... LA SALLE'S ROUTE DOWN THE OHIO LA SALLE'S ROUTE DOWN THE OHIO E L TAYLOR In the July Quarterly 1905 page 356 Volume XIV publications Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society appeared an article by the late E L Taylor Sr on Water Highways and Carrying Places Some time after the publication of that article Mr Taylor had correspondence with a critic concerning the identity of the much disputed route of La Salle down the Ohio in his western journey of 1669 the alleged date of his discovery ...
... THE NEGRO IN EARLY OHIO THE NEGRO IN EARLY OHIO BY CHARLES JAY WILSON If men were angels wrote John Jay in the fifth of the Federalist papers no government would be necessary Few people of today who live the richer intellectual life which follows naturally upon an endeavor to sound out modern social phenomena and strike something deeper than the superficial aspects will find much in this principle with which to quarrel In fact a majority more likely would contend that the New York barrister ...
... Edilorialana Edilorialana 121 order the numerous and important historical events that transpired in his county The little book is illustrated and has a large folding map of the territory which it treats Auglaize county was a sort of geographical and historical pivotal point in Ohio It was the chief gate way for Indians and whites between Lake Erie and the Ohio river for sixtyfive years 1749-1814 The reader should remember that the Maumee rises in the southern part of our county Auglaize south ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY AUGUST 1949-JULY 1950 Compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE HAYTER Earl W Mechanical Humbuggery Among the Western Farmers 1860-90 Michigan History XXXIV 1950 1-18 Numerous Ohio examples KOESTER Leonard ed and trans Latin Farmers in Northwestern Ohio from the Autobiography of Mrs Karl Tafel Northwest Ohio Quarterly XXI 1948-49 113-119 ANTISLAVERY ASHLEY James M John Brown's ...
... 490 Ohio Arch 490 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications DR JACOB ALBRIGHT SHAWAN Dr Jacob A Shawan for many years recognized as one who had attained high place among educators of Ohio died at his home near DeGraff Logan County Ohio May 4 1927 He was born in Wapakoneta June 15 1850 was reared on a farm educated in the public schools of Urbana Ohio and was graduated from Oberlin College in 1880 He received his M A degree from Oberlin College in 1883 and the honorary degree of Ph D from ...
... SQUAW TRAIL SQUAW TRAIL BY GEORGE NELSON HINDS John and Elizabeth Hinds and their three sons had emigrated from the Fen country in England to the New World on board a slave ship arriving in 1808 Traveling in an oilskin-covered wagon drawn by their oxen Thomas and Jeremiah they encamped at a point about thirty miles from Albany New York on the Squaw Trail This trail variously labeled the Iroquois trail King Philip's road and described as a tote road and a trace was known to the Indians as Squaw ...
... 634 Ohio Arch 634 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications CUSTER THE MAN OF ACTION ADDRESS BY COLONEL RALPH D COLE Mr Chairman Fellow Citizens Ladies and Gentlemen The character of a man is determined by the reaction of his natural endowments to the spirit of the age in which he lives If he has the power to breast the blows of circumstance the courage to accept the challenge Delivered at New Rumley Harrison County Ohio on the 22nd day of June 1932 on the occasion of the dedication of a ...
... ABBY L ABBY L GILBERT Thomas Ewing Sr Ohio's Advocate for a National Bank Thomas Ewing Sr lawyer Ohio Senator and Cabinet officer who asserted we must have a National Bank and Abbott Lawrence Massachusetts industrialist politician statesman and philanthropist who firmly believed the currency of this wide extended country never could be properly regulated without some great central controlling power over the State banks were very influential in the attempt to charter a third national bank in ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE OHIO RIVER It was one of Pascal's thoughts that rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go Surely it is that primeval and pioneer man has followed the courses of great streams because along those channels have been found the lines of least resistance On the rivers and their banks therefore has history found its favorite haunts Dry up the currents of the Tigris the Euphrates the Danube the Tiber the Rhine the Seine and the Thames and you ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABOLTIONISTS amp the South 1831-1861 The by Stanley Harrold rev 195-196 Act to Organize and Discipline the Militia An 37 Adjutant General Ohio office of 26 28 37 African-American soldiers 34-35 149n 14 Agnew Margaret Mrs Harman Blennerhassett 137-138 Agriculture 80-81 Aides-de-Camp Ohio office of 26 29 Akron Beacon Journal 10-11 Alcoholic camphor 180 Alexander Charles C book rev 205207 Allen Howard W book rev 112-113 Allopathic medicine 177 Ambassadors and ...
... COMMUNICATIONS RELATING TO THE CELCOMMUNICATIONS RELATING TO THE CELEBRATION LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS OF CONGRATULATION MARIETTA April 6 1888 Dr I W Andrews Hartford Conn The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society in session at its annual meeting sends greeting and congratulates you on the great success of the Marietta Centennial so largely the result of your labors Nothing but your presence is wanting to complete it Our best wishes for your speedy recovery F C SESSIONS President HARTFORD ...
... Governor Rutherford B Hayes NOTES ON PAGE 191 GOVERNOR RUTHERFORD B GOVERNOR RUTHERFORD B HAYES 59 by DANIEL R PO R TER The spirits of a discontented Congressman from Cincinnati were decidedly lifted late in January 1867 by a letter from William Henry Smith Ohio's Secretary of State The letter sounded out Representative Rutherford B Hayes as a possible gubernatorial candidate This was the first indication Hayes received that he was being considered instead of incumbent Governor Jacob D Cox ...
... ANTI-SLAYERY MOVEMENT IN COLUMBIANA ANTI-SLAYERY MOVEMENT IN COLUMBIANA COUNTY BY C B GALBREATH A study of the early anti-slavery movement in Ohio at this late day occasions many surprises It seems that the first participants came from the South a number arriving before the state was admitted into the Union The famous Ordinance of 1787 prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territory The states carved out of it were thus from the beginning dedicated to freedom While the Ordinance contained a ...
... LEGISLATURE OF THE NORTHWESTERN LEGISLATURE OF THE NORTHWESTERN TERRITORY 1795 The legislative authority in the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio was vested in the governor and judges of that territory by the Ordinance of 1787 The minutes of the meeting of the Legislature held in Cincinnati in the summer of 1795 have been preserved in the Centinel of the Northwestern Territory where they were published in that year Only one copy of the file of this paper containing these ...
... 444 Ohio Arch 444 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Again page 279 The French settlers did not locate at the mouth of the Scioto but at Gallipolis See Laws of the U S Vol 2 page 503 On page 276 it is stated that Mount Logan is on Paint Creek Mount Logan is on the east side of the Scioto nearly two miles northeast of the Court House in Chillicothe and is miles away from Paint Creek which is west of the Scioto Page 286 College Hill is named from two colleges College Corner with similar ...
... REVIEWS REVIEWS History of Ohio By Eugene Holloway Roseboom and Francis Phelps Weisenburger New York Prentice Hall Inc 545 pages Price 500 What at least two other authors told in four or five volumes these two assistant professors of history in the Ohio State University have put into a single volume a unit in the series edited by Carl Wittke head of the department Moreover as the bibliography at the end of each chapter shows they have consulted numerous books and documents bearing as they say ...
... AN ACT AN ACT For the r e li e f of the families of volunteers in the State or United States service SE CTION 1 Be it enacted by t h e General Assembly of the State of Tax levied Ohio That for the reli ef of the necessities of the families of volunthree-fifths of a teers who now are or hereafte r may be in the service of this st at e mill on the or the United S tates there be and hereby is levied and assessed for dollar valuathe ye a r 1862 three-fifths of one mill on the dollar v aluation on ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XLII INDEX TO VOLUME XLII Abels A 71 Bicentennial commission for Ohio Names Abroader the better 392 of 8-9 Adams S E 114 Bicentennial commission for West VirAlexander W L quoted 128-129 ginia Names of 7 American Colonists in English Records Blaine James G Speech in Cincinnati Ser 1 reviewed 241-242 385-386 his affability 387-388 American Legion 64 Blazier Ann 39 Anchor iron 171 180 Blumenberg Hugo 29 Ashmun George 108 Bolles Col William M 169 Atkinson L A 176 Boone Col E A 223 ...
... 164 Ohio Arch 164 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 RIO GRANDE COLLEGE-REV J M DAVIS PRESIDENT When asked but a few hours ago to take part in the exercises of this forenoon I gladly consented for in my opinion no interest that has been developed in Gallia county in the first century of its settlement is more worthy of being brought to remembrance and notice than its educational interests and my connection for a number of years with Rio Grande college enables me to set forth briefly ...
... The Steubenville and Indiana Railroad The Steubenville and Indiana Railroad The Pennsylvania's Middle Route To the Middle West By WALTER RUMSEY MARVIN There is not a port a harbor or even a curved place on the Lake Erie shoreline of Ohio which today is not dreaming of the increased prosperity it will gain from the completion of the St Lawrence Seaway A little more than one hundred years ago there was hardly a place in all Ohio which did not foresee for itself boundless growth and wealth as ...