... Jackson at New Orleans In all these contests the men of Ohio had a large share and performed feats of valor worthy of their heroic ancestors Nor did this stay the onward progress of the State In 1800 Ohio was the seventeenth State in population in 1810 the thirteenth in 1820 the fifth in 1830 the fourth in 1840 the third In 1790 her population was 3000 in 1800 45365 in 1820 581484 in 1830 935872 170 Ohio Archaeological and Historical ...
... County at the point of bayonets in the hands of white men Why should we become like them Now they send us missionaries who seem trustworthy and the United States government builds us a few houses but when I remember Tecumseh I cannot suddenly love the long-time enemies of my people who have taken away so much and given back so little I am Tecumseh's direct descendant his representative as a leader of our crushed and wronged Shawnee nation It ...
... TARHE THE WYANDOT CHIEF TARHE THE WYANDOT CHIEF AND THE HARRISON-TARHE PEACE CONFERENCE LR CHAS E SLOCUM DEFIANCE It is the desire of this writing to add somewhat to the mention of Tarhe the Wyandot Aborigine1 Chief and to the mention of the character of the Aborigines that appeared in the last number of the QUARTERLY although this addition shows their character different from that there mentioned Tarhe grew to adult life in very troublous times He was reared to savagery and to inebriety like ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA PURCHASE OF FORT ANCIENT The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is to be heartily congratulated over the final accomplishment of its efforts extending through many years of securing entire possession of Fort Ancient It has been a long and stubborn siege with many vicissitudes and delays and dis couragements but the last walls of the enclosure have finally been taken and the Society now holds the fort It is necessary to repeat some ancient history in ...
... Jackson's He died here in Chillicothe amidst the people who loved and honored him for more than a third of a century after a remarkable life of usefulness and distinction This was the Edward Tiffin that confronted Arthur St Clair in the great contest for statehood which resulted in the convention the century of which we celebrate to-day And Tiffin had a foeman worthy of his steel Arthur St Clair the first and only Governor of the Northwest ...
... County Ohio is proud of County Society In another few hundred years this tree may be forever lost but the site shall remain and let us hope that posterity may suitably commemorate with a monument of bronze the world famed speech of the great Mingo Chief Logan Dr G Frederick Wright President of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society received the deed from the hands of Mrs Jones and ...
...formation fell into the hands formation calling a meeting formation about the West he formation 1st the pamphlet formation of its organic law formation and adoption by the
...formation was brought of this affair to the garrison by some friendly Indians and a boat was dispatched to bring off the stores Captains Tunis and White Eyes chiefs of the Delawares who are friendly disposed went up with our people By the stratagem of the chiefs some of the scoundrels were taken They came in with the Meaning of the word Ohio 1 Reprinted from Hudson New York Weekly Gazette September 28 1788 208 NEWS FROM THE MUSKINGUM 209 NEWS ...
... NOTEHISTORICAL NOTEHISTORICAL R W M'FARLAND OXFORD OHIO People familiar with the early annals of the West know something of Simon Kenton They know also of the rivalry between him and Leitchman for the hand of a young lady-that Kenton was unsuccessful in his suite-that there was a fight in consequence and that in the first encounter Kenton again lost but in the second by wrapping Leitchman's long hair about a sapling Kenton won and so severely beat his opponent that thinking him fatally injured ...
...formation from him and from other sources The earliest roads of the white man followed Indian trails Detroit street running north and south through Xenia got its name from a traders' trail to Detroit which it followed This trail was doubtless an Indian trail adopted by the whites and developed into a road It is now a well graded and graveled turnpike from Xenia to Old Town and beyond According to well authenticated tradition the Indian council ...
... formation of an independent formation property and strength will be its characteristics I know many of the settlers personally and there were never men better calculated to promote the welfare of such a community There were forty-eight men in the Ohio Mayflower they were made of similar stuff if not the same stock as the forty-one men who plowed the deep in the original Mayflower and landed ...
...formation gathered from the lips of the leaders in this community in the first half of the nineteenth century still living in the young manhood days of the writer such men as Judge Chas K Smith Elijah Vance Jesse Corwin Nehemiah Wade John Knox Fergus Anderson and Wm N Hunter and in later days the personal reminiscences of Hon Wm R Cochran John M Millikin Thomas Millikin Jacob Stillwaugh Samuel Shafer Joshua Delaplane Augustus Breitenbach Thomas ...
... Jackson in 1805 He was a Revolutionary soldier having fought in the battles of White Plains Trenton Princeton Stillwater Saratoga Fort Stanwix Monmouth and Stony Point and commanded the expedition ...
... County Pioneer Association County Virginia came Lucas County of Botetourt and County of Illinois and had County pass over it The County Other white men who
...formation There was much bitter controversy on this subject afterwards An aid-de-camp to General St Clair states that he saw Captain Slough with two subalterns and thirty men parade at General Butler's tent for that purpose and heard General Butler give Captain Slough very particular orders how to proceed The aid-de-camp with two or three officers remained with General Butler until a late hour and then returned to the Commander-in-Chief who was ...
... formation of the new state Each desired to have the boundaries coincide with their political majority St Clair was a Federalist and was working for a state that would vote for his party He advocated that one be made from the territory east of a line running up the Scioto to the southwest corner of New Connecticut as in this district a majority of the voters supported the Federal party But in the boundaries as they were fixed in the Ordinance ...