... County May 14 wrote to her husband of her adventures Dudley her son who had accompanied her upon the first stage of the journey will give you an account of our progress thus far that we found Sally in Zanesville in tollorable health and that she was making preparations to visit us I think she will still go down and spend a few weeks with you I have urged her to do it knowing how much You would be gratified to have her Lucy the other daughter ...
... THE CENTENNIAL ODE THE CENTENNIAL ODE BY J M HARDING Columbia's pride Ohio grand and fair Where wealth and beauty are beyond compare Where labor truth and knowledge have control Thy name is peer upon the honor roll Ohio first-born of the great Northwest Nursed to thy statehood at the Nation's breast And taught wisdom of the Ordinance RuleNo slav'ry chain but e'er the public school Ohio name for what is good and grand With pride we hail thee as our native land With jealous pride we sing our ...
... settlement and of the surrounding area Whereas in 1823 he reported that Bucyrus had only eight or ten houses in 1829 he wrote our little town grows very fast I suppose it contains nearly 100 houses 4 stores and 3 taverns21 In the same letter he wrote of the partly completed turnpike from Lake Erie to Columbus which passed close to his farm This has been a great benefit to us in this place In another letter he stated that the turnpike on which ...
... settlement17 As critical to settlement must be an object settlement of the most robust settlements51 St Clair confided in the morning that he would press Congress to accept conditions stipulated by Cutler's bid Every machine in the city that it was possible to set to work we now put in ...
... County ADDRESS OF WELCOME County ADDRESS BY EDWARD L County The Livingston and Taylor families represented here to-day both had their origin in Scotland Their ancestors had lived there for many ...
... The Black Hand The Black Hand 453 tablet that was as a guide to their faith and then put the hand on the rock pointing to the place of his burial THE MINGO CAPTIVE AND THE WYANDOT MAIDEN AND THE NEUTRAL GROUND H C COCHRAN An Indian sat at the door of a settler's cabin and told this story Many years ago the red men in the eastern part of the state were at war with those in the middle and northwestern part Chief among the former were the Mingos and among the latter the Wyandots In one of the ...
... County At one time LoganCounty because he saw that a town would grow at the site of his mills there and especially so as the surrounding country was underlaid with rich coal fields and iron and salt deposits bad been discovered No account of Worthington's business career would be complete without mention of his investments in bank stock ...
... settlement of the state and settlement of Plymouth by the settlement in the Northwest Territory Senator Hoar of Massachusetts and President Perry of Marietta College contribute introductory pages to this volume which is published under the auspices of The Society of Colonial Dames of America in the State of Ohio It is a volume which should ...
... County Historical Society County held at Urbana Ohio County They have taken great interest in the work of our Society and it has gained many friends and strong supporters in that section of the state C L MARTZOLFF C h airma n The Secretary reported that at the last annual meeting a committee consisting of Professor G Frederick Wright Hon D ...
... County When I lived in Chillicothe over half a century ago this village was usually called Old Town in reference to the old Indian village The 230 The Chillicothes The Chillicothes 231 present city of Chillicothe does not occupy the site of an Indian town of this name 5 Chillicothe - Frankfort in Ross county twelve miles nearly northwest of the city and about half a mile north of Roxabell a ...
... County As a matter of local interest we give the names of those who signed the petition for a dispensation to erect one in Cincinnati The petition dated September 25 1810 was written by Daniel Sy mm es and is signed by himself Hugh Moore Elias Glover Thomas Rawlins Thomas Henderson John O'Ferrall Jacob Felter Leonard Sayre James Matson John Riddle C Walker John Shally James Conn Jacob Fowble James Silvers Stephen Wood and John Cleves Symmes ...
... Logan Historical Society A copy of this volume Vol 1 may be found in the Ohio State Library at Columbus From the private diary of Captain Will--the original now lying in the vault of the McArthur National Bank--I copy the following Detroit July 17th 1797 This day I was appointed Serg't Major of the 2nd Regiment--in which station I was considered as capacitated and from the original of the following detachment and brigade orders Lower Seneca ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 87 But a recognition wider and even more highly prized was that written in the hearts of those who knew and loved him During his college days at Ithaca Mr Randall met Miss Mary A Coy the lady who later became his wife To her and their two sons and daughter we of the Kit-Kat Club offer our sympathy We too have suffered a grievous loss We knew his genial companionship his ready helpfulness and his continuing friendship His sterling scholarship his ...
... County Ky On a later trip to Kentucky to look after these lands he was taken prisoner by the Indians near Marietta Ohio He traveled twelve hundred miles on foot before he was redeemed The wonderful knowledge of his captors concerning every foot of ground which had felt the touch of their moccasin he obtained by often questioning them on their journeys and afterwards utilized in constructing a map which is said to nave been surprisingly ...
... County and it is thought County and a fort at the County At the last named County He had not time in the space allotted him to tell all that the colored man of Ohio was doing He is ambitious loves office and never lets one escape him For a number of years there has been a colored member ...
... settlement on the Huron river eight miles below it could have afforded cattle sufficient to have fed my whole Indian force for some time had they been induced to accompany us Sandusky is ...