... settlements here in Richland county as these ancient earthworks attest That the people were not unacquainted with war is shown by their numerous fortified enclosures These mounds and other antiquities give us some knowledge of a people that lived here when civilization was but in the dawn in Europe The history of our own country is at least as interesting as that of the land of Pharaohs or of storied Greece for here we see evidence of an ...
... THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD S S KNABENSHUE TOLEDO The Underground Railroad was not under the ground nor was it a railway but there was a fitness in the name which caused its general use to express one of the most remarkable phases of the long struggle against slavery and the Slave Power The term was a popular mode of referring to the various ways in which fugitive slaves from the South were assisted in escaping to the North and especially to Canada It was often humorously ...
... THE PART THAT THE PIONEER PHYSICIANS OF THE PART THAT THE PIONEER PHYSICIANS OF OHIO PLAYED IN THE COMMUNITY AS EXEMPLIFIED IN THE CHURCH AND LODGE By JAMES J TYLER MD The church has had an important place in the development of the frontier The first forty years of religious development in Ohio is full of absorbing interest and vital realities It produced permanent results in the ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS A convention of the International Society of Archaeologists was held at Cincinnati on September 29th 1912 The meeting had been called as a semi-official gathering but the large attendance and enthusiastic sessions resulted in its being voted an official convention - the first of the organization The sessions were held at Art Museum arrangements for this privilege having been made by Mr Philip Hinkle curator of that institution ...
... settlement of the Alabama claims was the first long step forward in the direction of arbitration and world peace The Washington Conference of 1 921 was in no small degree an outgrowth of Grant's policy of peace and international goodwill American ships now sail unimpeded through the Panama Canal--Grant foresaw and planned it His statesmanship was as far sighted as his generalship Modestly quietly patiently he planned and executed Great in war ...
... DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL BUILDING DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL BUILDING OVER THE GRANT COTTAGE AT STATE FAIR GROUNDS The Grant Memorial Building enclosing the Grant cottage at the State Fair Grounds was dedicated September 3 1896 This ceremony had been planned for the forenoon of that day but a heavy rain made it necessary to postpone the program until the afternoon when fair weather greeted the large crowd assembled estimated at over four thousand people The program included addresses by Governor ...
... PRESENTATION OF PORTRAITS OF PRESENTATION OF PORTRAITS OF AMERICAN INDIANS BY GENERAL EDWARD ORTON JR During the spring of 1924 an exhibit of the work of a rising young American artist Mr W Langdon Kihn of New York was shown in this city and was found to consist wholly of original portraits of American Indians made from life in their own homes under conditions which reduced their natural embarrassment timidity or superstitious fear of portraiture to a minimum thus greatly favoring truthful and ...
... Dedication of the Hayes Memorial Dedication of the Hayes Memorial 425 instructed in the orderly management of public business All are on their best behavior a fraternal friendship is cultivated virtuous and temperate habits are encouraged and the best of our social instincts are called into play The festive organizations convivial clubs and the like are not safe places of resort for all natures No man can be worse for the associations of Odd Fellowship and their kindred organizations Most men ...
... settlement is made if they settlement That is to say he loses and 66 The failure of Grant amp Ward on May 6 1884 was the culminating tragedy of the ex-president's life Although his name and property were used in the brokerage company's business Grant paid little attention to the management of the firm's affairs As a result he was exploited and defrauded by his partners and the failure left ...
... Henry Howe the Historian Henry Howe the Historian 311 HENRY HOWE THE HISTORIAN BY JOSEPH P SMITH You don't find Ohio much like it was in the good old times of forty years ago do you Mr Howe asked an elderly gentleman at Columbus in 1886 He seemed well informed and intelligent but inclined to mournfully disparage the present ' Those who compare the age on which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in their imagination may ...
... settlement and organize the settlement he found them settlement which he exchanged for land lying north and adjoining land owned by the community He entered the society with his four brothers and consecrated his property his time and his talents and all he possessed to build up and support his religious faith To that cause he devoted a ...
... northwest and extended It was northwest is a small mound northwest part of Delaware northwest decayed Three arrow heads were near the head The hardness of the ground prevented its removal The largest mound had been explored We drove to Prospect and from thence to Green Camp locating ...
... OUTLINE OF FACTS RELATED TO THE BURIAL OUTLINE OF FACTS RELATED TO THE BURIAL PLACE OF JOHN CHAPMAN By WESLEY S ROEBUCK February 15 1942 revised July 3 19431 1 Location of Henry Cassel's land the burial place of John Chapman and others Description of land The N 12 of SE 14 Section 19 T 31 N of R 13 E and the S 12 NE 14 Section 1 9 T 31 N of R 13 E east of the St Joseph River Allen County Indiana 165 acres three miles up the St Joseph River from the confluence of the St Mary's River on the east ...
... settlements which have been settlements were made The settlement possible the Territory was the object of interested appraisal by eastern people Among these was Joel Wright a surveyor and civil engineer from Pipe Creek in Maryland He made his first trip to the Ohio country probably in ...
... TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MARCH 22 1907 The Twenty-second Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Library and Museum Room of the Society Page Hall
... WINFIELD SCOTT'S VISIT TO COLUMBUS WINFIELD SCOT T' S VISIT TO COLUMBUS BY GEN H B CARRINGTON U S A General Henry Beebee Carrington is one of the very few su viving generals of the Civil War He has led a distinguished ar eventful life Born in Wallingford Conn March 2 1824 he is now the age of eighty-six hale and hearty a writer of clearness and precisio and a speaker forceful and entertaining He graduated at Yale 1845 and in November 1848 arrived in Columbus to there take up his pe manent ...
... northwestern part Chief among the former were the Mingos and among the latter the Wyandots In one of the stealthy and bloody incursions into the Mingo hunting grounds a young chief of great promise was captured and carried back by the Wyandots Instead of killing the young Mingo chieftain as was the usual custom he was made a serf and compelled to earn the good-esteem and fellowship of his captors a fate worse than death to the young Indian The ...
... 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 ...
... settlement of that time settlements they founded as settlements of the time Many of the original settlers were of Southern stock from Virginia and Kentucky others came from the Middle States not so many were from New England For the most part they were an industrious money-making liberty-loving kinghating devout and large-hearted people ...
... settlement by the proclamation of 1763 In 1768 the treaty of Ft Stanwix reversed these conditions In 1770 Washington wrote to Thos Johnson about the improvement of the Potomac in order that Virginia and Maryland may capture the valuable trade of a rising empire In 1774 the matter was brought before the legislatures of both Maryland and Virginia but the increasing turmoil of the approaching Revolution prevents adequate consideration and action ...