... 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 ...
... Remarks of Gov Remarks of Gov James E Campbell 161 REMARKS OF GOVERNOR JAMES E CAMPBELL It was a long-deferred pleasure one year ago on the 19th of October to make my first visit here I learned after arriving that it was an auspicious day being the ninety-ninth anniversary of the landing upon the banks of yonder river of the little band of French settlers who founded this handsome and flourishing city During an address to the people who gathered on that occasion to hear the political ...
... COMMUNICATIONS RELATING TO THE CELCOMMUNICATIONS RELATING TO THE CELEBRATION LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS OF CONGRATULATION MARIETTA April 6 1888 Dr I W Andrews Hartford Conn The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society in session at its annual meeting sends greeting and congratulates you on the great success of the Marietta Centennial so largely the result of your labors Nothing but your presence is wanting to complete it Our best wishes for your speedy recovery F C SESSIONS President HARTFORD ...
... 72 Ohio Arch 72 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications vindication of national honor and the only certain protection of vital interests is in respecting the nationality of others and in trusting for justice to the growing conscience of the race codified in international law and expressing itself through international arbitration On that as on a sure foundation rests the hope of the world's peace Once men dreamed of peace through the world sovereignty of some master mind like Alexander or some ...
... 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 ...
... strike directly at the strike and all the tribes strike until I give you strike a heavy blow on our strike at the hostile Indians except in connection with their British allies in Canada Governor Meigs of Ohio in his message before the ...
... Dedication of the Hayes Memorial Dedication of the Hayes Memorial 4 31 very graciously doffed his hat in recognition of the honor thus paid him When it was suggested to him that these were the boys who would help him in Mexico in case the situation came to that he very earnestly and seemingly sadly remarked Yes yes I know but we hope and pray they will not be needed Immediately upon the arrival of Secretary Baker the real dedication of the Memorial the Grove and the Mansion was begun ...
... AMERICANS BEFORE COLUMBUS AMERICANS BEFORE COLUMBUS BY GERARD FOWKE We have become so accustomed to thinking of Columbus as the original and only discoverer of America the western continent that we quite overlook several important points which should be considered in this connection The principal item is one which we know so well that we often fail to remember it at all and this is that when Columbus made his landing he found not a desert not a wilderness but a well-inhabited country Then as ...
... 634 Ohio Arch 634 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications During the year there has been a large number of visitors at the Park The custodian reports more than twenty-five thousand While many of these doubtless have been the usual Sunday and holiday visitors they have been orderly while at the Park and let us hope have carried away with them some wholesome impressions of the significance of the Great Serpent Effigy Signed W H COLE Chairman of Committee REPORT OF SPIEGEL GROVE COMMITTEE A E ...
... OHIO'S RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS AND THE WAR OHIO'S RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS AND THE WAR MARTHA L EDWARDS 'LAKE ERIE COLLEGE What have the churches of Ohio had to do with the war The answer to this question must of necessity await investigation since the source material upon which final judgments are to be based cannot now be assembled There is however evidence already at hand in the collections of the Historical Commission of Ohio which permits a tentative sketch of what the churches of the ...
... LUTHERANISM IN PERRY COUNTY OHIO LUTHERANISM IN PERRY COUNTY OHIO BY PROFESSOR C L MARTZOLFF Ohio University Athens Ohio It was only a narrow trail It followed the moccasined footprints of the Shawnee brave as he had journeyed back and forth on his mission of war or the chase from the Pennsylvania frontier to his home on the plains of the Scioto It cut its blazed way through the virgin forest of Ohio from the Fort of the Quaker Zane at Wheeling to where it again crossed the river at Limestone ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA AVERY'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES The second volume of A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES AND ITS PEOPLE From the Earliest Records to the Present Time by Elroy McKendree Avery published by the Burrows Brothers Company Cleveland Ohio has been issued by the publishers The purpose and general plan of this work which when completed will comprise fifteen volumes was set forth in the QUARTERLY for April 1905 The second volume fully meets the ambitious and alluring promise of ...
... 462 Ohio Arch 462 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications will stand as the testimonial of a grateful people to the life and services of a truly beloved man To this building and the beautiful grove surrounding it will come generations of American citizens our children grandchildren and their descendants and draw an inspiration to a life of unselfishness and honor as they become more and more familiar with the life and character of Rutherford Birchard Hayes that crowned and glorious life ...
... THE AKRON CENTENNIAL THE AKRON CENTENNIAL JUL Y 1 8 19 20 21 22 23 1925 BY EDWIN W BROUSE The plans for the Centennial found their first public expression in the appointment of an executive committee of seven men and women by Mayor D C Rybolt The Mayor was selected chairman of this committee This Committee spent much time in constructive work both in formulating plans and in digesting the multifarious suggestions which were offered to them As a result of this preliminary work two additional ...
... 282 OHIO ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 282 OHIO ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SKETCH OF THE SWISS MENNONITES OF ALLEN AND PUTNAM COUNTIES OHIO By DELBERT L GRATZ To write a precise history of any certain group of people one must know the individual history of each family which goes to make up the group This was especially true in the case of the Swiss Mennonites since their faith was chiefly a family religion and in no way a matter of cults and ...
... 302 Ohio Arch 302 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications it to go beyond what is now the confines of Pickaway Township Further the Cresaps of the present are of the opinion that Logan should have been consistent with the words of his message by his attendance at the Treaty when only six miles distant notwithstanding his threatening note of July 1774 to Captain Michael Cresap tied to a War Club and left in the house of Roberts after Logan had massacred the family Also Logan was inconsistent ...
... 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 ...
... A LETTER FROM COLONEL JOHN ALLEN A LETTER FROM COLONEL JOHN ALLEN BY EDGAR B WESLEY John Allen author of the following letter was the son of James Allen and was born in Rockbridge County Virginia on December 30 17721 The family moved to Kentucky in 1787 and settled near the present Hustonville Lincoln County John experienced the usual excitements of the frontier and on one occasion pursued a band of Indians down Rolling Fork into what is now Casey County2 About 1790 the family moved to ...
... strike at Upper Canada seemed not only a wise strategic move but indeed the only method by which American rights and honor could be defended 180 OHIO HISTORY 180 OHIO HISTORY Because of their acute awareness of the necessity for quick and decisive land victories Ohio's congressmen advocated strong army legislation Still it was possible for disagreement to occur in providing what Kilbourne called an overwhelming force for an army and the most ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR OLENTANGY RIVER The name Olentangy applied to an important tributary of the Scioto River has been a puzzler to the etymologists It is said to be of Indian origin but its root significance has never been determined The statement is made in the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society Publications Vol 6 page 93 that this name was legalized through the interest of Colonel Kilbourne We are told that in the year 1833 Colonel ...