... SIXTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY It has been usual heretofore to delay the printing of the proceedings of the annual meeting for the yearly report of the secretary to the Governor and the Society made at the end of the calendar year But hereafter the report of the annual meeting will appear in the succeeding issue of the QUARTERLYSEC'Y The Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and ...
... CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF ULYSSES S GRANT BY C B GALBREATH CELEBRATION AT POINT PLEASANT CLERMONT COUNTY OHIO Of all citizens of the United States born in Ohio the most famous in his day and generation as Judge Hugh L Nichols has observed was General Ulysses S Grant That he still holds that high place among the distinguished sons that Ohio has given to the Republic and the world was attested by the outpouring of people to celebrate the ...
... ANTHONY GENE CAREY ANTHONY GENE CAREY The Second Party System Collapses The 1853 Maine Law Campaign in Ohio As he sat at his desk in Cincinnati in late September 1852 Rutherford B Hayes recorded his thoughts on the apparent disintegration of a party system that had held the loyalties of Americans for a generation Government no longer has its ancient importance he wrote Its duties and its powers no longer reach to the happiness of the people The people's progress progress of every sort no ...
... PROGRAM PROGRAM INTRODUCTORY REMARKS HENRY A WILLIAMS President of the Club INVOCATION REV IRVING MAURER LEAD KINDLY LIGHT DOUBLE QUARTET Messrs Karl Hoenig John M Sheridan Ray R Smith Frank T Welling A M Calland Harold G Simpson W D McKinney and Wm A Vause RANDALL OUR PRESIDENT OSMAN C HOOPER Secretary of the Club RANDALL AND THE OHIO SUPREME COURT HON HUGH L NICHOLS Chief Justice Ohio Supreme Court RANDALL THE ARCHAEOLOGIST-HISTORIAN HON JAMES E CAMPBELL President Ohio Archaeological and ...
... 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 ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS JOSHUA REED GIDDINGS A CHAMPION OF POLITICAL FREEDOM BY BYRON R LONG There never was a time perhaps when there was less need for furnishing material for readers than just now The worldwar has been productive of thot and action such as has enlisted thousands of good writers who are keeping record of incidents and are setting down impressions which are moving the souls of men as profoundly as any that human life has experienced The excuse for ...
... LEONARD SCHLUP LEONARD SCHLUP The Sage of Athens Charles H Grosvenor and Presidential Politics in Ohio in 1908 Now largely forgotten by Ohioans Charles H Grosvenor 1833-1917 was an important political figure in Ohio during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries An Athens lawyer and veteran of the Civil War Grosvenor entered state politics in 1873 upon his election to the Ohio House of Representatives where he served as speaker from 1876 to 1878 He reached the pinnacle of his ...
... DELAWARE IN THE DAYS OF 1812 DELAWARE IN THE DAYS OF 1812 ALICE HILLS Miss Hills is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution Delaware Ohio Chapter for which she prepared the following bit of local history In the war of 1812 Ohio or a part of it was the scene of much military action in which our own country and town played no small part Delaware situated so nearly in the centre of the state about half way between Chillicothe the capital and the scene of operations around Sandusky ...
... BARCLAY COPPOC BARCLAY COPPOC BY C B GALBREATH Barclay Coppoc according to the family genealogist was born in Butler Township Columbiana County Ohio January 4 1839 At the age of eleven years he went with the family to Springdale Iowa He grew up into a delicate looking slender youth but wiry venturesome and fearless as the story of his life will show Soon after the family reached Iowa a younger sister Lydia died of consumption the oldest brother Levi and another sister Maria became invalids ...
... LUCY BACKUS WOODBRIDGE PIONEER MOTHER LUCY BACKUS WOODBRIDGE PIONEER MOTHER January 31 1757--October 6 1817 By LOUISE RAU Distant secluded still the little village of Grand-Pre Lay in the fruitful valley At the confluence of the Ohio and the Muskingum Rivers hidden beneath its giant elms and maples Marietta named for the fascinating Marie Antoinette takes one back to bygone days when Ohio was a wilderness peopled by red men Here in the foothills New England made her first outpost during the ...
... THE BACKGROUND OF CALVIN E THE BACKGROUND OF CALVIN E STOWE'S REPORT ON ELEMENTARY PUBLIC INSTRUCTION IN EUROPE 1837 By CHARLES G MILLER In 1836 Calvin E Stowe was a professor in a theological seminary Lane in the young state of Ohio Though no formal connection existed between the seminary and the State there already existed the idea of the higher schools' responsibility to the State to such a degree that the General Assembly requested Stowe with no mention of compensation but see below quite ...
... HERE IS LA FAYETTE HERE IS LA FAYETTE BY JOHN ME RRILL WEED La Fayette we are here said General Pershing as he stood beside the tomb in Picpus Cemetery one historic day in 1917 It was a dramatic incident It shows that Pershing had a quality that would scarcely have been suspected in a doughty warrior a flair for capturing the popular imagination of two nations It is not a legend it is too recent for that Moreover we have a statement from the General's headquarters staff attesting the words ...
... Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting 5 23 the historical society a suitable site for the monument to commemorate the Battle of Fallen Timbers We are pleased to report that a beautiful spot has been selected by your full committee and the representative of the owner complete typographical surveys and maps have been prepared as has also a description of the property for incorporation in the deed The owner is an elderly lady whose brother a local real estate agent is ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Old Favorites from the McGuffey Readers Ed by Harvey C Minnich With Illustrations from the McGuffey Readers New York American Book Company 1936 482p 350 William Holmes McGuffey and His Readers By Harvey C Minnich With Photographs and Old Drawings New York American Book Company 1936 203p 225 The set boxed 500 One hundred years ago the first McGuffey Readers made their appearance in Cincinnati Ohio They found immediate popularity in the West In the course of a few years ...
... DENNIS K DENNIS K BOMAN Conduct and Revolt in the Twenty-fifth Ohio Battery An Insider's Account On August 10 1861 in the town of Canfield Ohio twenty-eight year old Robert T McMahan enlisted as a private in the Second Ohio Volunteer Cavalry1 On September 3 the date of his muster he began a journal in which he noted the experiences and impressions of his service in the United States military2 McMahan first served as a cavalryman and then as a gunner for the Twenty-fifth Ohio Light Artillery ...
... RESCUE HEADQUARTERS HOUSE AT CAMP RESCUE HEADQUARTERS HOUSE AT CAMP SHERMAN Mr Louis H Warner Chairman of the Pueblo Lands Board in a contribution to the February issue of the National Republic writes Did you ever consider how closely we associate men and events with certain buildings and structures To think of one is to recall the other This seems always to have been so Can you think of the temples of Old Jerusalem the Parthenon of Ancient Greece or the Roman Forum without at once being ...
... APPENDIX APPENDIX REPORT OF THE CELEBRATION OF THE CENTENNIAL OF THE ERECTION OF JEFFERSON COUNTY AND FOUNDING OF STEUBENVILLE THE CENTENNIAL OF JEFFERSON COUNTY The centennial of the formation of Jefferson county and founding of Steubenville was celebrated in the city of Steubenville Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday August 24 25 and 26 which was participated in by a large number of people mainly former residents who returned to their old home for the occasion The celebration noted a century ...
... 236 Ohio Arch 236 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications GENEALOGY OF WILLIAM McKINLEY BY REV A STAPLETON The following genealogical sketch of President McKinley was prepared by the Rev A Stapleton of Carlisle Pa We give it as it was originally published in the New York Sun-EDITOR It should be a matter of regret to all true historians that the campaign histories of President McKinley were erroneous in several important genealogical details The data herein given may be relied on as correct as ...
... 248 Ohio Arch 248 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications not far off Indeed is not the time ripe at the present moment for the erection of such a building on the part of the legislature as a memorial edifice to mark the centennial anniversary of the establishment of our state This would come now with all the more opportune appropriateness as the centennial celebration which was to have been held at Toledo has been abandoned PERRY'S WILLOW It is our duty to record that the Ohio Archaeological ...
... MEMOIR OF ANTOINE LAFORGE MEMOIR OF ANTOINE LAFORGE A Gallipolis Manuscript 1790 Translated from the original French by Laurence J Kenny S J St Louis University The accompanying document is a copy of a manuscript heirloom that has been cherished for more than a century among the descendents of Pierre Antoine Laforge one of the early French settlers of Gallipolis It brought them into possession of the modest inheritance referred to at its close and it has given substance and vraisemblance to ...