... MONUMENTS TO HISTORICAL INDIAN CHIEFS MONUMENTS TO HISTORICAL INDIAN CHIEFS BY EDWARD LIVINGSTON TAYLOR It will always seem strange that the Indian tribes erected no monuments of an enduring character to mark the last resting place of their dead especially so as they had constantly before them the example of the burial mounds of the race that preceded them in the occupancy of the country as well as the later example of the white race whose custom of marking the graves of their dead was ...
... BEGINNINGS OF LUTHERANISM IN OHIO BEGINNINGS OF LUTHERANISM IN OHIO BY PROFESSOR B F PRINCE PH D By the treaty of Fort Stanwix made with the Iroquois Indians in 1768 a large tract of land was opened to settlement in Western Pennsylvania and other regions reaching as far south as Eastern Tennessee The lands in Western Pennsylvania were opened to purchase in 1769 They were much sought for by residents of the eastern part of the State and by adventurers from Maryland and Virginia There were also ...
... 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 ...
... ORIGIN OF OHIO PLACE NAMES ORIGIN OF OHIO PLACE NAMES MRS MARIA EWING MARTIN Paper read before the Fifth Ohio State Conference Daughters of the American Revolution held at Toledo October 29 1903EDITOR The Iroquois War on the Shawanese tribes along the Ohio gave white men in 1670 their first knowledge of that river La Salle's expedition down its waters to the Falls promptly followed but eleven years later when he stood at the mouth of the Mississippi and took possession for the King of France ...
... THE EVOLUTION OF SANDUSKY COUNTY THE EVOLUTION OF SANDUSKY COUNTY BASIL MEEK The limits of the following sketch will allow only in brief outline some of the more important facts and incidents pertaining to the governmental relations of that portion of country lying immediately south of Lake Erie which became Sandusky County and also of the greater area known as the Northwest Territory holding the same in embryo while it was passing to its organic limits as a separate county A view of the ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XVIII No 3 JULY 190 9 WASHINGTON'S FIRST BATTLE GROUND For many years it had been the ardent desire of the Editor to traverse the country of the Monongahela and the Youghiogheny where the youthful Washington began his diplomatic career entered his military life received his baptism of fire won his spurs in battle met his first defeat and succumbed to his only surrender experiences that taught him his preparatory lessons in the science of statesmanship and the art ...
... FORTS LORAMIE AND PICKAWILLANY FORTS LORAMIE AND PICKAWILLANY BY R W MCFARLAND LL D One of the functions of an Historical Society is or at least ought to be to criticize doubtful and inexact statements in works professing to be History and where practicable to make known the truth Let us apply this principle to some of the statements made by different writers in reference to the places named at the head of this article But first it is well to give the location of the forts both of which were ...
... MINUTES MINUTES 0F THE Sixth Annual Meeting of the Society HELD IN COLUMBUS FEBRUARY 18 AND 1 9 18 91 Thursday February 19th the society came to order in the State Library There being present the following members Wm E Moore of Columbus A A Graham of Columbus N S Townshend of Columbus H A Thompson of Westerville J A Anderson of Columbus L B Wing of Newark Geo F Bareis of Canal Winchester A R McIntire of Mt Vernon D J Ryan of Portsmouth J J Janney of Columbus S S Rickly of Columbus Thos E Van ...
... 432 Ohio Arch 432 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications FIFTH SESSION At the Saturday afternoon session under the direction of Professor A E Morse of Marietta College the following papers were read and at the conclusion the members of the Association extended a most hearty vote of thanks to the President and officers of instruction of Marietta College where the meetings were held and to the people of the city of Marietta whose thoughtful care and attention had resulted in so successful a ...
... SOME HISTORY FROM AN UN-HISTORICAL REGION SOME HISTORY FROM AN UN-HISTORICAL REGION BY A B GILLILAND The title may sound somewhat paradoxical but there are regions which owing to their geographical location have had so very little to do with the making of history that they are spoken of as of no historical importance yet may not be devoid of historical occurrences that may be of some interest Such Van Wert County may be said to be situated in the northwest part of Ohio away from the regions ...
... PONTIAC'S CONSPIRACY PONTIAC'S CONSPIRACY BY E 0 RANDALL For a century and a half 1600-1750 France and England had been rivals for the possession of the fairest part of the North American continent Each nation had acquired a fixed tenancy but the extent of those respective holdings was unequal France by her discoveries and occupancies had preempted Canada the region of the Great Lakes and the Ohio and Mississippi valleys England through her colonies the New England Coast from near the Gulf of ...
... 82 Ohio Arch 82 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 CONTEMPORARY DESCRIPTION OF OHIO IN 1788 In 1888 Mr John H James of Urbana Ohio whose collection of historical works is hardly excelled published a translation of a French pamphlet used by Mr Barlow and his associates in Paris when engaged in the sale of lands in the Ohio country The pamphlet says Mr James in his introduction was published in French and English the French copy being a translation of the English copy first published ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XX No 1 JANUARY 1911 JEFFERSON'S ORDINANCE OF 1784 Frequent inquiries have come to the Editor of the Quarterly concerning the nature of Jefferson's Ordinance of 1784 for the organization of the Northwest Territory and its bearing upon the later Ordinance of 1787 In reply to such inquiries we submit the following As early as the fall of 1776 and at various times later up to the final peace agreement of 1783 Congress by resolution pledged bounty lands to those ...
... MONUMENT AT FORT JEFFERSON MONUMENT AT FORT JEFFERSON On Thursday October 24 1907 through the efforts and under the auspices of the Greenville Historical Society a monument was erected to mark the site of Fort Jefferson and to commemorate the historic events connected with that military post The monument unique in form and material is twenty feet in height seven feet broad at the base with a shoulder about two feet from the ground and a gracefully tapering shaft as shown in the accompanying ...
... 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 exception of James raised large families During the ...
... INDIAN ATTACK ON FORT DUNLAP INDIAN ATTACK ON FORT DUNLAP STEPHEN DECATER CONE Mr Cone is a resident of Hamilton Ohio During a long life he has been a student of Ohio history has written many articles for publication and with Mr Bert S Bartlow was one of the co-editors of the Centennial History of Butler County-- EDITOR In the far-famed Miami valley nine miles below Hamilton on the banks of the Miami river more than one hundred and fourteen years ago there occurred an incident of our pioneer ...
... THE SANDUSKY RIVER THE SANDUSKY RIVER LUCY ELLIOT KEELER The Russian peasant's phrase The road that runs would have appealed to the primitive people who in generations past paddled upon the waters and occupied the valley of the Sandusky River For some eighty miles it traces a winding way through northwestern Ohio rising in the Palmer Spring of Richland county flowing through Crawford Wyandot Seneca and Sandusky counties its mouth directly north of its source and its general course forming a ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XVII INDEX TO VOLUME XVII A Twenty-third annual meeting of O Adena 185 189 A amp I S 132 Description of 191 Washington's Tour of the Ohio Distinguished visitors to 191 and articles of The Mississippi Allread James I Address of 120 Company 431 Amos J O Sketch of Loramie village Atwater Caleb mention of 254 by 9 B ArchaeologyBacon David - Collection in 144 Cabin site of 289 Mound Builders and the Lost Tribes Death of 292 208 Discomfiture of 290 Some Ohio Investigations in 94 ...
... FRIENDS AND THE SHAWNEE INDIANS AT FRIENDS AND THE SHAWNEE INDIANS AT WAPAKONETA By HARLOW LINDLEY About the beginning of the last century two bands of Shawnee Indians are known to have been settled on lands in the vicinity of the present town of Wapakoneta Ohio In the year 1809 these Indians began to receive attention from the Friends of Ohio Yearly Meeting In order to assist them in adopting civilized modes of living they built for them a saw and grist mill on their lands and some of the ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 431 Reviews Notes and Comments 431 SENATOR ROBERT L OWEN AT THE LOGAN ELM Mr E L Spetnagel a life member of our Society writes an interesting letter to Mr Tiffin J Gilmore thanking him for a circular containing a cut of the Logan Elm and the text of the speech of Chief Logan that made the tree famous He speaks of a family reunion last June and the enjoyment of two brothers and other members of his family in making a visit to this grand old tree Continuing Mr ...