... 452 Ohio Arch 452 Ohio Arch and H ist Society Publications For God shall dwell among us and men shall say The former bitter things are passed away Gone are our strifes and banished all our fears For here is love that wipes away all tears Here is the rest for which our souls have striven This is the city that came down from heaven WHY OHIO IS GREAT At the dinner participated in on Tuesday August 27 at the Southern Hotel by the Descendants of Ohio Governors the following address was made by Prof ...
... JOHN LEWIS ROTH JOHN LEWIS ROTH The First White Child Born in the Moravian Mission at Gnadenhutten1 By HARLOW LINDLEY The Ohio Society Daughters of the American Colonists at least must be given credit for arousing a group of Ohio's citizens from an unusual state of disinterestedness to one of profound interest and concern as to who was the first white child born in Ohio and some of these seem to have gone out of their way to misinterpret what it is all about I hold in my hand a clipping ...
... OHIO'S BIRTH STRUGGLE OHIO'S BIRTH STRUGGLE BY WM T M'CLINTOCK CHILLICOTHE O The story of the controversy between General Arthur St Clair the Governor of the Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio and the young Jeffersonian Republicans of that Territory in 1799-1803 which resulted in the birth of a new state to the Federal Union There is no part of the history of the U S Territory northwest of the Ohio River more interesting than the story of the controversy between its ...
... strike Tomorrow the defenses would be put up and soon the regulars would return The whole available force of the Indians were now ready for the attack At the opportune moment upon the early dawn it opened with great fury The onset was terrific The militiamen who occupied a position a quarter of a mile in advance were swept back upon the main army before they could scarcely fire a shot and the whole army was in consternation The men after ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 351 Reviews Notes and Comments 351 action makes very little change in the status of the Society while it offers large opportunities for co-operation with the various branches of the Department of Education The Superintendent of Public Instruction now becomes ex-officio a member of our Board of Trustees ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION FOR SOLDIERS OF THE WORLD WAR A constitutional amendment providing for issuing bonds for adjusted compensation for service in the World War was ...
... DOCUMENTS DOCUMENTS AN UNSUCCESSFUL NEGOTIATION FOR REMOVAL OF THE WYANDOT INDIANS FROM OHIO 1834 edited by DWIGHT L SMITH Instructor in History Ohio State University It did not take long for the frontiersman and his government to realize the impossibility of his pushing westward into new lands for purposes of hunting trapping and settling without reckoning with the Indian who inhabited the lands in which he desired to hunt trap and settle According to the white man's concepts of ownership and ...
... David Zeisberger Centennial David Zeisberger Centennial 17 5 A SCENE AT ZEISBERGER'S GRAVE C L MARTZOLFF From The Ohio Teacher January 1908 A beautiful November day it is One of those rare last days of the autumn time whose minutes pass too lightly for you want to keep them by you One of those days when you are watching the sun and calculate mentally how much of it you have yet to enjoy You know that you cannot have many more such glorious days and you want every bit of this one This is the ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XIX INDEX TO VOLUME XIX The index given below applies only to the last half of Volume 19 beginning on page 190 The contents of this volume previous to the above embracing the translation of the Zeisberger Indian History has a separate index beginning on page 174--EDITOR A B Abolition 267 State Convention of 267 Baber Richard Plantagenet Llewellyn i bAllegwi 331 Letter of to Senator Doolittle 375 Ames Bishop E R 429 Sketch of 370 -1 0 Anti-Slavery 266 Reconstruction on 376 ...
... TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY June 9 1 90 6 The Twenty-first Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the lecture room of the V M C A Building Columbus at 1 30 P M June 9 19 06 The following members were present Rev J W Atwood Columbus Judge J H Anderson Columbus Prof M R Andrews Marietta Mr E H Archer Columbus Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Gen R ...
... RIVALRY BETWEEN EARLY OHIO AND KENTUCKY RIVALRY BETWEEN EARLY OHIO AND KENTUCKY SETTLERS The following article by a well-known historical writer recently appeared in one of the daily prints It throws an interesting side-light upon the early settlements on the Ohio-EDITOR The very first road that was laid out by engineers to lead to Cincinnati was referred to in the following advertisement in an issue of the Kentucky Gazette published at Lexington and edited by John Bradford dated September 6 ...
... JOHN FITCH INVENTOR OF STEAMBOATS JOHN FITCH INVENTOR OF STEAMBOATS BY MIRA CLARKE PARSONS By a coincidence of which the writer was not then aware while the article on the Steamboat was in type the name of Robert Fulton was brought to public notice for the purpose of bestowing further honors upon the memory of a great inventor The object of this paper is to offer additional proof of the validity of the prior claim of John Fitch as the inventor and originator of steam navigation While all due ...
... A CANOE JOURNEY FROM THE BIG BEAVER TO THE A CANOE JOURNEY FROM THE BIG BEAVER TO THE TUSCARAWAS IN 1773 A TRAVEL DIARY OF JOHN HECKEWAELDER Translated and edited by AUGUST C MAHR Professor of German Ohio State University By 1772 due to circumstances beyond their control the missionaries of the Moravian Church among the Indians in Pennsylvania had found it inevitable to abandon their two mission stations on the upper North Branch of the Susquehanna Friedenshiitten about one mile down the river ...
... 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 ...
... 54 Ohio Arch 54 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications tion dissolved but Nelson agreed with Wayne Grier and Curtis in the opinion that an attachment should issue since there was no power in Congress to interfere with the judgment of the court under pretense of power to legalize the structure or by making it a post road Justice McLean dissented feeling that the principle involved was of the deepest interest to the growing commerce of the West which might be obstructed by bridges across the ...
... 366 Ohio Arch 366 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications HUDSON CENTENNIAL APPENDIX DAVID HUDSON AND HEMAN OVIATT Hudson is town four Range ten and was purchased of the Connecticut Land Company by David Hudson Birdseye Norton Nathaniel Norton Stephen Baldwin Benjamin Oviatt and Theodore Parmele for fifty-two cents an acre In the original survey it was laid down as a swamp township and in order to make it equal to the average townships there was annexed to it from the equalizing townships 10000 ...
... 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 ...
... strikes me that without this conquest and continued military occupation of the territory up to the time peace was concluded neither the United States nor Virginia had any claim to the territory that would have been valid under the law of nations Perhaps but few now listening to me have ever before heard of George Rogers Clarke or know of his great conquests the benefits of which we are to-day enjoying throughout the conquered territory which ...
... JAMES BACKUS CITIZEN OF MARIETTA 1788-1791 JAMES BACKUS CITIZEN OF MARIETTA 1788-1791 By JOSEPHINE E PHILLIPS There are about 150 Horses Sixty Cows amp Seven Yoak of Oxen here The Emigrants that pass down the river for Kentucky amp other parts of the Western Country are amazing We have a militia formed who assemble every Sunday amp are fined for not attending We have preaching or service read regularly once a week likewise a school Thus wrote James Backus1 from Marietta to his parents in ...
... CHARACTERISTICS AND ACHIEVEMENTS CHARACTERISTICS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF DAVID ZEISBERGER REV WILLIAM N SCHWARZE M A Professor of Historical Theology Moravian College and Theological Seminary Bethlehem Pa In the middle of the eighteenth century Nathaniel Seidel and David Zeisberger were deputed by the Board controlling Moravian activity in America to report to Count Zinzendorf and his coadjutors in Europe the character which the mission among the Indians was assuming as well as to explain its ...
... strikes me that without this conquest and continued military occupation of the territory up to the time peace was concluded neither the United States nor Virginia had any claim to the territory that would have been valid under the law of nations Perhaps but few now listening to me have ever before heard of George Rogers Clarke or know of his great conquests the benefits of which we are to-day enjoying throughout the conquered territory which ...