... County in the same State are some small mounds built over their dead by the Indians who lived there until a few years since Some lumbermen opened one of them some years ago took out two skeletons ran a pole up through the chest of each to which they fastened the bones and then tied them to a tree with a piece of bread between the teeth of one and an old pipe in the fleshless jaws of the other The Indians soon discovered what had been done and ...
... establishment of the most establishments founded by individual initiative was added the substratum of a public schools system in each of the states of Ohio Indiana and Illinois Foreshadowed from the first by the grant of the sixteenth section of each township and aided by further grants for schools and universities the laws which put those grants into operation and which formulated the basic ...
... County firelands The whites were principally from Trumbull and Ashtabula counties Among them was Joshua R Giddings then aged sixteen years and who later stirred the halls of Congress as one of Ohio's senators The skirmish resulted in the flight of the whites across Sandusky Bay After going but a short distance however they met a relief party from their former homes bound for their own new ...
... County was the most County that he achieved County Michigan 1922 pp County Illustrated History County between Caseville County News who visited the community in 1865 He found a group ...
... County Bar association and County so called because County and when his early County Bar and who had County of Sandusky and City of Cincinnati and indeed of the legal profession throughout the State and Nation The Rev E M O'Hare Rector ...
... County Virginia as the County Ohio which is County Judge John Cleves County33 Smith expressed County would prejudice his chances37 Worthington was to be rewarded for his efforts in the Convention and Smith would satisfy the demands of ...
... establishment of the boundary lines of the State of Ohio and the formation of the State Constitution of 1802 Another valuable document is a full and carefully prepared article on the history of the county divisions of Ohio - with maps giving the different stages of county divisions in the Slate This volume also contains a full and ...
... The Croghan Celebration The Croghan Celebration 27 ADDRESS OF HON CHARLES W FAIRBANKS VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I am gratified indeed to be present and participate with you for a brief while upon this historic occasion I have not come to make a formal speech nor did I come to make you a speech at all According to the programme I am to indulge only in a few remarks What I shall say to you shall be born of the moment I have brought with me no well-turned phrases I have come simply to ...
... Ross the veteran Congressman Francis Dunlevy President Judge of the first Circuit Court which embraced Cincinnati and the Southern third of the state George J Smith President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas Jeremiah Morrow Congressman Senator and Governor Col John Bigger who served thirty-four years in the Ohio Legislature and Dr James Scott who served sixteen years in the General Assembly Gen Durban Ward perhaps the most popular orator of ...
... County of Warren Stands went Some Distance west of Waynesvill and Xenia Crossed Mad river about 10 miles from Dayton Struke the Great Miamia at the old Piqua Town that Sd Genrl Clark had went against and Destroyed Crossed the River t Distance above had a pritty -an trace from there to the old french Store on what is Since Called StMarys had ...
... 548 Ohio Arch 548 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications to Cornstalk whose headquarters for years were nearby who was the chief Indian at the treaty and who was one of the noblest and most influential chiefs in Ohio history This closed the proceedings of the Annual Meeting and upon motion it was adjourned ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES SOCIETY BUILDING SEPTEMBER 25 1918 Present Messrs Wright Campbell Randall Wood Prince Ryan Bareis Moore Treadway Schaus and Cole Absent Messrs Thompson Hayes ...
... County Ohio and while County near what is now Zanesfield About 1824 he was granted a pension of twenty dollars a month Simon Kenton -- Thomas W Simon Kenton -- Thomas W Cridland Pioneers 121 General Kenton was of fair complexion and the frosts of more than eighty winters had fallen on his head without entirely whitening his locks He was six feet one inch in height stood and walked very ...
... establishment of an Indian protectorate beyond the Ohio River The recovery of the Northwest meant the release of the men of Ken- Significance of Perry's Victory Significance of Perry's Victory 465 tucky who went home from their sister state to the northward as in '65 many of them returned from their sister states to the southward conscious that they had assisted in preserving the Union Outside of the Northwest the effect of the victory and ...
... Old Fort Sandoski and the De Lery Portage Old Fort Sandoski and the De Lery Portage 37 1 Indians which eventually led to his dismissal from the service His distinguished engineer Montresor was left to rebuild the fort which however was only partially accomplished There is not much more recorded concerning the portage of old Fort Sandoski until the War of 1812 when after the victory of Commodore Perry on September 10 1813 General Harrison with his entire army moved down from his headquarters at ...
... County of Hamilton and County S S Personally County Court House had County records were in a fire years ago But the same day I took this picture of the tombstone I called on the family who now live on this Othniel Looker farm in a neat little bungalow and she let me read their deed and ...
... THE EXPEDITION OF CELORON THE EXPEDITION OF CELORON BY C B GALBREATH The journals of Celoron and Bonnecamps with the paper by O H Marshall are here published in order to bring together in convenient form the accounts of this remarkable expedition sent by the Marquis de la Galissoniere Governor-General of New France and the Country of Louisiana to establish more firmly the French claims to the Ohio country particularly that portion of it which lies within the present boundary of our state A ...