Editor's Note
In this issue of Ohio History we
are pleased to publish the winning
manuscripts from the Ohio Bicentennial
Article Contest. Sponsored by
the Ohio American Revolution Advisory
Commission, the Ohio
Academy of History, and the Ohio
Historical Society, the contest re-
ceived several dozen articles submitted
on the theme of "The Consequ-
ences of the Revolution in the Ohio
Country." Ajudging committee was
selected representing each of the three
sponsors: Mr. David Twining,
College Coordinator, from OARBAC;
Professor Carl Ubbelohde of
Case Western Reserve University,
Professor Richard Jellison of Miami
University, and Professor David C.
Skaggs of Bowling Green State
University, from OAH; and this editor from
OHS. The committee had
the difficult task of selecting the best
four manuscripts. Each winner was
to have his article published in this
journal and receive five hundred
dollars in prize money from OARBAC.
The committee completed its work in
January and the awards were
presented in early February. Editing of
the manuscripts began im-
mediately. Technical problems developed,
however, which made it
impossible to publish all four articles
in the same issue of the journal.
One of the winners, Professor Conrad
Donakowski, graciously allowed
his manuscript to be published at a
later date.
The first article is a superbly
documented narrative of the origins of
party politics in Ohio by a frequent
contributor to thisjournal, Donald J.
Ratcliffe. A recognized scholar on the
history of Ohio during the early
national period, Ratcliffe is a
thirty-four-year-old Englishman who
teaches American history at the
University of Durham, Durham, Eng-
land. He was educated at Oxford, where
he gained First Class Honors in
Modern History in 1963. His graduate
career included study at the
universities of Bristol, Oxford, and
California at Berkeley.
Mrs. Charlotte W. Dudley of Sacramento,
California is the author of
the article on Jared Mansfield.
Originally from New Jersey, Mrs. Dudley
attended Wellesley College and graduated
in 1935 with a major in Eng-
lish Composition and membership in Phi
Beta Kappa. The author's late
husband, Professor Winston Mansfield
Dudley, was a great-great-
grandson of Jared Mansfield.
The third article is an interesting
account of James Kilbourn and the
settlement of Worthington, Ohio. The
undertaking grew out of a seminar
conducted at The Ohio State University
by the two authors. Dr. Paul C.
Bowers, Jr., is Assistant Professor of
History at the Columbus campus
and has delivered several papers at
historical conferences and has
contributed articles on the American
Revolution to The Encyclopedia
Americana. Bowers holds an A.B. and Ph.D. from Duke University and
a B.D. and Th.M. from Union Theological
Seminary. Dr. Goodwin F.