... HULL'S TRACE OR TRAIL HULL'S TRACE OR TRAIL BY GEN ROBT P KENNEDY In the early times the roads or passages cut through the heavy timber of the country were called traces or trails and thus we read about Zane's trace the roadway cut by Ebenezer Zane his brother Jonathan and his son-in-law John McIntyre from Wheeling on the Ohio River in Virginia to the Limestone on the Ohio River in Kentucky the first trace roadway or passage from the East to this section of the great northwest The trace which ...
... 22 Ohio Arch 22 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications A centennial means a hundred years and does seem a long stretch of time and rather strangely I have heard accounts given by Major Croghan at only second hand for it happened that in 1845-6 when my father the late General Thomas J Wood U S A who graduated from West Point in 1845 was serving on the staff of General Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War Major Croghan at that time Colonel and Inspector General was also on the staff of General ...
... 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 ...
... THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO August 26 1919 The meeting was called to order by Vice President George F Bareis There were present G FREDERICK WRIGHT E F WOOD E O RANDALL D H GARD W C MOORE J M DUNHAM W L CURRY W O THOMPSON T D HILLS J S ROOF C W JUSTICE FRED HINKLE L P SCHAUS GEORGE F BAREIS H E BUCK W H COLE B F PRINCE WILLIAM WALKER W C SHETRONE VAN A SNIDER FRANK ...
... TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY FEBRUARY 26 1908 The twenty-third annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the parlors of the Y M C A building Columbus Ohio at 10 A M Wednesday February 26 1908 The following members were present Prof Martin R Andrews Marietta Gen R Brinkerhoff Mansfield Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Hon J H Beal Scio Dr D H Gard Columbus ...
... Benjamin Mortimer thus speak of his character He was endowed with a good understanding and a sound judgment a friend and benefactor to mankind and justly beloved by all who knew him with perhaps the exception of those who are enemies of the Gospel which he preached His reticence was the result of the peculiar circumstances of his life He undertook many solitary journeys and in the first half of his life lived at places where there either was ...
... 458 Ohio Arch 458 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Inscription on tablet placed by U S D 1 812 on the Ross County Court House Chillicothe Ohio May 17 1933 CHILLICOTHE CAPITAL OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY AND FIRST CAPITAL OF OHIO The State of Ohio was made possible by the Treaty of Paris 1783 which made the Great Lakes the northern boundary of the new United States In 1787 Congress established the Northwest Territory dedicated to freedom and public education with General Arthur St Clair ...
... Peter Cartwright's CIRCUIT RIDING Days in Ohio by CHARLES TOWNSEND A famous historian referring to the people on the American frontier once wrote Whether Scotch-Irish Presbyterian Baptist or Methodist these people saturated their religion and their politics with feeling Both the stump and the pulpit were centers of energy electric cells capable of starting widespreading fires They felt their religion and their democracy and were ready to fight for it1 Peter Cartwright one of the most ...
... SIEGE OF FORT MEIGS SIEGE OF FORT MEIG S The Cleveland Herald and Gazette of June 3 1840 printed an extract from a speech delivered by the brave Col John O'Fallon at the raising of the log-cabin in St Louis This was during the famous Log Cabin Campaign summer and fall of 1840 The speech reflecting the political and public sentiment of the time will be read with interestEDITOR Colonel O'Fallon-who it may be stated delivered his speech from the ramparts of a miniature Fort Meigs -was an aid of ...
... TARHE THE WYANDOT CHIEF TARHE THE WYANDOT CHIEF AND THE HARRISON-TARHE PEACE CONFERENCE LR CHAS E SLOCUM DEFIANCE It is the desire of this writing to add somewhat to the mention of Tarhe the Wyandot Aborigine1 Chief and to the mention of the character of the Aborigines that appeared in the last number of the QUARTERLY although this addition shows their character different from that there mentioned Tarhe grew to adult life in very troublous times He was reared to savagery and to inebriety like ...
... LUCY E LUCY E KEELER Death came to Miss Lucy E Keeler at the Memorial Hospital in Fremont on Tuesday morning March 11 1930 She had been ill since October and had sought relief in a number of hospitals but finally returned to Frement where she gradually grew weaker until her death Funeral services were conducted in the Presbyterian Church of Fremont on the following Thursday Some years before her death a newspaper friend had requested that she prepare a brief sketch of her life and activities ...
... Benjamin Arnett and Hon Israel Williams Trustees of the Society The Secretary was called upon by the President for his Annual Report to the Trustees of the Society He stated the 385 386 Ohio Arch 386 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications custom required that the Secretary should make a report each year at the Annual Meeting of the Society It is also a courtesy rather than a requirement that the Society make a report to the Governor each ...
... Benjamin Franklin was interested The northern boundary of this embryo government was to be the Ohio from the western boundary of Pennsylvania to a point opposite the mouth of the Scioto Thus the proposed cession emphasized the former river as the line of separation between the white man and the red A later land scheme the Transylvania Company likewise proposed the Ohio River from the Kentucky to the Cumberland as its northern limit The ...
... Benjamin Harrison Letters of congratulation were received from J I Wyer Jr Director of the New York State Library Demarcus C Brown State Librarian of Indiana Mrs Mary C Spencer State Librarian of Michigan M S Dudgeon Secretary of the Free Library Commission of Wisconsin and N D C Hodges Libbrarian of the public library of Cincinnati An interesting letter from W G Sibley editor of the Tribune Gallipolis Ohio and a former librarian of the State ...
... CHARLES WILLING BYRD CHARLES WILLING BYRD BY W H BURTNER JR The second secretary and acting governor of the Northwest Territory the first United States judge for Ohio district has had almost nothing printed of his life and endeavors Not ten lines can be found in the histories of Ohio His bones now lie forgotten in a little township cemetery back of the new school house at Sinking Springs Highland County Ohio He was born at Westover Charles County Virginia July 26 1770 He came to Kentucky in ...
... Benjamin Davis one of the Benjamin Tappan was elected to succeed him in the Senate Morris narrowly escaped a mob at Dayton where he was advertised to speak in the courthouse one evening Though he feared nothing he was persuaded not to attempt to speak because the mob was organized and violent Eggs were thrown at him on the streets of Dayton that day He was assailed by mobs elsewhere notably ...
... LA SALLE'S ROUTE DOWN THE OHIO LA SALLE'S ROUTE DOWN THE OHIO E L TAYLOR In the July Quarterly 1905 page 356 Volume XIV publications Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society appeared an article by the late E L Taylor Sr on Water Highways and Carrying Places Some time after the publication of that article Mr Taylor had correspondence with a critic concerning the identity of the much disputed route of La Salle down the Ohio in his western journey of 1669 the alleged date of his discovery ...
... 264 Ohio Arch 264 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications disclosed by the falling in of walls it is hoped that further explorations may develop additional tablets and other important relics In this connection it may not be inappropriate to state that an inscribed stone was taken from another mound of the Grave Creek system many years ago and deposited in the museum of Hampden-Sydney College Virginia It cannot be found but Doctor Marters member of the House of Delegates who carried the relic ...
... 160 Ohio Arch 160 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications HEMISPHERE - EXTRA COLUMBUS OHIO SEPT 17TH 1834 BIOGRAPHY OF GOV ROBERT LUCAS BY A CITIZEN OF COLUMBUS THE life and services of all public men holding high official stations in the government of the country are a species of public property and it is right and proper that the body of the people who are subject to be called upon to act directly upon the merits and fitness of candidates for popular favor should be made acquainted with ...
... KENTON'S GAUNTLET AT CHILLICOTHE KENTON'S GAUNTLET AT CHILLICOTHE T J BROWN WAYNESVILLE OHIO The question of the identity of Old Town near Xenia with the Chillicothe where Kenton ran the gauntlet the first time has been thoroughly discussed in previous issues of the QUARTERLY and in my opinion the evidence in favor of it is decidedly satisfactory Prof McFarland's testimony seems conclusive of itself while the traditions bearing upon the question reach back to the earliest settlement of that ...