... THE DIARY OF JOHN BEATTY JANUARY-JUNE 1884 THE DIARY OF JOHN BEATTY JANUARY-JUNE 1884 Part III edited by HARVEY S FORD Head Librarian Toledo Blade Wednesday March 26 1884 The newspaper correspondents have for the last month been urging me to give them an interview on the political situation What they mean by an interview is a carefully prepared dialogue between the correspondent who asks the questions or is represented as asking them and the interviewed person so called who writes both ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... LITERARY PERIODICALS OF THE OHIO VALLEY LITERARY PERIODICALS OF THE OHIO VALLEY IN a course of investigations concerning Western literary undertakings the writer has given some attention to the history of periodical publications particularly those devoted to literature There have been many such publications in the valley of the Ohio River some of great merit others of little or no value Comparatively few of our Western magazines have been well supported by the public or have lived longer than ...
... HENRY BOUQUET HENRY BOUQUET HIS INDIAN CAMPAIGNS BY J C REEVE MD LL D W R UNIV A little book in the French language has recently come to hand which deserves more than a passing notice It is the brief life of a man of high character and fine achievement and it records service of the greatest value which he rendered to our country in one of the darkest periods of its early history It is a book of about one hundred pages printed at Geneva in 1 909 and is one of a series published under the ...
... FREDERICK J FREDERICK J BLUE Salmon P Chase First Historian of the Old Northwest The name of Salmon Portland Chase rarely comes to mind when early historians of the Old Northwest are recalled Yet in 1833 as a struggling young attorney of twenty-five he produced a succinct account of Ohio's history which served as a valuable guide for several decades Not surprisingly the young writer's study reflected his own social standing and political ideology as well as contemporary attitudes In recounting ...
... PLACE-NAMES IN FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO PLACE-NAMES IN FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO BY W EDSON RICHMON D Introduction For at least three centuries it has been manifestly impossible for any one man to take all knowledge as his province The specialization brought about by the widening strain of human knowledge is most easily seen in the fields of modern science Especially among the younger and smaller sciences there is no self-sufficiency however and each finds it necessary to rely upon its sisters So it is ...
... 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 ...
... PRINTING IN GAMBIER OHIO 1829-1884 PRINTING IN GAMBIER OHIO 1829-1884 by WYMAN W PARKER University Librarian University of Cincinnati Printing in Gambier Ohio extended for a little more than fifty years during the mid-nineteenth century Its history forms a neat and fairly typical illustration of the work of the ecclesiastical press of that century Projected as early as 1823 by Philander Chase first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Ohio the press began in 1830 to issue the first Episcopal ...
... THE PEASE MAP OF THE CONNECTICUT THE PEASE MAP OF THE CONNECTICUT WESTERN RESERVE by RUSSELL H ANDERSON The Connecticut Western Reserve in northeastern Ohio is of such special importance in the history of the Old Northwest that the early maps of the area are of particular value and interest The first printed map of the Reserve the Pease map of 1798 and its subsequent revision of 1807-8 as the Pease and Tappen map was published in such a way as to cause some confusion It is the purpose of this ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY AUGUST 1964 - JULY 1965 compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT Antislavery Movement Began in 1817 Ohio Genealogical Society Report V No 3 June 1965 2 On Jefferson County and the free-labor store at Mount Pleasant BAUER Katherine S Abolition and the Purdys Summit County Historical Society Bulletin XVIII No 6 June 1965 2 A family living at North Springfield ARCHAEOLOGY Artifacts from Collection of Tom Hall Ohio Archaeologist XV ...
... THE MEMORIAL STRUCTURE AT MARIETTA THE MEMORIAL STRUCTURE AT MARIETTA REPORT OF A COMMITTEE OF THE OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MADE APRIL 6 1888 THE erection of a monumental structure at Marietta to commemorate the important historical events that became a fulfillment of the past as well as the foundation of the future when on the 7th day of April 1788 the pioneer band settled down upon the virgin soil of the Northwest Territory has been a favorite object in the proceedings of ...
... JAMES BACKUS CITIZEN OF MARIETTA 1788-1791 JAMES BACKUS CITIZEN OF MARIETTA 1788-1791 By JOSEPHINE E PHILLIPS There are about 150 Horses Sixty Cows amp Seven Yoak of Oxen here The Emigrants that pass down the river for Kentucky amp other parts of the Western Country are amazing We have a militia formed who assemble every Sunday amp are fined for not attending We have preaching or service read regularly once a week likewise a school Thus wrote James Backus1 from Marietta to his parents in ...
... THREE IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS RELATING THREE IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS RELATING TO WESTERN LAND CESSIONS AMONG the documents relating to western land cessions brought before Congress that are not found in the Journals are the three printed below They are all of great interest and all difficult of access I am not aware that the last one has ever been printed The first two are found in Hening's Statutes of Virginia Vol X the third is printed from a copy furnished by the Secretary of State of the State of ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 351 Reviews Notes and Comments 351 action makes very little change in the status of the Society while it offers large opportunities for co-operation with the various branches of the Department of Education The Superintendent of Public Instruction now becomes ex-officio a member of our Board of Trustees ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION FOR SOLDIERS OF THE WORLD WAR A constitutional amendment providing for issuing bonds for adjusted compensation for service in the World War was ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 489 the Conference probably could not have been held last year Miss Cornelius as secretary invited the Executive Committee to meet late in June at her home in northern Wisconsin and under the generous hospitality of herself and her family the program for the Conference was drafted The letters asking for active and associate memberships were also drawn up there and on the train which brought the committee back to Chicago Now the campaign was on and the work and the ...
... Johnny Appleseed Johnny Appleseed 305 buried near what is now the city of Fort Wayne To the end he was true to his mission of planting nurseries and sowing the seeds of medicinal herbs To the pioneers of Ohio he was an unselfish benefactor and we are here today to aid in transmitting to coming generations our grateful memory of his deeds HISTORICAL SKETCH The historical sketch of Johnny Appleseed was prepared and presented by Mr A J Baughman a recognized authority in the early history of ...
... 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 ...
... JOHNSON'S ISLAND JOHNSON'S ISLAND BY HEWSON L PEEKE This island lies three miles north of Sandusky in the bay It is nearly a mile long half a mile wide and contains about three hundred acres rising gradually in the center to a height of fifty feet It was originally covered with heavy timber and was a favorite resort of the Indians who came there to fish feast and torture their captives Its first owner was E W Bull and it was originally called Bull's Island until 1852 when it was called ...
... WILLIAM EVES MOORE WILLIAM EVES MOORE 1823-1899 William Eves Moore D D LL D was born in Strasburg Pa April 1st 1 823 His parents Jacob Moore M D University of Pennsylvania 1818 and Sarah Faris Moore came of Scotch-Irish ancestors who after the siege of Derry migrated to the northern part of Newcastle county Delaware and for generations held office in the same Presbyterian church and owned the original farm land given by grant of Wm Penn Returning from Strasburg to Delaware Dr Moore's father ...