... Miamis and the rest would abandon our ancient posts and perpetuate the nations on the Beautiful River who are within the grasp of the English government However some persons have been sent there these last years but there were fewer English then and they had not so much credit as they have to-day and if the French traders will tell the truth they will agree that their profits will prove just as trade made with the English by the exchange of ...
... Little as agents appointed by the Scioto Company to explore the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio river had gone through the country between Chillicothe and this place and decided to locate their colony here From a record kept by Mr Kilbourne we find that the two men traveled by stage from Granby to Shippenburg Pa Thence carrying packs they walked over the mountains to Pittsburg one hundred and fifty miles thence to Wheeling ...
... NULLIFICATION IN OHIO NULLIFICATION IN OHIO TWELVE years before the famous resistance of South Carolina to Federal authority the State of Ohio through the solemn acts of her Legislature attempted and succeeded for a time to nullify the laws of the United States and to disobey the decisions of her courts It was not merely a legislative nullification but it wa s a complete destruction of Federal standing within the State The United States Courts and the United States Banks were denied the ...
... Little Beaver and Mahoning Little Kanawha spur of the Baltimore amp Ohio system was built A substantial chunk of the huge rock can still be traced in the river at its original location under about three feet of water Across the river from that spot there used to be a settlement Big Rock which was wiped out of existence by a river flood after the Civil War on a map of 1854 of the state of ...
... Miami University Oxford O Breed W J Hotel Alms Cincinnati O Burton S R First National Bank Bldg Cincinnati O Chamberlain H G Mrs Marietta O Chatfield A H Cincinnati O Cincinnati History Teachers' Association Cincinnati O Coleman C B Butler College Indianapolis Ind Colonial Dames Society of in the State of Ohio Cincinnati O Colonial Wars Society of in the State of Ohio Cincinnati O Cole Frank T University School Columbus O Columbus Public ...
... The Century and Its Lessons The Century and Its Lessons 27 of the distinguished gentlemen whom we have assembled here to greet This city of ours has in time sent forth her sons and daughters who with willing hands and strong hearts have engaged in founding other cities and States thus following the noble example set by their ancestors Many of these sons and daughters have returned in response to invitations cordially extended and I desire to say to them as well as the strangers within our ...
... Miami rivers He and his surveying parties had twice been driven back into Kentucky by the Indians But he had meanwhile discovered the spot which he wished to own and on which he hoped to build a settlement that is the site just below the forks of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers Early in 1797 he purchased survey entry 1393 and in August of that year laid out the town of Franklinton That fall Joseph Dixon and his family established their home ...
... Little is known of McIntire's ancestry inasmuch as his name is not to be found in the pioneer biographies or county histories but from external evidence it does not seem unlikely that he may have been a Scotch-Irish Southerner who had drifted into Washington County and that he was at this time voting from personal convictions and not concerning himself greatly with the views of his constituency It may or may not be significant that he was not ...
... Little Bay and its rejuvenation has been the chief sensational event and formed the central attraction From Erie to Chicago it has been the central figure in the naval procession of triumph The culmination of all these celebrations will be on September 10 the centennial anniversary of the battle of Lake Erie Governor James M Cox will go to Put-in-Bay to preside at the exercises in celebration of the anniversary of Perry's victory President ...
... Railroad arrived at Fort Ancient at 10 A M where carriages had been provided by the custodian Mr Warren Cowen to convey the entire party to the 7 Vol XII 97 98 Ohio Arch 98 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications hill and about the Fort After a substantial lunch had been partaken of an address of welcome was made to the guests by General Brinkerhoff on the part of the Society and remarks explanatory of the Fort were made by Professors J P ...
... THE OHIO CANAL THE OHIO CANAL AN ACCOUNT OF ITS COMPLETION TO CHILLICOTHE BY GEORGE PERKINS About this time 1831 the news of the completion of the Ohio Canal reached our village This immense undertaking was brought about by the lack of proper means of transportation The roads throughout the state were primitive The wagons that traversed them were inadequate to transport products and needed goods and a universal sentiment was aroused for building a canal Uncle John Briggs and Samuel Probst ...
... Railroad was the only Railroad was built from Railroad from Lexington to Nicholasville and the Louisville and Nashville and its Memphis branch and the Lebanon branch running out from Louisville as far as Lebanon Kentucky The railroad from Lexington to Covington as originally designed was ...
... 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 ...
... ANNE SARGENT BAILEY ANNE SARGENT BAILEY MRS JAMES R HOPLEY The quality of bravery is capable of varied definitions The brave endurance of outward conditions not subject to improvement or of pain not subject to amelioration the brave advance into the decreptitude of years without loss of vital interests or active optimism the bravery of those pronounced incurable and who know themselves likely to die violent painful or loathsome deaths the fortitude of others who await terrible physical ordeals ...
... Little Brown amp Co 1901 Little River which was a Little River is a dry and excellent carrying place and there are no mountains in Northern Indiana and never has been while the country between the outlet of Lake Chautauqua and the Allegheny was suitable for the description of the country which is described in the original text It was a ...
... 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 ...
... ADDRESSES BEFORE THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEADDRESSES BEFORE THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY AT MARIETTA APRIL 5 AND 6 IN CONNECTION WITH THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION ANNUAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT F C SESSIONS THE invitation to hold the third annual meeting of this Society in Marietta came with singular appropriateness It is certainly gratifying to those of us who have seen the movement to celebrate this occasion properly to be permitted to participate in these exercises The few ...
... David Zeisberger Centennial David Zeisberger Centennial 17 5 A SCENE AT ZEISBERGER'S GRAVE C L MARTZOLFF From The Ohio Teacher January 1908 A beautiful November day it is One of those rare last days of the autumn time whose minutes pass too lightly for you want to keep them by you One of those days when you are watching the sun and calculate mentally how much of it you have yet to enjoy You know that you cannot have many more such glorious days and you want every bit of this one This is the ...
... 206 Ohio Arch 206 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications V O L 3 But still its mission is to the regions beyond its position in the advancing columns is on the front line Its business is to find and drive the enemy leaving to the slower-moving forces the work of fortifying and garrisoning the conquered provinces Its muster roll begins with those of Caesar's household and ends not until it includes the faithful Onesimus Quenchless zeal for souls is and must forever be its characteristic a ...