... SKETCHES OF JOHN AND ANN SIMPSON DAVIS SKETCHES OF JOHN AND ANN SIMPSON DAVIS THEIR FORBEARS AND DESCENDANTS BY EVA SELLS JAEGER The History of every Family is a romance -- to those who search its pages a poem --Lamartine The history of the state of Pennsylvania from which came John and Ann Simpson Davis is unique in the manner of settlements made there as it offered an asylum for all mankind To this state came the Swedes who settled along the Delaware River the Dutch from Holland who in turn ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS FELIX RENICK PIONEER BY CHARLES SUMNER PLUMB Professor of Animal Husbandry Ohio State University The following historical contribution relates to the life of a man who became a notable figure in the pioneer days of Ohio The motive underlying the preparation of this sketch is to pay tribute to the memory of Felix Renick in recognition of the great service he rendered to the improvement of American Shorthorn cattle According to William Renick ...
... VERNON L VERNON L VOLPE Theodore Dwight Weld's Antislavery Mission in Ohio Since the pioneering work of Gilbert H Barnes and Dwight L Dumond Theodore Dwight Weld has been a favorite subject of study for historians interested in the religious roots of the antislavery movement Son of a Connecticut Congregational minister Weld was finally converted to evangelical reform in 1826 by the great New York evangelist Charles Grandison Finney whose controversial new measures provoked so much debate among ...
... 190 Ohio Arch 190 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications the beginning to within a few years it was the headquarters of that Order in America From its halls its preachers went into all parts of the country We now find our time gone and we are only getting into out subject Other events are quite as interesting and valuable but we have restricted ourselves to the very first as closely as possible and the half has not been told Some one ought to write a history of the first forty years of ...
... GOOD WILL IN FIELDS OF PEACE GOOD WILL IN FIELDS OF PEACE By Louis BLAKE DUFF We hear in these September days the clock of destiny click the clock of your destiny the clock of Canadian destiny the clock of world destiny A momentous month draws to a close In it your role and ours has been changed By one stroke there has been made a new relationship and may no evil fate ever disturb it There sprang up overnight almost a new doctrine that the defense of the North American continent is one single ...
... THE FIRST STEAMBOAT ON THE OHIO THE FIRST STEAMBOAT ON THE OHIO NELSON W EVANS How many of the intelligent reading people of the state know when the first steamboat plowed the waters of the Ohio Where was it built its dimensions and cut the name of the owner and of the boat and the particulars of its first voyage To Nicholas J Roosevelt belongs the honor of first building a steamboat and with it navigating the Ohio But before telling the story it would be well to observe the condition of ...
... 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 ...
... HISTORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD HISTORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN MECHANICSBURG BY RALPH M WATTS Champion of those who groan beneath Oppression's iron hand In view of penury hate and death I see thee fearless stand Still bearing up thy lofty brow In the steadfast strength of truth In manhood sealing well the vow And promise of thy youth Go on for thou hast chosen well On in the strength of God Long as one human heart shall swell Beneath the tyrant's rod Speak in a suffering nation's ...
... THE REPORT OF THE FORTY-EIGHTH THE REPORT OF THE FORTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY The forty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was called to order by President Arthur C Johnson Sr on April 24 1934 with sixty members present MR JO H NSON This is a business meeting of the Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society I promise not to keep you long this morning because I know ...
... THE HAYES BEQUESTS THE HAYES BEQUESTS When future generations shall make their pilgrimages to the historic scenes of Fremont Ohio they will ask What means this beautiful park with its winding roads through a forest of gigantic trees and this artistic building of stone at its northern entrance with this commodious but simple brick mansion in the background and what is this magnificent collection of building in a spacious field outside approached by well-worn roads and pathways The answer will ...
... arrayed against him politically He yearned for the good will of everybody The writer recalls a brief conversation with him on the morning of his eightieth birthday which was observed with a great manifestation of the good will of his fellowmen Knowing that he was accustomed to come to his office rather early in the morning the writer called early in order to be the first to extend personal congratulations After the exchange of greetings the ...
... Potts Summer-Autumn 2002 pp 101-120 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Visions of America 17871501788 The Ohio of Reverend Manasseh Cutler By Louis W Potts Manasseh Cutler SC 2324 Ohio Historical Society Collections During the winter of 1786 the Congregational minister at Ipswich Hamlet later Hamilton took time from tending his flock of seventy or so congregants to jot his secular musings to Jeremy Belknap a fellow ...
... array of events which seem to turn on pure chance Becker and Beard stressed present-mindedness in history and argued that history must constantly be rewritten in terms of present-day interest and values thereby provoking McIlwain to the rejoinder that we must study the past to understand it not merely to pick out from it what is for the moment usable lest through the untimely intrusion of modern ideas the lessons from history cease to be the ...
... Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 633 Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 633 us to give the names of the members of most of the households The first log cabin is nearly completed and is attracting a large number of visitors Most of the logs have been hewn for the Schoolhouse and the hand-split shingles are ready Through the personal interest of Mr C B Galbreath we have secured from Dr W N Schwarze Archivist of the Moravian Church in Bethlehem Pennsylvania over 100 pages of translation ...
... BENJAMIN F BENJAMIN F WADE AND THE ATROCITY PROPAGANDA OF THE CIVIL WAR By HARRY WILLIAMS The atrocity propaganda issued in the North during the Civil War flowered in bewildering abundance from a variety of persons and agencies Heads of governmental departments semi-official bodies editors members of Congress and private individuals devoted their efforts to the dissemination of tales of cruelties and barbarisms practiced by the Confederate Government and its soldiery1 Although these ...
... MIAMI UNIVERSITY CALVINISM AND THE ANTIMIAMI UNIVERSITY CALVINISM AND THE ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT 1 By JAMES H RODABAUGH Miami University is a daughter of the Old Northwest Its origins may be traced to the land grant made by Congress to John Cleves Symmes in 1787 According to the contract among the lands of the Symmes Purchase one township was to be reserved for an academy or college After years of controversy and litigation during which Symmes sold the reserved lands Congress in 1803 granted in ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 65 NUMBER 2 APRIL 1956 From England to Ohio 1830-1832 The Journal of Thomas K Wharton-- II Edited by JAME S H RODABAUGH This is the second and final installment of the Wharton journal the first having appeared in the January issue pages 1-27 along with a brief sketch of Wharton Wharton as a boy of sixteen sailed with his mother brothers and sisters from Hull May 3 1830 to join his father who had acquired a farm near Piqua Ohio ...
... THE SCOTCH-IRISH IN CENTRAL OHIO THE SCOTCH-IRISH IN CENTRAL OHIO by WILLIAM L FISK JR Associate Professor of History Muskingum College Historical appraisals of the contributions of various ethnic elements to the growth of American culture have seldom denied recognition to the Scotch-Irish The cutting edge of the frontier they rarely hesitated to assume the vanguard of the westward movement and made it impossible for the writer of history to ignore them deplore their unrefined individualism ...