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-°-Q o- T H E N A -o fJx Territorial Act to Establish Ohio University at Athens That there shall be a University in- stituted and established in the town of Athens, for the instruction of youth in all the various branches of the liberal arts and sciences, for the promotion of good education, virtue, religion, and morality, and for conferring all the de- grees and literary honors granted in similar institutions. Section 1. Territorial Act. January 9, 1802 Preamble Whereas, institutions for the liberal education of youth are essential to the progress of arts and science, important to morality, virtue, and religion, friend- ly to peace, order, and prosperity of society, and honorable to the govern- ment that encourages and patronizes them, etc. Act of Ohio Legislature. February 18, 1804. -tog BlmJ g gey I 1
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o-0°- A T H E N A -cx o- The State of Ohio (NOTE: To illustrate the general theme of this annual — The History of the State of Ohio — each section page throughout this volume contains a view of an important event or industry in the history of the state. The views are arranged in chronological order so as to portray the progress of the state from the time of the first settlers leaving Ipswich Hamlet in 1787 to the present with its many and varied industries, depicting especially Agri- culture, Manufacturing, Mining and Transportation within the state.) Some Peaks of History lHIO has more colleges and universities than any other state in the ' Union — that in itself is very significant. When Bathsheba Rouse as the first school-teacher in the state taught school in the summer of 1789 at Belpre. she was a pioneer in that great educational scheme which was to place the state of Ohio among the very foremost in the instruction of her youth. In this early and later systems Ohio University, the first University west of the Alleghenies to receive a public land endowment, has always had a place of importance. It is uniquely interesting that the history of the United States as such, of the state of Ohio, and of Ohio University is contemporaneous, since their beginnings are rooted in that wonderful year of 1787. Every Ohioan knows of the famous Ordinance of 1787. but one provision is of more than common interest: religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of man- kind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. Rufus Putnam and Benjamin Tupper. members later of the Ohio Uni- versity Board of Trustees, first organized the Ohio Company, and Manasseh Cutler, its agent and an expert lobbyist, secured from congress nearly a million acres of land along the Muskingum River. On April 7, 1788 the first settlers came and founded Marietta, so named in honor of Marie Antoinette, the French queen. Before the end of the eighteenth century. Cincinnati. Dayton. Chillicothe. Cleveland, and Zanesville were established. Congress in 1800 divided the Northwest Territory into two parts, the Indiana Territory and the Northwest Territory, with the capital of the latter located at Chillicothe. This Northwest Territory became the seventeenth State — Ohio — on March 1, 1803. A constitution was drawn up and Edward Tiffin was elected first governor. A new constitution was adopted in 1851. which with some amendments in 1912 is the same we live under today. Fame in men and deeds have come to Ohio to prove her greatness as a state. Great and good governors Ohio has had and her national statesmen are numerous. Ohio by birth or training gave the greatest Union generals: Grant. Sherman. Sheridan. Buell. Rosecram, McClellan. McPherson. and McDowell. If we include William H. Harrison, who was born in Virginia and lived in Ohio after 1814. Ohio has produced eight presidents of the United States, namely. Grant. Hayes. Garfield. Benjamin Harrison. McKinley. Taft. and Harding. -CQ |L19 3 S[C - 12
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