Book/Printed Material Commemorative exercises at unveiling and dedication of the Ft. Meigs monument, Copy 2
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Image 1 of Copy 2- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 2 of Copy 2 Class Book. Copyright }1° ■^opy COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT.- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 3 of Copy 2- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 4 of Copy 2- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 5 of Copy 2- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 6 of Copy 2- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 7 of Copy 2 COMMEMORATIVE EXERCISES AT UNVEILING AND DEDICATION,-^ OF THE FT. MEIGS MONUMENT September 1 1 908 Presentation Address of Chairman J. B. Wilson of the Fort Meigs Commission and Response of Acceptance by...- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 8 of Copy 2 2 51002- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 9 of Copy 2 FORT MEIGS MONUMENT DIMENSIONS— Base, 34 feet square. Height to Shaft, 15 feet 8 inches. Die, 8 feet 8 inches square. Shaft at base, 6 feet square. Shaft at top, 4 feet...- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 10 of Copy 2 Members of Ft. Meigs Commission JOHN B. WILSON, Chairman CHAS. W. SHOEMAKER J. L. PRAY WM. CORLETT, Secretary- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 11 of Copy 2- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 12 of Copy 2 Fort Meigs Dedicatory Services Tuesday, September 1, 1908. 1. Call to order by J. B. Wilson, Chairman of the Fort Meigs Commission, at 2:00 p. m. 2. Sino-ino- America Audience Led by...- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 13 of Copy 2 GEN. WM. H. HARRISON- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 14 of Copy 2- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 15 of Copy 2 COMPLETE RECORD Of the Dedicatory Services of Fort Meigs Monu- ment, September 1, 1908 There is no douht ili;ii the cjirtliwoi-ks of l- oiM Meigs in 1S18, niaiiiu d l»_v :is Iti-jivc...- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 16 of Copy 2 10 Old Tippecanoe. Fortj thousand is given as the low- est estimate of the great throngs at that time assembled. The Event of 1908. Years passed bj, and once more the attention...- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 17 of Copy 2 11 modious rest tents equipped with cots and chairs, and many other conveniences. Barrels of ice water were placed here and there over the grounds, and along the south side of the...- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 18 of Copy 2 12 guest. I thought it a hardship tliat God should decide that our cause should fail, but I have since come to the conclusion that God knew better than I did, for...- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 19 of Copy 2 13 mingle their life-blood in eousecraling lliese grounds a shrine of our heaven-born xVmerican liberty. And as Thy servant Jacob, awakening from his sleep in the field of Bethel, said trend)ling: IJow...- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 20 of Copy 2 14 $25,000 for the purchase of this fort, and the erection of a suitable memorial to commemorate the achievements of Grenerals Harrison, Dudley, Clay and their brave men. We are glad upon...- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 21 of Copy 2 15 in their work they have been encouraged and rewarded by the generous sympatliv (tf the people generally. Labors of the Association. I can not forego making special iiicution of the untir-...- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 22 of Copy 2 16 and impressive ceremony. This is especially so if the monument be one to commemorate some unselfish act, some sacrifice made for humanity, or some noble and heroic service rendered to the...- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 23 of Copy 2 17 The surrender of iiull, Llie retreat of T upper, aud the defeat of Winchester had been very discouraging to the American cause. General Harrison proceeded with great energy to gather a...- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 24 of Copy 2 GOVERNOR ANDREW L. HARRIS- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 25 of Copy 2 19 Fort Meigs and its menace lo the success of Llieii- plans is evidenced by the fact tliat (reneral Proctor and his Indian allies laid siege to il on i\\(» dilferent occasions....- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 26 of Copy 2 20 ley s men, elated by their success in capturing the bat- teries, went in pursuit of the fleeing Indians, into the for- est. Away from the fort in the forest, a...- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 27 of Copy 2 21 ravine at the left of tlie fort was a brilliant one. In this Captain (afterwards Colonel) Croa^han, who later dis- tinsiuisluMl liJTiisolf at Foi t Siophoiisoii, liad a fonspimons part. During...- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 28 of Copy 2 22 Colonel Croghan, the British and Indians met with a ter- rible repulse. After these two sieges, Fort Meigs continued to be an important base of operations against the enemy. It was...- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 29 of Copy 2 HON. ROBERT S. MURPHY. Address of the T.ieuteiinnt Governor of Pennsylvania. At the coiu lusiuii of his response Governor Harris introduced Liemeiiaiit (iovenior Murphy of Pennsylvania, who, on the part of Ills...- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 30 of Copy 2 24 The numberless acts of this character at the hands of Eng- land justified the exercise of warlike force. But every measure known to peaceful diplomacy was resorted to before proceeding to...- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 31 of Copy 2 25 pregnant with doubt and uncertainty, and as tlic result of the final appeal of intolerable conditions to the sleeping patriotism of the country. Tt came as the result of the indignities...- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 32 of Copy 2 26 record made by our countrymen excites the noblest admiration. No more brilliant chapter of bravery and heroism distinguishes the history of any land. True, we triumphed in a marked degree upon...- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 33 of Copy 2 HON. ROBERT S. MURPHY- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 34 of Copy 2 28 of many men filled with the courage of patriotism. Here came as a Captain of men the great Harrison, destined for brighter distinction than the laurels of Tippecanoe. With him rode...- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 35 of Copy 2 29 commencement of a remarkable period of activity. This great territory of the Northwest, freed from the danger of the savage and invasion from tlie Xortli, became tlie point toward which moved...- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 36 of Copy 2 30 this patriotic spirit is the subject of the united loyalty and devo- tion of all our countrymen. It is typified in the highest form of government known to man, a great...- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 37 of Copy 2 31 the glory and greatness of this splendid country must ever and always depend. FLAG PRESENTATION. Following llic juhlivss of Jovci-ihh- M ur|»liy. ;i large flag w:is presented by Aiionux (rcorge V....- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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Image 38 of Copy 2 32 had never been harmonious or complacent. There had grown up in England, among many of its leading men, the idea that in some way the United States would return to their...- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909
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- Date: 1909
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Image 40 of Copy 2 34 a death struggle with the greatest maritime nation in the world, and the willingness of Mr. ]\ladison and nis associates to force war, with such a slight majority, six in the...- Contributor: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association - Ohio. Fort Meigs Monument Commission - Oblinger, Flavius Josephus - Cushing, Daniel Lewis
- Date: 1909