... DONALD F DONALD F DURNBAUGH Strangers and Exiles Assistance Given by the Religious Society of Friends to the Separatist Society of Zoar in 1817-1818 The Religious Society of Friends popularly known as Quakers has rarely been ranked among the leading denominations when measured by membershipl Despite their lack of numbers Friends have enjoyed notable recognition and exerted influence out of proportion to their size Several reasons can be given for this For one thing from their inception in ...
... 472 Ohio Arch 472 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Index to the Minutes of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and the Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees Annual address by Dr Rightmire 360-373 names of those present 341 report Annual meeting of the Society 341-373 of president 342-343 of secretary 343Annual meeting of trustees 358-359 346 of treasurer 346-347 of auditor Annual reports of officers 342-356 348 of director 349-353 ...
... A BUCKEYE BOARDING-SCHOOL IN 1821 A BUCKEYE BOARDING-SCHOOL IN 1821 BY ALICE MCGUFFEY RUGGLES The early free schools of the West have been described many times often sentimentally But of the pioneer private schools little has been written In the unpublished autobiography of Charles Daniel Drake only son of Dr Daniel Drake there is an account of the author's experiences at a boarding-school for boys at Worthington Ohio conducted by the Right Reverend Philander Chase first Episcopal Bishop of ...
... A CIVIL WAR DIARY OF ALBION W TOURGEE edited by DEAN H KELLER Albion W Tourgee's Civil War diary which covers a period of six months in 1863 is an important document in the author's biography and in the literature of the Civil War It reveals Tourgee in many lights -- from the thoughtful loving husband to the stern high-minded Unionist and from the dedicated military man to the impatient individualist All of these traits were present to some extent in Tourgee's character and evidence of them ...
... CENTENNIAL OF MINER FAMILY CENTENNIAL OF MINER FAMILY The celebration of the Miner family June 7 1 90 6 at the old homestead on Green Lawn Avenue was an occasion well worthy of permanent note Mrs Mary Wharton eighty-five years of age youngest daughter of Isaac Miner and the sole survivor of his children issued an invitation to her friends and neighbors in the following form 1806 Spero ut fidelis 1906 MRS MARY WHARTON REQUESTS THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY AT THE CENTENNIAL OF THE MINER FAMILY ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR REMINISCENCES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN DR GEORGE T HARDING Dr George T Harding who is a Civil War veteran recently recalled a pleasant visit to Abraham Lincoln At the conclusion of his war service he and a few of his comrades called at the White House A colored attendant told them that the President was very busy but that if they would wait awhile they would have an ...
... GEORGE WASHINGTON AT THE GEORGE WASHINGTON AT THE GREAT BEND OF THE OHIO RIVER GUY-HAROLD SMITH There is a tradition that George Washington took a short cut across the Great Bend of the Ohio River in the autumn of 1770 when he made his journey to the Kanawha River Since Washington went down stream as far as the Kanawha he had to cover that section known as the Great Bend both on the down stream journey and on his return It is only logical that he might want to hasten his journey by cutting ...
... 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 ...
... 292 Ohio Arch 292 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VoL 4 FRANCIS CHARLES SESSIONS BY WASHINGTON GLADDEN D D LL D Blessed are they that dwell in thy house They will be still praising thee Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee In whose heart are the highways to Zion Passing through the Valley of Weeping they make it a place of springs Yea the early rain covereth it with blessings They go from strength to strength Every one of them appeareth before God in Zion - Ps lxxxiv 4 -7 This ...
... Winthrop Sargent 237 Winthrop Sargent 237 WINTHROP SARGENT'S DIARY WHILE WITH GENERAL ARTHUR ST CLAIR'S EXPEDITION AGAINST THE INDIANS Much has been written of the ill-fated expedition of Arthur St Clair against the Indians in 1791 While serving as Governor of the Northwest Territory he was appointed Major General in the United States army on March 4 of that year An expedition against the Indians was assembled and organized at Fort Wash ington Considerable difficulty was experienced in fitting ...
... The French Settlement and Settlers of Gallipolis The French Settlement and Settlers of Galli p olis 45 THE FRENCH SETTLEMENT AND SETTLERS OF GALLIPOLIS Preceding addresses and other papers have given the story of the Scioto Company under whose auspices the French settlers came to America I shall not attempt to repeat any part of this history but begin my narrative with the sailing of the first party of emigrants to their new homes in the unknown West which had been described to them in such ...
... CAPTAIN T W RATHBONE'S BRIEF DIARY OF IMPRISONMENT JULY 1 - NOVEMBER 21 1864 edited by LOUIS BARTLETT Thomas W Rathbone of Amelia Ohio was thirty-nine years old and a captain in an Ohio National Guard regiment on one hundred days' service when he was taken prisoner after a skirmish near North River Mills West Virginia on July 3 1864 Two months later while a patient in the Roper Hospital at Charleston South Carolina he began writing the diary which appears in the following pages To make it a ...
... DENTAL EDUCATION IN OHIO DENTAL EDUCATION IN OHIO By EDWARD C MILLS DDS In 1860 the terms of graduation at the Ohio College of Dental Surgery were as follows A candidate must have attended two full courses of lectures--the last one in this institution of good moral character and be 21 years old prepare a thesis on some subject pertaining to dental science and deposit a full set of teeth of his own workmanship also undergo a satisfactory examination in all branches taught in this college A full ...
... FRANKLINTON AT THE TIME OF THE DEATH FRANKLINTON AT THE TIME OF THE DEATH OF LUCAS SULLIVANT BY ANDRE W DENNY RODGERS III Dedication ceremonies of the monument erected to Lucas Sullivant and the pioneers of Franklin County in the Franklinton Cemetery Our mood this afternoon is one of retrospect This afternoon we lift away the gray mists of more than a century to move among the valiant pioneer spirits of the borough of Franklinton Today this is Franklinton and the time is the ninth day of ...
... SUMMARY OF THE MANUSCRIPT RECOLLECTIONS SUMMARY OF THE MANUSCRIPT RECOLLECTIONS OF MILO G WILLIAMS 1804-1880 By FLORENCE MURDOCH Interesting glimpses of early Cincinnati are to be found in the manuscript recollections by Milo G Williams written in 1877-79 They show not only some historical background to his activities in educational scientific and religious circles of the city of more than a century ago but also note the changes which occurred during his lifetime and are illuminated by his ...
... DAVID KELLOGG CARTTER DAVID KELLOGG CARTTER BY RUTH GERTRUDE CURRAN Naming the oldest son David Kellogg has been a custom of the Cartter family for five generations The second David Kellogg Cartter was born in Jefferson County New York June 22 1812 four days after the declaration of war on the part of the United States against England He was the son of David K Cartter a prominent and well-to-do carpenter and Elizabeth Hollister Cartter The father died when David was ten years old and in ...
... BEGINNINGS OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD BEGINNINGS OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN OHIO by WILBUR H SIEBERT Professor Emeritus of History Ohio State University The presence of fugitive slaves in Ohio was evidently one of the reasons for the enactment of the Black Laws by the General Assembly in January 1804 These laws provided that any one harboring or secreting such objectionable intruders or obstructing their owners in retaking them should be fined from 1O to 50 for each offense It was also ...
... Life was hard and toilsome in the early years of Ohio statehood for those souls who left warm eastern firesides and crossed the Alleghenies into the new western land In the first years of their settling long hours of work and the necessities of bare existence left little time for correspondence with family and friends The letters that have been preserved show the writers to be unusually literate for the time and place and they take on added significance in view of their scarcity An unusual ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS BUCYRUS CENTENNIAL The centennial of the city of Bucyrus Ohio was most appropriately celebrated in a program of exercises extending from October 2 to 5 1921 There were addresses by Honorable Harry L Davis Governor of Ohio Honorable Hugh L Nichols former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio Honorable Benson W Hough Judge of the Supreme Court Mrs Frank H Alfred great-granddaughter of Samuel Norton one of the founders of Bucyrus Nevin O ...
... VERNON L VERNON L VOLPE Theodore Dwight Weld's Antislavery Mission in Ohio Since the pioneering work of Gilbert H Barnes and Dwight L Dumond Theodore Dwight Weld has been a favorite subject of study for historians interested in the religious roots of the antislavery movement Son of a Connecticut Congregational minister Weld was finally converted to evangelical reform in 1826 by the great New York evangelist Charles Grandison Finney whose controversial new measures provoked so much debate among ...