... Ohio in Early History and During the Revolution Ohio in Early History and During the Revolution 395 OHIO IN EARLY HISTORY AND DURING THE REVOLUTION BY E 0 RANDALL PH B L L M Secretary Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society President Ohio Society Sons of the American Revolution No territory in the new world at least perhaps not in the old presents so much of interest at once to the archaeologist and the historian as the inland portion of America now and for a century designated as the ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE ORIGINAL MAN FROM OHIO Remarks recently made by the Editor of this Quarterly in introducing a gentleman on the occasion of a lecture on Ohio Archaeology before the William Morris Society of Columbus led to much comment both serious and humorous in the newspapers not only of this state but of papers in various parts of the country The Editor in his remarks was simply passing along some well ventilated possible conclusions resulting from the explorations and ...
... 246 Ohio Arch 246 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Mississippi Their bones are heaped in trenches where the leaden hail fell thickest and bleach unfound in prison pens where ghastly famine stalked The turbulent waves of the Atlantic and the tepid waters of the Gulf flow over the iron ships in which they are forever coffined They are the Unknown Dead -peace to their ashes These war-wasted flags are their most glorious memorial-these flags that are While for their precious honor red for ...
... Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 581 Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 581 FORT ST CLAIR Mr H R McPherson read the report of the Committee as follows As chairman of The Fort St Clair Committee I have the honor to report as follows Since securing possession of Fort St Clair December 1923 the following work has been performed on the grounds Purchased 280 rods of wire for fence and new posts for 80 rods of old wire fence A total of 360 rods of fence has been erected Four hundred and ninety-one steel posts ...
... ST ST CLAIR'S DEFEAT FRAZER ELLS WILSON GREENVILLE OHIO Author of the valuable little volume entitled The Treaty of Greenville published 1894-E 0 R Probably the most disastrous defeat ever suffered by the Americans at the hands of the Red Men was that of the army of Gen Arthur St Clair on the east branch of the Wabash near the present western boundary of Ohio November 4th 1 791 Both for the number of men killed and the blighting effect on the frontier settlements was this disaster noted and ...
... Boundary Line Between Ohio and Indiana Etc Boundary Line Between Ohio and Indiana Etc 127 BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN OHIO AND INDIANA AND BETWEEN OHIO AND MICHIGAN SPECIAL REPORTS OF T C MENDENHALL SUPERINTENDENT OF UNITED STATES COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY AND A A GRAHAM SECRETARY OF THE OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Sixty-ninth General Assembly of Ohio authorized the Governor to cause an examination of the boundary lines between Ohio and Indiana and Ohio and Michigan to be made It has for some time ...
... THE OHIO DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE THE OHIO DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF B PED By permission of The Ohio Teacher The school histories have always said much about the Mecklenburg Resolutions being the prelude to the Declaration of Independence Indeed some histories make so much of it that you doubt if Thomas Jefferson would ever have mustered up courage sufficient to pen the immortal lines beginning When in the course of human events etc had he not had this brave precedent ...
... 190 Ohio Arch 190 Ohio Arch and Hist So ciety Publications I HIS DECISIVE CONVERSION David Zeisberger's conversion stands out as clearly and strongly as does that of John Wesley in January 1743 a little company stood on the deck of the James ready to leave for Europe It was a group of Moravian Brethren most of whom had come to take leave of their beloved leader Count Zinzendorf Belonging to this company was a young man twentytwo years of age who had been appointed to return with the Count to ...
... THE COUNTRY STORE IN AMERICAN SOCIAL HISTORY THE COUNTRY STORE IN AMERICAN SOCIAL HISTORY by THOMAS D CLARK Professor of History University of Kentucky Any rural American over forty years of age and possessed of a sound memory often lets his mind wander back to the countryside and conditions of his youth Many institutions and symbols of the past are reminiscent of a life of peace and contentment There was the country church where he worshipped or perhaps more exactly sat and longed to be out ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR OVERLAND TO CALIFORNIA LETTER FROM AN OHIO ARGONAUT We are indebted to Professor E F Warner of Bellevue long the superintendent of schools of that city and later with the State Department of Public Instruction for an interesting letter written by his uncle in 1853 when the exodus to California was still at its height It is here published for the first time ...
... 628 Ohio Arch 628 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications 39 Addition Historical specimens belonging to the Seip Family presented by Mr John Seip Chillicothe O 9-27-26 738 Historical specimens presented by Mr C V Sigler Columbus O 9-27-26 37 Addition Collection of seeds from Honolulu T H presented by Miss Zarel Jones 9-30-26 739 Indian Beadwork Moccasins and Regalia of J High Redthunder Sioux Medicine Man Pine Ridge South Dakota Presented by Mr Peter M Ambos Columbus O 10-1 -26 Accessions to ...
... 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 ...
... JUDGE JAMES HALL JUDGE JAMES HALL A Literary Pioneer of the Middle West DAVIS L JAMES In the preparation of this sketch acknowledgment should be made of the writer's indebtedness to the Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley by our fellow member Dr W H Venable This volume published in 1891 is of the greatest importance and value to the student of early literary history and an indispensable book of reference It is a matter for much regret that it is out of print and only to be found ...
... SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY June 6 1 902 The seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the parlors of the Y M C A building Columbus Ohio at 230 P M June 6 1 90 2 The following members were present Judge J H Anderson Columbus Mr E H Archer Columbus Mr G F Bareis Canal Winchester Gen R Brinkerhoff Mansfield Mr Gerard Fowke Chillicothe Prof Frank S Fox ...
... THE OHIO-COLUMBUS CENTENNIAL THE OHIO-COLUMBUS CENTENNIAL August 26-September 1 1912 BY OSMAN C HOOPER On February 14 1 912 Columbus had been for a hundred years a habitation and a name and the capital of Ohio prospective or actual It was on St Valentine's day 1 812 that the legislature sitting at Zanesville the second of the temporary capitals of the young State took the final action locating the permanent capital on a site which was described as the highbanks of the Scioto opposite ...
... FAIRFIELD ON THE RIVER THAMES1 FAIRFIELD ON THE RIVER THAMES1 By FREDERICK COYNE HAMIL The name Moraviantown is well known to students of the War of 1812 for it was near this place that General William Henry Harrison defeated Colonel Henry A Procter and the famous Indian Chief Tecumseh was killed The Battle of the Thames is also known as the Battle of Moraviantown American histories of the war following official accounts usually omit to mention the sequel to the battle the plundering and ...
... WHY IS OHIO CALLED THE BUCKEYE STATE WHY IS OHIO CALLED THE BUCKEYE STATE AN ADDRESS BY WILLIAM M FARRAR THE name Buckeye as applied to the State of Ohio is an accepted sobriquet so well recognized and so generally understood throughout the United States that its use requires no explanation although the origin of the term and its significance are not without question and therefore become proper subjects of consideration during this Centennial year The usual and most commonly accepted solution ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 105 the people as one might suppose it to have been in the days of the tenth century The author carries the credulity of his reader to the very limit For instance he fully describes the girls' and boys' schools at Lekin the name which he gives to the present site of Newark in the vicinity of which there still stand to-day vast and complete earth-works of those long lost tribes These people as General Beatty pictures them with a graphic pen reached a stage of ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS FELIX RENICK PIONEER BY CHARLES SUMNER PLUMB Professor of Animal Husbandry Ohio State University The following historical contribution relates to the life of a man who became a notable figure in the pioneer days of Ohio The motive underlying the preparation of this sketch is to pay tribute to the memory of Felix Renick in recognition of the great service he rendered to the improvement of American Shorthorn cattle According to William Renick ...
... COLONEL DICK JOHNSON'S CHOCTAW ACADEMY COLONEL DICK JOHNSON'S CHOCTAW ACADEMY A Forgotten Educational Experiment MRS SHELLEY D ROUSE Less than a century ago there was a large and prosperous school for the education of the sons of the Southern Indians in the Blue Grass region of Kentucky It was at that time the only institution in the country under the supervision of the war department of the United States excepting the military academy at West Point it attracted the attention of ...