... OHIO'S ONLY WITCHCRAFT CASE OHIO'S ONLY WITCHCRAFT CASE BY ALBERT DOUGLAS The following report of a quaint and amusing case tried some one hundred years ago in Gallia County was originally published in the Scioto Gazette of Chillicothe The young lawyers who opposed one another in the trial afterwards became distinguished in the legal and political annals of
... HISTORICAL SOCIETY BUILDINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY BUILDINGS COMPILED BY THE EDITOR On the following pages are presented brief statements of what Illinois Wisconsin and Minnesota all younger states than Ohio have done for their historical societies Half-tone cuts of the New Hampshire and Ohio buildings are also shown Other states and a number of cities have erected buildings not less notable ...
... settlement and Indian ravage It has been handed to us by a student who is doing research work in early Ohio history and is copied from a file now owned by the State Library of the Sentinel of the North-West Territory the first paper ever published in any of the five states comprising that area Its opening number was issued from the corner of Front and Sycamore streets Cincinnati on November 9 ...
... EARL IRVIN WEST EARL IRVIN WEST Early Cincinnati's Unprecedented Spectacle When Isaac G Burnet Cincinnati's newly elected mayor called a meeting of the city's leading citizens for Tuesday night April 7 1829 to make arrangements for a debate between Robert Owen and Alexander Campbell this can be considered an official sanction for the extraordinary event that was being planned1 Robert Owen social reformer lecturer and founder of the then defunct communitarian colony at New Harmony Indiana had ...
... settlements of lack of system settlements with injured settlements to the lowest settlements in the days of settlements that were made and it is recorded that in a few of these cases facts brought to the attention of the Industrial ...
... FRANK L FRANK L KLEMENT Ohio and the Dedication of the Soldiers' Cemetery at Gettysburg Ohioans had more than a passing interest in the dedication of the Soldiers' Cemetery at Gettysburg on November 19 1863 A decisive three-day battle fought in the surrounding countryside on July 1-3 1863 had claimed the lives of many of the state's soldiers some of whom were hurriedly buried in shallow ...
... edited by edited by ROBERT W HATTON Just a Little Bit of the Civil War As Seen by W J Smith Company M 2nd 0 V Cavalry-- Part I These are the memoirs of Private William James Smith Company M Second Ohio Volunteer Cavalry Smith the second of eight children in the family of Randall and Nancy Lyons Smith was born in a log cabin near Galion Ohio on October 25 1844 When he was two years old his ...
... GENERAL KEIFER HONORED GENERAL KEIFER HONORED BY C B GALBREATH General Joseph Warren Keifer Ohio's grand old man celebrated the ninetieth anniversary of his birth on January 31 of this year On that day he received congratulations from men eminent in many walks of life The House of Representatives at Washington paused in its deliberations in honor of his services Tributes were spoken by Representatives Charles Brand of Urbana
... northwest corner of High and Broad Streets In 1834 it was removed to its present location on East Town Street No mention of this subject is to be found in the proceedings of the medical conventions of 1827 or 1829 But official records reveal the interest of the medical profession in that several physicians served on the board of trustees of the institution Dr Lincoln Goodale Columbus 1830-1835 Dr Samuel Parsons Columbus 1830-1838 and Dr Robert ...
... northwestern Ohio He was author of a 430 Ohio Arch 430 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications work on Object Teaching many articles in papers and contributions to magazines on church and secular history On February 18 1900 he was appointed by Governor Nash on the Board of Trustees of the ...
... OHIOOHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS PREHISTORIC EARTHWORKS IN WISCONSIN A B STOUT University of Wisconsin In presenting this subject it seems best to the writer to treat somewhat in detail the various classes of earthworks and then to give a summary for the state as a whole with a brief discussion of the archaeological area to which it belongs With this plan in view the ...
...northwest from Zanesville It extends eight miles southwest by northeast and is from one-fourth of a mile to one mile wide The ridge is cut by hollows ravines and gorges Portions of the highest land are comparatively level and this plateau is underlaid by a stratum of flint rock from fifteen inches to three feet in thickness Besides this stratum are numerous flint bowlders standing up several feet above the surface of the ground On the exact ...
... 224 Ohio Arch 224 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications speaker's stand were also seated Judge M H Donahue of the Ohio Supreme court and Hon Randolph W Walton and Mrs Paul MacGahan The veil which consisted of a Bulgarian and American flag was presented to Dr Bozovosky and Paul MacGahan The detachment of O N G formed a guard of honor about ...
... settlement 101-123 passim 140-156 passim Whittredge Worthington 15 Wiebe Robert 140 Wilcox Larry D and Gerald Thompson compilers A Guide to History-Related Holdings at The University of Toledo 158 Wilkinson James 144 William Bartram's Botanical Gardens Philadelphia Pa 115 William H Harrison amp Company Cincinnati 24-25 Williams George Washington George Washington Williams A Biography by John Hope Franklin rev 177-178 William Wiswell Gallery ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY On August 19 1904 a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the conference room of the Public Library with the following members present Mr Geo F Bareis Col John W Harper Prof B F Prince Hon D J Ryan Secretary E O Randall and Mr E F Wood representing Mr S S Rickly Letters of regret on account of inability to ...
... northwestern counties demand northwestern counties Let them go Let us get clear of this disaffected population Then prosecute the improvement called for in the southwest and that portion of our state deprived of its northern allies would give up their desire for a separation To cement the union still firmer Annual Meeting Ohio Valley ...
... RELIGION AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF OHIO RELIGION AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF OHIO by BERNARD MANDEL Fenn College Cleveland Ohio Foremost in the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution was the guarantee that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibit the free exercise thereof This amendment however ...
... 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 ...
... northwestern Ohio In this the last part of Ohio to be cleared and settled the land is black and level Great drainage ditches have been constructed to remove the surplus water Here corn and sugar beets thrive But each straight ditch is an active focus of erosion and every rain carries a heavy burden of silt out into adjacent Lake Erie Here it ...
... 560 Ohio Arch 5 60 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications mysterious Mound Builder was at all events a good liver The weather proved delightful and the State officials as well as trustees pronounced themselves as highly pleased first with the fact that the State had secured the property and second that it was being so admirably protected under the custodianship of the