... JOHN FITCH INVENTOR OF STEAMBOATS JOHN FITCH INVENTOR OF STEAMBOATS BY MIRA CLARKE PARSONS By a coincidence of which the writer was not then aware while the article on the Steamboat was in type the name of Robert Fulton was brought to public notice for the purpose of bestowing further honors upon the memory of a great inventor The object of this paper is to offer additional proof of the validity of the prior claim of John Fitch as the inventor and originator of steam navigation While all due ...
... GENERAL JOSHUA WOODROW SILL GENERAL JOSHUA WOODROW SILL BY ALBERT DOUGLAS FOREWORD With some sixty years intervening since the Civil War and with the generation of men and women to whom it was a fearful reality almost all gone from earth it cannot be hoped that many who knew him personally will read this slight memoir of one of Ohio's great and best soldiers of that war But to these few and especially to those who have urged me to use the ...
... settlement looking at several settlement it being a beach settlement along honey creek settlement about 25 miles settlement has more spring settlement she said she could
... ohio militia Senica is a handsome place lying on the bank of the sandusky River and has formerly been selected by the indians While we lay at this place there was another Company detached from our Ridgment and two more from the Second Ridgment and Major Wm Henderson and sent as as escort for a Drove of Cattle which was ordered on to Detroit for the use of the army of the United States which is now in possession of the sons of Liberty and ...
... SKETCHES OF LIFE MEMBERS SKETCHES OF LIFE MEMBERS ANDERSON JAMES HOUSE-Born March 16 1833 at Marion O Son of Judge Thomas Jefferson Anderson and Nancy Dunlevy Educated in public schools and the Marion Academy and Ohio Wesleyan University Graduated from law department of the Cincinnati College in 1854 immediately began practice Elected Mayor of Marion in 1855 and later Prosecuting Attorney of the county Married in 1856 to Princess A Miller ...
... settlement five or six miles from the State Capitol The chapel was on the west side of the Worthington Plank Road now High Street near the house of the local Methodist preacher Jason Bull The rear basement of the chapel was piled high with hickory wood for the winter's use That wood was so arranged that it walled in a number of small rooms for concealing the fugitives Food and water were carried to the hiding slaves in the night by Bull's ...
... THE MACGAHAN MONUMENT THE MACGAHAN MONUMENT A DEDICATION AT NEW LEXINGTON MacGahan was preparing to attend and write up the International Congress at Berlin when declining to abandon a sick friend at Constantinople he was himself attacked with the malignant fever that had prostrated his friend and died after a few days' illness June 9 1878 In the year 1884 his remains at Constantinople were disinterred and brought by the United States steamer Powhatan to this country In New York city the ...
... SANDY AND BEAVER CANAL1 SANDY AND BEAVER CANAL1 B y W H VAN FOSSAN As a part of the Ohio system of canals the Sandy and Beaver was a branch from Bolivar Tuscarawas County to Smiths Ferry on the Ohio River forty miles below Pittsburgh Bolivar was its junction point with the Ohio and Erie Canal which extended from Cleveland to Portsmouth Its ...
... Samuel Galloway Samuel Galloway 263 SAMUEL GALLOWAY BY WASHINGTON GLADDEN DD LL D It is hardly necessary to ask where the Galloways came from Their name bewrayeth them The southwesternmost peninsula of Scotland jutting out into the Irish Channel and separated by only a few miles of water from County Antrim in Ireland was known as the Galloway district Burns's country of Ayr was just north of it Carlyle's country of Ecclefechen and Dumfries was just east of it and Wordsworth's country of ...
... 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 ...
... settlement had had a Centinel settlements west of the settlements were such that it settlement There was another settlements had been founded Henceforth without hindrance progress and civilization would travel Westward BIBLIOGRAPHY ...
... settlements in the ceded lands settlements in accordance with settlement to the present time William Hayden Memoirs of David Thomas William Bostwick and George Fleming Early life in Auburn A Cayuga joint stock company The burning of the St James These monographs admirably preserve the Early History of localities and are worthy of emulation ...
... 520 Ohio Arch 520 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications but they love it more because they have seen its crimson colors reproduced in the blood of America We love this country but they love it more because they have seen the sacrifices which have made it what it is and while we hope that we will have peace we are going to claim our right and recognize our right under any circumstance at ...
... 338 Ohio Arch 338 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications General J Warren Keifer recently appointed Trustee of the Society and the only living Major General of the Civil War will favor the Society with some very interesting and unrecorded history in an address at this meeting A detailed program will be mailed to the members of the Society THE HAYES CENTENARY The tentative program for the ...
... Warren King Moorehead Warren King Moorehead And His Papers By JOHN W WEATHERFORD The enduring love of Warren King Moorehead 1866-1939 may be summed up in one word Indians When not busied with their ancient remains he was struggling with the manifold problems they face in this century Penobscot and Pueblo alike shared his attention When through the generosity of Ludwig King Moorehead and Singleton Peabody Moorehead the Ohio Historical Society ...
... Monument to General Anthony Wayne Unveiled 591 Monument to General Anthony Wayne Unveiled 591 tried paths the kind of courage by which we can maintain our self-respect after it is restored and by which we can defend it from behind the walls of a new Fort Defiance Sustained by such courage we can go on and on invincible against whatever evil may be lurking in a new Fallen Timbers Let us then accept this bronze figure which you are soon to see as a symbol of civic courage--this figure of Anthony ...
... northwest of Cincinnati was established in large part by a group of emigrants from Wales seeking to better themeselves financially intellectually and spiritually The most of the incoming settlers from Virginia and the Carolinas were of the same type and one of the first deeds of the infant community was the founding of a church-a Congregational church which celebrated its centennial in 1 90 3 The next move was the beginning of a private school ...
... settlement at Martinsville The eastern route from Ripley led through Redoak and Decatur to Winchester Adams County146 According to local tradition and numerous writers the name Underground Railroad originated in an incident which occurred at Ripley In 1831 a fugitive from Kentucky by the name of 145 Ibid 315 Trial of John B Mahan for Felony 12 78 81 Siebert Collection Vol II Letter from Dr Isaac Beck December 26 1892 Siebert Collection Vol II ...
... settlement rich land in much settlement and vast city - the settlement and of considerable settlement of the town in 1810 settlement and notoriety The settlements such as Cleveland ...
... settlement between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati and the commercial and intellectual center of the colony known as the Ohio Company which had emigrated from New England but a few years before and comprised the sturdy stock of Massachusetts and Connecticut Puritans Blennerhassett with his wife passed the winter of 1797-8 amid the enjoyments which this little primitive city had to offer and in ...