... OHIO IN McGUFFEY'S TIME OHIO IN McGUFFEY'S TIME By GEORGE W RIGHTMIRE Indians--Wayne's Treaty 1795 The Ohio of McGuffey's time was very new it began in 1788 at Marietta and the next year at Cincinnati but little progress was possible until Territorial issues were settled with the Indians--not only the Indians but the British who held many posts long after the Treaty of 1783 in violation thereof and exerted a strong influence over the northwest country After suffering two severe defeats from ...
... 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 ...
... NOTES ON CHOLERA IN SOUTHWESTERN OHIO NOTES ON CHOLERA IN SOUTHWESTERN OHIO By DAVID A TUCKER JR M D The first invasion of the North American continent by epidemic or Asiatic cholera occurred in 1832 The disease appears to have been carried across the Atlantic by emigrants from Ireland who landed during April and May at Gross Isle thirtytwo miles below the city of Quebec Cholera had appeared in a serious epidemic at Jessore India on the Delta of the Ganges in 1816-1817 It had spread slowly ...
... A New Letter of Hiram Powers A New Letter of Hiram Powers By THOMAS B BRUMBAUGH Make me as I am Mr Powers and be true to nature always and in everything Andrew Jackson reportedly told the sculptor Hiram Powers 1805-1873 born in Vermont trained as a young man in Watson's clock factory in Cincinnati and later employed by Dorfueille's Western Museum scarcely needed such advice for on the road to making High Art he had also been a maker of writhing wax figures controlled by automatic insides for ...
... SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY June 6 1 902 The seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the parlors of the Y M C A building Columbus Ohio at 230 P M June 6 1 90 2 The following members were present Judge J H Anderson Columbus Mr E H Archer Columbus Mr G F Bareis Canal Winchester Gen R Brinkerhoff Mansfield Mr Gerard Fowke Chillicothe Prof Frank S Fox ...
... MARY L MARY L WHITE Mary White Autobiography of an Ohio First Lady As I hurriedly dressed I could hear the commotion downstairs while outside the National Guard was forming with appropriate commands and the neighing of horses It was Inauguration Day in Columbus Ohio January 12 1931--my father would soon be Governor George White Because of the recent death of Mother I was at the age of twenty-four to be Father's official hostess and First Lady of Ohio Full of determination to take the time to ...
... THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE EARTH THE three stages of geographical knowledge are these 1 The observation of facts 2 The deduction of a theory of the earth from these facts 3 The adjustment of facts discovered later to this theory The early difficulties in the way of establishing a true theory of the earth were 1 Men's limited knowledge of the earth 2 Their lack of scientific discipline and habit 3 The misleading character of geographical appearances It ...
... DEDICATION OF MONUMENT TO GEORGE DEDICATION OF MONUMENT TO GEORGE ROGERS CLARK Enthusiastic interest was manifest at the dedication of the monument to George Rogers Clark August 8 on the site of the battle of Piqua near Springfield Ohio It was here on August 8 1780 that George Rogers Clark and his little army of Kentucky frontiersmen vanquished the Shawnee Indians and burned their village This was a punitive expedition provoked by the incursions of the Indians into the territory south of the ...
... THE DIARY OF JOHN BEATTY JANUARY-JUNE 1884 THE DIARY OF JOHN BEATTY JANUARY-JUNE 1884 Part IV edited by HARVEY S FORD Head Librarian Toledo Blade Sunday May 11 1884 Went to hear Dr Gladden this morning He preached from the text Lord I believe help thou my unbelief It was the posture of the man's mind which interested the preacher It was that of one trying to believe and anxious to have all impediments to full belief cleared away Not that of one who exclaims obstinately I do not believe ...
... AN IMPRESSION OF HARDING IN 1916 AN IMPRESSION OF HARDING IN 1916 by DOROTHY V MARTIN Curator of Manuscripts Burton Historical Collection Detroit Public Library It was as the keynoter and permanent chairman of the sixteenth Republican national convention that the name of Warren G Harding became known nationally for the first time Harry M Daugherty Harding's political manager confessed that his aim at that convention was simply to bring his protege before the delegates in such a way that they ...
... DOWN THE RHINE TO THE OHIO DOWN THE RHINE TO THE OHIO The Travel Diary of Christoph Jacob Munk April 21-August 17 1832 by AUGUST C MAHR Professor of German Ohio State University The diary published in the following pages in the original German with an English translation merits attention for two principal reasons 1 it gives a complete almost day-by-day account of its writer's emigration with his family from Germany to Ohio and 2 it covers their entire journey that is not only the ocean voyage ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 261 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 261 and our record in military production would have been far more brilliant than it was In the afternoon session held in the Auditorium of the Ohio State Museum and presided over by Stanton L Davis of the Case School of Applied Science the following papers were read by James M Miller of Waynesburg College Waynesburg Penna and by Philip D Jordan of Miami University THE SPIRITUAL FORCE IN EARLY WESTERN CULTURE By JAMES ...
... 168 Ohio Arch 168 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 THE EDUCATIONAL LESSONS OF THIS HOUR REV H A THOMPSON I appreciate the high honor done me by your Chairman in the invitation which he has extended me to speak for a few moments I must tell you in advance that I am not on the program for the day that I have no speech prepared for your listening ears I am here as a member of the Ohio Historical Society whose members are the guests of your committee I am here for the first time in ...
... LEADEN PLATE AT THE MOUTH OF THE MUSKINGUM LEADEN PLATE AT THE MOUTH OF THE MUSKINGUM In the October QUARTE RL Y were published cuts of the leaden plate prepared for deposit at the mouth of the Conewango and the one buried at the mouth of the Kanawha On the following pages are illustrations of the remnant of the plate buried at the mouth of the Muskingum and what was probably its entire text This plate was considerably multilated A portion of the lead was cut away for bullets before the ...
... PROGRAM PROGRAM INTRODUCTORY REMARKS HENRY A WILLIAMS President of the Club INVOCATION REV IRVING MAURER LEAD KINDLY LIGHT DOUBLE QUARTET Messrs Karl Hoenig John M Sheridan Ray R Smith Frank T Welling A M Calland Harold G Simpson W D McKinney and Wm A Vause RANDALL OUR PRESIDENT OSMAN C HOOPER Secretary of the Club RANDALL AND THE OHIO SUPREME COURT HON HUGH L NICHOLS Chief Justice Ohio Supreme Court RANDALL THE ARCHAEOLOGIST-HISTORIAN HON JAMES E CAMPBELL President Ohio Archaeological and ...
... 342 Ohio Arch 342 Ohio Arc h and Hist Society Publications Detroit This latter officer was cowardly in character and incompetent in fitness The scenes are transferred to the Maumee Harrison builds Fort Meigs and the two sieges follow in both of which Tecumseh and Procter are the leading commanders The siege of Fort Stephenson August 1 was the highwater mark of Tecumseh's daring and generalship No incident in American history surpasses it for thrilling action and surprising results George ...
... ORATION OF HON ORATION OF HON JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER LL D The last decades of our century bristle with centennial anniversaries the landmarks of human progress in the free institutions of a Christian civilization The Old World with its crowded populations with its social orders and castes and its despotic forms of government was stagnant and unhealthful Commerce reached forth its bold and eager arms for new fields for human enterprise and a larger and freer civilization Motives of gain mingled ...
... HOMER D HOMER D BLANCHARD Lenau's Ohio Venture It is not often that we find in America documentary source material relating to events in the lives of German men of letters In the case of the poet Nikolaus Lenau however we do have such sources because he spent some time in the United States and purchased land in Crawford County Ohio This writer has discovered new documentary evidence which dispels the old legends about Lenau's visit to America and his speculation in Ohio land The time ...
... OHIO'S BIRTH STRUGGLE OHIO'S BIRTH STRUGGLE BY WM T M'CLINTOCK CHILLICOTHE O The story of the controversy between General Arthur St Clair the Governor of the Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio and the young Jeffersonian Republicans of that Territory in 1799-1803 which resulted in the birth of a new state to the Federal Union There is no part of the history of the U S Territory northwest of the Ohio River more interesting than the story of the controversy between its ...
... LETTERS OF SENATOR H LETTERS OF SENATOR H B PAYNE OF OHIO CONTRIBUTED BY DUANE MOWRY MILWAUKEE WIS The original of the following letters are in the possession of the contributor They treat of interesting political events interesting particularly to residents of the Buckeye state and to students of the history of the Middle West They would seem to have something more than passing significance because of the prominence of the author of them and of the public men and public measures considered It ...