... THE JOURNAL OF A VERMONT MAN IN OHIO 1836-18421 THE JOURNAL OF A VERMONT MAN IN OHIO 1836-18421 edited by LEROY P G RA F Professor of History University of Tennessee In 1836 when he was thirty-one Oren Wiley left his family and friends in Saxtons River Vermont to accept employment in a tin shop in Ohio City Ohio a new settlement located along Lake Erie on the west side of the Cuyahoga River opposite Cleveland Three years later he moved to Dayton Ohio where he lived until his return to New ...
... THE STRUGGLE FOR STATEHOOD IN OHIO THE STRUGGLE FOR STATEHOOD IN OHIO BY RUHL JACOB BARTLETT M A The admission of Ohio as a state into the Union marked the end of a long and bitter political contest both within and without the Northwest Territory It was that age old conflict between the forces that are progressive and those that are conservative for it must be remembered that the closing years of the 19th century marked a period of rapid political transition in American history The colonists ...
... Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association 415 may be mentioned Hugh Henry Brackenridge the author of a satirical romance entitled Modern Chivalry in which he sarcastically depicts the political conditions of his time The Pittsburgh Gazette the first newspaper printed west of the Alleghany mountains contains in its early columns a number of contributions from the pen of this versatile son of Princeton who had been a classmate of James ...
... LEE AND MARGARET SOLTOW LEE AND MARGARET SOLTOW A Settlement That Failed The French in Early Gallipolis an Enlightening Letter and an Explanation Settlement by the French in Gallipolis Ohio began in 1790 with great hope and optimism but ended in relative failure not more than a decade later By 1792 the 400 to 500 settlers had experienced disease famine harsh weather and assaults by Indians a more particular problem for them was their inability to obtain titles to the land on which they had ...
... COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS the RUFUS PUTNAM HOUSE at the Campus Martius Museum by DANIEL R PORTER THE RUFUS PUTNAM house at the Campus Martius Museum State Memorial is the most outstanding architectural combination of New England tradition and frontier necessity preserved in Ohio today The house exemplifies as well the military and domestic challenges which faced the pioneers who established Marietta the first authorized United States settlement in the Old Northwest It was natural that New ...
... ADDRESSES BEFORE THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEADDRESSES BEFORE THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY AT MARIETTA APRIL 5 AND 6 IN CONNECTION WITH THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION ANNUAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT F C SESSIONS THE invitation to hold the third annual meeting of this Society in Marietta came with singular appropriateness It is certainly gratifying to those of us who have seen the movement to celebrate this occasion properly to be permitted to participate in these exercises The few ...
... COMMENCEMENT ON THE OHIO CANAL COMMENCEMENT ON THE OHIO CANAL AT THE LICKING SUMMIT This great work was commenced on Monday the 4th inst under circumstances the most favorable and auspicious On the day previous all the roads leading to the point selected for the celebration were crowded with people on foot on horseback and in every description of vehicle hastening to witness the scene Almost every house within a distance of five miles was occupied but on the evening of that day by far the ...
... 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 ...
... 76 Ohio Arch 76 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications on the west much pleased with the town of cincinnati think it is the greatest place for business I ever saw verry far surpasses Baltimore in my opinion for all kinds of business We visited the market house in the morning and where verry much surprised at seaing 500 waggons their loaded with all kinds of marketing but were told that it was not an uncomon thing to sea 700 waggons there of a morning The population of Cincinnati is said to be ...
... EDUCATION IN TERRITORIAL OHIO EDUCATION IN TERRITORIAL OHIO BY W ROSS DUNN In tracing the beginnings of education in that part of the old Northwest that later became Ohio the historian naturally turns to that much noted work of the decadent Congress of the Articles of Confederation the Northwest Ordinance or the Ordinance of 1787 His efforts are not unrewarded for Article Three contains the oft quoted declaration that schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged However this ...
... EUROPEAN INFLUENCE ON EARLY WESTERN EUROPEAN INFLUENCE ON EARLY WESTERN EDUCATION BY WILLIS L GARD To-day we look upon education as a process by means of which the individual acquires experiences that tend to modify conduct and that aid in meeting new situations in life These experiences are acquired through tradition and the school Often the most effective part of an individual's education comes as the result or incidental experiences in an effort to subjugate his environment These ...
... INDEX TO MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH INDEX TO MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY Baker C B 620 Society 595-596 recommends purBaker R C 593 chase of photostat equipment 598Bareis George F 593 620 report as 599 620 621 motion by 627 629 chairman of museum committee 627offers resolution to amend constitu628 634 elected first vice-president tion 630-632 634 elected secretary of Society 634 motion by 634 librarian and editor of Society 634 Battelle Gordon 620 Gard D H 593 ...
... RECENT ADDRESSES OF RECENT ADDRESSES OF JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL HOW AND WHEN OHIO BECAME A STATE On the third day of September 1783 a treaty of peace was concluded at Paris between Great Britain and the United States of America The commissioners on behalf of the United States were Benjamin Franklin John Jay and John Adams who had negotiated it and Henry Laurens who arrived from captivity in the Tower of London just in time to sign it There had been nearly two years of vexatious wrangling over the ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Anthony Wayne Trouble Shooter of the American Revolution By Harry Emerson Wildes New York Harcourt Brace and Co 1941 514 p Illus and maps 375 This volume is a biography written by one who knows intimately the Pennsylvania background of the famous Revolutionary hero The author was born in the neighboring state of Delaware holds a degree from the University of Pennsylvania and has served as literary editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger He moreover has lived for many ...
... RELIGION AND THE WESTWARD MARCH RELIGION AND THE WESTWARD MARCH By WILLIAM W SWEET When the Treaty of Peace was signed with Great Britain in the year 1783 which gave independence to the United States of America the Congregational Church was the largest and most influential religious body in the land Though confined almost exclusively to New England the Congregationalists were at the same time nationally important because of their cultural and educational leadership They had come through the ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Preliminary Inventory Record Group 10 Indian Affairs Compiled by Manuscript Division Public Archives of Canada Ottawa King's Printer and Controller of Stationery 1951 14xiiip appendices and index The manuscript division of the Public Archives of Canada has launched a series of inventories to describe in some detail all its collections Each of the publications will be concerned with a particular section of the manuscripts in the public archives Record Groups are ...
... JOHN BROWN JOHN BROWN RY C B GALBREATH INTRODUCTION John Brown's body lies moldering in the grave But his soul goes marching on So sang the Twelfth Massachusetts Regiment as it marched south to put down the rebellion and so have sung other regiments and men who never belonged to any military organization in almost every part of the North and West since the outbreak of the Civil War It is remarkable how old John Brown holds his place in the history and literature of his country His name and ...
... Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association 16 1 commemorated in our own beautiful memorial building holding his library and numerous family relics while his remains with those of his wife lie beneath the family monument on the beautiful knoll in Spiegel Grove which is approached only by traversing the original Harrison trail of the war of 1812 As coworkers in this field of historic investigation we welcome you to our capital and lay open ...
... THE DAIRY INDUSTRY IN OHIO PRIOR TO THE THE DAIRY INDUSTRY IN OHIO PRIOR TO THE CIVIL WAR by ROBERT LESLIE JONES Professor of History Marietta College The beginnings of the dairy industry in what is now Ohio date from the third quarter of the eighteenth century By the period of the French and Indian War Indians like the Shawnee the Wyandots and the Mingoes had cattle which they came into possession of in some cases perhaps by purchase or gift in the Detroit settlement but which they ordinarily ...
... BOOK REVIEWS SCHLIEMANN IN INDIANAPOLIS Edited by Eli Lilly Indianapolis Indiana Historical Society 1961 ix95p illustrations appendix and index 500 Heinrich Schliemann is known to all lovers of ancient Greece for his excavations of the site of ancient Troy and for other diggings which established his reputation as the first modern archaeologist Relatively few however know of his visits to the United States and his sojourn in Indianapolis The latter is the main theme of the diary and letters ...