... THE PILLARS OF HARRISON COUNTY THE PILLARS OF HARRISON COUNTY BY JOSEPH T HARRISON There are three native pillars of stone in Harrison County Ohio which if their age is reckoned from the date when they first reared their heads above the surrounding landscape are older than Rome older than the Pyramids and older than the Sphinx itself They are located in the north central and southern parts of the county the first two on the tops of hills and the third well down from the top of the adjacent ...
... GEOLOGY AS A FACTOR IN HUMAN GEOLOGY AS A FACTOR IN HUMAN LIFE AND CHARACTER GERARD FOWKE Human history is a by-product of geology The earliest men fished in the rivers and the seas hunted in the mountains and the forests Shelter was as necessary as food and they had to live where they could find protection from inclement weather Where caves existed they were utilized where there was no such natural refuge an artificial one had to be provided This must be made of wood at first perhaps only of ...
... REPORT OF COMMITTEES ON HISTORICAL REPORT OF COMMITTEES ON HISTORICAL ACTIVITIES Dr Harlow Lindley read the following report of the Committee on Historical Activities in Ohio which was filed with the other reports for publication in the Quarterly REPORT ON HISTORICAL ACTIVITIES IN OHIO BY HARLOW LINDLEY Chair man Co mm ittee on Cooperation From information at hand it appears that there are about forty local county and regional historical societies now in existence in the State of Ohio Some of ...
... JOHN BROWN'S OHIO ENVIRONMENT JOHN BROWN'S OHIO ENVIRONMENT by MARY LAND Graduate Student Western Reserve University The stormy years John Brown spent in Kansas and the insurrection at Harper's Ferry have all but obscured the 38 years of his life spent in northern Ohio In 1805 when he was five years old he was brought from Connecticut to Hudson Ohio a small town near Akron He continued to live in the vicinity of Akron except for a decade in Pennsylvania two years in Springfield Massachusetts ...
... MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY APRIL 4 1941 The Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met at noon Friday April 4 1941 in the Trustees Room of the Ohio State Museum President Johnson presided over the meeting attended by the following trustees Messrs Eagleson Fleischmann Florence Rightmire Spencer Spetnagel Wittke and Wolfe Director Shetrone ...
... CINCINNATI AS A FRONTIER PUBLISHING CINCINNATI AS A FRONTIER PUBLISHING AND BOOK TRADE CENTER 1796-1830 by WALTER SUTTON Department of English University of Rochester Cincinnati was a frontier village with one newspaper and a population of 500 when the first book published in the territory lying north and west of the Ohio River came from the press of William Maxwell in 1796 The log-cabin settlement on a north bend of the Ohio River was only six years old Six more years were to pass before it ...
... strike an Indian village on the Saginaw River 1 20 miles above Detroit After progressing north for some distance the men were transported across the St Clair River and moved rapidly into Upper Canada On November 4 they arrived at Oxford 1 40 miles east of Detroit before any of its inhabitants knew that a hostile contingent was approaching The next day Burford was reached a local militia force retreating to Malcolm's Mills 10 miles distant as ...
... strikes me as not at all judicious7 Mrs Alice Welch Cowles principal of the Ladies' Department listed peculiar advantages of the system in her notebook Mutually stimulate each other Young gentlemen converse on important subjects with ladies educated in the same classes with themselves etc8 But her brother-in-law Professor John P Cowles a Yale graduate was forced out of the Oberlin faculty because of his violent opposition to most all of the ...
... DR DR JOHN LO CKE EARLY OHIO SCIENTIST 1792-1856 by ADOLPH E W AL LER Associat e P rofessor and Curator of the Botan ic Gard en Oh io S ta te University The nineteenth century in the United States suddenly swung into its expanding programs of research and education No one was prepared for the impact of the increasing realization of the power over nature which man now possessed The illusion of the perfectibility of all men through knowledge stretched undimmed The inherent weaknesses of man and ...
... strike some living adversary What's that What's that you say I never heard it before It's a devilish invention An infamous lie A damned falsehood For a man who for fifty years had neither risen from sleep nor walked abroad or even drank a cup of cold water in the field but his mind was on his country her honor and her welfare This is wicked atrocious horrible You see me excited I have the right to be excited With sweeping arms and gestures as ...
... REPORT OF THE FIFTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF REPORT OF THE FIFTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Forenoon Session--10 A M In the absence of the president and first vice-president the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was called to order by its second vice-president Wilber Stout on April 21 1936 in the auditorium of the Museum The attendance at this session was smaller than usual but was quite representative The ...
... ULYSSES A ULYSSES A PLYLEY BY FRANK WARNER M D COLUMBUS OHIO On the 19th of May 1930 Ulysses A Plyley died at the age of 85 years He was born in the house in which he died This house is located on Plyley's Ridge a few miles west of Chillicothe Ohio on the pike leading to Greenfield He was the last child to occupy this old homestead of his father William Plyley who had lived there through his entire married life and had raised eight children The eldest child Clinton was born there June 20 1827 ...
... strike the eye with equal astonishment and delight after a tedious journey thro' the heart of the forest After travelling some miles thro' this fine and interesting section fenced enclosures indicated our approach to the town of Upper Sandusky At this place we sought a short release from the noontide heat and refreshment for ourselves and horses at a pleasant public house with a pretty garden and excellent spring issuing from the side of the ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 331 Ryan Columbus O C E Schenk J R Schindel Murray Seasongood Frank H Schaffer D H T Smith Rufus B Smith Dr R W Stewart Thomas T Swift G S Sykes Rev Geo A Thayer Bryant Venable Emerson Venable R O Venable Dr Chas E Walton J W Worthington F B Wiborg J O White Charles B Wilby Joseph Wilby John F Winslow Isidor Wise Paul Wisenall E J Wohlgemuth Everett I Yowell MARTIN DEWEY FOLLETT Judge M D Follett one of the organizers of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical ...
... 396 EDWIN COPPOC EDWIN COPPOC BY C B GALBREATH Among many villages of our state that pursue the even tenor of their way so peacefully and quietly that they earn their way to honorable obscurity is Winona Columbiana County This name was chosen from Longfellow's Hiawatha for the citizens of this place find time to read enjoy what we dignify as literature and are in a very useful and unpretentious way cultured The church and the school are liberally patronized The moral standard of the ...
... 378 Ohio Arch 378 Ohio Arch and His Society Pu bli cations ST CLAIR'S DEFEAT AS TOLD BY AN EYE-WITNESS--FROM ORIGINAL MSS BY FRAZER E WILSON GREENVILLE O It is refreshing to read an original account of any important battle especially when the field of action is near at hand Of the 600 survivors of St Clair's unfortunate army probably quite a number wrote narratives which have been lost or destroyed in the wreck of time The General's own report and the description of Benjamin Van Cleve have ...
... VIRGINIA E VIRGINIA E AND ROBERT W MCCORMICK Agricultural Trains An Innovative Educational Partnership Between Universities and Railroads The handbill said 110 PM Thursday October 26 19111 but by one o'clock a crowd had collected and was greeting each farm wagon or buggy as neighbors arrived A stranger might have described the gathering as festive not the exuberance of a 4th of July celebration but an expectant air akin to a farm auction or the county fair Beside the Hocking Valley Railroad ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 117 tion from his voice--he needed no pen--the subject-matter being wide and comprehensive He gave us the benefit of his thought and wit upon such topics as The Boston Tea Party Washington in the West Our First Inhabitants The Original Ohio Land Company etc etc but the crowning favor was bestowed just one year ago on Washington's birthday when his subject was Americanization at Home and Abroad We marveled as we sat enthralled by his eloquence how ...
... UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF DR UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF DR DANIEL DRAKE By ALICE MCGUFFEY RUGGLES In the winter of 1847-48 Dr Daniel Drake then professor at the Louisville Medical Institute dashed off late at night after strenuous days of teaching and research the Reminiscential Letters to His Children published in 1879 in the Ohio Valley Historical Series under the title Pioneer Life in Kentucky This little book is the most vivid first-hand account of a pioneer boyhood in that region ever written ...
... 338 Ohio Arch 338 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 4 RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD HAYES BY R EV WASHINGTON GLADDEN DD LL D We have studied here more than once the lesson of some great life In no other form does Truth present herself with so much quickening for the intellect with so much invigoration of the will For this reason chiefly was the Word made flesh All highest revelation to men must come through the form of a man The story of a life worthily lived is more convincing than logic more ...