... 172 Ohio Arch 172 Ohio Arch and His Society Pub li ca ti ons VoL 3 REMARKS OF R D MARSHALL ESQ Your presiding officer has called on me owing to some delay in the arrival of trains which has delayed the forming and moving of the procession to address you for a few minutes and has charged me with being a speaker of some note and as he has placed me on trial before you on that charge I feel pretty certain that when you have heard me you will promptly acquit me of the charge as it was not my ...
... THE LUDLOW LINE THE LUDLOW LINE R W MCFARLAND It is well known that Virginia claimed most of the territory northwest of the Ohio river by reason of the grants made by the sovereign of England to the colonists In 1784 in accordance with a formal request made by Congress in 178 0 Virginia ceded to the United States all her claims to the territory reserving only the lands between the Scioto and the little Miami rivers This tract is usually called the Virginia Military District It was reserved for ...
... 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 ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA The recent appointments to the Board of Trustees of the Society have added strength and dignity to that body Governor Cox on June 24 1913 appointed ex-Governor Myron T Herrick of Cleveland and ex-Governor James E Campbell of Columbus for the terms of three years from the date of their appointment Mr Herrick was originally appointed by Governor Harmon The high character of the personnel of the Board has been unbroken in the twenty-eight years of its history This is ...
... MUSKINGUM RIVER IMPROVEMENT MUSKINGUM RIVER IMPROVEMENT THE McCONNELSVILLE LOCK-OLD AND NEW IRVEN TRAVIS The beginning of the improvement of the Muskingum dates back to 1827 when on January 17th the following resolution was passed by the General Assembly Resolved That the Board of Canal Commissioners deem it expedient and authorize an examination and survey of the Muskingum River from Marietta to a point most convenient for a connection with the Ohio Canal to ascertain the practicability of ...
... 268 OHIO ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 268 OHIO ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY with difficulty that we refrain from being surprised at ourselves And our culture dwarfs that of our fathers to insignificance We cannot be expected to judge values according to the standards of a culture which to us appears so naive so childlike so unintelligent and emotionally unstable But sometimes when our present world is a bit too much with me the strident voice of the news broadcaster comes ...
... LINCOLN IN OHIO LINCOLN IN OHIO BY JOHN H CRAMER I The Cincinnati Speech of September 1859 Did Dayton Hear It First The words which Abraham Lincoln spoke in Cincinnati upon the seventeenth of September 1859 are well known to careful students of his addresses and writings They were the words of one of the most important speeches which the famous Illinoisan made upon his brief but important excursion into Ohio The address was given in answer to a previous speech made by the then more noted ...
... The Soldier's Creed The Soldier's Creed By LESTER J CAPPON Patriotism is an essential factor in waging war and shaping its outcome Since the causes of a war as fixed in the minds of the participants affect both the deeper and shallower feelings of patriotism and are in turn influenced by it loyalty and the will to fight are closely interrelated The concern of the military in recent years with the soldier's ideas of war aims has aroused interest in his attitudes during previous conflicts Among ...
... OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY--PRE-CIVIL WAR OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY--PRE-CIVIL WAR PERIOD THE FIRST YEAR OF THE SECOND EPIDEMIC OF ASIATIC CHOLERA IN COLUMBUS OHIO--1849 By JONATHAN FORMAN Cholera because of its sudden appearance its high mortality and the frightfulness of its dead has always been a dramatic character in the history of the human race Some years ago the writer told the story of the first cholera epidemic in Columbus that of 18331 This was the great epidemic surpassing any pestilence that ...
... by PAUL H BOASE The itinerancy the traveling ministry of the Methodist Church distinguished the Methodist plan of church government from all other ecclesiastical systems on the American frontier While most denominations employed mounted missionaries as evangelical emissaries to the West only the Wesleyans geared their entire program to an intricately developed circuit system virtually compelling Methodist preachers to ride abreast of the westward bound pioneers In sparsely settled regions ...
... 520 Ohio Arch 520 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications but they love it more because they have seen its crimson colors reproduced in the blood of America We love this country but they love it more because they have seen the sacrifices which have made it what it is and while we hope that we will have peace we are going to claim our right and recognize our right under any circumstance at any time to protect our homes our loved ones our country and our flag to maintain American institutions ...
... Comments Notes and Reviews Comments Notes and Reviews 375 Mr Sherman was one of the first members of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and for some years took a personal interest in its proceedings For ten years past and at the time of his death he was one of the trustees JOHN BROWN-A REVIEW In American history there are few if any characters the story of whose life is so erratic dramatic or so tragic as that of John Brown As he spent his youth and many years of his manhood ...
... MAJOR-GENERAL ARTHUR ST MAJOR-GENERAL ARTHUR ST CLAIR HON ALBERT DOUGLAS M C A brief synopsis of this address was delivered by Mr Douglas at the annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Page Hall O S U March 22 1907 - EDITOR At the centennial celebration of Ohio statehood held at Chillicothe in May 1 90 3 I had the pleasure of offering the following preamble and resolution Recognizing that the people of Ohio have for one hundred years done injustice to the name ...
... FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHI FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHI STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO Wednesday October 6 1926 900 A M The meeting was called to order by Secretary C B Galbreath There were present B F Prince Arthur C Johnson C B Galbreath Mrs C B Galbreath Edward Orton Jr H R McPherson Mrs H R McPherson Mrs Howard Jones Mrs Anna M Keirn Dr J M Dunham E F Wood Dr F C Furniss Dr William C Mills Theodore A Wegener Joseph C Goodman B ...
... SIMON KENTON -- THOMAS W SIMON KENTON - - THOMAS W CRIDLAND PIONEERS BY WALTER D MCKINNEY Today it is my great privilege to place in the custody of this Society the framed portrait of a man This I might do in short form which would be forgotten at the conclusion of the ceremony but the subject of the portrait and the portrait itself -- and the maker of the frame and the frame itself -- are deserving of greater consideration by the society and myself The subject of the portrait is Simon Kenton ...
... 554 Ohio Arch 554 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications the Hopewell Mounds during the explorations of Professor Moorehead in 1 89 1 It is the further plan of the Director to place on exhibition objects illustrating the various cultural peoples of prehistoric times in Ohio It is further anticipated that the south exhibition hall on the second floor will be devoted to collections illustrating the various types of artifacts used by prehistoric man in Ohio ACCESSIONS TO MUSEUM COLLECTIONS ...
... THE NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH IN OHIO THE NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH IN OHIO FROM 1848 TO 1870 by OPHIA D S MI TH In his Teachers of the Nineteenth Century 1845 Parke Godwin said that the chief characteristic of the then present epoch was its tendency to unity in universality and that the men in whom this tendency was most fully expressed were Swedenborg Fourier and Goethe In these three persons was summed up the great movement toward unity in universality in religion science and art which comprised the ...
... ISAAC NEWTON WALTER ISAAC NEWTON WALTER PIONEER PREACHER OF OHIO BYRON R LONG The writer while yet a small boy rummaging among the books in an old library came across a volume of thrilling interest The title of the book was The Pioneer Preacher written by a blind man who served his country in conspicuous places first as a pastor and then over a period of about twenty years as chaplain of the Senate and House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States This versatile man's name was ...
... EDWIN M EDWIN M STANTON AT KENYON by WYMAN W PARKER Librarian Kenyon College Stanton the secretary of war in Lincoln's cabinet is still a controversial figure Stanton the youthful school boy is even more elusive but recently-located early letters written in college and in the years directly afterwards have cast more light upon the picture The letters give an impression slightly at variance with the published reminiscences of his contemporaries but such were tempered by time and the fact that ...
... N N GORDON THOMAS The Millerite Movement in Ohio A most spectacular and dramatic nineteenth century religious movement in America developed from the preaching of William Miller This was the culmination of the pronouncement that Christ's Second Coming would occur in October 1844 Preaching in a forceful manner and with convincing sincerity Prophet Miller delivered hundreds of lectures in years 1831 to 1844 His message was one of emotion and terror It was often sensationalized as well as ...