Seven Hills High School - Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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1788, opposite the mouth of the Licking. One month later Colonel Israel Ludlow with Denman and Patterson, left Maysville, Kentucky, with twenty persons to settle an Mentire section eighteen and fractional section seventeen, in township fourv which was purchased by Judge Symmes. The town was at that time covered with dense forest and the course of streets was blazed on trees. The survey embraced only between Broadway and Central Avenue. The Indians outside of the settlements were constantly causing trouble. Some of the settlers were carried off and held captive or killed. Later block houses were built and the settlement was enlarged. There are many signs of mound builders in Ohio. There was a mound at the intersection of Third and Main streets. It was eight feet high, one hun- dred and twenty feet long, sixty feet broad, and oval shaped. Since then this mound has been almost obliterated by the grading of Main Street. As this mound has been obliterated, the Indians have slowly faded into oblivion. They are almost never seen in Ohio and live only in the west and in the north. LEE AVERY, 1941 A Life of the l9'rh Century Anne Bryan Wood was one of the first of our family to come to Cincin- nati. She came with her husband to this town in 1825. Anne Bryan was born .Ianary 30th, 1780. Her early life with her brother and two sisters was spent in Gloucester, England, her birthplace. She and her sisters were educated in a private school, where they had the fashionable subjects of the day, including French, music, dancing, and drawing. She made frequent trips to Manchester, where she met her future husband, James Wood. It is an odd coincidence that Anne Bryan,s two sisters also married men named Wood, though not related to James Wood. One of her possessions, which I have now, is a little diary and memoran- dum book which she had in her marriage year. This diary is small, com- pact and bound in worn red leather. The pages are naturally yellow with age and written in faded brown ink. There is a pocket, in the front cover of the book, which contains a small card with HDirections for Measuringn by Mlohn Cash, Tailor and Habit Maker, Liverpool, Englandf, There is also a small holder for a pencil. There are several pages of printed matter also in the diary. First, there is a ulVIap for Instruction of Youth in the Elements of Geography. The W mane, 193 Q l82l

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skin is more so than the Indian'sg the Indian,s skin is really brown, some- times very dark. The villages were usually grouped along rivers and the Indians led a carefree existence. They hunted buffalo, bear, deer, and tapped maple trees. At that time Ohio was almost entirely covered with forest. Through the dense woods, the paths which were the Indian highways, were worn by buffalo. These animal trails greatly infiuenced the location of the villages. The Indians of the Ohio built log shelters instead of tepees. These were made by laying logs, one upon the other and staking them in place. These were the sidewalls. There was a pitched roof of poles, thatched with linden bark. The ends of the structure were open or closed with animal skins. The white men have gotten some of their sports from the Indians. One of these sports is tobogganing. Another sport acquired from the Indians is La Cross. The Indians also gave white man canoeing in a large measure. The tapping of maple trees and the making of maple sugar was taught to the white man by the Indians. The Ohio River was called HOyo7, by the Indians. This was gotten from the spelling used on the plates which Celeron buried in the Ohio River banks. It can easily be seen that the name HOhio7' came from pronouncing uOyo.', The name of the Indian tribe, Miami, signifies umotherf, The settlers found this valley to be the forest home of the Indians with this tribal name, when they first came into it. The Algonquin territory extended from the Scioto River to the Wfabash and from the Ohio River to Lake Michigan. This territory was claimed for them by uLittle Turtle in the Greenville Treaty of 1795. uLittle Turtlei' was a distinguished chief and counselor. He was a dark man with a swarthy complexion and was called Mesh-e-ben-ogh-gua by the Indians. He com- manded at the defeat of General Harmar and later at St. Clair. He visited Col. Jared Mansfield in the Ludlow Mansion House in Cumminsville to talk concerning boundary lines between the two nations. The Indians had been very lucky in their battles and when the question of fighting General Wayne came up, Little Turtlev advised against it, saying that their luck would not last and that General Wayne was a man who was awake both day and night. One of the other chiefs called him a coward which name wounds the feelings of an Indian almost more than anything else. He joined the battle and fought well but the Indians were defeated showing HLittle Turtlen to be a better prophet than they had thought. uLittle Turtlew finally died of gout. The first settlement between the two Miamis was made by Major Stites, in mkafone, f 93 9 I81l

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title-page reads, uPoole,s lnstructive Memorandum-Book for the year 1809.-Printed by C. Whittingham, Goswell Street, London, England. There are also sketches on geography, history and astronomy, written in a series of dialogues by pupil and master. 6'Cahusac's New Country Dances for 1809,' is extremely interesting, though very hard to understand. An example is the '5Morgiana-First lady change places with second gentleman, first gentleman do the same with second lady, poussetteg and right and left. Other pages contain certain pieces of prose and poetry, '4Latin Words and Phrasesf' 6'lVlarks and Principles of True Politenessw and c'The Royal Family of Great Britainf' The pages on which my great, great, grandmother wrote her diary have one question for each day printed on them to uexercise the On January 28th, 1809, she writes, HAn agreeable proposal and a resolu- tionf' I imagine that this means that James Wood made a proposal of marriage and she resolved to marry him. On March 18th, she 'ccame to Cheltenham. While there she wrote, HA confirmation and a new resolve, but I do not quite understand what she means by this. On July 13th, she was apparently married to James Wood, and she writes, '6Que le bon Dieu nous rende tous heureux faMay God make us happy. j She and her husband then went to live in the United States. They left on August 31st from Liverpool and arrived in Philadelphia on October 14th, the journey taking forty-four days. The new Mrs. Wood was apparently very homesick in America, for she sent a great many letters to friends and rela- tives in England. During the month of November she sent a few letters every day by 'cpacketv fa type of vessel carrying mails and passengers and sailing at fixed timesj. There are no entries for the month of December. The Woods lived in Philadelphia for about fifteen years, during which time they had five daughters and one son. The one son was sent to England for his education. He became a Catholic and later Frederick William, Archbishop Wood of Philadelphia. The Woods moved to Cincinnati about 1824 or 1825. They lived on Broadway below Fourth Street, then the center of the residential district of Cincinnati. The house was near the present Queen City Club. Anne Wood's husband died in the Cholera epidemic in Cincinnati, in 1832. He became ill suddenly and died on the same afternoon. After her husband's death, Anne started on Pike Street a 4'School for Respectable Females in the present Taft Museum. She was assisted in her mdafone, 193 Q 1831