... THE OHIO PROSPECTUS FOR THE YEAR 1775 THE OHIO PROSPECTUS FOR THE YEAR 1775 BY A J MORRISON TOLEDO The extended advertisement given below in part1 although not strictly applicable to the whole of the territory of Ohio today is of interest for several reasons This statement skilfully colored as it is brings out very well the idea of the Ohio country as it must have been in many minds at the beginning of the Revolution The imagination is afforded material - what would have been the result if ...
... JAMES L JAMES L BURKE DONALD E BENSCH Mount Pleasant and The Early Quakers of Ohio In the charming old village of Mount Pleasant Jefferson County Ohio stands a monument to one of America's small but influential denominations the Society of Friends or Quakers People of other religious affiliations settled in Mount Pleasant too but the early history of the Mount Pleasant area was strongly influenced by those Friends who were among its first settlers Their monument is the large brick meeting ...
... LEE AND MARGARET SOLTOW LEE AND MARGARET SOLTOW A Settlement That Failed The French in Early Gallipolis an Enlightening Letter and an Explanation Settlement by the French in Gallipolis Ohio began in 1790 with great hope and optimism but ended in relative failure not more than a decade later By 1792 the 400 to 500 settlers had experienced disease famine harsh weather and assaults by Indians a more particular problem for them was their inability to obtain titles to the land on which they had ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XVIII No4 OCTOBER 1 909 AVERY'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES Volume VI of A History of the United States and its People by Elroy M Avery is just received In elegance of paper and mechanical effect in richness of illustration maps charts fac-similes of documents and reproductions of paintings in original colors this volume is fully equal to its predecessors We have in notices of the previous volumes sufficiently commented upon the typographical character of the ...
... IN DEX IN DEX A PAGE Abolition Achilles Pugh publishes paper on 305 Scotch-Irish sentiment on 297 A Century of Statehood Address Nash 25 Acolhuans The Review of 104 Adams John Q Jeremy Bentham's works presented to Ohio by 365 On W orthington Thomas 357 Addresses - A Century of Statehood Nash 25 George Croghan Williams 375 Greatness of Ohio W atson 310 Kossuth before Ohio Legislature 114 Manly at Centennial Celebration 1 McClintick at Centennial Celebration 6 The First Constitution Ryan 11 ...
... Ohio Valley Hist Ohio Valley Hist Ass'n Fifth Annual Meeting 91 on its passenger list to preserve the equilibrium of its cash account A fine line of side-wheel boats has always been maintained between Cincinnati and Louisville and who has not heard of those magnificent double-deckers the United States and America that nightly carried great cabins full of happy travellers between those two cities until one night a disastrous collision brought a brilliant career to a tragic ending But a ...
... COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS The ITINERANT ARTIST In Early Ohio by DONALD R MacKENZIE THE PAINTING collection of the Ohio Historical Society represents all phases of midwestern painting in the nineteenth century Since the opening of the Hall of Paintings at the Ohio State Museum in 1953 a new emphasis has been placed on the Society's permanent collection and its contribution to knowledge of the cultural heritage of the state Today the native American quality of early nineteenth century paintings ...
... THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE E 0 RANDALL In that striking and stirring century known as the sixteenth began the voyages of discovery and the expeditions for occupancy by the Anglo Saxon and the Gaul of the North American continent The French were led by Jacques Cartier who in 1534 entered the Gulf of St Lawrence Other chivalrous and adventurous Frenchmen followed with various experiences until 1608 when Samuel Champlain encamped upon the Heights of Quebec and established a ...
... ANTOINE FRANCOIS SAUGRAIN DE VIGNI ANTOINE FRANCOIS SAUGRAIN DE VIGNI THE FIRST SCIENTIST OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY N P DANDRIDGE M D In presenting my address which custom has made one of the duties of the presiding officer I shall depart somewhat from the practice of my predecessors and instead of bringing before you some medical question based on my own work or attempting a discussion of some topic now of active interest I shall take you to the backwoods and try and interest you in the life ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS BIG BOTTOM AND IT S HISTORY CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF The history of Big Bottom has no claim on being unique unless the recent action of Mr Obadiah Brokaw in erecting a monument at his own expense to mark the site of the blockhouse can demand such distinction The events connected with this historic ground are decidedly type studies Its early history is but representative of and part of that general conflict between the Indian and the white man Its ...
... PROCEEDINGS PROCEEDINGS OF THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE CITY OF GALLOPOLIS OHIO October 16 17 18 and 19 1890 PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS As early as April 1890 the citizens of Gallipolis through their Board of Trade took action to secure a proper celebration of the approaching centennial of the city's settlement On April 22 1890 at a meeting of the Board of Trade the following named gentlemen were elected an Executive Committee of arrangements John L Vance Chairman C Fred Henking W B Shober ...
... architecture and is perhaps the architecture in the Miami Valley one hundred years ago was that erected by the Cincinnati Presbyterians in 1814 and known as the Two-horn church from its two towers However the churches of a hundred years ago were for the most part of the most primitive type while many congregations were worshipping from place to place in the cabins of its members EARLY ...
... THE AARON BURR CONSPIRACY IN THE OHIO THE AARON BURR CONSPIRACY IN THE OHIO VALLEY MISS LESLIE HENSHAW CINCINNATI What the movement known as the Burr Conspiracy really was will probably never be accurately known It might have been one of three things first a filibustering expedition directed against Spain second a plan to revolutionize the West and join this section with Louisiana to form a new republic third a scheme to join the Western States and Louisiana with Spanish America to form an ...
... EARLY JOURNEYS TO OHIO EARLY JOURNEYS TO OHIO BY B F PRINCE Professor in Wittenberg College The contest for the lands west of the Ohio river began centuries ago It was a goodly land in the eyes of the savages as well as those of the white man A short survey of the Indian occupation will help us to understand the fierce contest between the French and English for domination in this region There is a conflict of opinion as to conditions in that territory from about 1650 to 1740 A great war of ...
... EVOLUTION OF OHIO COUNTY BOUNDARIES EVOLUTION OF OHIO COUNTY BOUNDARIES BY RANDOLPH CHANDLER DOWNES M A Instructor at Marietta College 1925-1927 FORMATION OF COUNTIES The first of Ohio's eighty-eight counties was established in 1788 The last revision in the boundaries was made in 1888 exactly one hundred years later The following study has taken all the data concerning the boundaries and by arranging them in eighteen chronological groups has presented graphically the evolution of Ohio's ...
... 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 ...
... THOMAS WORTHINGTON THOMAS WORTHINGTON BY FRANK THEODORE COLE Secretary of The Old Northwest Genealogical Society About the middle of the seventeenth century two brothers of the ancient Lancashire family of Worthington1 arrived in Philadelphia bringing with them some fair amount of property After some time one of them went to New England and the other Robert with his son Robert a mere lad went to Maryland where he bought land in the neighborhood of Baltimore and established iron works which in ...
... MAJOR GEORGE ADAMS MAJOR GEORGE ADAMS GEO A KATZENBERGER GREENVILLE OHIO This section of Ohio is replete with historical events many of which have been chronicled while some have come down to us in the guise of legends In the early days of the pioneers many soul-stirring events occurred with but few participants who realized that the recording of the same would be of value and of great interest to later generations One of the men very prominent in the early history of this section of Ohio was ...
... 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 ...
... architecture and massive in construction while the school houses are commodious and church buildings magnificent The manufacturing consists of iron paper glass pottery brick flour while the surrounding country is fertile and peopled with industrious farmers who produce wheat corn oats garden vegetables fruit live stock wool etc The city's population is about fifteen thousand while that of the county is about forty-three thousand There are many ...