... ADDRESS OF JUDGE JOSEPH COX ADDRESS OF JUDGE JOSEPH COX THE BUILDING OF T HE STATE THE first settlement in this State at Marietta and organization of the Northwest Territory under the Ordinance of 1787 were the most notable events in the history of our country and deserve to rank among the greatest of the civilized world The Territory having been wrested from the domination of foreign nations by the combined strength of the American Colonies after the eight years' struggle of the Revolutionary ...
... 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 ...
... VIRGINIA E VIRGINIA E and ROBERT W McCORMICK Episcopal Versus Methodist Religious Competition in Frontier Worthington One hundred hearty souls were spending their first winter in crude log homes in a wilderness clearing when James Kilbourn wrote Ohio Senator Thomas Worthington We have formed a regular Society for religious purposes amp have Divine Service performed every Sunday in public 1 It was not unusual for westward immigrants to be religious people or for several families of similar ...
... EARLY DAYS IN OHIO EARLY DAYS IN OHIO FROM LETTERS AND DIARIES OF DR I A LAPHAM Increase Allen Lapham at the time of his death regarded as the most distinguished scholar of his state Wisconsin was for many years a citizen and state official of Ohio He was born in Palmyra N Y in 1811 and while as a boy laborer working on the construction of the Erie Canal became interested in the study of nature and her various phases The subsequent results of his studies were embodied in fortyfive different ...
... 266 JAMES PRESTON POINDEXTER ELDER STATESMAN JAMES PRESTON POINDEXTER ELDER STATESMAN OF COLUMBUS by RICHARD CLYDE MINOR Professor of Sociology Lincoln University Jefferson City Missouri The story of James Preston Poindexter though it can never be told in its completeness still reveals enough to show that he was a remarkable man Of mixed Negro Caucasian and Indian blood the force of circumstances made him a Negro the force of his personality made him a man respected among men There are many ...
... Index Index Saunders Richard Erie Railroad 7 Scale and Scope The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism by Alfred D Chandler Jr rev 61-63 Scarlet Woman of Wall Street The See Erie Lackawanna Railway Company Scharff Virginia Taking the Wheel Women and the Coming of the Motor Age rev 64-66 Schob David E Schob book rev 147-148 Scioto Company The 117 Scioto River 119 120 Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks One Hundred Years of Preservation and Resource Management California History by Lary M ...
... 338 Ohio Arch 338 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 4 RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD HAYES BY R EV WASHINGTON GLADDEN DD LL D We have studied here more than once the lesson of some great life In no other form does Truth present herself with so much quickening for the intellect with so much invigoration of the will For this reason chiefly was the Word made flesh All highest revelation to men must come through the form of a man The story of a life worthily lived is more convincing than logic more ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR REMINISCENCES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN DR GEORGE T HARDING Dr George T Harding who is a Civil War veteran recently recalled a pleasant visit to Abraham Lincoln At the conclusion of his war service he and a few of his comrades called at the White House A colored attendant told them that the President was very busy but that if they would wait awhile they would have an ...
... SIEGE OF FORT MEIGS SIEGE OF FORT MEIG S The Cleveland Herald and Gazette of June 3 1840 printed an extract from a speech delivered by the brave Col John O'Fallon at the raising of the log-cabin in St Louis This was during the famous Log Cabin Campaign summer and fall of 1840 The speech reflecting the political and public sentiment of the time will be read with interestEDITOR Colonel O'Fallon-who it may be stated delivered his speech from the ramparts of a miniature Fort Meigs -was an aid of ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 65 NUMBER 1 JANUARY 1956 From England to Ohio 1830-1832 The Journal of Thomas K Wharton Edited by JAMES H RODABAUGH This is the journal of an immigrant boy who came from his native England to the United States in 1830 and lived for nearly two years in Ohio It was transcribed by the author in 1854 and here and there recollections were added It is an interesting journal for several reasons It relates in detail the story of the ...
... ARCHAEOLOGICAL REMAINS OF JACKSON COUNTY ARCHAEOLOGICAL REMAINS OF JACKSON COUNTY BY WILLIAM C MILLS INTRODUCTION During the summer of 1905 by special request of a number of citizens and local archaeologists of Jackson county the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society sent an expedition into the county under the direction of the writer which examined a few of the many rock shelters mounds and petroglyphs located in Lick Liberty and Jackson townships The object of the examination was ...
... JOHN FITCH INVENTOR OF STEAMBOATS JOHN FITCH INVENTOR OF STEAMBOATS BY MIRA CLARKE PARSONS In the closing year of this century of wonders it is fitting that we should give a thought to the memory of the inventors and investigators to whom the world owes so vast a debt Fore-- most among them must stand the names of the men who first utilized the tremendous forces of steam and electricity For generations every schoolboy has been taught that Robert Fulton was the inventor of the steamboat That ...
... LEE AND MARGARET SOLTOW LEE AND MARGARET SOLTOW A Settlement That Failed The French in Early Gallipolis an Enlightening Letter and an Explanation Settlement by the French in Gallipolis Ohio began in 1790 with great hope and optimism but ended in relative failure not more than a decade later By 1792 the 400 to 500 settlers had experienced disease famine harsh weather and assaults by Indians a more particular problem for them was their inability to obtain titles to the land on which they had ...
... THE OHIO CANAL THE OHIO CANAL AN ACCOUNT OF ITS COMPLETION TO CHILLICOTHE BY GEORGE PERKINS About this time 1831 the news of the completion of the Ohio Canal reached our village This immense undertaking was brought about by the lack of proper means of transportation The roads throughout the state were primitive The wagons that traversed them were inadequate to transport products and needed goods and a universal sentiment was aroused for building a canal Uncle John Briggs and Samuel Probst ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 469 DID THE MOUND BUILDERS HAVE HORSES Did the Mound Builders Have Horses is the subject of an editorial in the last issue of the American Sportsman March 2 The discovery of the skeleton of a horse dug up in the state of Nebraska started a discussion to which a number of the most eminent archeologists of the country have contributed their opinions Dr Phyle treated the subject at length in an essay some time ago The editorial is as follows A horseman is curious to know ...
... HENRY KURTZ HENRY KURTZ MAN OF THE BOOK by DONALD F DURNBAUGH At 900 AM on Monday January 12 1874 Elder Henry Kurtz of Columbiana Ohio was found in his favorite rocking chair his lifeless hands holding one of his well-loved volumes The septuagenarian publisher communitarian advocate and Brethren churchman expired as he had lived -- as a man of the book1 Kurtz was born on July 22 1796 in the duchy of Wtirttemberg the son of George Jacob d 1846 and Regina Henrietta Kurtz d 1857 His ...
... THE HUMILIATION OF HENRY WARD BEECHER IN THE HUMILIATION OF HENRY WARD BEECHER IN THE WEST by DAVID MEAD Assistant Professor of English Michigan State College In the columns of Ohio's newspapers of nearly a century ago lies the dramatic account of Henry Ward Beecher's rejection as a lecturer by the indignant citizens of the West a story which has not been revealed by the biographers of the great Eastern divine Not that Beecher was the first celebrity to be humiliated by Ohio's lecture public ...
... A VISIT TO FORT ANCIENT A VISIT TO FORT ANCIENT FELIX J KOCH CINCINNATI For some two weeks in the Summer of 1910 a portion of the Ohio National Guard encamped at Fort Ancient and during their evolutions enacted a sham siege of the Fort This interesting incident led to many comments in the newspapers concerning the modern military movements in the fortress that doubtless witnessed scenes of barbarian warfare centuries ago In an article brought out by the incident above mentioned Mr Felix J Koch ...
... DOCUMENTS DOCUMENTS A STATE MOTTO By Harlow Lindley The recent appearance of a book published by the Ohio Development and Publicity Commission entitled Ohio an Empire within an Empire offers an opportunity to make some comments concerning a state motto This title is purported to be taken from the State's motto the State of Ohio however has no official motto In 1866 a law was passed providing for the inscription of a motto on the State seal The motto adopted was Imperium in Imperio--an empire ...
... 518 Ohio Arch 518 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Following Mr Burton's address President Johnson said We may well hope that a million radio listeners scattered from lakes to gulf and from coast to coast have been sitting at their instruments listening to these lessons of truth and magnetism We are greatly indebted to Mr Burton for the message which he has brought us I am sure you will all join in a vote of thanks to him for coming to Columbus and appearing before this assembly Mr ...