... 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 ...
... TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY FEBRUARY 26 1908 The twenty-third annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the parlors of the Y M C A building Columbus Ohio at 10 A M Wednesday February 26 1908 The following members were present Prof Martin R Andrews Marietta Gen R Brinkerhoff Mansfield Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Hon J H Beal Scio Dr D H Gard Columbus ...
... FOWKE'S BOOK AGAIN FOWKE'S BOOK AGAIN The following review of Mr Fowke's volume appears in the Nation of December 25 1902 As it is the policy of the Nation to expose defects wherever they exist and to speak well only of that which deserves high praise its general approval of Mr Fowke's work is something upon which he is to be congratulatedE 0 R Archaeological History of Ohio The Mound Builders and Later Indians By Gerard Fowke Published by the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society ...
... DAVID ZEISBERGER CENTENNIAL DAVID ZEISBERGER CENTENNIAL NOVEMBER 20 1908 E O RANDALL As the result of the plans of a committee appointed several weeks previous to the event by the Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society a celebration was held commemorating the Centennial Anniversary of the death of David Zeisberger which occurred November 17 1808 at Goshen Tuscarawas County Ohio The day selected for the celebration was Friday November 20th 1908 It proved a most ...
... 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 ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 261 and statistics the value of which cannot be too highly estimated The author has gathered and assorted material from which history may be written Mr Bareis has neglected no subject deserving of note He has chapters on the school literary entertainments roads and railroads coaches and mail lines churches graveyards etc The book is not crowded and its value depreciated as is the case with most books of its kind by having biographical sketches of anybody and everybody ...
... TARHE-THE CRANE TARHE-THE CRANE EMIL SCHLUP UPPER SANDUSKY Probably no other Indian chieftain was ever more admired and loved by his own race or by the outside world He was either a true friend or a true enemy Born near Detroit Michigan in 1742 he lived to see a wonderful change in the great Northwest Being born of humble parentage through his bravery and perseverence he rose to be the grand sachem of the Wyandot nation This position he held until the time of his death when he was succeeded by ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies AM ERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES Cincinnati Jacob R Marcus Director An archival expedition to the West Indies was made by the American Jewish Archives in July 1952 The research group was composed of Rabbi and Mrs Theodore S Levy of Huntington West Virginia Dr Ferdinand M Isserman of St Louis and Dr Jacob R Marcus director of the archives There were a number of Jewish settlements in the West Indies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the ...
... COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS THE WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY by MEREDITH B COLKET JR IN THE DAY S before the Civil War when Cleveland was emerging as a city a group of dedicated young men banded together to form an organization known as the Ark The members were from founding families and had a deep interest in cultural matters Their activities are memorialized in a famous oil painting by Julius Gollman dated 1858 Although the group has since passed out of existence its members inspired the ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS SETH ADAMS A PIONEER OHIO SHEPHERD By Charles Sumner Plumb Among the pioneers of the Northwest Territory along the Ohio border on the east were many men of sterling worth and rather unusual administrative ability Notably among these men in Ohio history was Seth Adams The following pages will briefly discuss his ancestry review his movements as a citizen and pioneer and set forth his relationship to early day American sheep husbandry The ...
... THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR FEBRUARY 17 1807 TO FEBRUARY 1 1898 GEN R BRINKERHOFF President E O RANDALL Secretary COLUMBUS O JANUARY 1898 407 To His Excellency Asa S To His Excellency Asa S Bushnell Governor of Ohio SIR-I have the honor to submit herewith the thirteenth annual report of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society covering the year from February 17 1897 to February 1 1898 This ...
... OHIO VALLEY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OHIO VALLEY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION NINTH ANNUAL MEETING The ninth annual meeting of the Ohio Valley Historical Association was held in Columbus Ohio Oct 2 1 and 22 1 915 in the beautiful new building of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society The general topic for papers and discussions was the Early Religious Development in the Ohio Valley The first meeting was a joint session of the Historical Association and the Ohio History Teachers' ...
... ANCIENT WORK NEAR OXFORD OHIO ANCIENT WORK NEAR OXFORD OHIO In the first volume of Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge Mr McBride gives a cut and description of this work1 But both plat and description vary so widely from the facts that it seems desirable to bring the case up again Mr MacLean in his Mound Builders reproduces the figure and copies the chief points of the general statement They differ as to the locality McBride being entirely right but McLean putting it in the wrong township ...
... Note - Historical Note - Historical 443 Adieu to the roads which for many a year I traveled each Sabbath the gospel to hear The news was so joyful and pleased me so From hence where I heard it it grieves me to go Farewell my white friends who first taught me to pray And worship my Savior and Maker each day Pray for the poor native whose eyes overflow With tears at our parting Alas I must go NOTE - HISTORICAL In the excellent article On the Origin of Ohio Place Names printed in the July issue ...
... TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING O F THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY May 13 1910 The twenty-fifth annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Hunter Society Room Page Hall Ohio State University Columbus Ohio at 230 P M Friday May 13 191O The following members were present Prof Martin R Andrews Marietta Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Mr A J Baughman Mansfield Mr T B Bowers Columbus Mr H E ...
... MAUMEE VALLEY TRAVEL TOUR MAUMEE VALLEY TRAVEL TOUR By MAUMEE VALLEY INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL CONVENTION From From Toledo Fort Wayne Miles Miles 000 Commodore Perry Hotel Toledo 1069 Superior Street entrance South 12 block to Monroe Street Turn right W 2 blocks to Erie Street Turn left S on Erie Street 5 blocks across Swan Creek to Anthony Wayne Memorial Trail 09 Anthony Wayne Memorial Trail 1060 Turn right on Anthony Wayne Memorial Trail which is a new super-highway constructed upon the bed ...