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"Leaden Plate at the Mouth of the Muskingum," Volume 29, Binding Supplement, , , pp. 477-480.
... LEADEN PLATE AT THE MOUTH OF THE MUSKINGUM LEADEN PLATE AT THE MOUTH OF THE MUSKINGUM In the October QUARTE RL Y were published cuts of the leaden plate prepared for deposit at the mouth of the Conewango and the one buried at the mouth of the Kanawha On the following pages are illustrations of the remnant of the plate buried at the mouth of the Muskingum and what was probably its entire text This plate was considerably multilated A portion of the lead was cut away for bullets before the ...

"The Part That the Pioneer Physicians of Ohio Played in the Community as Exemplified in the Church and Lodge," Volume 48, Number 3, July, 1939, pp. 231-242.
... THE PART THAT THE PIONEER PHYSICIANS OF THE PART THAT THE PIONEER PHYSICIANS OF OHIO PLAYED IN THE COMMUNITY AS EXEMPLIFIED IN THE CHURCH AND LODGE By JAMES J TYLER MD The church has had an important place in the development of the frontier The first forty years of religious development in Ohio is full of absorbing interest and vital realities It produced permanent results in the establishment of our Commonwealth The minister of the Gospel the lawyer the teacher and the doctor comprised the ...

"Dedication of Monument to George Rogers Clark," Volume 33, Number 3 & 4, July-October, 1924, pp. 492-499.
... DEDICATION OF MONUMENT TO GEORGE DEDICATION OF MONUMENT TO GEORGE ROGERS CLARK Enthusiastic interest was manifest at the dedication of the monument to George Rogers Clark August 8 on the site of the battle of Piqua near Springfield Ohio It was here on August 8 1780 that George Rogers Clark and his little army of Kentucky frontiersmen vanquished the Shawnee Indians and burned their village This was a punitive expedition provoked by the incursions of the Indians into the territory south of the ...

"Washington Gladden: First Citizen of Columbus," by C. George Fry. Volume 73, Number 2, Spring, 1964, pp. 90-99, notes 130-131.
... WASHINGTON GLADDEN WASHINGTON GLADDEN FIRST CITIZEN OF COLUMBUS by C GEORGE FRY The story is told that Washington Gladden was once a guest at a downtown businessmen's luncheon in Columbusl A stranger was present and was introduced to Doctor Gladden Assuming him to be a physician he asked Sir where do you practice Gladden smiled and replied Oh I don't practice I just preach2 Friends and admirers of Washington Gladden knew however that he did practice as well as preach in many areas He was ...

"Symmes' Theory," by John Weld Peck. Volume 18, Number 1, January, 1909, pp. 28-42.
... SYMMES' THEORY SYMMES' THEORY JOHN WELD PECK ATTORNEY-AT-LAW CINCINNATI OHIO I want if I can to carry you back to the day when the West was new when the outposts of the nation were on the Mississippi when the boundless forests were scarred but here and there with clearings when Cincinnati the thriving town between Third street and the river was the undoubted and unrivaled Queen City of the West Those were the days of strong men The War of 1812 was just over The pioneer the pathfinder the ...

"Indexing Manuscript Collections," Volume 18, Number 4, October, 1909, pp. 404-405.
... 404 Ohio Arch 404 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications respondence with local authorities compilers of family histories contributors to historical magazines and members of historical and patriotic societies If this somewhat lengthy list be exhausted without result we may at last resort obtain some information from present day officials of the locality especially those connected with the County Clerk's or Recorder's offices The latter at least will be able to suggest some clue that may lead ...

"Blast-Furnaces Operated by the Separatist Society of Zoar, Ohio," by E. J. Bognar. Volume 39, Number 3, July, 1930, pp. 503-513.
... BLAST-FURNACES OPERATED BY THE BLAST-FURNACES OPERATED BY THE SEPARATIST SOCIETY OF ZOAR OHIO BY E J BOGNAR A most important contribution to the success of the Separatist Society of Zoar was iron ore The village of Zoar was founded in 1817 by 300 or more Separatists who had embarked early that spring from Wurtemburg1 Germany The party was led by one Joseph M Bimeler2 and the desire for religious freedom brought them to this country where they settled in the inviting wooded region of the ...

"Address of Loren E. Sowers," Volume 39, Number 1, January, 1930, pp. 28-30.
... 28 Ohio Arch 28 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications master introduced Mrs Herbert Backus Vice-President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution RESPONSE OF MRS HERBERT BACKUS Mr Toastmaster Distinguished Guests and Friends A story was told me the other day of a farmer who took unto himself his second wife He brought her to the home of her predecessor After some time had elapsed she told him that she needed some new shoes that all her shoes were worn out He said Well Samantha ...

"Warren Gamaliel Harding," by C. B. Galbreath. Volume 32, Number 4, October, 1923, pp. 554-570.
... 55 4 WARREN GAMALIEL HARDING WARREN GAMALIEL HARDING BY C B GALBREATH Since the founding of our government six Presidents of the United States have died in office Three of these were native sons of Ohio and one William Henry Harrison when elected to that high office was and for twenty-six years had been a citizen of this state Three of the six fell at the hands of assassins and two of these Garfield and McKinley were Ohioans The passing of all these was attended with widespread and sincere ...

"Address of Professor Fish (The Wisconsin Archaeological Society, State Field Assembly, July 29-30, 1910)," Volume 19, Number 4, October, 1910, pp. 344-349.
... 344 Ohio Arch 344 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Of which we too may but a portion b e In that sum-total solidarity Of human beings spread across the earth In generations birth succeeding birthThe living who raise the citadels we know The dead whose bones earth bosomed long ago And this good company that meets today Proves the large truth of what I've sought to say For why should we whose daily tasks alone So press upon us that we scarcely own The present hour still take on us to gaze ...

Volume 59, Binding Supplement, , 1950, pp. 469-482.
... INDEX INDEX THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Volume 59 AARON MOHAWK INDIAN 33 Athens Co O California company organized Abolitionism blamed for the Civil War 150 in 263-264 About Historians 98-100 201-203 321Auburn 0 Forty-Niners from 265 323 448-451 Audubon - son of John James robbed Adams Charles Francis nominated for presien route to California 261 dent by National Christian Association Audubon John James connected with West284 ern Museum 373 Agassiz Louis founder of ...

"The Evolution of Ohio Counties," Volume 5, Annual, August, 1897, pp. 326-350.
... THE EVOLUTION OF OHIO COUNTIES THE EVOLUTION OF OHIO COUNTIES By J F LANING It is probable that the people who read this article will all know that the State of Ohio was not always divided into the number of counties there now are and that to evolve the present map a long period of time and many mutations of county outlines were necessary But few people however know the extent of the evolution that has been going on in bringing Ohio counties within their present environments From the erection ...

"Colonel John W. Harper: In Memoriam," Volume 26, Number 3, June, 1917, pp. 450-451.
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XXVL No 3 JUNE 1917 COLONEL JOHN W HARPER IN MEMORIAM In the death of John W Harper The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society lost a Trustee and loyal member of long standing conspicuous for his fidelity and support of historical and archaeological research He materially aided in the progress of the Society Colonel Harper was born February 11 1830 in Indianapolis the son of an old English family distinguished for its patriotism and loyalty to this ...

"Thomas Smith Grimke," by C. B. Galbreath. Volume 33, Number 2, April, 1924, pp. 301-312.
... THOMAS SMITH GRIMKE THOMAS SMITH GRIMKE BY C B GALBREATH Beautiful in winter when the earth is robed in white beautiful in the springtime when the grass comes creeping everywhere when buds open and the robin and the bluebird are heard among the trees beautiful in the summer twilight when the foliage is dense and green when the katydid in the tree top in staccato song answers to the chirp of the cricket below when the well-kept mounds are decked with flowers sweet prophecies of the resurrection ...

"From Pittsburgh to Shawnee Town, 1819," edited by William D. Hoyt, Jr.. Volume 56, Number 1, January, 1947, pp. 94-97.
... DOCUMENT DOCUMENT FROM PITTSBURGH TO SHAWNEE TOWN 1819 Edited by WILLIAM D HOYT JR Maryland Historical Society The people living along the Ohio River are miserably deficient in morals principles and manners and much addicted to drinking profanity and idleness Thus wrote Joseph Proud to Nathaniel G Maxwell from Shawnee Town Illinois December 22 1819 The letter containing these sentiments provides an interesting picture of travel down the Ohio at the close of the second decade of the nineteenth ...

"From Small Minority to Great Cause: Letters of Charles Sumner to Salmon P. Chase," by Beverly Wilson Palmer. Volume 93, , Summer-Autumn, 1984, pp. 164-183.
... BEVERLY WILSON PALMER BEVERLY WILSON PALMER From Small Minority to Great Cause Letters of Charles Sumner to Salmon P Chase Fifteen hitherto unpublished letters from Charles Sumner to Salmon P Chase trace the spread and politicization of the antislavery movement and document the close ties between Massachusetts and Ohio as that movement grew Strongly committed in the 1840s and 1850s to limiting the extension of slavery Chase and Sumner by 1861 hoped to preside over its extinction Sharing a New ...

"Song Writers of Ohio: Daniel Decatur Emmett, Author of 'Dixie,'" by C. B. Galbreath. Volume 13, Number 4, October, 1904, pp. 504-550.
... SONG WRITERS OF OHIO SONG WRITERS OF OHIO C B GALBREATH If a man were permitted to make all the ballads he need not care who should make the laws of a nation--ANDREW FLETCHER No names are deathless save those of the world's singers - FRANCES E WILLARD If this ascription of power and immortality seems somewhat sweeping and a little too poetically generous the fact remains that music affecting as it does the emotional in man and touching all its keys exerts a distinct influence on individual and ...

"Henry Howe, The Historian," Volume 4, Annual, January, 1896, pp. 311-337.
... Henry Howe the Historian Henry Howe the Historian 311 HENRY HOWE THE HISTORIAN BY JOSEPH P SMITH You don't find Ohio much like it was in the good old times of forty years ago do you Mr Howe asked an elderly gentleman at Columbus in 1886 He seemed well informed and intelligent but inclined to mournfully disparage the present ' Those who compare the age on which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in their imagination may talk of degeneracy and decay' cheerily answered the ...

"Press Notices of Governor Clinton's Visit to Ohio," Volume 34, Number 1, January, 1925, pp. 100-108.
... PRESS NOTICES OF GOVERNOR CLINTON'S PRESS NOTICES OF GOVERNOR CLINTON'S VISIT TO OHIO COLUMBUS GAZETTE JULY 14 1825 Governor Clinton left here on Friday morning last accompanied by Governor Morrow several of the canal commissioners ex-Governor Brown and a number of our fellow citizens and arrived at Springfield in the evening He dined at Dayton on Saturday where he would remain until Monday From thence he would proceed to Cincinnati by way of Hamilton and etc where he would arrive on Tuesday ...

"Romance Rides the Circuit," by Paul H. Boase. Volume 65, Number 2, April, 1956, pp. 167-178.
... Romance Rides the Circuit Romance Rides the Circuit By PAUL H BOASE Romantic love--unpredictable capricious and mercurial at its best--survived precariously for the mounted Methodist parson on the American frontier His salary when paid provided scarcely a living wage for one person limiting his bride's prospective dowry to little more than a horse saddle bags and blanket His ecclesiastical superior often cast an unfriendly even malignant eye toward his romantic endeavors His parish often ...