... THE COFFIN OF EDWIN COPPOCK THE COFFIN OF EDWIN COPPOCK BY THOMAS C MENDENHALL There has recently been added to the collection of John Brown relics in the museum of The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society another concerning which I have been requested to tell the following story On the morning of the tenth of April 1865 I left my room which was over the Farmers' National Bank on Main Street Salem Ohio intending to proceed to the High School in which I was a teacher But I did not ...
... OHIO'S HISTORY IN THE PLACE OF OUR OHIO'S HISTORY IN THE PLACE OF OUR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Abstract of an Address by HON JOHN W BRICKER Governor John W Bricker in an excellent address which unfortunately had not been reduced to a manuscript closed the program of the Convention It brought out the great historical significance of the Maumee Valley in relation to the United States He said that few events in our American history had more effect upon the country's welfare than the defense of Fort ...
... Samuel Galloway Samuel Galloway 263 SAMUEL GALLOWAY BY WASHINGTON GLADDEN DD LL D It is hardly necessary to ask where the Galloways came from Their name bewrayeth them The southwesternmost peninsula of Scotland jutting out into the Irish Channel and separated by only a few miles of water from County Antrim in Ireland was known as the Galloway district Burns's country of Ayr was just north of it Carlyle's country of Ecclefechen and Dumfries was just east of it and Wordsworth's country of ...
... The Scioto Company and its Purchase The Scioto Company and its Purchase 109 THE SCIOTO COMPANY AND ITS PURCHASE The history of the founding of Gallipolis now turning in its career into its second century is one of the most interesting and at the same time one of the saddest studies in American annals It is the story of a disappointing and impracticable scheme and were it not for the fact that the blood of its founders mingling with the American stock of their day and generation has given ...
... THREE ANTI-SLAVERY NEWSPAPERS THREE ANTI-SLAVERY NEWSPAPERS Published in Ohio Prior to 1823 BY ANNETTA C WALSH The names of three editors of newspapers published in Ohio during the first quarter of the nineteenth century are closely associated with the growth of the abolition movement in the United States The names of these editors are Charles Osborn Elisha Bates and Benjamin Lundy and to two of them at least Osborn1 and Lundy2 is attributed the honor of having been the originator of the ...
... WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER BY W H VENABLE WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER poet editor and public official was born in Philadelphia August 21 1808 His father Bernard Gallagher familiarly called Barney was an Irishman a Roman Catholic a participant in the rebelli on that in 1 80 3 cost Robert Emmett his life Barney Gallagher migrated to the United States landing at the city of brotherly love where by the aid of John Binns editor of the Shamrock he obtained work Some time afterward ...
... 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 ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS INTRODUCTION A wide interest attaches to everything that is said or written of Abraham Lincoln Ohioans will be pleased to review the authentic historic record that links his name and fame with the Buckeye state The monograph on the following pages presents for the first time in chronological order Lincoln's contact with Ohio and the relation of our state and its prominent public men to the crisis through which our Nation passed in the Civil ...
... THE LUDLOW LINE THE LUDLOW LINE R W MCFARLAND It is well known that Virginia claimed most of the territory northwest of the Ohio river by reason of the grants made by the sovereign of England to the colonists In 1784 in accordance with a formal request made by Congress in 178 0 Virginia ceded to the United States all her claims to the territory reserving only the lands between the Scioto and the little Miami rivers This tract is usually called the Virginia Military District It was reserved for ...
... VICTOR GILBREATH VICTOR GILBREATH BY C B GALBREATH The war with Mexico like all others had its sidelights its personal triumphs privations and tragedies among the men in the ranks Of course for the most part these are lost to history Occasionally however through some accidental circumstance these are lifted to the public view and endued with a degree of enduring fame not usually accorded to the central figure of the story The War of 1812 had its James Bird1 the war with Mexico had its Victor ...
... Ohio Quakers and the Mississippi Freedmen -- A Field to Labor by Thomas H Smith During the American Civil War the Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends Orthodox was one of several religious sects that found use of warfare to maintain national unity repugnant The Friends however were not callous to the many sacrifices their neighbors had made and they did not remain idle during time of national crisis Instead of responding to the nation's martial needs this small group applied its ...
... ORATION OF HON ORATION OF HON JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER LL D The last decades of our century bristle with centennial anniversaries the landmarks of human progress in the free institutions of a Christian civilization The Old World with its crowded populations with its social orders and castes and its despotic forms of government was stagnant and unhealthful Commerce reached forth its bold and eager arms for new fields for human enterprise and a larger and freer civilization Motives of gain mingled ...
... 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 ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XXX INDEX TO VOLUME XXX Abby Kelley Salem rescue of 380Anti-slavery speakers have difficulty in 387 finding rooms for meetings 375 Adams Charles testimonial of to characArago Etienne joins Victor Hugo and ter of Edwin Coppoc 402-403 associates in letter to widow of John Adams John Quincy hostility of proBrown 278 slavery men toward 198 Archaeological History of Ohio quoted Addison Judge 15 on primitive method of quarrying flint Administrative reorganization reports of 112-113 ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS THE SEPARATIST SOCIETY OF ZOAR AN EXPERIMENT IN COMMUNISM -FROM ITS COMMENCEMENT TO ITS CONCLUSION BY E O RANDALL LL M SECRETARY OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY It is somewhat singular if indeed not really significant that just at this time while the views of Edward Bellamy1 are attracting world-wide attention and receiving an enthusiastic acceptance almost startling in its extent one of the most complete and perhaps most ...
... SECONDARY EDUCATION IN OHIO PREVIOUS TO SECONDARY EDUCATION IN OHIO PREVIOUS TO THE YEAR 1840 BY W W BOYD In the report of the United States Commissioner of Education for the year 1899 Rev A D Mayo shows Ohio's peculiar position in regard to education Each of the thirteen original colonies of our country nourished its own class of people differing from each other in creeds languages manners and original national ideals Kentucky and Tennessee were reproductions of Virginia and North Carolina ...
... JOHN GRAY WASHINGTON'S LAST SOLDIER JOHN GRAY WASHINGTON'S LAST SOLDIER BORN NEAR MT VERNON VA JANUARY 6TH 1764 DIED NEAR HIRAMSBURG O MARCH 29TH 1868 BY PRIVATE DALZELL Read at the Marietta Centennial Celebration One by one the severed links have started Bonds that bound us to the sacred past One by one our patriot sires departed Time hath brought us to behold the last Last of all who won our early glory Lonely traveler of the weary way Poor unknown unnamed in song or story In his western ...
... TRAVEL NOTES OF A MID-NINETEENTH TRAVEL NOTES OF A MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY FRENCHMAN By BERTHA RUTH LEAMAN Extended travel and a great variety of experience had left the curiosity of Jean Jacques Ampere a learned Frenchman of the mid-nineteenth century unsatisfied consequently in search of new information he came to America1 Landing in New York the French visitor traveled through the New England States went to Montreal and Quebec journeyed to Niagara Buffalo and Detroit and then proceeded to ...
... WILLIAM CORTENUS SCHENCK PIONEER AND WILLIAM CORTENUS SCHENCK PIONEER AND STATESMAN OF OHIO By FRED B JOYNER It is the purpose of this sketch to resurrect from oblivion a pioneer and statesman of early Ohio William Cortenus Schenck For some time I have been studying the life of Robert Cumming Schenck the illustrious son of this early pioneer Through a study of the Schenck papers now in my possession through the courtesy of Mrs J Sprigg McMahon of New York City I have become convinced that the ...
... THE OLD NATIONAL ROAD-THE HISTORIC THE OLD NATIONAL ROAD-THE HISTORIC HIGHWAY OF AMERICA BY ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT I THE MIDDLE AGE The middle ages had their wars and agonies but also their intense delights Their gold was dashed with blood but ours is sprinkled with dust Their life was intermingled with white and purple ours is one seamless stuff of brown - RUSKIN A person can not live in the American central west and be acquaintance with the generation which greets the new century with feeble ...