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LEO LESQUEREUX [leaann1@bellsouth.net] #2 Franklin County Indian Story [leaann1@bellsouth.net] #3 Grand Squirrel Hunt, Franklin Coun [leaann1@bellsouth.net] #4 Newspapers that were...before 1909 [leaann1@bellsouth.net] #5 1846-The Columbus cadets-1848 [leaann1@bellsouth.net] #6 Old Guard Columbus [leaann1@bellsouth.net] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 23:19:19 -0800 From: leaann1@bellsouth.net Subject: PROF. LEO LESQUEREUX Historical Collections of Ohio By Henry Howe LL. D. PROF. LEO LESQUEREUX, paleo botanist, was born in 1806, in Fleurier, canton of Neuchatel, Switzerland. His ancestors were Huguenots, fugitives from France after the Edict of Nantes. He was destined for the church, but at nineteen years of age, when he entered the Academy of Neuchatel, he met Arnold Guyot, and together they became much interested in natural science, toward which Lesquereux's taste and disposition had always inclined. Completing his course in the academy of Neuchatel, he went to Eisenach, and taught the French language while perfecting himself in the German language, preparatory to entering the University of Berlin. In 1829 he returned to Switzerland as principal of the college of La Chaux-de-Fonds, canton of Neuchatel but, becoming deaf, he gave up this position, and for twelve years supported himself by engraving watch cases and manufacturing watch springs; in the meanwhile, however, he continued his studies and researches in natural science, devoting his attention particularly to mosses and fossil botany. In 1832 he married Baroness Sophia Von Wolffskeel, daughter of Gen. Von Wolffskeel, of Eisenach, Saxe-Weimer. His researches on peat formations led to his being commissioned in 1845 by the Prussian Government to make explorations on the peat bogs of Europe. In 1848, he removed to the United States, first locating at Cambridge, Mass., and later at Columbus, Ohio, where he now resides. Appleton's Biographical Cyclopedia, says of his career in the United States: "He became associated with William S. Sullivant in the study of American bryology. Together they published "Musci Americana Exsiccati" (1856; 2d ed., 1865), and subsequently he assisted Mr. Sullivant in the examination of the mosses that had been collected by Capt. Charles Wilkes on the South Pacific exploring expedition and by Lieut. Amiel W. Whipple on the Pacific railroad exploration, and finally in his 'Icones Muscorum' (Cambridge, 1864). His own most valuable researches beginning in 1850, were studies of the coal formations of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Kentucky, and Arkansas, on which he contributed memoirs to the reports of the State surveys. His investigations on the coal flora of Pennsylvania are of special value. He prepared a 'Catalogue of the Fossil Plants which have been Named or Described from the Coal Measures of North America' for the reports of Henry D. Rogers in 1858, and in 1884 furnished 'The Coal Flora' (3 vols of text, with an atlas) for the second geological survey of Pennsylvania, which is regarded as the most important work on carboniferous plants that has thus far appeared in the United States. Since 1868 parts of the material in fossil botany have been referred to him by the various national surveys in the field, and he has contributed to their reports the results of his investigations. He is a member of more than twenty scientific societies in the United States and Europe, and in 1864 was the first member that was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The titles of his publications are more than fifty in number, and include twelve important volumes on the natural history of the United States, besides which he has published 'Letters Written on Germany' (Neuchatel, 1846) and 'Letters Written on America; (1847-55). He has also published with Thomas P. James, 'Manual of the Mosses of North America' (Boston 1884). A few years since a leading New York journal made the statement that it was somewhat remarkable that a city like Columbus should be the home of three such eminent scientists as Prof. Leo Lesquereux, William S. Sullivant, and Dr. T.G. Wormley. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 00:10:43 -0800 From: leaann1@bellsouth.net Subject: Franklin County Indian Story Historical Collections of Ohio By Henry Howe LL.D. Franklin County Indian Story An interesting anecdote, illustrating the peculiar characteristics of the Indians as our first settlers of Columbus found them, is related of Keziah, the youngest daughter of John and Mary Hamlin. In 1804 Mr. Hamlin built the first cabin east of the Scioto River, on the spot where Hosters Brewery now stands, and here, Oct 16, 1804, his daughter Keziah, the first white child in Columbus, was born. At this time a tribe of Wyandot Indians were located near a bend in the river just below the present Harrisburgh bridge. They were very friendly to the Hamlins, and were specially fond of Mrs. Hamlin's freshly baked bread. On bread baking days they would come to the cabin, and lifting aside the curtain which served for a door, enter, and help themselves to the content of the larder without asking permission or saying a word to the occupants. Upon leaving they would throw a hunk of venison or whatever game they had upon the floor as compensation, and then silently take their departure. One day when Mrs. Hamlin was attending to her household duties with nobody present save her infant daughter, who was camly sleeping in her crib, several of the Indians entered the cabin, and without saying a word deliberately took up the sleeping infant and carried her away with them to their village, leaving Mrs. Hamlin trembling with fear and anxiety for the safety of her child. As the hours passed by, and the child was not returned, she suffered the greatest mental anguish and suspense, until, toward the close of day, her sufferings were relieved by the reappearance of the Indians bringing with them the child, which wore a beautiful pair of beaded moccasins upon her little feet, and which the Indians had been working industriously upon all day, and had felt the necessity of having the child with them so as to insure a perfect fit. This token of the appreciation of a savage race for the kindness and hospitality shown them by early pioneers was preserved until a few years ago, when the scion of a younger generation of the same house unfortunately destroyed them when too young to appreciate their value. Miss Keziah Hamlin, the heroine of this pleasing anecdote, married Dec 19, 1822, David Brooks, of Princeton, Mass., and died Feb. 4, 1875, leaving a family of three sons and two daughters, one of whom, Mr. David W. Brooks, of the banking firm of Brooks, Butler & Co., kindly furnished us with the facts given herein. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 00:53:40 -0800 From: leaann1@bellsouth.net Subject: Grand Squirrel Hunt, Franklin County Histrical Collections of Ohio By Henry Howe LL. D. We here insert a curiosity from the Columbus Gazette of Aug. 20, 1822. At an early day there was a law offering a bounty for the scalps of squirrels. Whether in force at that time we do not know; if so, it must have made quite a draft upon the public treasury. Grand Squirrel Hunt!--- The squirrels are becoming so numerous in the county as to threaten serious injury, if not destruction, to the hopes of the farmer during the ensuing fall. Much good might be done by a general turnout of all citizens whose convenience will permit, for two or three days, in order to prevent the alarming ravages of these mischievious neighbors. It is therefore respectfully submitted to the different townships each to meet and choose two or three of their citizens to meet in a hunting caucus, at the house of Christian Heyl, on Saturday, the 31st inst., at 2 o'clock P.M. Should the time above stated prove too short for the townships to hold meetings, as above recommended, the following persons are respectfully nominated and invited to attend the meeting at Columbus: Montgomery, Jeremiah McLene and Edward Livingston. Hamilton, George W. Williams and Andrew Dill. madison, Nicholas Goetschius and W.H. Richardson. Truro, Abiather V. Taylor and John Hanson. Jefferson, John Edgar and Elias Ogden. Plain, Thomas B. Patterson and Jonathon Whithead. Harrison, F.C. Olmstead and Capt. Bishop. Sharon, Matthew Matthews and Bulkley Comstock. Perry, Griffith Thomas and William Mickey. Washington, Peter Sells and Uriah Clark. Norwich, Robert Elliott and Alanson Perry. Clinton, Col. Cook and Samuel Henderson. Franklin, John McIlvain and Lewis Williams. Prairie, John Hunter and Jacob Neff. Pleasant, James Gardiner and Reuben Golliday. Jackson, Wollery Coonrod, and Nicholas Hoover. Mifflin, Adam Reed and William Dalzell. In case any township should be unrepresented in the meeting those prresent will take the liberty of nominating suitable persons for said absent township. Ralph Osborn, Lucas Sullivant, Gustavus Swan, Samuel G. Flenniken, Christian Hey, John A. McDowell. A subsequent paper says: "The hunt was conducted agreeably to the instructions in our last paper. On counting the scalps it appeared that 19,660 scalps were produced. It is impossible to say what number in all were killed, as a great many of the hunters did not come in. We think we can safely challenge any other county in the State to kill squirrels with us." ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 01:34:05 -0800 From: leaann1@bellsouth.net Subject: Newspapers that were...before 1909 (Franklin Co) Centennial History of Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio By William Alexander Taylor Among the Crypts Among the newspapers that were, but are not, may be mentioned in chronological order thus: Franklin Chronicle 1819 Ohio State Bulletin 1829 Columbus Sentinel 1835 Ohio Register and Anti-Masonic Review 1832 Western Hemisphere 1832 The People's Press 1836 The Ohio Confederate 1838 Old School Republican 1841 The Cross and Journal 1838 The Capital City Fact 1850 The Ohio Press 1847 The Ohio Cultivator 1845 The Ohio Standard 1845 and revived in 1850 The Ohio Columbian 1855 The Ohio Tribune 1840 The Columbus Elevator 1855 The Columbus Gazette 1858 Among the short lived publications between 1845 and 1855 were: The National Enquirer The Electric The Thompsonian Recorder The Independent Press Budget of Fun Straight-Out Harrisonian The Tornado The Auger The Ohio Freeman Columbus Herald Ohio Intelligencer Ohio Democrat The Westb(?)ote (German) still in existence..established in 1843 Between 1860 and the present date (1909) there were many brief and brilliant newspaper careers among which may be named the Columbus Gazette, Sunday Morning News, which lived a score of years, the Columbus Bulletin, Columbus Sentinel, Capital Events, Columbus Review, Sunday Capital, Daily Courier, Sunday Globe, Saturday Critic, Democratic Call, and last and most notable of all, the Ohio Sun, supplied with all modern equipments and which issued a creditable daily and Sunday issue for nearly two years, suspending in 1908. The chronology of the three learned professions, treated in this chapter, is in strict accord with Luke 13:30. ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 01:52:20 -0800 From: leaann1@bellsouth.net Subject: 1846-The Columbus cadets-1848 Centennial History of Columbus and franklin County, Ohio By William Alexander taylor 1846-THE COLUMBUS CADETS-1848 The following is the roll call of the "Columbus cadets." Captain William A. Latham's company of the Second Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Mexican War the returning volunteers already referred to whose pathway within the city, was literally strewn with flowers by the girls and women of that day. While the men and boys cheered them to the echo. ROLL CALL CAPTAIN LATHAM'S COMPANY Eighteen killed in battle: thirty nine wounded. Rank and File. Captain, William Latham; First Lieutenant, James Markland; Second Lieutenant, John Arnold; First Sergeant, John A. Harvey; Second Sergeant, Wm. H. Sanford; Third Sergeant, William Cloud; Fourth Sergeant, Victor Trevitt; First Corporal, Charles Johnson; Second Corporal, Lewis Hadley; Third Corporal, H.W. Johnes; Fourth Corporal, John Righter Privates: George Atwater, George Altin, James Bennet, Robert Benns, Moses Bedell, Joseph Bidwell, T.R. Brake, Jacob Brown, A. Clarke, C. Coffman, Thomas Davies, Louis Evans, Elias Finck, J.S. Foley, William Forrester, William Greenley, John Leonard, B. F. Lincoln, Robert Lucas, Augustus Marcy, John W. Marcy, Abed Moore, Franklin Moyer, Samuel Mutchler, T. Nadenbousch, Samuel Pierce, Samuel Reaver, Joseph Righter, Samuel Sabines, D.K. Seltz, Fred Schilling, John Scott, Samuel J. Scott, Ralph J. Scott, ___ Scribner, William Simcox, R.J. Shannon, James Sheperd, Seth Shoemaker, James Thomas, Samuel Taylor, Daniel Townsend, Henry Tuttle ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 02:33:46 -0800 From: leaann1@bellsouth.net Subject: Old Guard Columbus Centennial History of Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio By William Alexander Taylor 1861-5 THE OLD GUARD 1908-9 >From the beginning the military spirit was indigenous to the soil, and there were from the close of the war of 1812 to the close of the Spanish American war and since, notable military organizations in the city, which as in the case of the Mexican and Civil war, furnished recruits who were so aptly trained and thoroughly imbued with the military spirit as to successfully lead battalions and brigades to victory and real battlefields within from thirty to sixty days after having laid down civil pursuits and being mustered in. The full military history of the city and county belongs to the domain of those who are chosen to devote one or more volumes to a single class of subjects, and it would take a long chapter to record the names of their soldiers and officers, without their titles or "mention in orders" of their gallantry and achievements. One of the surviving military organizations is worthy of more than passing notice and can be made without even the faintest suggestion of invidioous distinction, and that is the Old Guard, composed of the veteran soldiers of the Civil war and some of whom were, at the beginning of the organization, veterans of the Mexican war. On every fitting civic military occasion for a score and a half years, the Old Guard and its drum corps has evoked the applause and greetings of the city as they marched by with the verve and aplomb of Caesar's legions coming back from the conquest of Gaul. Here is the present company roll of the Old Guard of Columbus 1908-1909: Captain, William Miller; First Lieut., B.F. Ollum; Second Lieut., L.D. Ross; Adjutant, David McCandlish; Chaplain, II. Bailey; Quartermaster, J. Conway; Sergeants: J.S. Kessie, J.L. Hale, J. Peters, W.K. Stichter, H.T. Scott, W.W. Walmsley, J.H. Lloyd, B.F. Manier, C.R. Rhoads Corporals: G. Dorbet, W.F. Doty, J.D. Fisher, W. Haggerty, J.A. Pettit Drummers: C.L. Barlow, Q.C. Cook, J.F. Daley, E.S. Hawkins, J.D. Kennedy, J.D. Newton, W.U. O'Hara, Wm. Parks, G. Sain, S.H. Timmons Privates: J.H. Allen, Z.F. Amlin, L. Bauman, G.W. Bigelow, J.H. Bliler, S. Chapman, F.D. Clark, T. C--fton, D.U. Hall, A.R. Innis, Wm. Kauffman, L.F. Keller, J.D. Kenney, D.S. Latham, G. Lawrence, J.W. Leach, D.H. Smith, J.H. Smith, T.T. Smith, H. Schaffer, O.E. Sells, A. Stone, George Stover, Wm. Thacker, M.N. Cook, J. Dice, L.T. Ebright, James Fagans, F. Fisher, C. Fishpaugh, J. Foark, A.P. Frame, C. Graham, H.R. Guthrie, J.H. Long, E.G. Maloney, W.W. McMain, D. McMullen, J.W. Messick, R.B. Oren, W.C. Powell, George Rie, E.E. Rickets, C. Roberts, J.A. Thompson, J.H. Toy, D. Wigands, W.W. Young, G.F. Geary, H.S. Gilvert, W.H. Pence, W.Y. Postle, D. Zook Honorary: Gov. A.L. Harris, Col. James Kilbourne, Col. Geo. D. Freeman, Hon. R.M. Rownd, Hon. E.L. Taylor, Jr., Gen. H.A. Axline, Judge D.F. Pugh, Capt. Geo. W. Ware, Col. W.H. Knaus, Col. T.E. Knaus, Charles Dunphy, J.W. Gardner, J.W. Lindsay -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #92 ******************************************