... GERARD FOWKE GERARD FOWKE Gerard Fowke was born June 25 1855 in Charleston Bottom Mason County Kentucky six miles below Maysville His father John D Smith was a native of Wexford County Ireland son of Luke Smyth whose mother was a Murphy she was niece to Father Murphy who was killed while leading the Wexford Insurgents at the Battle of Arklow in 1798 Luke Smyth's wife was Judith Ann Cleary whose mother was a Macauley of County Down John D Smith who substituted the i for the y in his name came ...
... McCormick Summer-Autumn 2001 pp 136-152 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page with footnotes according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page An Entrepreneurial Enterprise and the Financial Crisis of 1819 The Worthington Manufacturing Company By Virginia and Robert W McCormick James Kilbourn Photo Courtesy the Worthington Hisorical Society The Worthington ...
... TECUMSEH THE SHAWNEE CHIEF TECUMSEH THE SHAWNEE CHIEF E O RANDALL Among the savage races of history no one is more extraordinary unique or fascinating in character and custom in action and achievement than the aborigine who roamed the forests of North America before and at the arrival of the European discoverers and settlers Then roved the Indian As free as nature first made man Ere the base laws of servitude began When wild in woods the noble savage ran In these people so peculiar and ...
... THE REPORT OF THE FORTY-EIGHTH THE REPORT OF THE FORTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY The forty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was called to order by President Arthur C Johnson Sr on April 24 1934 with sixty members present MR JO H NSON This is a business meeting of the Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society I promise not to keep you long this morning because I know ...
... 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 ...
... Francisca Bauer the Sister of the Woods Francisca Bauer the Sister of the Woods By EDMUND L BINSFELD OLD THEODORE WILLIAMS of Norwalk Ohio liked to reminisce and when the Rev Frederick Rupert pastor at St Paul's Roman Catholic parish there was preparing what he called an outline history of the Catholic churches in that area Williams told the priest about the early days Among other things Williams said that when he was a boy of eight he saw at sunset one September evening in 1828 two ...
... Boundary Line Between Ohio and Virginia Boundary Line Between Ohio and Virginia 67 ARGUMENT CONCERNING BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN OHIO AND VIRGINIA BY SAMUEL F VINTON May it please your honors I cannot but regret that my learned friend the Hon John M Patton who opened this case for the Commonwealth of Virginia has somewhat impaired the value of so good an argument by the introduction into it both at its commencement and conclusion of a topic so very foreign to the subject now under consideration To ...
... LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH IN OHIO DURING LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH IN OHIO DURING THE PERIOD 1835-1858 By ROBERT G PATERSON Ph D Early pioneers in the settlement of Ohio brought with them the ideas methods and practices which prevailed among the colonists on the Atlantic Seaboard This was true especially in their struggles with epidemic diseases Today it is difficult for us to recreate the stark fear with which our forefathers awaited an approaching epidemic Scarcely a winter went by without a ...
... GENERAL EDWARD S GENERAL EDWARD S GODFREY By HON CALVIN POMEROY GODFREY It sadly befalls one this week as of April fifteenth to record in fidelity the demise of a noble man Putnam County's greatest military figure another of the distinguished martial sons of Ohio--Brigadier General Edward S Godfrey USA Retired That mortal and painless end of a quite meritorious and notable career occurred at the home in Cookstown Burlington County New Jersey at seven o'clock the evening of Friday April 1 1932 ...
... DOCUMENTS DOCUMENTS EARLY OHIO POSTAL ROUTES by WILLIAM D O VERMAN Director Library and Archives Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Akron Ohio Editor's Note Considerable interest has been indicated in Dr Overman's article on Early Ohio Postal Routes published in the January-March 1946 issue of the Quarterly pp 21-29 Particularly philatelists who specialize in early stampless covers have expressed appreciation for the article It has been suggested that the publication of the postal routes ...
... THE NAMING OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI THE NAMING OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI By EDGAR ERSKINE HUME Dr William Holland Wilmer the famous ophthalmologist of Johns Hopkins and president of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati tells of a traveling salesman in a Pullman smoking car who interrupted another passenger reading his paper What's that pale blue silk button you are wearing he asked The other told him that it was the rosette of the Society of the Cincinnati Fine replied he I'm from ...
... Big Bottom and Its History Big Bottom and Its History 21 the rocky fortresses of the Appalachians Puritan and Cavalier looked down together upon the fair valley of the Ohio To them it was as the revelation to the prophet on Pisgah - the Promised Land They were permitted to enter But to hold it they fought with stubborn tenacity Every foot was contested But forward went this army across the prairies of Indiana and Illinois until the smoke curled from the settler's cabin on the banks of the ...
... BIRTHPLACE OF JOHN BROUGH BIRTHPLACE OF JOHN BROUGH EDGAR ERVIN The following article clears up the disputed question concerning the birthplace of John Brough one of Ohio's famous war governors It also presents many interesting events in the life of the governor Mr Edgar Ervin the writer is the present member of the Ohio House of Representatives from Meigs county Mr Ervin was educated in the country schools subsequently receiving special training for public life in the Capitol School of ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES Cincinnati Jacob R Marcus Director Two important manuscript collections the Jacob H Schiff Papers and the Felix M Warburg Papers have been acquired recently by the archives In addition to numerous other documents and manuscript collections the minute and record books of thirty-one Jewish congregations were added during 1951 to bring the total to over five hundred volumes the largest collection of this type extant ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XVIII No 3 JULY 190 9 WASHINGTON'S FIRST BATTLE GROUND For many years it had been the ardent desire of the Editor to traverse the country of the Monongahela and the Youghiogheny where the youthful Washington began his diplomatic career entered his military life received his baptism of fire won his spurs in battle met his first defeat and succumbed to his only surrender experiences that taught him his preparatory lessons in the science of statesmanship and the art ...
... AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE JACKSON AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE JACKSON COUNTY IRON INDUSTRY A THESIS PRESENTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS BY VERNON DAVID K E ELER AB LLB INTRODUCTION The Cyclops here their heavy hammers deal Loud strokes and hissings of tormented steel Are heard around the boiling waters roar And smoky flames through fuming tunnels soar --Vergil In early Biblical times according to the fourth chapter of Genesis Tubal Cain born in the seventh generation of Adam was an ...
... medicines and otherwise adjust themselves to life in the wilderness They were resigned to defective surveys as in the Virginia Military District they were no strangers to farm mortgages and they wasted little time in damning the land speculator for such each settler was himself at heart Pioneer histories and the writings and drawings of contemporary travelers have given us vivid descriptions of life in the new settlements--the tiny clearing ...
... THE McNEELY NORMAL SCHOOL AND THE McNEELY NORMAL SCHOOL AND HOPEDALE NORMAL COLLEGE R H ECKELBERRY Ohio State University Among the many educational institutions which have existed in Ohio and have now been discontinued few are more interesting than the McNeely Normal School which later became the Hopedale Normal College It was in operation for about forty-five years of which forty-three were continuous and contributed to the education of some ten thousand students In many respects its history ...
... ABRAHAM LINCOLN ABRAHAM LINCOLN AN ADDRESS BY CHARLES A JONES CHAIRMAN SATER I feel that we are all obliged to Professor Galbreath for making a little shift in the program here and in giving us a chance to walk about for a few minutes and to be present at the presentation and dedication of this beautiful gift that Mr Venable and his family have made to the Society A few years ago the managers of a very enterprising magazine in this country sent out a questionnaire to the high school students ...
... Bland Summer-Autumn 2003 pp 87-92 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2003 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved The State of Ohio as Seen by Traugott Bromme Translated by Richard L Bland The title page of Bromme's publication click to view larger image Introduction During the early part of the 1800s Europeans came to the United States in large numbers One such person was Traugott Bromme Bromme born near Leipzig in 1802 came to the United States in 1821 where he ...