... SOME LOCAL HISTORY SOME LOCAL HISTORY LUCY ELLIOT KEELER Miss Keeler of Fremont Ohio has been a valued contributor to the QUARTERLY The following from her pen is a delightful bit of historic sentiment which originally appeared in Scribner's Magazine - EDITOR I have watched numberless persons walk around a great stone-a round stone with a hollow in the top filled with water where the birds come to drink-and dilate learnedly after this fashion Think how it was carried for thousand of years on ...
... A CENTURY OF STATEHOOD A CENTURY OF STATEHOOD ADDRESS BY GEORGE K NASH On the evening of Saturday December 27 1902-the members of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce participated in their Annual Christmas Dinner It was an elaborate banquet held in the spacious hall of the Chamber of Commerce Many distinguished speakers were present among them being Major-General Henry C Corbin Major-General Samuel B M Young Major-General Adna R Chaffee Hon John G Milburn of Buffalo One of the speakers of the ...
... THE GERMAN PIONEERS THE GERMAN PIONEERS ADDRESS BY BERNARD PETERS OF BROOKLYN N Y LADIES AND GEN TL EMEN By the committee who have had the arrangements for these centennial exercises in charge I have been requested to speak on this occasion of the German pioneers who settled in this county during the first half of the present century The Governor of Ohio who has just introduced me as a native of this city must stand corrected in this particular I am not a native of this city nor of this State ...
... N N GORDON THOMAS The Millerite Movement in Ohio A most spectacular and dramatic nineteenth century religious movement in America developed from the preaching of William Miller This was the culmination of the pronouncement that Christ's Second Coming would occur in October 1844 Preaching in a forceful manner and with convincing sincerity Prophet Miller delivered hundreds of lectures in years 1831 to 1844 His message was one of emotion and terror It was often sensationalized as well as ...
... The Short Life of Manhattan Ohio The Short Life of Manhattan Ohio By JOHN W WEATHERFORD Lured on by the geographical promise of the Maumee Valley and by the venturesome spirit of the times speculators in the middle 1830's scattered a brood of infant towns along the Maumee River there to compete for their lives If the founders and inhabitants of these rival towns--Port Lawrence Vistula Oregon Maumee Perrysburg Marengo and Manhattan--agreed on anything it was on the future greatness of the ...
... 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 ...
... Governor Rutherford B Hayes NOTES ON PAGE 191 GOVERNOR RUTHERFORD B GOVERNOR RUTHERFORD B HAYES 59 by DANIEL R PO R TER The spirits of a discontented Congressman from Cincinnati were decidedly lifted late in January 1867 by a letter from William Henry Smith Ohio's Secretary of State The letter sounded out Representative Rutherford B Hayes as a possible gubernatorial candidate This was the first indication Hayes received that he was being considered instead of incumbent Governor Jacob D Cox ...
... COLONEL DICK JOHNSON'S CHOCTAW ACADEMY COLONEL DICK JOHNSON'S CHOCTAW ACADEMY A Forgotten Educational Experiment MRS SHELLEY D ROUSE Less than a century ago there was a large and prosperous school for the education of the sons of the Southern Indians in the Blue Grass region of Kentucky It was at that time the only institution in the country under the supervision of the war department of the United States excepting the military academy at West Point it attracted the attention of ...
... BookReviews Summer-Autumn 2003 pp 93-112 PDF of Book Reveiws CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2003 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved and Book Notes Alphabetical List of Titles All for the Regiment The Army of the Ohio 1861-1865 By Gerald J Prokopowicz Reviewed by Brian D McKnight Architecture in the United States By W Barksdale Maynard Reviewed by Richard Francaviglia Birchbark Canoes of the Fur Trade Volumes I and II By Timothy J Kent Reviewed by David A Simmons A Brilliant ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR VERILY THE WORLD DO MOVE Under this caption the Lancaster Daily Eagle of September 13 1927 publishes the following editorial In another portion of this paper we reproduce possibly for the twentieth time a resolution supposed to have been passed by a Lancaster School Board away back a hundred years ago in 1828 These records of the school board of that period are not obtainable and even though they were this resolution denying ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE ORIGINAL MAN FROM OHIO Remarks recently made by the Editor of this Quarterly in introducing a gentleman on the occasion of a lecture on Ohio Archaeology before the William Morris Society of Columbus led to much comment both serious and humorous in the newspapers not only of this state but of papers in various parts of the country The Editor in his remarks was simply passing along some well ventilated possible conclusions resulting from the explorations and ...
... OHIO'S MONUMENT TO GENERAL ANTHONY OHIO'S MONUMENT TO GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE UNVEILED September 14 1929 is a date long to be remembered in the annals of Ohio and other states represented at the dedicatory ceremonies incident to the unveiling of a monument to Major General Anthony Wayne a hero of the Revolution and the border wars with the Indians in the valleys of the Miami and Maumee Rivers The sites of his major achievements in the post-Revolutionary period of his career-the battle of Fallen ...
... THE KENTUCKY REVIVAL AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE KENTUCKY REVIVAL AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE MIAMI VALLEY BY J P MAC LEAN The Miami Valley properly embraces all the country north of the Ohio that is drained by the Great and Little Miami rivers and their tributaries In this paper it is used to designate the southwestern quarter of the State of Ohio or that territory lying west of a line drawn due south from Columbus to the Ohio river and south of another line drawn due west from Columbus to the ...
... THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS The committee found that limitations of time made it necessary to rely on questionnaires in compiling a bibliography of the historical writings of Ohioans during the year 1949 Members of the Ohio Academy of History staff members of departments of history in the state's colleges and universities and officials of local historical societies were asked to list their writings In relying on the use of the ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Covered Wooden Truss Bridges of Greene County Ohio A collection of photos and data of a vanishing era By James H Shell Xenia Ohio Greene County Historical Society 1998 76p illustrations bibliography At first glance this slender volume appears to be just another covered bridge picture book Many of this genre emphasize numbingly repetitive photos of bridge exteriors and indeed the lead section of this book includes the expected photo gallery But this publication actually ...
... 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 ...
... Ohio Day at Pan-American Exposition Ohio Day at Pan-American Exposition 123 OHIO DAY AT PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION JULY 18 1901 Never was the Rainbow City more radiant attractive or active than on Ohio Day July 18 1 901 when thousands of Buckeyes made pilgrimage from their native state to Buffalo and proudly participated in the ceremonies and festivities of the formal dedication of the Ohio Building OHIO BUILDING The Ohio Building one of the finest and most admired state edifices on the ground ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Historical Society is reprinting Scoouwa James Smith's Indian Captivity Narrative 595 the eighth edition of Colonel Smith's 1799 journal and the first annotated reprint in seventy years The journal Smith kept is an important document reflecting Indian-white relations in the late eighteenth century as well as struggles between colonists and representatives of the king William M Darlington's annotations from the 1870 edition are included with ...
... SONG WRITERS OF OHIO SONG WRITERS OF OHIO ALEXANDER COFFMAN ROSS AUTHOR OF TIPPECANOE AND TYLER TOO I am a Buckeye from the Buckeye State This was the proud declaration of the author of Tippecanoe and Tyler too as he faced a large and enthusiastic audience in New York City just before he gave to fame that political campaign song-the most effective ever sung in the history of the Republic Alexander Coffman Ross first opened his eyes to the light in Zanesville O May 31 1812 His father Elijah ...
... Book Notes Book Notes The Civil War Letters of an Ohio Soldier SO Chamberlain and the 49th Ohio Volunteer Infantry By Dick and Judy Chamberlain Flournoy California Dick Chamberlain 1990 ix 67p illustrations Letters written by a Seneca County soldier during the years 1861 -65 are interspersed with the authors' explication of their contents A candid portrayal of campaigning with the Army of the Cumberland the letters speak with a certain rude eloquence of the tedium and hardship of the tented ...