... THE PATHFINDERS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY OHIO THE PATHFINDERS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY OHIO SUPPLEMENTARY TO V OL VI OF OHIO ARCH AND HIST SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS BY W H HUNTER INTRODUCTORY This supplement to The Pathfinders of Jefferson County a paper on the early settlements of Eastern Ohio inspired by the celebration of the centennial of establishment of Jefferson County August 24 25 and 26 1897 was commenced with view of correcting errors in the main publication issued by the State Historical Society ...
... 344 Ohio Arch 344 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications PIONEER DAY At the close of a very imposing Pioneer and Industrial parade the people gathered at LaBelle park and on the beautiful lawns that terrace the immediate neighborhood at the intersection of Fourth street and LaBelle avenue in full view of the Ohio river and under the shade of hundreds of trees they crowded to listen to the addresses Hon J J Gill a descendant of an old and honorable Mt Pleasant family as chairman of the day ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 97 pany Subsequently John Chapman seeks in adventurous wanderings through the western country the home of his plighted love There is of course a rival fascinating and chivalrous but unworthy Mr Hillis has with rare gifts of pen portrayal pictured the simple but perilous life of the New England pioneers who sought their fortunes and amid the Indian inhabited fastnesses beyond the Alleghanies It is a beautiful story pure idyllic poetic and through the entire volume runs ...
... REMINISCENCES REMINISCENCES of Isaac Jackson Allen edited by JOHN Y SIMON Isaac Jackson Allen prominent in Ohio a century ago is now almost completely forgotten Allen began his public career in Mansfield as mayor and judge of the court of common pleas In 1853 he was the unsuccessful Whig candidate for lieutenant governor The next year he became the president of Farmers' College located near Cincinnati and ultimately was that city's superintendent of public instruction From July 1861 to late ...
... 442 Ohio Arch 442 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications General Braddock did not live to realize all the evil consequences which his defeat brought upon the frontiers The road which he had opened from the Potomac to within seven miles of Fort Duquesne became again an Indian warpath In the three years following this battle it was used by a few small parties of French and many bands of Indians as an open road to the Potomac whence they ravaged the English settlements in Virginia Maryland and ...
... WESTERN OPINION AND THE WAR OF 1812 WESTERN OPINION AND THE WAR OF 1812 BY JOHN F CADY M A I The determining factor in any situation is the active positive element involved in it In the realm of physics for example force is measured by the product of mass and velocity but the direction of movement is determined by the positive active velocity not by the passive mass acted upon So it is in historical and political movements The desires and convictions of the positive progressive group are of ...
... JOSEPH VANCE AND HIS TIMES JOSEPH VANCE AND HIS TIMES BY BENJAMIN F PRINCE Professor of History and Political Science Wittenberg College Springfield Ohio The men who made Ohio for its first fifty years were persons of remarkable character and quality Four or five states gave choice selections for the settlement of that region They proved themselves good and true for the work they had to do and brought honor and success to the interests committed to their care Connecticut Pennsylvania Maryland ...
... PIONEER DAYS IN CENTRAL OHIO PIONEER DAYS IN CENTRAL OHIO1 IT is pleasant my friends to realize the sentiment that not only peace has its triumphs as well as war but that domestic and home life hath its excitements and enjoyments as well as the political arena In this day of public strife-in the middle of a campaign in which the embattling squadrons of the several political parties of the day are arrayed against each other in the contest for civil power-we rest on our arms and come together as ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR CATHERINE FAY EWING ORIGINATOR OF CHILDREN'S HOMES Children's Homes throughout the country have attracted deserved attention as child-saving institutions They not only save life they educate to usefulness The Ohio law is simple It was enacted in 1866 and in 1871 thirty-seven homes were organized under it They were established and conducted by counties and intrusted ...
... RAREY THE HORSE'S MASTER AND FRIEND RAREY THE HORSE'S MASTER AND FRIEND BY SARA LOWE BROWN It is one of the honors of Franklin county Ohio that early in the second quarter of the Nineteenth century it produced in the person of John Solomon Rarey a man who bore to all the world the message that in kindness there is power Ralph Waldo Emerson said of him that he had turned a new leaf in civilization while William Lloyd Garrison testified to his fitness to teach the world a great and everywhere ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY MARCH 1888LEGISLATION IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY APRIL 2 1788 a band of forty-eight pioneers left the mouth of the Voughiogheny in the Mayflower of the West Floating out into the Monongahela they emerged on the broad bosom of the Ohio and began an easier journey down that beautiful river to their chosen homes in the valley below Five days after they landed on the bank of the Muskingum river at its confluence with the Ohio and the first ...
... OHIO HISTORY AND NATIONAL HISTORY OHIO HISTORY AND NATIONAL HISTORY OHIO HISTORY TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION At a meeting of the Ohio History Teachers' Association held in April 1915 a committee was appointed to consider the publication of one or more volumes pertaining to the history of the state This committee decided that it would be wise to make a beginning by collecting a series of extracts from the sources in such a way as to make clear the part the state has taken in important phases of the ...
... THE ZOAR SOCIETY APPLICANTS THE ZOAR SOCIETY APPLICANTS FOR MEMBERSHIP By EDGAR B NIXON The Society of Separatists of Zoar Ohio was one of the more successful of the many cooperative communities which appeared in this country during the last century Zoar was founded by German peasants and artisans who emigrated from Wurtemburg in 1817 to escape the civil and ecclesiastical persecution to which they had been subjected as members of the Separatist faith The Separatists were dissentients from the ...
... 580 Ohio Arch 580 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications portunity to know both sides of the story of the conquest of the Northwest Territory Clark's achievement gave the infant Republic of the United States its claim to the vast region northwest of the River Ohio and east of the Mississippi Assuredly he and his followers are entitled to the memorial that is to be erected on the site of Old Vincennes February 25 1929 commemorative of the capture of that Post February 25 1779 OFFICIAL ROSTER ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 145 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 145 known Entrust the future to them Teach them ideals of service and of Christian citizenship They'll not fail us Throw them the lighted torches and these will grow brighter as they climb the heights to endless day Said our beloved poet The thoughts of youth are long long thoughts and Emerson So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man When duty whispers low 'Thou must' The youth replies 'I can' The second ...
... 218 Ohio Arch 218 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications beyond the common average and level of trivial earthliness No matter how inconsistent impossible and desperate a thing might appear to others if John Brown said he would do it he was sure to be believed His words were never taken for empty bravado wrote Frederick Douglass That enthusiasts like Gerrit Smith should be carried away was perhaps natural But Emerson was not an enthusiast Thoreau was not Theodore Parker was not All these men ...
... 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 ...
... THE BATTLESHIP OHIO THE BATTLESHIP OHIO The battleship Ohio was built for the United States navy by the Union Iron Works San Francisco under contract dated October 8 1898 at a cost of 2899000 It was launched May 18 1901 in the harbor of San Francisco and christened by Miss Helen Deshler who was designated for this honor by Governor George K Nash who was present on the occasion as was also William McKinley then President of the United States Great crowds were present at these ceremonies ...
... THE NAMING OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI THE NAMING OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI By EDGAR ERSKINE HUME Dr William Holland Wilmer the famous ophthalmologist of Johns Hopkins and president of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati tells of a traveling salesman in a Pullman smoking car who interrupted another passenger reading his paper What's that pale blue silk button you are wearing he asked The other told him that it was the rosette of the Society of the Cincinnati Fine replied he I'm from ...
... HOMER D HOMER D BLANCHARD Lenau's Ohio Venture It is not often that we find in America documentary source material relating to events in the lives of German men of letters In the case of the poet Nikolaus Lenau however we do have such sources because he spent some time in the United States and purchased land in Crawford County Ohio This writer has discovered new documentary evidence which dispels the old legends about Lenau's visit to America and his speculation in Ohio land The time ...