Did You Know?
Dumbarton House can earn a donation every time you search the Internet and shop online!
Go to GoodSearch.com and they'll donate about a penny to Dumbarton House each time you search!
Shop at more than 600 popular
GoodShop.com participating online retailers and a percentage of each purchase will go to our cause. To raise funds for Dumbarton House by Searching or Shopping —
Here’s How . . .
• Visit www.GoodSearch. com (search)
Or www.GoodShop.com (shop)
• Find the gray oval that asks Who do you do Goodsearch for? Or who do you support?
• To search, simply use the search box you'll see above. To shop, "enter" the online store of your choice either by selecting it from the pull-down menu above or clicking on its logo below.
When we think of all the shopping we do online we can make some money for Dumbarton House. Also, all the searching we do can be profitable for DH, too.
Happy Shopping and Searching!
—Jean Zerges
Go to GoodSearch.com and they'll donate about a penny to Dumbarton House each time you search!
Shop at more than 600 popular
GoodShop.com participating online retailers and a percentage of each purchase will go to our cause. To raise funds for Dumbarton House by Searching or Shopping —
Here’s How . . .
• Visit www.GoodSearch. com (search)
Or www.GoodShop.com (shop)
• Find the gray oval that asks Who do you do Goodsearch for? Or who do you support?
• To search, simply use the search box you'll see above. To shop, "enter" the online store of your choice either by selecting it from the pull-down menu above or clicking on its logo below.
When we think of all the shopping we do online we can make some money for Dumbarton House. Also, all the searching we do can be profitable for DH, too.
Happy Shopping and Searching!
—Jean Zerges
On November 7, 2009, the Ohio Society presented to the Cleveland Town Committee a check representing the completion of a $10,000 matching grant earmarked for the East Cleveland Township Cemetery. The $10,000.00 was raised to help preserve the old cemetery where four of Cleveland’s 33 American Revolution soldiers and many early pioneers are buried.
Link to our tribute to "the Rugged Revolutionary Soldiers of Cleveland" — an annotated history of those soldiers who fought that war before they came to Cleveland, and it includes pictures of the grave markers in East Cleveland Township Cemetery.
In 1925, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, published articles by S. J. Kelley who compiled a list of known soldiers who participated in events in and around Cleveland. We have let Mr. Kelley be our guide.
Dames and sisters Sally Gronauer, Peggy DeStefano and Mary Sikora have written their first historical novel as a group. The book — Orphan’s Gift — follows their maternal grandfather’s line, and traces the lives of the Prather family from the time Thomas Prather steps foot on America’s shores in 1622 to mid-century rural Ohio. Orphan’s Gift takes genealogical research to a new level and allows the Prather ancestors to live and breathe again. Two other Dames, Melanie Hunt and Carrie VanDerzee, claim descent from the same family.Why not check out this amazing journey through American history? Simply go to www.orphansgift.com. Enjoy.
There were 69 Congressional Seminar Top essay scorers who won a scholarship for June 19-25, 2010.
Ohio’s winners are:
State Scholarship:
Alexander Zempolich, Shaker Heights, OH
State Scholarship:
Clay McMullen, Chesterland, OH
Read more about this year's contest , as well as the topic for next year.
Ohio’s winners are:
State Scholarship:
Alexander Zempolich, Shaker Heights, OH
State Scholarship:
Clay McMullen, Chesterland, OH
Read more about this year's contest , as well as the topic for next year.
Ohio's 2010 Top Essay Winners Announced
Check out our five Colonial Ancestors
This past year, Elizabeth Hitchcock “Betty” Rose was nominated by the Ohio Society for the inspirational work she has done as a Colonial Dame in the area of historical publications. Mrs. Rose loves history and she has spent her adult lifetime writing. She wrote and published our “New Citizens Guide” (underwrote the expenses) because she believed in sharing her love of this country with its newest citizens.
This has been a longstanding project of the Ohio Society. Betty Rose has worked tirelessly on her play (now DVD) on Abraham Lincoln which is called, “Enshrined Forever” – she has been an inspiration to us all. At age 94, she is still educating on the need to work on historical projects that keep America’s History Alive.
Of special note, Dame Janet Marshall wrote, “Betty is one of four previous Dames in her family. They are pictured in the booklet that she wrote ‘Calamity at the Sneeeze Board and Other Recollections at 90.’" She is an inspiration to all of us and continues to be an active Dame – A true American original.
It is an honor to recommend her as a “distinguished member” for Betty lives out everyday our motto, “Keeping America’s History Alive”.
—Sally Frances Connelly President, NSCDA - OHIO
Betty Rose Joins
Role of Honor
Creative Giving for the Dumbarton House
Honoring “The Rugged
Continentals . . . .”
Continentals . . . .”
Ohio Dames Bring Family History to Life
September 24, the Betts House major 2011 exhibit opens. There, we will explore the types earthquakes, the historic 1811-1812 event, and how buildings are designed to withstand earthquakes.
It's true, there were damaging earthquakes, even in Cincinnati. They were called the New Madrid earthquakes. And they were frightful. The U.S. Geological Survey described the events this way:
The earthquakes caused the ground to rise and fall - bending the trees until their branches intertwined and opening deep cracks in the ground. Deep seated landslides occurred along the steeper bluffs and hillslides; large areas of land were uplifted permanently; and still larger areas sank and were covered with water that erupted through fissures or craterlets. Huge waves on the Mississippi River overwhelmed many boats and washed others high onto the shore. High banks caved and collapsed into the river; sand bars and points of islands gave way; whole islands disappeared. Surface fault rupturing from these earthquakes has not been detected and was not reported, however. The region most seriously affected was characterized by raised or sunken lands, fissures, sinks, sand blows, and large landslides that covered an area of 78,000 - 129,000 square kilometers, extending from Cairo, Illinois, to Memphis, Tennessee, and from Crowley's Ridge in northeastern Arkansas to Chickasaw Bluffs, Tennessee. Only one life was lost in falling buildings at New Madrid, but chimneys were toppled and log cabins were thrown down as far distant as Cincinnati, Ohio, St. Louis, Missouri, and in many places in Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/events/1811-1812.php
It's true, there were damaging earthquakes, even in Cincinnati. They were called the New Madrid earthquakes. And they were frightful. The U.S. Geological Survey described the events this way:
The earthquakes caused the ground to rise and fall - bending the trees until their branches intertwined and opening deep cracks in the ground. Deep seated landslides occurred along the steeper bluffs and hillslides; large areas of land were uplifted permanently; and still larger areas sank and were covered with water that erupted through fissures or craterlets. Huge waves on the Mississippi River overwhelmed many boats and washed others high onto the shore. High banks caved and collapsed into the river; sand bars and points of islands gave way; whole islands disappeared. Surface fault rupturing from these earthquakes has not been detected and was not reported, however. The region most seriously affected was characterized by raised or sunken lands, fissures, sinks, sand blows, and large landslides that covered an area of 78,000 - 129,000 square kilometers, extending from Cairo, Illinois, to Memphis, Tennessee, and from Crowley's Ridge in northeastern Arkansas to Chickasaw Bluffs, Tennessee. Only one life was lost in falling buildings at New Madrid, but chimneys were toppled and log cabins were thrown down as far distant as Cincinnati, Ohio, St. Louis, Missouri, and in many places in Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/events/1811-1812.php
The Earthquakes of 1811 - 1812