... DUNCAN McARTHUR FIRST PHASE 1772-1812 DUNCAN McARTHUR FIRST PHASE 1 7721 812 By C H CRAMER After the Battle of Culloden in 1746 many of the supporters of the defeated Prince Charlie the Young Pretender found it advisable to migrate to the New World Among the emigres were some of the MacArthurs members of a clan as proud of their distinctive plaid and feather as any in Scotland One of their number settled in New York where a son Duncan was born in 1772 The mother died when the boy was three and ...
... GENERAL MASON AND HIS LETTER ON RAILROADS GENERAL MASON AND HIS LETTER ON RAILROADS B F PRINCE Almost every community of considerable size and age has furnished one or more characters who have been prominent for a life and acts that were for the good of that special locality and often for the state or nation at large One who stood in this threefold relation was Hon Samson Mason of Springfield Ohio Mr Mason was born in the state of New York in 1793 He attended the public schools of the day ...
... 110 Ohio Arch 110 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications REPORT OF FIELD WORK IN VARIOUS PORTIONS OF OHIO BY WARREN KING MOOREHEAD CURATOR AND IN CHARGE OF EXPLORATIONS PREFACE April 4 1897 I left Columbus for Farmington New Mexico Mr Clarence Loveberry who had been associated with me for nearly three years in the museum as well as in the field was appointed to act as Assistant Curator in my absence During my stay in the West he carried on field work and attended to the museum routine duties ...
... PREHISTORIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN OHIO PREHISTORIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN OHIO BY MARY HUBBELL OSBURN The prehistoric era of the Indians in North America is an episode in the chronology of man in which Ohio and other portions of the Mississippi Valley play an important role It is in these regions that some of the finest examples of Indian cultures of that period are found Among the many thousands of other art objects found in the Ohio area the remnants of prehistoric musical instruments are ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 99 ican Revolution and of the Benjamin Franklin the local chapter He served as an officer in both organizations and spoke upon many occasions on patriotic subjects at their meetings and banquets Col W L Curry a charter member of the State Society a Past President and for many years State Registrar and an active executive of the Society will speak RANDALL SON OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BY COL W L CURRY Emilius Oviatt Randall to whom we pay tribute ...
... array of artifacts taken from the burials especially those made of native copper and silver such as the bear and antler head dress flying eagles double-headed eagles plates with double-headed eagles in repousse work effigy pipes of birds and animals spears of obsidian and nyaline quartz For the most part the artifacts have been placed on exhibition in the north Archaeological Hall second floor Another valuable and interesting feature found in ...
... THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETT SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO Nov 27 1916 The meeting was called to order by First Vice President George F Bareis There were present Messrs George F Bareis E O Randall F W Treadway W C Mills H E Buck D H Gard H C Shetrone Frank Tallmadge F D Hills W H Cole Edgar Butler A M Schlesinger E C Derby Leonard Marker J M Dunham Almer Hegler D J Ryan James E Campbell Webb C ...
... array of independent military companies called volunteers who also appeared in their best uniforms Gen Edward King of Chillicothe and Gen Sander son our very highly esteemed pioneer friend of Lancaster who at more than four-score years of age is still living and whose interesting letter was read at our last meeting were among the most conspicuous military commanders on that celebrated occasion Our late friends and fellow citizens Capts ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 3 31 Mrs Tuttle is a writer of great merit being a lady of unusual culture and scholarship Her husband was the late Prof Herbert Tuttle the distinguished historical writer and lecturer at Cornell University With her husband Mrs Tuttle spent some years abroad and became proficient as a linguist and an artist She not only writes in a delightful manner but wields the artist's brush both in portraiture and landscape with equal talent and charm That she is deeply ...
... LUCY BACKUS WOODBRIDGE PIONEER MOTHER LUCY BACKUS WOODBRIDGE PIONEER MOTHER January 31 1757--October 6 1817 By LOUISE RAU Distant secluded still the little village of Grand-Pre Lay in the fruitful valley At the confluence of the Ohio and the Muskingum Rivers hidden beneath its giant elms and maples Marietta named for the fascinating Marie Antoinette takes one back to bygone days when Ohio was a wilderness peopled by red men Here in the foothills New England made her first outpost during the ...
... THE LATE PREHISTORIC CULTURES OF THE THE LATE PREHISTORIC CULTURES OF THE OHIO VALLEY by JAMES B GRIFFIN Director Museum of Anthropology University of Michigan After the decline of the Hopewell culture there can be recognized a period of unknown length during which relatively little cultural progress was made Actually this was a period of decline in quite a number of the ceremonial aspects of Indian life as it is revealed by materials placed with the dead and by the type and amount of time ...
... LINCOLN IN OHIO LINCOLN IN OHIO BY JOHN H CRAMER I The Cincinnati Speech of September 1859 Did Dayton Hear It First The words which Abraham Lincoln spoke in Cincinnati upon the seventeenth of September 1859 are well known to careful students of his addresses and writings They were the words of one of the most important speeches which the famous Illinoisan made upon his brief but important excursion into Ohio The address was given in answer to a previous speech made by the then more noted ...
... JOHN HENRI KAGI JOHN HENRI KAGI BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY C B GALBREATH A traveler northward bound on a Pennsylvania local passenger train if he is interested in the smaller stations between Warren and Ashtabula will hear the conductor call out Bristolville To the ninety and nine who hear this call the name will suggest nothing To possibly one out of a thousand it will start a train of thought that will carry him back to the eventful years before the Civil War when hostility to the institution of ...
... arrayed on the side of freedom The spirit of liberty which has since broken forth among the nations where had been the power would have dared oppose its march when supported and encouraged by her friendly alliance Freedom in that quarter of the globe had ere this day triumphed over oppression and Europe were now the seat of republics instead of empires But sad as has been the reverse gloomy and lowering as is the oriental horizon let not the ...
... THE DEDICATION OF THE HAYES MEMORIAL THE DEDICAT I ON OF THE HAYES MEMORIAL AT SPIEGEL GROVE FREMONT OHIO TUESDAY MAY 30 1916 Memorials of our greatest statesmen have taken many forms and had their rise through various agencies Mount Vernon the home of Washington was rescued from oblivion by a private association whose rules and fees still control its view by the public Lincoln's modest home in Springfield Ill and The Hermitage the home of Jackson in Nashville Tenn are now in charge of local ...
... 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 ...
... 422 Ohio Arch 422 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications FOURTH SESSION At the Saturday morning meeting President Randall turned the program over to Prof F P Goodwin of Woodward High School Cincinnati who conducted the meeting in the interest of teachers of history After some preliminary remarks regarding the value of local history as illustrative of national movements and of methods designed to utilize it in this way Mr Goodwin introduced the chief speaker of the morning Prof Arthur W Dunn ...
... Edilorialana Edilorialana 121 order the numerous and important historical events that transpired in his county The little book is illustrated and has a large folding map of the territory which it treats Auglaize county was a sort of geographical and historical pivotal point in Ohio It was the chief gate way for Indians and whites between Lake Erie and the Ohio river for sixtyfive years 1749-1814 The reader should remember that the Maumee rises in the southern part of our county Auglaize south ...
... 292 Ohio Arch 292 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VoL 4 FRANCIS CHARLES SESSIONS BY WASHINGTON GLADDEN D D LL D Blessed are they that dwell in thy house They will be still praising thee Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee In whose heart are the highways to Zion Passing through the Valley of Weeping they make it a place of springs Yea the early rain covereth it with blessings They go from strength to strength Every one of them appeareth before God in Zion - Ps lxxxiv 4 -7 This ...
... THE NAGA AND THE LINGAM OF INDIA AND THE THE NAGA AND THE LINGAM OF INDIA AND THE SERPENT MOUNDS OF OHIO BY ALEXANDER S WILSON M D Kodaikanal Madura District India WITH INTRODUCTION BY G FREDERICK WRIGHT INTRODUCTION About the middle of the last century Mr Lewis Morgan a distinguished citizen of Rochester New York became interested in the manner of reckoning family relationships among the Iroquois Indians of central New York The system was very complicated and complete As many as 237 ...