... Editorialana Editorialana 419 his trustees that he would not serve unless they would pledge themselves to raise an endowment fund They decided to start at once The financial committee which will have charge of raising the fund consists of L P Baldwin D Z Norton and W S Hayden Its power to name other members is unlimited Until the endowment fund is raised the museum will be supported as for the past two years in part on its guarantee fund and in part from the proceeds of a lecture course The ...
... HERE IS LA FAYETTE HERE IS LA FAYETTE BY JOHN ME RRILL WEED La Fayette we are here said General Pershing as he stood beside the tomb in Picpus Cemetery one historic day in 1917 It was a dramatic incident It shows that Pershing had a quality that would scarcely have been suspected in a doughty warrior a flair for capturing the popular imagination of two nations It is not a legend it is too recent for that Moreover we have a statement from the General's headquarters staff attesting the words ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 637 Forty-First Annual Meeting 637 have brought more than one hundred persons to the park on a single day Three thousand three hundred and thirty-six names have been secured on a register which has been offered to the public at such times as the custodians could carry it to them When the shelter house is completed the register will be available permanently Our custodians report no complaints or criticisms that the public is delighted and practically every reunion ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS BUCYRUS CENTENNIAL The centennial of the city of Bucyrus Ohio was most appropriately celebrated in a program of exercises extending from October 2 to 5 1921 There were addresses by Honorable Harry L Davis Governor of Ohio Honorable Hugh L Nichols former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio Honorable Benson W Hough Judge of the Supreme Court Mrs Frank H Alfred great-granddaughter of Samuel Norton one of the founders of Bucyrus Nevin O ...
... Benjamin Franklin He was a Benjamin Russell Hanby who penned the pathetic lines descriptive of the tragedy of slavery beginning with My Darling Nellie Gray and another Ohioan Daniel Decatur Emmett was author of more than a hundred rhymes mostly in the dialect of the colored race including Old Dan Tucker Jordan is a Hard Road to Travel and the now national Dixie it was inevitable that aside ...
... Benjamin to Boyd Joseph B St Benjamin to Shriver James Benjamin to Paulding T K Sec Benjamin vs Campbell Robt Benjamin Administrator for Benjamin autograph 2
... Benjamin Wade elected to Benjamin Wade Whig and later Republican Senator from Ohio 1851-69 had been elected Senator by a Free Soil-Whig coalition Giddings wrote he had no distrust of his present feelings Wade was strongly opposed to the Fugitive Slave Law but he did question Wade's determination of purpose 7608 PCS 64 Part of the Compromise of 1850 this law which Sumner refused to categorize ...
... Benjamin and Mansfield E D Benjamin History of the Benjamin History of Wayne county Ohio Indianapolis Ind R Douglass 1878 See also Western Reserve WESTERN OHIO See Maumee Valley and Miami Valley WESTERN RESERVE Carpenter Helen M The origin and location of the Firelands of the Western Reserve In Ohio state archaeological and historical ...
... Edited by Edited by DARYL E JONES JAMES H PICKERING A Young Woman in the Midwest The Journal of Mary Sears 1859-1860 Born in Greenwich Massachusetts on March 31 1838 and trained as a music teacher Mary E Sears was twenty years old in the winter of 1859 when she began keeping a journal of her daily thoughts and activities while emigrating West to join family members in Ohio and Illinois During the following two years she recorded a multitude of experiences which span both distance and social ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR HISTORICAL COMMISSION OF OHIO The following communication from Professor Carl Wittke Secretary of the Historical Commission of Ohio to members of the Historical Guild and others interested is self explanatory THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY April 12 1923 DEAR SIR-- In response to the call to the Historical Guild of the state for a conference in Columbus to discuss plans ...
... THE PLACE OF THE OHIO VALLEY THE PLACE OF THE OHIO VALLEY IN AMERICAN HISTORY FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER Professor of History University of Wisconsin Mr Turner until the fall of 1910 was professor of American History in the University of Wisconsin He is now professor of Western American History at Harvard University and the past year 1910 was president of the American Historical Association He delivered the address herewith published at the meeting of the Ohio Valley Historical Association held ...
... Benjamin Franklin the Benjamin Franklin in 1731 and interesting not only because of its vast size and great age but for the fact that it was the first circulating library in the United States The Company is a private stock corporation having two commodious buildings in different parts of the city in which to the members and subscribers several hundred thousand books are accessible We were ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail By Ezra Meeker in collaboration with Howard R Driggs Professor of Education in English University of Utah Yonkers-on-Hudson New York World Book Co 1925 Pp X 225 This is one of the books of the Pioneer Life Series published by the World Book Company Yonkers-onHudson New York It is extensively and appropriately illustrated by ...
... 614 Ohio Arch 614 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications STATE PARKS As Chairman of the Committee on Parks I have the following report to submit Acting under the instruction of our President Mr Arthur C Johnson I visited the following properties during the year Logan Elm Park Mound City Park Fort Laurens Park Schoenbrunn Park Seip Mound Park Serpent Mound Park Fort Ancient Park Campus Martius Observing the magnitude of the task assigned to me in trying to visit and direct improvements in all ...
... MILL CREEK PARK MILL CREEK PARK AND THE SOURCE OF MILL CREEK BY CHARLES BURLEIGH GALBREATH When the earth took spherical and solid form it presented in the earliest ages whose records have been deciphered on the rocks a surface of land and water The continental areas were then limited and low Much of what now constitutes the dry land was under water In North America the land portions were chiefly north of the Great Lakes What is now the Mississippi valley was then covered by a great inland sea ...
... DELAWARE IN THE DAYS OF 1812 DELAWARE IN THE DAYS OF 1812 ALICE HILLS Miss Hills is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution Delaware Ohio Chapter for which she prepared the following bit of local history In the war of 1812 Ohio or a part of it was the scene of much military action in which our own country and town played no small part Delaware situated so nearly in the centre of the state about half way between Chillicothe the capital and the scene of operations around Sandusky ...
... Benjamin P Forbes President Benjamin H Pershing Benjamin Hanby in Westerville The Westerville Historical Society was host to the Franklin County group while in Westerville The program included a talk on Hanby by Mrs Dacia Shoemaker and a concert of Hanby songs on the carillon of the First Evangelical Church in Westerville The society's ...
... THE WEST IN AMERICAN HISTORY THE WEST IN AMERICAN HISTORY JOHN LEE WEBSTER President Nebraska Historical Society History is to a nation what the faculty of memory is to individuals the basis of all our experience and by means of experience the source of all improvement History knows all things contains all things teaches all things not in winged words which strike the ear without impressing the mind but in great and striking actions The spirit of the world itself is but a great and unending ...
... Benjamin Huffs wife calld to Benjamin Hopkins70 amp wife Benjamin Hopkins was a member of Waynesville Meeting He and his family were certified to Miami Monthly Meeting from Haddonfield New Jersey Monthly Meeting in 1805 Hinshaw V 76 History of Warren County Ohio 568 Touring Ohio in 1811 153 Touring Ohio in 1811 153 acct of its being ...
... Benjamin Van Cleve Quarterly Publication of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio 17 January-June 1922 3-71 quotation at 70 These recollections about events in 1802 were composed in 1820 from contemporary journal entries See also Cutler Life of Cutler 67 See also Richard 20 OHIO HISTORY 20 OHIO HISTORY ment a Hamilton Farmer predicted that if the Virginians succeeded in rushing Ohio toward statehood we should have gentlemen enough ...