... HERE IS LA FAYETTE HERE IS LA FAYETTE BY JOHN ME RRILL WEED La Fayette we are here said General Pershing as he stood beside the tomb in Picpus Cemetery one historic day in 1917 It was a dramatic incident It shows that Pershing had a quality that would scarcely have been suspected in a doughty warrior a flair for capturing the popular imagination of two nations It is not a legend it is too recent for that Moreover we have a statement from the General's headquarters staff attesting the words ...
... County Anti-Slavery County Kentucky Late in County Court of Common County Jail July 4th 1859 County Jail every County Jail Published by the Prisoners who assisted in the rescue of a ...
... 52 Ohio Arch 52 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The name Croghansville for the village was probably first suggested by Josiah Meigs Commissioner of the General Land Office in a letter from Washington City April 12 1816 in which among other words are these If it were left to me to name the town at Lower Sandusky I should name it in honor of the gallant youth Col Croghan -and should say it should be Croghansville The name is still preserved in that of the school on the hill on the East ...
... 98 Ohio Arch 98 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications STORY OF THE FIRELANDS The following interesting account of the Firelands is taken from the West Liberty Banner Unnumbered native Ohioans not to speak of hundreds of thousands of residents of the state from foreign lands and other states of the union must have wondered why a fertile and productive tract in northern Ohio a district which in no way hints of the ravages of fire should be called the Firelands Among all the vicissitudes of ...
... 418 Ohio Arch 418 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications exercises of the day were presided over by Mr Emil Schlup retiring president of the Pioneer Association The election of the officers for the ensuing year resulted in the selection of Mr Amos Nye as president and of the re-election of Mr Mark Karr as secretary An interesting program of music and speeches was successfully carried out Music was furnished by the Adrian Cornet Band composed of E K Ewing Eugene Ewing Fred Ewing Thomas Reardan ...
... 428 Ohio Arch 428 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications wigwam dared to be raised upon its soil on account of danger of some enemy A little later the Algonquin as well as the Iroquois returned to this country in small tribes and grew but there was another enemy rising up against them the English and the French particularly the English For about twenty years they struggled for the occupation of this territory and the English finally succeeded but the Indian was determined to hold it and ...
... Ross of Puyallup 7 Acceptance for the pioneers and the Washington State Historical Society by Judge John Arthur president of the organization 8 Presentation of the pioneer monument to the City of Puyallup for safe keeping by Frank Spinning of Sumner 9 Acceptance by Mayor S R Gray 10 Introduction of Ezra Meeker 11 Unveiling by Mrs Helen P Gibson president of the Daughters of Pioneers of Washington 12 Auburn Band plays Star Spangled Banner 13 ...
... County Ebenezer Lane of Huron and some twenty others to organize The Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio Among the charter members for the city of Cincinnati were Nicholas Longworth John P Foote and Timothy Flint To anyone familiar with the history of our state the names of these empire builders must awaken a thrill of enthusiasm and the fact that men of such standing should be sufficiently interested to take part in such an ...
... County Democrat February County Democrat February County Beacon February 21 1861 168 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 168 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY than those at Alliance they were merely brief words of greeting from a democratic President to the fellow citizens who had chosen him Neither the words at ...
... THE FIRST PURELY REPUBLICAN FORM OF THE FIRST PURELY REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA BY WILLIAM M PETTIT The historical political controversy that raged in the years 1636-37 was over the demand of Anne Hutchinson that women be accorded equal political rights with men in Massachusetts Sir Harry Vane was elected governor in 1636 being a representative of the Hutchinson faction but in 1637 he was defeated by John Winthrop The General Court of Massachusetts tried the famous Hutchinson ...
... establishments At the head of the Ohio is situated this marvelous city of Pittsburgh-to-day the greatest manufacturing center of the world-with a tonnage of 150000000 tons last year greater by far than the combined tonnage produced or originated by Philadelphia and Baltimore and Boston and Greater New York For miles above Pittsburgh along the improved Monongahela it is one succession of manufacturing plants-the marvel of the whole world in ...
... establishment of social institutions never flagged Throughout the proceedings of the medical conventions of Ohio whenever the meetings were held in Columbus there is constant reference to acceptance of invitations to visit the Ohio Penitentiary the schools for the Deaf and the Blind and the State Hospital And the outstanding leaders in this direction were Dr Daniel Drake Dr William Maclay Awl Dr Samuel Parsons and Dr Robert Thompson And the ...
... establishments containing within establishment of important manufacturies and the demonstrations of your enterprise are witnessed not only in the remote regions of the West but on the shores of the Atlantic Will you permit me to remark that the sources of your prosperity lie in the continuance of the same career and in the encouragement of the means of communication The contemplated canal ...
... County were selected and County consisting of 23040 acres which under the terms of the Symmes purchase was granted by the National Government76 for an academy and other public schools and seminaries of learning the growth of the Miami University fund has been due to gifts similarly turned over to the State by the university The development of the irreducible debt of the State since 1900 as ...
... County Ohio The forces County came into my camp County and the people I County and that the slight shedding of blood will be a warning to all evil-disposed persons that any further attempt to resist the officers of the Government in the execution of the laws will be met with speedy and ...
... County Tyrone Ireland married James Renfrew of Coshocton and brought her five children to that place about 1 820 while some of the Indians still remained in the vicinity From statements of my father W K Johnson and my Uncle John Johnson and also of some of the older settlers who still survived in my boyhood days among whom I may mention Captain Neff and Jesse Workman I have information which I feel should be placed of record before it is ...
... JOHN BROWN AT HARPER'S FERRY AND JOHN BROWN AT HARPER'S FERRY AND CHARLESTOWN A LECTURE BY S K DONOVAN This lecture by Colonel S K Donovan was delivered a number of times in Ohio but was never before printed The original manuscript is in the possession of his sister Miss Sallie Donovan of Delaware Ohio by whose permission it is now published Colonel Donovan once stated to the writer that he was the first newspaper correspondent to reach Harper's Ferry after the raid began When he arrived there ...
... THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD S S KNABENSHUE TOLEDO The Underground Railroad was not under the ground nor was it a railway but there was a fitness in the name which caused its general use to express one of the most remarkable phases of the long struggle against slavery and the Slave Power The term was a popular mode of referring to the various ways in which fugitive slaves from the South were assisted in escaping to the North and especially to Canada It was often humorously ...