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"Harrison-Tarhe Peace Conference," by E. L. Taylor. Volume 14, Number 2, April, 1905, pp. 121-131.
... HARRISON-TARHE PEACE CONFERENCE HARRISON-TARHE PEACE CONFERENCE COL E L TAYLOR COLUMBUS On the 28th of June 1 90 4 the Columbus Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution did themselves and their organization great honor by placing in Martin Park in the western part of the City of Columbus a large bowlder of igneous origin bearing a very handsome designed tablet in commemoration of the important council or conference which General William Henry Harrison had with the chiefs of certain ...

"Methodism in Gallipolis," by P. A. Baker. Volume 3, , Annual, 1891, pp. 206-210.
... 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 ...

"Editorialana," Volume 14, Number 4, October, 1905, pp. 465-475.
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA BIG BOTTOM MASSACRE DEDICATION It is one hundred and fifteen years since the little band of pioneers were massacred in their fort at Big Bottom on the Muskingum This settlement was an off-shoot of the one at Marietta It was the remotest outpost of the Ohio Company Scarcely had Marietta been settled when there pushed out from the protecting walls of Fort Harmar small bands of settlers to build homes and clear the fields in other favorable locations Belpre on the Ohio ...

"An Indian Camp Meeting," by N. B. C. Love. Volume 15, Number 1, January, 1906, pp. 39-43.
... AN INDIAN CAMP MEETING AN INDIAN CAMP MEETING REV N B C LOVE The greater part of the following data the writer had from Levi Savage in 1885 He was at this time old and blind but in possession of his mental faculties His memory seemed clear and tenacious I wrote down at the time what he said word for word and from this written account I draw also from government and church publications A camp meeting was held by the Christian Wyandots on the east side of the Sandusky river opposite the big ...

Volume 87, Number 1, Winter, 1978, pp. 87-117.
... Book Reviews Book Reviews An Archeological History of the Hocking Valley By James Murphy Athens Ohio University Press 1975 xi 360p illustrations tables figures appendix index 1500 In the past the major portion of the archaeological literature for Ohio has been derived from work done in the central southern and southwestern parts of the state that situation is currently changing for the better In An Archeological History of the Hocking Valley James Murphy broadens our knowledge of prehistoric ...

"Brief History of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society," by the Editor (C. B. Galbreath). Volume 35, Number 3, July, 1926, pp. 543-564.
... II II BRIEF HISTORY OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY BY T H E EDITOR The Pioneers of Territorial Ohio seem to have been conscious of the fact that they were making history Intimations of this are found in the addresses and letters of St Clair and his associates and on the printed pages of William Maxwell's Centinel of the NorthWestern Territory The first definite movement of an organization to collect the materials of this early history appears to have been consummated ...

"Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society: June 2, 1905," Volume 14, Number 3, July, 1905, pp. 330-353.
... TWENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE TWENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY JUNE 2 1905 The Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the lecture room of the Y M C A Building Columbus Ohio at 230 P M June 2d 1905 The following members were present Rev J W Atwood Columbus Judge J H Anderson Columbus Prof M R Andrews Marietta Mr E H Archer Columbus General R Brinkerhoff Mansfield Mr George F Bareis ...

"Spiritual Force in Early Western Culture, The," by James M. Miller. Volume 49, Number 3, July, 1940, pp. 261-268.
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 261 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 261 and our record in military production would have been far more brilliant than it was In the afternoon session held in the Auditorium of the Ohio State Museum and presided over by Stanton L Davis of the Case School of Applied Science the following papers were read by James M Miller of Waynesburg College Waynesburg Penna and by Philip D Jordan of Miami University THE SPIRITUAL FORCE IN EARLY WESTERN CULTURE By JAMES ...

"Three Civil War Letters of James A. Garfield," edited by James D. Norris and James K. Martin. Volume 74, Number 4, Autumn, 1965, pp. 247-252, notes 279-280.
... Three Civil War Letters of James A Garfield edited by JAMES D NORRIS and JAMES K MARTIN I know of no man in the army whose death would crush me so terribly as his Brigadier General James A Garfield wrote to his wife on May 12 1862 concerning Major Frederick Augustus Williams He is a true man and one of my dearest friends1 The young major had contracted typhoid fever during the later stages of the Sandy Valley campaign in the eastern Kentucky mountains On March 19 Garfield who commanded the ...

"St. Clair's Defeat," Volume 11, Number 1, July, 1902, pp. 30-43.
... ST ST CLAIR'S DEFEAT FRAZER ELLS WILSON GREENVILLE OHIO Author of the valuable little volume entitled The Treaty of Greenville published 1894-E 0 R Probably the most disastrous defeat ever suffered by the Americans at the hands of the Red Men was that of the army of Gen Arthur St Clair on the east branch of the Wabash near the present western boundary of Ohio November 4th 1 791 Both for the number of men killed and the blighting effect on the frontier settlements was this disaster noted and ...

"Pickaway County," by Arista Arledge. Volume 26, Number 1, January, 1917, pp. 141-144.
... Unveiling of the Cresap Tablet Unveiling of the Cresap Tablet 141 vation of their historic sites mounds circles squares and the tokens of a bygone civilization found therein To you and to your keeping we present this Tablet and are happy in so doing We realize that you and the great State of Ohio are leading in the procession of progress To you the custodian of the glories of the past peoples records and their trophies of valor we consign this Tablet and leave it under your protection and that ...

Volume 44, Number 3, July, 1935, pp. 397-403.
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Frontier Ohio 1788-1803 By Randolph Chandler Downes Ohio Historical Collections III Columbus Ohio The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1935 280p maps 250 Students of Ohio history will be grateful to the author for presenting this vivid and accurate account of the origins of the Commonwealth Professor Randolph Chandler Downes has examined and cited in a wealth of footnotes a great variety of widely scattered manuscript collections as well as the ...

"Welsh Settlements in Ohio," by Wm. Harvey Jones. Volume 16, Number 2, April, 1907, pp. 194-227.
... WELSH SETTLEMENTS IN OHIO WELSH SETTLEMENTS IN OHIO WM HARVEY JONES This article is not sufficiently broad in its scope to include the history of every settlement in Ohio wherein the Welsh people may have largely resided and must therefore be confined to those communities which were originally settled by Welsh people Classified in this manner the leading Welsh settlements in Ohio are Paddy's Run Butler County Radnor Delaware County Welsh Hills Licking County of Gallia and Jackson Counties and ...

"Treaty of Greenville, The" (Treaty of Greenville Centennial) by Samuel F. Hunt. Volume 7, Number 2, January, 1899, pp. 218-240.
... 218 Ohio Arch 218 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications THE TREATY OF GREENVILLE ADDRESS OF HON SAMUEL F HUNT DELIVERED ON THE OCCASION OF THE CENTENNIAL OF THE TREATY OF GREENVILLE AUG 3 1895 AT GREENVILLE O Mr President Ladies and Gentlemen of Darke Cou nt y Fellow Citize ns One hundred years have passed since that eventful day in August when the treaty of Greenville was signed The different nations of Indians present and parties to the treaty consisted of one hundred and eight Wyandots ...

"The Taylor-Livingston Centenary in Franklin County," Volume 13, Number 4, October, 1904, pp. 486-503.
... THE TAYLOR-LIVINGSTON CENTENARY IN FRANKTHE TAYLOR-LIVINGSTON CENTENARY IN FRANKLIN COUNTY On the 9th day of June 1904 a reception was given by Mr and Mrs Henry C Taylor at their country place Westcrest situated on the National Road west bank of Big Walnut creek in Truro township to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the family history in Franklin County The invitation issued to the guests on this occasion was in the following form 1804 TAYLOR-LIVINGSTON 1904 MR AND MRS HENRY C ...

"Bibliography of the Earthworks of Ohio," Volume 1, Number 1, June, 1887, pp. 69-78.
... BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTHWORKS OF BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTHWORKS OF OHIO THE following bibliography was prepared by Mrs Cyrus Thomas under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution and is published by permission from the manuscript copy Its publication will serve two ends In the first place to impart information already obtained and in the second place to solicit information supplementary to what is here contained Any observers in the State who have facts concerning the earthworks of Ohio in ...

"Editorialana," Volume 13, Number 2, April, 1904, pp. 287-296.
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA MEETING OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION In the historic and picturesque city of New Orleans on the days of Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday December 29 30 and 31 1903 was held the nineteenth annual meeting of the American Historical Association It proved to be an event of unusual interest and enjoyment The American Historical Association was organized at Saratoga New York September 10 1884 and now numbers some twenty-five hundred members comprising the leading ...

"NEWS AND NOTES" Volume 72, Number 1, January, 1963, pp. 61-68.
... NEWS and NOTES ONE OF THE BETTER results of the effort to recognize the centennial of the Civil War has been the establishment of a project to collect and publish the correspondence and other papers of Ulysses S Grant supreme commander of the Union armies and eighteenth president of the United States To accomplish this end the Ulysses S Grant Association was created through the efforts of the Civil War centennial commissions of Ohio where Grant was born and lived his early years Illinois which ...

"Wyandot Mission, The," by Emil Schlup. Volume 15, Number 2, April, 1906, pp. 163-181.
... THE WYANDOT MISSION THE WYANDOT MISSION EMIL SCHLUP The present generation can scarcely comprehend the hardships and privations the early missionaries had to endure when the Ohio country was in a wilderness state But brave men risked their lives in promulgating the Christian doctrine among the aboriginals of the forest The earliest Protestant denomination to enter the new field were the Moravians Christian Frederick Post who had been a missionary among the Moravian Indians in New York and ...

"Religion and the Westward March," Volume 50, Number 1, January-March, 1941, pp. 71-83.
... RELIGION AND THE WESTWARD MARCH RELIGION AND THE WESTWARD MARCH By WILLIAM W SWEET When the Treaty of Peace was signed with Great Britain in the year 1783 which gave independence to the United States of America the Congregational Church was the largest and most influential religious body in the land Though confined almost exclusively to New England the Congregationalists were at the same time nationally important because of their cultural and educational leadership They had come through the ...