... JOHNSON'S ISLAND JOHNSON'S ISLAND BY HEWSON L PEEKE This island lies three miles north of Sandusky in the bay It is nearly a mile long half a mile wide and contains about three hundred acres rising gradually in the center to a height of fifty feet It was originally covered with heavy timber and was a favorite resort of the Indians who came there to fish feast and torture their captives Its first owner was E W Bull and it was originally called Bull's Island until 1852 when it was called ...
... THE INDIAN AS A DIPLOMATIC FACTOR IN THE THE INDIAN AS A DIPLOMATIC FACTOR IN THE HISTORY OF THE OLD NORTHWEST1 PROF ISAAC JOSLIN COX Department of American History University of Cincinnati One merely asserts a truism when he states that the North American Indian is the predominant factor in the early history of the Northwest and that in no other field is this more apparent than in its diplomacy It is true that one may well hesitate to apply such a dignified title to a policy often ...
... 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 ...
... MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Board of Trustees of The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met in annual session in the Trustees' Room of the Museum and Library Building at 1 o'clock p m Tuesday April 24 1934 The following trustees were present Mr Arthur C Johnson Sr President Messrs Goldman Eagleson Miller Goodman Florence Sater and Mrs Dryer Director Shetrone ...
... THE The collection of manuscripts letters books and other items of literary and historical interest listed in this catalog was presented to the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society in memory of Dolores Cameron Venable by her husband Emerson Venable and her daughter Evelyn Venable THE DOLORES CAMERON VENABLE MEMORIAL COLLECTION Correspondence Boxes 2-16 Letters from William Henry Venable1 to Coates Kinney2 and from Coates Kinney to William Henry Venable 238 letters covering the ...
... 26 Ohio Arch 26 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications The largest was Cincinnati with 115 000 and in them all there were less than 2 00000 o f population The following y ear the convention assembled which framed the new constitution for the state of Ohio That convention provided and laid down an ironclad rule that all cities should be governed by a general law and that there should be no special charters That perhaps was not an unreasonable rule at that time for then there were but the nine ...
... THE HAYDN SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI THE HAYDN SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI 1819-1824 BY HARRY R STEVENS When Theodore Thomas the famous German orchestra conductor came to Cincinnati in 1869 he found the finest musical center of inland America The community he discovered here had a long and rich musical background Twenty years of German musical activity had been preceded by more than half a century of native growth Near the beginning of this development was the Haydn Society one of the earliest musical ...
... 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 ...
... A CHECK-LIST OF OXFORD IMPRINTS 1827-1841 A CHECK-LIST OF OXFORD IMPRINTS 1827-1841 Periodicals The Literary Focus a monthly periodical edited and published by the Erodelphian and Union Literary Societies of the Miami University Stilus optimus et praestantissimus dicendi effector ac magister Oxford Ohio printed at the Societies' Press J D Smith pr 1827-28 Vol I June 1827-May 1828 12 issues June-November 1827 published by J B Camron pr Hamilton Ohio December 1827-May 1828 published by the ...
... DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING IN OHIO DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING IN OHIO By ANNE L AUSTIN RN The Period of Unorganized Development Early Backgrounds The early backgrounds of nursing history in Ohio are in the realm of the unknown If one is to judge how nursing was done from the time of the Indian tribes to that of the first records one must assume that the history followed a similar development here as elsewhere It is known that the Eries the Shawnees the Wyandots and the Delawares were the chief tribes ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY On September 19 1904 a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the rooms of the society Page Hall O S U with the following members present Mr George F Bareis Col John W Harper Mr W H Hunter Prof B F Prince Secretary E O Randall Hon D J Ryan Hon S S Rickly Prof G F Wright and Mr E F Wood The Secretary presented the resignation of Professor J P MacLean as Trustee of ...
... 106 Ohio Arch 106 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications FRANK L PACKARD The announcement of the sudden death of Frank L Packard on Friday morning October 26 brought sadness to a wide circle of friends in Ohio and other states In Columbus where he was personally known as almost no other citizen the expressions of regret were general and sincere The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society of which he had been a trustee since he was appointed by Governor Davis October 15 1921 was ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies BRECKSVILLE EARLY SETTLERS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Brecksville Mrs Walter S Lister Secretary The society is working on a project to restore the first schoolhouse in Brecksville BUTLER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Hamilton A S Anderson President New officers elected in November are A S Anderson president William E Lakeman vice president Fred Hammerle treasurer and Mrs Henry Kessling secretary pro tem This society was incorporated during the past ...
... THE FIRST NEWSPAPER OF THE NORTHWEST THE FIRST NEWSPAPER OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY THE EDITOR AND HIS WIFE C B GALBREATH The first newspaper published northwest of the Ohio River was edited by William Maxwell a Revolutionary soldier After the recognition of our national independence he set out for the great west to seek fortune in the new field that called many worthy brave and adventurous spirits He crossed the Alleghanies proceeded to Pittsburg came down the Ohio and took up his abode in ...
... THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE BICENTENNIAL OF MAJOR GENERAL ARTHUR ST CLAIR1 BY THERESA VINTON PIERCE KRULL This paper was read before the Fifteenth Annual Indiana History Conference at Indianapolis December 8 1933 and is reprinted with permission from the Indiana History Bulletin vol 11 No 5 The bicentennial of Major General Arthur St Clair comes to our calendar with 1934 and should come to the hearts of all Indianans with a new or renewed sense of what Arthur St Clair means in the history of civil ...
... THE OHIO ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION OF 1836 THE OHIO ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION OF 1836 By ROBERT PRICE The Rev Jacob Little pastor of the Granville Presbyterian church for over thirty-nine years beginning in 1827 once recorded1 that during the year 1834 the village of Granville was beset by seven distinct evils namely 1 embarrassing financial conditions 2 a killing frost on May 15 3 a serious drought following the frost 4 a torrential rain at midnight of July 1 followed by a great flood 5 an ...
... 124 Ohio Arch 124 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications GAINING THE DUNMORE TREATY AFTER THE BATTLE OF POINT PLEASANT IN WHICH HE FOUGHT IN THE HAMPSHIRE COUNTY VIRGINIA REGIMENT CAPTAIN MICHAEL CRESAP WAS PRESENT HERE AND A SIGNER OF THE DUNMORE TREATY IN OCTOBER 1774 CAPTAIN MICHAEL CRESAP'S COMPANIONS IN ARMS EBENEZER ZANE GENERAL GEORGE ROGERS CLARKE COLONEL BENJAMIN WILSON BENJAMIN TOMLINSON AND OTHERS CORRECTED LOGAN'S MISTAKE IN ASSOCIATING CAPTAIN CRESAP WITH THE YELLOW CREEK AFFAIR ...
... Pre-Civil War Sentiment Pre-Civil War Sentiment from Belmont County Correspondence of Hugh Anderson edited by John Kent Folmar Historians search continuously for primary documents which may expand the portrait of the past A basic source of this quest is contemporary letters particularly if they are written by literate observers during a time of local or national stress The Hugh Anderson letters are of this noteworthy quality1 Born in Ireland in 1782 Anderson immigrated to the United States in ...
... THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE OHIO CANALS THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE OHIO CANALS GEORGE WHITE DIAL LOCKLAND OHIO The observant passenger on the Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton railway between Cincinnati and Troy Ohio will catch short glimpses of a broad ditch filled with sluggish water Winding its way through the beautiful Miami and Maumee valleys it follows the railroad for miles now on this side of the tracks now on that ofttimes close beside the river hidden by the foliage of the willows and the ...