... INDIAN BOUNDARY LINE INDIAN BOUNDARY LINE W S HANNA MILLERSBURG The Indian Boundary Line sometimes known as the Greenville Treaty Line or Wayne's Treaty Line had its origin in the closing events of the Revolutionary War As an historical land mark it has no equal in the early history of this country Around its history cling many of the most stubborn and sanguinary conflicts and border outrages that so distinctly marked the closing of the eighteenth century On every good map of Ohio it will be ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 66 NUMBER 1 J ANUARY 1957 Faith vs Economics The Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad 1845-1883 By JOHN E PIXTON JR In the 1850's Cincinnati was Queen of the American West and eastern railroad builders pressed eagerly toward the prize of her commerce1 And even before the rails reaching westward from New York Philadelphia and Baltimore breached the Appalachian barrier Ohio promoters were building lines to connect with them By 1857 ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Auntie Kate Her Journey Through Ninety Years By Katharine Garford Thomas Columbus Ohio History Press Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1949 252p illustrations 350 Volumes of biography based upon reminiscences can be fruitful resources for the historian who is attempting to reconstruct the details of social history In this book the memories of Katharine Moody Smith who during her long lifetime from 1838 to 1932 lived reasonably close to the main current ...
... Fort St Fort St Clair 51 5 For purchase of Site of Fort St Clair Preble County Ohio for historical and forestry purposes Title to be vested in The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society for State of Ohio 10 000 Buildings 4000 Roadway 1000 Total Site of Fort St Clair 15 000 For this commendable action the good people of southeastern Ohio and tourists from other parts of the state are under lasting obligations to the General Assembly and especially to Honorable Harry D Silver State ...
... 344 Ohio Arch 344 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Of which we too may but a portion b e In that sum-total solidarity Of human beings spread across the earth In generations birth succeeding birthThe living who raise the citadels we know The dead whose bones earth bosomed long ago And this good company that meets today Proves the large truth of what I've sought to say For why should we whose daily tasks alone So press upon us that we scarcely own The present hour still take on us to gaze ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 93 Mr Williams in presenting Gov James E Campbell said Conspicuous as Mr Randall was in many different and varied activities there is one field in particular where he stood pre-eminent and that was the field of archaeology Fine as he was in literary ability he there had his rivals happy as he was as an after-dinner speaker and toastmaster others there ventured to challenge his superiority but in knowledge of the early history of Ohio and of its ...
... The Civil War had been fought out and peace had returned to the land when a group of churchmen and reformers led by the Rev Charles G Finney of Oberlin who had long served as president of Oberlin College turned to make war on secret societies and the Masonic order in particular The crusade mildly agitated a part of the country for some years but lacking as it did the frenzy hysteria and political potency of the anti-Masonic movement of the 1820's and 1830's it eventually fell of its own ...
... OHIO RAILROADS OHIO RAILROADS BY R S KAYLER STATE COMMISSIONER OF RAILROADS Ohio was among the first of the States to commence the building of railroads As early as 1832 when there were but two hundred and twenty-nine miles of railroad in operation in the United States a special charter was granted by the State of Ohio for the construction of a railroad to extend from Sandusky Huron County to Dayton Montgomery County a distance of one hundred and fifty-six miles The road was completed as far ...
... 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 ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE SETTLEMENT OF THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE SETTLEMENT OF THE WESTERN RESERVE 1796 - 1815 By HERMINA SUGAR The writer asked Can you tell me of some exceptional woman of the early time that I may mention her His eye sparkled more than usual as he replied All of them ma'am1 Introduction A true history of the Western Reserve is in a large measure the history of its women there were no famous women in its early history but it is rather the commonplace lives that were well and ...
... GEN GEN CLARK'S CAMPAIGN 1780 OFFICIAL LETTERS From the Maryland Journal Oct 17 1780 RICH MON D Virginia Oct 4 Extract of a letter from Col George Roge rs C lark to his Excellency the Governor dated Louisville August 22 1780 By every possible exertion and the aid of Col Slaughter's corps we completed the number of 1 000 with which we crossed the river at the mouth of Licking on the first day of August and began our march on the second Having a road to cut for the artillery to pass for 70 miles ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Amphibians of Ohio Part I The Frogs and Toads Order Salientia By Charles F Walker Ohio State Museum Science Bulletin Vol I No 3 Columbus Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1946 109p 100 Teachers students naturalists and herpetologists will be glad to know that this much needed paper on the frogs and toads of Ohio has at last made its appearance Although the numbers of kinds of this Order of tailless amphibians Salientia native to Ohio are very limited ...
... PRESENTATION OF McGUFFEY READERS PRESENTATION OF McGUFFEY READERS On Tuesday evening February 15 1927 a meeting of unusual interest was held in the audience room of the Museum and Library Building on the Ohio State University Campus The program announced a joint session of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and the McGuffey Society of Columbus Ohio The purpose of the meeting is indicated in the following announcement The McGuffey Society of Columbus Ohio presents to the Ohio ...
... EARLY DAYS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON EARLY DAYS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON EXCERPTS FROM THE CHRONICLES OF NAZARETH edited by GEORGE R U PPEL SM The Chronicles of Nazareth is a manuscript history of the first thirty years of the present University of Dayton It was written by Brother John A Brueck in the latter years of the nineteenth century as an informal record of the Society of Mary in America and of the school for boys begun at Dayton in 1850 The Nazareth in his title comes from the ...
... 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 ...
... GENERAL HARMAR'S EXPEDITION GENERAL HARMAR'S EXPEDITION BY BASIL MEEK FREMONT OHIO JOSIAH HARMAR was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania in 1753 and there died in 1813 He was a captain in the First Pennsylvania Regiment Continental Army Lieutenant Colonel of the same and served till the close of the Revolutionary War He was in Washington's army from 1778 to 1780 In 1783 he was made Brevet Colonel First U S Regiment In 1787 he was breveted Brigadier General by Congress and assigned to duty in ...
... 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 ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS INTRODUCTION A wide interest attaches to everything that is said or written of Abraham Lincoln Ohioans will be pleased to review the authentic historic record that links his name and fame with the Buckeye state The monograph on the following pages presents for the first time in chronological order Lincoln's contact with Ohio and the relation of our state and its prominent public men to the crisis through which our Nation passed in the Civil ...
... Lucy Lucy Webb Hayes and her Family by EMILY APT GEER The public life of Rutherford Birchard Hayes has been studied by many historians but little has been written about the friendly sparkling woman he married and their large and active family of eight children Lucy Webb Hayes's concern for people helped her develop a lively interest in politics that served her equally well as the wife of a city solicitor in Cincinnati and as mistress of the White House while her husband was President Their ...
... 632 Ohio Arch 632 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Quarterly but all numbers are promised from the printer before the close of the calendar year From this brief report it will be seen that the publications of the Society are increasing in volume and value Signed JOSE PH C GOODMAN Chairman SCHOENBRUNN Your committee has been steadily at work throughout the year in seeking to make the Schoenbrunn Memorial Park one of the outstanding historic spots of Ohio An appropriation of 7500 by the ...