... County Court of Common County of Hamilton To County of Hamilton by receipts from sundry officers 252765 2-3 Resolved That the above balance of 392 dollars and 39 2-3 cents remains due partly to the Territory and partly to the county of Hamilton and that the treasurer's statement as now ...
... OUR GLAMOROUS HISTORY OUR GLAMOROUS HISTORY By R CL YD E FO RD A long time ago Pericles once said in a memorial day address outside the walls of Athens that it was fitting to remember the dead who had fallen on the fields of battle but also Athenians must never forget by what principles of action and deeds of valor Athens had risen to power and become great When we turn to our own history we can discover principles of action and deeds of valor to defend them that stir our souls It's that ...
... County Fair Grounds recently named the Israel Putnam Agricultural Park in honor of Israel Putnam and along the high ground until it reached the old Factor's house which was later changed into a fort and named Fort Stephenson after Colonel Stephenson who was in charge of the troops engaged in making the charge The encampment thus enclosed the low rich ground on which the Indians had from time immemorial grown their crops and through the center ...
... County in 169 Side RossCounty Indians 168 RossCountyEstablishment of343 Ryan Daniel J Portrait of 11 The First Constitution 11 S Sandusky River Source of 161 Sanky Rev Influence of ...
... Rosscounty These five historic Chillicothes were Shawnee villages The word Chillicothe meaning the place where the people live or a village Black Mountain is a ridge located on the farm where D E Phillips now resides It is somewhat in the shape of an inverted boat elevated from one hundred and thirty to one hundred and fifty feet above the bottom of the prairie immediately in its vicinity ...
... 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 settled in the inviting wooded region of the ...
... establishment of a state school establishment of county infirmaries and the more humane treatment of the poor as well as the advocacy of all plans for internal improvement by roads water courses and finally by canals one clearly sees the statesman instead of the politician He inherited wealth and he spent it freely with his time and ...
... ANCIENT CORRESPONDENCE ANCIENT CORRESPONDENCE FROM SAMUEL LINTON WAYNESVILLE O TO ABEL SATERTHWAITE PHILADELPHIA Samuel Linton was the fifth child of Benjamin and Jane Cowgal Linton and was born in Bucks county Pa December 17th 1741 He was reared a farmer yet learned the trade of a weaver He married May 10 1775 Elizabeth Harvey who was born March 8th 1748 They had six children Samuel Nathan David Jane Elizabeth and James who in turn with the ...
... County Ohio XIII 401-43 County X 251-304 Shaker County Ohio XXVIII 375-95 County Iron Industry XLII County VI 95-313 VIII 132-263 Jones W H Welsh Settlements in Ohio XVI 194-227 Peters Bernard The German Pioneers II 52-9 Turner ...
... County It may be well to County Governor Tiffin in his message to the Legislature December 4 1 80 4 called attention to what had been done and recommended a more liberal policy to the lessees of the land in order to induce more rapid settlement that the institution might be immediately profited The legislature responded with an act providing for the appraisement of the lands at not less than ...
... County was all embraced in County and were four and one-half miles wide from north to south Both of these townships were named by refugee influences that of Montgomery by Judge Edward C Livingston whose father as has been stated was with General Montgomery when he fell at Quebec and who was a refugee from Canada and Truro by Robert Taylor who came from Truro Nova Scotia and was the fourth ...
... County Maryland He was sent to school in Baltimore but finding his work uncongenial he left school without leave or license and walked home a distance of 140 miles But the Colonel promptly gave the truant Michael a severe flogging and compelled him to walk back to school where he remained until his studies were finished Soon after leaving school he married a Miss Whitehead of Philadelphia and the young pair described as being a little more ...
... Monument at Fort Jefferson Monument at Fort Jefferson 113 5 PRESENTATION Geo A Katzenberger 6 UNVEILING Elizabeth D Robeson 7 MILITARY SALUTE Gun Squad Co M 3rd Regt 8 STAR SPANGLED BANNER Drum Corps 9 ACCEPTANCE ON BEHALF OF THE PUBLICProf J T Martz 10 HISTORIC ADDRESS Judge J I Allread 11 YANKEE DOODLE Drum Corps 12 A WORD FROM THE RED MEN L E Wills 13 BENEDICTION Rev G W Berry ADDRESS OF FRAZER E WILSON SECRETARY GREENVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY One hundred and sixteen years ago to-day a ...
... THE WESTERN INDIANS IN THE REVOLUTION THE WESTERN INDIANS IN THE REVOLUTION WALLACE NOTESTEIN This paper was awarded the annual prize offered to Ohioans by the Ohio Sons of the Revolution for an historical essay February 1905 The assigned subject that year was the Western Indians in the Revolution The writer aimed only at a clear and concise treatment of the Indian War in the West of which so far as he is aware there is no brief recent account The discussion of Gov Hamilton's responsibility ...
... Ross Steven J Workers on Ross 131 Williams Isaac Ross 146 Worster Donald Dust Bowl The Southern Plains in the 1930s 45-46 Wunderlin Clarence E Jr book rev 89-90 Y Youth and History Tradition and Change in European Age Relations 1770-Present by John R Gillis 147-149 Z Zone Michael 37 BACK TO TOP BACK TO TOP BACK TO TOP BACK TO TOP BACK TO ...
... County Ohio 1 925 A fort was discovered near Venice by Major Falley overgrown with underbrush and timber but showing a double entrenchment It has since been completely obliterated by cultivation and now no trace of it can be found Vol II p 725 Johnson's fear was justified since this was probably the fort burned by Pontiac's men in 1763 Johnson continued his journey eastward camping at a river within fifteen miles of Sandusky Lake where he shot ...
... establishment of the first city establishments near to us have already undergone this sad lot and have perished either by fire or by the sword All the Americans are jealous of us and are astonished at our apparent security and at the tranquillity of the Indians in our regard In fact they have so far deprived us of but one of our number whom they have taken captive But they can at any minute ...
... establishment of a peace with them Wayne was now in the position to effect what his predecessors had failed to accomplish Assuredly his superiority of force would permit him to dictate any terms he liked but such terms would be honored only so long as this superiority was present in the Indian country Nine months elapsed however from the initial request for peace by the Indians before the signing of the treaty The Indians acquiesced only after ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE VANISHED BISHOPRIC-AN INTERESTING BIT OF OHIO HISTORY The Catholic Historical Review for July contains for people of Ohio a vastly interesting paper A Vanished Bishopric of Ohio dealing the rile French settlement at Scioto or Gallipolis on the Ohio River and the proposition to establish thereat a Catholic bishopric some time about the year 1789 the year that Bishop John Carroll was appointed to the See of Baltimore with jurisdiction over all the United States It ...