... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR OLENTANGY RIVER The name Olentangy applied to an important tributary of the Scioto River has been a puzzler to the etymologists It is said to be of Indian origin but its root significance has never been determined The statement is made in the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society Publications Vol 6 page 93 that this name was legalized through the interest of Colonel ...
... northwest of the River Ohionorthwestern part of the territory because it had been excluded from the enabling act since the greater part of it lay outside the geographical limits set for the state5 About seven professions or combinations of one or more were represented by this group of delegates many were or became legislators three ...
... REMINISCENCES OF AN OHIO VOLUNTEER REMINISCENCES OF AN OHIO VOLUNTEER By PHILIP D JORDAN and CHARLES M THOMAS Introduction When Fort Sumter felt the crash of Confederate guns on April 12 1861 a nation knew that an irresistible conflict had at last reached a climax Chattering telegraph keys took the drama of Charleston harbor through the North in frantic haste In the village of Oxford
... settlement after the declaration of war were apt therefore to give an impression which a majority of the congregation might actively resent An incident which occurred in Cincinnati may serve as an illustration of the tendency for pacifist preaching to disappear whenever the incompatibility between pacifism and patriotism became sufficiently clear Becoming impatient with the pacifist sermons of their pastor the congregation of the Unitarian ...
... settlement at Marietta the admission of Ohio to the Union in 1803 the part the Buckeye State had taken in national politics and what she had done in the War of the Rebellion By this time he had spoken almost four hours and as he sat down he asked leave to continue the following day Members approached him after his long speech and asked him what his object was He only informed them that he ...
... settlement or political settlement of Oregon is as settlements on our frontiers settlement was called then and settlement Byers rented a settlements of cities laid out where we know ...
... Leo Lesquereux Leo Lesquereux 279 LEO LESQUEREUX BY EDWARD ORTON The revocation of the Edict of Nantes inflicted an irreparable injury upon the French nation in depleting it of its middle class from which its industrial energy its science literature and art were mainly drawn but the Protestant neighbors of France gained correspondingly thereby England Holland Switzerland and the English colonies in North America were greatly enriched by this enforced emigration These Huguenot exiles brought ...
... settlement at New Harmony Indiana The document dealt with religion and although Hammond disclaimed any prejudice for or against Owen he expressed the view that the real principles of Owen should be fully understood so that any error in them might be fully combated32 His Protestant and Catholic readers became involved in a discussion of religious ideas At length Hammond himself entered the lists to defend the Lutherans against such Catholics as ...
... Rutherford B Hayes Attorney at Law by WATT P MARCHMAN Rutherford Birchard Hayes began life without a father in Delaware Ohio on October 4 1822 a sickly child whose health was of deep concern to his mother His father Rutherford Hayes Jr formerly of Dummerston Vermont who had been a merchant of the firm of Noyes Mann and Hayes and who had brought his family to settle in Ohio in 1817 died ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY Since the annual meeting of the society held on June 5 1903 the proceedings of which were published in volume twelve pp 187-218 the meetings of the trustees have been as follows that of the executive committee held June 30 1903 in the rooms of the society Page Hall Ohio State University After the determination of the compensation to be accorded the different salaried officers of the society ...
... SALMON PORTLAND CHASE SALMON PORTLAND CHASE UNDERGRADUATE AND PEDAGOGUE BY ARTHUR MEIER SCHLESINGER OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Salmon Portland Chase was a significant member of that group of political radicals who plunged the nation into civil convulsions by their accession to governmental power in the late '5o's Much has been written of Chase the anti-slavery lawyer the organizer of the Liberty party the war financier the chief justice but of ...
... SALMON PORTLAND CHASE SALMON PORTLAND CHASE UNDERGRADUATE AND PEDAGOGUE BY ARTHUR MEIER SCHLESINGER OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Salmon Portland Chase was a significant member of that group of political radicals who plunged the nation into civil convulsions by their accession to governmental power in the late '5o's Much has been written of Chase the anti-slavery lawyer the organizer of the Liberty party the war financier the chief justice but of ...
... Young Charley Dawes Goes to the Young Charley Dawes Goes to the Garfield Inauguration A Diary Edited by ROBERT H FERRELL CHARLES GATES DAWES vice president of the United States under Calvin Coolidge 1925-29 was a youth of fifteen when he left his home in Marietta Ohio and with his father--just elected to congress--went off to Washington early in 1881 to see James A Garfield inaugurated as president Young Charley was impressionable His ...
... BURKE AARON HINSDALE BURKE AARON HINSDALE BY HAROLD E DAVIS HIRAM COLLEGE Burke Aaron Hinsdale came of pioneer stock For generations his ancestors had been pioneers If his pioneering was of a different sort it was nevertheless pioneering Gifted with a rugged constitution he had an unbounded capacity for work and tireless energy which kept his pen busy through an eventful life as the bibliography of his published works shows A voracious mind and a certain independence of judgment-- a pioneer ...
... THE AMERICAN VETERANS OF FOREIGN SERVICE THE AMERICAN VETERANS OF FOREIGN SERVICE AND THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS by GEORGE T TRIAL National Historian Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States The oldest and largest organization in this country comprised solely of overseas ex-servicemen grew out of events in Columbus Ohio That organization is the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States often identified as the VFW The nearly 2000000 ...
... ROBERT HAMILTON BISHOP1 ROBERT HAMILTON BISHOP1 PIONEER EDUCATOR By JAMES H RODABAUGH One hundred and twenty-five years ago in 1809 the Legislature of the State of Ohio granted the charter which led to the organization of Miami University at Oxford Ohio This institution was built on lands granted in trust by the Federal Government to the State of
... Minutes of the Annual Meeting 561 Minutes of the Annual Meeting 561 listened to some arguments I made there and now he will get even by forcing me to listen to him He holds a policy in the same life insurance company in which I hold a policy but I will not give the name of the company myself but I will say that this man has a great gift of getting into good company and I want to congratulate him this afternoon on getting into this company here He belongs to a race that is a hundred per cent ...
... 102 Ohio Arch 102 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications was introduced by Mr Burdell and asked to invoke the Divine blessing REVEREND NAPHTALI LUCCOCK Our Father's God from out whose hand The centuries fall like grains of sand We stand in this sunlit hour of privilege with grateful hearts for the splendid inheritance thou hast given us in the midst of the years We thank thee for the happy ...
... settlement outside of this district I have the honor to be sir Your Obt Servt A BURLINGAME Hon P S Brooks a 461 462 Ohio Arch 462 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Mr Burlingame copied it and the copy was handed to General Lane who acted as second for Mr Brooks Mr Campbell never denied the charge that he purposely named an ...
... THE McGUFFEY SOCIETY AT FORT HILL THE McGUFFEY SOCIETY AT FORT HILL BY JOHN R HORST The McGuffey Society of Columbus Ohio met at Fort Hill in Highland county on Saturday September 12th 1925 as previously announced in the newspapers Fort Hill is the name of a hill located about three miles north of Sinking Spring Surrounding the crest of the hill is an ancient fortification apparently for defense the building of which is credited to the Mound ...