... JUDSON HARMON JUDSON HARMON BY HUGH L NICHOLS Judson Harmon forty-fourth governor of Ohio 1909-1913 was born at Newtown Hamilton County Ohio on the 3rd of February 1846 He was the eldest son of Rev Benjamin Franklin Harmon one of the pioneer preachers of the Baptist faith who extended the field of his spiritual ministrations through the medium of the old-time circuit-riding to the ...
... settlement the people of Ohiosettlements The state and counties built roads generally to afford access to navigable waterways and in 1825 the state began constructing canals These ran north and south connecting the Ohio River with Lake Erie and thereby providing a route to the eastern ...
... DAVID G DAVID G TAYLOR Hocking Valley Railroad Promotion in the 1870's The Atlantic and Lake Erie Railway Industrialization had begun in Ohio before the Civil War and after a war-imposed delay promised to accelerate rapidly thereafter The Panic of 1873 however stalled the process substantially and destroyed many small industrialists and businessmen With the elimination of the financially weaker businessmen the way was paved for reorganization ...
... GENERAL JOSEPH KERR GENERAL JOSEPH KERR BY WM E GILMORE CHILLICOTHE OHIO The following article from the pen of Mr Gilmore appeared in the columns of The Daily Scioto Gazette of March 21 1903 As this article presents the history of Senator Kerr no where else to be found it is thought sufficiently valuable to deserve permanent preservation and is therefore herewith republishedE O R At length my inquiries and correspondence begun in 1886 for the ...
... northwestern Ohio was the opening in 1843 of the Wabash and Erie Canal from Toledo to Lafayette Indiana During the brief period between that date and the coming of the railroads this canal was responsible for opening up a large and important agricultural area Immigrants from the East poured into the Maumee Valley farms were cleared and towns and cities sprang up In the decade following 1843 ...
... OHIO IN THE SPANISH AND PHILIPPINE WAR OHIO IN THE SPANISH AND PHILIPPINE WAR THOMAS M ANDERSON Few can fulfill Pliny's motto To do what deserves to be written To write what deserves to be read Great generals are nearly always able administrators and have often proved themselves great statesmen The ability to command and to administer go together but few military commanders have wielded ...
... settlement of accounts The oscillation in river levels renders the installation of adequate unloading machinery more difficult Under the head of temporary or artificial advantages the Commission enumerates as the First and most important the right of the railway to charge lower rates between points where its line is in competition with water routes Second The power of a railway to acquire steamboat lines or enter into agreement with them for ...
... northwest of Alcatraz18 Also northwest of the island27 James McPherson applied for transfer East and orders finally arrived granting his desire for field duty He left San Francisco in August 1861 on the Golden Gate28 In action the officer was promoted to Captain the month he left California He was aide and assistant engineer for Major General Halleck until February 1862 when he became chief ...
... settlements extended into the rich valleys where it was found by travellers and explorers and was by them carried back to the east and shown as a rare curiosity from what was then known as the 'far west' possessing certain medical properties for which it was rarely prized But the name never became fully crystallized until 1840 when in the crucible of what is known as the 'bitterest longest and most extraordinary political contest ever waged in ...
... settlement stood on the settlements Columbia near the mouth of the Little Miami and Losantiville opposite the mouth of the Licking were begun respectively November 18 and December 28 1788 nearly six months after the enactment of the ordinance of 1787 The young city was not incorporated until 1802 6 PROMULGATED ITS MANDATORY PLEVIN The Ordinance of 1787 was at once an organic law and a ...
... 634 Ohio Arch 634 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The custodian reports that during the year twenty-two thousand visitors to the park have registered and he estimates that fully as many more did not register making at least forty-four thousand people who visited the park during the year This is the largest number of visitors in a single year in the history of the park This may be due ...
... northwestern counties in the General Assembly for the session of 1823-24 In the legislature he was an eager advocate of schemes for internal improvement especially those which would benefit his own locality Unfortunately ill-health soon forced him to 1 James Riley An Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce revised ed Hartford Conn 1829 15-18 260 Mr Ratcliffe is Lecturer in Modern History University of Durham England ...
... settlements between 1663 and settlements being Union Village near Lebanon and Watervliet near Dayton The third communitarian colony in Ohio was that of the Society of the Separatists of Zoar founded on the Tuscarawas River near New Philadelphia in 1817 by a religious group which had emigrated from Wurttemberg This community in which all ...
... settlement is situated two settlement resulting therefrom occurred some twentyfour years before the organization of civil government at Marietta under the younger Putnam the distinguished Colonel Rufus Putnam a distant relative The Colonel George Croghan Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution after greeting the distinguished guests had an interesting meeting the theme of which was ...
... SOME OHIO BOWLDERS SOME OHIO BOWLDERS E L TAYLOR In the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly July 1905 Mr Basil Meek gave an interesting sketch of A Rock With a History This bowlder is found in Sandusky county seven miles southwest of the city of Fremont The article referred to has induced me to give a short account of three ...
... Three Civil War Letters of James A Garfield edited by JAMES D NORRIS and JAMES K MARTIN I know of no man in the army whose death would crush me so terribly as his Brigadier General James A Garfield wrote to his wife on May 12 1862 concerning Major Frederick Augustus Williams He is a true man and one of my dearest friends1 The young major had contracted typhoid fever during the later stages of the Sandy Valley campaign in the eastern Kentucky mountains On March 19 Garfield who commanded the ...
... settlement in Marietta in 1788 William Dana is said to have burned the first brick made in the Northwest Territory Like his descendants he loved the beautiful and made his home a habitation of beauty His wife was Mary Bancroft His son George Dana was born on a farm near Belpre and was educated in Athens and Marietta Colleges More than a century ago this family it is claimed set out a grafted ...
... KOSSUTH COMES TO CLEVELAND KOSSUTH COMES TO CLEVELAND by ANDOR M LEFFLER Pastor First Hungarian Lutheran Church Cleveland At Cleveland's University Circle stands the unpretentious statue of Louis Kossuth Hungarian patriot It is one of the many thousands of typical nineteenth-century creations found in public gardens in almost any city of the Old World Indeed this statue was shipped from Hungary and is the exact replica of the one standing in a public garden at Nagy Szalonta1 It was a gift to ...
... BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM HENRY HOLMES BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM HENRY HOLMES ARTIST GEOLOGIST ARCHEOLOGIST AND ART GALLERY DIRECTOR 1846-19-- The subject of this sketch was born December 1 1846 in the home of his parents Joseph and Mary Heberling Holmes near the city of Cadiz Ohio the home farm being one of the subdivisions of the original grant to his grandfather in 1800 The house was on the Cadiz -- St Clairsville road four and one-half ...
... Caleb Atwater Caleb Atwater Pioneer Politician and Historian By FRANCIS P WEISENBURGER THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT SUMMARY of Ohio's past was an historical introduction by Salmon P Chase to his compilation of the Statutes of Ohio1 At that time Chase a graduate of Dartmouth College who had studied law in a somewhat informal way under William Wirt attorney general of the United States 1817-29 was ...