...formation he possessed we are on or very near the spot where Logan the Mingo chief the Indian philanthropist and friend of the white man delivered his celebrated speech sent to Lord Dunmore creditable to mankind and honorable to him and his nation Popular tradition places the site of the delivery of Logan's speech under the famous Logan's elm on the Boggs farm banks of the Congo some three miles southeast of old Chillicothe in which Logan's ...
... County The late E O County In the absence of County Virginia one whose life and actions influenced the history of Ohio in a greater degree than that of any other man This was Edward Tiffin He brought with him a flattering letter fom George Washington dated January 4 1798 and addressed to Governor St Clair From his entrance into the valley ...
... THE BATTLES OF THE MAUMEE THE BATTLES O F THE MAUMEE N B C LOVE D D MOUND BUILDERS Maumee Thou art lovely and bright As if blood had ne'er tinged thy waves And pre-historic tawny braves Had wrought no scene of hellish night Why not a golden sunset smile When thy banks are clothed in green And beauty adorns all the scene When bathed in mellow light the while Thou art gray in the early morn And restful thy summer eveA mirror which cannot deceive And has not since Time was born In ages gone thy ...
... County came Return County sent among its County was represented by County sent Joseph County aided in shaping County began circulating its precious volumes in the backwoods in 1804 ...
...formation concerning this Treaty see Jour of Congs old Vol I pp 112 161 162 168 201 Plain Facts Philad'a 1781 p 144 The Virginia Com were Thomas Walker Andrew Lewis Adam Stephen and James Wood The Con Com were Lewis Morris James Wilson and John Walker These names appear in the MS Proceedings of the Treaty Compare Bancroft Hist U S Vol VII pp 109 110 113 Hildreth's Pioneer Hist 98-108 114 Wood's MS Journal 115 Journals of Congress Vol II 1776 p ...
... THE DEBT OF THE WEST TO WASHINGTON THE DEBT OF THE WEST TO WASHINGTON BY ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT To us of the central west the memory of Washington and his dearest ambitions must be precious beyond that of any other American whether statesman general or seer Under strange providential guidance the mind and heart of that first American was turned toward the territories lying between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi and it is to be doubted if any other portion of his country received so much of ...
...formation and education to almost every fireside on the day of or the day after its publication The primitive church - often the little log schoolhouse - with its occasional itinerant preacher has been succeeded by the magnificent cathedral the splendid temples and the more modest village and country church But the same religion and religious services that helped comforted and blessed the early pioneer in his far-off forest home yet remain and ...
... a 314 LOGAN AND THE LOGAN LEM LOGAN AND THE LOGAN LEM BY DR HOWARD JONES I have been asked to tell you something about this piece of land upon which we have assembled today and what this meeting commemorates This is easy and yet difficult easy because the subject is replete with interesting history difficult because the time allotted is too short to treat the subject in a very comprehensive or even an understandable manner It was in 1911 that I made the proposal to Mrs Wallace to purchase ...
...formation on early Ohio formation concerning the land formation After having formation32 and thereby became a more successful promoter of the project of the Ohio Company 3l Hutchins to Sargent June 25 1787 Sargent MSS 32 On October 6 1786 Cutler wrote Sargent that his letters from Ohio which ...
... Big Bottom and Its History Big Bottom and Its History 29 we consider that but for this custom and the preservation of these monuments and tablets much that we now recognize and accept as historic truths would have been lost to us and all future generations it is matter of earnest congratulation upon our part that this monument which we are met here to-day to dedicate has been donated to and has been formally accepted by the Archaeological and Historical Society of Ohio For we feel and know ...
... formation like our boulder can be found Prof Orton says that no drill has ever penetrated deep enough in Ohio to reach down to such granitic bed rock Where did it and others of its kind called hardheads or niggerheads which lie thickly scattered in portions of the county come from Their generally rounded and smoothed surface would indicate that they have been transported from a distance and ...
...formation in regard to the formation we quote from the formation of a great confederacy of all the western and southern tribes for the purpose of holding the Ohio river as the permanent boundary between the two races In pursuance of this object he and his agents visited every tribe from Florida to the head of the Missouri river While ...
... 30 Ohio Arch 30 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 4 AN EARLY ABOLITION COLONY AND ITS FOUNDER BY A A GRAHAM About nine miles north of the capital of Ohio is a village the foundation of which marks an important epoch in the history of Ohio The conflict between freedom and slavery began before the successful growth of the young republic was assured Thrifty New Englanders were waiting the encroachment of slavery and among them were men not afraid to lift up their voices in loud and ...
... THE WYANDOT MISSION THE WYANDOT MISSION EMIL SCHLUP The present generation can scarcely comprehend the hardships and privations the early missionaries had to endure when the Ohio country was in a wilderness state But brave men risked their lives in promulgating the Christian doctrine among the aboriginals of the forest The earliest Protestant denomination to enter the new field were the Moravians Christian Frederick Post who had been a missionary among the Moravian Indians in New York and ...
... County of Illinois Further legislation provided for the appointment by the governor and council of Virginia of a county lieutenant or commandant who was authorized to appoint deputies and military officers requisite for the proper organization and control of the county In the summer of 1779 this
...formation of an uncivilized into a civilized race They endeavored to make the Indians Christians but not Caucasians At Bethlehem Roth met a young woman devoted to the Moravian religion--Maria Agnes Pfingstag She was a favorite 4 Philippians 413 5 David Luther Roth Johann Roth Missionary Greenville Ohio 1922 23-25 254 OHIO ARCH AEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 254 OHIO ARCH AEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY with all the sisters6 and at ...
... County Fair Grounds at County Soldiers' Monument County Seat of Sandusky County Ohio The JUNQUINDUNDEH of the Indians and the LOWER SANDUSKY of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 An old NEUTRAL TOWN of the ERIES used as a refuge on the destruction of the HURON Confederacy by the ...
... County Ohio is proud of County Society In another few hundred years this tree may be forever lost but the site shall remain and let us hope that posterity may suitably commemorate with a monument of bronze the world famed speech of the great Mingo Chief Logan Dr G Frederick Wright President of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society received the deed from the hands of Mrs Jones and ...
... 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 ...
... County The line runs northwesterly through the counties of Clark Champaign and Logan about forty miles to the old Indian Boundary Line as fixed by Wayne's treaty in 1795 In 1 80 4 this line together with its future extension beyond the Indian Boundary to the Scioto was declared to be the western line of the Virginia Military District provided Virginia would agree to it within two years Virginia objected The land west of the Ludlow line had ...