... DAVID ZEISBERGER CENTENNIAL DAVID ZEISBERGER CENTENNIAL NOVEMBER 20 1908 E O RANDALL As the result of the plans of a committee appointed several weeks previous to the event by the Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society a celebration was held commemorating the Centennial Anniversary of the death of David Zeisberger which occurred November 17 1808 at Goshen Tuscarawas County Ohio The day selected for the celebration was Friday November 20th 1908 It proved a most ...
... Elias Loomis and the Loomis Observatory Elias Loomis and the Loomis Observatory By BONNIE S STADELMAN ON APRIL 14 1836 the trustees of Western Reserve College in Hudson Ohio made some very significant decisions Their meeting opened with prayer as usual and eventually the discussion turned to the vacancy in the mathematics and natural philosophy department The Rev Jarvis Gregg had been filling this position but he was appointed to the chair of sacred rhetoric making it necessary to appoint a ...
...1902 superintendent of 1902-1906 he held the 1902 he was chairman of the Democratic County Executive Committee of Perry County and was a delegate to the state conventions of 1895 1897 and 1910 He was active in the temperance cause and was a Wilson presidential elector in 1912 The papers of his native county of Athens and southern Ohio bear ...
... RELIGION IN THE WESTERN RESERVE RELIGION IN THE WESTERN RESERVE 1800-1825 DISTINCTIVE CHARACTER OF WESTERN RESERVE RELIGION BY HAROLD E DAVIS In the years following the Revolution the frontiersman fighting with Nature for the first-fruits of the virgin soil was not primarily religious That this is so students of the American frontier are constantly asserting Only when Nature and the Indian gave surcease from terror and labor did the frontiersman find need for the milder excitement-religion ...
... CORNSTALK THE INDIAN CHIEF CORNSTALK THE INDIAN CHIEF BY MRS ORSON D DRYER Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top When the wind blows the cradle will rock A certain queer little cradle hanging from a limb of a tree in a great green forest about the year 1720 is rocking to and fro as the soft summer wind sways the branches above it It is a gay and pretty cradle soft and warm with the skin of the moose and gorgeous with bird feathers and brightly colored quills of the porcupine and from it shine out ...
... FORT McARTHUR FORT McARTHUR The following address delivered by the late Dr A W Munson on Memorial day of 1895 at Shingle Grove near Ft McArthur burying ground was read at a recent D A R meeting in Kenton and will be especially interesting to our readers now as this year 1912 marks the centennial of the founding of the old fort Comrades and FriendsWe have met here on this pleasant afternoon of May 30 1895 in this beautiful grove beneath these grand forest trees around these graves to do honor ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The History of the State of Ohio Edited by Carl Wittke Vol I The Foundations of Ohio By Beverley W Bond Jr Vol II The Frontier State 1803-1825 By William T Utter Vol III The Passing of the Frontier 1825-185 0 By Francis P Weisenburger Columbus The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1941-2 Vol I xx507p Illustrations and maps Vol II xiv454p Illustrations maps and tables Vol III xiv524p Illustrations and maps 2500 per set of 6 volumes For the early history ...
... Mills adjutant general of the army it appears that twenty-two officers and non-commissioned officers were killed and among the number was Major McMahon The loss of the enemy was very heavy but was not fully known until disclosed at the Treaty of Greenville Burnet in his Notes on the Northwestern Territory says that there could not have been less than fifteen hundred warriors engaged while it was satisfactorily ascertained that a considerable ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES Cincinnati Jacob Marcus Director The growing collections of congregational minute books genealogies and personal papers of notable Jewish personalities are being cataloged and made available for researchers Dr Stern-Taeubler's book The Court Jew has recently been published BRECKSVILLE EARLY SETTLERS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Brecksville Ernest Green President The association is at present furnishing a room at the museum ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 639 Forty-First Annual Meeting 639 be given to the portion dealing with Fallen Timbers The State and Federal Governments fell short in their appropriation for that park Mr Sherman and I conferred and I suggested that as Fallen Timbers is practially at Toledo's threshold the people of Toledo should join in carrying out the plan Mr Sherman agreed to undertake to raise 25000 It has been a long drawn out fight would have discouraged anybody except Mr Sherman I think he ...
... THE RISE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH IN OHIO THE RISE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH IN OHIO by OPHIA D SMITH By 1832 there were enough Newchurchmen scattered throughout the West to demand a general organization to synchronize their efforts to spread the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg Since they were too remote from the eastern cities to attend the annual General Convention they wanted a general convention of their own in order to manage western affairs in a western way This need was met by the ...
... 1902 Mr Griffin was born at Tipton Lorain County February 3 1842 He was brought up on the farm attending district school winters He taught school in Iowa in the spring of 1859 and in Missouri in the fall and winter of 1859 and 60 He entered Oberlin College in January 1861 but his college course like that of many other patriotic boys was cut short by his enlistment in Company C 7th O V I in April 1861 Failing health however prevented a long ...
... 314 Ohio Arch 314 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications THE REV JOHN HECKEWELDER BORN AT BEDFORD ENG MARCH 12 1743 DIED AT BETHLEHEM PA JANUARY 2 1 1823 AGED 80 YEARS LESS 50 DAYS BY THE REV WM H RICE VICE PRESIDENT MORAVIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY LIFE MEMBER OF THE PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND LIFE MEMBER OF THE OHIO ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY One hundred years ago to-day September 29 1898 Rev John Heckewelder then a man about fifty-five years old moved into the First House of ...
... Minutes of the Meeting of the Minutes of the Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History Columbus April 12 1958 THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING of the Ohio Academy of History was held at the Ohio State Museum on Saturday April 12 1958 Three concurrent morning sessions offered papers on a variety of topics In the area of American social history with Walter Rumsey Marvin of the Ohioana Library in the chair Protestantism and the American Labor Movement 1827-1869 was presented by Clair M Cook of the ...
... 44 Ohio Arch 44 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 4 THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN OHIO PROF WILBUR H SIEBERT A M It is a rare reform movement that begins with a concensus of opinion in favor of the reform among the thinking men of the day We have nevertheless such a movement to consider in this paper It is strange indeed but nevertheless true that at first there was general agreement North and South that slavery was expensive wicked cruel detrimental to a developing statehood ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 101 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 101 for the purpose of recapturing the lost arts of prehistoric man in the utilization of flint and other lithic materials and for the establishment of a laboratory of actual materials to be used for purposes of comparison This project it will be recalled was financed by Messrs Arthur C Johnson and H Preston Wolfe pending other sources of support The Director had hoped that the Lithic Laboratory might become a ...
... SPECULATIVE INTEREST IN OHIO LANDS IN 1829 SPECULATIVE INTEREST IN OHIO LANDS IN 1829 AS REVEALED IN A LETTER FROM HENRY FARMER TO SAMUEL J BROWNE Edited by WILLIAM D OVERMAN The following letter from Henry Farmer to his brother-in-law Samuel J Browne of Cincinnati affords a detailed account by an observant and well-informed Englishman of the unsettled political economic and social conditions in England just prior to the Era of Reform 18321 The statistical data on the cost of poor relief ...
... Mills Case Certainly the Mills but in later life he was not a church member though he persistently called himself and without doubt was a Christian man It seems certain however that his ideas of the duties of men were formed more largely by his reading the Old Testament Scriptures than by his reading of the New Testament for he believed in the vigorous way of bringing men to understand the ...