... SQUAW TRAIL SQUAW TRAIL BY GEORGE NELSON HINDS John and Elizabeth Hinds and their three sons had emigrated from the Fen country in England to the New World on board a slave ship arriving in 1808 Traveling in an oilskin-covered wagon drawn by their oxen Thomas and Jeremiah they encamped at a point about thirty miles from Albany New York on the Squaw Trail This trail variously labeled the Iroquois trail King Philip's road and described as a tote road and a trace was known to the Indians as Squaw ...
... JOHN BROWN AT HARPER'S FERRY AND JOHN BROWN AT HARPER'S FERRY AND CHARLESTOWN A LECTURE BY S K DONOVAN This lecture by Colonel S K Donovan was delivered a number of times in Ohio but was never before printed The original manuscript is in the possession of his sister Miss Sallie Donovan of Delaware Ohio by whose permission it is now published Colonel Donovan once stated to the writer that he was the first newspaper correspondent to reach Harper's Ferry after the raid began When he arrived there ...
... Fort Fizzle 49 Fort Fizzle 49 He made them a neat speech telling them of the obligations they owed to themselves and to their children and their country deprecating the necessity of bringing armed soldiers into the county and winding up by assuring them that he would not leave until the guilty were delivered into his hands and they promise to make no more resistance to the laws of the county We are under many obligations to Mr and Mrs Bowers and Mr Thomas Fetterman of Napoleon and Mr and Mrs ...
... ANDREW POE'S ENCOUNTER WITH INDIANS ANDREW POE'S ENCOUNTER WITH INDIANS From the Draper Mss Border Forays 5 D-Chap 29 Wisconsin Historical Society Archives Andrew Poe was born the thirtieth of September 1742 in Frederick county Maryland George Poe the father of Andrew died while the latter was in his teens He remained at home until he became of age living with his mother and an elder brother Not long after the termination of Pontiac's War he came to the neighborhood of Pittsburgh where he ...
... 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 ...
... THE SCOTCH-IRISH IN CENTRAL OHIO THE SCOTCH-IRISH IN CENTRAL OHIO by WILLIAM L FISK JR Associate Professor of History Muskingum College Historical appraisals of the contributions of various ethnic elements to the growth of American culture have seldom denied recognition to the Scotch-Irish The cutting edge of the frontier they rarely hesitated to assume the vanguard of the westward movement and made it impossible for the writer of history to ignore them deplore their unrefined individualism ...
... A New Home--Who'll Follow A New Home--Who'll Follow Letters of a New England Emigrant Family in Ohio 1831-1842 By CHARLES L SANFORD A dominant characteristic of the fifty-year period following the American Revolution was the rise of national self-consciousness reflected by patriotic experiments in literature in fine arts in science and in other areas of culture Cultural nationalism was whetted by the War of 1812 and by the end of the period had made its way into foreign policy with the Monroe ...
... medicines But Corson evidently was not able to get along by bookselling alone because during the next year he added other lines until his Main Street establishment became a general store His chief interest seems to have been in his original specialty however because he opened a circulating library in his store in August 1813 and over two-thirds of his advertising continued to be devoted to books48 John P Foote was probably the earliest ...
... 476 Ohio Arch 476 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The Functions of Museums and the Question of Special Exhibitions by Frederic A Lucas American Museum of Natural History The Museum Point of View in Botany by E L Morris Brooklyn Institute Museum A Celestial Sphere-An Appartus Installed to Promote Interest in Astronomy by Dr W W Atwood Chicago Academy of Sciences The Educational Work of a Natural History Museum by W W Atwood Chicago Academy of Sciences The Deutaches Museum at Munich by ...
... 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 ...
... EARL IRVIN WEST EARL IRVIN WEST Early Cincinnati's Unprecedented Spectacle When Isaac G Burnet Cincinnati's newly elected mayor called a meeting of the city's leading citizens for Tuesday night April 7 1829 to make arrangements for a debate between Robert Owen and Alexander Campbell this can be considered an official sanction for the extraordinary event that was being planned1 Robert Owen social reformer lecturer and founder of the then defunct communitarian colony at New Harmony Indiana had ...
... The Taylor-Livingston Centenary Etc The Taylor-Livingston Centenary Etc 489 Jr of a paper prepared by his father Edward L Taylor Sr address by ex-Governor George K Nash address by Col James Kilbourne address by Hon Phil H Bruck recitation of poem by Mrs William Sprague address by Hon Thomas E Powell The program as carried out was from first to last impressive instructive and entertaining characterized by sentiment wit and humor Immediately upon the conclusion of the exercises supper was served ...
... VERNON L VERNON L VOLPE Theodore Dwight Weld's Antislavery Mission in Ohio Since the pioneering work of Gilbert H Barnes and Dwight L Dumond Theodore Dwight Weld has been a favorite subject of study for historians interested in the religious roots of the antislavery movement Son of a Connecticut Congregational minister Weld was finally converted to evangelical reform in 1826 by the great New York evangelist Charles Grandison Finney whose controversial new measures provoked so much debate among ...
... THE CONQUEST OF THE INDIAN THE CONQUEST OF THE INDIAN BENJAMIN R COWEN CINCINNATI Portion of an address delivered by General Cowen on the 28th of June 1904 at the placing of the tablet in commemoration of the Harrison-Tarhe Peace Conference We have heard the story of the historic incident this monument is designed to commemorate eloquently told by the Regent of the Columbus Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution That society has rendered a valuable service in the erection of this ...
... THE WISCONSIN ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY THE WISCONSIN ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY STATE FIELD ASSEMBLY July 29-30 1910 REPORT BY CHARLES E BROWN CURATOR Several years ago the Wisconsin Archaeological Society adopted the plan of holding summer field meetings of its members in various sections of Wisconsin which were known to be rich in prehistoric Indian remains The purpose of these annual gatherings was doubly that of extending their acquaintance with the features of the local archaeological field and ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 431 Reviews Notes and Comments 431 SENATOR ROBERT L OWEN AT THE LOGAN ELM Mr E L Spetnagel a life member of our Society writes an interesting letter to Mr Tiffin J Gilmore thanking him for a circular containing a cut of the Logan Elm and the text of the speech of Chief Logan that made the tree famous He speaks of a family reunion last June and the enjoyment of two brothers and other members of his family in making a visit to this grand old tree Continuing Mr ...
... Caleb Atwater Caleb Atwater Pioneer Politician and Historian By FRANCIS P WEISENBURGER THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT SUMMARY of Ohio's past was an historical introduction by Salmon P Chase to his compilation of the Statutes of Ohio1 At that time Chase a graduate of Dartmouth College who had studied law in a somewhat informal way under William Wirt attorney general of the United States 1817-29 was waiting for clients as a fledgling lawyer in Cincinnati2 James Kent the distinguished New York jurist ...
... ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT CHASE Helen Richland County and Underground Railroad Ohio Genealogical Society Report V No 4 August 1965 2 4 GARA Larry ed Brilliant Thoughts and Important Truths A Speech of Frederick Douglass Ohio History LXXV 1966 3-9 HOWARD Victor B The Slavery Controversy and a Seminary for the Northwest Journal of Presbyterian History XLIII 1965 227-253 Shelby Quaker Served Underground Railroad Ohio Genealogical Society Report V No 4 August 1965 3 Concerns Stephen Blanchard ...
... 598 Ohio Arch 598 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Zane by W O McCluskey Unveiling of Monument by Mrs Catherine Long granddaughter of Elizabeth Zane followed by addresses by Howard F Sedgwick and Major H A Dargue both of Washington D C The program concluded with the singing of America CELEBRATION AT CAMPUS MARTIUS In 1917 the General Assembly of Ohio passed an act authorizing the purchase from Miss Minerva Tupper Nye of the portion of the old Campus Martius site in Marietta on which the ...
... WILLIAM SANDERS SCARBOROUGH EARLY LIFE AND YEARS AT WILBERFORCE by FRANCIS P WEISENBURGER The most renowned Negroes in American history have generally been men of vigorous action who in various ways have given spirited leadership to their race and to their country Such persons include Frederick Douglass John M Langston Booker T Washington and William E B Du Bois Other less aggressive individuals such as Richard Theodore Greener1 the first Negro graduate of Harvard University and a lawyer of ...