... THE CHARCOAL IRON INDUSTRY OF THE THE CHARCOAL IRON INDUSTRY OF THE HANGING ROCK IRON DISTRICT--ITS INFLUENCE ON THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE OHIO VALLEY BY WILBUR STOUT INTRODUCTION The Hanging Rock Iron District as defined by the iron masters embraced the furnaces and furnace lands and also the adjacent properties over which iron ores limestones and charcoal were gathered It included parts of Carter Boyd and Greenup Counties Kentucky and parts of Lawrence Scioto Gallia Jackson Vinton and ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Organizations ALLIANCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Alliance Dorothy R Donaldson President David Ault has been serving as vice president of the society since the death of the former vice president Walter Ellet Wilberta Johnston has been acting secretary and treasurer during the prolonged illness of Mabel Hartzell The society participated in the observance of the state sesquicentennial with a special program in September Dr B J Stanton gave a historical address ...
... EARLY OHIO CAMP MEETINGS 1801-1816 EARLY OHIO CAMP MEETINGS 1801-1816 by CHARLES A JOHNSON Instructor in American History University of Maryland On Military Leave As soon as we came upon the ground Mechanicsburg Ohio I felt that God was with the meeting Give us a chimney that we may have fire it was done God was with us and souls were converted--BISHOP FRANCIS ASBURY1 In challenging the lawlessness and immorality of the frontier the western churches forged new religious weapons Among the most ...
... NORRIS F NORRIS F SCHNEIDER The National Road Main Street of America A way to the West-where was the best route George Washington pondered that question anew in September 1784 as he sat in a land agent's cabin near present-day Morgantown West Virginia Gathered about him were settlers from that near-wilderness area on the Cheat River who had come at his request to offer their opinions on the best route for a portage between the upper waters of the Potomac and a tributary of the Ohio River Land ...
... INDEX TO MORAVIAN RECORDS INDEX TO MORAVIAN RECORDS VOL 2 A Black Art Known by Indian preachers 78 Abraham convert assists Zeisberger 36 78 43 53-55 57 59 67 71 73 74 76 78 Bonn John goes west with Zeisberger 43 53-55 57 59 67 71 73 74 76 78 79 81 98 100 102-103 8 returns 9 Achgohunt see Echgohund Bread expensive 95 Africa entered by the Moravians 3 Bread and butter served at lunch by Algiers entered by the Moravians 3 Indian 44 Allemewi Chief influenced 61 65 sends Brukker Moravian missionary ...
... BIRTHPLACE OF JOHN BROUGH BIRTHPLACE OF JOHN BROUGH The following article is reprinted with slight corrections from a Marietta paper published some years ago-E 0 R The wrecking a few years ago of the old jail just opposite the Court House at Marietta brought to mind several historic facts of no mean importance This building was a little more than fifty years old having been erected in 1848 on the site of the pioneer Court House which was the first Hall of Justice in the Northwest Territory The ...
... Francisca Bauer the Sister of the Woods Francisca Bauer the Sister of the Woods By EDMUND L BINSFELD OLD THEODORE WILLIAMS of Norwalk Ohio liked to reminisce and when the Rev Frederick Rupert pastor at St Paul's Roman Catholic parish there was preparing what he called an outline history of the Catholic churches in that area Williams told the priest about the early days Among other things Williams said that when he was a boy of eight he saw at sunset one September evening in 1828 two ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY THE OHIO VALLEY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Fifth Annual Meeting Pittsburgh Pa October 30-November 1 1911 THE NEW ORLEANS CENTENNIAL Robert Fulton who had profited by the experiments and experiences of John Fitch and James Rumsey a score or more years before made a successful trial with the steamboat Clermont on the Hudson River in 1807 The success of the Clermont on the New York river inspired her owners Fulton Livingston and Roosevelt with the ...
... 318 Ohio Arch 318 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications STANTON DAY Tuesday morning at ten o'clock the exercises of the day opened at the opera house with Capt John F Oliver master of ceremonies There was a fair audience of school children and others who had gathered to hear Dr W H Venable's address on Ohio Men and Ohio Ideas After an invocation by Rev E W Cowling rector of St Stephen's parish and lately from the mother state of Virginia the home of Jefferson Mr D W Matlack principal of ...
... THE REFORM MOVEMENT IN OHIO AT THE TURN THE REFORM MOVEMENT IN OHIO AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY By JAME S H RODABAUGH The end of the nineteenth century in a very real sense sounded the knell of the frontier or pioneer period of American development and opened the doors upon a new era in which industrialization and its concomitant social and economic reorganization and readjustments and political bewilderment were the dominant forces Frederick Jackson Turner opened his remarkably perceptive ...
... JUDGE JAMES HALL JUDGE JAMES HALL A Literary Pioneer of the Middle West DAVIS L JAMES In the preparation of this sketch acknowledgment should be made of the writer's indebtedness to the Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley by our fellow member Dr W H Venable This volume published in 1891 is of the greatest importance and value to the student of early literary history and an indispensable book of reference It is a matter for much regret that it is out of print and only to be found ...
... William D William D Gallagher Champion of Wester Literary Periodicals By JAM ES A TAGUE DURING THE 1830's a number of attempts were made in Ohio to create a successful literary journal one that would be devoted to subjects other than the predominant interests of the majority of the newspapers and magazines of the day The existing media for the most part published articles on religion politics and growth of the area and there were few local outlets for the aspiring author if he did not write on ...
... DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL TO GENERAL DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL TO GENERAL GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER On June 22 1932 in the presence of a very large representative and orderly assembly of people the statue of George Armstrong Custer was unveiled with appropriate ceremonies This celebration occurred too late to give an adequate account in the July issue of the QUARTERLY A full account will be given in the October issue The excellent program was carried out in every detail Hon Earl Lewis State Senator ...
... A Survey of Publications A Survey of Publications In Ohio History and Archaeology August 1955 -- July 1956 Compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE BOGUE Donald J Metropolitan Growth and the Conversion of Land to Agricultural Uses Oxford Ohio Miami University 1956 33p JONES Robert Leslie Ohio Agriculture in History Ohio Historical Quarterly LXV 1956 227-258 RUMMELL L L Ohio Agriculture Today Ohio Historical Quarterly LXV 1956 259-271 ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT BOASE Paul H Slavery and the Ohio ...
... RITA S RITA S SASLAW Student Societies in Nineteenth Century Ohio Misconceptions and Realities Student societies flourished in American colleges in the first half of the nineteenth century Historians of higher education have viewed this development as a student attempt to bring about substantive change in the curriculum and extracurricular life1 This idea follows logically from the fact that these societies grew in a period of numerous reform movements movements dedicated to deliberate ...
... HAL W HAL W BOCHIN Tom Corwin's Speech Against the Mexican War Courageous But Misunderstood On May 12 1846 by votes of 174 to 14 in the House and 40 to 2 in the Senate Congress granted President James K Polk's request for permission to enroll 50000 volunteers in a war begun by the act of the Republic of Mexico1 Despite the overwhelmingly favorable vote opposition to the war formed quickly especially among Whig abolitionists in New England who viewed the war as a southern plot to increase ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Territorial Papers of the United States Compiled and edited by Clarence Edwin Carter Volumes VII-VIII Indiana Territory 1800-1816 U S Dept of State Publications Nos 1383-1384 Washington D C Government Printing Office 1939 2v 784 p 496 p 200 150 The Library of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society has received volumes VII and VIII of the Territorial Papers of the United States compiled and edited by Dr Clarence Edwin Carter of the Department of State ...
... BELLAMY NATIONALISM IN OHIO 1891 TO 1896 BELLAMY NATIONALISM IN OHIO 1891 TO 1896 by WILLIAM F ZORNOW Instructor in History Case Institute of Technology One aspect of the Progressive movement which is of special interest is the growth of native radicalism as distinct from imported Marxism In this movement Edward Bellamy became one of the chief spokesmen He was a utopian socialist who believed in planning regimentation efficiency and the nationalization of all industry but he also hoped to ...
... SUNSET COX OHIO'S CHAMPION OF COMPROMISE IN SUNSET COX OHIO'S CHAMPION OF COMPROMISE IN THE SECESSION CRISIS OF 1860-1861 by DAVID LINDSEY Associate Professor of History Baldwin-Wallace College Among the political leaders of the blundering generation of 1860-61 no one deplored the tragic drift of events toward armed conflict more than Samuel Sullivan Cox of Ohio Son of a pioneer printer from New Jersey Cox had been born and reared in Zanesville and schooled at Ohio University and Brown ...
... 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 ...