... 22 Ohio Arch 22 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications A centennial means a hundred years and does seem a long stretch of time and rather strangely I have heard accounts given by Major Croghan at only second hand for it happened that in 1845-6 when my father the late General Thomas J Wood U S A who graduated from West Point in 1845 was serving on the staff of General Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War Major Croghan at that time Colonel and Inspector General was also on the staff of General ...
... WINTHROP SARGENT WINTHROP SARGENT BY CHARLES SPRAGUE SARGENT Winthrop Sargent IV Harvard A M 1771 b Gloucester May 1 1753 d on a steamer near New Orleans La January 3 1820 m Rebecca daughter of Colonel Benjamin Tupper1 by whom he had a child who died in infancy m second Natchez Mississippi October 24 1798 Mary widow of Daniel Williams and daughter of James McIntosh2 and Eunice Hawley b Stratford Connecticut January 20 1764 d Philadelphia January 9 1844 After leaving Cambridge Mr Sargent ...
... Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 623 Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 623 Mr Smith thinks no executor has been appointed up to this time He will learn definitely in regard to this soon If the Society thinks it of sufficient importance to acquire the Mound now is the time to institute active measures Signed B F PRINCE Chairman FORT LAURENS PARK The situation at Fort Laurens Park one mile east of Bolivar Ohio has been unsatisfactory for a long time Very little has been done since the ...
... DOWN THE RHINE TO THE OHIO DOWN THE RHINE TO THE OHIO The Travel Diary of Christoph Jacob Munk April 21-August 17 1832 by AUGUST C MAHR Professor of German Ohio State University The diary published in the following pages in the original German with an English translation merits attention for two principal reasons 1 it gives a complete almost day-by-day account of its writer's emigration with his family from Germany to Ohio and 2 it covers their entire journey that is not only the ocean voyage ...
... OHIO'S ONLY WITCHCRAFT CASE OHIO'S ONLY WITCHCRAFT CASE BY ALBERT DOUGLAS The following report of a quaint and amusing case tried some one hundred years ago in Gallia County was originally published in the Scioto Gazette of Chillicothe The young lawyers who opposed one another in the trial afterwards became distinguished in the legal and political annals of Ohio Samuel F Vinton the then Prosecuting Attorney of Gallia County was born of Revolutionary stock at Lynn Massachusetts September 25 ...
... THE CLEAN CONSCIENCE OF A DIRTY SWEEP THE CLEAN CONSCIENCE OF A DIRTY SWEEP McGUFFEY'S LITTLE CHIMNEY SWEEP AND ANOTHER by GEORGE L PHILLIPS Assistant Professor of English San Diego State College When by good fortune I come upon a story about a little chimney sweeper one of Lamb's tender novices blooming through their first nigritude the maternal washings not quite effaced from the cheek going sturdily about his business of cleaning soot out of foul chimneys my heart misses a few beats as I ...
... GOVERNOR EDWARD TIFFIN PIONEER DOCTOR GOVERNOR EDWARD TIFFIN PIONEER DOCTOR by LINDEN F EDWARDS PhD Professor of Anatomy Ohio State University From time to time throughout history there has appeared upon the scene of action an outstanding individual who because of his innate ability and of the richness of the opportunity at hand rose head and shoulders above the common herd Such a man was Edward Tiffin pioneer doctor lay preacher governor parliamentarian statesman His untiring and successful ...
... BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTHWORKS OF BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTHWORKS OF OHIO THE following bibliography was prepared by Mrs Cyrus Thomas under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution and is published by permission from the manuscript copy Its publication will serve two ends In the first place to impart information already obtained and in the second place to solicit information supplementary to what is here contained Any observers in the State who have facts concerning the earthworks of Ohio in ...
... AN ABOLITION CENTER AN ABOLITION CENTER THOMAS J SHEPPARD In the spring of 1 80 2 two travelers met in the wilderness between Zanesville and Marietta Ohio Though they rode together by day and camped together by night each refrained from disclosing to the other the object of his journey That object was to purchase the section of land upon which later on grew up the village of Putnam now the Ninth Ward of the city of Zanesville The travelers were John McIntyre the founder of Zanesville and Dr ...
... 206 Ohio Arch 206 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications V O L 3 But still its mission is to the regions beyond its position in the advancing columns is on the front line Its business is to find and drive the enemy leaving to the slower-moving forces the work of fortifying and garrisoning the conquered provinces Its muster roll begins with those of Caesar's household and ends not until it includes the faithful Onesimus Quenchless zeal for souls is and must forever be its characteristic a ...
... 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 ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 261 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 261 and our record in military production would have been far more brilliant than it was In the afternoon session held in the Auditorium of the Ohio State Museum and presided over by Stanton L Davis of the Case School of Applied Science the following papers were read by James M Miller of Waynesburg College Waynesburg Penna and by Philip D Jordan of Miami University THE SPIRITUAL FORCE IN EARLY WESTERN CULTURE By JAMES ...
... MARY L MARY L WHITE Mary White Autobiography of an Ohio First Lady As I hurriedly dressed I could hear the commotion downstairs while outside the National Guard was forming with appropriate commands and the neighing of horses It was Inauguration Day in Columbus Ohio January 12 1931--my father would soon be Governor George White Because of the recent death of Mother I was at the age of twenty-four to be Father's official hostess and First Lady of Ohio Full of determination to take the time to ...
... MAN AND NATURE IN MODERN OHIO1 MAN AND NATURE IN MODERN OHIO1 by PAUL B SEARS Professor of Botany Oberlin College My theme is law It is a curious paradox that science whose practitioners proudly boast that they take nothing for granted rests upon faith Science is in fact what our theological friends would call an act of faith The faith to which I refer is a profound belief that the universe of our experience is a universe of law and order2 Without a conviction that the world of experience must ...
... Tecumseh Tecumseh 497 says her husband was killed fighting by the side of Tecumseh in the battle of the Thames but Shane speaks of him as quoted by Drake as Tecumseh's friend and brother-in-law Wasegoboah It would appear from this that Masonville had united with the Indians assumed an Indian name and becamereconciled to Tecumseh Shane further states that after the War of 1812 Tecumsapease went to Quebec probably with her nephew Pugeshashenwa whence after a time she returned to Detroit where ...
... WILLIAM OXLEY THOMPSON WILLIAM OXLEY THOMPSON By C B GALBREATH On December 9 1933 at the age of seventy-eight years one month and four days Dr William Oxley Thompson president emeritus of the Ohio State University breathed his last in White Cross Hospital in Columbus at the close of a remarkably interesting and successful career in different but related fields of human endeavor He was the grandson of David Thompson a weaver by trade who came from the north of Ireland and settled in Guernsey ...
... MARION CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION MARION CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION BY J WILBUR JACOBY OUTLINE OF HISTORY OF MARION COUNTY In this centenary year for the city of Marion it is not inappropriate to preface this article with a brief outline of the history of Marion County Marion County was named after the famous Revolutionary General Francis Marion and attached to Delaware County by act of February 20 1820 For more than twenty-five years thereafter the southern limit of the county was the Greenville ...
... Life Was Rugged a Century Ago Life Was Rugged a Century Ago Experiences of an English Immigrant By CARROL H QUENZEL George H Cadman was in his thirty-fourth year when he left Euston Street Station in his native London on the first lap of the trek to America Rather than wait nine whole days at Liverpool for the delayed departure of the Cambria the ship on which he had booked passage he paid an extra fee to be rowed seven miles to the Benjamin Adams and was outward bound in considerably less ...
... PRESIDENT HARDING AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION by DAVID H JENNINGS Even as President-elect Warren Gamaliel Harding was bidding his Marion neighbors a tender moist-eyed farewell1 world affairs engulfed him With the exception of Lincoln said The Nation never have there been so many pressing and unsolved problems The New Republic described the pressures as truly awful2 Each problem was individually intense and was made more so from the neglect occasioned by Woodrow Wilson's illness ...
... 664 Ohio Arch 664 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications AFTERNOON SESSION AUDITORIUM OF THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING 130 O'CLOCK The addresses delivered at the afternoon session of the meeting were of an unusually high order Members of the Society and their friends came in large numbers to hear the two noted speakers on the program They soon filled the auditorium to the limit of its capacity and a number were turned away for lack of room The high anticipations of the audience were not ...