... INDEX TO VOLUME XX INDEX TO VOLUME XX A Articles - A vanishing race 48 Abolitionists - Brady's Leap 457 Arguments of 280 Birthplace of Little Turtle 236 Dresser's experiences in the South Celebration of the surrender of Gen 281 John H Morgan 368 Fairbank Calvin 283 Cincinnati Municipal election of 1828 Foster Abbey Kelley 280 255 Foster Stephen 280 Delaware in the days of 1812 61 Oberlin aided by 276 Early Steamboat travel on the Ohio Oberlin at 270 River 378 Thompson George 282 Editorialana ...
... ALONG THE PATHWAY OF A GREAT STATE ALONG THE PATHWAY OF A GREAT STATE BY A D HOSTERMAN The Great State to Which I Refer Is Ohio Standing the fourth of all the American states in wealth and population and third in manufactures the contribution Ohio has made to the nation in great men great movements great progress and leadership justifies the claim that she is a great state It will be interesting briefly to touch some points along her pathway In the beginning Ohio and the entire American ...
... ST ST CLAIR'S DEFEAT FRAZER ELLS WILSON GREENVILLE OHIO Author of the valuable little volume entitled The Treaty of Greenville published 1894-E 0 R Probably the most disastrous defeat ever suffered by the Americans at the hands of the Red Men was that of the army of Gen Arthur St Clair on the east branch of the Wabash near the present western boundary of Ohio November 4th 1 791 Both for the number of men killed and the blighting effect on the frontier settlements was this disaster noted and ...
... The Beef Cattle Industry in Ohio The Beef Cattle Industry in Ohio Prior to the Civil War--II By ROBERT LESLIE JONES v The Cattle Industry Outside the Specialized Grazing and Feeding Regions The grazing industry in Madison County and its neighbors and the feeding industry of the Scioto Valley attracted so much attention that it is difficult to realize that together they comprised only a minor fraction of the beef cattle industry in Ohio before 1850 The 20000 or so cattle driven from Madison ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA MEETING OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION In the historic and picturesque city of New Orleans on the days of Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday December 29 30 and 31 1903 was held the nineteenth annual meeting of the American Historical Association It proved to be an event of unusual interest and enjoyment The American Historical Association was organized at Saratoga New York September 10 1884 and now numbers some twenty-five hundred members comprising the leading ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 261 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 261 and our record in military production would have been far more brilliant than it was In the afternoon session held in the Auditorium of the Ohio State Museum and presided over by Stanton L Davis of the Case School of Applied Science the following papers were read by James M Miller of Waynesburg College Waynesburg Penna and by Philip D Jordan of Miami University THE SPIRITUAL FORCE IN EARLY WESTERN CULTURE By JAMES ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews An Archeological History of the Hocking Valley By James Murphy Athens Ohio University Press 1975 xi 360p illustrations tables figures appendix index 1500 In the past the major portion of the archaeological literature for Ohio has been derived from work done in the central southern and southwestern parts of the state that situation is currently changing for the better In An Archeological History of the Hocking Valley James Murphy broadens our knowledge of prehistoric ...
... BOWMAN'S EXPEDITION AGAINST CHILLICOTHE BOWMAN'S EXPEDITION AGAINST CHILLICOTHE May-June 1779 Draper MSS Border Forays 5 D chap 27 pp 1-20 The following account of Captain Bowman's expedition against Chillicothe on the Little Miami in 1779 is from the original manuscript of the Draper collection in the archive department of the Wisconsin Historical Society Madison Wisconsin During the past summer 1910 through the courtesy of Dr Reuben Gold Thwaites Secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society ...
... 372 Ohio Arch 372 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER IN THE VALLEY OF THE LITTLE MIAMI BY WILLIAM ALBERT GALLOWAY M D VICE PRESIDENT OHIO SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION In considering The Revolutionary Soldier in the Valley of the Little Miami I am impressed with the significance of the territorial enactments which particularly designated his settlement in this beautiful and fertile location The territory granted by King James I to the company which founded the ...
... REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS BURIED REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS BURIED IN CLARK COUNTY OHIO BY A L SLAGER The attached roster of men who served on the side of the Colonists during the War of American Independence and who are buried in Clark County has been compiled from partial lists of names furnished by Colonel George I Gunckel Dayton Ohio president of the Ohio Society Sons of the American Revolution and a similar list taken from the records of the George Rogers Clark Chapter S A R of ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President The society has recently received two additions to its file of historical and genealogical materials the bill book of Hollister Bliss and Lytle a general store at Delphos from September 1850 to August 1854 and a five-volume compilation of Ohio gravestone inscriptions made by Charles Wagner of Columbus Mr Wagner's work contains thirty thousand inscriptions from grave markers in ...
... TWENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE TWENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY JUNE 2 1905 The Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the lecture room of the Y M C A Building Columbus Ohio at 230 P M June 2d 1905 The following members were present Rev J W Atwood Columbus Judge J H Anderson Columbus Prof M R Andrews Marietta Mr E H Archer Columbus General R Brinkerhoff Mansfield Mr George F Bareis ...
... MAUMEE VALLEY TRAVEL TOUR MAUMEE VALLEY TRAVEL TOUR By MAUMEE VALLEY INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL CONVENTION From From Toledo Fort Wayne Miles Miles 000 Commodore Perry Hotel Toledo 1069 Superior Street entrance South 12 block to Monroe Street Turn right W 2 blocks to Erie Street Turn left S on Erie Street 5 blocks across Swan Creek to Anthony Wayne Memorial Trail 09 Anthony Wayne Memorial Trail 1060 Turn right on Anthony Wayne Memorial Trail which is a new super-highway constructed upon the bed ...
... 458 Ohio Arch 458 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Inscription on tablet placed by U S D 1 812 on the Ross County Court House Chillicothe Ohio May 17 1933 CHILLICOTHE CAPITAL OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY AND FIRST CAPITAL OF OHIO The State of Ohio was made possible by the Treaty of Paris 1783 which made the Great Lakes the northern boundary of the new United States In 1787 Congress established the Northwest Territory dedicated to freedom and public education with General Arthur St Clair ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ADDRESS to the People of the Western Country An by Daniel Drake 10 Adena 143-144 illustration 145 African Colonization Society 151 Albrecht Carl W bk notes 93 Allen William 149 Aller Kenneth P 135 Allison Col C W B 38 41 42 43 America Enters the World A People's History of the Progressive Era volume seven by Page Smith rev 77-79 American Academy of Arts and Sciences 105 American Art Its Awful Attitude by John Frankenstein 8 16 23 American Philosophical ...
... NEWS and NOTES ONE OF THE BETTER results of the effort to recognize the centennial of the Civil War has been the establishment of a project to collect and publish the correspondence and other papers of Ulysses S Grant supreme commander of the Union armies and eighteenth president of the United States To accomplish this end the Ulysses S Grant Association was created through the efforts of the Civil War centennial commissions of Ohio where Grant was born and lived his early years Illinois which ...
... FORT McARTHUR FORT McARTHUR The following address delivered by the late Dr A W Munson on Memorial day of 1895 at Shingle Grove near Ft McArthur burying ground was read at a recent D A R meeting in Kenton and will be especially interesting to our readers now as this year 1912 marks the centennial of the founding of the old fort Comrades and FriendsWe have met here on this pleasant afternoon of May 30 1895 in this beautiful grove beneath these grand forest trees around these graves to do honor ...
... THE MIAMI COUNTRY 1750-1815 THE MIAMI COUNTRY 1750-1815 AS DESCRIBED IN JOURNALS AND LETTERS by ELIZABETH FARIES Senior Assistant Reference and Catalog Department Dayton Public Library During the late 1700's and the early 1800's the Miami Country was a definite geographic area in the Northwest Territory This area has been defined as a region of approximately 5000 square miles in southwestern Ohio with a small adjoining wedge of southeastern Indiana It was particularly the land that forms the ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA BIG BOTTOM MASSACRE DEDICATION It is one hundred and fifteen years since the little band of pioneers were massacred in their fort at Big Bottom on the Muskingum This settlement was an off-shoot of the one at Marietta It was the remotest outpost of the Ohio Company Scarcely had Marietta been settled when there pushed out from the protecting walls of Fort Harmar small bands of settlers to build homes and clear the fields in other favorable locations Belpre on the Ohio ...
... THE COMING AND GOING OF OHIO DROVING THE COMING AND GOING OF OHIO DROVING REV I F KING D D Mr King about the year 1850 took three droves two of cattle and one of sheep across the Allegheny mountains In doing this he walked from Zanesville Ohio to eastern Pennsylvania five times On one trip he came home by public conveyance In 1851 the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was only finished to Clarksburg West Virginia This article is an interesting description of a phase of the business life in the early ...