... settlement of Marietta AD 1788 settlement this nation has been fertilized by brain brought from fields of toil it has never known ease When the surmounted Alleghanies flung onward from war-encircled flanks those first pioneers down into the dark and bloody ground of this Great Valley and then the now tamed prairies lifted them onward from their broad bosoms up into the canons of the Rocky ...
... THE EXECUTION OF JOHN BROWN THE EXECUTION OF JOHN BROWN BY MURAT HALSTEAD The execution of John Brown was on the second of December 1859 the scene in a field a furlong south of Charlestown seven miles from Harper's Ferry The sensation caused by the John Brown raid was something wonderful The excitement of the whole country was out of all proportion to the material incidents The shock was because the feeling of the people that the slavery question had reached an acute stage and demanded ...
... ADAM HURDUS AND THE SWEDENBORGIANS IN ADAM HURDUS AND THE SWEDENBORGIANS IN EARLY CINCINNATI By Ophia D Smith Many volumes have been written about the hardships and accomplishments of pioneer preachers in the Western Country Most of these however deal with men of orthodox faith The Swedenborgians equally self-sacrificing but unorthodox and misunderstood have received little attention because they were few in number Yet they were people of influence--they were readers and thinkers and doers In ...
... northwest territory therefore northwest territory' for the northwest territory' to northwest territory' for further action by the legislatures of said states Mr Randall stated that the resolution was adopted without opposition and the governor appointed as the commissioners for
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR OVERLAND TO CALIFORNIA LETTER FROM AN OHIO ARGONAUT We are indebted to Professor E F Warner of Bellevue long the superintendent of schools of that city and later with the State Department of Public Instruction ...
... 234 Ohio Arch 234 Ohio A rch and Hist Society Publications right we must be just as scrupulous in doing justice to the man of great wealth as in exacting justice from him Wrongdoing is confined to no class Good and evil are to be found among both rich and poor and in drawing the line among our fellows we must draw it on conduct and not on worldly possessions Woe to this country if we ever ...
... UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF DR UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF DR DANIEL DRAKE By ALICE MCGUFFEY RUGGLES In the winter of 1847-48 Dr Daniel Drake then professor at the Louisville Medical Institute dashed off late at night after strenuous days of teaching and research the Reminiscential Letters to His Children published in 1879 in the Ohio Valley Historical Series under the title Pioneer Life in Kentucky This little book is the most vivid first-hand account ...
... MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY APRIL 24 1942 The Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met at 1 00 PM Friday April 24 1942 in the Trustees' room of the Ohio State Museum President Johnson ...
... settlement Called on Mr Warriner P minister went to the bellfry of their meeting house enjoyed a most delightful view of the prairie This extensive plain covered with a rich harvest is enchanting Danl Webster in passing thro' ascended to steeple 17 Last night a long amp terrible thunder storm as much so as ever witnessed Designing to day to reach Niles Left Deac Loomis about 8 rather misty but afterward pleasant Called on Rev Mr Stanley at ...
... northwestern Ohio for the northwest The open lines of travel and the opposition of the English and the Indians caused immigration during the War of 1812 and for some years after to follow the Ohio River3 The end of the War and the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 turned the tide ...
... settlement of issues instead settlements of the state He settlement Donations have been solicited from pupils in the schools and others to erect a church and a school house on the sites of the first church and first school house in the Northwest Territory These buildings will be so far as ...
... RUSSEL BIGELOW THE PIONEER PULPIT RUSSEL BIGELOW THE PIONEER PULPIT ORATOR BY N B C LOVE D D THE CAMP MEETING The rough homespun attire of primal days He wore as he proclaimed the Words of Truth And held spellbound the aged and the youth Leading them into heaven's brilliant rays His soul on fire his words fell with power Radiant as from the mind of God Alive as if blooming on Aaron's rod And as if ordained for this special hour Bright the summer day and vast the crowd And cool the sylvan shade ...
... settlements the canals the National road Zane's trace etc and the figures of several presidential elections add much to the interest of the book OSMAN C HOOPER Ohio Indian Trails By Frank N Wilcox Published by The Gates Press Cleveland 1933 In an attractive and artistic volume of 268 pages Mr Frank N Wilcox a member of the faculty of the Cleveland School of Art has given us a book entitled ...
... SHALL THE CONSTITUTION BE PRESERVED SHALL THE CONSTITUTION BE PRESERVED1 By ROBERT D W CONNOR When a distinguished Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States not long ago mournfully lamented that the decision of the Court in the Gold Clause Case had destroyed the Constitution of the United States he merely echoed an opinion that has been expressed by dissenting jurists in every generation from the days of John Marshall to those of Charles Evans Hughes In the earlier period it was the ...
... THE MIAMI CANAL THE MIAMI CANAL BY JOHN J GEORGE JR Much of the politics and planning of the early decades of the nineteenth century centered around internal improvements a topic made possible and popular by the expansion of the West This expansion and development the tidewater political leader recognized the representative of the frontier capitalized it Fruitless appeals for aid were made to a central government whose executive laboring under strict construction denied the constitutionality ...
... settlement the surplus wealth settlement but the obnoxious settlement and uncertainty settlement and improvement of settlement of the West worked settlement of Kentucky and
... THE ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART THE ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART BY MARY MCMULLIN JONES In 1925 the Exeter Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Hampshire published a small book entitled The Order of Military Merit the Honor Badge of the Continental Army In this book is given all that is known about the oldest decoration for valor in existence except the Cross of St George of Russia This brief sketch was compiled with great difficulty as the Book of Merit provided for in General ...
... 538 Ohio Arch 538 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The Secretary Mr Galbreath closed the afternoon session with an account of the capture imprisonment and execution of Edwin Coppoc who was with John Brown at Harper's Ferry dwelling particularly on the plan of Cook and Coppoc to escape from jail at Charleston and the story of the coffin of Coppoc which is now in the museum of the ...
... settlement is situated two miles west of New Philadelphia and is now under reconstruction An engineer's survey has been made and records studied A complete restoration of the old log school house church and dwellings is planned and is already under construction A liberal appropriation from the Legislature makes this possible This work is under supervision of a local committee of able men who are qualified and anxious to push the work to ...