... 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 ...
... MINUTES MINUTES OF THE TENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE Ohio State Archaeological and Historical SOCIETY HELD AT COLUMBUS OHIO FEBRUARY 19 1895 The eleventh meeting tenth annual of The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Library room of the State Capitol on the afternoon of February 19 1895 General R Brinkerhoff the President in the chair The following members were present B W Arnett Wilberforce W E Moore Columbus N S Townshend Columbus Chas Parrott Columbus S S Rickly ...
... GENERAL WILLIAM HULL AND HIS CRITICS GENERAL WILLIAM HULL AND HIS CRITICS By M M QUAIFE The Detroit campaign of 1 812 lasted in all but little over two months June 10-August 16 a century and a quarter has passed since its conclusion during which General William Hull's countrymen have continued to load upon him the heavy measure of condemnation which was meted out to him by his contemporary associates and critics This attitude has been perpetuated by three generations of historians most of whom ...
... Fort Fizzle 49 Fort Fizzle 49 He made them a neat speech telling them of the obligations they owed to themselves and to their children and their country deprecating the necessity of bringing armed soldiers into the county and winding up by assuring them that he would not leave until the guilty were delivered into his hands and they promise to make no more resistance to the laws of the county We are under many obligations to Mr and Mrs Bowers and Mr Thomas Fetterman of Napoleon and Mr and Mrs ...
... 40 Ohio Arch 40 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 MAJOR JOHN BURNHAM AND HIS COMPANY Mr Barlow had written Colonel Duer early in December 1789 that huts must be built on land opposite the mouth of the Great Kanawha to accommodate at least one hundred persons The cost of these huts was to be paid by the agent of the immigrants upon their arrival In March 1790 General Rufus Putnam as agent for the Trustees for the Scioto Associates employed John Burnham of Essex Massachusetts to ...
... COLONEL JOHN MURRAY COLONEL JOHN MURRAY DAVID E PHILLIPS The readers of the Archaeological and Historical Quarterly can hardly fail to be interested in any matter intimately associated with the very beginnings of our Great Commonwealth The famous old mansion in Rutland Mass now owned by The Rufus Putnam Memorial Association and called The Cradle of Ohio has become one of the Shrines of American Patriotism and few have had so romantic an origin and history It was built about the year 176 0 and ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS In Winter We Flourish By Anna Shannon McAllister New York Longmans Green and Co 1939 398p 350 Outstanding in the civic and charitable enterprises of early Cincinnati was Sarah Worthington King Peter of whom Anna Shannon McAllister has written in her new book In Winter We Flourish Daughter of Thomas and Eleanor Swearingen Worthington the former at one time governor of Ohio Sarah was from childhood accustomed to the assumption of leadership Following what was for that ...
... FORT MORROW SOLDIERS OF THE WAR OF 1812 FORT MORROW SOLDIERS OF THE WAR OF 1812 HONORED According to an early historian of Marion County Ohio Nathaniel Wyatt Sr exchanged 80 acres of military land in Pickaway County for a tract of 200 acres in Section 3 Waldo Township Marion County On this tract he built the Wyatt Brick Tavern and on it was also built Fort Morrow in the year 1812 Wyatt's Hotel was comprised in the enclosure of the pickets made from split slats around the old fort The old ...
... SAMUEL LEWIS PROGRESSIVE EDUCATOR IN THE SAMUEL LEWIS PROGRESSIVE EDUCATOR IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF OHIO BY ALSTON ELLIS It has been said that great men have the shortest biographies By this rule Methusaleh while the oldest was also one of the greatest men that ever lived for in Genesis it is said that all the day of Methusaleh were nine hundred and sixty-nine years and then came the inevitable-he died This is the whole story save that he was the father of numerous sons and daughters and ...
... THE HISTORIC RURAL CHURCH1 THE HISTORIC RURAL CHURCH1 BY Roy E BOWERS The historic rural church of the Northwest Territory of which Tallmadge is a distinguished example has passed through three phases and is now entering a fourth This is especially true of Ohio These phases are First that of rapid energetic and often heroic pioneering This in Ohio ended about 1830 Second that of tension and conflict ending with the Civil War Third that of prosperity and slow decline through the Civil War to ...
... INVOCATION INVOCATION BY REV W H SHEPFER GRACIOUS GOD OUR HEAVENLY FATHER acknowledging our weakness and our sinfulness we invoke thy divine blessing upon us as we have come together to recall the heroic lives and sacrifices of our forefathers in this section of our great country Through the Spirit of Truth give us O God wisdom and understanding We acknowledge Thee Dear Father as the Giver of every good and perfect gift Thou art the Source from whom all our blessings flow We acknowledge Thee ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE AVERY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES A philosophical essayist on the study of history tritely remarks that a historian should be possessed of industry conscience and imagination Industry and patience to faithfully exhume the facts conscience to truthfully and impartially exploit them and imagination to vividly portray the scenes and events involved that the reader in his mind's eye may perceive them realistically reproduced Such is the ideal historian Such an one to ...
... edited by edited by ROBERT W HATTON Just a Little Bit of the Civil War As Seen by W J Smith Company M 2nd 0 V Cavalry-- Part I These are the memoirs of Private William James Smith Company M Second Ohio Volunteer Cavalry Smith the second of eight children in the family of Randall and Nancy Lyons Smith was born in a log cabin near Galion Ohio on October 25 1844 When he was two years old his family moved to Iberia Morrow County Ohio where his father worked in the Shunk Brothers Cooper Shop ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 331 Hayes Spiegel Grove is indeed the Mount Vernon of Ohio It is this magnificent estate and home that the present owner Colonel Webb C Hayes is transferring to the State of Ohio for the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society to be by the latter preserved intact for historic and educational purposes After reading Mr Meek's production one might think that Sandusky county had a monopoly on Ohio history It certainly is rich in the lore of the brave days of old ...
... SALMON PORTLAND CHASE SALMON PORTLAND CHASE UNDERGRADUATE AND PEDAGOGUE BY ARTHUR MEIER SCHLESINGER OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Salmon Portland Chase was a significant member of that group of political radicals who plunged the nation into civil convulsions by their accession to governmental power in the late '5o's Much has been written of Chase the anti-slavery lawyer the organizer of the Liberty party the war financier the chief justice but of Chase the youth the college student the school teacher ...
... SALMON PORTLAND CHASE SALMON PORTLAND CHASE UNDERGRADUATE AND PEDAGOGUE BY ARTHUR MEIER SCHLESINGER OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Salmon Portland Chase was a significant member of that group of political radicals who plunged the nation into civil convulsions by their accession to governmental power in the late '5o's Much has been written of Chase the anti-slavery lawyer the organizer of the Liberty party the war financier the chief justice but of Chase the youth the college student the school teacher ...
... REMINISCENCES OF A SURVEYOR1 REMINISCENCES OF A SURVEYOR1 By JAMES T WEED In November 1888 I was elected county surveyor of Gallia County Ohio and on the first Monday of January 1889 I assumed the duties of the office In the forty-five years since then I have done a great deal of surveying of land and city lots and highways and a little in mines Most of this work has been in Gallia County though I have practiced a little in the adjoining counties of Jackson and Vinton in nearby West Virginia ...
... GEORGE F GEORGE F BAREIS In his home town in the capital of the State and beyond its borders a large circle of friends and associates heard with deep regret the news of the death of George F Bareis He had been in failing health for a portion of the past year but had been seriously ill only a short time He passed away at Grant Hospital Columbus at 240 P M on Thursday January 7 1932 325 326 Ohio Arch 326 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Especially was his loss felt in the Ohio State ...
... A CIVIL WAR DIARY OF ALBION W TOURGEE edited by DEAN H KELLER Albion W Tourgee's Civil War diary which covers a period of six months in 1863 is an important document in the author's biography and in the literature of the Civil War It reveals Tourgee in many lights -- from the thoughtful loving husband to the stern high-minded Unionist and from the dedicated military man to the impatient individualist All of these traits were present to some extent in Tourgee's character and evidence of them ...
... THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME OF THE TOWN OF THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME OF THE TOWN OF WORTHINGTON BY HELEN M DUDLEY The lovely village of Worthington Ohio is a charming bit of old New England set down in the heart of Ohio's Scioto country near the pleasant slopes of the Olentangy Its atmosphere having been preserved intact by the careful protection of the many original features attesting its exceptional history and by the adaptation of new things to the old it has the distinction of being one of the ...