... THE RISE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH IN OHIO THE RISE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH IN OHIO by OPHIA D SMITH By 1832 there were enough Newchurchmen scattered throughout the West to demand a general organization to synchronize their efforts to spread the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg Since they were too remote from the eastern cities to attend the annual General Convention they wanted a general convention of their own in order to manage western affairs in a western way This need was met by the ...
... NEWS and NOTES ADLAI E STEVENSON United States ambassador to the United Nations has given his papers relating to his campaign for governor of Illinois in 1948 and the papers of his terms as governor 1949-53 to the Illinois State Historical Society Springfield In a statement accompanying his letter of gift Ambassador Stevenson said Feeling that the preservation of papers affecting our past is important for the future and because of my family's long residence in Illinois and close connection ...
... SILVER MINES OF OHIO INDIANS SILVER MINES OF OHIO INDIANS PROFESSOR R S KING We occasionally have had inquiries concerning the history or myth if it was merely traditionary concerning some silver mines worked by the Indians which mines were supposed to have been located near Old Chillicothe Greene County Ohio We have never been able to secure any definite information in regard to the same until we received the following from Professor R S King now of the University of Arizona Tucson ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Spring meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held April 4th and 5th 1997 at Malone College in Canton Ohio The historical Encyclopedia of African American Associations is seeking scholars interested in contributing assigned entries This single-volume reference work will include associations established by African Americans and interracial groups working in the interest of African Americans For a list of entries and further information please ...
... INDIAN LAND CESSIONS IN OHIO INDIAN LAND CESSIONS IN OHIO BY S S KNABENSHUE Ever since the civilized nations of the world began to occupy lands peopled by savages they have based their claims upon the right of discovery followed by occupation This principle has been judicially affirmed by the United States Supreme Court which declared that discovery gave an exclusive right to extinguish the Indian title of occupancy either by purchase or conquest and also to sovereignty Johnson and Graham's ...
... DOCUMENTS DOCUMENTS AN UNSUCCESSFUL NEGOTIATION FOR REMOVAL OF THE WYANDOT INDIANS FROM OHIO 1834 edited by DWIGHT L SMITH Instructor in History Ohio State University It did not take long for the frontiersman and his government to realize the impossibility of his pushing westward into new lands for purposes of hunting trapping and settling without reckoning with the Indian who inhabited the lands in which he desired to hunt trap and settle According to the white man's concepts of ownership and ...
... CORRESPONDENCE OF GUY M CORRESPONDENCE OF GUY M BRYAN AND RUTHERFORD B HAYES ADDITIONAL LETTERS edited by ROBERT C COTNER and WATT P MARCHMAN A number of years ago Ernest William Winkler who was then reference librarian and curator of Texas books at the University of Texas and an associate editor of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly began the publication in that periodical of all available correspondence exchanged between the Honorable Guy M Bryan of Texas and President Rutherford B Hayes ...
... BODY SNATCHING IN OHIO DURING THE BODY SNATCHING IN OHIO DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY by LINDEN F EDWARDS Professor of Anatomy Ohio State University The history of the science of human anatomy is not merely a biographical record of the leading personalities or a compilation of the discoveries and achievements in that science it is also the story of a bitter struggle between a scientific spirit which demands human bodies for dissection and an antipathy of the public mind toward the practice of ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 249 where we shall regard him with worshipful admiration and reverence Though decorated with all the honors a nation-a world-could bestow there shines through all the man-the noble spotless man There is no incident in history to our mind like that journey from Washington to Canton of the funeral train The catafalque upon which rested the body of the illustrious dead occupied the center of a spacious car-the sides of which were glass It was brilliantly lighted at night ...
... 280 Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly 28 0 Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly present war in such manner that the said lands be sold out or otherwise disposed of for the common benefit of all the states and that the money arising from the sale of those lands or the quit rents reserved thereon may be deemed and taken as part of the monies belonging to the United States and as such be appropriated by congress towards defraying the expences of the war and the payment of ...
... CENTENNIAL OF MINER FAMILY CENTENNIAL OF MINER FAMILY The celebration of the Miner family June 7 1 90 6 at the old homestead on Green Lawn Avenue was an occasion well worthy of permanent note Mrs Mary Wharton eighty-five years of age youngest daughter of Isaac Miner and the sole survivor of his children issued an invitation to her friends and neighbors in the following form 1806 Spero ut fidelis 1906 MRS MARY WHARTON REQUESTS THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY AT THE CENTENNIAL OF THE MINER FAMILY ...
... 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 ...
... THE QUAKERS THEIR MIGRATION TO THE THE QUAKERS THEIR MIGRATION TO THE UPPER OHIO THEIR CUSTOMS AND DISCIPLINE BY H E SMITH MARIETTA OHIO George Fox was the Father of the Quaker Meeting sometimes called Friends' Meeting He tells us that Truth sprang up first to us to be a people to the Lord in Leicestershire England in 1644 He describes how the movement first spread to the neighboring counties then by 1654 over England Scotland and Ireland in 1655 many went beyond the seas and in 1656 Truth ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE MOUND BUILDERS AND THE LOST TRIBES THE HOLY STONES OF NEWARK The following article from The Daily Oklahoman published at Oklahoma City Oklahoma of the date Sunday May 3 1908 was forwarded to us with the inquiry whether the statements therein contained concerning the Holy Stones of Newark or Jackstown were authentic To this we reply that the statements as to the finding of such alleged relics are correct but as to the genuineness of the relics we are compelled to ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION Washington D C Carl Bode Chairman Steering Committee The sponsoring committee of the association held its first meeting at the Library of Congress on March 22 1951 and adopted a constitution for the association The organization has as its aim the encouragement of the study of American civilization by improving communications across those disciplines which deal with phases of American civilization and by fostering ...
... 542 Ohio Arch 542 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications small colleges and that some of our best citizenship found its inspiration in these institutions All of these colleges have had men and women of more than usual rank and standing in our commonwealth and I am proud to recognize their contribution to Ohio citizenship They have not been very exclusive in this because they have always exported their best to other colleges We have present Professor Beverly W Bond Jr from the University of ...
... ROBERT WHITE McFARLAND ROBERT WHITE McFARLAND FRANK S BROOKS COLUMBUS If all the men who have been so fortunate as to have come under the benign influence of Professor McFarland were each to pay the tribute of laying one stone in his honor no towering modern structure would overlook the pile Such would be a fitting memorial for while indulgent toward many duller minds patiently helping to mould the characters of boys and men much of his incessant work has been among the stars Reluctantly I ...
... 442 Ohio Arch 442 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications General Braddock did not live to realize all the evil consequences which his defeat brought upon the frontiers The road which he had opened from the Potomac to within seven miles of Fort Duquesne became again an Indian warpath In the three years following this battle it was used by a few small parties of French and many bands of Indians as an open road to the Potomac whence they ravaged the English settlements in Virginia Maryland and ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 427 Reviews Notes and Comments 427 ago entertained Lafayette In the failure to adopt and carry out generally a program for such celebration of the anniversary of this remarkable tour the patriotic societies of America lost a real opportunity The following editorial of the Cincinnati Times-Star of May 18 reflects the spirit that this celebration revived in the Queen City of the West WHEN LAFAYETTE CAME TO CINCINNATI The most romantic figure in American history was not ...
... 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 ...