... EXPLORATION OF THE WRIGHT GROUP OF EXPLORATION OF THE WRIGHT GROUP OF PRE-HISTORIC EARTHWORKS BY H C SHETRONE CURATOR OF ARCHAEOLOGY The Wright Group of Earth-works is located in Perry Township IFran-kli County Ohic one mile northeast of the vill ag e of Dubl in The three uni l s composing the group --a rectangular and two circular enclosures - lie mostly upon the land of Samuel M Wright whose name in recognition of examination privileges and personal assistance accorded by him is hereby given ...
... THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOC I ETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO September 25 1918 The meeting was called to order by President G Frederick Wright There were present G Frederick Wright George F Bareis W H Cole B F Prince W L Curry E F Wood Mrs Howard Jones J S Roof J E Campbell H F Burket D J Ryan A M Schlesinger J M Henderson William Walker E O Randall D H Gard W C Mills H C Shetrone L P Schaus J ...
... 86 Ohio Arch 86 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications one officer and myself went to New York on recruiting service That was in 1814 I remained in New York about two years When we left New York we marched with recruits to fill up the companies stationed on the northern frontier I had re-enlisted on the 23d of November 1816 for five years We marched to Sackett's Harbor and I was there assigned to Company D Second Infantry The other recruits were distributed at the different stations I was ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS THE BEGINNING OF THE OHIO COMPANY AND THE SCIOTO PURCHASE BY MAJOR E C DAWES The beginning of the year 1783 saw the Revolutionary war virtually at an end although the final treaty of peace was not signed until September third The colonies had achieved their independence at the price of the lives of many and the fortunes of all of their defenders The Continental currency despite the fiat of the government had long since ceased to be of value ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLIANCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Alliance Mrs Fred R Donaldson President At the March meeting of the society Melvin Van Winkle was elected to the board of trustees and Mrs Melvin Van Winkle was elected the society's representative to the Stark County Historical Society A current project of the organization is the placing of a marker in the old Williamsport Cemetery at the graves of William and Martha Teeters co-founders of Williamsport in 1827 ...
... THE PLACE OF THE OHIO VALLEY THE PLACE OF THE OHIO VALLEY IN AMERICAN HISTORY FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER Professor of History University of Wisconsin Mr Turner until the fall of 1910 was professor of American History in the University of Wisconsin He is now professor of Western American History at Harvard University and the past year 1910 was president of the American Historical Association He delivered the address herewith published at the meeting of the Ohio Valley Historical Association held ...
... 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 ...
... ROBERT A ROBERT A WHEELER The Literature of the Western Reserve The northeastern portion of Ohio known variously as New Connecticut as the Western Reserve of Connecticut or simply as the Western Reserve has been viewed as a unique area by observers from the eighteenth century to the present The region's distinctiveness stems from its homogenous founding population of transplanted New Englanders whose firm hold determined its culture Writers often agreed these migrants implanted a set of values ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY AUGUST 1953-JULY 1954 compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE KAATZ Martin R The Settlement of the Black Swamp of Northwestern Ohio Pioneer Days Northwest Ohio Quarterly XXV 1953 134-156 KAATZ Martin R The Settlement of the Black Swamp of Northwestern Ohio Later Days Northwest Ohio Quarterly XXV 1953 201-217 LIPP Frederick J The Home Place Being 150 Years of Ohio Farming Inside ...
... 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 ...
... The Wisconsin Archaeological Society The Wisconsin Archaeological Society 3 37 PROFESSOR H B LATHROP'S ADDRESS The mound of earth at our feet is the work of hands long quiet a memorial the meaning of which by the time our race came to this region had been forgotten by the very aborigines themselves whose ancestors it is believed here built it On some summer's day how many ages ago we know not there labored here a band of dark-skinned men and women bearing with them in sacks and baskets the ...
... JOHN MORGAN RAID IN OHIO JOHN MORGAN RAID IN OHIO The following article was written by a veteran of the Civil War now a resident at the Dayton Soldiers' Home and was printed recently in the Lima Times Democrat with notes and comments by the editor of that paper The history of the raid and the efforts to head off the bold leader and his band of daredevils is believed to be authentic - EDITOR The Army of the Cumberland under General Rosecrans was preparing for the advance on the campaign which ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY AUGUST 1963 -- JULY 1964 compiled by s WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE DURAND Loyal Jr The Major Milksheds of the Northeastern Quarter of the United States Economic Geography XL 1964 9-33 Ohio areas shown in twenty milksheds STOVER Stephen L Ohio's Sheep Year 1868 Agricultural History XXXVIII 1964 102-107 ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT McPHERSON James M The Fight Against the Gag Rule Joshua Leavitt and Antislavery Insurgency in the Whig Party 1839-1842 ...
... 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 ...
... RECOLLECTIONS OF NEWARK RECOLLECTIONS OF NEWARK ISAAC SMUCKER Mr Isaac Smucker was born in the Shenandoah Valley Virginia in 1807 and became a citizen of Newark Ohio in 1825 as he relates in the article herewith published He early became an influential and distinguished personage in his community In 1837-8 he was a member of the Ohio Legislature and might have held other offices of greater prominence but he preferred the less conspicuous life and the opportunity it gave to indulge in his ...
... DEDICATION OF BRONZE TABLETS TO DEDICATION OF BRONZE TABLETS TO MAJOR JOHN MILLS AND TECUMSEH FRAZER E WILSON Early in the spring of 1927 the Greenville Historical Society through the services of the Piqua Granite Company transported to Greenville two large granite boulders to be used as historical markers The first was about four and one-half feet square and is shown in the illustration accompanying this article It was found along the Nashville Road about four miles west of Greenville and was ...
... THE EVOLUTION OF THE OHIO-ERIE BOUNDARY THE EVOLUTION OF THE OHIO-ERIE BOUNDARY BY REGINALD C M'GRANE D A R Fellow University of Cincinnati The question of boundaries has always been a source of trouble Nations have been arrayed against each other wars have been fought diplomats have argued and demagogues have harrangued over such disputed points Sometimes Providence in its unaccountable way has helped to solve the question by placing natural limits between race and race or between nation and ...
... Book Notes Book Notes The Civil War Letters of an Ohio Soldier SO Chamberlain and the 49th Ohio Volunteer Infantry By Dick and Judy Chamberlain Flournoy California Dick Chamberlain 1990 ix 67p illustrations Letters written by a Seneca County soldier during the years 1861 -65 are interspersed with the authors' explication of their contents A candid portrayal of campaigning with the Army of the Cumberland the letters speak with a certain rude eloquence of the tedium and hardship of the tented ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Papers of Ulysses S Grant Volume II April-September 1861 Edited by JOHN Y SIMON Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press 1969 xxix 399p foreword preface chronology maps illustrations calendar and index 1500 In his own lifetime Ulysses S Grant was an enigma to most politicians and generals who knew him The Grant revealed in his memoirs was either an overly modest or uncommonly fortunate general The shape of his character and the secrets of his success are not ...
... compiled by compiled by HELEN M THURSTON A Survey of Publications on the History and Archaeology of Ohio 1973 to 1974 ANTISLAVERY FILLER LOUIS Abolition and Social Justice in the Era of Reform New York Harper and Row 1972 367p THOMPSON J EARL JR Lyman Beecher's Long Road to Conservative Abolitionism Church History XLII 1973 89-109 President of Lane Seminary ARCHAEOLOGY Central State ArchaeologicalJournal Published by several archaeological societies Covers Illinois Missouri Indiana Arkansas ...