... Miami and assured the Miamies by General William Henry Harrison and Governor Lewis Cass commissioners on the part of the United States by which the tribes engaged to aid the United States in the war with Great Britain and her savage allies EARLY RESULTS OF THE TREATY General Wayne sent a proclamation to the Cherokees then settled on the head-waters of the Scioto of the treaty and invited ...
... 16 Ohio Arch 16 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications bers of which had charge of the final interment The children scattered flowers in the grave a salute was fired taps were sounded and the honored dust of the gallant George Croghan was consigned to its final resting place on the spot and in the sacred soil he had so bravely and loyally defended ninety-three years before The grave was covered with a large block of Quincy granite bearing this inscription George Croghan Major 17th U S ...
... Railroad was put in operation between Toledo and Adrian It was the first railroad in the Northwest built when Toledo was still Port Lawrence and the entire population of Michigan was less than that of Grand Rapids in 194 0 Today fur trade and canal red men and massacres are but dim memories at either end of the Maumee are busy prosperous cities whose manufactures are distributed throughout ...
... Little Journeys to Historic Sites in Ohio and it is one of the dreams of the Editor of the Quarterly to some day put forth such a volume Meanwhile as time permits such little journeys are being made It was on a brilliant day last August 1911 that the Editor tripped to what in some respects is one of the most historic sites in Ohio Many articles have been penned and published on the pioneer ...
... Miami Thus the LittleMiami or Deer Creek where John O'Banion had been surveying or he may have followed an old hunting road from the Kentucky country to Chillicothe past a remarkable Indian encamping ground and then cut his way through the wilderness to this vicinity Zane's Trace a route from Limestone or Maysville Kentucky through ...
... Miami River Smith's visit Miami Exporting Company Miami Valley - Kentucky Miami Valley 379 Effect Miami to Scioto 397 Miami Ministers produced among 220 County 335 Missionaries among ...
... Miamis and who commanded on that day of Federal disaster died thirty years after the Treaty of Greenville of the gout at Fort Wayne and was accorded a soldier's burial with muffled drums and a funeral salute THE DEATH OF GENERAL WAYNE General Wayne died December 15 1796 in his fitfy-second year and was buried according to his last request at the foot of the flag-staff at Fort Erie on the borders of the lake Perhaps the dying hero saw in its ...
... Miami in July 1786 Tupper had gotten as far as Pittsburg in his proposed western surveys He was obliged to return to his Massachusetts home when he made so favorable a report from what he had learned of the fertility and beauty of the trans-Alleghany country that General Rutland--The Cradle of Ohio Rutland--The Cradle of Ohio 69 Putnam decided to join with him in proposing an association for the purchase of western lands and the settlement ...
... Miami are named for Miami for bounties Miami Plain City is Little Turtle whose valour and high character would ennoble even a ridiculous name Their deeds too are our heritage But for us their tribes will pass away and leave not even the mounds of the earlier races Let us hold fast what ...
... The Croghan Celebration The Croghan Celebration 31 liberty that we are enjoying to-day and I wish to say that upon this spot this historic spot that the tide turned in favor of the American nation in the war of 1812-13 How unfortunate you are to have within your corporate limits the most historic spot in the United States of America I never stood upon this ground upon this battlefield until today My mind turns back to my youthful days when I read of the bravery of Croghan and his 160 men and I ...
... SENECA JOHN INDIAN CHIEF SENECA JOHN INDIAN CHIEF HIS TRAGIC DEATH ERECTION OF MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY COMPILED BY BASIL MEEK SENECA JOHN Not much is known pertaining to the direct biography of Seneca John The most that we have is incidental to and related in the story of his execution He belonged however to a prominent family of his tribe and was one of four brothers or rather of three full brothers named Comstock Steel and Coonstick and himself a half brother of the three named Comstock was a ...
... Miami and Mad LittleMiami now known as Old Miami River After burning Miami and in 1786 he acted as scout in General Benjamin Logan's attack on the upper waters of the Mad River and in the Macochee Valley where eight years before he had ...
... THREE IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS RELATING THREE IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS RELATING TO WESTERN LAND CESSIONS AMONG the documents relating to western land cessions brought before Congress that are not found in the Journals are the three printed below They are all of great interest and all difficult of access I am not aware that the last one has ever been printed The first two are found in Hening's Statutes of Virginia Vol X the third is printed from a copy furnished by the Secretary of State of the State of ...
... Miami river running into Miami The stream the Miami University No Indiana county has a corner at this village R W McFARLAND ORIGIN OF THE PHRASE KEEP THE BALL ROLLING THOMAS J BROWN WAYNESVILLE I had the following article in contemplation for a year or more but it was crowded aside by other matters until midsummer last some time before the ...
... Miami Losantiville Miami Rivers the LittleMiami was for peace True Miami like a sheltering Miami to them on their panic stricken retreat from Fallen Timbers At Greenville Wayne was ...
... Miami Rivers for Virginia troops as shall be sufficient for the purpose and that all other lands in the territory be considered a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United Oration of Hon Orati o n of H on John Randolph Tucker 77 States as have become or shall become members of the Confederation or Federal alliance of said States Virginia inclusive according to their respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure ...
... Miami Dr William A Galloway How Nearly We Escaped Being the Gallic Race Dr Edward Cass Our Flag D W Locke The Society decided to hold its next annual meeting at Columbus April 19 1902 ...