FOOTNOTES:
[1] Native fruit: cranberries, huckleberries, blackberries, raspberries, service berries, paw-paws (custard apples), persimmons, plums, grapes, cherries, haws, crab apples.
[2] Mr. Havemeyer is the autocrat of the Sugar Trust of America after the fashion of Mr. Arbuckle, the Coffee Baron. Under the chairmanship of a committee the New York legislature, Senator Luxow investigated the Sugar Trust and found Mr. Havemeyer controlled four-fifths of the entire output of sugar in America.
[3] Mills erected on two boats, separated at an angle, with water wheel near the bow. The natural current of the stream passing between the boats turned the wheel that moved the machinery of the mill, which would grind twenty to forty bushels of corn in twenty-four hours, according to the current of the stream.
[4] Prof. Drummond.
[5] Buffon.
[6] History United States, by C. A. Goodrich, 1823: “This fund, in May 1821, amounted to one million seven hundred thousand dollars—the yearly income of which, together with twelve thousand dollars of the public taxes, is annually devoted to the maintenance of common school masters in every town in the state. The amount paid to the towns from this fund, in 1818, was more than seventy thousand dollars—a greater sum by twenty-two thousand dollars than the whole state tax amounted to in the year preceding.”
[7] Mathews.
[8] “The Builders of the Nation.”
[9] Dr. R. Dunglison.
[10] Charles Whittlesey.
[11] Charles Whittlesey.
[12] “Ohio Valley,” by Samuel Williams, p. 40.
[13] “Autobiography of a Pioneer,” by Rev. Jacob Young.
[14] Atwater, “History of Ohio.”
[15] Note—1895.—“Out of eight new Republican United States Senators just sworn in, four were born in Ohio. There are now eleven Ohio-born Senators. Ohio does a good business in ‘raising men,’ to say nothing about the good women.”—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
“True. It might be added that the managing editor and chief political writer of the Inter-Ocean are Ohio men. And, according to Mr. Dana and Mr. McCullagh, to be an editor is ‘greater than a king.’”—Exchange.
[16] Howe’s Hist. Coll.
[17] Minnesota, with an area of 46,000,000 acres, gave 20,000,000 acres to 3,200 miles of railroads.
[18] Barr’s Buffon, Vol. VII, page 175.
[19] Stevens’s Report.
[20] Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio.
[21] Hon. J. M. Rusk, Secretary Agriculture Report, 1889.
[22] Minneapolis Journal.
[23] Sixteen articles of amendment to the adopted Constitution were approved by Congress, September, 1789, ten of which were approved by the states.
[24] Excise act in Pennsylvania in 1794. This revolt required fifteen thousand armed men to quell, and cost the United States $1,000,000.
[25] Editor “Olive Branch” (No. 2).
[26] Whip.
[27] Recollections of Samuel Brock, pp. 275-7.
[28] Wood’s book on Railroads, 1825.
[29] Sherman and His Campaigns.
[30] W. T. Sherman.
[31] “Ohio in the War.” Reed.
[32] Ten miles in length.
[33] “The Making of the Ohio Valley States.”
[34] The death rate per 1000 of the inhabitants of the present capital is nearly double ordinary mortuary statistics of other cities. A single fatal disease—consumption—shows a death ratio per 1000, seven times greater than any city west of the Alleghany Mountains.—Hess.