... edited and translated by edited and translated by PHILLIP J WOLFE and WARREN J WOLFE Prospects for the Gallipolis Settlement French Diplomatic Dispatches More than two centuries have passed since Gallipolis Ohio City of the Gauls was founded by French settlers It was on October 17 1790 that a group of French immigrants first set foot on the banks of the Ohio and found some eighty log huts ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTOROHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ANNUAL MEETING HELD AT MARIETTA APRIL 5TH AND 6TH 1888 IN CONNECTION WITH THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE SETTLEMENT OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY THURSDAY April 5 1888 The Society was called to order in public session in the City Hall of Marietta at 730 p m by F C SESSIONS President ...
... OHIO UNIVERSITY-THE HISTORIC COLLEGE OHIO UNIVERSITY-THE HISTORIC COLLEGE OF THE OLD NORTHWEST CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF Situated on the winding Hock-Hocking amid the picturesque hills of Southern Ohio is the little city which according to Theodore Roosevelt with queer poverty of imagination and fatuous absence of humor has been given the name of ...
... MEMOIR OF ANTOINE LAFORGE MEMOIR OF ANTOINE LAFORGE A Gallipolis Manuscript 1790 Translated from the original French by Laurence J Kenny S J St Louis University The accompanying document is a copy of a manuscript heirloom that has been cherished for more than a century among the descendents of Pierre Antoine Laforge one of the early French settlers of Gallipolis It brought them into possession of the modest inheritance referred to at its close and it has given substance and vraisemblance to ...
... 486 Ohio Arch 486 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications NOTES - GEOGRAPHICAL BY R W MCFARLAND LL D These notes are intended to draw attention to errors or slips which manage sometimes to get into print and which may mislead the unwary Attention is called to four such points FIRST It has been stated in the OHIO STATE AR CH A E OLOGICAL AND ...
... ANCIENT CORRESPONDENCE ANCIENT CORRESPONDENCE FROM SAMUEL LINTON WAYNESVILLE O TO ABEL SATERTHWAITE PHILADELPHIA Samuel Linton was the fifth child of Benjamin and Jane Cowgal Linton and was born in Bucks county Pa December 17th 1741 He was reared a farmer yet learned the trade of a weaver He married May 10 1775 Elizabeth Harvey who was born March 8th 1748 They had six children Samuel Nathan David Jane Elizabeth and James who in turn with the exception of James raised large families During the ...
... 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 ...
... THE TORY PROPRIETORS OF KENTUCKY LANDS THE TORY PROPRIETORS OF KENTUCKY LANDS BY WILBUR H SIEBERT Professor of European History Ohio State University From the days of its earliest settlement down through the American Revolution the Kentucky country was the scene of proprietary projects or hostile activities by Loyalists several of whom were first connected with Fort Pitt and afterward with the British post at Detroit It is needless to say ...
... THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE REMOVAL OF THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE REMOVAL OF GOVERNOR ST CLAIR IN 1802 BY RANDOLPH CHANDLER DOWNES M A Instructor in History and Economics Marietta College While going through the papers of Thomas Jefferson at the Library of Congress and the Territorial Papers in the State Department last summer seeking to determine the relationship of Jefferson to the political situation in the Northwest Territory from 1800-1802 I obtained among other things copies of several ...
... GENERAL SIMON KENTON GENERAL SIMON KENTON By ALBERT L SLAGER Introduction By ORTON G RUST There are Homeric men in every age men filled with the spring of life superabundant a perpetually flowing fountain of youth men whose every action attracts the attention of their fellow men and whose lives count for human progress Simon Kenton was such a man Tradition as well as history has placed him among the strong the swift the brave an explorer of hitherto unexplored regions and a pathfinder for the ...
... CATHERINE GOUGAR CATHERINE GOUGAR Probably the Earliest Pioneer Resident of Ohio Who Has Descendants Living Upon the Original Place of Settlement BY FRANK WARNER M D D SC COLUMBUS OHIO On the farm of Alfred Immell situated on the pike from Columbus to Chillicothe some ten miles north of the latter city lies buried Catherine Gougar Her remains have lain here since 1801 when she died at the ...
... THE CENTENARY OF SANDUSKY COUNTY THE CENTENARY O F SANDUSKY COUNTY BY BASIL MEEK Read at the centennial celebration of Sandusky county August 2 1920 Sandusky county has a wonderfully interesting history but only a few of the more important facts will be attempted to be given by me on this occasion of its centenary of years The time allotted will necessarily preclude the mention of many of the romantic incidents in its aboriginal and early civil and military history Reference to these is hereby ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XIX INDEX TO VOLUME XIX The index given below applies only to the last half of Volume 19 beginning on page 190 The contents of this volume previous to the above embracing the translation of the Zeisberger Indian History has a separate index beginning on page 174--EDITOR A B Abolition 267 State Convention of 267 Baber Richard Plantagenet Llewellyn i bAllegwi 331 Letter of to Senator Doolittle 375 Ames Bishop E R 429 Sketch of 370 -1 0 Anti-Slavery 266 Reconstruction on 376 ...
... OHIOOHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS BIG BOTTOM AND IT S HISTORY CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF The history of Big Bottom has no claim on being unique unless the recent action of Mr Obadiah Brokaw in erecting a monument at his own expense to mark the site of the blockhouse can demand such distinction The events connected with this historic ground are decidedly type studies Its early ...
... OHIOOHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS SIMON KENTON PROF R W M'FARLAND SECTION I PRELIMINARY NOTE It may seem to many people that enough has already been written both of Boone and Kenton the first having been the most prominent early settler of Kentucky the second having been the scout who did probably more than any one else not excepting Boone himself to save the settlers from ...
... MONUMENT AT FORT JEFFERSON MONUMENT AT FORT JEFFERSON On Thursday October 24 1907 through the efforts and under the auspices of the Greenville Historical Society a monument was erected to mark the site of Fort Jefferson and to commemorate the historic events connected with that military post The monument unique in form and material is twenty feet in height seven feet broad at the base with a shoulder about two feet from the ground and a gracefully tapering shaft as shown in the accompanying ...
... RIVALRY BETWEEN EARLY OHIO AND KENTUCKY RIVALRY BETWEEN EARLY OHIO AND KENTUCKY SETTLERS The following article by a well-known historical writer recently appeared in one of the daily prints It throws an interesting side-light upon the early settlements on the Ohio-EDITOR The very first road that was laid out by engineers to lead to ...
... agriculture had systematic religious rites and were not ignorant of art Here we find numerous evidences of prehistoric cities cemeteries and stone implements and utensils of various sorts fashioned with no little skill From these countless monuments and memorials of vanished races it has been found possible to construct a record of prehistoric man his manner of life his mode of burial his religious ideas-almost all of importance concerning him ...
... Address of Governor McKinley Address of Governor McKinley 207 ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR McKINLEY DELIVERED AT GREENVILLE OHIO AUGUST 8 1895 INTRODUCTION BY J R KNOX - The people of Ohio like to see their Governor the soldiers of the army like to see their old comrade everybody wants to see McKinley and I have the pleasure now fellow citizens of presenting to you Governor McKinley of
... THE OHIO BOUNDARY OR THE ERIE WAR THE OHIO BOUNDARY OR THE ERIE WAR1 WHEN the great Ordinance of 1787 was passed by Congress it was agreed by all the States present that six of the articles known as the articles of compact should not be repealed except by the joint consent of Congress and the States concerned The fifth of these irrevocable articles provided that not less than three nor more ...