... The Ordinance of July 13th 1787 The Ordinance of July 13th 1 787 37 pioneer fathers that in all the slow and tedious processes of building up in cherishing organic ideas and giving them vitality in supporting their Nation and moulding its character in defending its life in time of extremest dangers they have borne their full share of patriotic service and may now pass that nation over with a clean record to posterity sending its ideas and principles onward in their mighty mission of dominion ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS A History of Kentucky By Thomas D Clark Prentice-Hall History Series Ed by Carl Wittke New York PrenticeHall Inc 1937 702p 500 To present in one volume a general history of Kentucky was the purpose of this book In a concise narrative of the political economic and social development of the state Kentucky has been viewed as an important factor in the larger life of the Nation and especially as a factor in the settlement of the South and West Each chapter has been well ...
... 358 Ohio Arch 358 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications REPORT OF WILLIAM C MILLS Secretary Building Committee I trust as Secretary of the Building Committee of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society that a brief history of the building including its cost as it now stands will be of interest at this time The appropriation of 100000 for this building was made by the 79th General Assembly 1911 It was presented to the assembly through the Auditor of State's office and acted upon ...
... 222 Ohio Arch 222 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications sack Anthony Bleecker Samuel Bayard Peter G Stuyvesant and John Pintard met in the picture room of the old city hall in Wall Street to organize this society whose principal object should be to collect and protect materials relating to the natural civil and ecclesiastical history of the United States in general and the State of New York in particular The society was incorporated by an act of the legislature of February 9 1809 It is now ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA By BERTHA E JOSEPHSON During the past months researchers and scholars have made considerable use of the manuscripts maps and state archives under the custody of this department Not only have the various departments of State individuals and legal firms availed themselves of reference service by telephone letter or personal visit but there have been a succession of out-of-city and out-of-state visitors who spent extended periods examining collections here Among ...
... 128 Ohio Arch 128 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Pu blications ows slept the heroic dead of two armies-stood forth as the more appropriate and fitting monument Fort Recovery therefore became the future landmark for treaties and state lines Every age has its peculiar problem The pioneers dealt with the problems of poverty They struggled for the future They laid the foundations of a new state And as we look about in this day of plenty we should remember the sacrifices and suffering of those who ...
... THOMAS BEALS FIRST FRIENDS MINISTER THOMAS BEALS FIRST FRIENDS MINISTER IN OHIO BY HARLOW LINDLEY Thomas Beals was born in Chester County Pennsylvania in 1719 He was the son of John and Sarah Beals formerly Sarah Bowater of an English family of Friends Thomas Beals had two brothers John and Bowater and four sisters Prudence who married Richard Williams Sarah who married John Mills Mary who married Thomas Hunt and after his death William Baldwin and Phebe who married Robert Sumner John Beals ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Illinois Census Returns 1 80 -1818 Edited by Margaret Cross Norton Illinois State Historical Library Collections XXIV Statistical Series II Springfield Illinois Illinois State Historical Library 1935 32 9p Illinois Cens u s Ret urn s 1820 Edited by Margaret Cross Norton Illinois State Historical Library Collections XXVI Statistical Series III Springfield Illinois Illinois State Historical Library I934 466p The first volume of the Statistical Series Illinois Election ...
... FLATBOATING DOWN THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI FLATBOATING DOWN THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI 1867-1873 Correspondence and Diaries of the William Dudley Devol Family of Marietta Ohio PART I edited by ROBERT LESLIE JONES Professor of History Marietta College I The phrase flatboating down the Ohio is apt to evoke a mental picture of an immigrant family setting off from Pittsburgh aboard a broadhorn or of a group of backwoodsmen from almost any tributary taking advantage of the spring freshets to get their ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS JAMES R MORRIS James R Morris was born at Rogersville Green County Pennsylvania January 10 1 820 He died at Woodsfield Ohio December 24 1899 His father Joseph Morris was elected to Congress in 1843 and re-elected two years later Joseph Morris moved with his family to Waynesburgh Pennsylvania in 1828 in the following year to Antioch Ohio and two years later to Woodsfield Ohio ...
... Public Opinion and the Chinese Question 1876-1879 by GARY PENNANEN Diplomatic problems are not considered to have been of much consequence during the presidency of Rutherford B Hayes While not many preWorld War I judgments concerning the history of the period have escaped revisionism an assessment of Hayes's diplomacy made by Charles R Williams in 1914 has withstood the test of time Few subjects of large importance in the foreign relations of the Government demanded action or attention during ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 419 his trustees that he would not serve unless they would pledge themselves to raise an endowment fund They decided to start at once The financial committee which will have charge of raising the fund consists of L P Baldwin D Z Norton and W S Hayden Its power to name other members is unlimited Until the endowment fund is raised the museum will be supported as for the past two years in part on its guarantee fund and in part from the proceeds of a lecture course The ...
... REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR To the Officers Trustees and Members of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Herewith is submitted in condensed form the sixteenth annual report of the undersigned as Director of the Society Presumably you are not so much concerned with past accomplishments of the organization which speak for themselves as with the future The temper of the times appears to demand that the Society along with others of its kind should conscientiously ...
... Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 633 Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 633 us to give the names of the members of most of the households The first log cabin is nearly completed and is attracting a large number of visitors Most of the logs have been hewn for the Schoolhouse and the hand-split shingles are ready Through the personal interest of Mr C B Galbreath we have secured from Dr W N Schwarze Archivist of the Moravian Church in Bethlehem Pennsylvania over 100 pages of translation ...
... VERNON L VERNON L VOLPE The Ohio Election of 1838 A Study in the Historical Method Historians are not immune from occasionally making minor errors such as misreading the results of a state election Unfortunately due to the nature of the craft one historian's lapse may assume the status of historical fact once it finds its way into the secondary literature where the original slip suddenly takes on a life of its own Through sheer repetition by other scholars a historical myth is created that is ...
... COLUMBUS OHIO'S CAPITAL COLUMBUS OHIO'S CAPITAL BY ELMER EDWARD NOYES It has been stated by some authorities that Columbus was born a capital1 that Lucas Sullivant an early surveyor who laid out Franklinton in 1797 foresaw the future political possibilities of the district2 At the same time it is claimed by another authority that this was hardly possible since state lines had not yet been drawn at that early date3 In any case the seat of government was moved to Columbus in October 18164 and ...
... GEORGE C GEORGE C CROUT Albert B Graham School Days of a Schoolmaster Albert B Graham was born March 13 1868 or as he expressed it in his own wry sense of humor came up between two stalks of corn on the last farm on Route 36 west of St Paris in Champaign County1 From as early as he could remember he had aspirations of being a schoolmaster When he first revealed his secret ambition his Scotch-Presbyterian father remarked What a thing for a lad to decide when there is a mortgage on the farm2 ...
... MARIUS ROBINSON A FORGOTTEN ABOLITIONIST MARIUS ROBINSON A FORGOTTEN ABOLITIONIST LEADER By RUSSEL B NYE Marius Racine Robinson one of the more important figures of the antislavery movement in Ohio has been more or less lost from public view Neither the Dictionary of American Biography the National Cyclopaedia of Biography nor any of the standard biographical dictionaries list his name yet in the rise of abolitionism in Ohio he played a great part as agent editor organizer and propagandist -- ...
... LUCY E LUCY E KEELER Death came to Miss Lucy E Keeler at the Memorial Hospital in Fremont on Tuesday morning March 11 1930 She had been ill since October and had sought relief in a number of hospitals but finally returned to Frement where she gradually grew weaker until her death Funeral services were conducted in the Presbyterian Church of Fremont on the following Thursday Some years before her death a newspaper friend had requested that she prepare a brief sketch of her life and activities ...
... OLD OHIO RIVER STEAMBOAT DAYS OLD OHIO RIVER STEAMBOAT DAYS MEMORIES OF UPPER OHIO RIVER ACTIVITIES BETWEEN 1860 AN D 1890 BY W G SIBLEY A great river is a powerful influence over the lives of all who dwell on its banks just as lofty hills or mountains seen day after day finally come to have meaning in a man's life as does any other striking natural environment When a river is intimately associated with the affairs of a small community its whole population becomes conscious of it So it was ...