... THE EVOLUTION OF OHIO COUNTIES THE EVOLUTION OF OHIO COUNTIES By J F LANING It is probable that the people who read this article will all know that the State of Ohio was not always divided into the number of counties there now are and that to evolve the present map a long period of time and many mutations of county outlines were necessary But few people however know the extent of the evolution that has been going on in bringing Ohio counties within their present environments From the erection ...
... HISTORIC WORTHINGTON HISTORIC WORTHINGTON MIRA CLARKE PARSONS One hundred years ago in the month of October the quiet of the wilderness where Worthington now stands was broken by the arrival of forty families under the leadership of James Kilbourne The journey had occupied more than six weeks They came from Granby and Simsbury Conn representing many trades and occupations and bringing the hope and courage needed in founding a new home in a strange land The previous year their leader and Nathan ...
... RELIGION AND THE WESTWARD MARCH RELIGION AND THE WESTWARD MARCH By WILLIAM W SWEET When the Treaty of Peace was signed with Great Britain in the year 1783 which gave independence to the United States of America the Congregational Church was the largest and most influential religious body in the land Though confined almost exclusively to New England the Congregationalists were at the same time nationally important because of their cultural and educational leadership They had come through the ...
... EARLY OHIO CAMP MEETINGS 1801-1816 EARLY OHIO CAMP MEETINGS 1801-1816 by CHARLES A JOHNSON Instructor in American History University of Maryland On Military Leave As soon as we came upon the ground Mechanicsburg Ohio I felt that God was with the meeting Give us a chimney that we may have fire it was done God was with us and souls were converted--BISHOP FRANCIS ASBURY1 In challenging the lawlessness and immorality of the frontier the western churches forged new religious weapons Among the most ...
... THE COXEY MOVEMENT IN OHIO THE COXEY MOVEMENT IN OHIO BY OSMAN C HOOPER The Coxey movement of 1894 was a fantastic expression at a critical moment of the industrial unrest prevalent for a period centering about that date It was an Ohio product sprung from a Western seed Named for its Ohio patron Jacob S Coxey its real author and promoter was Carl Browne a lieutenant of Denis Kearney in the days of sand-lot politics The number of unemployed men was large and discontent was widespread so that ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY AUGUST 1946--JULY 1947 Compiled by JAMES H RODABAUGH and S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE ALEY Howard C First Hundred Years the Centennial History of the Mahoning County Agricultural Society Youngstown Ohio the Author 1946 113p BEACH F H The First 100 Years for the Ohio Horticultural Society in Ohio Farmer CXCIX No 6 March 15 1947 22-23 BROMFIELD Louis The Farm New York Harper Brothers c1946 382p ...
... UNVEILING OF THE SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL TABLET UNVEILING OF THE SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL TABLET ON THE HAYES MEMORIAL BUILDING AT SPIEGEL GROVE BY LUCY ELLIOT KEELER The Ninety-eighth Anniversary of the birth of Rutherford B Hayes Nineteenth President of the United States 1877-1881 and at the time of his death January 17 1893 the honored president of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was celebrated with ceremonies of unusual interest on October 4 192 0 at Spiegel Grove Fremont Ohio ...
... THE INDIAN VILLAGE OF CUSH-OG-WENK THE INDIAN VILLAGE OF CUSH-OG-WENK BY THOMAS H JOHNSON COSHOCTON The generations who were active participants in the events which constitute the early history of Ohio having passed away it seems to me the imperative duty of those now living whose early life overlapped the survivors of the active participants in the stirring events of that earlier period to place on record any recollections they may have of the stories told by those old survivors tending to ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY AUGUST 1952-JULY 1953 Compiled b y S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE MICK J R 4-H Club Golden Anniversary Marking the First Half Century of Boys' and Girls' Club Work in Ohio Being a History of the Movement in Williams County To Make the Best Better N p n d 16p POWER Richard Lyle Settlers on Corn Belt Soil Indiana Magazine of History XLIX 1953 161-172 RICKARD Anne M The University and ...
... LOGAN TECUMSEH THE SHAWANO INDIANS LOGAN TECUMSEH THE SHAWANO INDIANS BY WARREN K MOOREHEAD Mr Chairman Ladies and Gentlemen I esteem it both an honor and a privilege to appear before you and speak briefly upon the lives of two great characters Logan and Tecumseh and also tell you a little concerning the Shawano Indians commonly called the Shawnees whose villages were in this part of our State We are assembled on a very historic spot historic not merely because the cabin of the earliest ...
... edited by edited by LOUIS FILLER Prevailing Manners and Customs on the Frontier The Memoirs of Irene Hardy Irene Hardy schoolmistress poet and early Stanford University professor was born July 22 1841 in Eaton Ohio the eldest daughter of Kentucky and Virginia parents Her father Walter Buell Hardy was a schoolteacher of culture whose four daughters-he also had a son Lewis-all taught school successfully Irene was so named from a character in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel Rienzi with conscientious ...
... INFLUENCE OF PENNSYLVANIA ON OHIO INFLUENCE OF PENNSYLVANIA ON OHIO BY W H HUNTER The celebration of the Centennial of the State has led to much discussion regarding the ethnological history of Ohio As a contribution to this subject we present the address delivered by W H Hunter of Chillicothe at a banquet given in Philadelphia several years ago by the Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish society which has for its object the preservation of historical data - E O R THE PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN - While in ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XX INDEX TO VOLUME XX A Articles - A vanishing race 48 Abolitionists - Brady's Leap 457 Arguments of 280 Birthplace of Little Turtle 236 Dresser's experiences in the South Celebration of the surrender of Gen 281 John H Morgan 368 Fairbank Calvin 283 Cincinnati Municipal election of 1828 Foster Abbey Kelley 280 255 Foster Stephen 280 Delaware in the days of 1812 61 Oberlin aided by 276 Early Steamboat travel on the Ohio Oberlin at 270 River 378 Thompson George 282 Editorialana ...
... OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR TWO TIMELY BOOKS ON LAFAYETTE The True LaFayette by George Morgan J B Lippincott Company Philadelphia 489 pages Price 25 0 The True Lafayette is a somewhat ambiguous title but in this instance the word true is applicable alike to the man and the story of his life The work is about all that could be desired in a single volume It is a timely straight-forward and authentic ...
... MARY L MARY L WHITE Mary White Autobiography of an Ohio First Lady As I hurriedly dressed I could hear the commotion downstairs while outside the National Guard was forming with appropriate commands and the neighing of horses It was Inauguration Day in Columbus Ohio January 12 1931--my father would soon be Governor George White Because of the recent death of Mother I was at the age of twenty-four to be Father's official hostess and First Lady of Ohio Full of determination to take the time to ...
... 372 Ohio Arch 372 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER IN THE VALLEY OF THE LITTLE MIAMI BY WILLIAM ALBERT GALLOWAY M D VICE PRESIDENT OHIO SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION In considering The Revolutionary Soldier in the Valley of the Little Miami I am impressed with the significance of the territorial enactments which particularly designated his settlement in this beautiful and fertile location The territory granted by King James I to the company which founded the ...
... MONUMENTS TO HISTORICAL INDIAN CHIEFS MONUMENTS TO HISTORICAL INDIAN CHIEFS BY EDWARD LIVINGSTON TAYLOR It will always seem strange that the Indian tribes erected no monuments of an enduring character to mark the last resting place of their dead especially so as they had constantly before them the example of the burial mounds of the race that preceded them in the occupancy of the country as well as the later example of the white race whose custom of marking the graves of their dead was ...
... ALBERT SHAW'S OHIO YOUTH by LLOYD J GRAYBAR In the twenty-eight years between 1829 and 1857 there were born in Ohio four distinguished American journalists Murat Halstead Whitelaw Reid William Dean Howells and Albert Shaw In 1857 Murat Halstead born in 1829 had already achieved recognition Whitelaw Reid and William Dean Howells were commencing their brilliant careers and Albert Shaw had just been born All four were intimately associated with one small corner of the state--Butler County--and ...
... THE SANDUSKY FORTS THE SANDUSKY FORTS BY CHARLES A HANNA NEW YORK Several addresses on Old Fort Sandusky and the inscriptions on the monument erected last spring near the site of one Sandusky Fort were printed in the October 1912 number of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society's Qu arterly Some of these addresses and inscriptions are so full of inaccuracies misleading statements and incorrect inferences that they should be corrected The bronze tablet on the west face of the ...
... THE McGUFFEY SOCIETY AT FORT HILL THE McGUFFEY SOCIETY AT FORT HILL BY JOHN R HORST The McGuffey Society of Columbus Ohio met at Fort Hill in Highland county on Saturday September 12th 1925 as previously announced in the newspapers Fort Hill is the name of a hill located about three miles north of Sinking Spring Surrounding the crest of the hill is an ancient fortification apparently for defense the building of which is credited to the Mound Builders It contains about forty acres within the ...