Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . C. L. Martzolff, Alumni and Field Secretary. Ohio University. 445 homes. There are no saloons and the college authorities, thefaculty, students, and their friends helped to bring this about. This, in brief, is the story of the pioneer college of thecentral west. We have seen its origin, a gift from the nationalgovernment, its growth, and its period of the dark ages. But ithas had its renaissance. So that in 1904, when its centennial wascelebrated, its sons and daughters from the East and the West,the North and South, and even from beyond the seas g
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . C. L. Martzolff, Alumni and Field Secretary. Ohio University. 445 homes. There are no saloons and the college authorities, thefaculty, students, and their friends helped to bring this about. This, in brief, is the story of the pioneer college of thecentral west. We have seen its origin, a gift from the nationalgovernment, its growth, and its period of the dark ages. But ithas had its renaissance. So that in 1904, when its centennial wascelebrated, its sons and daughters from the East and the West,the North and South, and even from beyond the seas gath-ered beneath the-old-beech that was standing when the bellfirst rang for classes at the opening of the last century. Here,too, they gazed at the row of seventeen elms planted by thehands of the great McGufrey> and wandered through the cor-ridors of the old buildings that had sheltered them, and thou-sads of others through the lapse of the century, and all stoodbeneath the trees and sang the praises of Old O. Monument Square, Showing McGuffky Elms. BOWMANS EXPEDITION AGAINST CHILLICOTHE. May-June, 1779. Draper MSS., Border Forays, 5 D. chap. 27, pp. 1-20.[The following account of Captain Bowmans expedition againstChillicothe on the Little Miami, in 1779, is from the original manuscriptof the Draper collection in the archive department of the WisconsinHistorical Society, Madison, Wisconsin. During the past summer (1910),through the courtesy of Dr. Reuben Gold Thwaites, Secretary of theWisconsin Historical Society, we were permitted to examine the exten-sive and valuable collection of the Draper Manuscripts and select there-from certain ones for publication in this Quarterly.—Editor.] In the month of October, 1776, the Commonwealth ofVirginia passed an act dividing the county of Fincastle—thenthe most westerly of any in its jurisdiction—into three distinctcounties, to one of which they gave the name of Kentucky,being, substantially, the present State so-called. T
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