Munsey's Magazine, November 1907

This November 1907 Munsey's Magazine issue features a historical essay by Harvard historian Albert Bushnell Hart titled "Some of the Big New Englanders Who Have Helped to Build Up the Great West." Hart traces the westward migration and influence of New England settlers and their descendants across Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and other states. The article examines specific figures including Salmon P. Chase (born New Hampshire, Ohio governor and Chief Justice), Moses Cleaveland (Connecticut founder of Cleveland), Return Jonathan Meigs (Connecticut-born Ohio governor), Benjamin Franklin, and Benjamin F. Wade (Massachusetts-born Ohio senator). Hart discusses the New England Company's colonization efforts in Ohio, the settlement of Marietta and the Western Reserve, and how New England values—churches, town meetings, schools, industry—were transplanted westward. The narrative emphasizes how New Englanders' resourcefulness, principle, and adaptability enabled them to succeed in frontier conditions and maintain influence in federal government.