... Boundary Line Between Ohio and Indiana Etc Boundary Line Between Ohio and Indiana Etc 127 BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN OHIO AND INDIANA AND BETWEEN OHIO AND MICHIGAN SPECIAL REPORTS OF T C MENDENHALL SUPERINTENDENT OF UNITED STATES COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY AND A A GRAHAM SECRETARY OF THE OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Sixty-ninth General Assembly of Ohio authorized the Governor to cause an examination of the boundary lines between Ohio and Indiana and Ohio and Michigan to be made It has for some time ...
... REPORT OF FIELD WORK REPORT OF FIELD WORK BY W C MILLS CURATOR PREFACE It is the purpose of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society to visit different sections of the State each year for explorations upon the mounds and village sites It is apparent to all that the mounds and earthworks are fast being leveled by the encroachment of agriculture and the relic hunter who under the stimulus of commercial enterprise tears the mounds down and forever blots out evidence which would ...
... SIEGE OF FORT MEIGS SIEGE OF FORT MEIG S The Cleveland Herald and Gazette of June 3 1840 printed an extract from a speech delivered by the brave Col John O'Fallon at the raising of the log-cabin in St Louis This was during the famous Log Cabin Campaign summer and fall of 1840 The speech reflecting the political and public sentiment of the time will be read with interestEDITOR Colonel O'Fallon-who it may be stated delivered his speech from the ramparts of a miniature Fort Meigs -was an aid of ...
... LUCAS SULLIVANT--HIS PERSONALITY AND LUCAS SULLIVANT--HIS PERSONALITY AND ADVENTURES BY MISS JANE D SULLIVANT Aside from court records and a few lingering oral traditions the principal source of information concerning the life and personality of Lucas Sullivant is to be found in the Family Memorial written and published for private distribution by his youngest son Mr Joseph Sullivant in 1873 Upon this source all subsequent histories of Franklinton and even of Columbus and Franklin County have ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY The annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society will be held in the Museum and Library Building Saturday September 9 1922 The forenoon session which opens at nine o'clock will be devoted chiefly to reports of officers and the various committees of the Society Matters of more than ordinary importance will be ...
... 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 ...
... WHO WERE THE MOUND BUILDERS WHO WERE THE MOUND BUILDERS J P MACLEAN PH D An ancient and unknown race of people possessing a welldeveloped type of civilization once inhabited the valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi This race has left no written history but the testimony of its existence and advancement in the arts and sciences is attested in the stupendous structures consisting of mounds walled enclosures and domestic implements which have long attracted the attention of observers scientists ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Guide to the Material in The National Archives Washington D C Government Printing Office 194 0 303p Paper 40 cloth 70 The first general guide to the materials in The National Archives made its appearance in 1938 as an Appendix to the Third Annual Report of the Archivist of the United States The present work is the successor to that initial guide and constitutes a key to some 320000 linear feet of records or those accessioned up to December 31 1939 It must be kept in ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSS E LL ABOLITIONISM Theodore Dwight Weld's Anti-Slavery Mission in Ohio by Vernon L Volpe 5-18 Abolitionist Actuarv Atheist Elizur Wright and the Reform Impulse by Lawrence B Goodheart rev 168-170 Abzug Robert Passionate Liberator Theodore Dwight Weld and the Dilemma of Reform 6 8 9 Adjutant General's General Order Number 12 1916 45-46 Adjutant General ONG office of 40-56 Agriculture Butter and Egg Business Implications From the Records of a Nineteenth-Century ...
... 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 ...
... THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF OHIO By LEE SHEPARD In the space of a short sketch it is impossible to write a comprehensive history of this 113-year-old society When it is realized that the first effort to form a historical society in Ohio was made in 1822 only 27 years after the signing of the Treaty of Greenville one can only wonder at the temerity of the scattered residents whose ambitions at that time were doomed to failure Ohio was ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORIOHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS FOR THE YEAR 1886 WITH ABSTRACTS OF ADDRESSES AND PAPERS PRESENTED BEFORE THE SOCIETY COLUMBUS January 13th 1886 THE Society was called to order in the Chamber of the House of Representatives in the State House by Professor L D Brown The report of the Secretary showed the addition of ten members since the last meeting and several valuable donations to the library and museum The special committee ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA BY BERTHA E JOSEPHSON The effort to catalog the manuscript collections in this department thoroughly according to the unit card method has proceeded slowly with the following collections now completed MANUSCRIPT CATALOG ABB TO CAMP 1 Abbott Mary--Scrapbook Mechanicsburg O--1889 Miscellaneous collection of short stories and poems from newspapers and magazines 1914--4 2 Abstractor's Records--Property Titles Columbus O-- 1840's to 1870's Will of Henry Patch etc ...
... 178 Ohio Arch 178 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications MEMORY OF ZEISBERGER A poetical tribute by John Milburn Harding New Philadelphia Ohio November 17 1 90 8 AT ZEISBERGER'S GRAVE One hundred years after he died There are tombs of the high there are graves of the low There are sepulchers sacred in story But the grave hollowed here just a century ago Has a halo of unselfish glory 'Mid the scenes of thy triumphs and direst defeat Near the spring rich in savage tradition Here you gave up the ...
... A GRAVE IN THE WILDERNESS A GRAVE IN THE WILDERNESS BY BYRON R LONG When one considers the amount of material collected and published having to do with the story of Ohio and the Northwest Territory he is apt to hesitate before he sets himself the task of adding to that collection So many details of that history have been published already that one fears he may be traversing the same grounds when he attempts to narrate a detail that has grown familiar to him through personal and intimate ...
... ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT CHASE Helen Richland County and Underground Railroad Ohio Genealogical Society Report V No 4 August 1965 2 4 GARA Larry ed Brilliant Thoughts and Important Truths A Speech of Frederick Douglass Ohio History LXXV 1966 3-9 HOWARD Victor B The Slavery Controversy and a Seminary for the Northwest Journal of Presbyterian History XLIII 1965 227-253 Shelby Quaker Served Underground Railroad Ohio Genealogical Society Report V No 4 August 1965 3 Concerns Stephen Blanchard ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS THE GNADENHUETTEN CENTENNIAL SEPTEMBER 29 1798 One hundred years ago the Rev John Heckewelder moved into the First House which he and his helpers built on the east bank of the Muskingum Tuscarawas River where he founded Gnadenhuetten as a Moravian Church settlement of whites To commemorate the Centennial Anniversary of its founding Gnadenhuetten was visited by a concourse of seven thousand men women and children This estimate of the number ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XX INDEX TO VOLUME XX A Articles - A vanishing race 48 Abolitionists - Brady's Leap 457 Arguments of 280 Birthplace of Little Turtle 236 Dresser's experiences in the South Celebration of the surrender of Gen 281 John H Morgan 368 Fairbank Calvin 283 Cincinnati Municipal election of 1828 Foster Abbey Kelley 280 255 Foster Stephen 280 Delaware in the days of 1812 61 Oberlin aided by 276 Early Steamboat travel on the Ohio Oberlin at 270 River 378 Thompson George 282 Editorialana ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA WILLIAM HENRY HUNTER William H Hunter Trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society died suddenly at his residence Chillicothe Ohio in the early morning of Wednesday June 19 1906 after an illness of only five days' duration Mr Hunter closed his earthly career as he had often expressed a desire to do in the very midst of his daily activities Never was he more energetic or enthusiastic in his life work On the ...
... FREDERICK J FREDERICK J BLUE Salmon P Chase First Historian of the Old Northwest The name of Salmon Portland Chase rarely comes to mind when early historians of the Old Northwest are recalled Yet in 1833 as a struggling young attorney of twenty-five he produced a succinct account of Ohio's history which served as a valuable guide for several decades Not surprisingly the young writer's study reflected his own social standing and political ideology as well as contemporary attitudes In recounting ...