered over its surface bearing trees of the largest growth not distinguishable from the adjacent forest Measured by the extent and character of those vast ...
... WASHINGTON'S TOUR TO THE OHIO AND ARTICLES WASHINGTON'S TOUR TO THE OHIO AND ARTICLES OF THE MISSISSIPPI COMPANY Introduction and Notes by Archer Butler Hulbert Author of Washington and the West Historic Highways Etc It is always interesting to recall that the earliest accurate account of the Ohio Valley is from the pen of Washington This account is found in two manuscripts now preserved in the Library of Congress one of which is entitled Remarks amp Occurrs in October when November came it is ...
... Benjamin and Hannah Coggeshall Sheffield She was a native of Jamestown Rhode Island and came to Marietta December 17 1788 with her mother then a widow Mrs Sheffield owned five shares in the funds of the Ohio Company Of her party were also her daughters and sons-in-law Mr and Mrs Isaac Peirce Mr and Mrs Charles Green and their children her brother Daniel Coggeshall and family and her nephew Wanton Casey though all did not arrive the same day It ...
... THE KNOWLEDGE OF COAL AND IRON IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF COAL AND IRON IN OHIO BEFORE 1835 BY PAUL WAKELEE STODDARD Today Ohio is one of the great coal-producing centers of the world a position which it has maintained for close on to a century The real starting-point of the development of the mineral resources of the state was the First Geological Survey which took place in the third decade of the nineteenth century and which has been considered in a previous article But what knowledge of the vast ...
... 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 ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS WASHINGTON'S CAMP SITES ON THE OHIO RIVER BY GUY-HAROLD SMITH Ohio State University In the autumn of 1770 George Washington made a journey into the interior of North America in the interest of the Virginia soldiers who had fought in the Indian wars and had been promised western lands as reward for their services Also Washington had personal reasons for making this reconnaissance of the lands along the Ohio River He had the foresight to ...
... 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 ...
... Benjamin Ives Gilman Museum of Fine Arts Boston Museum Work at the Capital of Canada by H I Smith Geological Survey Ottawa Canada Museum of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society by William C Mills Curator of the Society Columbus Ohio Editorialana Editorialana 475 Ichthyological Explorations in Colombia by Dr C H Eigemann Indiana University Bloomington Indiana The morning session of Wednesday June 4th was held at the University ...
... MINUTES MINUTES OF THE NINTH ANNUAL MEETING STATE LIBRARY ROOM STATE CAPITOL COLUMBUS OHIO February 20 1894 The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met in annual session with the President Gen Roeliff Brinkerhoff in the chair The following members were present Gen Roeliff Brinkerhoff President Mansfield Rev Wm E Moore Vice President Columbus S S Rickly Treasurer Columbus E O Randall Secretary Columbus Prof Geo F W right Oberlin Judge W J Gilmore Columbus George F Bareis Canal ...
... 44 Ohio Arch 44 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications SOME INTERESTING PARTICULARS BY THE OHIO STATE JOURNAL REPORTER In a communication of considerable length entitled The Holmes County Rebellion--Interesting Particulars a correspondent of the Ohio State Journal reported to that paper a news story which it published under the date of June 22 1863 It contains the names of a number of participants in the uprising and reads in part as follows CAMP NEAR WOLF CREEK WALLACE EXPEDITION June 18 ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Frontier Ohio 1788-1803 By Randolph Chandler Downes Ohio Historical Collections III Columbus Ohio The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1935 280p maps 250 Students of Ohio history will be grateful to the author for presenting this vivid and accurate account of the origins of the Commonwealth Professor Randolph Chandler Downes has examined and cited in a wealth of footnotes a great variety of widely scattered manuscript collections as well as the ...
... Benjamin Oviatt and Theodore Parmelee in the undertaking which Hudson Centennial Celebration Hudson Centennial Celebration 33 7 brought him to the West The causes which led to the emigration of David Hudson and many others from the more settled lands of Connecticut to the wilderness of Western Reserve were largely commercial Some four years before Moses Cleveland and his party had made the survey of the territory and the inducements to ...
... Benjamin and Hannah Evans Benjamin Lundy a Quaker Benjamin Lundy must be Benjamin Lundy organized the Benjamin Lundy became the Benjamin Lundy so that in
... Benjamin S Youngs and Benjamin Youngs was present Benjamin S Youngs Peter Benjamin replied as the Benjamin informed Dr Little that we were now ready to meet them Accordingly we again met the committee at the same place in the woods ...