... DOCUMENTS DOCUMENTS INTO THE BREACH CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF WALLACE W CHADWICK Edited by MABEL WATKINS MAYER Grandfather was always extremely proud of his brief war record in 1864 In his more than four-score years it was the one outstanding experience in travel adventure and patriotic service that had relieved him for a little while of strenuous pioneering and heavy farm toil What wonder that it made a lasting impression on his life and conversation He loved to tell how President Lincoln scarce ...
... OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR TWO TIMELY BOOKS ON LAFAYETTE The True LaFayette by George Morgan J B Lippincott Company Philadelphia 489 pages Price 25 0 The True Lafayette is a somewhat ambiguous title but in this instance the word true is applicable alike to the man and the story of his life The work is about all that could be desired in a single volume It is a timely straight-forward and authentic ...
... 128 Ohio Arch 128 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Pu blications ows slept the heroic dead of two armies-stood forth as the more appropriate and fitting monument Fort Recovery therefore became the future landmark for treaties and state lines Every age has its peculiar problem The pioneers dealt with the problems of poverty They struggled for the future They laid the foundations of a new state And as we look about in this day of plenty we should remember the sacrifices and suffering of those who ...
... Benjamin 454 Bingham Thomas Benjamin W 98 Carrington Benjamin 446 Columbus Benjamin 76 technic School Benjamin93 454 Essays in Benjamin opposed Society of
... Sermon by Rev Sermon by Rev John Moncure 221 SERMON BY REV JOHN MONCURE RECTOR OF ST PETER'S CHURCH TEXTRemember the days of old consider the years of many generationsDeuteronomy 32 7 A hundred years in the history of a place affords a fruitful subject for study When we gaze through the vistas of past events and consider the whys and the wherefores and when we thus are brought into realization of the fact that the things which once appeared to men as through a glass darkly by the light of a ...
... CONSTRUCTION OF THE WABASH AND ERIE CANAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE WABASH AND ERIE CANAL By LEE NEWCOMER Perhaps the most important event in the early history of northwestern Ohio was the opening in 1843 of the Wabash and Erie Canal from Toledo to Lafayette Indiana During the brief period between that date and the coming of the railroads this canal was responsible for opening up a large and important agricultural area Immigrants from the East poured into the Maumee Valley farms were cleared and ...
... Benjamin Franklin Both were Benjamin Franklin ed John Bigelow New York nd 150-66 14 See James Kilbourne to Payne Kenyon Kilbourn December 10 1844 Jones Eaton Collection Box 1 15 Kilbourne's teenage mentor Alexander Viets Griswold was in time to become Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America In his letter of December 10 1844 James explicitly describes their relationship ...
... Benjamin Tappan in 1839 The Benjamin Tappan of Steubenville United States District Judge of Ohio in 1833 Stanton formed a partnership with him in Steubenville in October 1838 just before Tappan's election on the Democratic ticket to the United States Senate where he served from 1839 to 1845 58 Mary A Lamson whom he married 59 John Milton Goodenow a Steubenville lawyer resigned because of ill ...
... THE BEGINNING OF FORMAL DENTAL EDUCATION THE BEGINNING OF FORMAL DENTAL EDUCATION AT BAINBRIDGE OHIO BY EDWARD C MILLS DDS FACD The history of any human endeavor deals with the process of its growth and though its development may be irregular it is a continuous process proceeding from antecedent conditions In this process of evolution it may take on new form and become unlike its former self but continuity retains enough of the old to serve as the basis for tracing subsequent progress ...
... EARLY DAYS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON EARLY DAYS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON EXCERPTS FROM THE CHRONICLES OF NAZARETH edited by GEORGE R U PPEL SM The Chronicles of Nazareth is a manuscript history of the first thirty years of the present University of Dayton It was written by Brother John A Brueck in the latter years of the nineteenth century as an informal record of the Society of Mary in America and of the school for boys begun at Dayton in 1850 The Nazareth in his title comes from the ...
... Benjamin Tappan of Benjamin Tappan's defense of Benjamin Tappan had written that work on the line from the Portage summit to Cleveland should begin as soon as Kelley had got the people of Cleveland and the Cuyahoga valley to give all they will give Tappan to Kelley February 7 1825 Williams to Kelley February 24 182 Blickensderfer to Kelley ...
... DUNCAN McARTHUR THE MILITARY PHASE DUNCAN McARTHUR THE MILITARY PHASE By C H CRAMER Duncan McArthur had won his military spurs before the War of 1812 broke out and had been commissioned a general in the State Militia In the spring of 1812 with war looming on the horizon Congress authorized the President to organize a number of volunteers who were to be ready to march on short notice The Ohio quota was 1200 men1 McArthur ordered his militia division to assemble and used his forensic powers in ...
... JOHN JAY JANNEY AND HIS RECOLLECTIONS OF THOMAS CORWIN edited by JAMES H HITCHMAN It is a fortunate occurrence when the unpublished recollections of an able recorder like John Janney are preserved His comments on Thomas Corwin afford an exceptional contemporary view of Ohio courts lawyers and politics in the 1830's and 40's and vivid personal reminiscences about the former governor's ability to influence people1 Corwin's political career spanned the years from 1818 to 1865 the era of sectional ...
... CORRESPONDENCE OF GUY M CORRESPONDENCE OF GUY M BRYAN AND RUTHERFORD B HAYES ADDITIONAL LETTERS edited by ROBERT C COTNER and WATT P MARCHMAN A number of years ago Ernest William Winkler who was then reference librarian and curator of Texas books at the University of Texas and an associate editor of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly began the publication in that periodical of all available correspondence exchanged between the Honorable Guy M Bryan of Texas and President Rutherford B Hayes ...
... 568 Ohio Arch 568 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ferring the Dedication till next year when all parties cooperating in this work will have full time to do their work unhurried and in the best artistic fashion The contract with the Sculptor calls for the completion of all of his work by January 1st 1926 with possibility of extension of time for cause In no case can the panels in the rotunda be ready for the dedication date Their place in the room can be clearly indicated on that ...
... An Ohioan's Letter from the California GOLD Fields in 1850 The discovery of gold at Sutter's mill in California's lower Sacramento Valley in 1848 precipitated one of the most massive and spontaneous westward migrations in American history Responding to the avalanche of propaganda emanating from the California gold fields and spurred on by numerous exaggerated newspaper and magazine accounts of the alleged untapped and unlimited yellow treasure of the Far West thousands of easterners left ...
... 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 ...
... The Ordinance of July 13th 1787 The Ordinance of July 13th 1 787 37 pioneer fathers that in all the slow and tedious processes of building up in cherishing organic ideas and giving them vitality in supporting their Nation and moulding its character in defending its life in time of extremest dangers they have borne their full share of patriotic service and may now pass that nation over with a clean record to posterity sending its ideas and principles onward in their mighty mission of dominion ...
... THE FORMATION OF THE ECLECTIC SCHOOL THE FORMATION OF THE ECLECTIC SCHOOL IN CINCINNATI By RALPH TAYLOR MD It is now more than a century since the first Eclectic College was organized in Ohio and the century mark for the Eclectic Medical Institute will soon be reached It is difficult to visualize the social domestic and commercial life of the country when these schools were founded The writer doubts if one can thoroughly visualize Ohio without a single college of any appreciable size instead ...
... ORIGIN OF INDIAN NAMES OF CERTAIN STATES ORIGIN OF INDIAN NAMES OF CERTAIN STATES AND RIVERS BY WILLIAM E CONNELLEY Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society Explanations of the origin of certain Indian names are varied and conflicting The writer submits the following authoritative statements relative to the derivation and meaning of the names of the states of Iowa Missouri Mississippi Ohio and Kentucky and the rivers Ohio Mississippi Missouri and Neosha IOWA The Iowa Indians called ...