; N" 2 C,c'~/my Jr’ .4 BOISE F/\a‘\/HLYHISTORY w 3676 S. Dorian CENTER Boise, Idaho 83705 OHIO VALLEY GENEALOGIES RELATINGCEIIPI1!1'0 FAIIIIIE DI’EABIWI. BILIOHT AND398%! (X)U3'l'!E, OHIO.AID WASKlFG­ ‘DON,WBTIOBILAND, AND FAYETTE WURTIB, PINXBYINAXIA IT CHARLES A. HANNA U. S. 973 D211: F#CD20157 ,7;0/.5 D51/'L& /’/flfi/0.120/57 OHl0 VALLEY GENEALOGlES INTRODUCTION There is, perhaps, no one subject taught in our schools and institu­ tions of learning to-day on which more misinformation has been inn.­ parted to the students than that of American history; and probably there is no part of that subject concerning which American people are more in ignorance than the part relating to their own racial origin. Good Americans, generally, approved of the spirit of Mark Twain’: rejoinder to Max 0’ , when, in the course 0! a recent international exchange of compliments between the French and the Missouri humor-= ists, the latter, to the charge that the average American did not usually‘ know the name of his own grandfather, allowed that such might be the truth; but thought that Brother Jonathan was more apt to be sure of the name of his own father than were some others. The oft-repeated ~€“' £i:"cT;\:‘° story of the observation made by a successful American gentleman travel­ ing in Europe, who, when shown by an English lord the pictures of the latter’s illustrious ancestors for some hundreds of years back, admitted that he had nothing of the kind at his home in America, because he was an illustrious ancestor himself,—is a characteristic illustration of the spirit in which, until quite recently, matters of race and family history have generally been regarded by the busy American workers of the pres­ ent day. Nevertheless, there is one class of our fellow citizens which has never been negligent in preserving the traditions and histories of their fathers; and never backward in letting America and the world at large know all about their merits and accomplishments. These are the people “ ...~.»’ of New England--s people who, from the time of their first settlement 9 ER M A?‘ oiiio VALLEY RACE TYPES. THE SCOTCH-IRISH vii vi OHIO VALLEY GENELIDGIB8 in America, have preserved written records of most of their communities, ty-four presidents, less than half the number have been of that stock; or, and of almost every member living in and making a part of those com­ that of our great editors, three-fourths have been non-English in origin; munities; so that, as a consequence, there are few persons of New England or, that of our great judges, less than half have been English; or, that of descent living in the United States to-day, but who can find pages and American inventors of world-wide fame, about three out of every four volumes of history and eulogy in print as perpetual monuments to the have been-of another race than English; or, that of the great leaders in virtues of one or several of their more or less remote progenitors. the National congress, not half of them have been English by descent; Another and much more important consequence of this habit of or, that in our population to—dsy,nearlyone-half are of other races than committing to writing the history of men and communities in New Eng­ English. Yet these facts are all capable of ready demonstration, and land, is, that nearly all of our so-ulled histories of America have been can be verified by any one who will take the trouble to consult any written by New England men, are based chiefly upon New England standard biographical and statistical dictionary. records and examples, and have neceuarily had to pass over in silence, In the State of Ohio, for instance, if the English are to have the sole or in a cursory way, the history of these other portions of our country credit for all the good that has come to America, what would become of and our citizens, of whom none of these written records have been pre­ the fame of Arthur St. Clair, of Jeremiah Morrow, of Allen Trimble, of served. Duncan MCAXthflI,of Joseph Vance, of Wilson Shannon, of Mordecai It is not strange, therefore, that in most of our schools co-day Bartley, of Reuben Wood, of Rutherford B. Hayes, of Seabury Ford, of and, I venture to say, in the public schools of eastern Ohio, American William Medill, of James E. Campbell, of Thomas L. Young, of Joseph history is taught chiefly from books written by New England men, or B. Foraker, of Charles Foster, of William McKinley, and of some few their descendants; is viewed in these.books from the conventional New others who have been governors of the State? Or, of Presidents Grant, England stand-point; and is based largely upon New England traditions, Hayes, Garfield, and McKinley? Or, of certain supreme court judges, prejudices, and, in some cases, niisreprcsentations. such as Jacob Burnet, John McLean, Joseph R. Swan, John of Wright, The chief misrepresentation to which attention may be called at this Thomas W. Bartley, W. B. Caldwell, William Kennon, Hocking H. time, is the one so repeatedly made in certain of the newspapers and re­ Hunter, George W. Mcllvaine, W. J. Gilmore, Rufus P. Ranney, Josiah views, and by certain orators, and after~dinner speakers, that all the Scott, John Clark, W. W. Johnson, and John H. Doyle? Or, of certain progress made by America since it was first colonized, and all the glorious well-known journalists, such as Whitelaw Reid, W. L. Brown, John A. history of which Americans are so proud, has been made because its Cockerill, Joseph Medill, Samuel Medary, W. W. Armstrong, the Farans people are of the Anglo-Saxon race, and in their progress are only con­ and Mcleans, and Richard Smith? Or, of Bishop Simpson. of John A. tinuing in the new world what their English forefathers had begun in Bingham, and of Salmon I‘. Chase? Or, of William Dean Howells and the old. of John Q. A. Ward? Or, of Generals U. S. Grant, Phil Sheridan, Now, as a matter of fact, no such thing is the case. And whilethere Quincy A. Gilmore, James B. Steadman, Irvin McDowell, John Beatty, should be no just praise withheld from the descendants of Englishmen 0. M. Mitchell, James B. McPherson, Henry W. Lawton, and the fighting for what their forefathers have donefor America, it would be as great families of the Mccooks? a wrong to them if we were to say that they had done nothing whatever, No, the truth of the matter is, that a vast proportion of American as it is to other Americans, of non-English origin, for the descendants people, sometimes classed by the historians as British, have had their of Englishmen to claim that the English have done it all. hard-eurned laurels transferred to the brows of the so-called Anglo­ How can those claims that the great men of American history are of Saxons, or English; and very much of the honor and glory which are so exclusively English origin be considered in face of the fact that, of Wash­ frequently claimed for the English in this country, really belong to the ington’: hundred generals, more or less,not half of them were of English people of another, and a distinctly different race. ‘blood; or, that of the great generals of the civil war on both sides, but These people are the Scotch-Irish, as they have come to be called, little more than one-third wereof English extraction ;or, that of our twen­ who have done vastly more in the settlement and development of the cen­ viii OHIO VALLEY OENEALOOIES THE SCOTCH-IRISH ix tral and southern portions of our country than the English, and yet a ola, the Roman general, who, when he had conquered all the present people who have been too busy making history to spare the time to territory of England, and carried his victorious banners-north to the write it; and one whose early annals, for this reason, have been, until Grampian hills in Scotland, found there a foe who could eflectually recent years, so far neglected as to be well—nighforgotten. This is the hinder his further advance, and cause him for the first time to so­ race to which belong, with the exception of those of Howells, Garfield, knowledge that here was at last an unknown and unconqnerable and Sheridan, probably all of the names given above; and to that and the race beyond his own conquered ULTIMA THULE. It 6011*-lime! German race, also, belong, it is safe to say, at least seventy-five per cent. in the plundering forays and invasions of the Scots and Picts, who car­ of the sturdy farmers and substantial citizens of eastern Ohio. ried their dreaded arms from one end of the island to the other, un­ It is needless to ask in addition, therefore, what would become of checked; and, later, in the piratical incursions of the Vikings, who came the fair name and fame of the Buckeye State, if the English were the only westward from‘ their safe retreats within the Norwegian fiords, to fight-y people who have made America what it is to-day. to plunder, to destroy, and eventually to settle, among the sea-girt islands Nevertheless,the Scotch-Irish communities and people of theCentral and peninsulas of western Scotland. Its dark and bloody deeds are in­ States, as a rule, have few traditions or remembered history back of the stanced by the tragic history of Macbeth; and its bright and chivalrous time when settlements were first begun there, in the early years of the actions are shown by incidents like that of the Battle of Otterburn, so present century.