... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA LAND BILL ALLEN We have been asked for the facts concerning Land Bill Allen The facts are sparse and soon stated The fiction is ample and almost unprecedented The myths and popularly accepted beliefs concerning Allen's career were sufficient to place him in the distinguished category of Homer William Tell and the Man in the Iron Mask The curious individual known as Land Bill Allen was George Wheaton Allen He was born in Windham Conn May 17 1809 and died at Columbus ...
... GEOGRAPHIC INFLUENCES IN THE HISTORY OF GEOGRAPHIC INFLUENCES IN THE HISTORY OF MILAN OHIO BY CHARLES G SHATZER Professor of Geology Wittenberg College Springfield Ohio Any one who seeks to glean the facts of the local history of northwestern Ohio for the period of the '40's and '50's from conversation with the men whose experience reaches into that period will hear repeated frequently the name Milan If interest prompts the question Where and what was Milan he will be told in terms of marked ...
... THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE OHIO CANALS THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE OHIO CANALS GEORGE WHITE DIAL LOCKLAND OHIO The observant passenger on the Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton railway between Cincinnati and Troy Ohio will catch short glimpses of a broad ditch filled with sluggish water Winding its way through the beautiful Miami and Maumee valleys it follows the railroad for miles now on this side of the tracks now on that ofttimes close beside the river hidden by the foliage of the willows and the ...
... THREE ASPECTS OF THE ECONOMIC LIFE OF THREE ASPECTS OF THE ECONOMIC LIFE OF CINCINNATI FROM 1815 TO 1840 By MAURICE F NEUFELD In contemporary America when the principles of capitalism are being challenged negatively by prolonged unemployment and positively through the social-planning projects of Russia the experience of an American metropolis during the early maturity of capitalism in the United States has peculiar significance to the historian Although the life of the United States centers so ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE ADOPTION OF OHIO'S FIRST CONSTITUTION The Centennial of the adoption of the Constitution of Ohio was celebrated at Chillicothe Saturday November 29 1 902 by the unveiling of a tablet marking the site of the first state house of Ohio which is the site of the present court house The weather was very inclement snow and rain interfering with the ceremonies to the extent at least that the audience was small and the ...
... architecture of the old white frame houses with broad deep eaves green shutters and pleasant doorways in the northern part of the State like transported bits of New England the old-time substantial brick or stone houses squat and strong with broad inviting portals in the central and southern portions suggesting Pennsylvania Maryland and Virginia You hear it even in the slight New England accent found among the farmers of the Connecticut ...
... INDIAN LAND CESSIONS IN OHIO INDIAN LAND CESSIONS IN OHIO BY S S KNABENSHUE Ever since the civilized nations of the world began to occupy lands peopled by savages they have based their claims upon the right of discovery followed by occupation This principle has been judicially affirmed by the United States Supreme Court which declared that discovery gave an exclusive right to extinguish the Indian title of occupancy either by purchase or conquest and also to sovereignty Johnson and Graham's ...
... ALONG THE PATHWAY OF A GREAT STATE ALONG THE PATHWAY OF A GREAT STATE BY A D HOSTERMAN The Great State to Which I Refer Is Ohio Standing the fourth of all the American states in wealth and population and third in manufactures the contribution Ohio has made to the nation in great men great movements great progress and leadership justifies the claim that she is a great state It will be interesting briefly to touch some points along her pathway In the beginning Ohio and the entire American ...
... 206 Ohio Arch 206 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications V O L 3 But still its mission is to the regions beyond its position in the advancing columns is on the front line Its business is to find and drive the enemy leaving to the slower-moving forces the work of fortifying and garrisoning the conquered provinces Its muster roll begins with those of Caesar's household and ends not until it includes the faithful Onesimus Quenchless zeal for souls is and must forever be its characteristic a ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS LORAMIE AND PICKAWILLANY The following articles concerning the stations forts and early settlements known respectively as Pickawillany and Loramie were obtained by the Editor of the Quarterly from the Rev William Bigot now a resident of Dayton These articles contain much first-hand information relating to the location of the historic points in question The sketch of Father Bigot - pronounced Bego - is by the Editor For further discussion on ...
... NAVIGATION ON THE MUSKINGUM NAVIGATION ON THE MUSKINGUM IRVEN TRAVIS MCCONNELSVILLE Mr Irven Travis the writer of this article was born near Roxbury Windsor Township Morgan County August 17 1849 His father John Travis lived in McConnelsville where he was employed in building flat-boats in the summer and taking them to New Orleans in the winter Mr Irven Travis became a pilot on the river boats at the age of twenty serving in that capacity on the steamers Carrie Brooks Perry Smith Oella Gen H F ...
... 366 Ohio Arch 366 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications HUDSON CENTENNIAL APPENDIX DAVID HUDSON AND HEMAN OVIATT Hudson is town four Range ten and was purchased of the Connecticut Land Company by David Hudson Birdseye Norton Nathaniel Norton Stephen Baldwin Benjamin Oviatt and Theodore Parmele for fifty-two cents an acre In the original survey it was laid down as a swamp township and in order to make it equal to the average townships there was annexed to it from the equalizing townships 10000 ...
... architecture of the Connecticut architecture of the Western architecture was unusual in architecture through the century architecture almost all roofs-barns and houses alike-were constructed with about a 36 degree slope from eave to ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 67 NUMBER JULY 1958 Nine Letters of Nathaniel Dike On the Western Country 1816 - 1818 Edited by DWIGHT L SMIT H IN JUNE OF 1816 a young prospective lawyer set out from Haverhill Massachusetts to seek his fortune in the West As was not unusual then for one who traveled a long distance he wrote home letters of considerable length to describe his journey and the new land to which he came But in this instance the traveler was a ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 493 FORT LAURENS--ITS SITE AND SIEGE The relation of the Ohio country and its pre-state pioneers to the events of the American Revolution has not yet been properly portrayed Until recently leading historians have either ignored it altogether or slightingly treated it It will ere long receive due attention Roosevelt in The Winning of the West Winsor in the Westward Movement and Moore in The Northwest Under Three Flags have given it more or less consideraton During the ...
... THE PURITANIC INFLUENCE IN THE THE PURITANIC INFLUENCE IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY 1788-1803 BY WINFRED B LANGHORST After the close of the Revolutionary War the rapid movement of settlers over the Appalachian range brought the frontier to eastern Tennessee and Kentucky and to the Monongahela and the Ohio Rivers East of this ever-shifting frontier land values were rising and land speculators and emigrants were searching the West for cheap and fertile lands1 The reports of the Indian traders had ...
... 542 Ohio Arch 542 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications small colleges and that some of our best citizenship found its inspiration in these institutions All of these colleges have had men and women of more than usual rank and standing in our commonwealth and I am proud to recognize their contribution to Ohio citizenship They have not been very exclusive in this because they have always exported their best to other colleges We have present Professor Beverly W Bond Jr from the University of ...
... ECONOMIC BASIS OF OHIO POLITICS 1820-1840 ECONOMIC BASIS OF OHIO POLITICS 1820-1840 By HAROLD E DAVIS The Geographic Basis Ohio was destined by her geographic characteristics to be the scene of conflicting economic interests and hence of conflicting political interests The land has in some respects a natural unity but in many respects that unity is lacking By far the greater part of the area of the state lies in the valley of the Ohio River so that geographically economically and politically ...
... THE ANCESTRY OF THE OHIOAN THE ANCESTRY OF THE OHIOAN A M COURTENAY D D The following is a portion of an address delivered in Zanesville by Rev Courtenay who for many years has been an enthusiastic student of Ohio history upon which subject he has delivered many admirable addresses He has written frequently in prose and in verse for current reviews magazines and journals He wrote for and read at the Ohio Centennial Celebration the poem entitled The Ohio Century-EDITOR At a recent notable ...
... THE INDIAN THOROUGHFARES OF OHIO THE INDIAN THOROUGHFARES OF OHIO BY ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT History tells of two Ohios151the old and the new The old Ohio was that portion of the American Hinterland drained by the Ohio and Allegheny rivers which together formed la Belle Riviere of New France It included the territory between the Alleghenies the Mississippi and the great lakes save as we except the country of Illinois which early in history became a territory distinct by itself as the meadow ...