... DEFIANCE IN HISTORY DEFIANCE IN HISTORY By FRANCIS PHELPS WEISENBURGER Today we stand in the heart of the historic Maumee Valley Long before any written records chronicled the story of the region French traders moved up and down the river in the long journey between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Basin To the French the site of Defiance was known as Au Glaize or Grand Glaize Among the Indians it was the site of the Tu-en-da-wie village of the Wyandots and the En-sa-woc-sa of the Shawnees1 ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XVIII No 2 A PRIL 190 9 NEWLY ELECTED TRUSTEES It will be noted in the report of the Annual Meeting of the Society held March 2 1909 that two life members of the Society were newly elected trustees for the ensuing three years They were Messrs Caleb Hathaway Gallup and Walter Charles Metz Below we give brief sketches of the lives of the gentlemen in question Mr Metz has been a member of the Society for some years and has been a student in archaeological lines Mr ...
... CELORON'S JOURNAL CELORON'S J O URNAL 1 EDITED BY REV A A LAMBING INTRODUCTORY NOTE It is now almost two years since I read a paper before the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania on Celoron's expedition down the Allegheny and Ohio rivers in the latter part of the summer of 1749 The subject attracted considerable attention at the time and between those who culled from me and those who cudgeled me the local public have become pretty well acquainted with the movements of the French in this ...
... NEWS FROM THE MUSKINGUM1 NEWS FROM THE MUSKINGUM1 SALEM September 9 Extract of a letter from a gentleman at the new settlement on the Muskingum to a person in this town dated July 20th We had a beautiful passage down the Ohio from Pittsburg in company with 3 Kentucke boats Without sails or oars we glided down the fair river and in 48 hours arrived at the enchanting spot It is really a delightful situation The first thing which presented itself when we ascended the bank by a grand and easy pair ...
... MITCHENER'S LEGEND OF THE WHITE MITCHENER'S LEGEND OF THE WHITE WOMAN AND NEWCOMERSTOWN BY GEORGE F SMYTHE Mr C W Butterfield in his History of Ohio says1 Mark Kuntz upon the Tuscarawas with an Indian wife and Mary Harris upon the Walhonding with an Indian husband were it may be proper here to mention the first white settlers of Ohio so far as any authentic records disclose My interest at present is concerned with this Mary Harris There may indeed have been white women in Ohio before Mary ...
... 668 ' Index 668 ' Index Trimble Rachel donation to Museum Westerville 272 535 Williams Charles R Prof edits Trustees Society's 551 Hayes diaries 518 Tuscarawas County 516 531 Willoughby C C visits Serpent Mound Tuttle Judson Asiatic butterfly collec534 tion 535 U Wilmington 535 Wilson J A interest in Logan monuUpper Sandusky Indian Mission at 535 ment 518 546 547 W Wilson Woodrow autograph-photograph 537 Wagner R E 537 Wittenberg College 536 Walker William 511 W a ll W D 9' 21Wittke Carl 5 38 ...
... 632 Ohio Arch 632 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Quarterly but all numbers are promised from the printer before the close of the calendar year From this brief report it will be seen that the publications of the Society are increasing in volume and value Signed JOSE PH C GOODMAN Chairman SCHOENBRUNN Your committee has been steadily at work throughout the year in seeking to make the Schoenbrunn Memorial Park one of the outstanding historic spots of Ohio An appropriation of 7500 by the ...
... 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 ...
... Book Reviews Summer-Autumn 2001 pp 218-234 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page INDEX Volume 110 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P QR S T UVW XY ABBOTT family of Geauga County Ohio 53 62 63 Abolition See antislavery movement Acts of God the Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America by Ted Steinberg 191 ...
... 366 Ohio Arch 366 Ohio Arch and Hist Society P ublications some on board the fleet to take their second position nearer Canada They arrived a little before sunset that day at East Sister Island while General Harrison and Commodore Perry in the Ariel made a reconnoissance of the enemy's coast It was not until the morning of the 27th that they began this last journey across the lake One account says the day was fine and a propitious breeze made their passage a pleasing pastime It was a sublime ...
... 366 Ohio Arch 366 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications HUDSON CENTENNIAL APPENDIX DAVID HUDSON AND HEMAN OVIATT Hudson is town four Range ten and was purchased of the Connecticut Land Company by David Hudson Birdseye Norton Nathaniel Norton Stephen Baldwin Benjamin Oviatt and Theodore Parmele for fifty-two cents an acre In the original survey it was laid down as a swamp township and in order to make it equal to the average townships there was annexed to it from the equalizing townships 10000 ...
... MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPY AMONG THE MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPY AMONG THE NORTH AMERICAN FOREST INDIANS by AUGUST C MAHR Professor of German Ohio State University The rather bulky literature on North American Indian medicine derives from various sources reports of missioners and other travelers observations of medical men and scientists and more recently systematic surveys of anthropologists collecting their data in present-day Indian reservations A wealth of details has been assembled ...
... 288 Ohio Arch 288 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ferson to the degree that he declared it compared favorably with any speech of Demosthenes or Cicero It matters little if this is not the exact spot where Lord Dunmore received the oration It could not have been far from here But tradition coming down through several reliable families whose representatives still live near here says this magnificent old elm the largest in all the land which then and for many years after had a fine spring ...
... JONATHAN ALDER JONATHAN ALDER COL WM CURRY The tales of adventure and bloodshed related by the early pioneers of Ohio of their dangers and hardships have been familiar to me since boyhood Among others of whom I heard many harrowing stories related by my father and other pioneers was of Jonathan Alder who was at one time a resident of Union county Ohio and a noted pioneer and frontiersman Like Captain Samuel Davis the famous Indian fighter he was taken captive by the Indians and the latter part ...
... TARHE-THE CRANE TARHE-THE CRANE The Editor of The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly has often received inquiries as to sources of information concerning Tarhe the famous Wyandot chief and also the Half King Pomoacan Mr Basil Meek the historical writer and a frequent contributor to the columns of the Quarterly has had occasion to gather these sources and we herewith publish them for the benefit of any student desiring to avail himself of these valuable references - EDITOR ...
... WATER HIGHWAYS AND CARRYING PLACES WATER HIGHWAYS AND CARRYING PLACES E L TAYLOR COLUMBUS The 2d day of May 1497 was one of the most eventful for great results for good of any in human history On that day John Cabot a Venetian by birth but who was then living at the old sea-faring town of Bristol on the west coast of England with eighteen hardy British sailors weighed anchor on the small but good ship Matthew and passed out upon the broad and turbulent waters of the Atlantic on a voyage of ...
... A GUIDE TO THE COMMUNISTIC COMMUNITIES A GUIDE TO THE COMMUNISTIC COMMUNITIES OF OHIO BY KENNETH WILLIAM MCKINLEY One of the greatest obstacles to the study of the social sciences has been the inability to experiment Human lives cannot be molded and adjusted like so many pieces of metal or so many chemical elements For this reason it is important that history be made the laboratory of the social sciences The author of this brief guide therefore feels justified in presenting in an historical ...
... THE FIRST REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNTHE FIRST REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA BY EX-JUDGE DAVID DAVIS Mr William M Pettit in the Archaeological and Historical Quarterly of July 1931 has written an able article setting forth that Rev John Wheelwright of Boston and later of Exeter Massachusetts was the first man to form a Republican Government in America The records and history of the Colonies by many authors attribute that honor to Rev Roger Williams Rev Wheelwright came to the Colonies ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XXXVIII INDEX TO VOLUME XXXVIII Adams Adaline G 721 Badger Rev Joseph 478 482-486 Adams Belle Phillip 721 Bailey Gamaliel 87 126 127 Adams Jacob-Diary 1861-1865 627Baker Reverend Joel 479 719 biographical sketch 719-721 Ball Flamen 161 Adams John Q 78 Barker L A 123 Adams Margaret D 721 Barlow Joel 224 Adams Paul 719-721 Barney Hiram H 410 427 436 Adams Sarah L 721 Barrett Joseph H 13 Ake H Ross 575 Address at Dedication Bartley Governor Mordecai defeats Tod of Monument to ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE OHIO RIVER It was one of Pascal's thoughts that rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go Surely it is that primeval and pioneer man has followed the courses of great streams because along those channels have been found the lines of least resistance On the rivers and their banks therefore has history found its favorite haunts Dry up the currents of the Tigris the Euphrates the Danube the Tiber the Rhine the Seine and the Thames and you ...