Ohio History Journal

Historical News

 

 

Columbia University is preparing for publication a new and complete

edition of the papers of Alexander Hamilton. The editors wish to locate any

letters to or from Hamilton and any other Hamilton documents that are

in private hands. Communications may be addressed to Harold C. Syrett,

Executive Editor, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, Columbia University,

New York 27, New York.

On the editorial board are John A. Krout, chairman, Harold C. Syrett,

executive editor, Henry Steele Commager, Joseph H. Dorfman, Carter Good-

rich, Louis M. Hacker, Dumas Malone, Richard B. Morris, Allan Nevins,

and Robert L. Schuyler.

 

The editors of Weatherwise magazine are asking assistance in locating

early American weather records. A canvass is being made of all historical

and scientific depositories and college and municipal libraries as a preliminary

to writing a history of early meteorological activity in the United States.

Information concerning meteorological journals, imprints on particular

storms, and weather data in personal diaries, contemporary newspaper ac-

counts, state and local histories, and agricultural periodicals prior to 1870 is

sought. Such information should be addressed to David M. Ludlum, Editor,

Weatherwise, Box 216, Princeton, New Jersey.

 

The Ohio Academy of History held its fall meeting at Ohio University,

Athens, on October 21-22, with about forty-five members in attendance.

Carl G. Gustavson was chairman of the committee on local arrangements.

He was assisted by A. T. Volwiler, O. D. Morrison, Frederick Kershner, and

Charles Mayes.

 

The American Jewish Archives has recently acquired a collection of the

Minis family papers, consisting of family correspondence from 1835 to 1870.

The Minis family was the first Jewish family of Georgia, having settled in

that state in 1733.

 

Irwin Abrams, chairman of the department of history at Antioch College,

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published an article, "Grappling with History," in the September issue of

Antioch Notes.

Louis Filler had an article, "Dreamers and the American Dream," in the

Southwest Review for Autumn 1955. Dr. Filler's paper on "American

Civilization as Art and as Discipline," based on his study under a grant from

the American Council of Learned Societies, was a subject of discussion at

the seventh Newberry Library Conference on American Studies, which met

in Chicago on November 19.

 

The Anthony Wayne Parkway Board is the recipient of an Award of

Merit of the American Association for State and Local History.

During the latter half of 1955 the Anthony Wayne Parkway Board issued

in mimeograph form its Volumes II, III, IV, and V of the official corre-

spondence of General Wayne and the secretaries of war during the Indian

War, 1790-94. Volume V completes the series, which has been transcribed

from microfilm of the original papers in the library of the Historical Society

of Pennsylvania and edited by Richard C. Knopf, historian of the board.

 

Three new members have been added to the staff of the history depart-

ment at Baldwin-Wallace College: Themistocles Rodis, professor of Ameri-

can history; Read Smith, professor of political science; and Robert Cruden,

instructor in American and European history.

David Lindsey, who is teaching this year at Oberlin while on leave of

absence from Baldwin-Wallace, recently published Ohio's Western Reserve:

The Story of Its Place Names.

Marvin Becker had two articles (one in conjunction with Professor G.

Brucker) published in the journal, Archivio Storico Italiano, in 1955.

 

Warren A. Beck and Richard W. Griffin have resigned from the history

faculty at Capital University. Don Bensch is a new member of the staff.

 

Officers of the Rutherford B. Hayes and Lucy Webb Hayes Foundation

elected or reelected at the annual meeting at Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio,

on October 4, 1955 (the 133d anniversary of the birth of President Hayes),

are as follows: Admiral Webb C. Hayes, II, president; Lloyd T. Williams,

vice president; Watt P. Marchman, secretary; and Webb C. Hayes, III,

treasurer. Trustees of the foundation include also Harold Boeschenstein,

Arthur B. Hayes, Scott B. Hayes, Dr. Frank L. Moore, and A. E. Slessman.

The United States Navy has named a vessel the U.S.S. Spiegel Grove in

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honor of the Fremont estate of President Hayes. The 500-foot vessel (LSD-

32) is for use in assault landings, repair operations, and mine-sweeper

tending. The launching was sponsored by Mrs. Webb C. Hayes, II, at

Pascagoula, Mississippi, on November 10, 1955.

One of the principal collections recently added to the manuscripts division

of the library is the William Dean Howells and Howells Family Collection

consisting of over three hundred items, including correspondence to and

from Howells.

 

Kenneth E. Davison, of the history and political science departments of

Heidelberg College, spent the summer of 1955 in Europe with the Sherwood

Eddy Seminar, studying political, economic, and social conditions in England,

France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Yugoslavia.

 

The annual meeting of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio

was held on the evening of December 5 in the Alms Auditorium of the

Cincinnati Art Museum. Colton Storm, director of the Western Reserve

Historical Society, spoke on "They Called It the West." President Lucien

Wulsin conducted the meeting.

 

Edmund Kearney has been added to the staff of the history department

of John Carroll University as an instructor. The Rev. Herman J. Muller,

S. J., has been promoted to the rank of assistant professor of history.

Donald P. Gavin, director of the department, is the author of a book

titled, In All Things Charity, A History of the Sisters of Charity of St.

Augustine, 1851-1954, published by the Bruce Publishing Company last year.

 

New instructors in the history department at Ohio State University are

William T. Bulger (University of Michigan); John K. Huckaby (Ohio

State); John L. Shover (Ohio State); James H. Timberlake (Harvard); and

Mary E. Young (Cornell).

Sydney N. Fisher has been promoted from associate professor to professor.

Dr. Fisher is the editor of Social Forces in the Middle East, published by

the Cornell University Press in 1955.

Foster Rhea Dulles brought out two books during 1955: America's Rise

to World Power, published by Harper & Brothers; and a revised edition of

Labor in America, published by Thomas Y. Crowell Company.

Morton Borden is the author of The Federalism of James A. Bayard,

which was published last year by the Columbia University Press.

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At Ohio University, Charles Mayes has been promoted to the rank of

assistant professor. George H. Lobdell, who taught at Carthage College last

year, has joined the department of history with the rank of assistant professor.

 

Cecil E. Cody was appointed instructor of history at the University of

Toledo, with the appointment effective in September. Dr. Cody has his

bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Nebraska and his

doctor's degree from the University of Washington. From September 1953

to September 1955 he conducted research in Japan on a Ford Foundation

grant. He will teach courses in Far Eastern and Russian history and in

Western civilization.

 

The Irish in America, by Dean Carl F. Wittke of the graduate school at

Western Reserve University, will be published on March 17 by the Louisiana

State University Press.

 

Karol Marcinkowski, chairman of the department of history at Wilberforce

University, devoted his summer vacation to research in archives and libraries

in Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Italy, France, and England. Dr. Marcinkowski

collected data as the basis for future treatises on Central Europe in the

seventeenth century, particularly on the Swedish, Polish, Danish, and Russian

wars from 1655 to 1665. During the summer he attended the international

conference of historians of painting and sculpture at Lund, Sweden, and the

international conference of historians at Rome.

 

James F. Wolfenden, who recently received his Ph.D. degree from Yale

University, has been appointed an assistant professor of history at Wittenberg

College. His special field of interest is the history of England.

 

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