... CAPTAIN HYATT CAPTAIN HYATT Being the Letters Written During the Years 1863-1864 to His Wife Mary By Captain T J Hyatt 126th Ohio Volunteer Infantry1 Edited by Hudson Hyatt Here are the letters written by an officer at the front during the War Between the States to his wife Though only one side of the correspondence has been preserved through the ensuing years it is sufficient for us to learn the vicissitudes of his love for his wife and their two small boys of the problems of debts and new ...
... 428 Ohio Arch 428 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications wigwam dared to be raised upon its soil on account of danger of some enemy A little later the Algonquin as well as the Iroquois returned to this country in small tribes and grew but there was another enemy rising up against them the English and the French particularly the English For about twenty years they struggled for the occupation of this territory and the English finally succeeded but the Indian was determined to hold it and ...
... 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 ...
... ORIGIN RISE PROGRESS AND DECLINE OF THE ORIGIN RISE PROGRESS AND DECLINE OF THE WHITEWATER COMMUNITY OF SHAKERS LOCATED IN HAMILTON COUNTY OHIO BY J P MAC LEAN While engaged in collecting the material for the article on West Union I engaged in a correspondence with Elder Charles H Sturr general manager of the Whitewater community He invited me to make him a visit and I should have the freedom of all the archives of the society I determined at once to accept the invitation and although the ...
... TRIAL OF WILLIAM BEBB TRIAL OF WILLIAM BEBB BY C B GALBREATH For many years an interesting bit of literature has been going the rounds that has in many instances gained currency as a chapter in the history of the governors of Ohio Under the caption A Story of William Bebb it has found its way into the schools and the public and private libraries of the state Here it is without omission or addition If you should visit the State House in Columbusand look among the pictures of the governors of ...
... DIARY OF THE REV DIARY OF THE REV JAMES-HANMER FRANCIS 1837-1838 EDITED BY WINIFRED LOVERING HOLMAN1 James-Hanmer Francis son of James and Pamela Welles Francis born in Wethersfield Connecticut 2 8 May 1796 died in Middletown Conn II July 1863 aged 67 and was buried in Wethersfield He was a graduate of Yale University class of 1826 supplied in various parishes in Connecticut was the minister at Dudley Massachusetts from June 1 831 to June 1837 then went on the western trip described in his ...
... 54 Ohio Arch 54 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications tion dissolved but Nelson agreed with Wayne Grier and Curtis in the opinion that an attachment should issue since there was no power in Congress to interfere with the judgment of the court under pretense of power to legalize the structure or by making it a post road Justice McLean dissented feeling that the principle involved was of the deepest interest to the growing commerce of the West which might be obstructed by bridges across the ...
... THE HISTORIC RURAL CHURCH1 THE HISTORIC RURAL CHURCH1 BY Roy E BOWERS The historic rural church of the Northwest Territory of which Tallmadge is a distinguished example has passed through three phases and is now entering a fourth This is especially true of Ohio These phases are First that of rapid energetic and often heroic pioneering This in Ohio ended about 1830 Second that of tension and conflict ending with the Civil War Third that of prosperity and slow decline through the Civil War to ...
... arrayed The smooth paved array of barons who array And when these orbs shall cease to shine When suns decay and stars decline Let onward progress still be thine And upward hold thy way Ohio has given to the Republic many of its noblest and greatest men The bar the press the pulpit the rostrum and the schoolroom have all had their worthies ...
... Brilliant Thoughts and Important Truths A Speech of Frederick Douglass ed it ed by LARRY G ARA In the spring of 1852 Frederick Douglass visited Cincinnati to attend an antislavery convention Douglass a former slave had already gained national renown as a writer editor and speaker1 While in Cincinnati Douglass frequently spoke and also took the occasion to carry his message to another town in the area Harveysburg in Warren County Ohio where he addressed a church congregation In his speech2 ...
... OHIO SURVEYS FROM THE AIR OHIO SURVEYS FROM THE AIR By ALFRED J WRIGHT Many Ohioans have been interested in studying the evolutionary aspects of today's landscapes Very likely many more will think along these lines during the year marked as it is by the sesquicentennial celebration of the founding of Ohio There have recently come into the possession of the State Archaeological and Historical Society some air photographs of one aspect of this evolutionary thought Through the good offices of the ...
... Monument at Fort Jefferson Monument at Fort Jefferson 129 named after the primitive red men of the forest a people that were not much different from what we are to-day As I told you they were a God-fearing people the same as we Their word was as sacred to them as their lives and I am not so sure that that is true of all of us I am proud to say that I belong to an order that was named after a people as proud and noble as they Then you might say why this war I believe and honestly believe that ...
... THE SOCIETY OF SHAKERS THE SOCIETY OF SHAKERS RISE PROGRESS AND EXTINCTION OF THE SOCIETY AT CLEVELAND O BY J P MACLEAN PH D I PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS The communistic societies of the United States continue to elicit more or less attention and receive profound consideration from those engaged in sociological philosophy Whatever religious or sociological problem these communities seek to solve their progress or failure is carefully noted even by those who have not come in immediate contact ...
... RICHARD PLANTAGANET LLEWELLYN BABER RICHARD PLANTAGANET LLEWELLYN BABER A SKETCH AND SOME OF HIS LETTERS DUANE MOWRY A few months since we received from Mr Duane Mowry of Milwaukee Wisconsin duplicates of some letters written by Mr R P L Baber formerly of Columbus Ohio to Judge James R Doolittle at one time United States Senator from Wisconsin With the view of publishing these letters Mr Mowry wrote the late E L Taylor for information concerning Mr Baber Mr Taylor's reply was also forwarded us ...
... ARCHAEOLOGICAL REMAINS OF JACKSON COUNTY ARCHAEOLOGICAL REMAINS OF JACKSON COUNTY BY WILLIAM C MILLS INTRODUCTION During the summer of 1905 by special request of a number of citizens and local archaeologists of Jackson county the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society sent an expedition into the county under the direction of the writer which examined a few of the many rock shelters mounds and petroglyphs located in Lick Liberty and Jackson townships The object of the examination was ...
... TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY July 26 1912 The adjourned session of the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Hunter Society Room Page Hall Ohio State University Columbus Ohio at two o'clock P M Friday July 26 1912 in accordance with the action taken at the preliminary meeting held May 25 191 2 as recorded herein a nte p 328 The following ...
... A FLIGHT ACROSS OHIO THE ESCAPE OF A FLIGHT ACROSS OHIO THE ESCAPE OF WILLIAM WELLS BROWN FROM SLAVERY by W EDWARD FARRISON Chairman Department of English North Carolina College at Durham It was January 1 1834 On the previous night Captain Enoch Price a commission merchant and steamboat owner of St Louis Missouri had arrived on his steamer The Chester in Cincinnati This was a pleasure as well as a business trip and on it the captain had brought his family and also several of his house slaves ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XIII INDEX TO VOLUME XIII A Articles - Concluded Abolition in Ohio 50 History of Ft Hamilton Miller Adams County - 97 Todd's Trace in 318 Historic Worthington Parsons 71 Trebor Tavern in 307 John Brough Hooper 40 Zane's Trace in 318 Kenton's Gauntlet at Chillicothe Agriculture Prehistoric people engaged Brown 483 in 189 Marcus A Hanna Dick 355 American Economic Association MeetOhio in the Spanish and Philippine ing of 288 War Anderson 551 American Historical Association 121 K ...
... FINE TIMBER FINE TIMBER By JOSEPHINE E PHILLIPS I went to woork a tuseday morning for Mr Gilman at 12 Shilings pr day he is a bulding 2 Ships and thare top timbers are all red seder and lokes I have worked wales 68 feet long fine timber in this Countery and as good land as Ever lay out adors I dont think I shall Stay in the Sittey maney months Ales is the wellest she has bin this five years but dont like Meriette thank God i am well and hartey But Alles is Cros as yousyell Thus wrote a settler ...
... 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 ...