... 414 Ohio Arch 414 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of their devotion It remains for us to take up the full burden of citizenship and to consecrate our lives to the task of making our country worthy of the sacrifices that have been made by those who in countless numbers have given their lives for its establishment and its preservation With a great price have our privileges of citizenship been purchased Woe ...
... THE TORY PROPRIETORS OF KENTUCKY LANDS THE TORY PROPRIETORS OF KENTUCKY LANDS BY WILBUR H SIEBERT Professor of European History Ohio State University From the days of its earliest settlement down through the American Revolution the Kentucky country was the scene of proprietary projects or hostile activities by Loyalists several of whom were first connected with Fort Pitt and afterward with the British post at Detroit It is needless to say that the hostile activities included more or less ...
... Address of Governor McKinley Address of Governor McKinley 207 ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR McKINLEY DELIVERED AT GREENVILLE OHIO AUGUST 8 1895 INTRODUCTION BY J R KNOX - The people of Ohio like to see their Governor the soldiers of the army like to see their old comrade everybody wants to see McKinley and I have the pleasure now fellow citizens of presenting to you Governor McKinley of Ohio who will now address you Mr President Ladies and Gentlemen Your president has said that the people of Ohio want ...
... WAYNE'S STRATEGIC ADVANCE FROM FORT WAYNE'S STRATEGIC ADVANCE FROM FORT GREENVILLE TO GRAND GLAIZE BY O W PRIDDY The government of the United States went into effect in 1789 and General George Washington was its first president While the new republic was busily engaged in adjusting its domestic affairs an Indian confederation was formed in the region of the Miami of the lakes Maumee River that seriously challenged the sovereign power of the national government in the Northwest Territory In a ...
... FORT McARTHUR MEMORIAL TABLET FORT McARTHUR MEMORIAL TABLET On July 4 1913 a memorial tablet erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution was unveiled with fitting and interesting ceremonies at the site of the old fort McArthur three miles southwest of Kenton on the Scioto River We publish the addresses delivered on that occasion by Prof G Frederick Wright President of The Ohio State Archaeological amp Historical Society and Mrs John T Mack of Sandusky ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT WRIGHT It is ...
... The McGuffey Society at the Logan Elm 357 The McGuffey Society at the Logan Elm 357 3 Speech of Logan reading by John R Horst of the McGuffey Society from McGuffey's Fourth Reader Edition of 1853 4 Singing of Songs from the McGuffey Readers by members of the Society 5 Short talks by residents of vicinity 6 Picnic dinner followed by toasts and responses from the McGuffey readers Mr John F Carlisle the president of the McGuffey Society in an appropriate address explained the purpose of the ...
... FORT McARTHUR FORT McARTHUR The following address delivered by the late Dr A W Munson on Memorial day of 1895 at Shingle Grove near Ft McArthur burying ground was read at a recent D A R meeting in Kenton and will be especially interesting to our readers now as this year 1912 marks the centennial of the founding of the old fort Comrades and FriendsWe have met here on this pleasant afternoon of May 30 1895 in this beautiful grove beneath these grand forest trees around these graves to do honor ...
... SOME HISTORY FROM AN UN-HISTORICAL REGION SOME HISTORY FROM AN UN-HISTORICAL REGION BY A B GILLILAND The title may sound somewhat paradoxical but there are regions which owing to their geographical location have had so very little to do with the making of history that they are spoken of as of no historical importance yet may not be devoid of historical occurrences that may be of some interest Such Van Wert County may be said to be situated in the northwest part of Ohio away from the regions ...
... THE HARMAR EXPEDITION OF 1790 THE HARMAR EXPEDITION OF 179 0 By RANDOL PH G ADAMS At the last meeting of the American Historical Association December 1939 the chief of the General Staff of the United States Army made some very critical remarks about the teaching of military history in the United States He expressed the wish that teachers would tell and that text-books would relate the uncomplimentary and unvarnished truth about the ineptitude with which the United States has conducted its wars ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 161 mouth begin to move and approaching the immobile features silent for centuries he placed his ear to the stone lips and heard a sound like a subdued murmur you're another As Artemus Ward would say of this controversy of the critics it would be funny if it were not serious The Mound Builders builded better than they knew Their works are food for thought and subjects for study Certain it is that they were a vast and enterprising and interesting race whence and ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR THE CAPTURE OF OLD VINCENNES This is the title of a timely and most interesting volume edited by Dr Milo M Quaife Managing Editor of the Mississippi Valley Historical Review It includes the original narratives of George Rogers Clark the leader of the American expedition and Sir Henry Hamilton Lieutenant Governor of Detroit The special occasion for the appearance of ...
... JOSIAH HARMAR AND HIS INDIAN EXPEDITION JOSIAH HARMAR AND HIS INDIAN EXPEDITION By HOWARD H PECKHAM When the Revolutionary War ended the new United States of America faced a problem that is acutely familiar to us today Nobody wanted to remain in the Army or Navy At the conclusion of the Revolution there were probably 20000 to 30000 men under arms The single unifying aim of the war -- independence from Great Britain - - appeared to have been won at least on the battlefield Acknowledgement of ...
... THE BATTLES OF THE MAUMEE THE BATTLES O F THE MAUMEE N B C LOVE D D MOUND BUILDERS Maumee Thou art lovely and bright As if blood had ne'er tinged thy waves And pre-historic tawny braves Had wrought no scene of hellish night Why not a golden sunset smile When thy banks are clothed in green And beauty adorns all the scene When bathed in mellow light the while Thou art gray in the early morn And restful thy summer eveA mirror which cannot deceive And has not since Time was born In ages gone thy ...
... OHIO'S HISTORY IN THE PLACE OF OUR OHIO'S HISTORY IN THE PLACE OF OUR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Abstract of an Address by HON JOHN W BRICKER Governor John W Bricker in an excellent address which unfortunately had not been reduced to a manuscript closed the program of the Convention It brought out the great historical significance of the Maumee Valley in relation to the United States He said that few events in our American history had more effect upon the country's welfare than the defense of Fort ...
... The Croghan Celebration The Croghan Celebration 75 I greet thee Thou art just in time To tell of victory most sublime Though told in unconnected rhyme Thou art welcome in Ohio But since thou canst thyself speak well Now let thy thundering voice tell What bloody carnage then befell The foes of great Ohio And then she thundered loud PROCTOR'S REPORT OF THE BATTLE OF FORT STEPHENSON The following letter recently unearthed by Col Webb C Hayes in the Canadian Archives at Ottawa is most interesting ...
... The Croghan Celebration The Croghan Celebration 35 HISTORICAL ADDRESS BY BASIL MEEK ESQ FREMONT OHIO We have met today on this ground famous in history because of the victorious defence of Fort Stephenson then standing on this spot by Major George Croghan and the band of heroes under his command ninety-three years ago--not only to commemorate that brilliant achievement but also to further consecrate and make sacred the spot by the re-interment of the remains of its gallant defender To Col Webb ...
... 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 ...
... THOMAS WILDCAT ALFORD 338 THOMAS WILDCAT ALFORD THOMAS WILDCAT ALFORD A GREAT-GRANDSON OF TECUMSEH Among the interesting persons present at the unveiling of the George Rogers Clark monument near the site of the Battle of Piqua the birthplace of Tecumseh was Thomas Wildcat Alford a lineal descendant of that great Shawnee chieftain According to the Handbook of American Indians edited by Frederick Webb Hodge and published by the Bureau of American Ethnology Big Jim who died in 1905 was the ...