... BACKGROUND AND YOUTH OF THE SEVENTH OHIO BACKGROUND AND YOUTH OF THE SEVENTH OHIO PRESIDENT1 BY RAY BAKER HARRIS News still traveled slowly in the 1860's Although the telegraph was by that time in use between principal cities news to a large degree continued to be transmitted by stagecoach by trains such as they were by boats and by human carriers However belated its appearance in print the news in the public press during the week of October 30 1865 was of considerable historic importance In ...
... 520 Ohio Arch 520 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications but they love it more because they have seen its crimson colors reproduced in the blood of America We love this country but they love it more because they have seen the sacrifices which have made it what it is and while we hope that we will have peace we are going to claim our right and recognize our right under any circumstance at any time to protect our homes our loved ones our country and our flag to maintain American institutions ...
... JOHN FITCH INVENTOR OF STEAMBOATS JOHN FITCH INVENTOR OF STEAMBOATS BY MIRA CLARKE PARSONS By a coincidence of which the writer was not then aware while the article on the Steamboat was in type the name of Robert Fulton was brought to public notice for the purpose of bestowing further honors upon the memory of a great inventor The object of this paper is to offer additional proof of the validity of the prior claim of John Fitch as the inventor and originator of steam navigation While all due ...
... 9 0 FLINT RIDGE FLINT RIDGE BY WILLIAM C MILLS INTRODUCTORY NOTE The explorations and studies recorded in this paper on Flint Ridge were undertaken for the purpose of securing for exhibition in the State Museum a complete collection of the various kinds of flint found at Flint Ridge as well as the implements used in quarrying the flint from its natural bed A preliminary examination of Flint Ridge beginning at its western edge in Hopewell Township Licking County Ohio extending eastward and ...
... SPEECH OF RICHARD DOUGLAS ESQ SPEECH OF RICHARD DOUGLAS ESQ OF CHILLICOTHE DELIVERED BEFORE THE WHIG CONVENTION HELD IN COLUMBUS FEBRUARY 22 AND 23 1836 Richard Douglas who describes himself in the letter herewith as in birth a Yankee in habit a Sailor in adoption a Buckeye in profession an Old CourtCircuitizer in occasional circumstance a Blovian in principal a Whig etc was born in New London Connecticut September 10th 1785 From early youth like many other New London boys he followed the sea ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR CATHERINE FAY EWING ORIGINATOR OF CHILDREN'S HOMES Children's Homes throughout the country have attracted deserved attention as child-saving institutions They not only save life they educate to usefulness The Ohio law is simple It was enacted in 1866 and in 1871 thirty-seven homes were organized under it They were established and conducted by counties and intrusted ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 533 Reviews Notes and Comments 533 Indian dialects and is a man of high character and gentlemanly attainments At the conclusion of the exercises a remarkable demonstration occurred The vast crowd charmed by the address and manly bearing of Buffalo Child Long Lance surged forward eager to grasp him by the hand The timbers under the speaker's stand began to snap The Chief and those about him however succeeded in getting to the ground and the threatened collapse of the ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries David E Kyvig history professor at The University of Akron recently received the Bancroft Prize for the best book in American history published in 1996 for his Explicit amp Authentic Acts Amending the US Constitution 1776-1995 The book acclaimed as a major contribution to the history of American legal constitutional and political development was published by the University Press of Kansas The Ohio Academy of History will hold its annual spring meeting 24-25 ...
... 562 Ohio Arch 562 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Introductory Note For some months there has been in contemplation by interested parties a series of publications entitled Ohio Historical Collections It was first thought that the monographs of this series should be limited to political history Upon mature deliberation however it was decided to adopt a title more comprehensive in scope Volumes 1 and 2 of the series are political history and Volume 3 will be political and biographical ...
... THE STORY OF THE MAUMEE VALLEY INTERNATHE STORY OF THE MAUMEE VALLEY INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL CONVENTION By M M QUAIFE Several years ago Mr George Macdonald of Windsor Ont and the present writer attended the joint historical conference of the New York and Ontario historical societies held at Niagara Falls N Y and Niagara Falls Ont The conference was a great success and we came home imbued with the desire to bring about a similar gathering in Detroit and vicinity of the historical societies and ...
... REPORT OF THE FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING REPORT OF THE FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY HELD APRIL 1 -2 1938 Business Session 10 00 A M Friday April 1 Ohio State Museum Meeting called to order by Mr Arthur C Johnson Sr president MR JOHNSO N This is the Annual Business Meeting of the Society and the small attendance this morning might be regarded as disappointing excepting for the fact that it indicates to me that the Society must be pretty ...
... The McKinley Monument The McKinley Monument 229 ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT We have gathered together to-day to pay our meed of respect and affection to the memory of William McKinley who as President won a place in the hearts of the American people such as but three or four of all the Presidents of this country have ever won He was of singular uprightness and purity of character alike in public and in private life a citizen who loved peace he did his duty faithfully and well for four years ...
... JEFFREY P JEFFREY P BROWN Chillicothe's Elite Leadership in a Frontier Community The Northwest Territory was dominated by its small urban communities even though most settlers were farmers The towns became crucial regional centers for business politics and cultural affairs They served as headquarters for wealthy and powerful merchants provided a base for lawyer-politicians and often contained the homes of prominent rural landowners A few of the Northwest's towns eventually grew into great ...
... THOMAS BUCHANAN READ AND THE CIVIL WAR THOMAS BUCHANAN READ AND THE CIVIL WAR The Story of Sheridan's Ride by HARVEY S FORD Head Librarian TOLEDO BLADE The phenomenal popularity of Sheridan's Ride lasted a long time Few poems have taken such a hold on the American people nor have there been many so well liked It is true that its popularity today is not what it once was and Sheridan's Ride does not appear as often as it used to in the textbooks for high school literature courses No longer is it ...
... Rutherford B Hayes Attorney at Law by WATT P MARCHMAN Rutherford Birchard Hayes began life without a father in Delaware Ohio on October 4 1822 a sickly child whose health was of deep concern to his mother His father Rutherford Hayes Jr formerly of Dummerston Vermont who had been a merchant of the firm of Noyes Mann and Hayes and who had brought his family to settle in Ohio in 1817 died suddenly on July 20 1822 before the birth of his son He left his widow with an estate consisting of a brick ...
... ULYSSES A ULYSSES A PLYLEY BY FRANK WARNER M D COLUMBUS OHIO On the 19th of May 1930 Ulysses A Plyley died at the age of 85 years He was born in the house in which he died This house is located on Plyley's Ridge a few miles west of Chillicothe Ohio on the pike leading to Greenfield He was the last child to occupy this old homestead of his father William Plyley who had lived there through his entire married life and had raised eight children The eldest child Clinton was born there June 20 1827 ...
... The Civil War had been fought out and peace had returned to the land when a group of churchmen and reformers led by the Rev Charles G Finney of Oberlin who had long served as president of Oberlin College turned to make war on secret societies and the Masonic order in particular The crusade mildly agitated a part of the country for some years but lacking as it did the frenzy hysteria and political potency of the anti-Masonic movement of the 1820's and 1830's it eventually fell of its own ...
... ADDRESS AT THE GRAVE OF JOHNNY APPLESEED ADDRESS AT THE GRAVE OF JOHNNY APPLESEED By ROBERT C HARRIS Here in the Archer graveyard at the north edge of Fort Wayne Indiana is the grave of Johnny Appleseed whose real name was John Chapman born September 26 1774 died March 18 1845 Johnny Appleseed won renown by a few simple and helpful acts 1 He was a peacemaker between the Indians and white settlers 2 He was a missionary for the church of New Jerusalem founded by Emanuel Swedenborg 3 Perhaps the ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 64 NUMBER 3 JULY 1955 The Correspondence of George A Myers and James Ford Rhodes 1910-1923-III Edited by JOHN A GARRA TY MYERS TO RHODES Cleveland March 16 1917 My Dear Mr Rhodes I was awful glad to receive your favor of the 5th1 It is indeed a source of much pleasure to receive a letter from you and its very considerate for you to write me as you do I know that you are a very busy man and the demands upon you from a social ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XIX INDEX TO VOLUME XIX The index given below applies only to the last half of Volume 19 beginning on page 190 The contents of this volume previous to the above embracing the translation of the Zeisberger Indian History has a separate index beginning on page 174--EDITOR A B Abolition 267 State Convention of 267 Baber Richard Plantagenet Llewellyn i bAllegwi 331 Letter of to Senator Doolittle 375 Ames Bishop E R 429 Sketch of 370 -1 0 Anti-Slavery 266 Reconstruction on 376 ...