... SOURCES OF THE NAMES OF THE COUNTIES SOURCES OF THE NAMES OF THE COUNTIES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE By FREDERICK C WAITE An examination of the names of the eighty-eight counties in Ohio shows that over half of these names commemorate individuals such as signers of the Declaration of Independence generals in the Revolutionary War early presidents of the United States and statesmen of the early period of our national history A considerable number of county names are of Indian origin Part of these ...
... Benjamin Hough a surveyor under the direction of Edward Tiffin of the latitude and longitude of the chief points in the 158 Ohio Arch 158 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 4 proposed boundary especially the north cape of the Maumee Bay The letter and observations of Mr Hough are as follows CHILLICOTHE June 30 1815 SIR Enclosed you have the result of an observation made by me on the 27th day of May last apparent time or the 25th ...
... Benjamin Logan led a force of about 1000 men against the Shawnee towns on the upper waters of the Mad river in what is now Logan county Eight towns were utterly destroyed 4th In 1790 Gen Harmar with 1500 men marched against the Indians of Western Ohio 5th In 1791 Gen St Clair with more than 1400 men made a like move 6th In 1793-4 Gen Wayne with 3000 men played havoc with these same Indians before making his treaty In none of these six ...
... ORATION OF HON ORATION OF HON JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER LL D The last decades of our century bristle with centennial anniversaries the landmarks of human progress in the free institutions of a Christian civilization The Old World with its crowded populations with its social orders and castes and its despotic forms of government was stagnant and unhealthful Commerce reached forth its bold and eager arms for new fields for human enterprise and a larger and freer civilization Motives of gain mingled ...
... THE ADMISSION OF OHIO TO THE UNION THE ADMISSION OF OHIO TO THE UNION by BENJAMIN H PERSHING BRUTAL TRUTH DISCOVERED NEAR 150TH BIRTHDAY OHIO ASKS STATEHOOD With this alarming headline a metropolitan Ohio newspaper on January 14 1953 announced the most unique episode in the history of the admission of territories into the federal Union The article stated that congress had taken no action on the constitution prepared at Chillicothe in 1802 ...
... OHIO'S SQUATTER GOVERNOR WILLIAM OHIO'S SQUATTER GOVERNOR WILLIAM HOGLAND OF HOGLANDSTOWN BY RANDOLPH C DOWNES What student of Ohio history would have dreamed that it would eventually be proved that Arthur St Clair was not the first resident governor to exercise the duties of that high office over the white inhabitants of the territory that now forms the domain of the Buckeye State Who would have thought that for almost one hundred and fifty years there has existed in the columns of the ...
... LEGISLATURE OF THE NORTHWESTERN LEGISLATURE OF THE NORTHWESTERN TERRITORY 1795 The legislative authority in the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio was vested in the governor and judges of that territory by the Ordinance of 1787 The minutes of the meeting of the Legislature held in Cincinnati in the summer of 1795 have been preserved in the Centinel of the Northwestern Territory where they were published in that year Only one copy of the file of this paper containing these ...
... Benjamin Tomlinson heretofore referred to makes his statement at Cumberland April 17th 1797 to the effect that Logan's brother was killed by Sappington that neither Captain Michael Cresap nor any person of that name was there nor anywhere in that vicinity He further states he was at the Treaty and heard the Logan speech read three times twice by Dunmore and once by Gibson that he was Officer of the Guard and stood near Dunmore's person ...
... 110 THE ORDINANCE OF 1787 ITS ORIGIN AND THE ORDINANCE OF 1787 ITS ORIGIN AND AUTHORSHIP BY C B GALBREATH The timely adoption and beneficent influence of this great charter of American liberty have been frequently the theme of the orator the statesman and the historian It is a little remarkable that the authorship of this important state paper has been the subject of discussion for more than a century and that it has engaged the attention of some of the eminent men of our Nation It is ...
... Benjamin the second son was Benjamin Logan's attack on the upper waters of the Mad River and in the Macochee Valley where eight years before he had been a prisoner of the Indians and in imminent danger of death at the stake and from which he had been saved through the interposition of the renegade Girty and Logan chief of the Mingoes Returning to Kentucky again he was married at the age of ...
... Benjamin Harrison The Academy was divided into two departments each department divided into two classes In the first department First Class were taught Reading Writing Spelling Ray's Eclectic Arithmetic First Lessons of Philosophy for Children Parley's History of Geology and History of Animals First Book of History tuition per quarter 300 In the second class were Goldsmith's History of Greece and Rome Smith's Grammar Colburn's Mental ...
... Benjamin Oviatt of the Benjamin Oviatt who married Benjamin was the progenitor Benjamin Oviatt of Goshen and died in that town in the autumn of 1835 Among her children were the late Mr Lyman Oviatt of Goshen Heman Oviatt Esq a wealthy and enterprising citizen of Hudson Ohio and ...
... Benjamin Tupper Archibald Benjamin Tupper Isaac Pierce Benjamin Tupper Esqr one of the Supervisors of Highways for the County aforesaid Josiah White of Marietta in the County aforesd was convicted this day of refusing to assist in repairing highways in sd County after being duly warned thereto before us the Subscribers two of the Justices ...
... STATE SOVEREIGNTY IN OHIO STATE SOVEREIGNTY IN OHIO BY JEAN DICK CHEETHAM The doctrine of state sovereignty was the natural outgrowth of conditions which existed in the American colonies1 in the Articles of Confederation the doctrine assumed definite form each state was to retain its sovereignty freedom and independence and this was the element of weakness that undermined the Confederation it hindered the acceptance of the Constitution by the States and delayed their union it was made the ...
... THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE SIEGE OF THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE SIEGE OF FORT MEIGS PERRYSBURG JULY 27 1913 BY LUCY ELLIOT KEELER Hadst thou my three kingdoms to range in said James the First to a fly and yet must thou needs get into my eye Which homely speech might be paraphrased for the present purpose of introduction to this subject to read Had Great Britain and America their vast extent of territory and all the ocean between to range in and must they needs select the shores of ...
... Benjamin Lincoln Beverly Benjamin Lincoln Beverly Randolph and Timothy Pickering as commissioners to attend the proposed meeting at the Rapids of the Miami Maumee when the leaves were fully out The place of conference was afterwards changed to Sandusky The commissioners received their instructions on the 26th of April of the same year and on the 27th General Lincoln left Philadelphia for ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XV INDEX TO VOLUME XV A Avery Elroy M History of United States by 271 Abolition Chase's part in 314 States by 271 Finney John 189 Abolitionists Treatment of 209 Alder Jonathan meets Lucas Sullivant Badger Rev Joseph Missionary work 382 of 164 Sketch of 379 Banking National system of 329 Andrews Prof M R Address at Big Baughman A J Gathering of historical Bottom dedication 30 material by 391 Portrait of 30 The Underground Railway by Animals Prehistoric use of 66-72 189 An Indian ...
... INDIANS IN UNION COUNTY INDIANS IN UNION COUNTY BY COLONEL W L CURRY In 1797 before a white settler had found a home in the tract of country now forming the county of Union a town was laid out on a large scale in what is now Darby Township on the south side of Big Darby Creek by Lucas Sullivant who named it North Liberty Doubtless Mr Sullivant expected his town would at some not distant day be a busy metropolis but he ruined its prospects by laying out in August of the same year 1797 the town ...
... THE ORIGIN AND LOCATION OF THE FIRELANDS THE ORIGIN AND LOCATION OF THE FIRELANDS OF THE WESTERN RESERVE By HELEN M CARPENTER Copyrighted 1935 by Helen M Carpenter 163 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE British Invasions of Connecticut during the Revolutionary War 65 Appraisement of Losses and Granting of Relief 69 Title of Connecticut to Lands Granted 174 Location of Claimants on Lands Granted--the Connecticut Company 175 Location of Claimants on Lands Granted--the Ohio Company 181 ...