... Jackson's He died here in Chillicothe amidst the people who loved and honored him for more than a third of a century after a remarkable life of usefulness and distinction This was the Edward Tiffin that confronted Arthur St Clair in the great contest for statehood which resulted in the convention the century of which we celebrate to-day And Tiffin had a foeman worthy of his steel Arthur St Clair the first and only Governor of the Northwest ...
... 366 Ohio Arch 366 Ohio Arch and Hist Society P ublications some on board the fleet to take their second position nearer Canada They arrived a little before sunset that day at East Sister Island while General Harrison and Commodore Perry in the Ariel made a reconnoissance of the enemy's coast It was not until the morning of the 27th that they began this last journey across the lake One account says the day was fine and a propitious breeze made their passage a pleasing pastime It was a sublime ...
... Jackson 1884 Jackson was a Jackson also speaks of the Jackson 456 Ohio Arch 4 Jackson who had been a Jackson Bedinger and others are corroborative Bowman's Expedition Against ...
... County Ohio 1 925 A fort was discovered near Venice by Major Falley overgrown with underbrush and timber but showing a double entrenchment It has since been completely obliterated by cultivation and now no trace of it can be found Vol II p 725 Johnson's fear was justified since this was probably the fort burned by Pontiac's men in 1763 Johnson continued his journey eastward camping at a river within fifteen miles of Sandusky Lake where he shot ...
... Monument at Fort Jefferson Monument at Fort Jefferson 113 5 PRESENTATION Geo A Katzenberger 6 UNVEILING Elizabeth D Robeson 7 MILITARY SALUTE Gun Squad Co M 3rd Regt 8 STAR SPANGLED BANNER Drum Corps 9 ACCEPTANCE ON BEHALF OF THE PUBLICProf J T Martz 10 HISTORIC ADDRESS Judge J I Allread 11 YANKEE DOODLE Drum Corps 12 A WORD FROM THE RED MEN L E Wills 13 BENEDICTION Rev G W Berry ADDRESS OF FRAZER E WILSON SECRETARY GREENVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY One hundred and sixteen years ago to-day a ...
... County Ohio Cincinnati 1871 5-7 10 William Allen White The Changing West 1939 4 TREATY OF GREENE VILLE 11 TREATY OF GREENE VILLE 11 Few and simple as were the tools of the pioneer they gave him the advantages he needed in his struggle with untamed nature The iron-bladed ax and iron-shod plow cleared the forest and furrowed the soil The boat-bottomed canvas-topped wagon could be floated across any ordinary stream Wild game and wild grains ...
...formation as I am capable of formation but say a sufficient quantity may be made at a spring on a branch of the Scioto We have had no time yet to go in search of iron ore but one of our people has brought in a small stone taken from one of the neighboring hills which I found on trial to contain a rich iron ore We find the season here much more forward than even at Pittsburgh by the 7th of ...
... formation-formerly the base of the earthen banksflanking each side of the river channel has been worn away by the water's current and by the blasting of engineers to facilitate the river transportation until the stream is today twice the width it was when Brady cleared the chasm with a bound We have given above the substance of Tract 29 concerning Brady's Leap Another authority though not quite so explicit is the account in the Draper ...
...formation almost in a generation of a howling wilderness into the peaceful and prosperous garden spot of civilization - the Buckeye commonwealth The poetic classic that tells of the search of the Argonauts for the Golden Fleece is not comparable to the simple but splendid prose epic describing the jou rney of the little band of Revolutionary veterans which orgainized in the Bunch of Grapes Tavern journeyed over the snow-clad mountains where the ...
... ST ST CLAIR'S DEFEAT FRAZER ELLS WILSON GREENVILLE OHIO Author of the valuable little volume entitled The Treaty of Greenville published 1894-E 0 R Probably the most disastrous defeat ever suffered by the Americans at the hands of the Red Men was that of the army of Gen Arthur St Clair on the east branch of the Wabash near the present western boundary of Ohio November 4th 1 791 Both for the number of men killed and the blighting effect on the frontier settlements was this disaster noted and ...
... County 6 The first road in County was the one leading County where they camped County the entire route County3 Between these two County It paralleled Brush
... County of which he was the County Pennsylvania and gave bail to appear at the next term of court He kept his word and returned to meet his judges But he was accompanied 414 Ohio Arch 414 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications by a considerable body of armed men who captured the court and took them off to Staunton in Virginia as themselves trespassers The merry war went on until the ...
... County that Chief Nicholas of the Wyandotte tribe lived and he was the brains of the movement which had for its purpose to drive the French from the western country The greatest Indian chief of which we have knowledge was Pontiac who engineered that remarkable movement known as Pontiac's conspiracy which Colonel James Kilbourne 33 Colonel James Kilbourne 33 aimed to break the British power Pontiac was born and lived the greater part of his ...
... County Court of Common Pleas and that said court should be held at two fixed periods in each county in every year and at the same places where the general courts of Quarter Sessions were held This law was promulgated on the 23rd of August 1788 and the first court in the Northwest territory was the Court of Common Pleas which commenced on the first Tuesday of September of the same year The ...
...formation given by the French at the post the soldiers were apprised of their intended fate and through the intervention of the same French friends the Indians were dissuaded from executing their sanguinary purpose Lieutenant Jenkins and several of his men were made prisoners by stratagem the remainder of the garrison readily surrendered On the present site of Fort Wayne Indiana was Fort Miami at the confluence of the rivers St Joseph and St ...
...formation was British Indian agent Alexander McKee who was in charge of the vital post of the Indian department at Detroit After McKee had advised Simcoe at Montreal in June the lieutenant governor quickly assumed direction of Indian affairs in Upper Canada It quickly became apparent that the British desired to play a part in any future IndianAmerican agreement In August 1792 Simcoe sent to McKee a suggestion that had originated with Hammond in ...
...formation was received from Col Lewis a distance of twenty miles in advance that there was a force of 400 Indians at the River Raisin and that Col Elliott was expected from Maiden with a detachment to attack the camp in the Rapids Colonel Lewis marched rapidly to anticipate if possible Colonel Elliott at Frenchtown The route lay over the ice of Maumee Bay and along the shore of Lake Erie When arriving The River Raisin Monuments The River ...
... Big Bottom and Its History Big Bottom and Its History 17 ADDRESS OF C L MARTZOLFF It is said that a minister's text is but a peg upon which to hang his sermon If I were a minister the peg upon which I would hang this speech would be found among the jewels of the wonderful mines of King Solomon - The Book of Proverbs Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set Man has ever been a monument builder When the Israelites fought with the hosts of Amalek when the hands of Moses were ...