... HARMAR'S CAMPAIGN HARMAR'S CAMPAIGN Through the courtesy of Mr Frazer E Wilson of Greenville Ohio the author of several articles on Wayne's campaign and the Greenville Treaty we herewith publish from a duplicate of the original MS a letter written by one Thomas Irvin who participated in Harmar's advance and retreat The document has a double interest the first hand information which it imparts and the crude but direct style of expression typical of the scholarship of the pioneers--EDITOR Dear ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS SIMON KENTON PROF R W M'FARLAND SECTION I PRELIMINARY NOTE It may seem to many people that enough has already been written both of Boone and Kenton the first having been the most prominent early settler of Kentucky the second having been the scout who did probably more than any one else not excepting Boone himself to save the settlers from the tomahawk and scalping knife of the Indian By Boone's own account it appears that he John Finley ...
... THE CHILLICOTHES THE CHILLICOTHES BY R W MCFARLAND LL D In any pioneer history of Ohio or of the West in general the word Chillicothe is found as the Indian name of a town As there were several of these it may be well to mention some points so as to identify the one intended 1 Chillicothe-Howe's Ohio and other histories speak of a town of this name on the Great Miami river It was on the site of the present city of Piqua 2 ChillicotheOften called Old Chillicothe This was about three miles north ...
... DANIEL NELSON DANIEL NELSON The Great Goodyear Strike of 1936 It was the first CIO strike a stepping stone toward the automobile industry an affirmation of the potentialities of the sit-down strike a case study of rank and file militancy and a remarkable example of the effects of non-violent agitation' Its beginnings were obscure its consequences uncertain The circumstances in which the strike was carried on and the method used rather than the immediate causes or results made it a turning ...
... 492 Ohio Arch 492 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications From the ruins of this first estate we have the smiling landscape the green grass the fertile fields of waving grain We have the advantages ease comfort conveniences luxuries of modern civilization For the generation that first came to this goodly land and rough-hewed the way there is lasting remembrance and perpetual honor In their lives there was a seriousness of purpose that is not characteristic of the later generation In the midst ...
... 260 Ohio Arch 260 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications DISCOURSES OF REV RHEES Through the courtesy of Mr George A Katzenberger president of the Greenville Ohio Historical Society we have received duplicate copies of two discourses by Rev Morgan John Rhys delivered at Greenville on July 4 and 5 respectively in the year 1795 before the officers and army of Major General Anthony Wayne Rev Morgan John Rhys or as it is also printed Rhees was born in Graddfa Llanfabon Glamorganshire South Wales ...
... 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 ...
... TECUMSEH AND HIS DESCENDANTS TECUMSEH AND HIS DESCENDANTS BY C B GALBREATH Much has been written of the famous Shawnee Indian chief Tecumseh who was born in Clark County Ohio in a village near the site of Springfield and who died leading his braves in the battle of the Thames Canada where the Americans under William Henry Harrison signally defeated the combined forces of the British and their Indian allies Nothing remains to be said of this natural born leader of his race but those who have ...
... OHIO IN THE WAR OF 1812 OHIO IN THE WAR OF 1812 FIRST NEWSPAPER IN THE WEST RESERVE The first newspaper published in the Western Reserve was the TRUMP OF FAME edited by Thomas D Webb It was a weekly published at Warren Trumbull County the first issue being dated June 16 1812--The date of the declaration of war by Congress David Fleming was the printer As the first volume covers the year 1812 the first half year of the war it is doubly interesting as giving information at first hand concerning ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 1 33 scription of the Western Country given by Generals Putnam and Tupper amp others it appearing expedient to form a settlement there a Motion was made for chusing a Committee to prepare the Draught or Plan of an Association into a Company for the said Purpose for the Inspection and Appropriation of this Convention - Resolved in the Affirmative--Also Resolved that this Committee shall consist of five-General Putnam Mr Cutler-Col Brooks Major Sargent amp Capt Cushing ...
... SQUAW TRAIL SQUAW TRAIL BY GEORGE NELSON HINDS John and Elizabeth Hinds and their three sons had emigrated from the Fen country in England to the New World on board a slave ship arriving in 1808 Traveling in an oilskin-covered wagon drawn by their oxen Thomas and Jeremiah they encamped at a point about thirty miles from Albany New York on the Squaw Trail This trail variously labeled the Iroquois trail King Philip's road and described as a tote road and a trace was known to the Indians as Squaw ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS THE CENTENNIAL OF CROGHAN'S VICTORY BY LUCY ELLIOT KEELER The historic and picturesque little city of Fremont Ohio celebrated on the second of August the centenary of Croghan's Victory the one successful land battle on American soil of the War of 1812 Fort Stephenson on the banks of Sandusky River at the village then known as Lower Sandusky was garrisoned by Major George Croghan a youth of twenty-one with a hundred and sixty men and a single ...
... UNVEILING OF TABLET AT FORT GOWER UNVEILING OF TABLET AT FORT GOWER Appropriate and interesting exercises marked the unveiling of a tablet by the Ohio Daughters of the American Revolution on the site of old Fort Gower at Hockingport Athens County Ohio The exercises preliminary to the dedication were held in the city of Athens Friday evening November 9 The formal dedication and unveiling of the tablet occurred on the day following at Hockingport The granite monument bears two tablets one ...
... 582 Ohio 582 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications little and after a careful search they found some blood stains and with a mighty war whoop dashed on his pursuit once more By this time Captain Brady's strength was nearly spent and he ran with difficulty but self preservation was strong and he still pressed on through the tangled forest hoping to reach a place of safety About three or four miles from Kent he hid himself beneath a great chestnut log in the quiet waters of this pretty lake ...
... OHIO STATE LIBRARY CENTENNIAL OHIO STATE LIBRARY CENTENNIAL The one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Ohio State Library was observed on the evening of August 10 1917 No special significance attached to this particular date It is not known just when the State Library first opened It was doubtless available for the use of the general assembly at the regular session which began December 1 1917 Provision had been made for it and the initial supply of books purchased by Governor ...
... GEN GEN CLARK'S CAMPAIGN 1780 OFFICIAL LETTERS From the Maryland Journal Oct 17 1780 RICH MON D Virginia Oct 4 Extract of a letter from Col George Roge rs C lark to his Excellency the Governor dated Louisville August 22 1780 By every possible exertion and the aid of Col Slaughter's corps we completed the number of 1 000 with which we crossed the river at the mouth of Licking on the first day of August and began our march on the second Having a road to cut for the artillery to pass for 70 miles ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 467 stimulation of his firm assurance that all is well here below and all will be better in the world beyond His life was above reproach his career an inspiration None knew him but to love him none named him but to praise No organization with which he was connected seemed to give him greater pleasure than the Archaeological and Historical Society Its field of investigation its province of collecting and preserving the records of the past and its work of storing the ...
... THE OHIO DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE THE OHIO DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF B PED By permission of The Ohio Teacher The school histories have always said much about the Mecklenburg Resolutions being the prelude to the Declaration of Independence Indeed some histories make so much of it that you doubt if Thomas Jefferson would ever have mustered up courage sufficient to pen the immortal lines beginning When in the course of human events etc had he not had this brave precedent ...
... ARE THE HOPEWELL COPPER OBJECTS PREHISARE THE HOPEWELL COPPER OBJECTS PREHISTORIC BY WARREN K MOOREHEAD At the Washington meeting of the American Anthropological Association held conjointly with Section H of the American Association for the Advancement of Science I read a brief paper on the Hopewell copper objects and it is now my wish to present a more extended communication on the subjest Mr Clarence B Moore whose valuable work in southeastern United States is so favorably known to all who ...
... 52 Ohio Arch 52 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The name Croghansville for the village was probably first suggested by Josiah Meigs Commissioner of the General Land Office in a letter from Washington City April 12 1816 in which among other words are these If it were left to me to name the town at Lower Sandusky I should name it in honor of the gallant youth Col Croghan -and should say it should be Croghansville The name is still preserved in that of the school on the hill on the East ...