... JOHN FITCH INVENTOR OF STEAMBOATS JOHN FITCH INVENTOR OF STEAMBOATS BY MIRA CLARKE PARSONS In the closing year of this century of wonders it is fitting that we should give a thought to the memory of the inventors and investigators to whom the world owes so vast a debt Fore-- most among them must stand the names of the men who first utilized the tremendous forces of steam and electricity For generations every schoolboy has been taught that Robert Fulton was the inventor of the steamboat That ...
... YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW IN OHIO YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW IN OHIO By ROY F NICHOLS I Those who are charged with the responsibility for the history of any community have the power to perform great services for society The tendency to waste and to be careless of the future is one of the most dangerous which man displays Conservation is one of the most necessary correctives which he has created to save himself A state historical society is a great institution dedicated to conservation and therefore ...
... Lake County and its Founder Lake County and its Founder 361 LAKE COUNTY AND ITS FOUNDER BY WILLIAM STOWELI MILLS LL B OF BROOKLYN N Y HISTORICAL ADDRESS DELIVERED IN PAINESVILLE LAKE COUNTY 0 JULY 21 1901 AT THE CEREMONIES OF THE UNVEILING OF THE STATUE OF EDWARD PAINE Mr President Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-- It is related that when the residents of a New England town proposed to pay homage to a former townsman in a ceremony similar to this a good old ...
... SANDY AND BEAVER CANAL1 SANDY AND BEAVER CANAL1 B y W H VAN FOSSAN As a part of the Ohio system of canals the Sandy and Beaver was a branch from Bolivar Tuscarawas County to Smiths Ferry on the Ohio River forty miles below Pittsburgh Bolivar was its junction point with the Ohio and Erie Canal which extended from Cleveland to Portsmouth Its promoters were planning a more direct route to join Ohio and Lake Erie with the Pennsylvania canals between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh The practicability ...
... Dedicatory Exercises May 30 1914 Dedicatory Exercises May 30 1914 339 who were following us in the retreating continental Ice Sheet in Ohio as the Eskimo are still doing in Alaska and Greenland Thus geology and archaeology join hands in our state to shed light on the earliest conditions under which man struggled to maintain his existence in this world of thorns and thistles of earthquakes and volcanoes and of waxing and waning ice sheets The contrast between those conditions and those in which ...
... MILL CREEK PARK MILL CREEK PARK AND THE SOURCE OF MILL CREEK BY CHARLES BURLEIGH GALBREATH When the earth took spherical and solid form it presented in the earliest ages whose records have been deciphered on the rocks a surface of land and water The continental areas were then limited and low Much of what now constitutes the dry land was under water In North America the land portions were chiefly north of the Great Lakes What is now the Mississippi valley was then covered by a great inland sea ...
... CHARLOTTE W CHARLOTTE W DUDLEY Jared Mansfield United States Surveyor General Jared Mansfield 1759-1830 one of the first men of science in the republic's formative years made a significant contribution to postRevolutionary Ohio Appointed by President Thomas Jefferson in 1803 to replace General Rufus Putnam as Surveyor General Mansfield remained in the post for nine years resigning in 1812 when fresh Indian uprisings made further surveys impractical and dangerous During his term of office ...
... 438 THE WORLD WAR MEMORIAL WING-NORTH FACADE DEDICATION OF OHIO'S WORLD WAR DEDICATION OF OHIO'S WORLD WAR MEMORIAL An event of first importance in the history of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is here to be recorded On April 6 1926 the Memorial Wing of the Museum and Library building of the Society was dedicated with impressive ceremonies This was the culmination of a movement that began soon after the close of the World War The collections of the Society had outgrown ...
... The Firelands Grant The Firelands Grant 435 THE FIRELANDS GRANT BY CLARENCE D LAYLIN This article is the outgrowth of a paper read before the Political Science Club of Ohio State University The discussion which followed the reading of the paper among members of that club led to further investigation the result of which is the article as here produced-EDITOR In treating of the settlement of new countries the general and proper method is to recite the history of its pioneer days Without the ...
... THE THE HERO OF THE SANDY VALLEY JAMES A GARFIELD'S KENTUCKY CAMPAIGN OF 1861-1862 by ALLAN PESKIN In the days when the Indians roamed at will through the mountains of Kentucky they instinctively dreaded this dark and bloody ground Later the white man came first a cautious trickle through the passes then a torrent of settlers with axes rifles and families They cleared the forest shot the game and planted their families in cabins and cities The Indians went away and left Kentucky to ...
... COLONEL JOHN O'BANNON COLONEL JOHN O'BANNON NELSON W EVANS It is and has been utterly impossible to fix with absolute certainty the date or place of the birth of Colonel John O'Bannon It was not later than the year 1756 and may have been several years previous The place as near as can be determined was called Neville Virginia John Presley and Morgan Neville prominent officers in the Revolutionary War were her kinsmen and likely brothers We are not certain as to her father's name From the best ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE AMERICANISTS AT FORT ANCIENT The International Congress of Americanists made up of delegates from the leading states of Europe and nearly all of the Countries of the Americas held their biennial meeting in New York City beginning October 22 1902 At this meeting many addresses were made and papers were read by distinguished scholars pertaining to the Archaeology of North and South America The full proceedings of this meeting with the addresses will be published in ...
... DUNCAN McARTHUR FIRST PHASE 1772-1812 DUNCAN McARTHUR FIRST PHASE 1 7721 812 By C H CRAMER After the Battle of Culloden in 1746 many of the supporters of the defeated Prince Charlie the Young Pretender found it advisable to migrate to the New World Among the emigres were some of the MacArthurs members of a clan as proud of their distinctive plaid and feather as any in Scotland One of their number settled in New York where a son Duncan was born in 1772 The mother died when the boy was three and ...
... REPORT OF FIELD WORK REPORT OF FIELD WORK CARRIED ON IN THE MUSKINGUM SCIOTO AND OHIO VALLEYS DURING THE SEASON OF 1896 BY WARREN KING MOOREHEAD IN CHARGE OF EXPLORATIONS PREFACE It is interesting to note that as general archaeology progresses in the United States men are more inclined to confine their observations to special or limited areas A generation ago before the Government the Museums of our various cities and the Scientific and Historical Societies undertook large explorations it was ...
... AN OHIO ARMY OFFICER OF WORLD WAR I AN OHIO ARMY OFFICER OF WORLD WAR I MAJOR GENERAL JOSEPH T DICKMAN by SISTER MARY CLEMENT STUEVE CPPS The various political and economic upheavals which invariably follow major wars often tend to obscure the history of the men who were personally engaged in the conflicts And men who gave their entire life to a military career and who are necessarily absent from boyhood surroundings are sometimes quickly forgotten by their native localities Joseph Theodore ...
... 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 ...
... JOHN BROWN JOHN BROWN RY C B GALBREATH INTRODUCTION John Brown's body lies moldering in the grave But his soul goes marching on So sang the Twelfth Massachusetts Regiment as it marched south to put down the rebellion and so have sung other regiments and men who never belonged to any military organization in almost every part of the North and West since the outbreak of the Civil War It is remarkable how old John Brown holds his place in the history and literature of his country His name and ...
... 284 Ohio Arch 284 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications nished containing only a rickety table a broken chair and a dusty bookcase There was of course no carpet Then there was an old red plush lounge which would now hardly be considered good enough for kindling wood That law office was certainly a contrast to the mahogany furnished law offices of the present day When Lincoln was elected president that companionship between Robert Lincoln and McMullan and the latter's intimacy with the ...
... Charles Burleigh Galbreath 129 Charles Burleigh Galbreath 129 where strivings end where peace is perpetual and where mortals on their way to a better estate find a fitting abode for the night in this many-chambered mansion of rest Hither have come the representatives of every walk of life Among them are those once eminent in the affairs of the city the state and the Republic Of these it were superfluous to speak Their deeds have been recorded Their place in local history at least is secure To ...