... BOUNDARY AND JURISDICTIONAL PROBLEMS BOUNDARY AND JURISDICTIONAL PROBLEMS OF THE KENTUCKY-OHIO BORDER BY EUGENE O PORTER The Ohio River forms parts of the boundaries of five states and in so doing advances two problems first that of the actual boundary of each state on the river and second that of the jurisdictionwhich each state may exercise on the river In other words Virginia in her deed of cession of the Old Northwest to the Government of the Confederacy in 1784 and in her enabling act for ...
... COLONEL JAMES KILBOURNE COLONEL JAMES KILBOURNE BY C B GALBREATH Colonel James Kilbourne one of the founders of Bucyrus was a prominent pioneer of Ohio He was born at New Britain Connecticut October 19 1770 He was descended from an ancient Scottish family but his ancestors for many years had lived in England before emigrating to America His father who was a farmer encouraged his son to make his home with Mr Griswold the father of Bishop Griswold of the Protestant Episcopal Church in order that ...
... 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BEVERLY WILSON PALMER From Small Minority to Great Cause Letters of Charles Sumner to Salmon P Chase Fifteen hitherto unpublished letters from Charles Sumner to Salmon P Chase trace the spread and politicization of the antislavery movement and document the close ties between Massachusetts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 ...
... EARLY NEWSPAPERS OF CINCINNATI EARLY NEWSPAPERS OF CINCINNATI BY V C STUMP The first newspaper was printed in Cincinnati November 9 17931 At that time Cincinnati was a small village in the wilderness Only the hardier pioneers had dared to face the hardships and to cross the Alleghany Mountains in spite of the menace of the British and Indians on the North Among these few was one William Maxwell an editor from New Jersey who set up a little printing office in a log cabin which stood on the ...
... 530 Ohio Arch 530 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications accompanied him on all his travels and he died the father of grown-up children He is described as a wisp of a man lank red-haired with a reddish mustache His hobby was a large peach orchard which his busy life gave him little time to enjoy Not only was he a great correspondent but he was a voluminous writer of books Here is a list said to be approximately complete Carpenter's Geographical Readers -- Asia 1897 North America 1898 South ...
... BEVERLY WILSON PALMER BEVERLY WILSON PALMER Towards a National Antislavery Party The Giddings-Sumner Alliance Shortly after meeting Joshua Reed Giddings in 1846 Charles Sumner in a 30 December 1846 article in the Boston Courier praised the Ohio Congressman for his opposition to the Mexican War Emphasizing Giddings's roots in New England Sumner wrote New England may be happy that her voice was heard at so early a stage of this important discussion and in a manner calculated to influence it so ...
... Monument at Fort Jefferson Monument at Fort Jefferson 129 named after the primitive red men of the forest a people that were not much different from what we are to-day As I told you they were a God-fearing people the same as we Their word was as sacred to them as their lives and I am not so sure that that is true of all of us I am proud to say that I belong to an order that was named after a people as proud and noble as they Then you might say why this war I believe and honestly believe that ...
... BIRTHPLACE OF JOHN BROUGH BIRTHPLACE OF JOHN BROUGH The following article is reprinted with slight corrections from a Marietta paper published some years ago-E 0 R The wrecking a few years ago of the old jail just opposite the Court House at Marietta brought to mind several historic facts of no mean importance This building was a little more than fifty years old having been erected in 1848 on the site of the pioneer Court House which was the first Hall of Justice in the Northwest Territory The ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 14 5 LAST CONTRIBUTED ARTICLE The following contribution was the last written by Mr Randall for publication It appeared in the issues of The Ohio Newspaper for November and December 1919 NEWSPAPERS READ BY THE OHIO PIONEERS Maxwell's Centinel of the Northwestern Territory its Contemporaries and Immediate Successors -Journals Now More Than a Century Old BY EMILIUS 0 RANDALL LL D Journalism led the van of literary culture in its advance into the ...
... REPORT OF THE FORTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING REPORT OF THE FORTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Forenoon Session--10 A M The forty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was called to order by President Arthur C Johnson Sr on April 23 1935 in the Auditorium of the Museum Eighty-eight members were in attendance MR JOHNSON The minutes of the last Annual Meeting are voluminous and they were published in the QUARTERLY ...
... John A John A Bingham 331 JOHN A BINGHAM ADDRESS OF HON J B FORAKER ON THE OCCASION OF THE UNVEILING OF MONUMENT IN HONOR OF HON JOHN A BINGHAM AT CADIZ OHIO OCTOBER 5 1901 Mr Chairman and Fellow Cit izen s The private life and character of John A Bingham were the special possessions of this community You were his neighbors and friends He came and went in your midst You were in daily contact with him You knew him under all the varying circumstances of his long and eventful career You saw him ...
... 360 Ohio Arch 360 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications dresses followed by Hon Geo E Pomeroy of Toledo Past Governor of Society Colonial Wars Prof G F Frederick Wright Hon James M Richardson of Cleveland President General Sons of the American Revolution and Colonel Webb C Hayes To all who attended the exerices were of great interest and made the day memorable while the hospitality of Port Clinton's patriotic people to all the visiting delegates will long be gratefully remembered Prof Wright ...
... HORACE MANN AND ANTIOCH COLLEGE HORACE MANN AND ANTIOCH COLLEGE GEORGE ALLEN HUBBELL PH D Mr Hubbell is a member of the Faculty of Berea College Kentucky and was formerly a professor at Antioch College of which Mr Horace Mann was president -EDITOR Ohio is the favorite daughter of the Eastern States The cannon of the Revolution had scarcely cooled when the Ordinance of 1787 was adopted and sturdy men began to look over the borders of Virginia Pennsylvania New York Connecticut and Massachusetts ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Hero in America By Dixon Wecter New York Charles Scribner's Sons 194 1 530p 350 Here is something entirely new in literature--or as near brand new as is possible in these days of multiple coverage of all fields It is a brilliant book at times a bit too brilliant with apt quotations dragged in occasionally when the dazzled reader might prefer perhaps to take things a little easier Professor Wecter of the Department of English at the University of California has set ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Old Northwest as the Keystone of the Arch of American Federal Union A Study in Commerce and Politics By A L Kohlmeier Bloomington Indiana The Principia Press Inc 1938 257p This interesting if somewhat tedious monograph is a study of the economic or commercial development and political importance of the Old Northwest down to the Civil War The Old Northwest with its vast expanse of fertile soil and its other resources soon attracted a large population In the course ...
... THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO August 26 1919 The meeting was called to order by Vice President George F Bareis There were present G FREDERICK WRIGHT E F WOOD E O RANDALL D H GARD W C MOORE J M DUNHAM W L CURRY W O THOMPSON T D HILLS J S ROOF C W JUSTICE FRED HINKLE L P SCHAUS GEORGE F BAREIS H E BUCK W H COLE B F PRINCE WILLIAM WALKER W C SHETRONE VAN A SNIDER FRANK ...
... edited and translated by edited and translated by PHILLIP J WOLFE and WARREN J WOLFE Prospects for the Gallipolis Settlement French Diplomatic Dispatches More than two centuries have passed since Gallipolis Ohio City of the Gauls was founded by French settlers It was on October 17 1790 that a group of French immigrants first set foot on the banks of the Ohio and found some eighty log huts awaiting them As colonists of the Scioto Company they had arrived in Alexandria Virginia and in other ...
... CAPTAIN HYATT CAPTAIN HYATT Being the Letters Written During the Years 1863-1864 to His Wife Mary By Captain T J Hyatt 126th Ohio Volunteer Infantry1 Edited by Hudson Hyatt Here are the letters written by an officer at the front during the War Between the States to his wife Though only one side of the correspondence has been preserved through the ensuing years it is sufficient for us to learn the vicissitudes of his love for his wife and their two small boys of the problems of debts and new ...
... THE DIARY OF JOHN BEATTY JANUARY-JUNE 1884 THE DIARY OF JOHN BEATTY JANUARY-JUNE 1884 Part IV edited by HARVEY S FORD Head Librarian Toledo Blade Sunday May 11 1884 Went to hear Dr Gladden this morning He preached from the text Lord I believe help thou my unbelief It was the posture of the man's mind which interested the preacher It was that of one trying to believe and anxious to have all impediments to full belief cleared away Not that of one who exclaims obstinately I do not believe ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 119 BLENNERHASSET REDIVIVUS The Century for July 1901 contains an article by Therese Blennerhassett Adams on The True Story of Harman Blennerhassett The author very briefly recites the history of the Blennerhassetts who built that magnificent mansion on the historic island in the Ohio near Belpre in the year 1798 The article is valuable historically as authentically stating that the main if not sole cause of the departure from Ireland and emigration to America of the ...