... NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTURE OF ABEL JANNEY NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTURE OF ABEL JANNEY BY THE INDIANS IN 17821 FROM THE DIARY OF ABEL JANNEY On the 12th day of March 1782 about break of day as I and my two companions were lying in our blankets about half a mile from the Ohio river on the Indian's side near the mouth of the Great Kenhaway2 river We were surprised by a shout of Indians who came rushing upon us When I heard the noise I spoke to my two companions and said rise up here are Indians when ...
... Fort St Fort St Clair 51 5 For purchase of Site of Fort St Clair Preble County Ohio for historical and forestry purposes Title to be vested in The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society for State of Ohio 10 000 Buildings 4000 Roadway 1000 Total Site of Fort St Clair 15 000 For this commendable action the good people of southeastern Ohio and tourists from other parts of the state are under lasting obligations to the General Assembly and especially to Honorable Harry D Silver State ...
... SINCLAIRE'S DEFEAT SINCLAIRE'S DEFEAT This specimen of early times poetry appeared shortly after St Clair's defeat 1791 and was printed in circular form it is related and was posted up in many a pioneer cabin It reveals the sentiment of the times as well as the Form of expression 'Twas November the fourth in the year ninety-one We had a sore engagement near to Fort Jefferson Sainclaire was our commander which may remembered be For there we left nine hundred men in the West'n Ter'tory At ...
... DANIEL BOON DANIEL BOON WILLIAM A GALLOWAY B S M D XENIA OHIO In Prof McFarland's excellent article on Simon Kenton he mentions Daniel Boon as having been the most prominent early settler of Kentucky He also quotes from Boon's own account giving the date of his first journey from his home on the Yadkin River North Carolina in quest of the country of Kentucky and the names of his associates on this memorable trip Some of Col Boon's most strenuous experiences occurred in Ohio and on this account ...
... A Survey of Publications A Survey of Publications In Ohio History and Archaeology August 1959--July 1960 Compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE DODDS Gilbert F Early Horticulture in Franklin County Franklin County Historical Society Special Bulletin No 4 December 1959 1-15 ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT FILLER Louis Slavery and Antislavery Subjects in Search of Authors Ohio Historical Quarterly LXIX 1960 179-182 GARA Larry The Underground Railroad A Re-evaluation Ohio Historical Quarterly LXIX 1960 ...
... FRANK L FRANK L KLEMENT Ohio and the Dedication of the Soldiers' Cemetery at Gettysburg Ohioans had more than a passing interest in the dedication of the Soldiers' Cemetery at Gettysburg on November 19 1863 A decisive three-day battle fought in the surrounding countryside on July 1-3 1863 had claimed the lives of many of the state's soldiers some of whom were hurriedly buried in shallow graves or merely covered with spadefuls of dirt where they had fallen No other governor not even ...
... BENJAMIN C BENJAMIN C HOWARD AND THE TOLEDO WAR SOME LETTERS OF A FEDERAL COMMISSIONER by WILLIAM D HOYT JR Associate Professor of History Loyola College Baltimore The Toledo War-a dispute between the state of Ohio and the territory of Michigan over their joint boundary-was reaching its climax and threatening to break out in active hostilities when President Andrew Jackson decided to intervene The area in question was not large a strip of land five miles wide at its western end and eight miles ...
... BOWMAN'S EXPEDITION AGAINST CHILLICOTHE BOWMAN'S EXPEDITION AGAINST CHILLICOTHE May-June 1779 Draper MSS Border Forays 5 D chap 27 pp 1-20 The following account of Captain Bowman's expedition against Chillicothe on the Little Miami in 1779 is from the original manuscript of the Draper collection in the archive department of the Wisconsin Historical Society Madison Wisconsin During the past summer 1910 through the courtesy of Dr Reuben Gold Thwaites Secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XVIII No 3 JULY 190 9 WASHINGTON'S FIRST BATTLE GROUND For many years it had been the ardent desire of the Editor to traverse the country of the Monongahela and the Youghiogheny where the youthful Washington began his diplomatic career entered his military life received his baptism of fire won his spurs in battle met his first defeat and succumbed to his only surrender experiences that taught him his preparatory lessons in the science of statesmanship and the art ...
... A Northern Businessman A Northern Businessman Opposes the Civil War EXCERPTS FROM THE LETTERS OF R G DUN edited by JAMES D NORRIS A number of rather prominent northern businessmen opposed the Civil War and the Lincoln administration for both sound business reasons and personal political commitments Robert Graham Dun's letters to his family and friends in Ohio during the Civil War present an excellent portrait of one such businessman Imbued with a deep-seated hostility toward both Lincoln and ...
... INDEX INDEX THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Volume 59 AARON MOHAWK INDIAN 33 Athens Co O California company organized Abolitionism blamed for the Civil War 150 in 263-264 About Historians 98-100 201-203 321Auburn 0 Forty-Niners from 265 323 448-451 Audubon - son of John James robbed Adams Charles Francis nominated for presien route to California 261 dent by National Christian Association Audubon John James connected with West284 ern Museum 373 Agassiz Louis founder of ...
... Life Was Rugged a Century Ago Life Was Rugged a Century Ago Experiences of an English Immigrant By CARROL H QUENZEL George H Cadman was in his thirty-fourth year when he left Euston Street Station in his native London on the first lap of the trek to America Rather than wait nine whole days at Liverpool for the delayed departure of the Cambria the ship on which he had booked passage he paid an extra fee to be rowed seven miles to the Benjamin Adams and was outward bound in considerably less ...
... CORRESPONDENCE OF GUY M CORRESPONDENCE OF GUY M BRYAN AND RUTHERFORD B HAYES ADDITIONAL LETTERS edited by ROBERT C COTNER and WATT P MARCHMAN A number of years ago Ernest William Winkler who was then reference librarian and curator of Texas books at the University of Texas and an associate editor of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly began the publication in that periodical of all available correspondence exchanged between the Honorable Guy M Bryan of Texas and President Rutherford B Hayes ...
... COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS A ND EXHIBITS COLLECTIONS OF THE RUTHERFORD B HAYES STATE MEMORIAL ONE OF OHIO'S finest historical properties is the Rutherford B Hayes State Memorial located in Spiegel Grove the twentyfive-acre home estate of the nation's nineteenth president at Fremont Administered jointly by the Ohio Historical Society and the Rutherford B Hayes and Lucy Webb Hayes Foundation this public memorial includes the stately Victorian brick mansion of the president and his family the graves ...
... Monument at Fort Jefferson Monument at Fort Jefferson 113 5 PRESENTATION Geo A Katzenberger 6 UNVEILING Elizabeth D Robeson 7 MILITARY SALUTE Gun Squad Co M 3rd Regt 8 STAR SPANGLED BANNER Drum Corps 9 ACCEPTANCE ON BEHALF OF THE PUBLICProf J T Martz 10 HISTORIC ADDRESS Judge J I Allread 11 YANKEE DOODLE Drum Corps 12 A WORD FROM THE RED MEN L E Wills 13 BENEDICTION Rev G W Berry ADDRESS OF FRAZER E WILSON SECRETARY GREENVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY One hundred and sixteen years ago to-day a ...
... BRIAN M BRIAN M LINN Pretty Scaly Times The Ohio National Guard and the Railroad Strike of 1877 The employment of the Ohio National Guard at Newark during the railroad strike of 1877 represents an effective use of military force during a potentially explosive labor dispute In contrast to West Virginia Maryland Pennsylvania Illinois Missouri and Indiana the state authorities of Ohio did not have to call on federal troops to enforce civil authority During the strike relations between the militia ...
... ROBERT W ROBERT W McCORMICK A Union Army Medical Inspector Norton Townshend Over 350000 Union soldiers lost their lives in the Civil War but only one-third of these deaths were combat related The remaining 225000 soldier deaths resulted from six million cases of illness from disease and accidents As shocking as these figures are they represent a marked improvement over the Mexican War where seven men died of disease for every man killed by the enemy Before the fighting began the Medical ...
... ST ST CLAIR'S DEFEAT AN ORATION DELIVERED BY JUDGE SAMUEL F HUNT ON THE CENTENNIAL OF THE DEFEAT OF GENERAL ARTHUR ST CLAIR AND ON THE OCCASION OF THE RE-INTERMENT OF THE DEAD WHO FELL IN THE ENGAGEMENT ON THE BATTLEFIELD FT RECOVERY O OCT 16 1891 It is said that for more than six hundred years after the battle of Morgarten the Swiss peasantry gathered on the field of battle to commemorate those who had fallen for freedom We have assembled to-day in the same spirit to do honor to the gallant ...
... FORT McARTHUR MEMORIAL TABLET FORT McARTHUR MEMORIAL TABLET On July 4 1913 a memorial tablet erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution was unveiled with fitting and interesting ceremonies at the site of the old fort McArthur three miles southwest of Kenton on the Scioto River We publish the addresses delivered on that occasion by Prof G Frederick Wright President of The Ohio State Archaeological amp Historical Society and Mrs John T Mack of Sandusky ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT WRIGHT It is ...
... A Surgeon's Mate at Fort Defiance A Surgeon's Mate at Fort Defiance The Journal of Joseph Gardner Andrews For the Year 1795--III Edited by R I CHARD C KNOPF This is the third and last installment of the Andrews journal The ague which Andrews noted on August 21 had commenced among the soldiery of the Garrison now in September attacks in force By October 1 two-thirds of the ninety-four persons on the post including Andrews are affected with it Then it withdraws though on October 29 twenty-three ...