... THE OHIO DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE THE OHIO DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF B PED By permission of The Ohio Teacher The school histories have always said much about the Mecklenburg Resolutions being the prelude to the Declaration of Independence Indeed some histories make so much of it that you doubt if Thomas Jefferson would ever have mustered up courage sufficient to pen the immortal lines beginning When in the course of human events etc had he not had this brave precedent ...
... JEFFREY P JEFFREY P BROWN Samuel Huntington A Connecticut Aristocrat on the Ohio Frontier Samuel Huntington Jr was one of the many ambitious Americans who went west in the early nineteenth century hoping to improve their station in life Although most western pioneers were humble yeoman farmers a significant number of well-to-do citizens also emigrated to the frontier in search of their fortunes Huntington typified this latter group Born to one of Connecticut's most prominent families he moved ...
... THREE ASPECTS OF THE ECONOMIC LIFE OF THREE ASPECTS OF THE ECONOMIC LIFE OF CINCINNATI FROM 1815 TO 1840 By MAURICE F NEUFELD In contemporary America when the principles of capitalism are being challenged negatively by prolonged unemployment and positively through the social-planning projects of Russia the experience of an American metropolis during the early maturity of capitalism in the United States has peculiar significance to the historian Although the life of the United States centers so ...
... AN EARLY AMERICAN CRUSADER AN EARLY AMERICAN CRUSADER NORTON STRANGE TOWNSHEND1 By JOH N F CUNNINGHAM Writing to G Sprague corresponding secretary of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture in 1854--just ninety years ago--a young physician of Lorain County Ohio said I send you facts and observations relating to agricultural education also a brief notice of an attempt to establish an agricultural college in Ohio We will not stop to demonstrate but will take it for granted that agricultural ...
... REMINISCENCES OF A PIONEER REMINISCENCES OF A PIONEER EDITED BY CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF B PED The following reminiscences are from the pen of a Highland county pioneer one Thomas Rogers who as the recital reveals was born a Virginian and at the close of the American Revolution moved with his family to Kentucky and thence in 1795 with the Massie party journeyed to Paint Creek vicinity of Chillicothe and there abided This recital of the scenes of early times in Ohio is worthy of preservation and ...
... 190 Ohio Arch 190 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications the beginning to within a few years it was the headquarters of that Order in America From its halls its preachers went into all parts of the country We now find our time gone and we are only getting into out subject Other events are quite as interesting and valuable but we have restricted ourselves to the very first as closely as possible and the half has not been told Some one ought to write a history of the first forty years of ...
... A STUDY OF NOTABLE OHIOANS A STUDY OF NOTABLE OHIOANS By HARRY R STEVENS In the past three or four years there have been published many social studies of genius Data have been accumulated analyzed and interpreted problems have been defined and some answers attempted1 Underlying much of this seems to be the criticism formulated a century ago by De Tocqueville that American society being a democracy naturally tended to inhibit the development of genius individuality and leadership That challenge ...
... THE DEBT OF THE WEST TO WASHINGTON THE DEBT OF THE WEST TO WASHINGTON BY ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT To us of the central west the memory of Washington and his dearest ambitions must be precious beyond that of any other American whether statesman general or seer Under strange providential guidance the mind and heart of that first American was turned toward the territories lying between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi and it is to be doubted if any other portion of his country received so much of ...
... AN ABOLITION CENTER AN ABOLITION CENTER THOMAS J SHEPPARD In the spring of 1 80 2 two travelers met in the wilderness between Zanesville and Marietta Ohio Though they rode together by day and camped together by night each refrained from disclosing to the other the object of his journey That object was to purchase the section of land upon which later on grew up the village of Putnam now the Ninth Ward of the city of Zanesville The travelers were John McIntyre the founder of Zanesville and Dr ...
... COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS the RUFUS PUTNAM HOUSE at the Campus Martius Museum by DANIEL R PORTER THE RUFUS PUTNAM house at the Campus Martius Museum State Memorial is the most outstanding architectural combination of New England tradition and frontier necessity preserved in Ohio today The house exemplifies as well the military and domestic challenges which faced the pioneers who established Marietta the first authorized United States settlement in the Old Northwest It was natural that New ...
... OLD FORT SANDUSKY AND THE DE LERY PORTAGE OLD FORT SANDUSKY AND THE DE LERY PORTAGE BY LUCY ELLIOT KEELER Local history has its renascence in tradition which passes along from generation to generation hints of names and adventures which appeal at last to some student of the past and send him forth in quest of sources Such traditions have long lingered about the little peninsula at Port Clinton in Ottawa County Ohio traditions of venturesome French monks and traders of an ancient fort destroyed ...
... Mills Archaeological Atlas of Ohio Columnus 1914 9 John Patterson MacLean placed the number at 250 mounds and seventeen enclosures J P MacLean Aboriginal History of Butler County Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications 1 June 1887-March 1888 64 When MacLean revisited these sites in the 1870s and '80s he found that continual cultivation had further damaged the walls of some of the enclosures and that some embankments were altogether ...
... EDITORIAL NOTES EDITORIAL NOTES DR I W ANDREWS-At the annual meeting of the Ohio Teachers' Association held at Sandusky June 28 1888 memorial exercises occurred in honor of the late Israel W Andrews Professor M R Andrews read a memorial sketch In it he paid tribute in the highest terms to the many virtues of the deceased scholar and educator His conservative but persistent and hopeful nature his accuracy and painstaking care as a student and instructor his unswerving fidelity to every trust ...
... Mills and Mr C B Galbreath We hope to have further items of interest to report next year Signed JOSEPH E WEINLAND Chairman SERPENT MOUND The general conditions of Serpent Mound Park during the past year have been good In addition to the usual upkeep the following improvements have been made A substantial guard-rail has been constructed at the head of the serpent-effigy overlooking a dangerous point of the cliff side This was done at a cost of ...
... Mills-Hagley Foundation Mills in Maryland This Mills10 amp Joined My Mills thirteen miles from Mills for grinding Grain To building comfortable dwelling houses for your families To raising useful Animals amongst others sheep for the ...
... URBAN RIVALRY URBAN RIVALRY AND INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS IN THE OLD NORTHWEST 1820-1860 by HARRY N SCHEIBER At the very beginning of settlement in the Old Northwest urban communities developed in response to the commercial needs of the surrounding country And almost as soon as they appeared there was urban rivalry that is competition among them for advantages that would promote their growth and enhance their attractiveness to emigrants and investors1 The earliest rivalries usually involved ...
... WATER HIGHWAYS AND CARRYING PLACES WATER HIGHWAYS AND CARRYING PLACES E L TAYLOR COLUMBUS The 2d day of May 1497 was one of the most eventful for great results for good of any in human history On that day John Cabot a Venetian by birth but who was then living at the old sea-faring town of Bristol on the west coast of England with eighteen hardy British sailors weighed anchor on the small but good ship Matthew and passed out upon the broad and turbulent waters of the Atlantic on a voyage of ...
... Mills of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society who recommended that the State should acquire the site and make it into a State Park This question was brought before Mr Pease and Mr Lowe and I suggested that we wait and see what the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society would do After waiting five years more we decided that we would go ahead with our work Using all records to which I had access I drafted the following ...
... PROCEEDINGS 215 PROCEEDINGS 215 tory section under the supervision of the State Historical Society It is not intended to limit the activities and interests of the conference to Ohio history alone but rather to develop an annual Ohio History Conference devoted to all phases of history in which the membership might be interested The president called for a report of the Nominating Committee for trustees The chairman of the committee reported that the committee recommended the re-appointment of Dr ...
... TRAVEL TO CINCINNATI IN 1853 TRAVEL TO CINCINNATI IN 1853 EDITED BY WILLIAM D HOYT JR Writers have described the hardships of travel in the middle of the nineteenth century when railroads were in their infancy but few accounts are as expressive or as vivid as that penned by the Honorable Peter Vivian Daniel Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States while on his way to the Mississippi Valley to hold judicial sessions in his circuit A letter written to his daughter from the ...