... settlements were made on the settlements and pioneer days At home he was known as the Sage of Rockport the idol of his community In 1861 Williams College of Massachusetts conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws In 1864 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Sciences in 1875 at the age of 82 he became a member of the American Philosophical Society the highest recognition ...
... RELIC DEPARTMENT OF THE CENTENNIAL RELIC DEPARTMENT OF THE CENTENNIAL ONE of the interesting and attractive features of the celebration was the display of historical relics It was a matter of great regret to the Committee that a list and catalogue of the articles with the names of owners and exhibitors could not be prepared before the celebration The following is a complete list of articles displayed The value of the list would be greatly enhanced could the name of the owner of each of the ...
... settlement of the South and settlement of Kentucky the settlement emigrant ships and settlements in colonial settlement at Schoenbrunn and settlements in
... A REVIEW-ESSAY A REVIEW-ESSAY Noble Fellow William Starling Sullivant By Andrew Denny Rodgers III Foreword by Dr Adolph E Waller New York G P Putnam's Sons 1940 xxii 361p Illustrations maps and appendix An Abstract by FRANK C CALDWELL This is a remarkable book centered about the accomplishments of a remarkable man He lived and worked in an almost frontier town hundreds of miles from the early eastern centers of science and before the days even of stage coach and federal mail communication He ...
... northwest corner room on the first floor in such fashion that it may be practicable to use this room as an auditorium and that the room be relieved from the use of pillars The estimate of the architect for the completion of the Memorial Wing included an item of 50000 for bronze memorial features The architect's plans were approved by the various state officials and advertisements were published for bids These were received and opened September ...
... A CONFEDERATE PRISONER AT CAMP CHASE A CONFEDERATE PRISONER AT CAMP CHASE Letters and A Diary of Private James W Anderson by GEORGE C OSBORN Associate Professor of the Social Sciences University of Florida Since this article is drawn almost wholly from the diary and letters of Private James W Anderson perhaps a brief sketch of this Confederate soldier's early life will not be amiss James Anderson was born on a farm in McNary County Tennessee in 1835 He secured what little formal education he ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT WRITES A 5000 PRIZE BOOK Forty-Niners The Chronicle of the California Trail By Archer Butler Hulbert Boston Little Brown amp Company 1931 pp 340 Price 350 The past six years have witnessed a growing interest in the winning of the far West the overland journeys to the Pacific Coast--to Oregon and California in the days of the ox-team and the Conestoga wagon Perhaps the most colorful of the migrations to ...
... settlements to the south or of the great works at Newark 40 miles to the eastward and only slightly to the southward The intermediate form of burial as practiced in the stone mound of the Wright group where the breaking into fragments of the skeletal remains seems to have been substituted for cremation and the depositing of a cremated burial in a stone grave outside the mound proper are interesting details of the exploration of this group THE ...
... WILLIAM CORLESS MILLS WILLIAM CORLESS MILLS IN MEMORIAM The founder of an institution of merit with an assured future is peculiarly fortunate Through the early years of its growth he may struggle onward with meager means to overcome indifference and more serious obstacles but when success at last crowns a life devoted to a worthy purpose when the founder lives to see his work recognized and on every side accorded the meed of praise the satisfaction of such a triumph is more gratifying than a ...
... DENNIS K DENNIS K BOMAN Conduct and Revolt in the Twenty-fifth Ohio Battery An Insider's Account On August 10 1861 in the town of Canfield Ohio twenty-eight year old Robert T McMahan enlisted as a private in the Second Ohio Volunteer Cavalry1 On September 3 the date of his muster he began a journal in which he noted the experiences and ...
... 518 Ohio Arch 518 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Following Mr Burton's address President Johnson said We may well hope that a million radio listeners scattered from lakes to gulf and from coast to coast have been sitting at their instruments listening to these lessons of truth and magnetism We are greatly indebted to Mr Burton for the message which he has brought us I am sure you ...
... settlement many years 416 Laying Corner Stone of the Society's Building Laying Corner Stone of the Society's Building 417 ago by God-fearing men and women who left the old world to seek a new home where they could have freedom to worship God On reaching this continent before they began to build homes for themselves they first of all on bended knees dedicated this land to God-to civil and religious liberty Here they sought to found a nation ...
... WILLIAM WILLIAMS MATHER WILLIAM WILLIAMS MATHER BY JOHN H NEWVAHNER William Williams Mather was the first State Geologist of Ohio and chief of the first Geological Survey of the State In this capacity he discovered and brought to light a knowledge of the vast mineral resources of the State And the development of these resources has brought untold wealth to Ohio and to the Nation Who was this ...
... settlements But over the settlement looking to these greenrobed hills It was to become yet more real through our subsequent diggings here But the antique settler on this site as elsewhere in his selection of locality gave evidence of an eye for natural beauty as well as of a solicitude for venison and corn For the Mound Builder though singularly carnivorous was a cultivator of the maize The ...
... The Black Hand The Black Hand 455 the rock was in mute appeal and forcibly reminded the wayfarer in a way at once forcible as it was poetical that thus far and no farther should the waves of unglutted vengeance roll The hand marked the portal of a sanctuary which was sacred to the savage whose lust for blood rose above every other consideration in his narrow but intense isolated but eventful life THE CHIEFTAIN WACOUSTA THE YOUNG LAHKOPIS AND THE MAIDEN AHYOMAH MRS DAVID GEBHART An unremembered ...
... northwestern history arranged northwest frontier If it were only the color and excitement and interest of history we seek we should find plenty of it here But there is something far more valuable and rewarding than that There is here also the lesson our Country is always being taught and never quite learns that it is one thing to win a national or social blessing and another thing to have ...
...ohioan XXXV 1963 2-4 NORRIS Joe L The Walk-in-the-Water Detroit Historical Society Bulletin XIX No 9 Summer 1963 4-11 The Ohio interest centers in the first calls at Cleveland Sandusky and Venice PABST Anna C Smith ed and comp Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago amp St Louis A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS 319 A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS 319 Railway Company A Pioneer Carrier of Delaware County
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR CATHERINE FAY EWING ORIGINATOR OF CHILDREN'S HOMES Children's Homes throughout the country have attracted deserved attention as child-saving institutions They not only save life they educate to usefulness The
... OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS A NEW SERPENT MOUND IN OHIO GEORGE FREDERICK WRIGHT We herewith reproduce with permission from the SeptemberOctober 1908 bi-monthly number of The Records of the Past published at Washington D C an article by the Editor of that publication George Frederick Wright the distinguished traveler scholar and author professor of harmony of sciences and ...