... 370 Ohio Arch 370 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications MILITARY DAY The third day was Military day and no other county has better right to commemorate the memory of the soldier than Jefferson whether he be of the Revolutionary war of the Second War for Independence the Mexican war or the War Between the States Jefferson county furnished thousands of the bravest men in the Federal army during the War Between the States It is not necessary to mention their names - the mere mention of this ...
... 64 Ohio Arch 64 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications Vo L 4 BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN OHIO AND VIRGINIA INTRODUCTORY Previous to 1783 Virginia never laid any claim to the Ohio River--or in fact to any territory west of the Alleghenies because this region was originally a part of the vast district claimed by the French and known as Louisiana The Mississippi River was discovered by French missionaries and was subsequently explored to its mouth by LaSalle who according to the customs of the nations ...
... BIRTHPLACE OF JOHN BROUGH BIRTHPLACE OF JOHN BROUGH EDGAR ERVIN The following article clears up the disputed question concerning the birthplace of John Brough one of Ohio's famous war governors It also presents many interesting events in the life of the governor Mr Edgar Ervin the writer is the present member of the Ohio House of Representatives from Meigs county Mr Ervin was educated in the country schools subsequently receiving special training for public life in the Capitol School of ...
... Thirty-First Annual Meeting Thirty-First Annual Meeting 109 Mound These are to be sold at the park by the custodian at 25c cloth bound and 10c paper bound The revenue derived from this sale will be turned over to the Treasurer of the Society Mr Wood In October we had the steel observation tower at the mound repainted We also had the barn and the fences on the property whitewashed and in October under the direction of a landscape gardener and through his courtesy we planted seventy ornamental ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL AGRICULTURAL export trade Thomas Kelsey Hardluck Entrepreneur by Daniel Preston 127-141 Akers William J 28 Allen County Memorial Hall Lima Ohio 17 American Pharmaceutical Association 42-84 American Railroad Freight Car From the Wood-Car Era to the Coming of Steel The by John H White Jr rev 201-203 And Gently He Shall Lead Them Robert Parris Moses and Civil Rights in Mississippi by Eric R Burner rev 198-199 Announcement Ohio Medical University 76 ...
... 470 Ohio Arch 470 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications fortunate in view and it was through his suggestion and influence that increased provisions were made for the insane that the graded system was introduced into the penitentiary and that many other prison reforms were instituted Among the most important acts of this humanitarian statesman was the founding of the Reform School for Girls at Delaware To him more than any one man in Ohio can be credited the promotion and success of the ...
... JARED POTTER KIRTLAND M JARED POTTER KIRTLAND MD THE SAGE OF ROCKPORT NOVEMBER 10 1793--DECEMBER 18 1877 By GEORGE M CURTIS M D A portly old gentleman with a robust commanding physique was Dr Jared Potter Kirtland of the eighteen seventies So massive was his rotund frame that to the unutterable delight of wide-eyed visiting youngsters he would sit and read in those preEdisonian days with a candle propped upon his powerful chest His home at East Rockport Ohio was surrounded by exotic shrubs and ...
... THE CLEVELAND WORLD WAR MACHINE THE CLEVELAND WORLD WAR MACHINE BY ELBERT J BENTON The Great War found America without a war organization One phenomenon of the war of the United States with Germany was the response of the people in the crisis The war was interpreted as a people's war and the people made it their own It was a veritable uprising of the American people in the defense of the high moral cause which their President had marked out for them and the result was one of the most ...
... BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT by JOHN SCHLEBECKER Hiram College One of the things with which the reader of early American history is most impressed is the remarkable courage and wisdom of the American soldier The Europeans it seems just did not understand the ins and outs of forest fighting Only the American seemed to know that effective fighting on the frontier was by necessity done from behind trees History books are full of pictures of minute men shooting redcoats but they do not have ...
... ADDRESS AT MARIETTA OHIO 1858 ADDRESS AT MARIETTA OHIO 18581 BY HON THOMAS EWING EDITED BY C L MARTZOLFF ATHENS OHIO Ladies and GentlemenWe meet to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the first landing of our Pioneer Fathers on the shores of the Ohio in the North Western Territory An age-the full age allotted to men has elapsed since that hardy band of brave men and brave women fresh from the war of the Revolution a few of the boldest and most adventurous of the relics of that war through ...
... THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY IN THE THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY IN THE WORLD WAR BY PROFESSOR WILBUR H SIEBERT THE UNIVERSITY'S CONNECTION WITH THE NATIONAL DEFENSE ACT In 1920 the War Records Committee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published a large and handsomely illustrated volume of nearly 750 pages entitled Technology's War Record In March 1922 the Harvard University Press issued the second volume of Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany which covers the period ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 117 tion from his voice--he needed no pen--the subject-matter being wide and comprehensive He gave us the benefit of his thought and wit upon such topics as The Boston Tea Party Washington in the West Our First Inhabitants The Original Ohio Land Company etc etc but the crowning favor was bestowed just one year ago on Washington's birthday when his subject was Americanization at Home and Abroad We marveled as we sat enthralled by his eloquence how ...
... RUTHERFORD B RUTHERFORD B HAYES AND THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Letters contributed by CURTIS W GARRISON RAINBOW OHIO Dec 2nd 1891 GEN R B HAYES Dear General As you are one of the Trustees of the Ohio State University and as I wish to act intelligently in the coming Legislature in all matters concerning it I take the liberty of asking your counsel in the case While I have not the least doubt that the Trustees and managers of that institution have done all in their power to build it up yet they ...
... REV REV PAUL HENKEL'S JOURNAL1 HIS MISSIONARY JOURNEY TO THE STATE OF OHIO IN 1806 Translated from the German by Rev F E Cooper of Milwaukee Wis and edited by Clement L Martzolff Ohio University Athens Ohio NEW MARKET SHENANDOAH COUNTY VIRGINIA2 Monday July 7th To-day at 4 o'clock in the afternoon I started on my first journey as travelling preacher As the affairs of my household were in such shape that my wife could leave home for a time and as we had some reason to believe that her bodily ...
... THE REPORT OF THE FORTY-SIXTH ANTHE REPORT OF THE FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MORNING SESSION The annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society convened at 10 o'clock am Tuesday April 26 1932 in the auditorium of the Museum and Library building of the Society There were present Dr W O Thompson Mr O K Reams Mr Lowry Sater Miss Jeannette Shields Mrs C B Galbreath Mr J W Johnson Mr Dudley T Fisher Sr Dr Harlow Lindley ...
... 232 Ohio Arch 232 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications PRESIDENT WILLIAM McKINLEY MAIN EVENTS IN HIS LIFE William McKinley was born at Niles Trumbull County Ohio and was descended from Scotch and Irish ancestry James and William McKinley the heads of the two branches of the McKinley family in this country one in the Southern the other in the Northern States came from the north of Ireland James was the father of David McKinley the great-grandfather of the late President James McKinley settled ...
... BENJAMIN C BENJAMIN C HOWARD AND THE TOLEDO WAR SOME LETTERS OF A FEDERAL COMMISSIONER by WILLIAM D HOYT JR Associate Professor of History Loyola College Baltimore The Toledo War-a dispute between the state of Ohio and the territory of Michigan over their joint boundary-was reaching its climax and threatening to break out in active hostilities when President Andrew Jackson decided to intervene The area in question was not large a strip of land five miles wide at its western end and eight miles ...
... 312 Ohio Arch 3 12 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 FORT ANCIENT The General Assembly at the last session passed an act to purchase this remarkable earth-work on the bluffs on the left bank of the Little Miami river in Warren county By some oversight the number of acres authorized to be purchased did not include the entire fortification and there still remains a portion of the south or old fort and little of the north end unpurchased A bill was afterward introduced by Senator Jesse ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY AUGUST 1946--JULY 1947 Compiled by JAMES H RODABAUGH and S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE ALEY Howard C First Hundred Years the Centennial History of the Mahoning County Agricultural Society Youngstown Ohio the Author 1946 113p BEACH F H The First 100 Years for the Ohio Horticultural Society in Ohio Farmer CXCIX No 6 March 15 1947 22-23 BROMFIELD Louis The Farm New York Harper Brothers c1946 382p ...
... RISE OF MEDICAL COLLEGES IN THE OHIO VALLEY RISE OF MEDICAL COLLEGES IN THE OHIO VALLEY BY OTTO JUETTNER M D F R S M ENGL Author of Daniel Drake and His Followers Secretary of the Western Association for the Preservation of Medical Records Cincinnati O Read at the sixth annual meeting of the Ohio Valley Historical Society at Miami University Oxford Ohio November 6 1912 In telling the story of early medical education in the Ohio Valley or for that matter in the West the account must properly ...