... Ohio Day at the Jamestown Exposition Ohio Day at the Jamestown Exposition 175 thusiastic way which ever distinguishes Southern hosts in receiving their guests Governor Swanson's remarks entirely extemporaneous were among the most brilliant and eloquent which the writer has ever heard upon a similar occasion The Governor dwelt at some length upon the respective histories of Ohio and Virginia their ties of relationship Ohio being practically the first born child of Virginia and in periods of ...
... Minutes of Fifth Annual Meeting Minutes of Fifth Annual Meeting 241 THE PIONEER PHYSICIANS OF THE MUSKINGUM VALLEY BY EDMUND CONE BRUSH A M M D A Paper Read at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society in the Hall of the House of Representatives at Columbus March 6 1890 Generation after generation of pioneers have gradually carried the star of empire westward until it would seem as if the work of the pioneer was nearly done As these hardy and adventurous men and women have gradually opened up ...
... 282 OHIO ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 282 OHIO ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SKETCH OF THE SWISS MENNONITES OF ALLEN AND PUTNAM COUNTIES OHIO By DELBERT L GRATZ To write a precise history of any certain group of people one must know the individual history of each family which goes to make up the group This was especially true in the case of the Swiss Mennonites since their faith was chiefly a family religion and in no way a matter of cults and ...
... A Survey of Publications A Survey of Publications In Ohio History and Archaeology August 1960 - July 1961 Compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE HENLEIN Paul C Early Cattle Ranges of the Ohio Valley Agricultural History XXXV 1961 150-154 The Jackson Cut-Off Northwest Ohio Quarterly XXXII 1960 187-191 A ditch in Wood County to drain the Black Swamp built in 1878 and 1879 RHOADES Rendell ed Some 'Memoranda of the Locust Season in Ohio 1855' Ohio Historical Quarterly LXX 1961 152-156 ...
... NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENCE NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENCE LETTERS TO THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE TOPEKA KANSAS July 14 1856 Do you know for what Mr J Speer Editor of The Kansas Tribune and a dozen or more others -- some of the best men in Kansas--have been compelled to flee from their families and homes and become exiles in a strange land If you do not the sub-joined letter will initiate you into the secret How the original letter was obtained I know not but I have seen it and the following is a verbatim et ...
... 128 Ohio Arch 128 Ohio Arch and His Society Pub li cations the citizens of all the states and the republics to the south of us may spend many pleasant hours and may find rest and comfort It is my duty to turn our building over to the Pan-American and in doing so I express the sincere hope that your exposition may have the great success which always should accompany efforts so earnest so able and so magnificent and wonderful in results as are those made by the officials of the exposition and ...
... HARRY G HARRY G ENOCH One Man's Experience in a One Hundred Day Regiment Barzilla R Shaw and the 143d Ohio Volunteer Infantry Like many other young Union soldiers Barzilla R Shaw of the 143d Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry OVI kept a diary of his experiences during the Civil War Although his unit was a late entry it saw action in the crucial Petersburg Campaign in the summer of 1864 which led to the end of the Confederacy In April Governor John Brough had called Shaw's home guard unit to the ...
... ADDRESS AT MARIETTA OHIO 1858 ADDRESS AT MARIETTA OHIO 18581 BY HON THOMAS EWING EDITED BY C L MARTZOLFF ATHENS OHIO Ladies and GentlemenWe meet to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the first landing of our Pioneer Fathers on the shores of the Ohio in the North Western Territory An age-the full age allotted to men has elapsed since that hardy band of brave men and brave women fresh from the war of the Revolution a few of the boldest and most adventurous of the relics of that war through ...
... OHIO DAY AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE OHIO DAY AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION On October 6 1 90 4 the Buckeyes from all parts of the United States celebrated Ohio Day upon the grounds of the Exposition St Louis Missouri The exercises were held in the afternoon and evening in the beautiful Ohio Building The Ohio Commission appointed by Governor Nash under authority of an act passed by the 75th General Assembly consisted of Hon William F Burdell President Columbus life member of the Ohio ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 103 RANDALL THE MAN BY DANIEL J RYAN Emilius O Randall had the inestimable advantage of being well-born Not by inheritance of the muniments of wealth or caste or rank but through the influences of forebears whose chief purposes in life and whose aspirations and achievements were within the sphere of the intellectual and spiritual They were Americans more than a century before Bunker Hill and were among the founders of New England of whom Longfellow ...
... THE KNOWLEDGE OF COAL AND IRON IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF COAL AND IRON IN OHIO BEFORE 1835 BY PAUL WAKELEE STODDARD Today Ohio is one of the great coal-producing centers of the world a position which it has maintained for close on to a century The real starting-point of the development of the mineral resources of the state was the First Geological Survey which took place in the third decade of the nineteenth century and which has been considered in a previous article But what knowledge of the vast ...
... GENERAL JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE-- GENERAL JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE-- The Canadian Governor Who Attempted to Make Ohio a Part of Canada Annual Paper by JAMES A GREEN Historian of the Club American visitors to Canada are always struck with the beauty and charm of Lake Simcoe which is situated fifty miles north of Toronto in the midst of one of the most fertile regions of Ontario It is a lovely lake blue as Como Joined to it by a short and narrow strait is Lake Couchicing equally lovely In the city park of ...
... LUCAS SULLIVANT TABLET DEDICATED LUCAS SULLIVANT TABLET DEDICATED On Saturday December 9 1927 the Franklin County Pioneer Association founded in 1866 met in the southwest room of the Franklinton Public School Building for the purpose of unveiling and presenting to the city a bronze tablet marking the home of Lucas Sullivant founder of Franklinton The house that Lucas Sullivant built or a part of it is now incorporated in the larger buildings of the House of the Good Shepherd and it was by the ...
... 248 Ohio Arch 248 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications not far off Indeed is not the time ripe at the present moment for the erection of such a building on the part of the legislature as a memorial edifice to mark the centennial anniversary of the establishment of our state This would come now with all the more opportune appropriateness as the centennial celebration which was to have been held at Toledo has been abandoned PERRY'S WILLOW It is our duty to record that the Ohio Archaeological ...
... EXECUTIVE MANSION EXECUTIVE MANSION Here is presented a cut of the attractive and substantial building that was erected by C H Lindenberg at 1234 East Broad street in 1904 and occupied by him from April 1905 until the title of the property passed to the state in 1919 It is a commodious mansion of about thirty rooms appropriately furnished After the property was acquired by the state the interior of the building was remodeled and an additional adjacent tract of land purchased for eighteen ...
... KANSAS' DEAD IN FRANCE KANSAS' DEAD IN FRANCE BY WHITTIER C MITCHELL Leans from his warrior's heaven down John Brown Immortal Madman Brown Who shamed a nation by a deed Bolder than that of Winkelreid Swept to his dauntless breast the spears Of Freedom's foes and ere her tears Streamed on his bier with God's own fire Enkindled Slavery's funeral pyre That by its glare might all men see That all are bond till all are free He leans and smiles A measured tread Echoes up from the trenches red New ...
... PROCEEDINGS OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE MAUMEE VALLEY INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL CONVENTION SEPTEMBER 27-29 1940 EDITORIAL By HARLOW LINDLEY Because of the uniqueness of the Maumee Valley International Historical Convention organized to commemorate the place of the Maumee Valley in American history it seems eminently proper that its records should be permanently preserved and since the heart of the valley is within the limits of the State of Ohio it is logical that the Ohio State Archaeological ...
... OLD FORT SANDOSKI OF 1745 OLD FORT SANDOSKI OF 1745 G FREDERICK WRIGHT President Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Mr Charles A Hanna's criticism of the inscription on the tablets placed on the site of Old Fort Sandusky and of the addresses made at the unveiling of these tablets are too serious to be permitted to pass without correction First-Mr Hanna's loose habit of observation may be inferred from his first statement that the bronze tablet on the West Face was erected under ...
... 112 Ohio Arch 112 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The years in which Professor Randall taught were previous to the introduction of the Case system in the Colleges of Law In a degree he anticipated this method of teaching He had familiarized himself with a large number of the important decisions of the courts in cases where commercial paper was the cause of the litigation In addition he had the happy faculty of developing by hypothesis a well constructed controversy His students from ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 577 PRE-HISTORIC MAP Concerning the archaeological atlas of Ohio now being prepared by The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society under the direction of W C Mills Curator of the Society the Associated Press has given out the following statement Work on the archaeological atlas of Ohio a work unique of its kind in the history of literature is about one-fourth completed but so quietly has it been in progress that few if any persons outside the membership of ...