... MAJOR DAVID ZIEGLER MAJOR DAVID Z I EGLER BY GEORGE A KATZENBERGER A custom has grown up of commemorating the Centennial anniversary of the birth or death of prominent men as well as of other important events and as it is a hundred years since the death of the subject of this sketch and I fail to find David Ziegler's name in any of the indices of the nineteen volumes of the publications of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society I have gathered a number of items concerning the ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA WILLIAM HENRY HUNTER William H Hunter Trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society died suddenly at his residence Chillicothe Ohio in the early morning of Wednesday June 19 1906 after an illness of only five days' duration Mr Hunter closed his earthly career as he had often expressed a desire to do in the very midst of his daily activities Never was he more energetic or enthusiastic in his life work On the ...
... Big Bottom and Its History Big Bottom and Its History 21 the rocky fortresses of the Appalachians Puritan and Cavalier looked down together upon the fair valley of the Ohio To them it was as the revelation to the prophet on Pisgah - the Promised Land They were permitted to enter But to hold it they fought with stubborn tenacity Every foot was contested But forward went this army across the prairies of Indiana and Illinois until the smoke curled from the settler's cabin on the banks of the ...
... ROBERT YOST HIS BOOK ROBERT YOST HIS BOOK Rob't Yost his Book made for the purpose of noting down our Marching and what we seen and expericet while in the united States service beginning at St Clearsville Ohio Sept the third Eighteen hundred and thirteen and continued to note down as we march AN ORIGINAL JOURNAL REPRODUCED AS WRITTEN The original of this Journal is now in the possession of J W Yost a direct descendant of Robert the author Mr J W Yost had the Journal reproduced in exact ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA DAYTON DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION We are in receipt of the Calendar of the Jonathan Dayton Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution Dayton Ohio The program of the chapter for this centennial year is so admirable that it deserves notice and imitation by other chapters Beginning with its March meeting and running through to its annual meeting in January 1904 it has arranged a series of topics pertinent to the Ohio year The subjects for the chapter's ...
... THE ECONOMIC PROGRESS OF OHIO THE ECONOMIC PROGRESS OF OHIO INTRODUCTORY NOTE In the preparation of this paper certain government statistics particularly the Report of the Census for 1800 1810 1820 and 1830 and the Report on Manufactures in the United States 1832 have proved especially valuable Useful too have been the contemporary state histories particularly Caleb Atwater's History of Ohio Cincinnati 1838 and the Farmers' Centennial History of Ohio published at Columbus in 1903 by the State ...
... EARLY OHIO POSTAL ROUTES EARLY OHIO POSTAL ROUTES BY WILLIAM D OVERMAN Regular United States mail service followed closely upon the heels of organized government in the Northwest Territory The statesmen of that day were aware of the value of a contact with the new settlers in the West and the postmasters-general1 urged 1 Samuel Osgood 1789-91 and Timothy Pickering 1791-94 21 22 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 22 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY the extension of ...
... A GUIDE TO THE COMMUNISTIC COMMUNITIES A GUIDE TO THE COMMUNISTIC COMMUNITIES OF OHIO BY KENNETH WILLIAM MCKINLEY One of the greatest obstacles to the study of the social sciences has been the inability to experiment Human lives cannot be molded and adjusted like so many pieces of metal or so many chemical elements For this reason it is important that history be made the laboratory of the social sciences The author of this brief guide therefore feels justified in presenting in an historical ...
... THE ANTI-GALLOWS MOVEMENT IN OHIO THE ANTI-GALLOWS MOVEMENT IN OHIO By ALBERT POST The criminal codes of colonial America were based on those of England but in the New World where the social structure and traditions were less binding these codes were modified by reducing the number of capital crimes In England during the eighteenth century over two hundred felonies were capital while in the North American colonies the average number was about twelve With the publication in 1764 of the Essay on ...
... 266 JAMES PRESTON POINDEXTER ELDER STATESMAN JAMES PRESTON POINDEXTER ELDER STATESMAN OF COLUMBUS by RICHARD CLYDE MINOR Professor of Sociology Lincoln University Jefferson City Missouri The story of James Preston Poindexter though it can never be told in its completeness still reveals enough to show that he was a remarkable man Of mixed Negro Caucasian and Indian blood the force of circumstances made him a Negro the force of his personality made him a man respected among men There are many ...
... EARTHWORKS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO EARTHWORKS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO EDITOR OF THE QUARTERLY SIR The following completes the list of mounds etc that exist in Franklin county and that are known to me and not mentioned in the Bibliography of the Earthworks of Ohio I will here state that the first work described in that list as being in Franklin county viz Embankment etc is in Delaware county and is also described under the head of Delaware county I will also state that the second described work ...
... THE CHARITY SCHOOL OF KENDAL THE CHARITY SCHOOL OF KENDAL Edited by HARLOW LINDLEY The discovery of an Agreement between Adam W Heldenbrand and the Charity School of Kendal dated November 27 1863 has aroused interest to learn more about this Ohio educational institution and the unique contract enacted there In the winter of 1810-11 one Thomas Rotch left Hartford Connecticut and explored Ohio as far south and west as Cincinnati Springfield and Urbana On this trip Rotch made notes about the ...
... SIGNIFICANCE OF MEMORIALS SIGNIFICANCE OF MEMORIALS BY DR W O THOMPSON Mr Chairman and Fellow Citizens The Guests At the outset let me express the appreciation in which we all join of the patriotic generosity on the part of the General Assembly of the state of Ohio in making an appropriation for the erection of the statue which today we dedicate I may also express our appreciation of the presence on this occasion of His Excellency the Honorable A V Donahey Governor of Ohio of former Governor ...
... Introduction of Methodism in Ohio Introduction of Methodism in Ohio 165 INTRODUCTION OF METHODISM IN OHIO BY REV I F KING D D Dr King is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University in the class of 1858 He received the degree of D D from Miami University For forty-three years he has served in the ministry of his church and for fourteen years was a presiding elder in the Ohio ConferenceEDITOR The recent celebration at Delaware Ohio of the one hundredth anniversary of the introduction of Methodism in ...
... GENERAL MASON AND HIS LETTER ON RAILROADS GENERAL MASON AND HIS LETTER ON RAILROADS B F PRINCE Almost every community of considerable size and age has furnished one or more characters who have been prominent for a life and acts that were for the good of that special locality and often for the state or nation at large One who stood in this threefold relation was Hon Samson Mason of Springfield Ohio Mr Mason was born in the state of New York in 1793 He attended the public schools of the day ...
... RICHARD T RICHARD T FARRELL Internal-Improvement Projects in Southwestern Ohio 1815-1834 During the first three decades of the nineteenth century merchants farmers and manufacturers successfully established Cincinnati's economic prominence in the West Taking advantage of the city's strategic location pioneer merchants supplied the increasing number of immigrants from Europe and the eastern states with the goods they needed before they moved up the valleys of the Great Miami and Little Miami ...
... William Oxley Thompson 103 Wil li am Oxley Tho m pson 103 ber of men and women of the state than any other person he has by personal example set the impress of his own character and ideals To no one of his generation is the commonwealth under greater obligations to no one does it accord higher respect A power for civic righteousness a lover of his fellow-men a broadminded generous courteous Christian gentleman Truly he has had The heart to conceive The understanding to direct And the hand to ...
... A QUAKER SECTION OF THE UNDERGROUND A QUAKER SECTION OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN NORTHERN OHIO BY PROFESSOR WILBUR H SIEBERT of the Ohio State University One of the main lines of the Underground Railroad which traversed Ohio from south to north began at Ripley in Brown County on the Ohio River and ran through Highland Fayette Madison Franklin Delaware Marion Morrow and Richland counties to Greenwich in Huron whence branches ran to the lake north through Erie County and northeast through ...
... THE INFLUENCE OF NEW ENGLAND IN DETHE INFLUENCE OF NEW ENGLAND IN DENOMINATIONAL COLLEGES IN THE NORTHWEST 1830-1860 BY E KIDD LOCKARD By the third decade of the nineteenth century New England had come to regard the Northwest as a boundless meadow spiritually whitening for harvest The West itself cognizant of its latent possibilities in secular as well as in ecclesiastical affairs felt the increasing necessity for college-bred churchmen1 The need rose to such proportions that both parties felt ...
... THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF OHIO By LEE SHEPARD In the space of a short sketch it is impossible to write a comprehensive history of this 113-year-old society When it is realized that the first effort to form a historical society in Ohio was made in 1822 only 27 years after the signing of the Treaty of Greenville one can only wonder at the temerity of the scattered residents whose ambitions at that time were doomed to failure Ohio was ...