... settlement of the state and those who were conspicuous in its subsequent development and those who became prominent figures in our national history Mr Anderson has the literary touch and delineation of an artist his portrait sketches of the governors of Ohio and prominent characters in the career of the state are deftly and judiciously done he presents much about these people never before ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABOLTIONISTS amp the South 1831-1861 The by Stanley Harrold rev 195-196 Act to Organize and Discipline the Militia An 37 Adjutant General Ohio office of 26 28 37 African-American soldiers 34-35 149n 14 Agnew Margaret Mrs Harman Blennerhassett 137-138 Agriculture 80-81 Aides-de-Camp Ohio office of 26 29 Akron Beacon Journal 10-11 Alcoholic camphor 180 ...
... THE MORGAN RAID IN OHIO THE MORGAN RAID IN OHIO R W MCFARLAND In the article under the above heading published in the January number there are several errors which ought not to pass unnoticed The paragraph to which reference is made is as follows viz The Ohio Raid practically ended at Buffington Island although Morgan himself was not ...
... DANIEL PRESTON DANIEL PRESTON Thomas Kelsey Hardluck Entrepreneur In the years following the close of the War of 1812 a wave of economic speculation swept through the West The Treaty of Ghent which ended the war offered nothing in concrete terms beyond a much desired peace But if the United States had not won the war against the powerful British Americans could at least revel in the knowledge that they had not lost it either They quickly forgot the many near-disasters that the nation ...
... Marching Through South Carolina Marching Through South Carolina Another Civil War Letter Of Lieutenant George M Wise Edited by WILFRED W BLACK Sherman's march through Georgia was accomplished On December 20 1864 General William J Hardee retreated from Savannah toward Charleston and from Savannah in the middle of January Sherman launched his campaign through the Carolinas with an army of 60000 marching in two broad columns The march through Georgia had been regarded as a picnic but it was not ...
... EARLY DAYS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON EARLY DAYS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON EXCERPTS FROM THE CHRONICLES OF NAZARETH edited by GEORGE R U PPEL SM The Chronicles of Nazareth is a manuscript history of the first thirty years of the present University of Dayton It was written by Brother John A Brueck in the latter years of the nineteenth century as an informal record of the Society of Mary in America and of the school for boys begun at Dayton in 1850 The Nazareth in his title comes from the ...
... settlement of such disputes and one of his earliest published works was devoted to this subject As a tribute to his rank and influence he was chosen speaker pro tempore of the sixty-seventh General Assembly and was also chairman of the committee on public works Mr Ryan was an enthusiastic Republican He was the first president of the League of Ohio Republican Clubs and served in that capacity ...
... THE RISE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH IN OHIO THE RISE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH IN OHIO by OPHIA D SMITH By 1832 there were enough Newchurchmen scattered throughout the West to demand a general organization to synchronize their efforts to spread the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg Since they were too remote from the eastern cities to attend the annual General Convention they wanted a ...
... settlement there in 1806 The Bugle was safe in this stronghold James G Birney's Philanthropist might be mobbed and his press and type thrown into the river at Cincinnati but there was no time when it would have been safe for a party of lawless and desperate men to make an attack on the office of the Bugle in Salem There had grown up in the town a sturdy generation of young men who in such a contingency would have forgotten their nonresistant ...
... OHIOOHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS JOSHUA REED GIDDINGS A CHAMPION OF POLITICAL FREEDOM BY BYRON R LONG There never was a time perhaps when there was less need for furnishing material for readers than just now The worldwar has been productive of thot and action such as has enlisted thousands of good writers who are keeping record of incidents and are setting down ...
... northwest26 In accordance northwest of the River Ohio whose strength is growing too mighty to be treated with contempt and whose prosperity is in most cases intimately blended with their own It requires no extraordinary wisdom to perceive that we cannot pay duties on consumption of foreign Merchandise or purchase the manufactures of the ...
... settlements and lends them settlements approximate and settlements of the United settlement of the Maumee Valley What could be more fitting to his memory than to plant apple trees in our roadside parks and selected places along our highways These trees would add to the beauty and ...
... settlement at Jamestown I made my first landing in Virginia at that point in a steamer from Baltimore which was en route up the James for Richmond So in my starting I went back to first principles It seems that the colony being almost entirely composed of men had for years a lonely time Their hearts were aching for the smiles of women and their ears longing to hear the merry voices of children ringing out on the air Even the cry of one lusty ...
... settlement at Jamestown I made my first landing in Virginia at that point in a steamer from Baltimore which was en route up the James for Richmond So in my starting I went back to first principles It seems that the colony being almost entirely composed of men had for years a lonely time Their hearts were aching for the smiles of women and their ears longing to hear the merry voices of children ringing out on the air Even the cry of one lusty ...
... MUSKINGUM RIVER IMPROVEMENT MUSKINGUM RIVER IMPROVEMENT THE McCONNELSVILLE LOCK-OLD AND NEW IRVEN TRAVIS The beginning of the improvement of the Muskingum dates back to 1827 when on January 17th the following resolution was passed by the General Assembly Resolved That the Board of Canal Commissioners deem it expedient and authorize an examination and survey of the Muskingum River from Marietta to a point most convenient for a connection with the
... Monument at Fort Jefferson Monument at Fort Jefferson 129 named after the primitive red men of the forest a people that were not much different from what we are to-day As I told you they were a God-fearing people the same as we Their word was as sacred to them as their lives and I am not so sure that that is true of all of us I am proud to say that I belong to an order that was named after a people as proud and noble as they Then you might say why this war I believe and honestly believe that ...
... 30 Ohio Arch 30 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications not to enslave men but to make men free to enlarge in a vast degree the zone of Republican government All honor to George Croghan and his heroic band All honor to the soldiers of the revolution All honor to the soldiers of the Mexican war All honor to the soldiers of the Union All honor to the soldiers of the Spanish-American war The ...
... northwest and the confines of Ohio It was in the village of Cincinnati 1793 a century and a quarter ago that the initial newspaper--a weekly--made its appearance under the title Centinel of the Northwest Territory Its motto on the editorial page had a commendable catholicity for it read Open to all parties but influenced by none It was the ...
... GOVERNOR OTHNIEL LOOKER AND HIS GOVERNOR OTHNIEL LOOKER AND HIS DESCENDANTS In the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly volume 31 pages 215-217 there is a sketch of Governor Othniel Looker In it is copied a previous sketch in which the statement was made that Governor Looker left no records relative to his life succeeding his service in the governorship and that he died unmarried The sketch at that time furnished from reliable sources ...
... settlements are like angels' visits few and far between and that in others they assume a more compact character and appear rising in gradation from the solitary mansion to the hamlet village and town but surely we would not anticipate the view of a fair and extensive city springing up on the beautiful river like Venus from the ocean Indeed if it had been predicted some years ago that in this place the site of a military encampment surrounded ...