Ohio History Journal

Notes and Queries

 

 

The Ohio Historical Society is reprinting Scoouwa: James Smith's Indian

Captivity Narrative ($5.95), the eighth edition of Colonel Smith's 1799 journal

and the first annotated reprint in seventy years. The journal Smith kept is an

important document reflecting Indian-white relations in the late eighteenth

century as well as struggles between colonists and representatives of the king.

William M. Darlington's annotations from the 1870 edition are included with

additional explanations by John Barsotti. The Society has published an Ohio

County Records Manual ($5.00) to help county officials establish and main-

tain effective county records programs. Compiled by the Archives-Manuscript

Division, this loose-leaf guide will be updated by the Society as retention

laws change. A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Temperance and Prohibi-

tion Papers ($8.00) has also just been published. This 379-page research

guide is a joint microfilm publication of the Ohio Historical Society, Michigan

Historical Collections, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and

describes the holdings of these institutions. It was sponsored by the National

Historical Publications and Records Commission.

The complete Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Conference Series

is now available. Included in this slipcased set are: Ohio in the American Rev-

olution, edited by Thomas Smith; The Historic Indian in Ohio, edited by

Randall L. Buchman; Blacks in Ohio History, edited by Rubin F. Weston;

Women in Ohio History, edited by Marta Whitlock; Toward an Urban Ohio,

edited by John Wunder; and Ohio in Century Three, edited by Ralph L. Pear-

son. The set costs $11.50. Copies of the above publications may be ordered

through the Sales Department, Ohio Historical Society, I-71 and 17th Avenue,

Columbus, Ohio 43211.

 

Among recent manuscript accessions at Ohio archival institutions are the

following: Kent State University Archives and American History Research

Center have received the Youngstown AFL-CIO Council records, 1957-1974;

Trumbull County Federation of Labor records, 1938-1960; Silk Family Papers,

1867-1964; Marvin Kent Papers, 1864-1903; Spelman-Hinds Family Papers,

1831-1964; Cowles Family Papers, 1790-1975; Giles Hooker Cowles Papers,

1773-1834; Fuller Family Papers, 1841-1946; Betsy Mix Cowles Papers, 1832-

1950; Youngstown League of Women Voters records, 1937-1974; Warren Ur-

ban League records, 1947-1975; and from the Ethnic Heritage Collection,

Vladas Lisaukas Papers, 1954-1956; Andrew Rolik Papers, 1922-1976; Jack

Stukas Papers, 1941-1973; Albinas Treciokas Papers, 1940s-1950s; and Juozas

Petrusevicius Papers, 1921-1939.

The University of Akron American History Research Center has acquired

the Municipal Court of Akron records, 1862-1935 (640 volumes); Better Busi-

ness Bureau of Akron records, 1926-1976 (37 cubic feet); Stark County Clerk

of Courts records, 1926-1927 (2 cubic feet); Stark County Marlboro Township

records, 1846-1972 (5 microfilm reels); and Summit County Probate Court

marriage records, 1840-1865 (5 volumes).

The Cincinnati Historical Society has recently acquired the Southwestern

Ohio Lung Association records, 1910-1974 (15 linear feet); Air Pollution Con-

trol League scrapbooks, 1959-1972 (2 linear feet); Hamilton County Probate

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Court indexes, 1791-1953 (6 linear feet); Little Miami Railroad Co. records,

1830-1890 (1 linear foot); Children's International Summer Villages, Inc., rec-

ords, 1951-1975 (6 linear feet); Cincinnati Fire Department records, 1840-1960

(50 linear feet); John B. Hollister Papers, 1920-1977 (401 feet); and the Civil

Defense Collection, 1941-1944 (10 linear feet). The Clark County Historical

Society has received the files for the Clark County Probate Court, 1818-1919.

 

Recent promotions, appointments, retirements and leaves within the profes-

sional community of Ohio historians include the following: at Hiram College

Richard Dressner was promoted to Director of the Weekend College; Michael

Starr and Daniel Lesnick were appointed assistant professors; Daniel Orwa

was appointed Instructor; Roland Layton was appointed Chairman of the

History Department; Kimon Giocarinis was given a year's leave of absence to

serve as Director of Studies, College-Year-in-Athens (Greece); and Wilson

Hoffman was given a year's sabbatical for research. At The College of Wooster,

Susanne Roberts has resigned; Henry J. Copeland has been elected Presi-

dent of the College; and Daniel F. Calhoun is on leave in Britain.

 

The annual spring meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held

April 28-29, 1978, at the Fawcett Center for Tomorrow on The Ohio State

University campus. Proposals for papers and panels should be sent to Profes-

sor Phillip N. Bebb, Department of History, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

45701. The fifth annual California State College History Forum will be held

on May 1, 1978. Those interested in participating should write to Thomas H.

Coode, Department of History, California State College, California, Pennsyl-

vania 15419.

 

A call for papers is requested for the Tenth Annual Dakota History Con-

ference to be held at Madison, South Dakota, on the campus of Dakota State

College on April 7 and 8, 1978. The Karl Mundt Educational and Historical

Foundation has announced the following prizes for the best papers presented:

first prize $250, second prize $150, third prize $100. Papers should relate to

some aspect of South Dakota, Dakota Territory or the frontier history of the

Upper Great Plains areas. Each paper submitted for competition must be

read by the author. Please contact H. W. Blakely, Dakota State College,

Madison, South Dakota 57042.

 

The Indiana Historical Society is offering two $2,000 graduate fellowships

for the 1978-1979 academic year to doctoral candidates whose dissertations

are in the fields of Indiana history or of Indiana and the regions of which

she is traditionally a part, the Old Northwest and Midwest. To be eligible

students must have completed all requirements for the doctoral degree ex-

cept the research and writing. Completed applications must reach the office

of the Indiana Historical Society by March 15, 1978. For further information

and application forms, contact Gayle Thornbrough, Executive Secretary, In-

diana Historical Society, 315 West Ohio Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202.

 

The Curators of the University of Missouri and the Department of History,

University of Missouri-St. Louis, will sponsor a conference on "The First

and Second Reconstructions: The Historical Setting and Contemporary Black-

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White Relations, 1860-1978." The conference will be held in the J. C. Penney

Center for Continuing Education on the UMSL campus February 15, 16, and

17, 1978. The conference is designed to provide a forum for the discussion

of Reconstruction and to meet the needs of individuals concerned with con-

temporary public policy issues. The University of Missouri-St. Louis will bring

together twenty-four historians of the Reconstruction Era to explore the his-

torical setting for contemporary race relations. This project is supported by a

grant from the Missouri Committee for the Humanities, Inc., the state-based

arm of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

 

Some recent bibliographies of interest to Ohio History readers include the

following: Hyrum L. Andrus and Richard E. Bennett, comps. and eds., A

Guide to the Holdings of the Harold B. Lee Library (Harold B. Lee Library,

1977); Martha L. Simonetti, comp., Descriptive List of the Map Collection in

the Pennsylvania State Archives and Harry E. Whipkey, comp., Guide to the

Manuscript Groups in the Pennsylvania State Archives (Pennsylvania His-

torical and Museum Commission, 1976); and Francis Paul Prucha, A Biblio-

graphical Guide to the History of Indian- White Relations in the United States

(University of Chicago Press, 1977).

Several local histories have recently been published. They include the fol-

lowing: Sesquicentennial Historical Committee, Walnut Creek: Sesquicenten-

nial History of New Carlisle and Walnut Creek Township (Gordon Printing,

Strasburg, 1977); David A. Simmons, The Forts of Anthony Wayne and

Willa G. Cramton, Women Beyond the Frontier: A Distaff View of Life at

Fort Wayne (Historic Fort Wayne, Inc., 1977); John Drury, Old Illinois Houses

and Historic Midwest Houses (University of Chicago Press, 1977 reprinted);

Village of Gates Mills, A Pictorial History of Gates Mills 1826-1976 (Gates

Mills Historical Society, 1976); and John C. Milnick, The Green Cathedral:

History of Mill Creek Park, Youngstown, Ohio (Youngstown Lithographing,

1976).

Of general interest to our readers may be some of the following: Foster A.

Lane, Log Book: A Personal Flying History (Prop Press Associates, Colum-

bus, 1977); Willa K. Baum, Transcribing and Editing Oral History (American

Association for State and Local History, 1977); Paul O'Neil, The Old West:

The Frontiersmen (Time-Life Books, 1977); Charles Howell and Allan Keller,

The Mill at Philipsburg Manor: Upper Mills and a Brief History of Milling

(Sleepy Hollow Restorations, 1977); Jane E. Sikes, The Furniture Makers of

Cincinnati-1790 to 1849 (Jane E. Sikes, 1976); Robert I. Vexler, comp. and

ed., Cleveland: A Chronological & Documentary History 1760-1976 (Oceana

Publications, 1977); and Donald B. Dodd and Wynelle S. Dodd, Historical

Statistics of the United States, 1790-1970: Volume II-The Midwest (Univer-

sity of Alabama Press, 1976).

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