... ARE THE HOPEWELL COPPER OBJECTS PREHISARE THE HOPEWELL COPPER OBJECTS PREHISTORIC BY WARREN K MOOREHEAD At the Washington meeting of the American Anthropological Association held conjointly with Section H of the American Association for the Advancement of Science I read a brief paper on the Hopewell copper objects and it is now my wish to present a more extended communication on the subjest Mr Clarence B Moore whose valuable work in southeastern United States is so favorably known to all who ...
... 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 ...
... THE MOUND BUILDER AND THE INDIAN THE MOUND BUILDER AND THE INDIAN ACCORDING TO THE BOOK OF MORMON BY C W CLARK Official of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints In relating the story of Prehistoric America as outlined in the Book of Mormon it is the purpose of the writer to avoid religious issues and controversies as far as possible and to present simply the statements and portray the record in a way that will bring out only such parts as will be of interest to student of ...
... 546 Ohio Arch 546 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications this loyal public would ever especially enjoy the St Clair park of seventy-seven acres embracing the site of Fort St Clair the battle field burial place and the scenic lands surrounding The old flag of thirteen stars and many scars which now drapes the form of our darling dead she greatly prized on account of the hallowed remembrances thereof to herself personally relating This old flag was her talisman it tenderly thrilled her ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA NEW TRUSTEES On February 28 1907 Governor Harris appointed Hon Myron T Herrick Trustee of the Society to serve for three years This appointment will certainly meet the hearty approval of the members of the Society as few governors have taken the active interest in the progress and welfare of our Society that Governor Herrick did during his encumbency The readers of the QUARTERLY will doubtless be interested in a brief sketch of Mr Herrick as his career is an ...
... MARKING THE OLD ABOLITION HOLES MARKING THE OLD ABOLITION HOLES BY FELIX J KOCH CINCINNATI A quadroon girl in Sunday best strolled down the quiet little main street of Ripley in southern Ohio not long since and coming to the crest of the bluff whence the long descent begins to the river she rested her arms on an immaculately white monument set to the famous old abolitionists of Ripley-the place where Eliza crossed the ice in the story-and waved a handkerchief in signal to some dusky paramour ...
... FORT FIZZLE FORT FIZZLE Judge James Story Drake son of Colonel James L Drake on June 3 1929 wrote to his niece Mrs Luella Hughes Gillette of Indianapolis Indiana His description of the Holmes County Rebellion is in part as follows I suppose I have told you that I had a part in that War I was between eleven and twelve years old at that time We lived on our farm in Holmes County then and when the Governor sent two companies of hard-boiled soldiers to put down the Rebellion Mother got a message ...
... THE OHIO RIVER THE OHIO RIVER ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT Professor of American History Marietta College President of the Ohio Valley Historical Association author of Historic Highways of America The Ohio River etc The mountain ranges of this Continent generally trend from North to South The greatest rivers trend in the same general direction particularly the St Lawrence Mississippi and Hudson all of which were to play an important role as avenues of approach for the races which fell heir to the ...
... THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY A J BAUGHMAN One of the most noted stations of the old Underground Railway in its time was at Uncle John Finney's in Springfield township Richland county four miles west of Mansfield Ohio about a half mile north of the Mansfield-Crestline trolley line From the windows of the swiftly moving car passengers can see the place where many runaway slaves found rest and succor while enroute to Canada in the ante-bellum days But few persons however who ...
... ADAM HURDUS AND THE SWEDENBORGIANS IN ADAM HURDUS AND THE SWEDENBORGIANS IN EARLY CINCINNATI By Ophia D Smith Many volumes have been written about the hardships and accomplishments of pioneer preachers in the Western Country Most of these however deal with men of orthodox faith The Swedenborgians equally self-sacrificing but unorthodox and misunderstood have received little attention because they were few in number Yet they were people of influence--they were readers and thinkers and doers In ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 125 WHIP-POOR-WILL Whip-poor-will to which reference is made in preceding pages of this issue was the youthful newspaper venture of two lads Wilson Lindsley Gill and Emilius Oviatt Randall aged respectively fourteen and fifteen years Fortunately a complete file of this paper is in the possession of Mrs E O Randall through whose courtesy we are able to present accurate information concerning it together with extracts and illustrations The paper ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS SETH ADAMS A PIONEER OHIO SHEPHERD By Charles Sumner Plumb Among the pioneers of the Northwest Territory along the Ohio border on the east were many men of sterling worth and rather unusual administrative ability Notably among these men in Ohio history was Seth Adams The following pages will briefly discuss his ancestry review his movements as a citizen and pioneer and set forth his relationship to early day American sheep husbandry The ...
... CALEB ATWATER CALEB ATWATER CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF It is as Ohio's first historian that Caleb Atwater is best known But had he never written his History of Ohio his efforts to provide an educational system for the state and the record he made in Archaeology might in themselves be sufficient reason for placing his name in Ohio's Hall of Fame Caleb Atwater was a versatile peculiar eccentric and visionary individual From the world's material point of view his life might not be reckoned a success He ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 67 NUMBER 1 JANUARY 1958 Woodrow Wilson's First Romance By GEORGE C OSBORN MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN about Abraham Lincoln's romance with Ann Rutledge Although Ann first aroused Lincoln's romantic emotions very few facts are known about this love affair Indeed nearly all that has been written about Ann and Abe's romance is conjecture Although most Americans have heard of Lincoln's first romance not many realize that Woodrow ...
... THE REV THE REV JOHN RANKIN EARLY ABOLITIONIST By PAUL R GRIM The Ancestry and Early Career of John Rankin The ancestors of the Rev John Rankin were Scotch-Irish Presbyterians whose lineage can be traced directly to Scotland during the religious persecutions of the seventeenth century1 His great-great-grandfather William Rankin was compelled to flee from Scotland during that period after his two brothers had been killed because of their religious belief He made his escape into Derry County ...
... EARLY OHIO CAMP MEETINGS 1801-1816 EARLY OHIO CAMP MEETINGS 1801-1816 by CHARLES A JOHNSON Instructor in American History University of Maryland On Military Leave As soon as we came upon the ground Mechanicsburg Ohio I felt that God was with the meeting Give us a chimney that we may have fire it was done God was with us and souls were converted--BISHOP FRANCIS ASBURY1 In challenging the lawlessness and immorality of the frontier the western churches forged new religious weapons Among the most ...
... OBERLIN'S PART IN THE SLAVERY CONFLICT OBERLIN'S PART IN THE SLAVERY CONFLICT WILBUR GREELEY BURROUGHS A M OBERLIN OHIO Little did the Rev John J Shipherd pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Elyria Ohio realize that in the founding of Oberlin he was to change the destiny of a nation He originated the plan in 1832 In November of the same year with his associate Philo P Stewart formerly a missionary to the Cherokees in Mississippi and at this time living with Shipherd at Elyria he selected the ...
... OHIO VALLEY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OHIO VALLEY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION NINTH ANNUAL MEETING The ninth annual meeting of the Ohio Valley Historical Association was held in Columbus Ohio Oct 2 1 and 22 1 915 in the beautiful new building of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society The general topic for papers and discussions was the Early Religious Development in the Ohio Valley The first meeting was a joint session of the Historical Association and the Ohio History Teachers' ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XIII INDEX TO VOLUME XIII A Articles - Concluded Abolition in Ohio 50 History of Ft Hamilton Miller Adams County - 97 Todd's Trace in 318 Historic Worthington Parsons 71 Trebor Tavern in 307 John Brough Hooper 40 Zane's Trace in 318 Kenton's Gauntlet at Chillicothe Agriculture Prehistoric people engaged Brown 483 in 189 Marcus A Hanna Dick 355 American Economic Association MeetOhio in the Spanish and Philippine ing of 288 War Anderson 551 American Historical Association 121 K ...
... GEORGE F GEORGE F BAREIS In his home town in the capital of the State and beyond its borders a large circle of friends and associates heard with deep regret the news of the death of George F Bareis He had been in failing health for a portion of the past year but had been seriously ill only a short time He passed away at Grant Hospital Columbus at 240 P M on Thursday January 7 1932 325 326 Ohio Arch 326 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Especially was his loss felt in the Ohio State ...