... 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 ...
... 260 Ohio Arch 260 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications DISCOURSES OF REV RHEES Through the courtesy of Mr George A Katzenberger president of the Greenville Ohio Historical Society we have received duplicate copies of two discourses by Rev Morgan John Rhys delivered at Greenville on July 4 and 5 respectively in the year 1795 before the officers and army of Major General Anthony Wayne Rev Morgan John Rhys or as it is also printed Rhees was born in Graddfa Llanfabon Glamorganshire South Wales ...
... shakers in the community and a list of the club's officers since its founding The author has shown praiseworthy restraint in selecting the material for a book of this kind and has produced a history which is a model of brevity LANDON WARNER Kenyon College HORACE MANN AND OTHERS CHAPTERS FROM THE HISTORY OF ANTIOCH COLLEGE By Robert Lincoln Straker With a preface and an introduction to the Antiochiana Collection in the Olive Kettering Library ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Taft Story By William S White New York Harper amp Brothers 1954 x282p illustrations and index 350 Within certain limits William S White a very able New York Times Washington correspondent has produced a useful study of the late Senator Taft It should be added quickly however that the limits are indeed limited The book does not pretend to be a biography in fact it is without documentation woefully out of balance and loosely put together Still there emerges a ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews In the Name of the People Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859 Edited by Harry V Jaffa and Robert W Johannsen Columbus Ohio State University Press for the Ohio Historical Society 1959 xii307p 500 The historically minded are having a field day in these years of the 1950's and 1960's in constant centennial celebration of the events connected with the Civil War Real contributions to the literature of history are emerging which will be ...
... ROBERT HAMILTON BISHOP1 ROBERT HAMILTON BISHOP1 PIONEER EDUCATOR By JAMES H RODABAUGH One hundred and twenty-five years ago in 1809 the Legislature of the State of Ohio granted the charter which led to the organization of Miami University at Oxford Ohio This institution was built on lands granted in trust by the Federal Government to the State of Ohio for use primarily by the inhabitants of the John Cleves Symmes' Purchase For fifteen years after its founding Miami University remained ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR OHIO STATE HISTORY OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION This is the title of a substantially bound appropriately illustrated and carefully indexed volume of 643 pages compiled and edited by Mrs Annie Jopling Lester Ohio State Historian of the Daughters of the American Revolution The dedication is to Mrs Lowell Fletcher Hobart State Regent of Ohio 1923-1926 There is an opening sketch of three compact pages giving full ...
... GENERAL ROELIFF BRINKERHOFF GENERAL ROELIFF BRINKERHOFF 1828-1911 On Sunday June 4 19 11 at 930 in the evening at his beloved home in Mansfield Ohio the soul of General Roeliff Brinkerhoff took its peaceful flight to the eternal life beyond At the time of his demise General Brinkerhoff was President Emeritus Vol XX-23 353 354 Ohio Arch 354 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society of which he was active President from the year 1893 to the ...
... WHAT WE OWE TO THE PAST WHAT WE OWE TO THE PAST BY NEVIN 0 WINTER The student of history is generally attracted by events which occurred at some remote place It is another illustration of distance lending enchantment In Europe I have seen Americans tramping over the scenes of battles which had no significance in the world's history They were simply scenes of conflicts between rival factions in local disturbances Some of these same Americans have passed by battlefields near their own homes ...
... EARLY FORGES IN OHIO EARLY FORGES IN OHIO BY WILBER STOUT The forge was the forerunner of the rolling mill and as such deserves some attention in the history of the iron industry in Ohio Forging was the method used by the pioneers in the refining and the shaping of crude iron into wares usable by the blacksmiths and mechanics of that day Although simple in design and small in output the forge was distinctly one of the early steps that led through many changes and advancements to the immense ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR UNVEILING OF MEMORIAL TO ELIZABETH ZANE An event of more than passing interest in the pioneer history of the Ohio Valley was appropriately celebrated at Walnut Grove Cemetery Martins Ferry Ohio May 30 1928 This was the unveiling of a statue as a memorial to Elizabeth Zane--Heroine of Fort Henry Fort Henry named in honor of Patrick Henry was built on a hill within ...
... THE BATTLES OF THE MAUMEE THE BATTLES O F THE MAUMEE N B C LOVE D D MOUND BUILDERS Maumee Thou art lovely and bright As if blood had ne'er tinged thy waves And pre-historic tawny braves Had wrought no scene of hellish night Why not a golden sunset smile When thy banks are clothed in green And beauty adorns all the scene When bathed in mellow light the while Thou art gray in the early morn And restful thy summer eveA mirror which cannot deceive And has not since Time was born In ages gone thy ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA SAMUEL S RICKLY Samuel Strasser Rickly died at his residence at 347 East Broad street Columbus Ohio on the evening of November 22d 1905 Mr Rickly was one of the founders of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and from the date of its organization was one of its most influential and valuable members It is due his memory at this time to recall and place on record the inestimable service which he has rendered the society On the evening of February 12 ...
... THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCH A EOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO Sept 28 1 917 The meeting was called to order by President G Frederick Wright There were present G Frederick Wright Frank Tallmadge E O Randall L P Schaus W H Cole W O Thompson F E Wilson J M Dunham W C Moore W C Mills T D Hills Rev B R Long J F Roof H C Hockett Rev William McDermott E F Wood H E Buck C W Justice F W Treadway George F ...
... EARLY OHIO POSTAL ROUTES EARLY OHIO POSTAL ROUTES BY WILLIAM D OVERMAN Regular United States mail service followed closely upon the heels of organized government in the Northwest Territory The statesmen of that day were aware of the value of a contact with the new settlers in the West and the postmasters-general1 urged 1 Samuel Osgood 1789-91 and Timothy Pickering 1791-94 21 22 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 22 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY the extension of ...
... WESTERN OPINION AND THE WAR OF 1812 WESTERN OPINION AND THE WAR OF 1812 BY JOHN F CADY M A I The determining factor in any situation is the active positive element involved in it In the realm of physics for example force is measured by the product of mass and velocity but the direction of movement is determined by the positive active velocity not by the passive mass acted upon So it is in historical and political movements The desires and convictions of the positive progressive group are of ...
... Winthrop Sargent 237 Winthrop Sargent 237 WINTHROP SARGENT'S DIARY WHILE WITH GENERAL ARTHUR ST CLAIR'S EXPEDITION AGAINST THE INDIANS Much has been written of the ill-fated expedition of Arthur St Clair against the Indians in 1791 While serving as Governor of the Northwest Territory he was appointed Major General in the United States army on March 4 of that year An expedition against the Indians was assembled and organized at Fort Wash ington Considerable difficulty was experienced in fitting ...
... 24 Ohio Arch 24 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications their loss was far heavier than that suffered by Wayne's soldiers Following the Battle of Fallen Timbers many Indians fled to Detroit the British headquarters and General Wayne departed for Fort Defiance He did not live long to enjoy the honor of his victory dying two years later One of General Wayne's last acts was to receive from the British Fort Miami which they formally surrendered in 1796 in pursuance to a treaty negotiated by Chief ...
... A HALF CENTURY OF THE WRITING OF HISTORY A HALF CENTURY OF THE WRITING OF HISTORY IN OHIO By FRANCIS P WEISENBURGER Slightly more than a century ago Mrs Frances Trollope returned to her home in England after two years of residence in Cincinnati Thereupon she published her Domestic Manners of the Americansl a somewhat ironical commentary upon life in the United States Thus she became one of the earliest representatives of a ubiquitous tribe of Europeans that from time to time has contrasted the ...
... WASHINGTON AND OHIO WASHINGTON AND OHIO E O RANDALL LL M The many-sidedness of Washington presents an unfailing field of study in his character and career His varied accomplishments in each of which he was facile prince ps again and again quicken our interest in and increase our admiration for the foremost figure in American annals So glorious was he in the pomp and circumstance of the War of Independence and so wise and potent was he in the arena of our national awakening that we are apt to ...