... BOUNDARY AND JURISDICTIONAL PROBLEMS BOUNDARY AND JURISDICTIONAL PROBLEMS OF THE KENTUCKY-OHIO BORDER BY EUGENE O PORTER The Ohio River forms parts of the boundaries of five states and in so doing advances two problems first that of the actual boundary of each state on the river and second that of the jurisdictionwhich each state may exercise on the river In other words Virginia in her deed of cession of the Old Northwest to the Government of the Confederacy in 1784 and in her enabling act for ...
... Railroad which he consented to retain for one year for the purpose of a thorough organization when he reHowe's Ohio Vol III p 421 Vinton Memorial p 197 Samuel Finley Vinton Samuel Finley Vinton 261 signed the post and returned to Washington City where he continued to reside until the period of his death May 11 1862 The Hon Thomas Ewing of Ohio wrote of him upon hearing of his death I feel his loss deeply Though for ten or fifteen years he ...
... 458 Ohio Arch 458 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Inscription on tablet placed by U S D 1 812 on the Ross County Court House Chillicothe Ohio May 17 1933 CHILLICOTHE CAPITAL OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY AND FIRST CAPITAL OF OHIO The State of Ohio was made possible by the Treaty of Paris 1783 which made the Great Lakes the northern boundary of the new United States In 1787 Congress established the Northwest Territory dedicated to freedom and public education with General Arthur St Clair ...
... 420 Ohio Arch 420 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Birchard to Buckland Buckland to Hayes thence to Spiegel Grove where the following program and exercises were carried out by the Odd Fellows in dedication of their memorial window in the Hayes Memorial Library and Museum The Noble Grand G L Roach as chairman opened the exercises with prayer by W D Pearce Vice Grand of the lodge and he not being present the prayer was read by J E Courtney Chaplain of the lodge which is as follows ...
... Miami Rivers James Miami River From 1797 to the date of his death he resided at this place He and his wife are buried in the Massie's Creek Scotch Associate graveyard usually called the Stevenson cemetery four and one half miles northeast of Xenia Ohio On the memorial tablet is the following inscription In memory of James Galloway born in Pennsylvania May Ist 1750 died near Xenia Ohio ...
... Railroad Company had refused to carry sick and wounded soldiers to and from their regiments at Minutes of the Tenth Annual Meeting Minutes of the Tenth Annual Meeting 445 the rate of two cents a mile as all other roads had agreed to do but insisted upon charging the full three or three and a half cents On this account General Wright had quarreled with Governor Brough and while not doubting his ability he doubted if he had any heart Mrs Abram ...
... Miami Valley when Upper Piqua was captured and destroyed Cave Johnson was a subaltern under Captain Robert In the 1786 Logan expedition Cave Johnson was captain of a company under Colonel Robert Patterson a record existing of his company pay roll In Cave Johnson's correspondence with Dr Draper covering fourteen pages he makes no reference to service in the War of 1812 CHARLES WILLING BYRD Charles Willing Byrd was born at Westover Charles City ...
... 166 Ohio Arch 166 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications to live before he has had a chance for self-realization Why cut off a man's opportunities in his youth Why rob him of the holy right to live and to make the best of himself There are doubtless moments of exhiliration and glory in the dangers of battle but these are as nothing when balanced against the wholesale slaughter of men Herein then lies the secret of our anti-war spirit Not that we would not fight if necessary No people is more ...
... Miami River which runs Miamis of Ohio the Wabash Miami of the Lake and the Miami rivers Lake Michigan would divide the country north of the line into two parts and these were to be states This made five states The motion was lost but the suggestion was not forgotten Other motions and ...
... Miami and Fort Industry Adown the slope and binding the brow of the hill long lines of pitiful indentations mark the resting places of the patient sleepers patient in awaiting justice-the justice of honored recognition and undisturbed repose The fort through pitying nature is a gem of beauty in rarest setting through inhuman ingratitude cupidity and neglect it is a spot over which to mourn 334 - Ohio Arch 334 - Ohio Arch and His Society ...
... RailroadLittleMiamiRailroad but not to the same Railroad and a locomotive Railroad some years earlier and the various matters of public interest and duty to which he was continually ...
... NOTES ON THE OHIO HISTORY DAY ASSOCIATION NOTES ON THE OHIO HISTORY DAY ASSOCIATION TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY MEETING The Twenty-fifth Anniversary Meeting of the Ohio History Day Association was held at Park Place the home of Dr and Mrs Howard Jones Circleville Ohio Sunday October 3 1937 Ohio History Day is usually held at Logan Elm State Park but because of rain the first in the history of the celebration the 1937 meeting was moved into Circleville The feature of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary ...
... COMMUNICATIONS RELATING TO THE CELCOMMUNICATIONS RELATING TO THE CELEBRATION LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS OF CONGRATULATION MARIETTA April 6 1888 Dr I W Andrews Hartford Conn The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society in session at its annual meeting sends greeting and congratulates you on the great success of the Marietta Centennial so largely the result of your labors Nothing but your presence is wanting to complete it Our best wishes for your speedy recovery F C SESSIONS President HARTFORD ...
... DEDICATION OF BRONZE TABLETS TO DEDICATION OF BRONZE TABLETS TO MAJOR JOHN MILLS AND TECUMSEH FRAZER E WILSON Early in the spring of 1927 the Greenville Historical Society through the services of the Piqua Granite Company transported to Greenville two large granite boulders to be used as historical markers The first was about four and one-half feet square and is shown in the illustration accompanying this article It was found along the Nashville Road about four miles west of Greenville and was ...
... Little Beaver Creek enters Little Muskingum and not Little Muskingum Saturday Little Kanawha and a cluster of Islands This cluster must have been the higher portions of Blennerhasset's Island which was to become of peculiar interest in connection with the activities of Aaron Burr 7 ...
... Miami and Scioto Little seems to have been accomplished on that front because even as late as 1819 a land agent named Seth Tracy complained that roads in the eastern part of the Reserve were so extremely bad that it was difficult to promote and sell land20 16 Roads within the Reserve were desperately needed because instead of arranging for an orderly settlement pattern the Company ...
... 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 ...
... Popular Education on the Western Reserve Popular Education on the Western Reserve 35 THE HISTORY OF POPULAR EDUCATION ON THE WESTERN RESERVE AN ADDRESS DELIVERED IN THE SERIES OF EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCES HELD IN ASSOCIATION HALL CLEVELAND SEPTEMBER 7 AND 8 1896 B A HINSDALE PH D LL D PROFESSOR OF THE SCIENCE AND THE ART OF TEACHING IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN It is peculiarly appropriate that the programme of the Centennial Commemoration of the founding of the City of Cleveland and of the ...
... Rejoicing in Divine Workmanship Rejoicing in Divine Workmanship 227 REJOICING IN DIVINE WORKMANSHIP Abstract of a sermon preached by the Rev George W Lasher D D editor of the Journal and Messenger Cincinnati Ohio in the First Baptist Church Text Psalm CXLIX 2 Let Israel rejoice in Him that made him let the children of Zion be joyful in their King There are two ways of writing history the one to refer every event to some over-ruling power superior to man and to human agency the other to find ...
... Miamis Piqua Ohio 1957 John Johnston to John C Calhoun October 13 1818 W Edwin Hemphill ed The Papers of John C Calhoun Columbia South Carolina 1967 III 199-200 365 Calhoun to William Turner May 24 1819 Letters Sent Relating to Indian Affairs 1800-1824 Office of Indian Affairs National Archives Washington D C hereafter cited as LSRIA 8 Cass to Calhoun January 9 1819 Hemphill The Papers of John C Calhoun III 480 9 Kappler Indian Affairs Laws ...