... Book Reviews Book Reviews Leadership in the American Revolution Papers Presented at the Third Symposium May 9 and 10 1974 Edited by the Library of Congress Washington D C Library of Congress 1974 ix 135p notes 450 The five papers presented at the Third Symposium on the American Revolution sponsored by the Library of Congress each prefaced by a brief gracious introduction by L H Butterfield comprise this attractive book It is much more successful than most collections of papers each author is a ...
... Introduction of Methodism in Ohio Introduction of Methodism in Ohio 165 INTRODUCTION OF METHODISM IN OHIO BY REV I F KING D D Dr King is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University in the class of 1858 He received the degree of D D from Miami University For forty-three years he has served in the ministry of his church and for fourteen years was a presiding elder in the Ohio ConferenceEDITOR The recent celebration at Delaware Ohio of the one hundredth anniversary of the introduction of Methodism in ...
... THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE SIEGE OF THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE SIEGE OF FORT MEIGS PERRYSBURG JULY 27 1913 BY LUCY ELLIOT KEELER Hadst thou my three kingdoms to range in said James the First to a fly and yet must thou needs get into my eye Which homely speech might be paraphrased for the present purpose of introduction to this subject to read Had Great Britain and America their vast extent of territory and all the ocean between to range in and must they needs select the shores of ...
... 206 Ohio Arch 206 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications V O L 3 But still its mission is to the regions beyond its position in the advancing columns is on the front line Its business is to find and drive the enemy leaving to the slower-moving forces the work of fortifying and garrisoning the conquered provinces Its muster roll begins with those of Caesar's household and ends not until it includes the faithful Onesimus Quenchless zeal for souls is and must forever be its characteristic a ...
... THE TORY PROPRIETORS OF KENTUCKY LANDS THE TORY PROPRIETORS OF KENTUCKY LANDS BY WILBUR H SIEBERT Professor of European History Ohio State University From the days of its earliest settlement down through the American Revolution the Kentucky country was the scene of proprietary projects or hostile activities by Loyalists several of whom were first connected with Fort Pitt and afterward with the British post at Detroit It is needless to say that the hostile activities included more or less ...
... ME -SHE -KUN-NOGH -QUAH ME -SHE -KUN-NOGH -QUAH OR LITTLE TURTLE-1783-1812 N B C LOVE D D O River weird historic water What tales of bloody human slaughter What scenes of hate and tragic acts What woeful pictures solemn facts Thou couldst before the world portray What greed and hate and wrong betray No subject claimed the attention of President Washington more after the close of the War of the Revolution 1784 up to his death 1799 than the settlement and occupancy of the territory ceded to the ...
... THE ROUSH FAMILY IN AMERICA THE ROUSH FAMILY IN AMERICA Their Contribution to the New Country BY REV L L ROUSH In these days when almost every one is writing and when so many details of history are brought out of their hiding-places by some historian especially equipped for that purpose and whose chief business is to bring to the public eye such discoveries one hesitates before he sets himself to the task of adding anything to this voluminous collection However no student dares venture far ...
... CORNSTALK THE INDIAN CHIEF CORNSTALK THE INDIAN CHIEF BY MRS ORSON D DRYER Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top When the wind blows the cradle will rock A certain queer little cradle hanging from a limb of a tree in a great green forest about the year 1720 is rocking to and fro as the soft summer wind sways the branches above it It is a gay and pretty cradle soft and warm with the skin of the moose and gorgeous with bird feathers and brightly colored quills of the porcupine and from it shine out ...
... WAYNE'S PEACE WITH THE INDIANS OF THE OLD WAYNE'S PEACE WITH THE INDIANS OF THE OLD NORTHWEST 1795 by DWIGHT L SMITH Instructor in History Ohio State University Far from being the least of the many problems with which the United States had to contend at its beginning was the settling of difficulties between the Indians and whites on the frontier If the new nation were to grow in size as apparently it was doing the native Indians would have to be removed absorbed or extirpated either ...
... COMMENTS NOTES AND REVIEWS COMMENTS NOTES AND REVIEWS THWING'S SKETCH OF OHIO In Pearson's Monthly for February is the first of a series of articles which that magazine proposes to publish on The Story of the States This first article very fittingly is devoted to Ohio It is from the pen of Charles F Thwing D D LL D President of the Western Reserve University at Cleveland Ohio It is a very entertaining and informing monograph on our native state In a condensed form Mr Thwing gives the leading ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR VERILY THE WORLD DO MOVE Under this caption the Lancaster Daily Eagle of September 13 1927 publishes the following editorial In another portion of this paper we reproduce possibly for the twentieth time a resolution supposed to have been passed by a Lancaster School Board away back a hundred years ago in 1828 These records of the school board of that period are not obtainable and even though they were this resolution denying ...
... Book Notes Book Notes History of Upper Arlington A Suburb of Columbus Ohio By the History Committee of the Upper Arlington Bicentennial Committee Columbus Upper Arlington Historical Society 1977 337p illustrations notes maps appendices index The book was written by community residents and focuses on the history of the fire and police departments library municipal government schools religion and sports Personal interviews official records newspapers local publications maps and plates 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 ...
... TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MARCH 22 1907 The Twenty-second Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Library and Museum Room of the Society Page Hall Ohio State University at 2 00 P M March 22 1 907 The following members were present Judge J H Anderson Columbus Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Mr A J Baughman Mansfield General R Brinkerhoff ...
... 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 ...
... THE EVOLUTION OF OHIO COUNTIES THE EVOLUTION OF OHIO COUNTIES By J F LANING It is probable that the people who read this article will all know that the State of Ohio was not always divided into the number of counties there now are and that to evolve the present map a long period of time and many mutations of county outlines were necessary But few people however know the extent of the evolution that has been going on in bringing Ohio counties within their present environments From the erection ...
... 210 Ohio Arch 210 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Presbyterianism on Walnut Hills have all aided to make the Church History of the Ohio Valley the record of its civilization and progress And not alone in Cincinnati but throughout the Western Country this influence was felt Upon the Bible's sacred page The gathered beams of ages shine And as it hastens every age But makes its brightness more divine More glorious still as ages roll New regions blessed new powers unfurled Expanding with ...
... 102 Ohio Arch 102 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications war for independence would have been greatly at variance with the desires of the American people Authorities for the above article are John J Jacob's Biography of Michael Cresap Olden Time-Monthly historical paper printed by Nevin B Craig at Pittsburg 1847 Statement of George Rogers Clark Washington-Crawford Correspondence-Butterfield Doddridge's Notes Narrative of Capt John Stewart Pennsylvania Archives McKiernan's Border History-W H H ...
... ST ST CLAIR'S DEFEAT AN ORATION DELIVERED BY JUDGE SAMUEL F HUNT ON THE CENTENNIAL OF THE DEFEAT OF GENERAL ARTHUR ST CLAIR AND ON THE OCCASION OF THE RE-INTERMENT OF THE DEAD WHO FELL IN THE ENGAGEMENT ON THE BATTLEFIELD FT RECOVERY O OCT 16 1891 It is said that for more than six hundred years after the battle of Morgarten the Swiss peasantry gathered on the field of battle to commemorate those who had fallen for freedom We have assembled to-day in the same spirit to do honor to the gallant ...
... UNVEILING OF THE CRESAP TABLET UNVEILING OF THE CRESAP TABLET LOGAN ELM PARK-OCTOBER 1916 On Saturday October 21 1916 an interesting ceremony was held at Logan Elm Park under the auspices of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society The program arranged by Mr Frank Tallmadge comprised the erection of a flag staff and the unfurling of the stars and stripes the dedication of a log cabin not a modern imitation but a well preserved relic of the real thing a left over of the pioneer days ...