... medicines but on Sabbath morn hope had almost died in the hearts of many We see but too plainly that she had greatly failed during the night a film now partly clouded those lovely eyes of blue and they told me she would ere long go from our gaze but I could not believe I prayed and hoped that as God in the most extreme moment did restore to consciousness our dear Father when all thought him dying 26 Mary Osborn the housekeeper whom James had ...
... GEORGE WASHINGTON AT THE GEORGE WASHINGTON AT THE GREAT BEND OF THE OHIO RIVER GUY-HAROLD SMITH There is a tradition that George Washington took a short cut across the Great Bend of the Ohio River in the autumn of 1770 when he made his journey to the Kanawha River Since Washington went down stream as far as the Kanawha he had to cover that section known as the Great Bend both on the down stream journey and on his return It is only logical that he might want to hasten his journey by cutting ...
... DOCUMENT DOCUMENT FROM PITTSBURGH TO SHAWNEE TOWN 1819 Edited by WILLIAM D HOYT JR Maryland Historical Society The people living along the Ohio River are miserably deficient in morals principles and manners and much addicted to drinking profanity and idleness Thus wrote Joseph Proud to Nathaniel G Maxwell from Shawnee Town Illinois December 22 1819 The letter containing these sentiments provides an interesting picture of travel down the Ohio at the close of the second decade of the nineteenth ...
... THE NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH IN OHIO THE NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH IN OHIO FROM 1848 TO 1870 by OPHIA D S MI TH In his Teachers of the Nineteenth Century 1845 Parke Godwin said that the chief characteristic of the then present epoch was its tendency to unity in universality and that the men in whom this tendency was most fully expressed were Swedenborg Fourier and Goethe In these three persons was summed up the great movement toward unity in universality in religion science and art which comprised the ...
... 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 ...
... THE LUDLOW LINE THE LUDLOW LINE R W MCFARLAND It is well known that Virginia claimed most of the territory northwest of the Ohio river by reason of the grants made by the sovereign of England to the colonists In 1784 in accordance with a formal request made by Congress in 178 0 Virginia ceded to the United States all her claims to the territory reserving only the lands between the Scioto and the little Miami rivers This tract is usually called the Virginia Military District It was reserved for ...
... COUNTY HISTORICAL MATERIAL IN THE OHIO COUNTY HISTORICAL MATERIAL IN THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY LIBRARY Compiled by CLARENCE L WEA VE R and HELEN MILLS ADAMS COUNTY Caldwell J A Illustrated historical atlas of Adams county Ohio Newark O J A Caldwell 1880 Evans N W and Stivers E B History of Adams county Ohio West Union O E B Stivers 1900 Hillsboro Belfast and Peebles electric railroad promoters' co Prospectus Peebles O Leader book and job print 1906 ALLEN COUNTY Bowen ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 65 NUMBER 2 APRIL 1956 From England to Ohio 1830-1832 The Journal of Thomas K Wharton-- II Edited by JAME S H RODABAUGH This is the second and final installment of the Wharton journal the first having appeared in the January issue pages 1-27 along with a brief sketch of Wharton Wharton as a boy of sixteen sailed with his mother brothers and sisters from Hull May 3 1830 to join his father who had acquired a farm near Piqua Ohio ...
... MARIETTA COLLEGE AND THE OHIO COMPANY MARIETTA COLLEGE AND THE OHIO COMPANY A Review of Professor Arthur G Beach's History BY WAYNE JORDAN A college history that is also an outstanding contribution to the general historical literature of Ohio has been published in connection with the 100th anniversary of the present charter of Marietta College and the 138th of the founding of Muskingum Academy The book is entitled A Pioneer College--The Story of Marietta1 and was written by Arthur G Beach ...
... The OhioMichigan Boundary Line Dispute a The Ohio - Michigan Boundary Line Dispute 199 THE OHIO-MICHIGAN BOUNDARY LINE DISPUTE TOD B GALLOWAY Sing 0 Goddess Muse From whence arose so fierce a strife In the examination of the questions involved in the OhioMichigan boundary dispute I find myself very much in the position of the Justice of the Peace who after hearing the plaintiff's side of the case was ready to decide in his favor but upon the defendant having presented his argument he exclaimed ...
... OHIO BANKING INSTITUTIONS 1803 TO 1866 OHIO BANKING INSTITUTIONS 1803 TO 1866 BY A B COOVER A bank as we understand and use the word is simply a plan of organizing capital by which the full benefits of the latter are secured The separate means of individuals are united together and a large sum thus constituted is hired out at interest to those who need it This combination and the manner of its use may be compared to a dam across a valley and the accumulation in one body the water of separate ...
... DANIEL PRESTON DANIEL PRESTON Thomas Kelsey Hardluck Entrepreneur In the years following the close of the War of 1812 a wave of economic speculation swept through the West The Treaty of Ghent which ended the war offered nothing in concrete terms beyond a much desired peace But if the United States had not won the war against the powerful British Americans could at least revel in the knowledge that they had not lost it either They quickly forgot the many near-disasters that the nation ...
... THE BEGINNINGS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE THE BEGINNINGS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY By THOMAS N HOOVER Rufus Putman never attended a university but fathered the first institution for higher learning in the Northwest Territory He seldom if ever went to school but contributed much to the cause of education His mother when Rufus was still a small boy inflicted upon him an undesirable domineering illiterate step-father who required the lad to work all day and denied him a ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Organizations ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President The society now has about 134000 in cash and a quantity of bricks on hand for its proposed museum building The estimated cost of the structure is 150000 The society would like to lay the cornerstone in Ohio's sesquicentennial year but definite plans have not been made ALLIANCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Alliance Mrs Fred R Donaldson President A marker has been placed by the society ...
... THE DIVIDE THE DIVIDE The Water-Shed of Richland County Ohio BY A J BAUGHMAN The far-famed barn from the eaves of which the rain-falls flow from one side into Lake Erie and from the other to the Ohio river is situate near Five Corners in Springfield township seven miles west of Mansfield Richland County on the West Fourth street or Leesville road That this barn is not a myth but an actual reality can be verified by a visit to the locality The farm upon which the building stands is owned by C ...
... DIARY OF JACOB ADAMS PRIVATE IN COMDIARY OF JACOB ADAMS PRIVATE IN COMPANY F 21st O V V I FOREWORD This diary presented is from the pen of Jacob Adams a private in Co F 21st O V V I and covers the period of his service in the American Civil War of 1861-1865 The account was compiled in 1924 from letters written home and from a diary kept day by day during most of the time of service The intention of the author was to preserve for his children an account of his services Knowing the value placed ...
... CASUALTIES OF BATTLE OF FALLEN CASUALTIES OF BATTLE OF FALLEN TIMBERS In order to determine as far as possible the casualties at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in January 1931 Mr W B Davis of Washington D C was employed to consult the records of the War Department This he did In his letter of transmittal he says among other things I find a great many records covering the period of August 20 1794 are missing When the British burned the White House many of the records were stored there and were ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 125 WHIP-POOR-WILL Whip-poor-will to which reference is made in preceding pages of this issue was the youthful newspaper venture of two lads Wilson Lindsley Gill and Emilius Oviatt Randall aged respectively fourteen and fifteen years Fortunately a complete file of this paper is in the possession of Mrs E O Randall through whose courtesy we are able to present accurate information concerning it together with extracts and illustrations The paper ...
... A STATION ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD A STATION ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD MRS FLORENCE BEDFORD WRIGHT OBERLIN The Anti-Slavery agitation of the nineteenth century called out the heroic qualities in many a quiet man in whom such attributes had never been suspected In no part of the country did the friends of the fugitive slave make more personal sacrifices than those residing in southwestern Ohio It was during this period that the name under-ground railroad was given to the manner by which ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT WRITES A 5000 PRIZE BOOK Forty-Niners The Chronicle of the California Trail By Archer Butler Hulbert Boston Little Brown amp Company 1931 pp 340 Price 350 The past six years have witnessed a growing interest in the winning of the far West the overland journeys to the Pacific Coast--to Oregon and California in the days of the ox-team and the Conestoga wagon Perhaps the most colorful of the migrations to ...