... NEWS FROM THE OHIO NEWS FROM THE OHIO Extract of a letter from a Gentleman at the Muskingum to the Printer of the MASSACHUSE T TS SPY written on the spot where the first city of that territory is to be built1 ADELPHI May 16th 1788 MR THOMAS I embrace the earliest opportunity of communicating to you such information as I am capable of giving respecting the Western Country in general and in particular of that part purchased by the Ohio Company With respect to the country in general and even of ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XXVI No 2 APRIL 1917 FORT LAURENS PURCHASED It will be recalled that the autumn winter and spring of 1777-8 was the period of the low ebb of the cause of the Colonial Revolutionists In the late spring of 1778 while Washington was just emerging from Valley Forge George Rogers Clark entered upon the daring expedition to save the Northwest to the Colonies The British-Canadian authorities were planning not only to circumvent Clark but to carry the war into Africa by ...
... THOMAS BEALS FIRST FRIENDS MINISTER THOMAS BEALS FIRST FRIENDS MINISTER IN OHIO BY HARLOW LINDLEY Thomas Beals was born in Chester County Pennsylvania in 1719 He was the son of John and Sarah Beals formerly Sarah Bowater of an English family of Friends Thomas Beals had two brothers John and Bowater and four sisters Prudence who married Richard Williams Sarah who married John Mills Mary who married Thomas Hunt and after his death William Baldwin and Phebe who married Robert Sumner John Beals ...
... INTER-STATE MIGRATION AND THE MAKING OF INTER-STATE MIGRATION AND THE MAKING OF THE UNION BY DR EDWIN ERLE SPARKS President Emeritus of the Pennsylvania State College I hear the far-off voyager's horn 1 see the Yankee's trail -- His foot on every mountain-pass On every stream his sail Behind the scared squaw's birch canoe The steamer smokes and raves And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be The first low wash of waves where ...
... LOUIS WEEKS LOUIS WEEKS John P Parker Black Abolitionist Entrepreneur 1827-1900 As historians attempt to set the record straight--to recite for Americans the involvement of black people in all aspects of our national life--they will since the recovery of his Autobiography now be able to include more on the contributions of yet another outstanding Negro John P Parker of Ripley Ohio1 To be sure a few students of American history have already mentioned Parker Henry E Baker of the United States ...
... SHULL'S ROAD SHULL'S ROAD The following letter addressed to the Editor by John William Scholl professor emeritus in the University of Michigan contains enough of historical data to warrant its publication as a matter of record ANN ARBOR MICHIGAN April 6 1946 Dear Sir I have before me a Road Map of Montgomery County Ohio made revised in 1936 by Victor C Smith then County Engineer which contains an especially interesting error Near the northeast corner of the county in Wayne Township there is a ...
... 318 Ohio Arch 318 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications STANTON DAY Tuesday morning at ten o'clock the exercises of the day opened at the opera house with Capt John F Oliver master of ceremonies There was a fair audience of school children and others who had gathered to hear Dr W H Venable's address on Ohio Men and Ohio Ideas After an invocation by Rev E W Cowling rector of St Stephen's parish and lately from the mother state of Virginia the home of Jefferson Mr D W Matlack principal of ...
... TALLMADGE TOWNSHIP TALLMADGE TOWNSHIP E O RANDALL Six miles east of Akron the thriving official center of its county in almost its pristine solitude pioneer simplicity and primitive picturesqueness lies the quiet little village of Tallmadge Its two or three hundred contented inhabitants go their way today as undisturbed by the social follies or the commercial whirl distant but one hour's travel as though they were lodged in some vast wilderness inaccessible to the inroads of society's ...
... Franklinton-An Historical Address Franklinton -A n Historical Address 59 FRANKLINTON--AN HISTORICAL ADDRESS By GENERAL JOHN BEATTY A few rods from where we are assembled to-day the waters of the Olentangy unite with those of the Scioto and together flow down to the Ohio thence to the Mississippi and so onward to a gulf of the Atlantic ocean Southwardly from the place where the two streams meet there was at the time to which we propose to refer a broad handsome stretch of valley land where good ...
... GENERAL EDWARD ORTON JR GENERAL EDWARD ORTON JR In 1865 Dr Edward Orton and his family came to Yellow Springs Ohio where he had accepted the position of Professor of Natural History in Antioch College From that date until the year 1932 a period of sixty-seven years the name Edward Orton has become widely known in Ohio and has stood for worthy effort and eminent achievement None has continuously and longer held a more honorable place in the public esteem and in the educational scientific and ...
... INDEX INDEX COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABZUG Robert H Passionate Liberator Theodore Dwight Weld amp the Dilemma of Reform rev 350-351 Access to the Past Museum Programs and Handicapped Visitors A guide to Section 504-making existing programs and facilities accessible to disabled persons by Alice P Kenney 260 Accounting systems Buckeye Steel Castings Company 246-247 Acheson David C and David S McLellan editors Among Friends Personal Letters of Dean Acheson rev 93-94 Acheson Dean Among Friends ...
... WINTHROP SARGENT WINTHROP SARGENT BY B H PERSHING PROFESSOR WITTENBERG COLLEGE The fate which history metes out to various men is not always the same Some are recognized by the age in which they live as men of eminence and worth who have rendered a real service to their generation This prominence they retain even at the hands of the most critical of historians Others are spoken of for some years as illustrious among men but when the day comes that they must pass the test of the historical ...
... JEPTHA H JEPTHA H WADE AND THE CLEVELAND AND CINCINNATI TELEGRAPH COMPANY by RUSSELL H ANDERSON Director Western Reserve Historical Society Jeptha H Wade was the organizer moving spirit and principal owner of the Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company and the story of his activities in building and operating its line leads into his career in the nation-wide telegraph field especially as a principal in the Western Union Telegraph Company It was with this Ohio line that Wade capitalizing ...
... TOM D TOM D CROUCH Thomas Kirkby Pioneer Aeronaut in Ohio The decade of the 1830's marked the dawn of American aeronautical history Although the first American balloon ascent had been made on June 24 1784 when Edward Warren a thirteen year old Baltimore lad made a captive flight in a homemade balloon the citizens of the young republic remained aloof from so impractical an enterprise as free ballooning1 The American tour of Jean Pierre Blanchard in 1793 demonstrated that even a highly ...
... ALONG THE PATHWAY OF A GREAT STATE ALONG THE PATHWAY OF A GREAT STATE BY A D HOSTERMAN The Great State to Which I Refer Is Ohio Standing the fourth of all the American states in wealth and population and third in manufactures the contribution Ohio has made to the nation in great men great movements great progress and leadership justifies the claim that she is a great state It will be interesting briefly to touch some points along her pathway In the beginning Ohio and the entire American ...
... CAMP CHARLOTTE SITE MARKED CAMP CHARLOTTE SITE MARKED A granite monument erected near the site of Camp Charlotte bears a bronze tablet with the following inscription CAMP CHARLOTTE Near this spot -- the famous Treaty was made between Lord Dunmore Governor of Virginia and Chief Cornstalk of the Shawnees and Allied Tribes in October -- 1774 This Camp was named Charlotte after the Queen of England Erected by the Pickaway Plains Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution 1774 1928 This monument ...
... INDIAN LAND CESSIONS IN OHIO INDIAN LAND CESSIONS IN OHIO BY S S KNABENSHUE Ever since the civilized nations of the world began to occupy lands peopled by savages they have based their claims upon the right of discovery followed by occupation This principle has been judicially affirmed by the United States Supreme Court which declared that discovery gave an exclusive right to extinguish the Indian title of occupancy either by purchase or conquest and also to sovereignty Johnson and Graham's ...
... THE DEBT OF THE WEST TO WASHINGTON THE DEBT OF THE WEST TO WASHINGTON BY ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT To us of the central west the memory of Washington and his dearest ambitions must be precious beyond that of any other American whether statesman general or seer Under strange providential guidance the mind and heart of that first American was turned toward the territories lying between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi and it is to be doubted if any other portion of his country received so much of ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Rutherford B Hayes Library announced that it will publish a comprehensive microfilm edition of The Papers of Rutherford B Hayes A printed guide will accompany the microfilm edition The edition will include Hayes' genealogical records diaries commonplace books correspondence presidential records Civil War records business papers speeches notes vetoes executive orders and miscellaneous items For further information write to Thomas A Smith Manuscripts ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The French in the Mississippi Valley 17 401750 By Norman Ward Caldwell Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences Vol XXVI No 3 Urbana University of Illinois Press 1941 113p Map bibliography The author has used for this study the rich photostatic collection of documents relating to French and Indian affairs in the Illinois country made by the Illinois Historical Survey Most notable perhaps is his use of the expense bills of the western posts from the colonial records in ...