... immigrants came later new centers of civilization are established and within a decade and a half the new State of Ohio takes her place in the great sisterhood to be followed by two others in another decade and a half and presently by a fourth and a fifth Beginnings of Our Colonial System Beginnings of Our Colonial System 9 It is fit that the occupation of the territory which had not only been the center of interest to the greatest States of ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 467 stimulation of his firm assurance that all is well here below and all will be better in the world beyond His life was above reproach his career an inspiration None knew him but to love him none named him but to praise No organization with which he was connected seemed to give him greater pleasure than the Archaeological and Historical Society Its field of investigation its province of collecting and preserving the records of the past and its work of storing the ...
... immigrants but the latter was the first distinct permanent American western settlement It was the capital of the Territory and on the 9th of July 1788 Territorial Governor Arthur St Clair arrived in Marietta and took up there his official residence The founding of this pioneer center is the starting point of Western History It was a most wisely chosen locality the settlers were of the best brawn and brain of New England George Washington wrote ...
... 64 Ohio Arch 64 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications and of course there is a constant demand for new vessels Further along after traversing a portion of the Ohio river the same author writes The boats which float upon the Ohio river are various--from the ship of several hundred tons burden to the mere skiff Very few if any very large vessels however are now built at Pittsburgh and Marietta but the difficulties incident to getting them to the ocean have rendered such undertakings infrequent ...
... immigrants from Germany It was indeed a typical village of the Fatherland transplanted to the banks of the little Loramie Creek Here for thirty years the good Father was the Parish Priest beloved and respected not only by his own people but by all with whom he came in contact Under his untiring efforts the little modest church edifice was replaced by a magnificent church costing 60000 with a ...
... SIEGE OF FORT MEIGS SIEGE OF FORT MEIG S The Cleveland Herald and Gazette of June 3 1840 printed an extract from a speech delivered by the brave Col John O'Fallon at the raising of the log-cabin in St Louis This was during the famous Log Cabin Campaign summer and fall of 1840 The speech reflecting the political and public sentiment of the time will be read with interestEDITOR Colonel O'Fallon-who it may be stated delivered his speech from the ramparts of a miniature Fort Meigs -was an aid of ...
... The Siege of Fort Meigs The Siege of Fort Meigs 315 THE SIEGE OF FORT MEIGS BY H W COMPTON The construction of Fort Meigs by General William Henry Harrison in the early spring of 1813 and its siege by the British general Proctor and the renowned chief Tecumseh in May of that year was one of the important incidents in the war of 1812 But few of those who now look at the ruins of Fort Meigs slumbering upon the high grassy plateau opposite the village of Maumee can realize the fearful struggle ...
... immigrants sought homes within its borders from all sections of the country Improvements and general business went forward with the increase of population In pursuance of their contract with the state the proprietors of Columbus set to work with characteristic energy and in 1813 excavated the ground on the southwest corner of the public square for the foundation of the state house The building was erected the following year It was a plain ...
... GENERAL HARMAR'S EXPEDITION GENERAL HARMAR'S EXPEDITION BY BASIL MEEK FREMONT OHIO JOSIAH HARMAR was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania in 1753 and there died in 1813 He was a captain in the First Pennsylvania Regiment Continental Army Lieutenant Colonel of the same and served till the close of the Revolutionary War He was in Washington's army from 1778 to 1780 In 1783 he was made Brevet Colonel First U S Regiment In 1787 he was breveted Brigadier General by Congress and assigned to duty in ...
... THE EVOLUTION OF OHIO COUNTIES THE EVOLUTION OF OHIO COUNTIES By J F LANING It is probable that the people who read this article will all know that the State of Ohio was not always divided into the number of counties there now are and that to evolve the present map a long period of time and many mutations of county outlines were necessary But few people however know the extent of the evolution that has been going on in bringing Ohio counties within their present environments From the erection ...
... FORT INDUSTRY--AN HISTORICAL MYSTERY FORT INDUSTRY--AN HISTORICAL MYSTERY BY WALTER J SHERMAN Upon the south wall of an old brick mercantile building at the northeast corner of Monroe and Summit Streets Toledo hangs a faded inscription reading as follows viz This building stands on the site of Fort Industry a stockade erected by General Anthony Wayne in the year 1794 as a safeguard against the British who then held Fort Miami It was garrisoned by a company of United States troops under the ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XIV INDEX TO VOLUME XIV A NArticles - Concluded Robert White McFarland 170 Aborigine use of word 474 Song Writers of Ohio 62 180 291 Adams J Q Cincinnati in 464 428 Agassiz Louis 83 Tarhe the Crane 132 American Historical Association 219 Tarhe the Wyandot Chief 313 Account of 219 The campaigns of the Revolution in Society at 94 Ohio Valley 39 Andrews M R Big Bottom at 467 The conquest of the Indian 139 Antioch College - The ...
... THE ROUSH FAMILY IN AMERICA THE ROUSH FAMILY IN AMERICA Their Contribution to the New Country BY REV L L ROUSH In these days when almost every one is writing and when so many details of history are brought out of their hiding-places by some historian especially equipped for that purpose and whose chief business is to bring to the public eye such discoveries one hesitates before he sets himself to the task of adding anything to this voluminous collection However no student dares venture far ...
... 406 Ohio Arch 406 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications HISTORIC BEGINNINGS OF THE OHIO VALLEY W J HOLLAND D D LL D Carnegie Institute Pittsburg Pa The Ohio River and the Ohio Valley are from the standpoint of the geologist of very recent origin There was a time when the greater part of the water which is discharged through this great stream found its way to the valley of the St Lawrence and thence to the Atlantic Ocean At the glacial epoch the great continental glacier creeping down toward ...
... BLAST-FURNACES OPERATED BY THE BLAST-FURNACES OPERATED BY THE SEPARATIST SOCIETY OF ZOAR OHIO BY E J BOGNAR A most important contribution to the success of the Separatist Society of Zoar was iron ore The village of Zoar was founded in 1817 by 300 or more Separatists who had embarked early that spring from Wurtemburg1 Germany The party was led by one Joseph M Bimeler2 and the desire for religious freedom brought them to this country where they ...
... JONATHAN ALDER JONATHAN ALDER COL WM CURRY The tales of adventure and bloodshed related by the early pioneers of Ohio of their dangers and hardships have been familiar to me since boyhood Among others of whom I heard many harrowing stories related by my father and other pioneers was of Jonathan Alder who was at one time a resident of Union county Ohio and a noted pioneer and frontiersman Like Captain Samuel Davis the famous Indian fighter he was taken captive by the Indians and the latter part ...
... CATHERINE GOUGAR CATHERINE GOUGAR Probably the Earliest Pioneer Resident of Ohio Who Has Descendants Living Upon the Original Place of Settlement BY FRANK WARNER M D D SC COLUMBUS OHIO On the farm of Alfred Immell situated on the pike from Columbus to Chillicothe some ten miles north of the latter city lies buried Catherine Gougar Her remains have lain here since 1801 when she died at the age of sixty-nine years She died within two years of the establishment of Ohio as a State and within view ...
... immigrants from western Pennsylvania Virginia New Jersey and Kentucky 46 SIMON KENTON 47 SIMON KENTON 47 The westward path of empire was the Ohio River from its forks at Fort Pitt now Pittsburgh in its downward course to the Mississippi Pittsburgh Cincinnati Louisville and St Louis in the lapse of years became the great ports of entry to the west northwest and southwest The great rivers ...
... 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 ...
... THE OHIO DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE THE OHIO DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF B PED By permission of The Ohio Teacher The school histories have always said much about the Mecklenburg Resolutions being the prelude to the Declaration of Independence Indeed some histories make so much of it that you doubt if Thomas Jefferson would ever have mustered up courage sufficient to pen the immortal lines beginning When in the course of human events etc had he not had this brave precedent ...