... REPORT OF FIELD WORK REPORT OF FIELD WORK BY W C MILLS CURATOR PREFACE It is the purpose of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society to visit different sections of the State each year for explorations upon the mounds and village sites It is apparent to all that the mounds and earthworks are fast being leveled by the encroachment of agriculture and the relic hunter who under the stimulus of commercial enterprise tears the mounds ...
... Mills William C The Feurt Mills William C The Mills William C Mills William C The Seip Mills William C Explorations of the Harness Mound Certain Mounds and Village Sites in Ohio Vol I part 4 90 Ohio Arch 90 Ohio Arch and Hist Society ...
... Mills in three shelters Mills William C Mills' report previously Mills at the Boone and Buzzard Shelters in Jackson County It seems indubitable that for the most part the occupants of the rock-shelters of southern Ohio in so far as examined were the Algonquian tribesmen of pre-Columbian ...
... Mills reported the death of the following members during the past year Col John W Harper December 27 1915 Jeptha Gerard December 15 1915 110 Ohio Arch 110 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Dr W B Rosamond May 15 1916 Charles A Dana August 1916 W R Lazenby September 15 1916 Obadiah Brokaw May 5 1916 E H Archer September 2 1916 R M Voorhees July 22 1916 J T Holmes February 17 1916 Alfred A Thomas March 3 1916 Mrs Mary McArthur Tuttle ...
... Adena mound near Chillicothe In this burial the flesh seems to have been removed from the lower legs and the ocre placed upon the bone and it was then covered with a plaster of mud So far the only record of painted skeletons found in Ohio other than those mentioned above was made by Prof Moorehead and is recorded in Vol 5 page 21 9 Ohio State Arch and Hist Society publications ...
... The Early Judiciary of Ohio The Early Judiciary of Ohio 141 THE EARLY JUDICIARY EARLY LAWS AND BAR OF OHIO A proper study of the early judicial system and early laws of our State carries us to a period when as a part of the great Northwest Territory we were under control of the Federal Government On the 13th day of July 1787 the Congress of the United States passed the ordinance for The Government of the Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio Relative to the judiciary the ...
... INDIAN BOUNDARY LINE INDIAN BOUNDARY LINE W S HANNA MILLERSBURG The Indian Boundary Line sometimes known as the Greenville Treaty Line or Wayne's Treaty Line had its origin in the closing events of the Revolutionary War As an historical land mark it has no equal in the early history of this country Around its history cling many of the most stubborn and sanguinary conflicts and border outrages that so distinctly marked the closing of the eighteenth century On every good map of Ohio it will be ...
... Centennial Celebration Centennial Celebration 11 The court house square was soon covered with stone and lumber for the present building but the corner stone was not laid until July 12th 1855 when the Hon Thomas Scott and myself had the honor of delivering addresses on the occasion from a point where the northeast pillar of the portico now stands Such was my personal connection with the building on whose frontage we have this day placed a tablet commemorating 'The site on which stood the first ...
... Mills Manasseh Cutler John Patterson Jelaliel Woodbridge Thomas Cushing Crocker Sampson and Abram Williams attended the meeting formed the stock company and planned for another meeting a year later for a report on the sales of stock6 At the meeting in March 1787 it was reported that two hundred fifty shares at 1000 per share had been sold Generals Samuel H Parsons Rufus Putman and Rev Manasseh Cutler were selected as directors of the company ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 349 Reviews Notes and Comments 349 his voluntary service and the assistance of the regular employees of theSociety a mass of valuable material was collected This consists chiefly of local newspapers from which clippings have been made indexed and bound When the General Assembly finally acted it made only meager appropriations for the work At its last session no provision was made for the Commission but the work has been continued by the Society It should collect ...
... BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTHWORKS OF BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTHWORKS OF OHIO PREPARED BY MRS CYRUS THOMAS FOR THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Continued from page 7 8 ANY observers in the State who have facts concerning the earthworks of Ohio in addition to those here stated will confer a favor upon the world by forwarding such information to Professor G F Wright Oberlin 0 the member of the Editorial Committee in charge of this department by whom the facts will be classified and published in future ...
... Mills 491 Hist Soc Mills Dr C W unveils Mills Dr E C presents Mills Dr William C The Feurt Manuscripts Importance of 459 in LiMounds and Village Site 35 Exbrary of Western Reserve Historical ploration of the Mound City Group Society 467-469 in Library of His75 Tile Seip Mound 82 ...
... 40 Ohio Arch 40 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ring a man's relationship to the God who made him and the home over which he presides has a political significance You might as well talk of removing politics from business as to talk of asking the sun to stop shining as long as a human being votes upon the election of a man who will vote for a law there is always politics and there always should be politics Instead of there being too much politics in this country there is too little ...
... EARTHWORKS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO EARTHWORKS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO EDITOR OF THE QUARTERLY SIR The following completes the list of mounds etc that exist in Franklin county and that are known to me and not mentioned in the Bibliography of the Earthworks of Ohio I will here state that the first work described in that list as being in Franklin county viz Embankment etc is in Delaware county and is also described under the head of Delaware county I will also state that the second described work ...
... Mills Curator to make Mills prepared a Mills read two papers Mills is now engaged in the construction of an exact miniature reproduction of the Serpent Mound These models will be exhibited at the forthcoming Jamestown Exposition ...
... Adena 185 Ridge Tract 492 Cincinnati-A Civic Ode 80 Roads 258 Our patriotic sires 187 Early in Ohio 17 27 The song of Ohio 173 First to Cincinnati 30 Pointer Jonathan Missionary interpreHarrison-Sandusky-Scioto Road 404 ter 343 Proposed automobile highway along Point Pleasant Battle of 45 Harrison Trail 406 Political campaigners-1840 197 Western Reserve amp Maumee Pike Politics New England and western con404 trasted 269 Rogers Maj ...
... COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS Ohio Land Patents by KENNETH W DUCKETT NOT LONG AGO the public relations office at a United States Air Force base wrote a press release describing a nineteenth century land deed owned by one of its civilian employees According to the release a local authority had appraised the document signed by Thomas Jefferson as president of the United States and James Madison as secretary of state at 25 Autograph collectors the release continued had subsequently made offers of up ...
... INDEX INDEX Agricultural progress in Ohio before 1825 255 334 1831-37 355 1838-42 397-8 414 1852 440 1857 469 Assessed valuation of property in Ohio 439 520 Banks chartered in Ohio before 1815 257 260 261-3 under Bonus Law of 1815 273 275 277 1829 344 1831 359 1832 362 1833 with capital of a million 364 1834 367 Bank Commissioners of Ohio enactment of law providing for 392 first report of 392 report of 1842 favors restrictions on banks 401 Bank Committee report of in Ohio legislature in 1819 ...
... -- Drawings by HR Goodwin 638 TYPICAL SPECIMENS FROM THE SPETNAGEL CACHE NATURAL SIZE THE SPETNAGLE CACHE OF FLINT THE SPETNAGLE CACHE OF FLINT SPEAR-POINTS Few better examples of ceremonial offerings of chipped flint artifacts than the Spetnagel cache of flint spear-points recently placed on exhibition in the Museum of the Society by Mr Albert C Spetnagel of Chillicothe have been found in Ohio or elsewhere This remarkable cache-lot of upwards of 200 ceremonial spears was unearthed in the ...
... LAND GRANTS FOR EDUCATION IN THE OHIO LAND GRANTS FOR EDUCATION IN THE OHIO VALLEY STATES BY CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF In the discussion of the subject at hand I find I am con fronted with three very positive limitations First because the story of land grants for education is one that even the most investigating historian can find but little new general material upon which to write Second the program committee has wisely limited the time in which the subject may be presented However laudable this ...