... JOHN LEWIS ROTH JOHN LEWIS ROTH The First White Child Born in the Moravian Mission at Gnadenhutten1 By HARLOW LINDLEY The Ohio Society Daughters of the American Colonists at least must be given credit for arousing a group of Ohio's citizens from an unusual state of disinterestedness to one of profound interest and concern as to who was the first white child born in Ohio and some of these seem to have gone out of their way to misinterpret what it is all about I hold in my hand a clipping ...
... THOMAS WORTHINGTON PIONEER BUSINESS MAN OF THOMAS WORTHINGTON PIONEER BUSINESS MAN OF THE OLD NORTHWEST1 by ALFRED B SEARS Professor of History University of Oklahoma Thomas Worthington was born in the Shenandoah Valley near the site of the present town of Charles Town West Virginia in 1773 He was the grandson of the Quaker immigrant John Worthington Gentleman who came to America in 1714 and after some sixteen years residence near Philadelphia settled on a three-thousand-acre farm in Berkeley ...
... A Backwoods Utopia A Backwoods Utopia The Berea Community of 1836-1837 By DAVID LINDSEY In April 1836 three remarkable men--a farmer-turned-circuit rider a farmer-turned-evangelist and a teacher-turned-farmer--met on the banks of the Rocky River in northeastern Ohio Each man had come a devious route to that spot James Gilruth born of Scotch immigrant parents in western Virginia in 1793 fought briefly in the War of 1812 before taking up a farm in Ohio's Scioto River valley Undergoing a deep ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies CAMPUS MARTIUS MUSEUM Edith S Reiter Curator On May 2 the Museum was the subject of the second of a series of semimonthly broadcasts given over station WMOA by the Marietta Chamber of Commerce The broadcasts are done in the manner of the Information Please broadcast Questions were on the Museum its exhibits and the early history of Marietta CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Charles Stickell President The annual birthday party of the ...
... GENERAL GEORGE A GENERAL GEORGE A CUSTER JUDGE RICHARD M VOORHEES If after a lapse of twenty-three centuries the world still looks with respectful emotion on the mound which protects the dust of that phalanx of Spartan heroes who fought and fell at Thermopylae while resisting the tide of Persian invasion and in rescuing the land of popular liberty of letters and arts from a ruthless foe surely no apology is needed for claiming an hour's thoughtful consideration of the life character and ...
... CELERON'S JOURNAL CELERON'S JOURNAL Concluded from page 377 The 9th of October I set out from the lower part of the Narrows and came to pass the night at Point Pelee During our voyage across Lake Erie nothing happened worth mentioning On the 19th I arrived at Niagara where I was delayed three days from stress of weather The 22d I set out from Niagara for the southern part of Lake Ontario so as to pass that way to Fort Frontenac It took me fourteen days to sail over this lake and many of my ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABRIDGMENT of the Laws by Nathan Dane 72 Academic Seal of The Ohio State University 68 Achenbaum W Andrew Shades of Gray Old Age American Values and Federal Policies since 1920 rev 112-13 Acreage Owned by 43 French Persons in the District of Gallipolis in Washington County July 1 1800 65-67 Table 66 Adams John Quincy 6 Adams Robert 130 Adult education 34-45 Aeneid by Vergil 73 Agricultural Experiment Station 39 Agricultural extension service 34-45 ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 563 Reviews Notes and Comments 563 serted that it was his nephew Richard M Johnson who later became vice president of the United States It seems that no record exists emanating from Richard M Johnson in which he personally either asserts or denies the credit but there does exist a positive statement from Cave Johnson that he did not kill Tecumseh In the Draper Mss under File No 9J168 Cave Johnson makes this statement Strange as it may seem I never fired a gun at an ...
... LARRY L LARRY L NELSON Cultural Mediation Cultural Exchange and the Invention of the Ohio Frontier There was little rest for Alexander McKee during the autumn of 1793 Over the course of the preceding three years a loose confederation of Native Americans from along the Maumee River Valley had looked to their British allies for assistance In their campaign to expel the United States from the Ohio Country the northwestern tribes had already frustrated two American expeditions into the region In ...
... THE HAYES MEMORIAL THE HAYES MEMORIAL FREMENT OHIO The Memorial building a beautiful structure of classic architecture built of gray Ohio sandstone is located among the great trees north of the Hayes residence facing Hayes Avenue Broad steps lead up to the bronze doors of the pillared portico On entering the great square hall or atrium flanked with eight massive columns one passes under the flags of the countries which claimed ownership of this region from the discovery of America until the ...
... THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE E 0 RANDALL In that striking and stirring century known as the sixteenth began the voyages of discovery and the expeditions for occupancy by the Anglo Saxon and the Gaul of the North American continent The French were led by Jacques Cartier who in 1534 entered the Gulf of St Lawrence Other chivalrous and adventurous Frenchmen followed with various experiences until 1608 when Samuel Champlain encamped upon the Heights of Quebec and established a ...
... ANCIENT WORKS AT MARIETTA OHIO ANCIENT WORKS AT MARIETTA OHIO BY J P MACLEAN PH D The ancient earthworks at Marietta Ohio have received much attention and have been written about more than any of the prehistoric remains of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys These structures were great and ranked high in importance although not so extensive and complicated as certain other remains which have been fully considered At the time of the opening of the great West the Ohio river was the main artery that ...
... Bigelow Winter-Spring 2001 pp 5-25 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page and footnoted according to the original print version If a sentence appears to be incomplete scroll down to continue with the next page Columbus's Pioneer Doctor John M Edmiston The Fabric of His Life and Death By Ann Clymer Bigelow My Poor Father was a man of fine fealing but the Cold hand of death Laid him low from the journal of Evan Edmiston1 Dozens of ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR DR WILLIAM H ALLEN'S REPORT ON THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Dr William H Allen head of the Institute of Public Service New York was employed by the Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative Reorganization to make an examination of all state educational agencies In his report on the work of the Society he sketches briefly the aims and ...
... JOSEPH RAY1 JOSEPH RAY1 By JERRY DENNIS Joseph Ray was born in Ohio County Virginia now Ohio County West Virginia on November 25 1807 His ancestry was of English origin and can be traced back to John Ray the naturalist William Ray his father was born in Ireland in 1782 and had settled with his parents near West Liberty Virginia in 1789 On February 25 1807 William married Margaret Graham a native of Westchester County Pennsylvania They were among the early pioneers of the Upper Ohio Valley The ...
... LOGAN'S CAMPAIGN -1786 LOGAN'S CAMPAIGN -1786 From the Draper MSS Wisconsin Historical Society Archives Mr Henry Hall was out on this campaign Were some 8 or 9 hundred men-Colos James Garrard Benj Harrison Thos Kennedy and Hugh McGary were the principal officers under Logan When Logan reached Meckacheck some 18 or 20 Indians remained and the men rode after and killed them most all Capt Irvine and others were pursuing an Indian with a broken thigh amp did not rush upon him as quick as they ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY Vol II SEPTEMBER 1888 No 2 ISRAEL WARD ANDREWS DD LLD MEMORIAL ADDRESS BEFORE THE OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY DELIVERED AT MARIETTA JUNE 26 1888 BY WILLIAM P CUTLER A CHRISTIAN missionary was discussing the grand problem of immortality with a learned Chinese philosopher presenting to him the truth as revealed in God's word and believed by all Christians He was met with the declaration made with evident sincerity by the Chinaman ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABOLITIONISM 150 Aboriginal inhabitants of Ohio 101-130 passim Abuse and neglect of orphans 18 19 Adam Robert 132 Adams County Ohio 104 Adams John Quincy 54 Adena Mound 109 illustrations 11 Adjutant General OM 148 149 Adjutant General's Annual Report OM 149 163 Advisory Council on Historic Preservation 124 Agassiz Louis Congregationalists and Evolution Asa Gray and Lolis Agassiz by C George Fry and Jon Paul Fry 96 Agricultural Distress in the Midwest Past ...
... F M WHITAKER F M WHITAKER Ohio WCTU and the Prohibition Amendment Campaign of 1883 The Woman's Christian Temperance Union may be said to be a product of Ohio in at least two ways One its foundation is the only lasting result of a phenomenon of the winter and spring of 1873-1874 known as the Woman's Crusade which achieved its first success and national recognition in Ohio This movement in which bands of respectable ladies marched in groups upon saloons in various locations singing praying and ...
... 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 Conclusion This is the second of two articles based upon the Civil War memoirs of Private William James Smith Company M Second Ohio Volunteer Cavalry In the first article which appeared in the Summer issue of Ohio History Smith provides some information about his pre-war life and enlistment at the age of seventeen in the Dennison Guards prior to transferring to the 2nd OVC on ...