... northwest flows the Potomac As it reaches a point near the Ferry its course is almost due east The land for five hundred feet from its waters is flat a plain Then it commences to rise abruptly at first and at points almost perpendicFive sons See page 232 304 Ohio Arch 304 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ularly so that a half a mile ...
... 470 Ohio Arch 470 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications fortunate in view and it was through his suggestion and influence that increased provisions were made for the insane that the graded system was introduced into the penitentiary and that many other prison reforms were instituted Among the most important acts of this humanitarian statesman was the founding of the Reform School for Girls ...
... settlements of Germans in settlement of Friedenshutten settlement for the Indians settlement along the settlement For the first time settlement on the Mahoni23
... northwestern frontier In February 1815 he made suggestions to Monroe regarding a summer campaign Since the British had been burning on the seacoast and appeared disposed to continue their depredations he proposed that a force be sent into Canada to lay it waste thus interposing between us and the enemy a desert which he could not easily pass 66 One is reminded again of the reference to Sheridan News of the peace arrived however and the ...
... settlement in the woods He moved on a cold winter day I guess he had to move There was snow on the ground and so small was his stock of this world's goods that goods and family were all moved on a sled at one load At Bethel he studied law living in a cabin and studying at night by the light of a piece of burning hickory bark or of a clapboard He read as much of general literature as he could command the best he could borrow in that community a ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 431 Reviews Notes and Comments 431 SENATOR ROBERT L OWEN AT THE LOGAN ELM Mr E L Spetnagel a life member of our Society writes an interesting letter to Mr Tiffin J Gilmore thanking him for a circular containing a cut of the Logan Elm and the text of the speech of Chief Logan that made the tree famous He speaks of a family reunion last June and the enjoyment of two brothers and other members of his family in making a visit to this grand old tree Continuing Mr ...
... settlement of Mayslick settlements Mr Gurd settlement of an estate and what he planned as a temporary stay was lengthened into a residence of seven years crowded with important events In 1862 he was elected to the lower house of the Connecticut legislature and to the senate in 1864 and 1865 serving as president of the upper house in the ...
... settlement there a Motion was settlement by John Heckewelder in 1798 Thousands poured into the little village to participate in the intensely interesting program arranged for the occasion by Dr Rice Again in the Fall of 1908 Dr Rice planned for and successfully executed the one hundredth anniversary of the death of David Zeisberger whose remains lie buried in the little cemetery at Goshen ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 639 Forty-First Annual Meeting 639 be given to the portion dealing with Fallen Timbers The State and Federal Governments fell short in their appropriation for that park Mr Sherman and I conferred and I suggested that as Fallen Timbers is practially at Toledo's threshold the people of Toledo should join in carrying out the plan Mr Sherman agreed to undertake to raise 25000 It has been a long drawn out fight would have discouraged anybody except Mr Sherman I think he ...
... settlement of Ohio the pack horse was first used on which to transport merchandise The American Indian left us no high-way for wheeled vehicles A wagon road is a thing he never made and if given to him he seldom used As soon as the white-faced Emigrant reached the Northwest territory he projected wagon roads to bring his goods and supplies ...
... FORT FIZZLE FORT FIZZLE Judge James Story Drake son of Colonel James L Drake on June 3 1929 wrote to his niece Mrs Luella Hughes Gillette of Indianapolis Indiana His description of the Holmes County Rebellion is in part as follows I suppose I have told you that I had a part in that War I was between eleven and twelve years old at that time We lived on our farm in Holmes County then and when the Governor sent two companies of hard-boiled soldiers to put down the Rebellion Mother got a message ...
... ANCIENT WORK NEAR OXFORD OHIO ANCIENT WORK NEAR OXFORD OHIO In the first volume of Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge Mr McBride gives a cut and description of this work1 But both plat and description vary so widely from the facts that it seems desirable to bring the case up again Mr MacLean in his Mound Builders reproduces the figure and copies the chief points of the general statement ...
... northwest province and Andrew Jackson with his Tennesseans the real conquest of the Gulf Plains is in itself abundant evidence of the part played in the expansion of the nation by the section which formed on the Ohio and its tributaries Nor was this the end of the process for the annexation of Texas and the Pacific Coast was in a very real sense only an aftermath of the same movement of ...
... settlement was made It was related by these men that the Indians would blindfold them early in the morning and march them up the trail along Massie's Creek for a distance estimated between three and three and a half miles Then they would be left under guard for a period of time usually estimated at about one-half day at the end of which time the Indians who had departed would return with material in bundles that was very heavy for the size of ...
... northwest corner of it where the Egglestons first lived be284 Reminiscences of General Chauncey Eggleston 285 Reminiscences of General Chauncey Eggleston 285 came in 1783 a part of the new town of Middlefield It is in the ragged upland region of western Massachusetts in the midst of the Berkshire Hills now full of deserted farms but at that time a territory into which pioneers were eagerly pushing from both Connecticut and Massachusetts The ...
... settlements deserted By this time all kinds of ills had developed in the army mostly the result of the inadequate military preparations indicated above This group of Indian villages were for a few days the headquarters of Harmar's force From this point he sent out one detachment of several hundred troops who promptly walked into an Indian ambush and were cut to pieces However since he had attained his objective he decided to withdraw to Fort ...
... 360 Ohio Arch 360 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications dresses followed by Hon Geo E Pomeroy of Toledo Past Governor of Society Colonial Wars Prof G F Frederick Wright Hon James M Richardson of Cleveland President General Sons of the American Revolution and Colonel Webb C Hayes To all who attended the exerices were of great interest and made the day memorable while the hospitality of Port ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments Reviews Notes and Comments 46 5 This quotation is a gem and the reader will thank the author for including it A wrong impression is left on page 288 by the statement that the senate finally voted 'yea' unanimously on this bill Seven senators at one time voted against it including Senator Brown from Ohio who opposed it in a speech While the author uses the correct spelling of the name of Lafayette she makes a mistake ...
... northwestern Pennsylvania Whenever bound for Ashtabula or Conneaut obviously for the purpose of fishing these Munsees pursued an established route It led either by trail or by canoe up the Shenango to its junction near present Clarksville Mercer County with a western tributary called Pymatuning Creek From here either one 59 Zeisberger's Indian Dictionary 67 60 Ibid 102 61 Thwaites Early Western Travels I 103 note 68 62 Zeisberger's Indian ...
... 326 Ohio Arch 326 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications main and spacious entrance to the campus of the Ohio State University A structure imposing and attractive in architectural form it is therefore the first of the many handsome buildings that dot and adorn the college grounds to greet the view not only of the visitors to the university ...