... PRE-HISTORIC EARTHWORKS OF RICHLAND PRE-HISTORIC EARTHWORKS OF RICHLAND COUNTY BY A J BAUGHMAN Secretary Richland County Historical Society Here stand mounds erected by a race Unknown in history or in poets' songs In our own county we see evidences of a pre-historic people whose origin and fate are unknown We know of them only by the monuments they reared in the form of earth-works and as these principally are mounds we call the people who made them Mound Builders The term is not a ...
... ROGER MEADE ROGER MEADE Book Notes Studies on Indiana Indiana History Resource Series Volume I A Bibliography of Theses and Dissertations Submitted to Indiana Institutions of Higher Education for Advanced Degrees 1902-1977 Compiled by Betty Jarboe and Kathryn Rumsey Indianapolis Indiana Historical Bureau 1980 xiii 377p author index name and subject index bibliography This bibliography was compiled with the idea that nowhere else has Indiana been more thoroughly studied than its universities ...
... GENERAL JOSEPH KERR GENERAL JOSEPH KERR BY WM E GILMORE CHILLICOTHE OHIO The following article from the pen of Mr Gilmore appeared in the columns of The Daily Scioto Gazette of March 21 1903 As this article presents the history of Senator Kerr no where else to be found it is thought sufficiently valuable to deserve permanent preservation and is therefore herewith republishedE O R At length my inquiries and correspondence begun in 1886 for the purpose of recovering something of the personal ...
... OHIO STATE LIBRARY CENTENNIAL OHIO STATE LIBRARY CENTENNIAL The one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Ohio State Library was observed on the evening of August 10 1917 No special significance attached to this particular date It is not known just when the State Library first opened It was doubtless available for the use of the general assembly at the regular session which began December 1 1917 Provision had been made for it and the initial supply of books purchased by Governor ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Blacks in Ohio History Edited by Rubin F Weston Volume IV of The Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Conference Series Columbus The Ohio Historical Society 1976 44p illustrations notes 200 As the nation moves into its third century under the Constitution Professor Weston remarks in the introduction it is imperative that all groups who made America be recognized and that their contribution be included in the history books With this purpose in mind one in a series of ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABSTRACT of Book I and Book A Hamilton County Ohio Probate Records 1829-1834 89 Adams family Descent From Glory Four Generations of the John Adams Family by Paul C Nagel rev 97-98 Adams John Quincy 166 167 AFL See American Federation of Labor Ake Harvey 81 82-83 Alcott Amos Bronson Amos Bronson Alcott An Intellectual Biography by Frederick C Dahlstrand 184 Alexander Charles C book rev 109-10 Allen Charles C 173-74 Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and ...
... TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY July 26 1912 The adjourned session of the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Hunter Society Room Page Hall Ohio State University Columbus Ohio at two o'clock P M Friday July 26 1912 in accordance with the action taken at the preliminary meeting held May 25 191 2 as recorded herein a nte p 328 The following ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 68 NUMBER 2 A P R I L 1 9 5 9 The Survey of the Seven Ranges By WILLIAM D PATTISON THE AMERICAN RECTANGULAR LAND SURVEY SYSTEM established in the land ordinance of 1785 was first put into effect in the Seven Ranges of eastern Ohio Despite the publication of important contributions to the history of Ohio which have dealt with various aspects of the Seven Ranges interesting and significant parts of the survey story have remained ...
... REPORT OF THE FIFTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF REPORT OF THE FIFTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Forenoon Session--10 A M In the absence of the president and first vice-president the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was called to order by its second vice-president Wilber Stout on April 21 1936 in the auditorium of the Museum The attendance at this session was smaller than usual but was quite representative The ...
... MAJOR DAVID ZIEGLER MAJOR DAVID Z I EGLER BY GEORGE A KATZENBERGER A custom has grown up of commemorating the Centennial anniversary of the birth or death of prominent men as well as of other important events and as it is a hundred years since the death of the subject of this sketch and I fail to find David Ziegler's name in any of the indices of the nineteen volumes of the publications of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society I have gathered a number of items concerning the ...
... PONTIAC'S CONSPIRACY PONTIAC'S CONSPIRACY BY E 0 RANDALL For a century and a half 1600-1750 France and England had been rivals for the possession of the fairest part of the North American continent Each nation had acquired a fixed tenancy but the extent of those respective holdings was unequal France by her discoveries and occupancies had preempted Canada the region of the Great Lakes and the Ohio and Mississippi valleys England through her colonies the New England Coast from near the Gulf of ...
... REMARKS OF REV REMARKS OF REV B W ARNETT DD MR CHAIRMAN LADIES AND GENTLEMEN There are times in the history and in the life of individuals when language fails to express the throbbings and longings as well as the aspirations of the heart and I find myself sir this evening without words to express my sentiments to you and to this intelligent audience the representatives of this great Commonwealth of ours But your call to me to say a word1 was a command which I could not disobey without feeling ...
... THE OHIO FRONTIER IN 1812 THE OHIO FRONTIER IN 1812 DIARY OF THE INDIAN CONGREGATION AT GOSHEN ON THE RIVER MUSKINGUM FOR THE YEAR 1812 WRITTEN BY REV BENJAMIN MORTIMER In the Summer of 1798 David Zeisberger accompanied by several brethren of the Moravian Colony departed from their then temporary home the town of Fairfield on the Thames in Canada and proceeded to the Tuscarawas Valley where they founded the settlement called Goshen located seven miles northeast of Gnadenhutten In the party of ...
... THOMAS WORTHINGTON THOMAS WORTHINGTON BY FRANK THEODORE COLE Secretary of The Old Northwest Genealogical Society About the middle of the seventeenth century two brothers of the ancient Lancashire family of Worthington1 arrived in Philadelphia bringing with them some fair amount of property After some time one of them went to New England and the other Robert with his son Robert a mere lad went to Maryland where he bought land in the neighborhood of Baltimore and established iron works which in ...
... Brilliant Thoughts and Important Truths A Speech of Frederick Douglass ed it ed by LARRY G ARA In the spring of 1852 Frederick Douglass visited Cincinnati to attend an antislavery convention Douglass a former slave had already gained national renown as a writer editor and speaker1 While in Cincinnati Douglass frequently spoke and also took the occasion to carry his message to another town in the area Harveysburg in Warren County Ohio where he addressed a church congregation In his speech2 ...
... THE FATHER OF THE McGUFFEYS THE FATHER OF THE McGUFFEYS By ALICE McGUFFEY MORRILL RUGGLES The McGuffey Readers are becoming classics and their authors William Holmes and Alexander Hamilton McGuffey legendary figures But as yet little has been told about the father of the two sedate gentlemen who first dispensed literature to the American masses This was Alexander Sandy McGuffey in his youth one of the most famous scouts on the western frontier He was born in Wigtownshire Scotland November 22 ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA DAYTON DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION We are in receipt of the Calendar of the Jonathan Dayton Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution Dayton Ohio The program of the chapter for this centennial year is so admirable that it deserves notice and imitation by other chapters Beginning with its March meeting and running through to its annual meeting in January 1904 it has arranged a series of topics pertinent to the Ohio year The subjects for the chapter's ...
... BOOK REVIEWS THE WESTERN JOURNALS OF JOHN MAY OHIO COMPANY AGENT AND BUSINESS ADVENTURER Edited and with an Introduction by Dwight L Smith Cincinnati Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio 1961 xii 176p illustrations bibliography and index 550 John May Boston merchant and Revolutionary War officer was one of the leaders of the Ohio Company of Associates which settled Marietta In 1788 he rode west to the new country on Ohio Company business and in 1789 he returned to the upper Ohio Valley ...
... 486 Ohio Arch 486 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications NOTES - GEOGRAPHICAL BY R W MCFARLAND LL D These notes are intended to draw attention to errors or slips which manage sometimes to get into print and which may mislead the unwary Attention is called to four such points FIRST It has been stated in the OHIO STATE AR CH A E OLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY that the United States military tract extended to the Ohio river This is an error See Vol 2 U S Laws page 565 act of June 1 1796 The ...
... BRIAN P BRIAN P BIRCH A British View of the Ohio Backwoods The Letters of James Martin 1821-1836 Although the British formed a sizeable minority of the early farm settlers in Ohio very little is known about them1 A few accounts exist of particular British notably Welsh and Scots colonies but with no language barrier to separate them from the broad tide of American settlers moving across the Appalachians in the early nineteenth century the British were largely absorbed into that stream and left ...