... Benjamin Franklin Stone who Benjamin Franklin Stone From Benjamin Tupper and the young bride of Ichabod Nye She wrote to a friend back in Massachusetts on September 19 1788 one month after her arrival at Campus Martius the fort which served as shelter and home for the early pioneers She penned these thoughts We now live in the city of ...
... Benjamin Franklin was willing at one time to concede the claim to this territory but some Revolutionary statesmen insisted that the battle fought August 5 1780 at Piqua gave the territory by right of conquest to the United States They insisted on the title not being conceded and it was not The pioneers came and settled the country and instead of becoming a part of Canada there have been preserved to the United States by reason of that battle ...
... THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR FEBRUARY 17 1807 TO FEBRUARY 1 1898 GEN R BRINKERHOFF President E O RANDALL Secretary COLUMBUS O JANUARY 1898 407 To His Excellency Asa S To His Excellency Asa S Bushnell Governor of Ohio SIR-I have the honor to submit herewith the thirteenth annual report of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society covering the year from February 17 1897 to February 1 1898 This ...
... 476 Ohio Arch 476 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The Functions of Museums and the Question of Special Exhibitions by Frederic A Lucas American Museum of Natural History The Museum Point of View in Botany by E L Morris Brooklyn Institute Museum A Celestial Sphere-An Appartus Installed to Promote Interest in Astronomy by Dr W W Atwood Chicago Academy of Sciences The Educational Work of a Natural History Museum by W W Atwood Chicago Academy of Sciences The Deutaches Museum at Munich by ...
... Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association 20 3 INFLUENCES OF EARLY RELIGIOUS LITERATURE IN THE OHIO VALLEY FROM 1815 TO 1850 MRS IRENE D CORNWELL CINCINNATI A song for the Early Times out West And our green old forest-home Whose pleasant memories freshly yet Across the bosom come A song for the true and gladsome life In those early days we led With a teeming soil beneath our feet And a smiling Heav'n o'erhead Oh the waves of life were ...
... David Zeisberger Centennial David Zeisberger Centennial 17 3 signified his great satisfaction and comfort when his Indian brethren who watched with the dying saint sang some of the Delaware hymns for the dying which he had rendered into their vernacular years ago And thus on the afternoon of November 17th he fell asleep amid the prayers of his brethren and the singing of his converts after the benediction had been spoken in the name of the church On the following Sunday at noon after funeral ...
... THE CONQUEST OF THE INDIAN THE CONQUEST OF THE INDIAN BENJAMIN R COWEN CINCINNATI Portion of an address delivered by General Cowen on the 28th of June 1904 at the placing of the tablet in commemoration of the Harrison-Tarhe Peace Conference We have heard the story of the historic incident this monument is designed to commemorate eloquently told by the Regent of the Columbus Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution That society has ...
... Benjamin Ives Gilman Museum of Fine Arts Boston Museum Work at the Capital of Canada by H I Smith Geological Survey Ottawa Canada Museum of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society by William C Mills Curator of the Society Columbus Ohio Editorialana Editorialana 475 Ichthyological Explorations in Colombia by Dr C H Eigemann Indiana University Bloomington Indiana The morning session of Wednesday June 4th was held at the University ...
... THREE CENTURIES OF THE MAUMEE VALLEY THREE CENTURIES OF THE MAUMEE VALLEY By M M QUAIFE The name Maumee is a variant of Miami and comes from the Miami Indian tribe When the French first came into the Northwest they found the Miami living in eastern Wisconsin Following LaSalle's advent in the Illinois country they moved southward around Lake Michigan and for many years c 16901702 one of their important towns was located in the presentday Chicago Loop Eventually they journeyed eastward to the ...
... 386 Ohio Arch 386 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications who with two sons now grown to manhood Philip C and Wm J survive the decease of husband and father His demise was universally and sincerely mourned by his fellow-citizens for he had done much for the commercial and intellectual advancement of Chillicothe Ohio's honored first capital His funeral was attended by all classes of citizens and he was buried on Friday morning June 22 in the beautiful little cemetery upon the hill where lie the ...
... Indian River and Place Names in Ohio Indian River and Place Names in Ohio By AUGUST C MAHR It can be safely claimed that as a rule North American Woodland Indians when penetrating into a given region first traveled by canoe on that region's main river and then proceeded upstream on the major tributaries as far as they were navigable and promised a sufficient food supply Again and again they would branch off from the respective tributary ascending side streams which offered prospects either of ...
... THE FOUNDING OF FRANKLINTON THE FOUNDING OF FRANKLINTON ITS SIGNIFICANCE TODAY1 by HAROLD J GRIMM Associate Professor of History Ohio State University The citizens of Columbus owe a debt of gratitude to the Honorable James A Rhodes mayor of Columbus and his Franklinton Sesquicentennial Committee under the chairmanship of Mr Erwin C Zepp for setting aside these two days in commemoration of the founding of the village of Franklinton By inviting us to pause in our busy work-a-day lives to give ...
... FORT GREEVILLE TRADITIONS FORT GREEVILLE TRADITIONS JAMES OLIVER ARNOLD Four walls of wood growth of hickory walnut oak ash and elm mingled with maples and undergrowth so dense that a horseman could not pass so tall that its shade cast a gloom about and between these walls a clearing and military fort Beyond another clearing and a cabin built of logs lighted by a little window The heavy oaken door swung on wooden hinges the curling smoke from the chimney made of lath grass and clay and the ...
... THE OHIO CANALS PUBLIC ENTERPRISE THE OHIO CANALS PUBLIC ENTERPRISE ON THE FRONTIER By CHESTER E FINN On July 4 1825 the little town of Newark Ohio celebrated the grandest and most glorious fourth of its history The notables of the State and of other States were congregated there and a momentous event in the history of Ohio was about to take place After suitable celebrations in the town the group adjourned to Licking Summit escorted by brilliantly uniformed troops of militia and followed by ...
... Benjamin Emerson and Benjamin Franklin and others Benjamin Mills delivering the opinion of the court said that slavery was sanctioned by the law of the 41 Walker Mississippi Report 36 42 The judge who rendered the decision in the case of Harry et al v Decker and Hopkins is not known Walker the reporter says in his preface that in many ...
... Benjamin Franklin in Benjamin Franklin He was a patriot as might have been expected and among the participants in the Boston Tea Party and in that city published and edited during the American Revolution the Independent Chronicle At the close of the Revolution Willis moved from Boston to Virginia and established at Martinsburg the Potomac Guardian Later 1796 he transferred his journalistic ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 70 NUMBER 2 APR I L 1 961 Samuel Watts Davies and The Industrial Revolution in Cincinnati By HARRY R STEVENS IN AN AGE PREOCCUPIED with case studies it is refreshing to discover a man as distinctive and individual as Samuel Watts Davies Although he seems on first acquaintance to be merely a typical aggressive frontier business enterpriser the appearance of similarity is deceptive The resemblance exists but not because Davies ...
... Benjamin Tappan and examines his Cabinet of Natural History The Judge had a fine library not only of law hooks but of the European botanists and zoologists He notes a mass of cinnabar said to have been collected near Point Creek and brought there from the northern Great Lakes region by the Indians He shows his interest in fossils by remarking the study of fossil vegetable and animal remains of which the valley of the Mississippi is one vast ...
... A Backwoods Utopia A Backwoods Utopia The Berea Community of 1836-1837 By DAVID LINDSEY In April 1836 three remarkable men--a farmer-turned-circuit rider a farmer-turned-evangelist and a teacher-turned-farmer--met on the banks of the Rocky River in northeastern Ohio Each man had come a devious route to that spot James Gilruth born of Scotch immigrant parents in western Virginia in 1793 fought briefly in the War of 1812 before taking up a farm in Ohio's Scioto River valley Undergoing a deep ...
... THE LIBRARIES OF PADDY'S RUN THE LIBRARIES OF PADDY'S RUN BY S R WILLIAMS The first State School Commissioner of Common Schools of Ohio called attention to a library founded in a community in the state by the contributions of its pioneer settlers To the inspirations from this library to quote the Commissioner some of the first names in our annals owe the impulse to a distinguished career The history of this library and its successors follows At the opening of the country west of the Great ...