... JOHN FITCH INVENTOR OF STEAMBOATS JOHN FITCH INVENTOR OF STEAMBOATS BY MIRA CLARKE PARSONS In the closing year of this century of wonders it is fitting that we should give a thought to the memory of the inventors and investigators to whom the world owes so vast a debt Fore-- most among them must stand the names of the men who first utilized the tremendous forces of steam and electricity For generations every schoolboy has been taught that Robert Fulton was the inventor of the steamboat That ...
... settlement for Friends in the settlement in answering an settlement with Pennsville settlement in the Miami settlement who maintained settlements and early meetings in these regions ...
... 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 ...
... northwest of the river Ohio Kentucky and Tennessee had had their state builders why should they not become the architects of the next new commonwealth and the leaders in its economic development The twenty-five-year-old Worthington and the thirty-twoyear-old Dr Tiffin in 1798 thus became two of the courageous and talented leaders in a territory which five years later was to be admitted as the ...
... THE TAMMANY SOCIETY IN OHIO THE TAMMANY SOCIETY IN OHIO SAMUEL W WILLIAMS ORIGIN AND HISTORY The Tammany Society was organized in the City of New York in the year 1789 and was designed to counteract the combined influence of the Federalists and the Society of Cincinnati The latter was looked upon as a species of aristocracy and hostile to democratic institutions Fears were entertained that ...
... PROGRAM PROGRAM INTRODUCTORY REMARKS HENRY A WILLIAMS President of the Club INVOCATION REV IRVING MAURER LEAD KINDLY LIGHT DOUBLE QUARTET Messrs Karl Hoenig John M Sheridan Ray R Smith Frank T Welling A M Calland Harold G Simpson W D McKinney and Wm A Vause RANDALL OUR PRESIDENT OSMAN C HOOPER Secretary of the Club RANDALL AND THE OHIO SUPREME COURT HON HUGH L NICHOLS Chief Justice Ohio ...
... northwestern entrance between gigantic cannon standing on end and flanked by massive granitic walls constructed of glacial bowlders and bearing inscriptions in memory of the officers and soldiers from the vicinity who took part 591 592 Ohio Arch 592 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications in the Mexican and Civil wars and the south ...
... settlement begun Therefore it settlement In the early maps of the Western Reserve this river is called Big Beaver but maps of 1830 name it Mahoning There was a Mahoningtown in this area much earlier Of the source of the name of Ashland County definite evidence is given by H S Knapp in his history of that county on the written statement of Francis Graham then living In 1822 in the township of ...
... 16 Ohio Arch 16 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications bers of which had charge of the final interment The children scattered flowers in the grave a salute was fired taps were sounded and the honored dust of the gallant George Croghan was consigned to its final resting place on the spot and in the sacred soil he had so bravely and loyally defended ninety-three years before The grave was ...
... settlement is more worthy of being brought to remembrance and notice than its educational interests and my connection for a number of years with Rio Grande college enables me to set forth briefly its history and present condition Other gentlemen who have given much time and research to the task have given an account of the public and other schools of this city and of the county in general I will confine my remarks to the institution just named ...
... 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 ...
... northwestern portions of the State built up Cleveland Toledo Akron and many lesser cities thus tending to unite a long separated people as well as to make them prosperous They brought a large accession of population and capital and gave the State a name and character throughout the country of which her sons justly began to be proud For thirty years says Ryan22 these waterways were the great controlling factor of increasing commerce ...
... settlement destined to furnish settlements in the Western settlements in adjoining counties In the first roll of the inhabitants there is nothing to indicate the various occupations of the people but in it there is found the name Boosinger belonging to a well-known German family which was among the first to settle in that part of the state ...
... northwestern territory in 1797 and settled with his family on Round Bottom on the Muskingum river In the year 1800 he bought a piece of land on Sunday creek within the limits of Ames township as soon after defined but in the present township of Dover In 1805 he returned to Washington county having sold his farm on Sunday creek and opened a new farm about eight miles west of Marietta He lived here till 1835 when he took up his residence with ...
... settlement of the estate in 1899 for cash advanced to the estate The desire of the Society was ever in the foreground and in 1 909 General Brinkerhoff's successor Dr George Frederick Wright secured from Colonel Hayes the transfer of the Spiegel Grove property in three separate deeds to the State of Ohio as a free gift with the following three simple conditions The construction of the Harrison ...
... northwestern part Chief among the former were the Mingos and among the latter the Wyandots In one of the stealthy and bloody incursions into the Mingo hunting grounds a young chief of great promise was captured and carried back by the Wyandots Instead of killing the young Mingo chieftain as was the usual custom he was made a serf and compelled to earn the good-esteem and fellowship of his captors a fate worse than death to the young Indian The ...
... northwest of the river Ohio These emigrants came on foot on horseback in wagons along the wilderness roads and Indian trails and in boats upon the navigable streams Their object was to establish themselves in new homes in a new country to win from the forests and plains a competence for themselves and their families They were adventurers only in the highest and best sense of that word They ...
... settlements as the advance settlements remained a short settlement were the Wolfes the settlement which in later years became known by the less euphonious title of Dutch Ridge might be said never to have been without religious services The pastors of the nearby charges frequently visited ...
... settlement of the state than settlement of the Northwest Territory -- having led the party from Connecticut which came to Marietta in 1788 Prior to that he had made a splendid record in the Revolution -- rising by fine service and hard fighting to the rank of Brigadier General John Smith a delegate from Cincinnati was one of the first two ...
... settlement of 212 Reel-shaped settlements Girls' education settlements of 27 48 483 481 settlement at 26 Overmeyer A W settlement of 213 Hughes James settlement of 25 First school ...