... 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 ...
... REPORTS REPORTS THE BURIAL PLACE OF JOHN CHAPMAN JOHNNY APPLESEED Report of the Commission Appointed by the American Pomological Society to Investigate Its Location Much has been published and more said and written regarding the life and work of John Chapman Johnny Appleseed the pioneer collector and planter of apple seeds and the distributor of seedling apple trees in western New York and Pennsylvania and throughout the Ohio Valley northern Ohio and Indiana and southwestern Michigan While a ...
... FLATBOATING DOWN THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI FLATBOATING DOWN THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI 1867-1873 Correspondence and Diaries of the William Dudley Devol Family of Marietta Ohio PART II edited by ROBERT LESLIE JONES Professor of History Marietta College V More material remains from William Dudley Devol's fourth flatboating expedition than from the other three put together In addition to the letters which passed back and forth it includes two diaries covering the first six weeks of his trip printed ...
... UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF DR UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF DR DANIEL DRAKE By ALICE MCGUFFEY RUGGLES In the winter of 1847-48 Dr Daniel Drake then professor at the Louisville Medical Institute dashed off late at night after strenuous days of teaching and research the Reminiscential Letters to His Children published in 1879 in the Ohio Valley Historical Series under the title Pioneer Life in Kentucky This little book is the most vivid first-hand account of a pioneer boyhood in that region ever written ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 117 tion from his voice--he needed no pen--the subject-matter being wide and comprehensive He gave us the benefit of his thought and wit upon such topics as The Boston Tea Party Washington in the West Our First Inhabitants The Original Ohio Land Company etc etc but the crowning favor was bestowed just one year ago on Washington's birthday when his subject was Americanization at Home and Abroad We marveled as we sat enthralled by his eloquence how ...
... It is the fate of defeated generals and admirals to be forgotten It is the fate of defeated generals and admirals to be forgotten Everyone in Ohio and the Old Northwest hears of the victory of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry on Lake Erie in 1813 but ordinarily remains ignorant of the British commander he defeated England is a country most proficient in ignoring unsuccessful military figures The fate of Perry's opponent may not have been just but it was typical Exactly what happened to him has ...
... GENERAL WILLIAM HULL AND HIS CRITICS GENERAL WILLIAM HULL AND HIS CRITICS By M M QUAIFE The Detroit campaign of 1 812 lasted in all but little over two months June 10-August 16 a century and a quarter has passed since its conclusion during which General William Hull's countrymen have continued to load upon him the heavy measure of condemnation which was meted out to him by his contemporary associates and critics This attitude has been perpetuated by three generations of historians most of whom ...
... JONATHAN J JONATHAN J BEAN Marketing the great American commodity Nathaniel Massie and Land Speculation on the Ohio Frontier 1783-1813 Few figures in early American history are as controversial as the land speculator The land speculator has been portrayed as both a parasitical landlord and an important figure fostering the economic development of the frontier The career of Ohio land speculator Nathaniel Massie highlights the problems faced by those engaged in land development in the early ...
... OHIO DAY AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE OHIO DAY AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION On October 6 1 90 4 the Buckeyes from all parts of the United States celebrated Ohio Day upon the grounds of the Exposition St Louis Missouri The exercises were held in the afternoon and evening in the beautiful Ohio Building The Ohio Commission appointed by Governor Nash under authority of an act passed by the 75th General Assembly consisted of Hon William F Burdell President Columbus life member of the Ohio ...
... MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETMINUTES OF THE THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO October 2 1924 FORENOON SESSION 9 A M The meeting was called to order by Secretary C B Galbreath On motion of W C Mills Hon James E Campbell was elected chairman of the meeting On motion of C B Galbreath Charles W Justice was elected secretary of the meeting There were present Hon James E Campbell W C Mills George F ...
... THE ORDINANCE OF JULY 13TH 1787 THE ORDINANCE OF JULY 13TH 1787 TH E intrinsic merits of that organic law which was enacted by the old Continental Congress on the 13th of July 1787 for the Government of the Territory Northwest of the river Ohio have been so fully discussed and are so well understood that any attempt in that direction would be little more than a repetition of views already familiar to an intelligent audience Its merits can now be measured by its fruits Results are its monument ...
... WHY IS OHIO CALLED THE BUCKEYE STATE WHY IS OHIO CALLED THE BUCKEYE STATE AN ADDRESS BY WILLIAM M FARRAR THE name Buckeye as applied to the State of Ohio is an accepted sobriquet so well recognized and so generally understood throughout the United States that its use requires no explanation although the origin of the term and its significance are not without question and therefore become proper subjects of consideration during this Centennial year The usual and most commonly accepted solution ...
... THE ORDINANCE OF 1787 THE ORDINANCE OF 1787 SOME INVESTIGATIONS AS TO THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE FAMOUS SIXTH ARTICLE COL W E GILMORE CHILLICOTHE Senator Roberts of Pennsylvania in the great debate over the bill for the admission of Missouri to the Union in 1820 characterized the Ordinance of 1787 as that immortal Ordinance which with its elder sister the Declaration of American Independence will shed eternal and inextinguishable lustre over the annals of our country Daniel Webster in a speech upon ...
... Dedication of Ohio's World War Memorial 481 Dedication of Ohio's World War Memorial 481 fought for freedom and tolerance and your Society with its new facilities can do much to see that that fight was not in vain In this work which we think of great value your elder sister pledges you its constant and sincere help with the conviction that the glory and achievement of one is that of all Mr Greve is a graduate of Harvard and the Cincinnati Law school a prominent attorney of Cincinnati and author ...
... Ohio's Monument to General Anthony Wayne 19 Ohio's Monument to General Anthony Wayne 19 of governing the world So long as force may be invoked in behalf of injustice and wrong so long must force be ready to meet and crush force when thus employed as Washington said We must keep ourselves in a reasonable posture of defense Applause After more than one hundred and fifty years of nationality the sword of Washington and Wayne was never drawn except in defense of American rights or human rights and ...
... Military Posts in the State of Ohio Military Posts in the State of Ohio 313 FORT ANCIENT AN OUTLINE DESCRIPTION The accompanying map from the survey made under my direction by Messrs Fowke and Cowen will acquaint the reader with the hillsides and the embankments The walls run in very crooked lines always following the brink of deep ravines twisting and turning in the directions which would afford best protection The following briefly narrated facts regarding the embankments should be carefully ...
... OHIO'S FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW OHIO'S FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW BY C B GALBREATH Recently the writer received a request for information on Ohio's Fugitive Slave Law Our school histories make clear what the national Fugitive Slave Law was but they rarely give any account of the measures adopted and enacted by certain northern states designed to accomplish the same purpose some years before the enactment included in the Compromise of 1850 which aroused a storm of opposition throughout the North It is the ...
... THE DIARY OF JOHN BEATTY JANUARY-JUNE 1884 THE DIARY OF JOHN BEATTY JANUARY-JUNE 1884 Part I edited by HARVEY S FORD Head Librarian Toledo Blade John Beatty the author of the diary which follows was the grandson of a Scotch-Irish immigrant who settled near Sandusky in 1815 His grandfather also named John Beatty was born in County Wexford Ireland on March 17 1774 At the age of eighteen he visited the United States and after some traveling about the country determined to settle in Norwich ...
... OHIO'S MONUMENT TO GENERAL ANTHONY OHIO'S MONUMENT TO GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE UNVEILED September 14 1929 is a date long to be remembered in the annals of Ohio and other states represented at the dedicatory ceremonies incident to the unveiling of a monument to Major General Anthony Wayne a hero of the Revolution and the border wars with the Indians in the valleys of the Miami and Maumee Rivers The sites of his major achievements in the post-Revolutionary period of his career-the battle of Fallen ...
... COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS the RUFUS PUTNAM HOUSE at the Campus Martius Museum by DANIEL R PORTER THE RUFUS PUTNAM house at the Campus Martius Museum State Memorial is the most outstanding architectural combination of New England tradition and frontier necessity preserved in Ohio today The house exemplifies as well the military and domestic challenges which faced the pioneers who established Marietta the first authorized United States settlement in the Old Northwest It was natural that New ...