... BOWMAN'S EXPEDITION AGAINST CHILLICOTHE BOWMAN'S EXPEDITION AGAINST CHILLICOTHE May-June 1779 Draper MSS Border Forays 5 D chap 27 pp 1-20 The following account of Captain Bowman's expedition against Chillicothe on the Little Miami in 1779 is from the original manuscript of the Draper collection in the archive department of the Wisconsin Historical Society Madison Wisconsin During the past summer 1910 through the courtesy of Dr Reuben Gold Thwaites Secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society ...
... 1902 was in the possession of his great-granddaughter Mrs Betty Harrison Eaton of North Bend Ohio The Judge had a nephew who bore the same name John Cleves Symmes and whose portrait in public prints has been confused 75 76 Reviews Notes and Comments 76 Reviews Notes and Comments with that of his uncle The nephew was born in New Jersey in 1780 and died in Hamilton Ohio May 28 1829 He was a soldier and served with distinction in the war of ...
... 1902 32 33 Encyclopedia Britannica 1955 sv Connecticut by James Brewster Worthington Ohio 257 Worthington Ohio 257 Beaches Griswolds and of course Kilbourns34 The Simsburybased parish of Roger Viets encompassed the entire ConnecticutMassachusetts region from which the first Worthington settlers would later come Given these facts it seems inevitable that Connecticut Episcopalians even those who joined the Church after Viets was transferred to ...
... Mills--In Memoriam Mills William C Mills William C Map and Mills William C Ohio Mills Volume 1 out of print Volume 2 300 Volume 3 400 Shetrone H C The Mound Builders Reprinted from Natural History the Journal of the American Museum of ...
... 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 ...
... THE BELMONT MEDICAL SOCIETY 1847-1860 THE BELMONT MEDICAL SOCIETY 1847-186 0 AN EARLY COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY IN OHIO By ROBERT G PATERSON PH D At the Centennial Exposition held in Philadelphia in 1876 Dr John S Billings presented a review of Medical Literature and Institutions1 for the hundred years 1776 to 1876 In the course of his review he took occasion to refer to the publications of the Belmont County Medical Society in the following language A rare medical periodical and curiosity in its ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE ORIGINAL MAN FROM OHIO Remarks recently made by the Editor of this Quarterly in introducing a gentleman on the occasion of a lecture on Ohio Archaeology before the William Morris Society of Columbus led to much comment both serious and humorous in the newspapers not only of this state but of papers in various parts of the country The Editor in his remarks was simply passing along some well ventilated possible conclusions resulting from the explorations and ...
... Mills of Columbus for distinguished professional service At the annual business meeting of the academy Howard Dittrick M D Cleveland was elected president and David A Tucker Jr M D Cincinnati was elected vice president John O Marsh curator of history of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was reelected secretary and treasurer OHIO SESQUICENTENNIAL COMMISSION Columbus Harvey S Firestone Chairman Plans are being made for a ...
... MAJOR DAVID ZIEGLER MAJOR DAVID Z I EGLER BY GEORGE A KATZENBERGER A custom has grown up of commemorating the Centennial anniversary of the birth or death of prominent men as well as of other important events and as it is a hundred years since the death of the subject of this sketch and I fail to find David Ziegler's name in any of the indices of the nineteen volumes of the publications of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society I have gathered a number of items concerning the ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 563 Reviews Notes and Comments 563 serted that it was his nephew Richard M Johnson who later became vice president of the United States It seems that no record exists emanating from Richard M Johnson in which he personally either asserts or denies the credit but there does exist a positive statement from Cave Johnson that he did not kill Tecumseh In the Draper Mss under File No 9J168 Cave Johnson makes this statement Strange as it may seem I never fired a gun at an ...
... Mills who you will recollect lately built a large Hotel We arrived there about 12 past 7 o'c ordered supper opened our champaigne and gave the fair ones a small sprinkle by way of getting up their ideas you know Then we went up into the Ball room and danced until 10 o'c went down to supper had a very fine one broke a few more of the Cham and we began to feel almity spry went into the ball room again amp played Wig Wag60 a short time and then ...
... Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 577 Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 577 end of the biennium but the improvement of the grounds has not yet been started We wish at this time to submit the following extract from the deed of conveyance to the Society from Miss Clarissa C Moor of the tract referred to above Provided always and these presents are upon this express condition that the premises hereby conveyed shall be used for a park and monument site and approaches Said grantee its successors and assigns ...
... 626 Ohio Arch 626 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications trees which are greatly in need of expert attention and care Some of these fine old trees have already died and others are dying for want of proper attention The appropriations for Fort Meigs have never been adequate to care properly for the most necessary things and it is utterly impossible to even think of taking care of trees much as we would like to do so Our appropriation for this year for all purposes at Fort Meigs is 62500 We ...
... Mills became curator of Mills became director Mills Archaeological Collection and Library presented 1929--The new south wing occupied February 3 Society became custodian of Miamisburg and Seip mounds the Dawson Library and the Comly Papers presented 1930--First volume of the Ohio Historical Collections published twenty cabins reconstructed ...
... THE FINNS IN OHIO THE FINNS IN OHIO BY EUGENE VAN CLEEF The United States has been developed by motley groups of peoples from numerous divergent lands principally from European countries Among the representatives from these foreign nations are stalwart migrants from fascinating Finland In the course of a century or more the Finns have settled largely in our northern tier of states Their numbers today including those born in this country but of foreign or mixed parentage total 320536 Slightly ...
... A QUAKER SECTION OF THE UNDERGROUND A QUAKER SECTION OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN NORTHERN OHIO BY PROFESSOR WILBUR H SIEBERT of the Ohio State University One of the main lines of the Underground Railroad which traversed Ohio from south to north began at Ripley in Brown County on the Ohio River and ran through Highland Fayette Madison Franklin Delaware Marion Morrow and Richland counties to Greenwich in Huron whence branches ran to the lake north through Erie County and northeast through ...
... REPORTS REPORTS THE BURIAL PLACE OF JOHN CHAPMAN JOHNNY APPLESEED Report of the Commission Appointed by the American Pomological Society to Investigate Its Location Much has been published and more said and written regarding the life and work of John Chapman Johnny Appleseed the pioneer collector and planter of apple seeds and the distributor of seedling apple trees in western New York and Pennsylvania and throughout the Ohio Valley northern Ohio and Indiana and southwestern Michigan While a ...
... Mills53 The Shaw family left Upper Sandusky in November but not without yet more clashes with Finley The former subagent attempted to sell wooden rails he had split but Finley maintained the rails belonged to the government Then Shaw advertised an auction of household articles he was unable to take with him to his new home in Dunlapsville Indiana he claimed that at the time of the sale Finley assembled the Indians for labor at the mill dam so ...
... 1902 Roswell Sabin Ripley born March 14 1823 in Worthington Franklin County His father Christopher descended eleven generations from Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony was born in Connecticut served in London England as a consular agent prior to the War of 1812 in which as an infantry captain he was on duty on the New York-Canadian border He came to Worthington soon after the war apparently associated with the enterprises of James ...
... ARNOLD HENRY DOHRMAN ARNOLD HENRY DOHRMAN BY A J MORRISON TOLEDO The following extracts1 will explain themselves and will serve to throw light upon the circumstances of the grant by the Old Congress to Arnold Henry Dohrman of a township in the southeastern part of Tuscarawas County 1780 I Report of Committee of Foreign Affairs June 21 1780 to whom was referred a letter of 23rd May from Mr P Henry late governor of Virginia to-wit Arnold Henry Dohrman hath expended large sums of money in ...