... Benjamin Silliman James L Kingsley Roger M Sherman Eli Ives Nathaniel Taylor et al and that strange unearthly spiritual being the poet Percival Men of such intellectual mark united to moral worth as I then used to see I have since rarely met He was preparing to enter Yale College when his father met with financial reverses due entirely to heavy indorsements for friends These losses compelled Henry to give up aspirations for 316 Ohio Arch 316 ...
... Benjamin Tupper both the Benjamin Tupper of Benjamin Tupper who believed Benjamin Tupper actively Benjamin Lincoln against the Benjamin Tupper to Henry
... FORT FIZZLE FORT FIZZLE Judge James Story Drake son of Colonel James L Drake on June 3 1929 wrote to his niece Mrs Luella Hughes Gillette of Indianapolis Indiana His description of the Holmes County Rebellion is in part as follows I suppose I have told you that I had a part in that War I was between eleven and twelve years old at that time We lived on our farm in Holmes County then and when the Governor sent two companies of hard-boiled soldiers to put down the Rebellion Mother got a message ...
... RITA S RITA S SASLAW Student Societies in Nineteenth Century Ohio Misconceptions and Realities Student societies flourished in American colleges in the first half of the nineteenth century Historians of higher education have viewed this development as a student attempt to bring about substantive change in the curriculum and extracurricular life1 This idea follows logically from the fact that these societies grew in a period of numerous reform movements movements dedicated to deliberate ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA SAMUEL S RICKLY Samuel Strasser Rickly died at his residence at 347 East Broad street Columbus Ohio on the evening of November 22d 1905 Mr Rickly was one of the founders of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and from the date of its organization was one of its most influential and valuable members It is due his memory at this time to recall and place on record the inestimable service which he has rendered the society On the evening of February 12 ...
... FURTHER NOTES ON GRANVILLE'S ANTIFURTHER NOTES ON GRANVILLE'S ANTIABOLITION DISTURBANCES OF 1836 By ROBERT PRICE The American Colonization Society may have had as its chief objective the return of American Negroes to their native Africa but it also afforded a ready means of organized opposition for the enemies of abolition Anyhow such was the case in Granville Ohio during the years 1835-36 when the fires of anti-slavery controversy were burning brightly in that particular neighborhood No doubt ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 217 Reviews Notes and Comments 217 In 1844 he went to Palestine Illinois to spend his remaining days with his daughter Mrs Rachel L Kitchel Here he was highly honored by the citizens of the village On July 4 1845 he delivered his last public address Appearing in his continental uniform bowed with the infirmities of age his emotions almost overcame him as he contrasted the feeble beginnings of the Republic with the splendid destinies assured in the future In an ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 473 terest which was greatly heightened by the information gained of the geological and historical features of the section as related by Mr A J Baughman than whom few in the state are better qualified to speak upon matters pertaining to its geology and history INDIAN VS ABORIGINE The following communication is self explanatory It is from the pen of Prof R W McFarland Oxford Ohio who has contributed many articles of value to the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical ...
... SIGNIFICANCE OF PERRY'S VICTORY SIGNIFICANCE OF PERRY'S VICTORY BY ISAAC J COX On the evening of February 23d 1910 the Ohio Perry's Victory Commission appointed by the Governor of Ohio to make suitable arrangements for the celebration of Perry's Victory on Lake Erie September 10 1913 had a hearing before a special joint meeting of both houses of the Ohio Assembly On this occasion Dr Isaac J Cox professor of American History in the Cincinnati University and President of the Ohio Valley ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 223 injustices combined with the unfair and oppressive policy of Governor Berkeley and his failure to quell the Indian uprisings led at last to the rebellion of the downtrodden planters under the leadership of Nathaniel Bacon a descendant of Lord Bacon Bacon led the planters successfully against the Indians and protected the frontiers then drove out Berkeley and remained master of Virginia until his death a few months later when Berkeley once more assumed control Then ...
... A BUCKEYE BOARDING-SCHOOL IN 1821 A BUCKEYE BOARDING-SCHOOL IN 1821 BY ALICE MCGUFFEY RUGGLES The early free schools of the West have been described many times often sentimentally But of the pioneer private schools little has been written In the unpublished autobiography of Charles Daniel Drake only son of Dr Daniel Drake there is an account of the author's experiences at a boarding-school for boys at Worthington Ohio conducted by the Right Reverend Philander Chase first Episcopal Bishop of ...
... DIARY OF AARON MILLER DIARY OF AARON MILLER WRITTEN WHILE IN QUEST OF OHIO WHEAT LANDS Aaron Miller the author of the following diary was born in Louden County Virginia in 1784 died in Highland County Ohio in 1872 -- at the age of 88 years He had five brothers Moses Daniel Jesse Peter and Jacob all natives of Louden County Virginia In the spring of 1832 Aaron Miller together with his brother Daniel made the trip as narrated in the diary on horseback into Ohio for the purpose of seeking new ...
... THE INDIAN VILLAGE OF CUSH-OG-WENK THE INDIAN VILLAGE OF CUSH-OG-WENK BY THOMAS H JOHNSON COSHOCTON The generations who were active participants in the events which constitute the early history of Ohio having passed away it seems to me the imperative duty of those now living whose early life overlapped the survivors of the active participants in the stirring events of that earlier period to place on record any recollections they may have of the stories told by those old survivors tending to ...
... PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO In two volumes Illustrated by about 500 engravings contrasting the Ohio of 1846 with 1886-88 from drawings by the author in 1846 and photographs taken in 1886 1887 and 1888 of cities and chief towns public buildings historic localities monuments curiosities antiquities portraits maps etc By HENRY HOWE author of Historical Collections of Virginia and other works Columbus Henry Howe amp Son 1889 The following ...
... GEORGE WILL AND GEORGE WILL JR GEORGE WILL AND GEORGE WILL JR HE following address was delivered by Grace Reah Johnson on October 26 1 93 0 dedicating a bronze memorial which marks the final resting place of George Will and George Will Junior in the cemetery at McArthur Ohio George Will was a soldier of the American Revolution and George Will Junior served with Anthony Wayne in the campaign of 1794 and also in the second war with Great Britain 181 2-14 They had lain buried in a neglected ...
... Benjamin Lundy the brave war Benjamin and upon this Benjamin Lundy who was the first man to get William Lloyd Garrison interested in that question These liberty-loving pioneers believed that the spirit that causes the little bird to beat its breast against the wires of the cage while it longs for freedom is the same spirit that is planted ...
... 54 Ohio Arch 54 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications tion dissolved but Nelson agreed with Wayne Grier and Curtis in the opinion that an attachment should issue since there was no power in Congress to interfere with the judgment of the court under pretense of power to legalize the structure or by making it a post road Justice McLean dissented feeling that the principle involved was of the deepest interest to the growing commerce of the West which might be obstructed by bridges across the ...
... Benjamin Hanna the grandfather of Marcus Hanna who was elected as president David Begges Horace Potter George McCook James Robertson Joseph Richardson and Elderkin Potter These seven represented Columbiana County There were also four from Stark County William Christman William Henry William Reynolds and Jacob Hostetter Tuscarawas had Christian Deardoff and Henry Lepper The charter of 1834 and the reports of the engravers were printed at New ...
... PRINTING IN GAMBIER OHIO 1829-1884 PRINTING IN GAMBIER OHIO 1829-1884 by WYMAN W PARKER University Librarian University of Cincinnati Printing in Gambier Ohio extended for a little more than fifty years during the mid-nineteenth century Its history forms a neat and fairly typical illustration of the work of the ecclesiastical press of that century Projected as early as 1823 by Philander Chase first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Ohio the press began in 1830 to issue the first Episcopal ...
... Benjamin G Lamme '88 and Ralph D Mershon '90 both noted electrical engineers served on the Naval Advisory Board Major General William C Langfitt '80 of the Regular Army was overseas as chief of staff of all lines of railway communication chief of utilities and chief engineer officer and was in charge of light railways MEDICAL DENTAL AND VETERINARY SERVICE The Faculty members and the graduates of the Medical Dental and Veterinary colleges of ...