... 322 Ohio Arch 322 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications and the other the officers of the American fleet of Commodore Perry and the British fleet of Captain Barclay The day's outing was delightfully closed by a steam-yacht trip from Port Clinton to Put-in-Bay where a short stop was made and a glimpse taken of the proposed site of the monument to be erected in September 1912 commemorative of Perry's encounter on Lake Erie EDWARD LIVINGSTON TAYLOR An innumerable host of admiring acquaintances ...
... Benjamin F Lee had written Benjamin F Lee a recent Benjamin F Lee was made Benjamin Arnett a close friend in October 1906 was a severe blow to Scarborough especially since plans were underway for Wilberforce's golden jubilee in 1906-7 The observance nevertheless took place and during the ...
... Benjamin Harrison died of an obscure disease and his remains were laid to rest in the family burial plot at North Bend Every precaution was taken to make his grave secure--a cemented brick vault was built in the grave and after the casket was deposited and the roof of the vault completed heavy stones mixed with earth were used to fill the grave To add to the security a watchman was engaged to visit the grave hourly every night for a week On ...
... CELEBRATION OF THE SURRENDER CELEBRATION OF THE SURRENDER OF GENERAL JOHN H MORGAN AN ACCOUNT BY MORGAN'S CAPTOR MAJOR GEORGE W RUE On September 2 1 1910 there was celebrated on the Crubaugh Farm South of Lisbon Columbiana county near the historic spot where the event occurred the 47th Anniversary of the Surrender of the Confederate Raider General Morgan Concerning the celebration the East Liverpool Tribune of September 22 1 91 O made the following comment Romance and intrigue combined to make ...
... THE GERMAN PIONEERS THE GERMAN PIONEERS ADDRESS BY BERNARD PETERS OF BROOKLYN N Y LADIES AND GEN TL EMEN By the committee who have had the arrangements for these centennial exercises in charge I have been requested to speak on this occasion of the German pioneers who settled in this county during the first half of the present century The Governor of Ohio who has just introduced me as a native of this city must stand corrected in this particular I am not a native of this city nor of this State ...
... Benjamin Harrison William McKinley John Sherman Whitelaw Reid Edwin Stanton and M A Hanna Only Harper and Howells of this group achieved note clearly outside politics and war In Appletons' the leading biographies are those of Grant Hayes Garfield McKinley Harrison W T Sherman John Sherman and W S Rosecrans--a list exclusively political and military The poverty of outstanding names in more divergent fields is remarkable Aside from the ...
... OHIO'S MONUMENT TO GENERAL ANTHONY OHIO'S MONUMENT TO GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE UNVEILED September 14 1929 is a date long to be remembered in the annals of Ohio and other states represented at the dedicatory ceremonies incident to the unveiling of a monument to Major General Anthony Wayne a hero of the Revolution and the border wars with the Indians in the valleys of the Miami and Maumee Rivers The sites of his major achievements in the post-Revolutionary period of his career-the battle of Fallen ...
... 256 Ohio Arch 256 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications ADDRESS OF HON SAMUEL H DOYLE DELIVERED AT GREENVILLE OHIO AUGUST 3 1895 Ladies and Gentlemen I come to you from the adjoining State to join with you in this celebration We have a common interest in this historic event with you I will detain you but a few minutes We have been together and associated together in four of the great important events that have touched the Northwest When Wolfe met the French at Quebec this territory was ...
... LAYING CORNER STONE LAYING CORNER STONE OF THE SOCIETY'S BUILDING On the afternoon of Se p tember 12 1 912 the Trustees and officers of the Society laid the Corner Stone of the building of the Society located on the Campus of the Ohio State University The ground was first broken for the excavation on June 25th The weather on the day of the corner stone laying was ideal and a goodly audience of the friends of the Society including many professors of the University assembled to witness the ...
... PRESS NOTICES OF GOVERNOR CLINTON'S PRESS NOTICES OF GOVERNOR CLINTON'S VISIT TO OHIO COLUMBUS GAZETTE JULY 14 1825 Governor Clinton left here on Friday morning last accompanied by Governor Morrow several of the canal commissioners ex-Governor Brown and a number of our fellow citizens and arrived at Springfield in the evening He dined at Dayton on Saturday where he would remain until Monday From thence he would proceed to Cincinnati by way of Hamilton and etc where he would arrive on Tuesday ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR THE MOUND BUILDERS A chorus of cordial appreciation greets the sumptuous volume entitled The Mound Builders by Henry Clyde Shetrone Director of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Promptly on its appearance from the press the following appreciative review appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer THE MOUND BUILDERS THE MOUND BUILDERS By Henry Clyde Shetrone D Appleton amp Co New York Ohio should be proud that it is ...
... 598 Ohio Arch 598 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Zane by W O McCluskey Unveiling of Monument by Mrs Catherine Long granddaughter of Elizabeth Zane followed by addresses by Howard F Sedgwick and Major H A Dargue both of Washington D C The program concluded with the singing of America CELEBRATION AT CAMPUS MARTIUS In 1917 the General Assembly of Ohio passed an act authorizing the purchase from Miss Minerva Tupper Nye of the portion of the old Campus Martius site in Marietta on which the ...
... Benjamin Rush Roberts Benjamin Ehrmann whose Benjamin L Hill a surgeon of Benjamin Hill the 344 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 344 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY surgeon came from the eclectic school to act as a founder of the new school and to teach surgery ...
... Benjamin J Lossing's Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812 in the pages touching upon his visit at Newark Licking county Ohio in September 1860 the author Lossing says page 563 that one of the purposes of his visit was to view in the neighborhood one of the most remarkable of the tumuli or ancient mounds with which the Ohio country abounds He then says During the evening in company with his son I visited Mr David Wyrick a resident of the ...
... J J J J AMPERE'S JOURNEY THROUGH OHIO A Translation from His Promenade en Amerique by MILDRED CREW Jean-Jacques Ampere 1800-1864 was born in the village of Polimieux near Lyons in the house where his father was born and where his grandfather had lived This grandfather was a merchant and also a justice of the peace who had remained at his post during his government's attempt to suppress the Jacobins and when the city of Lyons fell to the terrorists in 1793 was thrown into prison and eventually ...
... RESEARCH IN STATE HISTORY ITS RESEARCH IN STATE HISTORY ITS PROBLEMS AND OPPORTUNITIES By DR ASA EARL MAR TIN INTRODUCTORY REMARKS The purpose of my paper is to discuss some of the problems connected with state history I assume that my audience is composed of those who have more than a passing interest in this topic and that they are primarily concerned with the questions which history teachers historical writers and the local historical societies face every day For that reason I have made no ...
... THE ANTHONY WAYNE ESSAY CONTEST THE ANTHONY WAYNE ESSAY CONTEST The Anthony Wayne Memorial Legislative Committee during the winter of 1944-45 in cooperation with the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and the Ohio State Department of Education sponsored a contest among the public parochial and private schools in Ohio on the subject of Anthony Wayne and the Indian Wars in Ohio 1790-1795 Several thousand students from all over the State entered the contest Winning essays in the ...
... 474 Ohio 474 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications would be to detract from the estimate in which the work might be held The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society cannot of course agree to sanction such vagaries Respectfully R W MCFARLAND ITINERARY OF THE SECRETARY On August 18th Secretary Randall made a trip to Chillicothe and procuring conveyance drove out some seven miles to the location of the Harness Mounds where Prof W C Mills Curator of the Society's Museum was conducting his ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS JAMES R MORRIS James R Morris was born at Rogersville Green County Pennsylvania January 10 1 820 He died at Woodsfield Ohio December 24 1899 His father Joseph Morris was elected to Congress in 1843 and re-elected two years later Joseph Morris moved with his family to Waynesburgh Pennsylvania in 1828 in the following year to Antioch Ohio and two years later to Woodsfield Ohio ...
... 404 Ohio Arch 404 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications the crowds cheered and waved their hats and handkerchiefs until the automobiles bearing the president and his party passed out of the grounds The evening of the Fourth was observed by a dazzling display of fireworks witnessed by thousands The likenesses of President Harding Eber Baker and General Pershing were reproduced in fireworks display The morning program of the Fifth of July was presided over by George B Christian Sr The first ...