A Survey of Publications
In Ohio History and Archaeology,
August 1956 - July 1957
Compiled by S. WINIFRED SMITH
AGRICULTURE
HENLEIN, Paul C., "Journal of F.
and W. Renick on an Exploring Tour to the
Mississippi and Missouri Rivers in the
Year 1819," Agricultural History, XXX
(1956), 174-186. The Renicks were from
Chillicothe, Ohio.
HENLEIN, Paul C., "Shifting
Range-Feeder Patterns in the Ohio Valley," Agricul-
tural History, XXXI (1957), 1-12.
WALLACE, Henry A., "Corn and the
Midwestern Farmer," American Philosophical
Society, Proceedings, C (1956),
455-466. History of the development of corn in
the cornbelt, including the work of
Ohioans Robert Reid and George H. Shull.
WEAVER, John C., Leverett P. Hoag, and Barbara L.
Fenton, "Livestock Units and
Combination Regions in the Middle
West," Economic Geography, XXXII (1956),
237-259. Covers 1949 to date of writing.
ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT
PICKARD, Kate E. R., "The Kidnapped
and the Ransomed [How the Friedman
Brothers Liberated an Alabama
Slave]," American Jewish Archives, IX (1957),
3-31. The Friedman brothers were
merchants of Cincinnati.
ARCHAEOLOGY
COLLINS, David R., "Exploration of
the Beckley Mound," Ohio Archaeologist,
VII (1957), 23-35.
COPELAND, Stanley G., "Feurt
Village Site Specimens," Ohio Archaeologist,
VI (1956), 123; VII (1957), 98-100.
DUNKEL, Ralph, "Local Finds on the
Old Home Place," Ohio Archaeologist,
VI (1956), 116-117. In Circleville
Township, Pickaway County.
HAYES, Earl C., Sr., "Some Nice
Specimens from the Mouth of Brush Creek," Ohio
Archaeologist, VII (1957), 100, 101.
MEUSER, Gordon F., "Ohio
Discoidals," Ohio Archaeologist, VI (1956), 124-127.
MOLLOY, Paul F., "Four Ohio
Pipes," Ohio Archaeologist, VII (1957), 88-90.
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THE OHIO HISTORICAL QUARTERLY
MYERS, Neil H., "Three Nice Ohio
Dovetails," Ohio Archaeologist, VII (1957),
37-39. Flint projectile points.
SMITH, Arthur George, "Four Big
Ones from Erie County, Ohio," Ohio Archaeol-
ogist, VII (1957), 1. Flint points.
SMITH, Arthur George, "An Opossum
Effigy," Ohio Archaeologist, VII (1957), 7.
SMITH, Arthur George, "Some Odd
Types from Northern Ohio," Ohio Archaeologist,
VII (1957), 102-103. Flints.
SMITH, Arthur George, "A Very Early
Archaic or Late Paleo-Indian Type," Ohio
Archaeologist, VI (1956), 137. Projectile points.
WACHTEL, H. C., "An Odd Type of
Axe," Ohio Archaeologist, VII (1957),
112-113. Found near Pyrmont, Ohio.
WILLIAMS, Stephen, "The Island 35
Mastodon: Its Bearing on the Age of Archaic
Cultures in the East," American
Antiquity, XXII (1956-57), 359-372. The Orleton
Farms mastodon is included in the
comparative material.
YATES, George A., "The Koch
Site," Ohio Archaeologist, VII (1957), 96, 97.
An Adena mound near Circleville.
ARTS AND CRAFTS
"Bellows Re-Appreciated," Ohio
State University Monthly, XLVIII, No. 8 (March
15, 1957), 18-23.
George Bellows: A Retrospective
Exhibition, January 19 Through February 24, 1957.
Washington, National Gallery of Art,
1957. 126p.
"Glendower," Museum Echoes,
XXIX (1956), 59-61. Contains a description of this
Greek Revival house.
HUNTER, Dard, Jr., "John and Caleb
Vincent," Early American Industries Associa-
tion, Chronicle, IX (1956),
27-28. Ohio gunsmiths.
KUNZOG, John C., "Dan Rice, Circus
Man," Historical and Philosophical Society
of Ohio, Bulletin, XV (1957),
95-116. Deals especially with shows in Cincinnati.
SMITH, Ophia D., "The Cincinnati
Theater (1817-1830)," Historical and Philo-
sophical Society of Ohio, Bulletin, XIV
(1956), 251-282.
SONNEDECKER, Donald I., "Early
Musical Life in Wooster, Ohio, and Vicinity
(1830-1870)," Northwest Ohio
Quarterly, XXIX (1957), 46-55.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
SMITH, S. Winifred, "A Survey of
Publications in Ohio History and Archaeology,
August 1955-July 1956," Ohio
Historical Quarterly, LXV (1956), 403-414.
BIOGRAPHY
ATHEARN, Robert G., William Tecumseh
Sherman and the Settlement of the West.
Norman, University of Oklahoma Press,
1956. 371p.
BAKELESS, John Edwin, Background to
Glory: The Life of George Rogers Clark.
Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company,
1957. 386p.
BOYD, T. A., Professional Amateur:
The Biography of Charles Franklin Kettering.
New York, E. P. Dutton and Company,
1957. 242p.
A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS 409
BROWNING, Bryce C., "Littick Rose
from Office Boy to Owner-Publisher," The
Ohio Newspaper, XXXVIII, No. 3 (December 1956), 6-8. William O.
Littick.
CADY, Edwin H., The Road to Realism:
The Early Years, 1837-1885, of William
Dean Howells. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1956. 283p.
CAMMACK, Eleanore A., ed., "Cyrus
Nutt Becomes a Hoosier," Indiana Magazine
of History, LIII (1957), 29-68. Describes his early life in pioneer
Ohio.
CLAYTON, Elvah McGuire, "Johnny
Appleseed: A Living Force in the Life of
America," Daughters of the American
Revolution, Magazine, XC (1956), 741-744,
787.
COLLIER, Edmund, Story of Annie
Oakley. New York, Grosset and Dunlap, 1956.
181p. For teen-age readers.
CONNOR, Laurence R., "Fullerton
Praised for Versatility, Persistence," The Ohio
Newspaper, XXXVIII, No. 3 (December 1956), 1, 4-6. Hugh S.
Fullerton.
CRISSEY, Forrest, Theodore E. Burton:
American Statesman. Cleveland, World
Publishing Company, 1956. 352p.
LOTH, David, A Long Way Forward: The
Biography of Congresswoman Frances
P. Bolton. New York, Longmans, Green and Company, 1957. 302p.
LOVE, Donald M., Henry Churchill King
of Oberlin. New Haven, Connecticut,
Yale University Press for Oberlin
College, 1956. 300p.
NYE, Russel B., A Baker's Dozen:
Thirteen Unusual Americans. East Lansing,
Michigan State University Press, 1956.
300p. Several of the thirteen have Ohio
connections, including Harman Blennerhassett, Simon Girty, Clement
L.
Vallandigham, and Jacob Coxey.
PECKHAM, Howard, William Henry
Harrison: Young Tippecanoe. Indianapolis,
Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1956. 190p.
Childhood of Famous Americans series.
RARIDAN, John D., "Brush Career Had
in It Much to Inspire Others," The Ohio
Newspaper, XXXVIII, No. 3 (December 1956), 1-4. Louis H. Brush.
"Salute to a Famed Buckeye! Charles
F. Kettering, Inventor--Research Consultant,"
Ohio Society of New York, Buckeye
Bulletin, XXIII [XXIX], No. 5 (October 1,
1956), 1-2.
SMITH, S. Winifred, "The Sherman
House," Museum Echoes, XXIX (1956),
67-70. Deals mainly with the life of
William Tecumseh and John Sherman.
STILL, John S., "Ethan Allen Brown
and Ohio's Canal System," Ohio Historical
Quarterly, LXVI (1957), 22-56.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY
BOWERS, Edison Louis, and others, Financing
Unemployment Compensation: Ohio's
Experience. Columbus, Ohio State University, College of Commerce
and Adminis-
tration, 1957. 333p. A survey of the
effects of Ohio's unemployment compensation
law since its enactment in 1936.
DODDS, Gilbert F., "Erlenbusch
Confectionary Quits Business After 98 Years of
Continuous Service," Franklin
County Historical Society, Historical Bulletin, IX
(1957), 26-29. Founding and early
history of a Columbus business firm.
HOLMES, Robert E., "Ohio's
Industrial Growth, 1900-1957, and Some Possibilities
for Study," Ohio Historical
Quarterly, LXVI (1957), 290-299.
OVERMAN, William D., "The Rubber
Industry in Ohio," Ohio Historical Quarterly,
LXVI (1957), 278-289.
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PIXTON, John E., Jr., "Faith vs.
Economics: The Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad,
1845-1883," Ohio Historical
Quarterly, LXVI (1957), 1-10.
WALKER, Kenneth R., "The Old
Northwest in 1841: A Study in Development and
Depression," Northwest Ohio
Quarterly, XXIX (1957), 56-62.
WEATHERFORD, John W., "The Short
Life of Manhattan, Ohio," Ohio Historical
Quarterly, LXV (1956), 376-398. A speculative venture in town
building in the
1830's.
DIARIES, LETTERS, AND MEMOIRS
BLACK, Wilfred W., ed., "Marching
Through South Carolina: Another Civil War
Letter of Lieutenant George M.
Wise," Ohio Historical Quarterly, LXVI (1957),
187-195.
BOND, Beverley W., Jr., The Intimate
Letters of John Cleves Symmes, Including
Those of His Daughter Mrs. William
Henry Harrison, Wife of the Ninth Presi-
dent of the United States. Cincinnati, Historical and Philosophical Society of
Ohio,
1956. 174p.
BRUMBAUGH, Thomas B., "A New Letter
of Hiram Powers," Ohio Historical
Quarterly, LXV (1956), 399-402. From Florence, 1839.
DOWNES, Randolph C., ed., "Letters
to George Creel by Brand Whitlock" Northwest
Ohio Quarterly, XXVIII (1956), 170-180.
GROVE, Margie Ritchley, Papa Passes. New
York, Greenwich Book Publishers,
1957. 85p. Leonard A. Ritchley
(1873-1944) was a mail carrier in Williams
County, Ohio, before the days of
improved roads.
HESSELTINE, William B., and Larry Gara,
"Historical Collecting: Letters of A.
Randall to Lyman Copeland Draper,
1846-1855," Historical and Philosophical
Society of Ohio, Bulletin, XV
(1957), 141-152. Part of the letters are from
Cincinnati, where Randall was for a time
secretary of the Cincinnati Historical
Society.
KNOPF, Richard C., ed., "A
Surgeon's Mate at Fort Defiance: The Journal of
Joseph Gardner Andrews for the Year
1795," Ohio Historical Quarterly, LXVI
(1957), 57-86, 159-186, 238-268.
MACDONALD, Susanna Rike, The Backward
Look: Memoirs of Susanna Rike
Macdonald. New York, Exposition Press, 1957. 62p. Mrs. Macdonald
lives in
Montgomery County.
THOMAS, Bertha Hammerstein, "Age of
Steamboats and Spring Floods Recalled,"
Franklin County Historical Society, Historical
Bulletin, IX (1957), 30-33.
EDUCATION
DOWNES, Randolph C., "The People's
Schools: Popular Foundations of Toledo's
Public School System," Northwest
Ohio Quarterly, XXIX (1957), 9-26, 108-116.
ELLSWORTH, Clayton S., "The Coming
of Rural Consolidated Schools to the Ohio
Valley, 1892-1912," Agricultural
History, XXX (1956), 119-127.
HOLLIS, Ernest V., "James A.
Garfield--Educator," Hiram College, Bulletin,
XLVIII (1956), [1-8].
SHIVERS, Frank R., Jr., "A Western
Chapter in the History of American Trans-
cendentalism," Historical and
Philosophical Society of Ohio, Bulletin, XV (1957),
117-130. Concerns a group of young thinkers
in Cincinnati in the 1830's and 1840's.
A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS 411
FOLKLORE
BLAIR, Walter, and Franklin J. Meine, Half
Horse, Half Alligator: The Growth
of the Mike Fink Legend. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1956. 289p.
BOWMAN, James Cloyd, Mike Fink,
Snapping Turtle of the O-bi-o-o, Snag of the
Massassip. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1957. 156p. For
children twelve
and up.
GENEALOGY
ASCHBACHER, Frances M., Bluebonnets
and Buckeyes: Two Centuries of Asch-
bachers of Texas and Ohio. San Antonio, Texas, Aschbacher Publishers, 1957. 88p.
CRAIG, Winchell McK., The Craig
Family: Genealogical and Historical Notes about
the Craigs of America, Fayette
County, Ohio, United States, Canada. Privately
published, [1957]. 149p.
DICKORE, Marie, ed., "Markley
Cemetery, Anderson Township, Hamilton County,
Ohio," Historical and Philosophical
Society of Ohio, Bulletin, XV (1957), 166-169.
DICKORE, Marie, "Salem Evangelical and Reformed Church,
Cincinnati, Ohio,"
Historical and Philosophical Society of
Ohio, Bulletin, XV (1957), 251-256.
Includes marriage record, 1856-60.
DICKORE, Marie, "The Bridges Family
Cemetery," Historical and Philosophical
Society of Ohio, Bulletin, XV
(1957), 80-81.
DICKORE, Marie, "The Mt. Carmel
Baptist Church, Sycamore Township, Hamilton
County, Ohio," Historical and
Philosophical Society of Ohio, Bulletin, XV (1957),
75-80.
History of Camp Dennison, Ohio,
1796-1956. Camp Dennison, Ohio,
privately
published, 1956. 175p. Genealogical
matter on residents.
MARTIN, Donald W., "The Philip
Hautz Family of Pennsylvania," Detroit Society
for Genealogical Research, Magazine, XX
(1957), 9-14, 55-61, 109-114. Several
branches of the family were in Ohio.
"Roster of Members," Society
of Indiana Pioneers, Year Book, 1956, 50-112. Gives
names of ancestors and places of origin.
Many were from Ohio.
GENERAL
CHAUNCEY, A. E., America's Greatest
Subdivision: The Northwest Territory. Benton
Harbor, Michigan, Burch Printers, 1957.
160p.
PITTENGER, John M., The Buckeye
Story. Akron, Ohio, Travelers Press, 1957. 82p.
HISTORICAL FICTION
FISHER, Aileen Lucia, A Lantern in
the Window. New York, Thomas Y. Nelson
and Sons, 1957. 126p. A story of the
Quakers and the Underground Railroad along
the Ohio River. A juvenile.
HARRIS, Laura B., Bride of the River.
New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1956. 310p.
Novel of riverboating on the Ohio before
the Civil War.
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HAVIGHURST, Marion M., Strange
Island. Cleveland, World Publishing Company,
1957. 219p. Fictional plot with
authentic characters and events connected with
Blennerhassett Island. For young people.
KENNEDY, Lucy, Mr. Audubon's Lucy. New
York, Crown Publishers, 1957. 343p.
PARSONS, George A., Sr., and George A.
Parsons, Jr., Put Her to Port, Johnny.
New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1957.
223p. Story of the Ohio River
in early 1900's for young readers.
VERRAL, Charles Spain, Annie Oakley,
Sharpshooter. New York, Simon and
Schuster, 1957. Unpaged. Little Golden
Book for ages six to eight.
VERRAL, Charles Spain, Walt Disney's
Great Locomotive Chase: A True Spy Story
of The Civil War. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1957. 44p. Juvenile.
INDIANS AND INDIAN WARS
BAUMAN, Robert F., "Ne-Gig: The
Little Otter and the Maumee Council of
1800-1801, the Ottawas and David Bacon,
the Missionary from Connecticut,"
Northwest Ohio Quarterly, XXVIII (1956), 181-214.
GRAY, Leslie R., ed., "From
Fairfield to Schonbrun--1798," Ontario History, XLIX
(1957), 63-96. Diary of Benjamin
Mortimer, who accompanied David Zeisberger
and party on the trip.
KLOPFENSTEIN, Carl G., "The Removal
of the Wyandots from Ohio," Ohio
Historical Quarterly, LXVI (1957), 119-136.
KLOPFENSTEIN, Carl G., "Westward
Ho: Removal of Ohio Shawnees, 1832-1833,"
Historical and Philosophical Society of
Ohio, Bulletin, XV (1957), 3-31.
KNOPF, Richard C., "Some Notes on
Fort Recovery," Museum Echoes, XXIX (1956),
91-94.
KNOPF, Richard C., ed., "A
Surgeon's Mate at Fort Defiance: The Journal of
Joseph Gardner Andrews for the Year
1795," Ohio Historical Quarterly, LXVI
(1957), 57-86, 159-186, 238-268.
MALONE, Henry T., "Return Jonathan
Meigs--Indian Agent Extraordinary," East
Tennessee Historical Society, Publications,
XXVIII (1956), 3-22. As agent for
the Cherokees, 1801-23.
SMITH, Dwight L., "Indian Land
Cessions in Northern Ohio and Southeastern
Michigan (1805-1808)," Northwest
Ohio Quarterly, XXIX (1957), 27-45.
TALBERT, Charles G., "Kentucky
Invades Ohio--1786," Kentucky Historical
Society, Register, LIV (1956),
203-213. Expedition of Colonel Benjamin Logan
against the Shawnees in the Miami
Valley.
LITERATURE
CADY, Edwin Harrison, The Road to
Realism: The Early Years, 1837-1885, of
William Dean Howells. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1956. 283p.
HAVIGHURST, Walter, "William Dean
Howells," Museum Echoes, XXX (1957),
51-54.
HEARN, Lafcadio, Children of the Levee.
Edited by O. W. Frost. Lexington, Univer-
sity of Kentucky Press, 1957. 117p.
Sketches of Negro life along the Ohio River
when Hearn was a reporter on a
Cincinnati newspaper.
A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS 413
HILTON, Earl, "Sherwood Anderson's
'Heroic Vitalism,'" Northwest Ohio Quarterly,
XXIX (1957), 97-107.
MARCHMAN, Watt P., "David Ross
Locke ('Petroleum V. Nasby')," Museum
Echoes, XXX (1957), 35-38.
MARVIN, Walter Rumsey, "Charles
Farrar Browne ('Artemus Ward')," Museum
Echoes, XXX (1957), 27-30.
PRICE, Robert, "Mary Hartwell
Catherwood," Museum Echoes, XXX (1957), 43-47.
RODABAUGH, James H., "James
Hall," Museum Echoes, XXX (1957), 3-6.
SMITH, S. Winifred, "Alice and
Phoebe Cary," Museum Echoes, XXX (1957), 19-22.
SMITH, S. Winifred, "Benjamin
Drake," Museum Echoes, XXX (1957), 11-13.
LOCAL HISTORY
BETTMAN, Iphigene, Where Do You Live?
The Story of Cincinnati's Homes.
Cincinnati, League of Women Voters,
1956. 83p. For school use.
BOERGER, Alfred G., "The Postal
History of the Maumee Valley," Northwest Ohio
Quarterly, XXVIII (1956), 137-142.
DODDS, Gilbert F., "Columbus Loses
Another Fine Landmark: Will Requires
Razing of Valentine Home," Franklin
County Historical Society, Historical
Bulletin, IX (1957), 43-45.
DRAKE, Daniel, Natural and
Statistical View, or Picture of Cincinnati and the
Miami Country. Cincinnati, Looker and Wallace, 1815. 232p. Reprinted,
Cincinnati,
Robert A. Cline, 1956.
FARAN, Angeline Loveland, Glendale,
Ohio--1855-1955. Cincinnati, McDonald
Printing Company, 1955. 136p.
HALSTEAD, Murat, "The Paddy's Run
Papers," Historical and Philosophical
Society of Ohio, Bulletin, XV
(1957), 190-214. Abridged and edited by Robert
Herron.
History of Camp Dennison, Ohio,
1796-1956. Camp Dennison, Ohio,
privately
published, 1956. 175p.
The History of Tallmadge, Ohio. Tallmadge, Tallmadge Historical Society, 1957.
150p.
LAWRENCE, F. E., "Tallmadge
Anniversary Celebrations," Summit County His-
torical Society, Bulletin, [May
1957], [2].
MARSH, John O., "Revival of the
Christmas Tradition in Franklin County," Franklin
County Historical Society, Historical
Bulletin, VIII (1956), 86-91.
PHELPS, Ralph E., Historic Maumee
Valley. Toledo, Toledo Blade Company, 1957.
59p.
"Pioneer Home of Dr. Albert Chapman
Reveals Early Telephone Exchange," Franklin
County Historical Society, Historical
Bulletin, IX (1957), 45-46.
PRUGH, Daniel F., "Franklin County
Court House History," Franklin County
Historical Society, Historical
Bulletin, IX (1957), 20-21.
ROBINSON, John and Emily Nicholson, Brief
History of the Communities in the
23 Counties of the Columbus and
Southern Ohio Electric Company Service Area.
Privately published, 1957. Pamphlet.
RODABAUGH, James H., "Campus
Martius Museum," Museum Echoes, XXIX
(1956), 75-78. Deals chiefly with the
early history of Marietta.
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THE OHIO HISTORICAL QUARTERLY
STIMSON, George P., "Moody vs.
Cummins," Historical and Philosophical Society
of Ohio, Bulletin, XV (1957),
238-243. The first two white children born in
Cincinnati.
TALCOTT, Kathryn H., ed.,
"Rome," Ashtabula County Historical Society, Quarterly
Bulletin, III, No. 3 (September 10, 1956), 2-6. History of Rome
Township,
Ashtabula County.
WEATHERFORD, John W., "The Short
Life of Manhattan, Ohio," Ohio Historical
Quarterly, LXV (1956), 376-398.
MEDICINE
DODDS, Gilbert F., "Dr. Charles
Henry Wetmore, Pioneer Physician," Ohio
State Medical Journal, LII (1956), 1062.
EDWARDS, Linden F., "A
Chronological Review of Ohio's Enviable Record, Part II--
The Second Seventy-Five Years," Ohio
State Medical Journal, LII (1956), 1196-
1198, 1316-1319. Medical and dental
"firsts," 1880-1953.
EDWARDS, Linden F., "The Genealogy,
Birth, and Development of the Department
of Anatomy," Ohio State University
Graduate School, Record, X, No. 5 (February
1957), 3-6.
FORMAN, Jonathan, "Meetings of the
Faculty of Starling Medical College in 1858,"
Ohio State Medical Journal, LII (1956), 953-955, 1061-1062.
FORMAN, Jonathan, "The Ohio State
School One Hundred Years Old," Ohio State
Medical Journal, LIII (1957), 561-562. School for the mentally retarded
at Orient,
Ohio.
McGRANE, Reginald C., The Cincinnati
Doctor's Forum. Cincinnati, The Academy
of Medicine of Cincinnati, 1957. 389p.
MISCELLANEOUS
DOLLE, Genevieve M., and Florence D.
Main, "Ohio's Early Records Made Available
to the Public," Daughters of the
American Revolution, Magazine, XC (1956), 881.
On land office records microfilmed in
the office of the auditor of state.
GATCH, John N., "We Were
There," Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio,
Bulletin, XV (1957), 234-238. Reminiscences of Company B, First
Battalion of
the 147th Infantry, Ohio National Guard
"guarding" President Harding at Point
Pleasant on April 27, 1922.
WEIDENTHAL, Leo, "The Vision of
Joel Barlow," Inland Seas, XIII (1957), 47-49.
Discusses probable influence on Moses
Cleaveland.
OHIO IN THE WARS
BENEDICT, James Bell, Jr., "General
John Hunt Morgan: The Great Indiana-Ohio
Raid," Filson Club History
Quarterly, XXXI (1957), 147-171.
BLACK, Wilfred W., ed., "Marching
Through South Carolina: Another Civil War
Letter of Lieutenant George M.
Wise," Ohio Historical Quarterly, LXVI (1957),
187-195.
HASSLER, Warren W., Jr., General
George B. McClellan, Shield of the Union. Baton
Rouge, Louisiana State University Press,
1957. 366p.
A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS 415
"The McCook House," Museum
Echoes, XXIX (1956), 83-86. Deals mainly with
the military careers of the
"Fighting McCooks."
McCREERY, Irene, ed., "A Memorial
to Major William G. Oliver, Pioneer of Port
Lawrence," Northwest Ohio
Quarterly, XXIX (1957), 89-96. Describes Oliver's
activities in the War of 1812.
O'NEILL, Charles, Wild Train: The
Story of the Andrews Raiders. New York, Ran-
dom House, 1956. 482p.
Most of the raiders were Ohioans.
PLACE NAMES
MAHR, August C., "Indian River and
Place Names in Ohio," Ohio Historical
Quarterly, LXVI (1957), 137-158.
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
AUMANN, Francis R., and Harvey Walker, The
Government and Administration of
Ohio. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1956. 489p.
BEAVER, Daniel R., A Buckeye
Crusader: A Sketch of the Political Career of Herbert
Seely Bigelow, Preacher, Prophet,
Politician. 1957. 56p.
Mimeographed.
DOWNES, Randolph C., "Watered
Securities and the Independent Revolution in
Toledo Politics, 1901-1907," Northwest
Ohio Quarterly, XXVIII (1956), 143-156.
GUNDERSON, Robert G., "Rumpsey,
Dumpsey, Colonel Johnson Shot Tecumseh,"
Historical and Philosophical Society of
Ohio, Bulletin, XIV (1956), 301-311.
References to Vice President R. M.
Johnson's campaign in Ohio in 1840.
HALL, Virginius C., "Moses Dawson,
Chronic Belligerent," Historical and Philo-
sophical Society of Ohio, Bulletin, XV
(1957), 175-189. Political activities of the
editor of the Cincinnati Advertiser.
MILLER, Ernest I., "The Farmers'
Party," Historical and Philosophical Society of
Ohio, Bulletin, XV (1957), 49-65.
Deals mainly with the organizing convention
in Cincinnati in 1891.
MURDOCK, Eugene C., "Cleveland's
Johnson: The Burton Campaign," American
Journal of Economics and Sociology, XV (1955-56), 405-423.
SEARS, Louis Martin, "John Hay in
London, 1897-1898," Ohio Historical Quarterly,
LXV (1956), 356-375.
STEVENS, Harry R., Early Jackson
Party in Ohio. Durham, North Carolina, Duke
University Press, 1957. 208p.
WALKER, Kenneth R., "The Death of a
President," Northwest Ohio Quarterly,
XXVIII (1956), 157-162. Political
implications of the death of William Henry
Harrison.
WEISENBURGER, Francis P., "The
'Atlas' of the Jacksonian Movement in Ohio,"
Historical and Philosophical Society of
Ohio, Bulletin, XIV (1956), 283-311.
Elijah Hayward of Cincinnati.
WITTKE, Carl, "Carl Schurz and
Rutherford B. Hayes," Ohio Historical Quarterly,
LXV (1956), 337-355.
RECREATION
[EHLERT, Mrs. William C., ed.],
"The History of the Mentor Harbor Yacht Club,"
Inland Seas, XII (1956), 79-94, 167-174, 286-291.
416
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RAMSEY, "Bull," "Boys,
Memories and Black Powder," Muzzle Blasts, XVII, No. 2
(October 1956), 3-7, 15. Reminiscences
of hunting near Wellston, 1900-1907.
RELIGION
BOASE, Paul H., "Let the Men and
Women Sit Apart," Historical and Philosophical
Society of Ohio, Bulletin, XV
(1957), 33-48. The seating controversy in Ohio
Methodism.
BRYSON, W. Graham, and others, "The
Last 50 Years" of Second United Presbyter-
ian Church . . . Xenia, Ohio. Privately published, [1956]. 24p.
GRAY, Leslie R., ed., "From
Fairfield to Schonbrun--1798," Ontario History, XLIX
(1957), 63-96. The diary of Benjamin
Mortimer, who accompanied David
Zeisberger, his wife, and thirty-three
Christian Indians on the return to Schonbrun.
GRATZ, Delbert L., "The Swiss
Mennonites of Allen and Putnam Counties," North-
west Ohio Quarterly, XXVIII (1956), 126-136.
MORROW, Ralph E., "Methodists and
'Butternuts' in the Old Northwest," Illinois
State Historical Society, Journal, XLIX
(1956), 34-47. Controversy among
Methodists over the Civil War in Ohio,
Indiana, and Illinois.
SHAW, Henry K., Elyria Disciples: The
Story of the Disciples of Christ in Elyria,
Ohio, 1881-1953. Privately published, 1956. Pamphlet.
SOCIAL HISTORY
ANDERSON, Elliott J., "The Scott
Nearing Controversy in Toledo, 1916-1917
(Part I)," Northwest Ohio
Quarterly, XXIX (1957), 72-88. Deals principally
with the social ideals of Nearing,
professor of sociology at the University of Toledo.
FORMAN, Jonathan, "Ohio and Her
Retarded Children: Columbus State School
Observes Centennial Year," Franklin
County Historical Society, Historical Bulletin,
IX (1957), 39-42.
GRATZ, Delbert L., "The Swiss
Mennonites of Allen and Putnam Counties,"
Northwest Ohio Quarterly, XXVIII (1956), 126-136.
HATCHER, Harlan, "Commerce and
Culture, the Pattern in Ohio: An Address,"
Ohio Historical Quarterly, LXVI (1957), 269-277.
HERRON, Robert, "Have Lily, Will
Travel: Oscar Wilde in Cincinnati," Historical
and Philosophical Society of Ohio, Bulletin,
XV (1957), 215-233. Concerns the
reception of Wilde by Cincinnatians.
TRANSPORTATION
BARTON, Thomas F., "Twenty-five
Years' Use of the 9-Foot Ohio River Channel,"
Economic Geography, XXXIII (1957), 41-49.
BOERGER, Alfred G., "The Postal
History of the Maumee Valley," Northwest
Ohio Quarterly, XXVIII (1956), 137-142.
BOYER, Dwight, "Great Lakes
Lighthouse Museum," Ford Times, XLIX, No. 5
(May 1957), 46-47.
FISHER, Charles E., "The
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton R. R.," Railway and
Locomotive Historical Society, Bulletin,
No. 96 (May 1957), 80-82.
A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS 417
MARVIN, Walter Rumsey, "The
Steubenville and Indiana Railroad: The
Pennsylvania's Middle Route to the
Middle West," Ohio Historical Quarterly,
LXVI (1957), 11-21.
PIXTON, John E., Jr., "Faith vs.
Economics: The Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad,
1845-1883," Ohio Historical
Quarterly, LXVI (1957), 1-10.
SHEDD, Carlos B., "Early Street Car
History," Franklin County Historical Society,
Historical Bulletin, IX (1957), 47-48.
STEINER, Rowlee, "Columbus Union
Depot," Franklin County Historical Society,
Historical Bulletin, IX (1957), 50-55.
STILL, John S., "Ethan Allen Brown
and Ohio's Canal System," Ohio Historical
Quarterly, LXVI (1957), 22-56.
WHITE, John W., Jr., "Cincinnati
& Westwood Railroad Co.," Historical and
Philosophical Society of Ohio, Bulletin,
XV (1957), 131-140.
WILLOUGHBY, William R., "Early
American Interest in Waterway Connections
Between the East and the West," Indiana
Magazine of History, LII (1956), 319-
342. References to Ohio.
WRIGHT, Richard J., "A History of
Shipbuilding in Cleveland, Ohio," Inland Seas,
XII (1956), 232-242; XIII (1957), 29-37,
110-117.
TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION
ANDERSON, George C., "Touring
Kansas and Colorado in 1871: The Journal of
George C. Anderson," Kansas
Historical Quarterly, XXII (1956), 193-219, 358-
384. Anderson was one of a committee of
five Ohioans sent to the West to locate
lands for the Ohio Soldiers Colony.
GIFFORD, Florence M., "The Eureka's
Voyage to the Gold Fields, 1849-1850,"
Inland Seas, XIII (1957), 105-109. The Eureka was a
Cleveland-built ship that
carried twenty Clevelanders on this
trip.
KLAGUES, John W., "Covered Bridge
Bonanza," Ford Times, XLIX, No. 5 (May
1957), 7-9. In Fairfield County, Ohio.
LINDSEY, David., ed., "The Journal
of an 1859 Pike's Peak Gold Seeker," Kansas
Historical Quarterly, XXII (1956), 321-341. Journal kept by William Salisbury
of Cleveland.
MASTERS THESES ON OHIO SUBJECTS IN OHIO
COLLEGES
AND UNIVERSITIES
CROPPER, Jerry, A History of Portsmouth,
Ohio, 1803-1865. Ohio University,
1957. 92p.
GREENEBAUM, William A., A Study of the
Economic Activity of Cincinnati Jewry
Prior to the Civil War. Hebrew Union
College, 1957.
HILL, Sister M. Therese, St. Clair,
Statesman or Tyrant. Xavier University, 1957.
LITTMAN, Donald Fred, The Election of
1865 in Ohio with Particular Emphasis on
Hamilton County. Xavier University,
1957.
McCARDEL, Patricia, The British Role in
the Ohio Indian Wars, 1790-1795. Kent
State University, 1957.
WINTERSMEIMER, Donald C., The Republican
Victory of 1896 in Kentucky: A
Study in Democratic Division. Xavier
University, 1957. Rests somewhat on Ohio
materials.
A Survey of Publications
In Ohio History and Archaeology,
August 1956 - July 1957
Compiled by S. WINIFRED SMITH
AGRICULTURE
HENLEIN, Paul C., "Journal of F.
and W. Renick on an Exploring Tour to the
Mississippi and Missouri Rivers in the
Year 1819," Agricultural History, XXX
(1956), 174-186. The Renicks were from
Chillicothe, Ohio.
HENLEIN, Paul C., "Shifting
Range-Feeder Patterns in the Ohio Valley," Agricul-
tural History, XXXI (1957), 1-12.
WALLACE, Henry A., "Corn and the
Midwestern Farmer," American Philosophical
Society, Proceedings, C (1956),
455-466. History of the development of corn in
the cornbelt, including the work of
Ohioans Robert Reid and George H. Shull.
WEAVER, John C., Leverett P. Hoag, and Barbara L.
Fenton, "Livestock Units and
Combination Regions in the Middle
West," Economic Geography, XXXII (1956),
237-259. Covers 1949 to date of writing.
ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT
PICKARD, Kate E. R., "The Kidnapped
and the Ransomed [How the Friedman
Brothers Liberated an Alabama
Slave]," American Jewish Archives, IX (1957),
3-31. The Friedman brothers were
merchants of Cincinnati.
ARCHAEOLOGY
COLLINS, David R., "Exploration of
the Beckley Mound," Ohio Archaeologist,
VII (1957), 23-35.
COPELAND, Stanley G., "Feurt
Village Site Specimens," Ohio Archaeologist,
VI (1956), 123; VII (1957), 98-100.
DUNKEL, Ralph, "Local Finds on the
Old Home Place," Ohio Archaeologist,
VI (1956), 116-117. In Circleville
Township, Pickaway County.
HAYES, Earl C., Sr., "Some Nice
Specimens from the Mouth of Brush Creek," Ohio
Archaeologist, VII (1957), 100, 101.
MEUSER, Gordon F., "Ohio
Discoidals," Ohio Archaeologist, VI (1956), 124-127.
MOLLOY, Paul F., "Four Ohio
Pipes," Ohio Archaeologist, VII (1957), 88-90.