... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS List of Documents Concerning the Negotiation of Ratified Indian Treaties 1801-1869 Compiled by John H Martin Special List No 6 Washington National Archives 1949 iii 175p appendix One of the most ambitious archival endeavors in progress today is being conducted by the United States through its National Archives The methods of record keeping employed are efficiently designed to make possible a maximum use by scholars and government officials To obviate the necessity of ...
... SONG WRITERS OF OHIO SONG WRITERS OF OHIO ALEXANDER COFFMAN ROSS AUTHOR OF TIPPECANOE AND TYLER TOO I am a Buckeye from the Buckeye State This was the proud declaration of the author of Tippecanoe and Tyler too as he faced a large and enthusiastic audience in New York City just before he gave to fame that political campaign song-the most effective ever sung in the history of the Republic Alexander Coffman Ross first opened his eyes to the light in Zanesville O May 31 1812 His father Elijah ...
... NOTEHISTORICAL NOTEHISTORICAL R W M'FARLAND OXFORD OHIO People familiar with the early annals of the West know something of Simon Kenton They know also of the rivalry between him and Leitchman for the hand of a young lady-that Kenton was unsuccessful in his suite-that there was a fight in consequence and that in the first encounter Kenton again lost but in the second by wrapping Leitchman's long hair about a sapling Kenton won and so severely beat his opponent that thinking him fatally injured ...
... MARIETTA CENTENNIAL NUMBER MARIETTA CENTENNIAL NUMBER OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY Vol II JUNE 1888 No 1 THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AT MARIETTA APRIL SEVENTH 1888 PRELIMINARY MOVEMENTS THE Washington County Pioneer Association as early as their annual meeting held April 7th 1881 decided to undertake a Centennial Celebration of the first organized and permanent settlement of the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio to be observed in Marietta April seventh 1888 Further attention ...
... Dedication of the Haves Memorial Dedication of the Haves Memorial 437 Bless we pray the Republic of which we are a part Be with all who are in places of leadership Guide the Nation through all dangers to a safe harbor Help us to become to all nations the truest expression of the divine program for human government We ask all in the name of Jesus Christ who has given us the ideals upon which all lasting human civilizations must stand Amen The Star Spangled Banner was then sung by the Col George ...
... Brief Biography of William Henry Holmes 517 Brief Biography of William Henry Holmes 517 of powwow as we could traded some matches for some arrows and gave them bread to eat It appears that they were really trying to find their lariats and possibly to claim them We watched them so closely that they failed to steal anything and we saw them depart at last with feelings of relief These fellows came more nearly up to my notion of what bad Indians were than any mortals I had heretofore seen We ...
... Dedication of the Hayes Memorial Dedication of the Hayes Memorial 4 39 ask each and every one of you to register here on this consecrated spot a solemn vow to preserve this nation forever and forever to the American - peaceably if we can forcibly if we must but for America America forever and forever Mr Charles R Williams of Princeton biographer of Rutherford Birchard Hayes then delivered the following address ADDRESS OF CHARLES R WILLIAMS We are met today to signalize the formal dedication of ...
... FORT HILL OHIO FORT HILL OHIO FORT HILL is situated in the southeastern corner of Highland county Ohio one and a half miles west of Pike county line and three miles north of the village of Sinking Springs The base of the hill is bounded on the north and west by the East Fork of Ohio Brush Creek Its elevation is about five hundred feet above the bed of the stream and thirteen hundred feet above the level of the sea The base of the hill rests upon one hundred and fifty feet of Niagara limestone ...
... THE OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE THE OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE In order to formally launch the new and enlarged program of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society particularly as it concerns local and county historical societies colleges and universities and juvenile interests a state-wide Conference was called for Friday February 7 to which all members of the Society and all others interested were invited Special invitations were extended to all the local historical societies in the ...
... GENERAL BENJAMIN RUSH COWEN GENERAL BENJAMIN RUSH COWEN W H MACKOY ATTORNEY-AT-LAW CINCINNATI The death of General Benjamin Rush Cowen January 29 190 8 at his home in Cincinnati removed one who during the eventful and critical period beginning with the nomination of General Fremont for the Presidency in 1856 and ending with the inauguration of President Hayes in 1877 was a prominent actor in the affairs of his party his state and the United States and whose public services entitle him to high ...
... Ohio Valley Hist Ohio Valley Hist Assn Fifth Annual Meeting 10 1 that will stop short of nothing that is humanly possible China is arousing herself to a new national life that contains possibilities of the most tremendous scope America and China are natural complements to each other The Yangtse and Mississippi Valleys have more in common than any other two equal tracts of country in the world The concluding paper of the morning was read by George Cowles Lay of New York The portion relating to ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 103 RANDALL THE MAN BY DANIEL J RYAN Emilius O Randall had the inestimable advantage of being well-born Not by inheritance of the muniments of wealth or caste or rank but through the influences of forebears whose chief purposes in life and whose aspirations and achievements were within the sphere of the intellectual and spiritual They were Americans more than a century before Bunker Hill and were among the founders of New England of whom Longfellow ...
... 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 ...
... PROCEEDINGS PROCEEDINGS OF THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE CITY OF GALLOPOLIS OHIO October 16 17 18 and 19 1890 PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS As early as April 1890 the citizens of Gallipolis through their Board of Trade took action to secure a proper celebration of the approaching centennial of the city's settlement On April 22 1890 at a meeting of the Board of Trade the following named gentlemen were elected an Executive Committee of arrangements John L Vance Chairman C Fred Henking W B Shober ...
... 580 Ohio Arch 580 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications portunity to know both sides of the story of the conquest of the Northwest Territory Clark's achievement gave the infant Republic of the United States its claim to the vast region northwest of the River Ohio and east of the Mississippi Assuredly he and his followers are entitled to the memorial that is to be erected on the site of Old Vincennes February 25 1929 commemorative of the capture of that Post February 25 1779 OFFICIAL ROSTER ...
... A CONFEDERATE PRISONER AT CAMP CHASE A CONFEDERATE PRISONER AT CAMP CHASE Letters and A Diary of Private James W Anderson by GEORGE C OSBORN Associate Professor of the Social Sciences University of Florida Since this article is drawn almost wholly from the diary and letters of Private James W Anderson perhaps a brief sketch of this Confederate soldier's early life will not be amiss James Anderson was born on a farm in McNary County Tennessee in 1835 He secured what little formal education he ...
... JOHN BROWN'S OHIO ENVIRONMENT JOHN BROWN'S OHIO ENVIRONMENT by MARY LAND Graduate Student Western Reserve University The stormy years John Brown spent in Kansas and the insurrection at Harper's Ferry have all but obscured the 38 years of his life spent in northern Ohio In 1805 when he was five years old he was brought from Connecticut to Hudson Ohio a small town near Akron He continued to live in the vicinity of Akron except for a decade in Pennsylvania two years in Springfield Massachusetts ...
... A Surgeon's Mate at Fort Defiance A Surgeon's Mate at Fort Defiance The Journal of Joseph Gardner Andrews For the Year 1795--III Edited by R I CHARD C KNOPF This is the third and last installment of the Andrews journal The ague which Andrews noted on August 21 had commenced among the soldiery of the Garrison now in September attacks in force By October 1 two-thirds of the ninety-four persons on the post including Andrews are affected with it Then it withdraws though on October 29 twenty-three ...
... THE PILLARS OF HARRISON COUNTY THE PILLARS OF HARRISON COUNTY BY JOSEPH T HARRISON There are three native pillars of stone in Harrison County Ohio which if their age is reckoned from the date when they first reared their heads above the surrounding landscape are older than Rome older than the Pyramids and older than the Sphinx itself They are located in the north central and southern parts of the county the first two on the tops of hills and the third well down from the top of the adjacent ...
... A STATION ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD A STATION ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD MRS FLORENCE BEDFORD WRIGHT OBERLIN The Anti-Slavery agitation of the nineteenth century called out the heroic qualities in many a quiet man in whom such attributes had never been suspected In no part of the country did the friends of the fugitive slave make more personal sacrifices than those residing in southwestern Ohio It was during this period that the name under-ground railroad was given to the manner by which ...