... 582 Ohio Arch 582 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications We now have a driveway leading from the main entrance passing through the valley walnut grove over the hillside and through the battlefield returning to the main entrance Respectfully submitted W H ORTT Chairman On motion the report was accepted and ordered placed on file President Campbell called attention to the fact that at the last Annual Meeting the Society passed a resolution complimenting Director W C Mills on his long and ...
... THE OLD NATIONAL ROAD-THE HISTORIC THE OLD NATIONAL ROAD-THE HISTORIC HIGHWAY OF AMERICA BY ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT I THE MIDDLE AGE The middle ages had their wars and agonies but also their intense delights Their gold was dashed with blood but ours is sprinkled with dust Their life was intermingled with white and purple ours is one seamless stuff of brown - RUSKIN A person can not live in the American central west and be acquaintance with the generation which greets the new century with feeble ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Life of Mr Justice Clarke A Testament to the Power of Liberal Dissent in America By Hoyt Landon Warner Cleveland Western Reserve University Press 1959 ix232p frontispiece bibliography and index 500 In the past few years there has been a marked revival of interest in the United States Supreme Court as is shown by the flood of articles monographs and books that have appeared on the court and its members Such interest may reach a high point when the full-length study ...
... 470 Ohio 470 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Baldwin holds that more than two thousand years have elapsed since the Mound Builders lived in the Ohio Valley In conclusion we are not in a position to state whether the Mound Builders were the race that exploited the pre-historic horse on this continent or whether they degenerated into Indians All we know for a certainty is that the pre-historic man had a pre-historic horse and that he both rode and ate him and that the horse in improved ...
... TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR FEBRUARY 18 1896 TO FEBRUARY 1 1897 GEN R BRINKERHOFF President E 0 RANDALL Secretary COLUMBUS O JANUARY 1 897 291 292 To His Excellency Asa S To His Excellency Asa S Bushnell Governor of Ohio SIRI have the honor to submit herewith the twelfth annual report of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society covering the year from February 19 1896 to February 1 1897 This ...
... THE WESTERNIZATION OF NEW ENGLAND THE WESTERNIZATION OF NEW ENGLAND ALBERT BUSHNELL HART LL D Mr Hart is professor of American History at Harvard University the author of many standard and popular works on United States History In 1902 he was chosen editor-in-chief of the co-operative history of the United States projected under the auspices of the American Historical Association The article herewith published was the address deliverd by him at Marietta on the occasion of the erection of a ...
... McKinley's Attempt to Avoid War 135 McKinley's Attempt to Avoid War 135 tional sovereignty22 In effect Spain still clung to sovereignty over Cuba and autonomy for the island At the same time that McKinley was dealing with the Spanish minister he made a final attempt to get the Cuban Junta to cooperate Rubens later explained that just before McKinley's message went to Congress the president's emissary told him that if the Cubans agreed to the armistice McKinley would place a reference to Cuban ...
... 402 Ohio Arch 402 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications 6 Stuart James-Three Years in North America Edinburgh 1833 Vol II 7 Shirreff Patrick-A Tour through North America Edinburgh 1835 8 Steele Mrs Eliza RA Summer Journey in the West New York 1841 9 Buckingham J S-Eastern and Western States of America London 1842 Vol II 10 Godwin Parke-Prose Writings of Wm Cullen Bryant Vol II Bryant Wm C--Illinois Fifty Years Ago New York 1901 11 Dickens Charles-American Notes London 1903 12 Fordham Elias ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 289 Second Vice-president Judge Simeon Eben Baldwin New Haven Connecticut Secretary A Howard Clark Esq Smithsonian Institute Washington Corresponding Secretary Professor Charles H Haskins 15 Prescott Hall Cambridge Massachusetts Treasurer Clarence Winthrop Bowen Esq 130 Fulton St New York Chicago was chosen as the next place of meeting December 1904 The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was represented at the American Historical Association meeting by ...
... 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 ...
... Book Notes Book Notes State Maps on File Midwest Illinois Indiana Iowa Michigan Minnesota Missouri Ohio Wisconsin New York Facts on File Publications 1984 maps index and Illustrated Dictionary of Place Names United States and Canada Edited by Kelsie B Harder New York Facts on File Publications 1985 reprint xiv 631p illustrations bibliography State Maps on File is one of a seven-volume series of state maps compiled by the publishers and specifically geared to the needs of teachers students and ...
... THE KIRTLAND PHASE OF MORMONISM THE KIRTLAND PHASE OF MORMONISM By W J MCNIFF Kirtland Ohio was but a stepping stone for the Mormons as they restlessly pushed on towards the setting sun Somewhere in the West they planned a city of Zion Their leader prophesied a land of milk and honey gleaming with alabaster towers where righteousness would reign in the hearts of man The Kirtland phase came as an interlude between the future Zion of Missouri and the scornful attitude of the New Yorker In 1 827 ...
... EARL IRVIN WEST EARL IRVIN WEST Early Cincinnati's Unprecedented Spectacle When Isaac G Burnet Cincinnati's newly elected mayor called a meeting of the city's leading citizens for Tuesday night April 7 1829 to make arrangements for a debate between Robert Owen and Alexander Campbell this can be considered an official sanction for the extraordinary event that was being planned1 Robert Owen social reformer lecturer and founder of the then defunct communitarian colony at New Harmony Indiana had ...
... 486 Ohio Arch 486 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications where they fell at the hands of the Indians This I think should be one of the first things to be done by the Commissioners The pioneer history of Ohio is filled with soul-stirring events and I know our posterity will read with grateful hearts the story of the builders of the great foundation on which now stands in high esteem in all lands of the world our great State of Ohio Good-night COLONEL WILLIAM LEONTES CURRY Colonel William ...
... edited by edited by JAMES B MURPHY A Confederate Soldier's View of Johnson's Island Prison William Henry Asbury Speer of Yadkin County joined the Confederate TwentyEighth North Carolina Volunteers as captain of its First Company when the regiment was organized at Highpoint on September 21 1861 After training and post duty at Wilmington Speer and the regiment moved to New Bern and then on to Gordonsville and Rapidan Station Virginia Ordered to join Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley the ...
... GEORGE C GEORGE C CROUT Albert B Graham School Days of a Schoolmaster Albert B Graham was born March 13 1868 or as he expressed it in his own wry sense of humor came up between two stalks of corn on the last farm on Route 36 west of St Paris in Champaign County1 From as early as he could remember he had aspirations of being a schoolmaster When he first revealed his secret ambition his Scotch-Presbyterian father remarked What a thing for a lad to decide when there is a mortgage on the farm2 ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Spring Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held Friday and Saturday 23-24 April 1993 at Wittenberg University The Oral History Association will hold its 1993 Annual Meeting on November 4-7 1993 at the Birmingham Raddison Hotel in Birmingham Alabama For more information write to Kim Lacy Rogers Department of History Dickinson College Carlisle Pennsylvania 17013-2896 The Forest History Society announces the availability of Alfred D Bell Jr ...
... 156 Ohio Arch 15 6 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications his countenance betokened a sensual rather than an intellectual quality of character he had not inherited the Napoleon cast of face he was Beauharnais not Bonaparte the forehead was broad the nose prominent suggesting a certain German type the eyes small grayish-blue in color rather expressionless as one biographer said 'if they were windows of his soul their blinds were constantly drawn' his hair was iron-gray his natural 'make-up' ...
... VICTOR GILBREATH VICTOR GILBREATH BY C B GALBREATH The war with Mexico like all others had its sidelights its personal triumphs privations and tragedies among the men in the ranks Of course for the most part these are lost to history Occasionally however through some accidental circumstance these are lifted to the public view and endued with a degree of enduring fame not usually accorded to the central figure of the story The War of 1812 had its James Bird1 the war with Mexico had its Victor ...
... The Croghan Celebration The Croghan Celebration 27 ADDRESS OF HON CHARLES W FAIRBANKS VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I am gratified indeed to be present and participate with you for a brief while upon this historic occasion I have not come to make a formal speech nor did I come to make you a speech at all According to the programme I am to indulge only in a few remarks What I shall say to you shall be born of the moment I have brought with me no well-turned phrases I have come simply to ...