... THE OHIO BOUNDARY OR THE ERIE WAR THE OHIO BOUNDARY OR THE ERIE WAR1 WHEN the great Ordinance of 1787 was passed by Congress it was agreed by all the States present that six of the articles known as the articles of compact should not be repealed except by the joint consent of Congress and the States concerned The fifth of these irrevocable articles provided that not less than three nor more than five States should be formed out of the region of country known as the Northwest Territory In case ...
... THE PROPOSED TOWN OF CORNISH OHIO THE PROPOSED TOWN OF CORNISH OHIO By DONALD W FERGUSON As a part of the study of westward expansion of the United States the story of paper towns--towns which never survived their founders or which existed only in the imagination of their promoters--fills an interesting chapter The plan of Lystra Kentucky reproduced in Charles O Paullin's Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States New York 1932 is a very good example of the definiteness with which ...
... THOMAS BEALS FIRST FRIENDS MINISTER THOMAS BEALS FIRST FRIENDS MINISTER IN OHIO BY HARLOW LINDLEY Thomas Beals was born in Chester County Pennsylvania in 1719 He was the son of John and Sarah Beals formerly Sarah Bowater of an English family of Friends Thomas Beals had two brothers John and Bowater and four sisters Prudence who married Richard Williams Sarah who married John Mills Mary who married Thomas Hunt and after his death William Baldwin and Phebe who married Robert Sumner John Beals ...
... 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 ...
... THE ORDINANCE OF JULY 13TH 1787 THE ORDINANCE OF JULY 13TH 1787 TH E intrinsic merits of that organic law which was enacted by the old Continental Congress on the 13th of July 1787 for the Government of the Territory Northwest of the river Ohio have been so fully discussed and are so well understood that any attempt in that direction would be little more than a repetition of views already familiar to an intelligent audience Its merits can now be measured by its fruits Results are its monument ...
... A FAMILIAR TALK ABOUT MONARCHISTS A FAMILIAR TALK ABOUT MONARCHISTS AND JACOBINS AN ADDRESS BY WILLIAM HENRY SMITH WHEN I received an invitation to address the Historical Society here to-night the suggestion was made by a member of your committee that I take the life and public services of John Brough for my theme Born within the limits of your city the son of one of the pioneer fathers it were fitting that he should be remembered on an occasion of such historical interest It was gratifying to ...
... DR DR SAMUEL P HILDRETH 1783-1863 1 By A E WA LLER Medical science in the nineteenth century engaged in its main task of healing in full consciousness of its professional obligations Methodically and with enthusiasm it likewise cradled and kept alive the spark of curiosity in all the natural sciences Botany and zoology profited most followed closely by geology chemistry physics and meteorology Many of these medical men not specialists themselves established firm foundations of special ...
... The Ohio Canal Movement 1820-1825 The Ohio Canal Movement 1820-1825 By HARRY N SCHEIBER NO SINGLE ACT of the Ohio General Assembly prior to the Civil War had so profound an effect upon the state's economic development as did the bill of February 4 1825 by which construction of the state's canal system was first authorized On the eve of the bill's passage Alfred Kelley one of its eading exponents sought to explain to De Witt Clinton of New York the reasons why the Ohio legislature had agreed to ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Spring Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held Friday and Saturday 23-24 April 1993 at Wittenberg University The Oral History Association will hold its 1993 Annual Meeting on November 4-7 1993 at the Birmingham Raddison Hotel in Birmingham Alabama For more information write to Kim Lacy Rogers Department of History Dickinson College Carlisle Pennsylvania 17013-2896 The Forest History Society announces the availability of Alfred D Bell Jr ...
... GENERAL INDEX TO VOL GENERAL INDEX TO VOL XLVI Abington Virginia--Presbytery 218 Antioch College 12 Abolition Intelligencer and Missionary Anti-slavery Friends 300 Magazine 221 Apollo Exhibition 74 Abolition society219-257 Apostle to the Indies 82 Abolitionists Ohio 240 Presbyterian 247 Appalachian Mountains 224 Abraham Bible 247 Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American BiogAdams Alice D--Neglected Period of raphy 42 221 Anti-slavery in America 219 Arapaho Indians 85 Adams Henry--History of the ...
... SANDUSKY PIONEER LINK BETWEEN SAIL AND RAIL SANDUSKY PIONEER LINK BETWEEN SAIL AND RAIL by LEOLA M STEWART Lakewood High School Lakewood Ohio Sandusky Ohio located on a large bay indenting the shore line of Lake Erie and possessing one of the finest natural harbors on the Great Lakes was the first port west of the Appalachians to profit from the advantages afforded by the combination of two means of transportation sail and rail It became the lake terminus of two railroads the Mad River and ...
... MARTIN BAUM MARTIN BAUM By GEORGE A KATZENBERGER The nucleus of the material hereinafter collected is taken from an article1 by the eminent German-American historian Henry A Ratterman who from 1868 to 1887 published Der Deutsche Pionier in Cincinnati The historian will note that of all the great nations of western Europe during the centuries immediately following the discovery of America Germany alone took no official part in the colonization of the newly discovered hemisphere This was ...
... DOCUMENT DOCUMENT THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JAMES HALL WESTERN LITERARY PIONEER edited by DAVID DONALD Instructor in History Columbia University Collecting data for his projected Cyclopaedia of American Literature Evert A Duyckinck in 1855 addressed the most prominent living writers in the United States requesting pertinent biographical and bibliographical information One of the most interesting replies came from James Hall veteran Cincinnati editor and author Taking time from his duties as bank ...
... THE DIARY OF JOHN BEATTY JANUARY-JUNE 1884 THE DIARY OF JOHN BEATTY JANUARY-JUNE 1884 Part I edited by HARVEY S FORD Head Librarian Toledo Blade John Beatty the author of the diary which follows was the grandson of a Scotch-Irish immigrant who settled near Sandusky in 1815 His grandfather also named John Beatty was born in County Wexford Ireland on March 17 1774 At the age of eighteen he visited the United States and after some traveling about the country determined to settle in Norwich ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL AAISW See Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers Akron Beacon Journal 33 Akron OH 6-36 illustrations 7 Akron Times Press 23 Allegheny Allegeny Mountain 102-03 129 141 Allegheny Allegeny River 140 Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers AAISW 37-51 Amalgamated Clothing Workers 25 American Antiquarian Society 58-59 66 American Antiquarian Society Transactions 58 American Ceramics Before 1930 A Bibliography compiled by Ruth Irwin Weidner ...
... THE INFANT SCHOOL THAT GREW UP THE INFANT SCHOOL THAT GREW UP By JOSEPHINE E PHILLIPS One hunded years ago the first child's garden was opened by Herr Friedrich Froebel in the little village of Blankenburg in Germany To Froebel belongs much credit for the development and spread of the kindergarten idea He saw that the education of a child should begin much earlier than the customary school age--six or seven years--and that play should be incorporated in that education He declared that the ...
... Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting 623 Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting 623 diers of Ohio who served in the World War also a similar resolution adopted October 18 1921' The approval of the State Architect has been secured to this partial construction Bids for the erection of this building are being opened at 1000 A M today Plans for the completed building and for that portion to be built at once are submitted for the inspection of the Society Studies for the proposed sculptural features of the front ...
... The Pioneer Poet Lawyer The Pioneer Poet Lawyer 3 05 THE PIONEER POET LAWYER BY N B C LOVE D D A volume lies before me the property of the Way Library Perrysburg Ohio It is called THE FOREST RANGERS It is a tale of the northwest wilderness of 1794 Wayne's March and battles are a prominent feature with possible incidents connected therewith both of fact and fiction The author was Andrew Coffinberry Wright and Leg were the publishers Columbus Ohio 1842 I do not know how large the edition or the ...
... MINUTES MINUTES OF THE TENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE Ohio State Archaeological and Historical SOCIETY HELD AT COLUMBUS OHIO FEBRUARY 19 1895 The eleventh meeting tenth annual of The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Library room of the State Capitol on the afternoon of February 19 1895 General R Brinkerhoff the President in the chair The following members were present B W Arnett Wilberforce W E Moore Columbus N S Townshend Columbus Chas Parrott Columbus S S Rickly ...
... A HALF CENTURY OF THE WRITING OF HISTORY A HALF CENTURY OF THE WRITING OF HISTORY IN OHIO By FRANCIS P WEISENBURGER Slightly more than a century ago Mrs Frances Trollope returned to her home in England after two years of residence in Cincinnati Thereupon she published her Domestic Manners of the Americansl a somewhat ironical commentary upon life in the United States Thus she became one of the earliest representatives of a ubiquitous tribe of Europeans that from time to time has contrasted the ...