... COMMENTS NOTES AND REVIEWS COMMENTS NOTES AND REVIEWS OTHER STATE SOCIETIES During the month of August last the Editor of the Quarterly enjoyed a tour of visitation to many of the State Historical Societies of the Eastern and Middle states A stop of two or three days was made at Washington D C where arrangements were perfected with the Publication Department securing for our Library all government documents pertinent to the purposes and work of our Society We were greatly delighted with ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABOLITIONIST movement 8 23 85-100 Adult education Newton D Baker and the Adult Education Movement by Rae Wahl Rohfeld 119-32 AEF See American Expeditionary Force University Albrecht Carl W book rev 157-58 Alexander Charles C book rev 64-65 Alexander Roberta Sue North Carolina Faces the Freedmen Race Relations During Presidential Reconstruction 1865-67 134 Alice Hamilton A Life in Letters by Barbara Sicherman rev 57-58 Allen Florence Ellinwood First Lady of ...
... BURKE AARON HINSDALE BURKE AARON HINSDALE BY HAROLD E DAVIS HIRAM COLLEGE Burke Aaron Hinsdale came of pioneer stock For generations his ancestors had been pioneers If his pioneering was of a different sort it was nevertheless pioneering Gifted with a rugged constitution he had an unbounded capacity for work and tireless energy which kept his pen busy through an eventful life as the bibliography of his published works shows A voracious mind and a certain independence of judgment-- a pioneer ...
... 582 Ohio 582 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications little and after a careful search they found some blood stains and with a mighty war whoop dashed on his pursuit once more By this time Captain Brady's strength was nearly spent and he ran with difficulty but self preservation was strong and he still pressed on through the tangled forest hoping to reach a place of safety About three or four miles from Kent he hid himself beneath a great chestnut log in the quiet waters of this pretty lake ...
... LA SALLE'S ROUTE DOWN THE OHIO LA SALLE'S ROUTE DOWN THE OHIO E L TAYLOR In the July Quarterly 1905 page 356 Volume XIV publications Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society appeared an article by the late E L Taylor Sr on Water Highways and Carrying Places Some time after the publication of that article Mr Taylor had correspondence with a critic concerning the identity of the much disputed route of La Salle down the Ohio in his western journey of 1669 the alleged date of his discovery ...
... The Croghan Celebration The Croghan Celebration 75 I greet thee Thou art just in time To tell of victory most sublime Though told in unconnected rhyme Thou art welcome in Ohio But since thou canst thyself speak well Now let thy thundering voice tell What bloody carnage then befell The foes of great Ohio And then she thundered loud PROCTOR'S REPORT OF THE BATTLE OF FORT STEPHENSON The following letter recently unearthed by Col Webb C Hayes in the Canadian Archives at Ottawa is most interesting ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Hero in America By Dixon Wecter New York Charles Scribner's Sons 194 1 530p 350 Here is something entirely new in literature--or as near brand new as is possible in these days of multiple coverage of all fields It is a brilliant book at times a bit too brilliant with apt quotations dragged in occasionally when the dazzled reader might prefer perhaps to take things a little easier Professor Wecter of the Department of English at the University of California has set ...
... GEORGE WILL AND GEORGE WILL JR GEORGE WILL AND GEORGE WILL JR HE following address was delivered by Grace Reah Johnson on October 26 1 93 0 dedicating a bronze memorial which marks the final resting place of George Will and George Will Junior in the cemetery at McArthur Ohio George Will was a soldier of the American Revolution and George Will Junior served with Anthony Wayne in the campaign of 1794 and also in the second war with Great Britain 181 2-14 They had lain buried in a neglected ...
... ANCIENT CORRESPONDENCE ANCIENT CORRESPONDENCE FROM SAMUEL LINTON WAYNESVILLE O TO ABEL SATERTHWAITE PHILADELPHIA Samuel Linton was the fifth child of Benjamin and Jane Cowgal Linton and was born in Bucks county Pa December 17th 1741 He was reared a farmer yet learned the trade of a weaver He married May 10 1775 Elizabeth Harvey who was born March 8th 1748 They had six children Samuel Nathan David Jane Elizabeth and James who in turn with the exception of James raised large families During the ...
... A SURVEYOR ON THE SEVEN RANGES A SURVEYOR ON THE SEVEN RANGES BY B H PERSHING By the Treaty of Paris of 1783 American ownership of the region later known as the Old Northwest was acknowledged by Great Britain Much however remained to be done before the land could be occupied by actual settlers The British flag continued to wave over the posts at Detroit and Michilimackinac while scowling Indian tribes announced that the white man should not pass across the Ohio River The settlement of the ...
... Address of Hon Address of Hon W J Gilmore 241 ADDRESS OF HON W J GILMORE DELIVERED AT GREENVILLE OHIO AUGUST 3 1895 Mr President Ladies and Gentlemen I acknowledge the kindness of your committee in giving me by their invitation an opportunity to address you on this occasion In coming back to Greenville after an absence of years there remain on this side of the great river that separates this from a future state of existence but a few of those warm friends who welcomed me when I first came to ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 429 Reviews Notes and Comments 429 REV NATHANIEL BARRETT COULSON LOVE Rev Nathaniel Barrett Coulson Love was born in Rushville Ohio October 29 1830 He died at his home in Perrysburg Ohio December 29 1922 He had therefore passed his ninety-second birthday He was one of the pioneer ministers of Ohio His father William Love was Scotch-Irish his mother Susannah Force was of English and Scotch-Irish descent Rev Love was educated in the common schools and privately taught ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Organizations ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President A Shay engine built by the Lima Locomotive works in 1925 and used at the National Lime and Stone Company quarry until 1947 has been renovated by the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation It is to be placed on a concrete foundation on the society's property as a permanent exhibit Contracts have been awarded for construction of the Allen County Museum building to be located at ...
... THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETT SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO Nov 27 1916 The meeting was called to order by First Vice President George F Bareis There were present Messrs George F Bareis E O Randall F W Treadway W C Mills H E Buck D H Gard H C Shetrone Frank Tallmadge F D Hills W H Cole Edgar Butler A M Schlesinger E C Derby Leonard Marker J M Dunham Almer Hegler D J Ryan James E Campbell Webb C ...
... by PAUL H BOASE The itinerancy the traveling ministry of the Methodist Church distinguished the Methodist plan of church government from all other ecclesiastical systems on the American frontier While most denominations employed mounted missionaries as evangelical emissaries to the West only the Wesleyans geared their entire program to an intricately developed circuit system virtually compelling Methodist preachers to ride abreast of the westward bound pioneers In sparsely settled regions ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 99 George H Pepper Am Museum Nat History New York Harlan I Smith Am Museum Nat History New York Cecilie Seler Berlin Germany Hjalmar Stolpe Stockholm Sweden Luis A Herrera Uruguay Marshall H Saville New York Adelaf Breton London England C T Hartman Stockholm Sweden At the station before departure Mr Saville made a neat little speech in behalf of the guests thanking their hosts for the pleasure and profit of the day and three cheers were given by each party in behalf ...
... INDEX VOLUME XXI INDEX VOLUME XXI Adams County Petroglyphs found in 213 Articles-Concluded Alder Jonathan Indians capture 266 The Indian village of Cush-og-wenk Anderson Judge Jas H - 432 Consul at Hamburg 490 The library at Paddy's Run 462 Political life of 490 Twenty-seventh annual meeting of Relations with Pres Lincoln 490 Society 468 Sketch of 489 Ashland CountySociety interest in 491 Hill's history of 383 Animals - Indians in 380 Bones of found in Jackson Co 192 Pioneer settlers of 384 ...
... 260 Ohio Arch 260 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications DISCOURSES OF REV RHEES Through the courtesy of Mr George A Katzenberger president of the Greenville Ohio Historical Society we have received duplicate copies of two discourses by Rev Morgan John Rhys delivered at Greenville on July 4 and 5 respectively in the year 1795 before the officers and army of Major General Anthony Wayne Rev Morgan John Rhys or as it is also printed Rhees was born in Graddfa Llanfabon Glamorganshire South Wales ...
... FORT MIAMIS THE INTERNATIONAL BACKGROUND FORT MIAMIS THE INTERNATIONAL BACKGROUND by RICHARD C KNOPF Historian Anthony Wayne Parkway Board The Paris peace treaty of 1783 which officially ended the war between the kingdom of Great Britain and her rebellious American colonies and which established what were supposedly internationally recognized boundary lines between British Canada and the newly independent American states was considered at the very beginning by the British as but a tenuous ...
... JOSEPH HOUGH AN EARLY MIAMI MERCHANT JOSEPH HOUGH AN EARLY MIAMI MERCHANT By R PIERCE BEAVER There were many forces which bound the Miami country to the South--the political dominance of men of southern birth family ties ecclesiastical relations the attitude towards the negro and above all commercial relations The last influenced all the other forces and brought with economic dependence on the South a common way of thinking with it especially in matters of economics and politics This ...