Identifier: ohioarchological02ohio_0 (find matches)
Title: Ohio archæological and historical quarterly
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
Subjects: History Archaeology
Publisher: Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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he was familiarly known among his associates.That was certainly its first known application to an indi-vidual in the sense now used, but there is no evidence thatthe name continued to be so used and applied from thattime forward, or that it became a fixed and accepted sou-briquet of the State and people until more than half a centuryafterwards. During all of which time the buckeye continued to bean object of more or less interest, and as immigrationmade its way across the State, and the settlements ex-tended into the rich valleys, where it was found by trav-elers and explorers, and was by them carried back to theBast and shown as a rare curiosity, from what was thenknown as the Far West, possessing certain medicinalproperties for which it was highly prized. But the namenever became fully crystallized until 1840, when in thecrucible of what is known as the bitterest, longest, andmost extraordinary political contest ever waged in theUnited States, the name Buckeye became a fixed sobri-
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COxMMODORE AliRAHAM WHIPPLE. Why is Ohio Called the Buckeye State? 177 quet of the State of Ohio and its people, known andunderstood wherever either is spoken of, and likely tocontinue as long as either shall be remembered or theEnglish language endures. The manner in which this was brought about is one ofthe singular events of that political epoch. General William Henry Harrison having become thecandidate of his party for President, an opposition news-paper said that he was better fitted to sit in a log cabinand drink hard cider than rule in the White House. Theremark was at once taken up by his friends and became aparty slogan of that ever-memorable canvass. Harrisonbecame the log cabin candidate, and was pictured as sittingby the door of a rude log cabin through which could beseen a barrel of hard cider, while the walls were hungwith coon skins and decorated with strings of buckeyes. Political excitement spread with wonderful rapidity;there was music in the air, and on the 22d of F

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