... Miami University About the same time he was elected major of the frontier regiment then lieutenant colonel and finally during his absence and against his will colonel which latter office he declined to fill resigning his commission Worthington College was chartered in 1817 and Colonel Kilbourn elected President of the corporation which office he filled several terms This year he was appointed by the President the commissioner to settle the ...
... Miami Associates a bad member of society This sharp criticism was provoked by the attitude of Symmes during certain disorders in Cincinnati at that time To the Judge they were only the natural and legitimate expressions of the frontier spirit while to Sargent they were exhibitions of a contempt for law and order The frequent absences of Symmes from the territory which made impossible the convening of the courts and the administration of ...
... THE MEMORIAL STRUCTURE AT MARIETTA THE MEMORIAL STRUCTURE AT MARIETTA REPORT OF A COMMITTEE OF THE OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MADE APRIL 6 1888 THE erection of a monumental structure at Marietta to commemorate the important historical events that became a fulfillment of the past as well as the foundation of the future when on the 7th day of April 1788 the pioneer band settled down upon the virgin soil of the Northwest Territory has been a favorite object in the proceedings of ...
... Little Turtle by N B C Love XVIII 115-48 Logan and the Logan Elm by Howard Jones XXXII 315-27 Logan Chief of the Mingoes Draper MSS ed by R G Thwaites XX 137-75 Putnam Rufus by George F Hoar II 28-46 Rarey John S by Sara L Brown XXV 487-539 St Clair General Arthur by Albert Douglas XVI 455-76 St Clair General Arthur by Theresa V P Krull XLIII 257-72 INDEX TO MATERIALS 155 INDEX TO MATERIALS 155 Sargent Winthrop by C S Sargent XXXIII 229-36 ...
... FIRST BATTLE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FIRST BATTLE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BY W H HUNTER CHILLICOTHE This article was prepared for and read by author at the Banquet of the Ohio Society of the Sons of the American Revolution held at the Neil House Columbus April 19 1902 It is herewith published at the request of the editor of the Quarterly-E 0 R At the time the dreadful battle of Point Pleasant was fought at the mouth of the Kanawha river on October 10 1774 the American colonies were in ...
... The Western Reserve The Western Reserve 259 THE WESTERN RESERVE H OW IT HAS PLAYED AN IMPORTANT PART IN THE HISTORY OF OHIO AND OF THE NATION BY F E HUTCHINS ESQ The Connecticut Western Reserve or as it is commonly called The Western Reserve has from the beginning played an important part not only in the affairs of the State of Ohio but also in those of the United States While there is a very good general idea of what this Reserve now is especially among its own people and those of the State ...
... Dedication of the Hayes Memorial Dedication of the Hayes Memorial 4 31 very graciously doffed his hat in recognition of the honor thus paid him When it was suggested to him that these were the boys who would help him in Mexico in case the situation came to that he very earnestly and seemingly sadly remarked Yes yes I know but we hope and pray they will not be needed Immediately upon the arrival of Secretary Baker the real dedication of the Memorial the Grove and the Mansion was begun ...
... Little Kanawha it is also possible that Ohio would be a French province today If General Lewis had not led his poorly-armed and clad Virginia mountaineers to the battle of Point Pleasant in the Ohio Valley and routed the Indians who were fighting under English directions it is also possible that there would not have been any reason for this Putnam society to exist The stolid Englishmen had made their homes along the lines of the Atlantic Coast ...
... Little lingering at a spot historic in Buckeyedom There is a sleepy little village here and to many of its inhabitants it was news to be informed that within its precincts an American army once camped under the generalship of a real live English lord Nature has conspired to make this an attractive spot and the chronicles of early travelers passing up and down the Ohio never fail to make ...
... Little attempted less accomplished The men in the ranks and the line officers mostly volunteers or militia were full of zeal were eager to fight were willing to endure endless hardship but they were without discipline were ill-equipped were badly fed or half-starved and the politicians that led them were neither soldiers nor had the 378 Ohio Arch 378 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications George Croghan George Croghan 379 making of ...
... Miami rivers to satisfy its Revolutionary War bounties The surveying of the reserve delayed the disposition of the lands and it was not until 1790 that congress directed the president to issue patents to the Virginia veterans their heirs and assigns The first settlement in the Virginia Military District was Massie's Station later Manchester founded in 1791 by Nathaniel Massie The earliest dated land patent in the Society's manuscript ...
... Miamis and apparently one Miami chief La Demoiselle Miamis and other Miami River ed by Milo M Quaife in Wisconsin State Historical Society Proceedings for 1914 Madison 1914 215 Published separately 1915 1 3 O M Spencer Indian Captivity ed by M M Quaife Chicago 1917 95-7 1 4 American ...
... Little did our ancestry think of what the future held They could not believe that by 1913 this planting would produce a nation of one hundred millions of people a population two and one-half times that of the mother country ten times that of her largest colony-United Colonies of Australia-sixteen times that of Canada and more than all the other English-speaking peoples of the world combined No wonder that Salisbury in an outburst of oratory ...
... Miami Rivers 163548 Miami is on one of these Miami Township Clermont County for 1235 acres On the same day a survey in the name of Major Henry Massie the founder of Portsmouth Ohio was made overlying the whole of General Washington's Survey 1 775 for 977 acres in Union Township Clermont County and Anderson Township in Hamilton County The ...
... Little Kanawha was the Little Turtle Tarhe Little did I think on that April morning as I stood there that I would be privileged to be here on this occasion at the dedication of this monument erected to commemorate the massacre of the sons of that splendid band of pioneers who set out to people this valley My friends we of Ohio do not have ...