... HARRISON'S GREAT SPEECH HARRISON'S GREAT SPEECH At the Wonderful Log Cabin Campaign Meeting at Ft Meigs in 1840 Closely intertwined with the coming dedication of the Fort Meigs monument at Perrysburg is the history of a gathering which rivaled numerically the meeting which will take place there when the monument is dedicated in September The occasion was a speech by General Harrison in 1840 then a candidate for the presidency and 40000 persons assembled to hear his address When modes of travel ...
... REPORTS REPORTS THE BURIAL PLACE OF JOHN CHAPMAN JOHNNY APPLESEED Report of the Commission Appointed by the American Pomological Society to Investigate Its Location Much has been published and more said and written regarding the life and work of John Chapman Johnny Appleseed the pioneer collector and planter of apple seeds and the distributor of seedling apple trees in western New York and Pennsylvania and throughout the Ohio Valley northern Ohio and Indiana and southwestern Michigan While a ...
... BARCLAY COPPOC BARCLAY COPPOC BY C B GALBREATH Barclay Coppoc according to the family genealogist was born in Butler Township Columbiana County Ohio January 4 1839 At the age of eleven years he went with the family to Springdale Iowa He grew up into a delicate looking slender youth but wiry venturesome and fearless as the story of his life will show Soon after the family reached Iowa a younger sister Lydia died of consumption the oldest brother Levi and another sister Maria became invalids ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Politics of Community Migration and Politics in Antebellum Ohio By Kenneth J Winkle New York Cambridge University Press 1988 xiii 239p notes tables bibliography index 3250 This interesting but ultimately unsatisfying book probes an apparent contradiction in the findings of modern political and social historians of the mid-nineteenth century Studies of electoral behavior in various constituencies in Ohio and elsewhere show an amazing stability in the proportion of ...
... A CHAPTER IN EARLY DENTAL HISTORY A CHAPTER IN EARLY DENTAL HISTORY UNVEILING OF MEMORIAL TABLET AT BAINBRIDGE OHIO On Monday afternoon November 30 1925 a tablet was unveiled in Bainbridge Ohio in memory of Doctors Chapin A Harris and James Taylor pioneer advocates of professional dentistry and founders of the first two dental schools in the United States and the world The inscription on this tablet sets forth so clearly and fully its purpose that there is little need of elaboration in this ...
... LARRY L LARRY L NELSON Cultural Mediation Cultural Exchange and the Invention of the Ohio Frontier There was little rest for Alexander McKee during the autumn of 1793 Over the course of the preceding three years a loose confederation of Native Americans from along the Maumee River Valley had looked to their British allies for assistance In their campaign to expel the United States from the Ohio Country the northwestern tribes had already frustrated two American expeditions into the region In ...
... THE TAMMANY SOCIETY IN OHIO THE TAMMANY SOCIETY IN OHIO SAMUEL W WILLIAMS ORIGIN AND HISTORY The Tammany Society was organized in the City of New York in the year 1789 and was designed to counteract the combined influence of the Federalists and the Society of Cincinnati The latter was looked upon as a species of aristocracy and hostile to democratic institutions Fears were entertained that its members might consolidate power in their own hands though they were certainly as loyal to the infant ...
... Scharlott Winter-Spring 2004 pp 4-17 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2004 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Communication Technology Transforms the Marketplace The Effect of the Telegraph Telephone and Ticker on the Cincinnati Merchants' Exchange By Bradford W Scharlott O n the night of August 20 1847 the tireless telegraph promoter Henry O'Reilly installed a Morse telegraph instrument in a small room above the meeting hall of the Cincinnati Merchants' ...
... WASHINGTON'S OHIO LANDS WASHINGTON'S OHIO LANDS BY E O RANDALL Secretary Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society On June 15 1775 the Continental Congress passed the enactment establishing the Continental army and after fixing the pay of the commander-in-chief at five hundred dollars a month proceeded by ballot to elect that officer Washington was unanimously chosen and this result was formally announced to him on the next day when the newly elected general had taken his seat Rising in ...
... SILVER MINES OF OHIO INDIANS SILVER MINES OF OHIO INDIANS PROFESSOR R S KING We occasionally have had inquiries concerning the history or myth if it was merely traditionary concerning some silver mines worked by the Indians which mines were supposed to have been located near Old Chillicothe Greene County Ohio We have never been able to secure any definite information in regard to the same until we received the following from Professor R S King now of the University of Arizona Tucson ...
... THE WRITING OF HISTORY IN OHIO 1935-1945 THE WRITING OF HISTORY IN OHIO 1935-1945 By FRANCIS P WEISENBURGER Ten years ago in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the organization of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society an endeavor was made by the present writer to summarize what had been accomplished in Ohio in the field of historical writing during that half century of the life of the Society 188519351 Now at the end of another decade it seems fitting to carry through the ...
... SHIPS IN THE WILDERNESS A NOTE ON THE INVASION OF CANADA 1813 by HOWARD S MILLER and JACK ALDEN CLARKE At the beginning of 1813 Lake Erie was dominated by a British naval force The English with their flotilla of transports came and went as they pleased supplying the troops that had occupied the whole of Michigan and now threatened Ohio It became increasingly apparent to President Madison and his closest military advisers that there was little chance of recovering Michigan and even less of ...
... BOOK REVIEWS THE WESTERN BOOK TRADE CINCINNATI AS A NINETEENTH-CENTURY PUBLISHING AND BOOK TRADE CENTER CONTAINING A DIRECTORY OF CINCINNATI PUBLISHERS BOOKSELLERS AND MEMBERS OF ALLIED TRADES 1796-1880 By Wa l ter Sutton Columbus Ohio State University Press for the Ohio Historical Society 1961 xv360p illustrations bibliography and index 800 On November 9 1793 there came from the crude hand press of William Maxwell the first issue of the Centinel of the North-Western Territory--Open to all ...
... FORT FIZZLE FORT FIZZLE Judge James Story Drake son of Colonel James L Drake on June 3 1929 wrote to his niece Mrs Luella Hughes Gillette of Indianapolis Indiana His description of the Holmes County Rebellion is in part as follows I suppose I have told you that I had a part in that War I was between eleven and twelve years old at that time We lived on our farm in Holmes County then and when the Governor sent two companies of hard-boiled soldiers to put down the Rebellion Mother got a message ...
... 396 EDWIN COPPOC EDWIN COPPOC BY C B GALBREATH Among many villages of our state that pursue the even tenor of their way so peacefully and quietly that they earn their way to honorable obscurity is Winona Columbiana County This name was chosen from Longfellow's Hiawatha for the citizens of this place find time to read enjoy what we dignify as literature and are in a very useful and unpretentious way cultured The church and the school are liberally patronized The moral standard of the ...
... David Zeisberger Centennial David Zeisberger Centennial 17 3 signified his great satisfaction and comfort when his Indian brethren who watched with the dying saint sang some of the Delaware hymns for the dying which he had rendered into their vernacular years ago And thus on the afternoon of November 17th he fell asleep amid the prayers of his brethren and the singing of his converts after the benediction had been spoken in the name of the church On the following Sunday at noon after funeral ...
... CLEMENT L CLEMENT L VALLANDIGHAM BY W H VAN FOSSAN LISBON OHIO In my library is a pencil-marked volume of the miscellaneous works of Sir Philip Sidney Knt It is not the contents of this book however that leads me to refer to it but the carefully punctuated autograph of its purchaser C L Vallandigham London Canada West April 22 1 864 Fifty years after it may be of interest to ask Who was this man his followers called the martyr in exile the man who in part at least occasioned the writing of ...
... GENERAL EDWARD S GENERAL EDWARD S GODFREY By HON CALVIN POMEROY GODFREY It sadly befalls one this week as of April fifteenth to record in fidelity the demise of a noble man Putnam County's greatest military figure another of the distinguished martial sons of Ohio--Brigadier General Edward S Godfrey USA Retired That mortal and painless end of a quite meritorious and notable career occurred at the home in Cookstown Burlington County New Jersey at seven o'clock the evening of Friday April 1 1932 ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Life Journals and Correspondence of Rev Manasseh Cutler LLD Volume I By William Parker Cutler and Julia Perkins Cutler Athens Ohio University Press 1987 xii 524p notes 4000set Volume II By William Parker Cutler and Julia Perkins Cutler Athens Ohio University Press 1987 iv 495p notes appendices index 4000set Manasseh Cutler was a community builder of the first rank during a very formative era in our nation's history To mark the Centennial of the Northwest Ordinance his ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR PRESTON B PLUMB We have just received a copy of the Life of Preston B Plumb from his son A H Plumb of Emporia Kansas This biography is written by William E Connelley the well-known historian and Secretary of the Kansas Historical Society It is an attractive volume and written in the characteristic style of Mr Connelley at its best It has the virtue of an authentic ...