Memoirs of the Miami Valley, Volumen1John Calvin Hover, Joseph Daniel Barnes Robert O. Law Company, 1919 |
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Términos y frases comunes
afterward avenue bank became Belle Center Bellefontaine Benjamin Stanton born brick brothers building built canal cent chapel Chillicothe church Cincinnati citizens congregation corner court creek Dayton death DeGraff died district early east elected entered erected established farm father Fort Loramie George graduated Hamilton high school honor hundred Huntsville Indians industry institution James John Judge land later located Logan county Loramie manufacture Medical Methodist Miami county Miami river Miami university Miami valley miles mill Miller Miss Mound Builders occupied Ohio organized pastor Piatt pioneer Piqua plant platted practice Presbyterian present president purchased railroad Red Cross road Robert Rushsylvania Samuel sawmill settled settlement settlers Shelby county Sidney street tavern teachers Thomas tion town township village West Liberty West Mansfield William Zanesfield
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Página 260 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declared how much he knew: 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge...
Página 260 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school.
Página 260 - For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still; While words of learned length, and thund'ring sound, Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around — And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew.
Página 262 - Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official; The warping floor, the battered seats, The jack-knife's carved initial; The charcoal frescoes on its wall ; Its door's worn sill, betraying The feet that, creeping slow to school, Went storming out to playing ! Long years ago a winter sun Shone over it at setting ; Lit up its western window-panes, And low eaves
Página 26 - It is well known that my forefather kindled the first fire at Detroit; from thence he extended his lines to the headwaters of the Scioto; from thence to its mouth, from thence down the Ohio to the mouth of the Wabash; and from thence to Chicago, on Lake Michigan.
Página 26 - Scioto ; from thence to its mouth ; from thence down the Ohio to the mouth of the Wabash ; and from thence to Chicago, on Lake Michigan. These are the boundaries within which the prints of my ancestor's houses are everywhere to be seen.
Página 47 - The new town then assumes the name of its founder: — a store-keeper builds a little framed store, and sends for a few cases of goods; and then a tavern starts up, which becomes the residence of a doctor and a lawyer, and the boardinghouse of the store-keeper, as well as the resort of the weary traveller: soon follow a blacksmith and other handicraftsmen in useful succession: a schoolmaster, who is also the minister of religion, becomes an important accession to this rising community.
Página 163 - ... to transport, take and carry property and persons upon the same by the power and force of steam, of animals, or of any mechanical or other power, or of any combination of them...
Página 217 - Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
Página 248 - I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).