... Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association 20 3 INFLUENCES OF EARLY RELIGIOUS LITERATURE IN THE OHIO VALLEY FROM 1815 TO 1850 MRS IRENE D CORNWELL CINCINNATI A song for the Early Times out West And our green old forest-home Whose pleasant memories freshly yet Across the bosom come A song for the true and gladsome life In those early days we led With a teeming soil beneath our feet And a smiling Heav'n o'erhead Oh the waves of life were ...
... THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR FEBRUARY 17 1807 TO FEBRUARY 1 1898 GEN R BRINKERHOFF President E O RANDALL Secretary COLUMBUS O JANUARY 1898 407 To His Excellency Asa S To His Excellency Asa S Bushnell Governor of Ohio SIR-I have the honor to submit herewith the thirteenth annual report of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society covering the year from February 17 1897 to February 1 1898 This ...
... strike the American army strike a blow if the opportunity should present itself During the winter Wayne sent a detachment to the site of St Clair's defeat twenty-three miles north of Greenville and built Fort Recovery This post was garrisoned and placed in command of Captain Gibson On the 30th of June 1794 Little Turtle attacked this post with a numerous body of Indians and was repulsed with ...
... A HISTORY OF LOCAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES A HISTORY OF LOCAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES IN OHIO TO 1865 BY ROBERT LESLIE JONES Local agricultural societies are among the victims of the present war To cooperate in conserving rubber and in eliminating unnecessary travel many of them cancelled their fairs in 1942 and doubtless most if not all will do so in 194 3 The disappearance of the fairs even if it is temporary emphasizes their significance as an institution and makes it worth while to trace the ...
... OHIO DAY AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE OHIO DAY AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION On October 6 1 90 4 the Buckeyes from all parts of the United States celebrated Ohio Day upon the grounds of the Exposition St Louis Missouri The exercises were held in the afternoon and evening in the beautiful Ohio Building The Ohio Commission appointed by Governor Nash under authority of an act passed by the 75th General Assembly consisted of Hon William F Burdell President Columbus life member of the Ohio ...
... THE PLACE OF THE OHIO VALLEY THE PLACE OF THE OHIO VALLEY IN AMERICAN HISTORY FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER Professor of History University of Wisconsin Mr Turner until the fall of 1910 was professor of American History in the University of Wisconsin He is now professor of Western American History at Harvard University and the past year 1910 was president of the American Historical Association He delivered the address herewith published at the meeting of the Ohio Valley Historical Association held ...
... a 314 LOGAN AND THE LOGAN LEM LOGAN AND THE LOGAN LEM BY DR HOWARD JONES I have been asked to tell you something about this piece of land upon which we have assembled today and what this meeting commemorates This is easy and yet difficult easy because the subject is replete with interesting history difficult because the time allotted is too short to treat the subject in a very comprehensive or even an understandable manner It was in 1911 that I made the proposal to Mrs Wallace to purchase ...
... 480 Ohio Arch 480 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications a brief description of the service of each and a roster of officers and men We are told that Fairfield County is credited with a service enrollment of 1821 in the World War There is a complete list of these alphabetically arranged This is followed by a brief account of Women in the Service The concluding chapter After Armistice Day details the return of the soldiers who survived the perils of camp and field the organization of the ...
... NINETEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE NINETEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY JUNE 3 1904 The Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Achaeological and Historical Society was held in Page Hall Ohio State University Columbus Ohio at 2 30 P M June 3 1 90 4 The following members were present Judge J H Anderson Columbus Prof M R Andrews Marietta Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Gen R Brinkerhoff Mansfield Hon M D Follett Marietta Hon M S ...
... Dedication of Ohio's World War Memorial 481 Dedication of Ohio's World War Memorial 481 fought for freedom and tolerance and your Society with its new facilities can do much to see that that fight was not in vain In this work which we think of great value your elder sister pledges you its constant and sincere help with the conviction that the glory and achievement of one is that of all Mr Greve is a graduate of Harvard and the Cincinnati Law school a prominent attorney of Cincinnati and author ...
... 470 Ohio Arch 470 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications fortunate in view and it was through his suggestion and influence that increased provisions were made for the insane that the graded system was introduced into the penitentiary and that many other prison reforms were instituted Among the most important acts of this humanitarian statesman was the founding of the Reform School for Girls at Delaware To him more than any one man in Ohio can be credited the promotion and success of the ...
... DIARY OF A MORAVIAN INDIAN MISSION DIARY OF A MORAVIAN INDIAN MISSION MIGRATION ACROSS PENNSYLVANIA IN 1772 Translated and edited by AUGUST C MAHR Professor of German Ohio State University The travel diary presented in these pages deals with the migration of Indian convert members of the Moravian Church from northeastern to northwestern Pennsylvania in the summer of 1772 Undertaken as a measure of extreme necessity and directed by two competent missioners this expedition carried out only in ...
... The Ohio Canal Movement 1820-1825 The Ohio Canal Movement 1820-1825 By HARRY N SCHEIBER NO SINGLE ACT of the Ohio General Assembly prior to the Civil War had so profound an effect upon the state's economic development as did the bill of February 4 1825 by which construction of the state's canal system was first authorized On the eve of the bill's passage Alfred Kelley one of its eading exponents sought to explain to De Witt Clinton of New York the reasons why the Ohio legislature had agreed to ...
... UNVEILING OF TABLET AT FORT GOWER UNVEILING OF TABLET AT FORT GOWER Appropriate and interesting exercises marked the unveiling of a tablet by the Ohio Daughters of the American Revolution on the site of old Fort Gower at Hockingport Athens County Ohio The exercises preliminary to the dedication were held in the city of Athens Friday evening November 9 The formal dedication and unveiling of the tablet occurred on the day following at Hockingport The granite monument bears two tablets one ...
... TENTH ANNUAL REPORT TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Ohio State Archaeological and Historical SOCIETY TO THE GOVERNOR From February 19 1894 to February 19 1895 To the HON WM MCKINLEY Governor of Ohio The ninth annual meeting of the Society convened in the reading room of the State Library Columbus Ohio February 20 1894 at 2 p M standard time with the President General Roeliff Brinkerhoff in the Chair E O Randall acting as Secretary Upon the call for the reading of the minutes of the annual meeting ...
... THE WOODBRIDGE-GALLAHER COLLECTION THE WOODBRIDGE-GALLAHER COLLECTION BY HARLOW LINDLEY Introductory The Library of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society recently secured a very unusual collection of material consisting of letters manuscripts journals account books maps pamphlets and books The manuscript collection consists of about 1100 items the most notable of which is the Woodbridge-Blennerhassett collection of approximately 600 items A word of explanation concerning the ...
... WAYNE AND THE TREATY OF GREENE VILLE WAYNE AND THE TREATY OF GREENE VILLE by DWIGHT L SMITH It has generally been assumed that the chief architect of the Treaty of Greene Ville at the end of the Indian Wars in the Old Northwest was General Mad Anthony Wayne The discovery of hitherto unknown manuscript material however furnishes documentary evidence that Wayne was operating under very specific orders from the war department Further a draft treaty for his guidance and use predetermined to a ...
... KIM M KIM M GRUENWALD Marietta's Example of a Settlement Pattern in the Ohio Country A Reinterpretation As historians of the Early Republic scholars of the Progressive era created a long-lasting influential school of interpretation for the decades following the American Revolution The Progressive school focused on the conflict between common men who favored local control and an elite which favored strong central authority-as they deemed it the forces of democracy versus the forces of ...
... 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 ...
... THE EARLY FRENCH SETTLEMENTS ON THE GREAT THE EARLY FRENCH SETTLEMENTS ON THE GREAT LAKES JOHN M BULKLEY The French emigrants scattered along the northwestern frontier previous to the year 176 0 were chiefly from the provinces of Picardy and Normandy in France Without aspiring to the aristocratic rank of the noblesse who had congregated in the region of Quebec and Montreal they were accustomed to reverence the authority which had before been exercised over them under the French monarchy in ...