... OHIO STATE LIBRARY CENTENNIAL OHIO STATE LIBRARY CENTENNIAL The one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Ohio State Library was observed on the evening of August 10 1917 No special significance attached to this particular date It is not known just when the State Library first opened It was doubtless available for the use of the ...
... settlement of the Northwest Territory Kentucky claimed exclusive jurisdiction over the Ohio River where it touches her soil As a result difficulties and embarrassments followed Persons arrested by territorial officers for crimes committed on boats lying at or floating near the shore of the territory were discharged on pleas that the ...
... northwest that has been made famous for one thing only It is the home of two brothers who are among the leading surgeons of America Not only do thousands of patients from all over the land flock to these doctors for treatment and delicate operations but hundreds of surgeons also come to watch their wonderful skill and learn the secrets of their conspicuous success These men serve humanity most expertly therefore they are leaders And they pay a ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 415 1838 President Van Buren appointed Mr Lucas governor of the Territory of Iowa In this position he exhibited great capabilities in the organization of the territory into the state The election of William H Harrison as Whig President in 1840 caused Mr Lucas' removal from the office of Iowa governor when he returned to Ohio and was nominated by the people of his home district for membership in United States Congress ...
... settlement On going back the settlement to the Pacific settlement to combine all the settlement I therefore give the casting vote in the affirmative ' My wife was with me at the close of the meetings On our return home as we were turning a corner of a field a cow that a boy was driving ...
... The MacGahan Monument The MacGahan Monument 235 Ladies and gentlemen of New Lexingtonyou who are the neighbors and the kin of MacGahan-you do well to dedicate on this the natal day of your country's freedom a monument to your great apostle of freedom You do well to set up a reminder to the coming generations of the glory and the human kindliness of the liberator of a people But yours is not the power nor the privilege of building the most enduring monument to MacGahan That monument is to be ...
... Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association 16 1 commemorated in our own beautiful memorial building holding his library and numerous family relics while his remains with those of his wife lie beneath the family monument on the beautiful knoll in Spiegel Grove which is approached only by traversing the original Harrison trail of the war ...
... THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR FEBRUARY 17 1807 TO FEBRUARY 1 1898 GEN R BRINKERHOFF President E O RANDALL Secretary COLUMBUS O JANUARY 1898 407 To His Excellency Asa S To His Excellency Asa S Bushnell Governor of Ohio SIR-I have the honor to submit herewith the thirteenth annual report of the
... settlement of our Northwestern Territory out of which were carved half a dozen great states Here on this spot Wayne raised the first flag of the United States with its thirteen stripes and stars it being the herald of freedom and civilization to a vast extent of country on and beyond the Ohio Wayne did not long survive his great victory ...
... settlement of the State 4 settlement of Ohio In this are also included the histories and lives of the pioneers both autobiographical and biographical as well as local histories of cities towns and counties 5 Travels through and tours into Ohio commencing with Rev David Jones' Journal of ...
... settlements of this section There were Virginians who still favored the institutions of that commonwealth John Henri Kagi -- Biographical Sketch 265 John Henri Kagi -- Biographical Sketch 265 and there were other Virginians who had fled from the Old Dominion to escape the institution of slavery Among the most ardent opponents of that system were men and women from the slave states who convinced by personal observation that slavery was wrong ...
... A Civil War Diary of William McKinley A Civil War Diary of William McKinley Edited by H WAYNE MORGAN IN APRIL 1861 news came to Ohio that secessionists had fired on Fort Sumter the long-dreaded civil war was at hand and the last hopes of compromise vanished in the smoke of battle Ohio home of so many conflicting forces had her share of southern sympathizers but she was prepared to stand by ...
... northwest of the Ohio his northwest territory with New England by artificial waterways This address will be published in full in a subsequent number of the Society's Quarterly Prof W C Mills read an interesting account of the origin and development of the archaeological museum of the Society After the addresses the meeting adjourned Those ...
... settlement on this continent settlement then and there settlements Jamestown takes settlement is told in concise settlement of Raleigh's settlement in chapter two
... northwest corner of the Capitol building in Columbus On this occasion he was put upon the program to respond to the toast Ohio at the Columbian Exposition He had no time for preparation but as it approached the hour in which he would be called upon there came to him the thought that it was not bigness or material resources that gave renown to a nation so much as the character of its men and ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 333 And now Mr Speaker having covered the points I think necessary I submit for an immediate vote of the House a bill which urges that Groundhog Day be set back from February 2d to January 2d so that we may have an earlier spring THE HEROES OF FORT MEIGS We cheerfully publish the circular sent out by the Wives and Daughters of the Boys in Blue to the soldiers of the United States and all others interested in behalf of the laudable purpose of purchasing and preserving ...
... settlement of the township no settlement' the temperance pledge had been very generally accepted In the adjoining town of Norton were over one hundred men pledged to abstinence The Congregational church feeling the need of a house in 1830 thirteen persons of whom I was the youngest a youth of sixteen resolved to build and finish one with our own hands employing only a 'boss workman' to ...
... JOHN SHERMAN JOHN SHERMAN GEORGE U HARN Mr Harn is a native Ohioan having been born at Wooster where he was trained in the printing and journalistic profession When a mere lad he became the Columbus correspondent for the Cincinnati TimesChronicle now the Times-Star Later he became one of the owners of the Mansfield Herald with the business and editorial control of which he was connected for many years Under President McKinley Mr Harn was ...
... 30 Ohio Arch 30 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications HOLMES COUNTY REBELLIONFORT FIZZLE J R VANCE I was born in a log cabin situated in Knox Township Holmes County Ohio almost three-quarters of a century ago and have lived here on the farm ever since My information in regard to the events I am about to narrate comes from various sources ...