... 1902Editor It has been said that Belgium is the battleground of Europe Ohio may then be called the Belgium of America It is the great battlefield of the United States For the Ohio Valley of which Ohio may be regarded as the center was the arena in the contest of centuries between the Latin and the Saxon races for the American stakes The French through their discoveries up the St Lawrence along the great lakes to the sources of the Mississippi ...
... Adena Pipe Museum Echoes Adena People in the Ohio Adena People No 2 Columbus Ohio State University Press for Ohio Historical Society 1957 123p WITTHOFT John The Art of Flint Chipping Ohio Archaeologist VII 1957 17-20 35 42-45 80-88 92 122-127 WOOD James J Rock Shelters in Gallia County Ohio Ohio Archaeologist VIII 1958 66-67 ARTS AND ...
... Mills Luther D Dana John Hall and William B Thomas Marietta Levi Barber and David Putnam Jr Harmar Charles Devol and Simeon Seely Waterford Chauncey Ford Watertown William W McIntosh Adams William D Bailey Warren N C Goodno Belpre D W Loring Barlow Dan Hill Salem Charles Dana Newport Teachers Julius A Payne and Charles Cook Marietta William Mason Adams Ca sic Barker Waterford Dentist J L Devol Union 106 A B Waters Marietta and David Barber ...
... Mills Company iron ore Mr Mills Among the Mills were duplicates of Mills before her present illness prepared and sent through the mails to other libraries a list of about three hundred of these duplicates with a letter soliciting an exchange As a result a number of books needed here were ...
... OHIO'S UNSUNG PENITENTIARY RAILROAD OHIO'S UNSUNG PENITENTIARY RAILROAD by WALTER RUMSEY MARVIN Had James Thurber spent his youth in Columbus two generations before he did he would now be regaling us with anecdotes about a curious little railroad operation that enlivened the city for a few years By antiquarians and connoisseurs of the early iron horse it is sometimes whimsically hailed as the first railroad into Columbus a palm that more literal-minded scholars award to the Columbus and Xenia ...
... Mills platted it and renamed it Sandusky City the city being dropped by the Ohio act to incorporate cities years afterward It is an irony of fate that the Sandusky city best known to the outside world was never Judge Lang Tiffin Fremont Journal Sept 16 1887 Henry C Brish Indian Sub-Agent at Seneca Howe's Hist Cols of Ohio Reuben Rice of Elmore Address before San Co Pion Assn Journal Sept 10 1875 Vol XIII-15 226 Ohio Arch 226 Ohio Arch and ...
... Mills Club Putnam Street Mills Club at 630 o'clock and was attended by a representative audience of Ohio people It was sponsored by the Marietta societies that had collaborated in the day's ceremonies and no finer affair of the kind ever has been held in the city The spacious auditorium of the club was in festive array for the occasion On the stage were miniature reproductions of the Rufus ...
... REMINISCENCES OF A SURVEYOR1 REMINISCENCES OF A SURVEYOR1 By JAMES T WEED In November 1888 I was elected county surveyor of Gallia County Ohio and on the first Monday of January 1889 I assumed the duties of the office In the forty-five years since then I have done a great deal of surveying of land and city lots and highways and a little in mines Most of this work has been in Gallia County though I have practiced a little in the adjoining counties of Jackson and Vinton in nearby West Virginia ...
... Dedication of the Logan Elm Dedication of the Logan Elm 295 chief Leatherlips who lies buried on the spot where he was killed about fifteen miles northwest of Columbus A significant feature of the program was an address by Mr Frank Tallmadge of Columbus a lineal descendant of Colonel Cresap the man that Logan believed to be responsible for the massacre of his family Mr Tallmadge sought to show that the Red Man was mistaken and spoke as follows ADDRESS OF MR FRANK TALLMADGE Roll back-my soul-to ...
... CHARLOTTE W CHARLOTTE W DUDLEY Jared Mansfield United States Surveyor General Jared Mansfield 1759-1830 one of the first men of science in the republic's formative years made a significant contribution to postRevolutionary Ohio Appointed by President Thomas Jefferson in 1803 to replace General Rufus Putnam as Surveyor General Mansfield remained in the post for nine years resigning in 1812 when fresh Indian uprisings made further surveys impractical and dangerous During his term of office ...
... Adena mound the Baum village site and of other noted remains and sites under state auspices A state archaeological atlas is now in preparation The archaeological collections in the society's museum at Columbus are very extensive and valuable and its publications widely read Prof William Ellery Leonard Assistant Professor of English in the University of Wisconsin followed with the reading of a poem prepared especially for the Assembly This is ...
... edited by edited by DONALD J RATCLIFFE The Autobiography of Benjamin Tappan There are few more fascinating characters in the early history of Ohio than Benjamin Tappan A sharp and audacious man always pungent and always ready he was formidable in argument and few people who openly disagreed with him ever forgot his cutting sarcastic wit Besides tending to talk through his nose in a whining sing-song sort of style he was also slightly cross-eyed which gave him a somewhat malevolent look He made ...
... WILLIAM EVES MOORE WILLIAM EVES MOORE 1823-1899 William Eves Moore D D LL D was born in Strasburg Pa April 1st 1 823 His parents Jacob Moore M D University of Pennsylvania 1818 and Sarah Faris Moore came of Scotch-Irish ancestors who after the siege of Derry migrated to the northern part of Newcastle county Delaware and for generations held office in the same Presbyterian church and owned the original farm land given by grant of Wm Penn Returning from Strasburg to Delaware Dr Moore's father ...
... OUTLINE OF FACTS RELATED TO THE BURIAL OUTLINE OF FACTS RELATED TO THE BURIAL PLACE OF JOHN CHAPMAN By WESLEY S ROEBUCK February 15 1942 revised July 3 19431 1 Location of Henry Cassel's land the burial place of John Chapman and others Description of land The N 12 of SE 14 Section 19 T 31 N of R 13 E and the S 12 NE 14 Section 1 9 T 31 N of R 13 E east of the St Joseph River Allen County Indiana 165 acres three miles up the St Joseph River from the confluence of the St Mary's River on the east ...
... 164 Ohio Arch 164 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications C L McIlvaine representing the New Philadelphia Board of Trade The announcement was made of the organization under the auspices of the Board of Trade of the Schoen-Brunn Monument Association and the names of the Board of Officers were announced as printed on the program President Wm A Wagner President Board of Trade Vice-President Rev Dr Wm H Rice Gnadenhutten O Financial Secretary Professor George C Maurer Treasurer James F Kildenbaugh ...
... Report of the Forty-sixth Annual Meeting 567 Report of the Forty-sixth Annual Meeting 567 During the past year two colleges have observed Centennial occasions--Hiram and Denison University--and Oberlin College and Wooster College are now preparing for historical celebrations this year It is quite noticeable the way communities over the state are waking up to the opportunities offered by Centennial occasions and to the value of the Pageantry as a means of portraying history and building ...
... 392 Ohio Arch 392 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications and honor is not deserving of praise The historical data are heavily conclusively against Burr Burr was a man with the inordinate ambition of Bonaparte and equally unscrupulous cold blooded and selfish There was no sacrifice of friends or country or honor or truth or morality he would not make for self-gratification and self-glorification Burr was a born intriguer and was associated with Lee and Gates in their schemes against Washington ...
... Mills Jonathan Smith Findlay William Ruffin Joseph Prince David E Wade Isaac Van Nuys Joel Williams 4 When one considers the scarcity of money in a frontier community and the purchasing power in that day of ten dollars the price of a share in the projected library the subscription of three hundred and forty dollars for the purchase of books was no mean indication of the community's affluence a comment first made by the person who sometimes in ...