... CONSUL WILSHIRE BUTTERFIELD-HISTORIAN CONSUL WILSHIRE BUTTERFIELD-HISTORIAN BY W H HUNTER Consul Wilshire Butterfield the famous Historian was born near the village of Colosse Oswego County New York July 28 1824 He was of Knickerbocker stock his father's people coming to America in 1634 His parents Amroy Butterfield and Mary Lamb Butterfield immigrated from Brattleboro Vermont to the State of New York Consul Wilshire Butterfield died at his home in South Omaha Nebraska onMonday September 25 ...
... 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 ...
... BLAST-FURNACES OPERATED BY THE BLAST-FURNACES OPERATED BY THE SEPARATIST SOCIETY OF ZOAR OHIO BY E J BOGNAR A most important contribution to the success of the Separatist Society of Zoar was iron ore The village of Zoar was founded in 1817 by 300 or more Separatists who had embarked early that spring from Wurtemburg1 Germany The party was led by one Joseph M Bimeler2 and the desire for religious freedom brought them to this country where they settled in the inviting wooded region of the ...
... TRIAL OF WILLIAM BEBB TRIAL OF WILLIAM BEBB BY C B GALBREATH For many years an interesting bit of literature has been going the rounds that has in many instances gained currency as a chapter in the history of the governors of Ohio Under the caption A Story of William Bebb it has found its way into the schools and the public and private libraries of the state Here it is without omission or addition If you should visit the State House in Columbusand look among the pictures of the governors of ...
... Henry Howe the Historian Henry Howe the Historian 311 HENRY HOWE THE HISTORIAN BY JOSEPH P SMITH You don't find Ohio much like it was in the good old times of forty years ago do you Mr Howe asked an elderly gentleman at Columbus in 1886 He seemed well informed and intelligent but inclined to mournfully disparage the present ' Those who compare the age on which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in their imagination may talk of degeneracy and decay' cheerily answered the ...
... THE COMING AND GOING OF OHIO DROVING THE COMING AND GOING OF OHIO DROVING REV I F KING D D Mr King about the year 1850 took three droves two of cattle and one of sheep across the Allegheny mountains In doing this he walked from Zanesville Ohio to eastern Pennsylvania five times On one trip he came home by public conveyance In 1851 the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was only finished to Clarksburg West Virginia This article is an interesting description of a phase of the business life in the early ...
... Rejoicing in Divine Workmanship Rejoicing in Divine Workmanship 227 REJOICING IN DIVINE WORKMANSHIP Abstract of a sermon preached by the Rev George W Lasher D D editor of the Journal and Messenger Cincinnati Ohio in the First Baptist Church Text Psalm CXLIX 2 Let Israel rejoice in Him that made him let the children of Zion be joyful in their King There are two ways of writing history the one to refer every event to some over-ruling power superior to man and to human agency the other to find ...
... 474 Ohio 474 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications would be to detract from the estimate in which the work might be held The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society cannot of course agree to sanction such vagaries Respectfully R W MCFARLAND ITINERARY OF THE SECRETARY On August 18th Secretary Randall made a trip to Chillicothe and procuring conveyance drove out some seven miles to the location of the Harness Mounds where Prof W C Mills Curator of the Society's Museum was conducting his ...
... CALEB ATWATER CALEB ATWATER CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF It is as Ohio's first historian that Caleb Atwater is best known But had he never written his History of Ohio his efforts to provide an educational system for the state and the record he made in Archaeology might in themselves be sufficient reason for placing his name in Ohio's Hall of Fame Caleb Atwater was a versatile peculiar eccentric and visionary individual From the world's material point of view his life might not be reckoned a success He ...
... ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR FEBRUARY 19 1895 TO FEBRUARY 18 1896 GEN R BRINKERHOFF President E O RANDALL Secretary COLUMBUS O JANUARY 1896 275 To His Excellency ASA S To His Excellency ASA S BUSHNELL Go v er n or of Ohio SIR I have the honor to submit herewith the eleventh annual report of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society covering the year from February 19 1895 to February 18 1896 This ...
... Journal of Ensign William Schillinger 51 Journal of Ensign William Schillinger 51 EDITOR'S NOTE The original manuscript of this Journal was brought to the attention of the Editor by Mr James A Green a life member of the Society whose contributions have appeared in previous issues of the Quarterly Mr Green has for years been deeply interested in the history of Ohio and the Northwest Territory He has made a special study of the career of William Henry Harrison who was born in Virginia but who ...
... NINTH ANNUAL REPORT NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Ohio State Archaeological and Historical SOCIETY TO THE GOVERNOR From February 19 1893 to February 19 1894 To th e HON WILLIAM MCKINLEY Governor of Ohio SIR-The eighth annual report of this Society was a resume of the work to that time chiefly along lines connected with the department of American Archaeology and History at the World's Fair Since the date of that report our labors have been principally directed toward completing in the best manner ...
... 318 Ohio Arch 318 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications STANTON DAY Tuesday morning at ten o'clock the exercises of the day opened at the opera house with Capt John F Oliver master of ceremonies There was a fair audience of school children and others who had gathered to hear Dr W H Venable's address on Ohio Men and Ohio Ideas After an invocation by Rev E W Cowling rector of St Stephen's parish and lately from the mother state of Virginia the home of Jefferson Mr D W Matlack principal of ...
... JOHN LEWIS ROTH JOHN LEWIS ROTH The First White Child Born in the Moravian Mission at Gnadenhutten1 By HARLOW LINDLEY The Ohio Society Daughters of the American Colonists at least must be given credit for arousing a group of Ohio's citizens from an unusual state of disinterestedness to one of profound interest and concern as to who was the first white child born in Ohio and some of these seem to have gone out of their way to misinterpret what it is all about I hold in my hand a clipping ...
... THE PART THAT THE PIONEER PHYSICIANS OF THE PART THAT THE PIONEER PHYSICIANS OF OHIO PLAYED IN THE COMMUNITY AS EXEMPLIFIED IN THE CHURCH AND LODGE By JAMES J TYLER MD The church has had an important place in the development of the frontier The first forty years of religious development in Ohio is full of absorbing interest and vital realities It produced permanent results in the establishment of our Commonwealth The minister of the Gospel the lawyer the teacher and the doctor comprised the ...
... CLARK'S CONQUEST OF THE NORTHWEST CLARK'S CONQUEST OF THE NORTHWEST BY E O RANDALL The French were the first to discover and explore the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys While the English were establishing colonial settlements between the Alleghany mountains and the Atlantic coast the French adventurers were locating missionary stations military posts and trading centers on the Great Lakes and the river ways of the Northwest Such lodging places in the western wilderness were Detroit Vincennes ...
... OLD FORT INDUSTRY OLD FORT INDUSTRY BY S S KNABENSHUE Editorial in Toledo Blade January 24 1903E O R Fort Industry existed that is there are men still living who can recall its remains But that is all we know about it In boyhood they saw the clay bluff afterward cut down which occupied the site of the block bounded by Summit Water Monroe and Jefferson streets On its summit some six or eight doors north of Monroe street was an excavation which had apparently been a cellar under a cabin and at ...
... GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER BY C B GALBREATH Grant Sherman and Sheridan This is the group of Civil War generals which is usually put forward as Ohio's unrivalled contribution to leadership in the great struggle between the North and the South These three have been honored with statues on the famous monument Ohio's Jewels at the northwest corner of the Capitol building of that State in Columbus Grant and Sherman were each born in Ohio and received their appointment to ...
... RIVER NAMESAKES OF THE STATE OF OHIO RIVER NAMESAKES OF THE STATE OF OHIO by CAPT FREDERICK WAY JR It is quite probable that no one will know precisely how many steamboats of the western rivers were named to honor the state of Ohio A share at least of those named Ohio honor the river they plied and not the state Actually in only one isolated case is it possible to be sure the state of Ohio was honored and not the river That is the steam towboat Ohio built in 1930 for the Standard Unit ...
... LAYING CORNER STONE LAYING CORNER STONE OF THE SOCIETY'S BUILDING On the afternoon of Se p tember 12 1 912 the Trustees and officers of the Society laid the Corner Stone of the building of the Society located on the Campus of the Ohio State University The ground was first broken for the excavation on June 25th The weather on the day of the corner stone laying was ideal and a goodly audience of the friends of the Society including many professors of the University assembled to witness the ...