Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . vW^^iPPl$. Ohio University, 1875. Probably the strenuous ex-president would have considered itmore appropriate to have named it Hog-Hollow or Buz-zards Glory or some such euphonious title instead. In justi-fication of its name it must be remembered that the settlerssent out by the Ohio Company of Associates had a greater percent, of Harvard and Yale graduates than any similar bodyof pioneers in America. So when these men christened Ma-rietta, Athens, Campus Martius, Rome, Troy, and Carthage itwas not because of paucity of imagination but rather out
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . vW^^iPPl$. Ohio University, 1875. Probably the strenuous ex-president would have considered itmore appropriate to have named it Hog-Hollow or Buz-zards Glory or some such euphonious title instead. In justi-fication of its name it must be remembered that the settlerssent out by the Ohio Company of Associates had a greater percent, of Harvard and Yale graduates than any similar bodyof pioneers in America. So when these men christened Ma-rietta, Athens, Campus Martius, Rome, Troy, and Carthage itwas not because of paucity of imagination but rather out of (411) 412 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. their abundance of knowledge. The humor of the situationmay never have struck them, for they were Englishmen. Butthe desire to build well was theirs. So they laid the foundationdeep and broad. The settlement began under the reign oflaw and with it was the establishment by law of the church,the school, and the college. The fathers of Ohio may havelacked imagination and they may not have been able
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