... THE MEMORIAL STRUCTURE AT MARIETTA THE MEMORIAL STRUCTURE AT MARIETTA REPORT OF A COMMITTEE OF THE OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MADE APRIL 6 1888 THE erection of a monumental structure at Marietta to commemorate the important historical events that became a fulfillment of the past as well as the foundation of the future when on the 7th day of April 1788 the pioneer band settled down upon the virgin soil of the Northwest Territory has been a favorite object in the proceedings of ...
... EARLY JOURNEYS TO OHIO EARLY JOURNEYS TO OHIO BY B F PRINCE Professor in Wittenberg College The contest for the lands west of the Ohio river began centuries ago It was a goodly land in the eyes of the savages as well as those of the white man A short survey of the Indian occupation will help us to understand the fierce contest between the French and English for domination in this region There is a conflict of opinion as to conditions in that territory from about 1650 to 1740 A great war of ...
... The McGuffey Society at the Logan Elm 367 The McGuffey Society at the Logan Elm 367 accomplishments of the Americans who came here and out of a wilderness carved a commonwealth Following this came the illuminative and interesting address by former Governor James E Campbell President of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society entitled LOGAN AND THE LOGAN ELM Ladies and Gentlemen Logan whose Indian name was Tah-gah-jute was the chief of the small tribe of Indians known as the Mingos ...
... County they descended that valley to the Scioto and thence to a prairie on Kinnikinnick Creek where was the freshly deserted village of one of the tribes This was thirteen miles south of Chillicothe now Westfall Here they were met early on the twenty-fourth by a messenger from Dunmore ordering them to halt as a treaty was nearly concluded at Camp Charlotte But Lewis's army had been fired on that morning and the place was untenable for a camp ...
... County He paid or promised County was one of the four County was subsequently divided into eleven counties - Clermont Warren Butler Preble Montgomery Greene Clinton Champaign Miami Darke and Hamilton Having been a town for less than twenty years Cincinnati became incorporated as a city by an act of the General Assembly February 5 181 9 ...
... County Pennsylvania old broken in health and strength in his country's service neglected and poor where he lived and toiled as proprietor of a wayside tavern for sixteen years and until his death August 31st 1818 which was occasioned by injuries received by the accidental over-turning of a small wagon on which he was riding engaged in gathering hay and grain in the rough mountain region of his home for sale to western movers He was then ...
... establishment of a free government giving security to homes and happiness to all the people May the time soon come when rising in marble above each battlefield of Ohio these monuments shall arise to remind the generations yet to come of the heroism 148 Ohio Arch 148 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications of our pioneer fathers And why not to the great Ohio Indians We only have one such monument that to Leatherlips While the exact spots of ...
... County Ohio had been named County whose native talents and mental energy and whose ambition to excel urged him to con- Ohio's Birth Struggle Ohio's Birth Struggle 69 stant application and soon raised him to a standing among the influential leaders of his day Dr Edward Tiffin that admirable presiding officer over political bodies great in ability and in steady adherence to his convictions ...
... The Western Reserve The Western Reserve 259 THE WESTERN RESERVE H OW IT HAS PLAYED AN IMPORTANT PART IN THE HISTORY OF OHIO AND OF THE NATION BY F E HUTCHINS ESQ The Connecticut Western Reserve or as it is commonly called The Western Reserve has from the beginning played an important part not only in the affairs of the State of Ohio but also in those of the United States While there is a very good general idea of what this Reserve now is especially among its own people and those of the State ...
... County Auditor was placed County published by Werner County and State of Ohio County SECTION 1 Be it County passed February County of Tuscarawas and
... County was named--was appointed second in command and during the months of April and May was engaged in obtaining recruits but when obtained there was no money to pay them nor to provide stores for them There was great inefficiency in the quartermaster's department Tents pack saddles kettles knapsacks and cartridge boxes were all deficient both in quantity and quality The powder was poor or injurea the arms and accoutrements out of repair and ...
... County Virginia County Perry township on the Scioto General Lafayette was the favorite of our national munificence and gratitude for on March 3 1803 Congress gave him 1152 0 acres of land on December 28 18 24 it gave him 2 00 000 in money and a township of land estimated worth 115200 all of this in addition to the pay of major general which he received during his service as the friend of ...
... County published in the County The Centenary of County 4 57 war with the County was created taken County The Centenary of County 459 official business conducted in a house owned by ...
... establishments upon the Tuscarawas Moravian neither having anything to do with it directly or indirectly In this connection it is proper to note that the last census shows that there were 121324 natives of Pennsylvania 60429 natives of the two Virginias and only 25093 natives of all the New England states in Ohio at the time the census was taken The name of the witch mentioned on page 288 should be McCauley and not Dougherty According to a ...
... Rosscounty Justices of Rosscounty's citizens Rosscounty and sixty-two years ago he wrote a description of the land about Chillicothe as he saw it with Massie in 1796 His little ...
... Ross of Pennsylvania23 No action was taken on this motion A substitute motion for that of January 5 was offered the next day January 6 It proposed that a committee be appointed to inquire whether the people of the eastern division of the Territory Northwest of the river Ohio have formed a constitution and State government agreeable to the Constitution and laws of the United States and the Ordinance of Congress for the government of the ...
... establishment and for a chain of establishment of slavery there was defeated by a majority of sixteen hundred votes it was to Governor Edward Coles a son of Virginia the old friend of Jefferson and Madison that the result was largely due and when in 1 80 3 the convention of the Indiana Territory petitioned Congress for the repeal of the sixth clause of the Ordinance of 1 7 87 it was a ...
... establishment of Birchard Library At an early day after the village of Lower Sandusky was chartered it was suggested that the site of the fort should be purchased and preserved as a memorial of those who so bravely defended it and an act of the Legislature empowered the village to do so but the owner of the property being unwilling to sell it the project was for the time abandoned Among those who had been particularly desirous that the site ...
... Rosscounty These five historic Chillicothes were Shawnee villages The word Chillicothe meaning the place where the people live or a village Black Mountain is a ridge located on the farm where D E Phillips now resides It is somewhat in the shape of an inverted boat elevated from one hundred and thirty to one hundred and fifty feet above the bottom of the prairie immediately in its vicinity ...
... establishment at the mouth of the establishment within the establishment of this colony were establishment of a new colony on establishment of the federal nation that they are confirmed in these expectations by a review of the ...