GOVERNOR EDWARD TIFFIN

From a painting in the Capitol at Columbus. Born at Carlisle, England, June 19, 1766; studied medicine in Philadelphia and came to Charlestown, Virginia, in 1794; located at Chillicothe, in 1798; served as member of the House of Representatives in the first and second Territorial Legislatures; was President of the first Constitutional Convention, 1802; elected first Governor of Ohio, 1803, reelected in 1805; elected United States Senator, 1807; resigned March, 1809; Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, 1809-1810; appointed first Commissioner of the Land Office, 1812; appointed Surveyor General of the West, 1814; died at Chillicothe, August 9, 1829.

The Rise and Progress of an

American State

By

EMILIUS O. RANDALL and DANIEL J. RYAN

VOLUME THREE

By

DANIEL J. RYAN

THE CENTURY HISTORY COMPANY

NEW YORK

1912

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HIS volume covers that period in the history of the people of Ohio in which they displayed the fullest strength of their capacity for development and self government. It was the Heroic Age of their history. It was during this time that they felled the forests and tilled the soil, established popular government and founded a great State, subdued the Indians and repelled a foreign invader, built canals and constructed a common school system; and as a result of this their State leaped from the eighteenth in rank in population to the third, and all of this was accomplished in two score years.

This marvelous development was not due to the mere accretion of growth resulting from time, but it was the direct work of the men who met and solved the problems of the period in which they lived. No better blood was ever given to found a State than that of the pioneers of Ohio; strong and healthy strains of other lands have since entered into its life.

Such a people cannot fail to have an interesting career, and in these pages is recorded their history. If, as Bacon says, "history makes men wise," it is because he who writes it deducts lessons from the past. So, remembering that "history is philosophy teaching by example," I have not been content wholly with making this volume a mere chronological table or a skeleton of facts, but have at times undertaken by deduction, criticism or otherwise, to give the reader a text for the thoughtful consideration of the lessons that can be derived from the past.

Columbus, Ohio.

DANIEL J. Ryan.