A Survey of Publications
In Ohio History and
Archaeology,
August 1955 -- July 1956
Compiled by S. WINIFRED SMITH
AGRICULTURE
BOGUE, Donald J., Metropolitan Growth
and the Conversion of Land to Agricultural
Uses. Oxford, Ohio, Miami University, 1956. 33p.
JONES, Robert Leslie, "Ohio
Agriculture in History," Ohio Historical Quarterly,
LXV (1956), 227-258.
RUMMELL, L. L., "Ohio Agriculture
Today," Ohio Historical Quarterly, LXV
(1956), 259-271.
ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT
BOASE, Paul H., "Slavery and the
Ohio Circuit Rider," Ohio Historical Quarterly,
LXIV (1955), 195-205.
PETERSON, Ira, "The
Oberlin-Wellington Case," Midwest Journal, VII (1955),
80-93.
ARCHAEOLOGY
BABY, Raymond S., "A Unique Hopewellian
Mask-Headdress," American
Antiquity, XXI (1955-56), 303-305.
COPELAND, Stanley G., "The
Streitenberger Mound," Ohio Archaeologist, V (1955),
121-126. In Green Township, Ross
County.
DOUGHERTY, Irvin S., "Gravel Kame
Artifacts," Ohio Archaeologist, VI (1956),
105-106. From the Zimmerman site near
Roundhead, Ohio.
GALITZA, Edward, and Norman L. Dunn,
"Glacial Kame Evidence in Wyandot
County," Ohio Archaeologist, VI
(1956), 7-10.
GOSLIN, Robert M., "Animal Remains
from Ohio Rock Shelters," Ohio Journal of
Science, LV (1955), 358-362.
LONG, Russell J., "Surface Hunting
Near Dola, Ohio," Ohio Archaeologist, V
(1955), 127-128.
McNEAL, Kenneth, "A Few Nice
Flints," Ohio Archaeologist, VI (1956), 84-85.
MUSER, Gordon F., "Three Hardstone
Gorgets," Ohio Archaeologist, VI (1956), 58.
MUNGER, Lynn, "Flint Ridge 'T'
Drills," Ohio Archaeologist, VI (1956), 42-43.
PORTER, Tom, and Don McBeth,
"Exploration of an Adena Mound," Ohio Archaeo-
logist, VI (1956), 94-98. At Waverly, Ohio.
ROYER, Jacob, "Notched Ovate
Banners," Ohio Archaeologist, VI (1956), 46-47.
All but one from Ohio.
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THE OHIO HISTORICAL QUARTERLY
ROYER, Jacob, "Some Unusual
Potsherds," Ohio Archaeologist, VI (1956), 12.
SMITH, Arthur George, "An Archaic
Type [of Flint Point] with Ground Stem from
Northern Ohio," Ohio
Archaeologist, VI (1956), 57.
SMITH, Arthur George, "A Broad
Stemmed Type [of Flint Point] from Northern
Ohio," Ohio Archaeologist, VI
(1956), 29.
SMITH, Arthur George, "A Heron or
Crane Effigy Pipe," Ohio Archaeologist, VI
(1956), 73. Probably from Erie or Huron
County.
SMITH, Arthur George, "A Reply to
Witthoft's Comments on 'Glazed-Polished'
Artifacts," Pennsylvania
Archaeologist, XXVI (1956-57), 51.
SMITH, Arthur George, "The Very
First Ohioans," Ohio Archaeologist, V (1955),
140-141.
WACHTEL, H. C., "A Display from the
Collection of Don I. Blue, Marietta, Ohio,"
Ohio Archaeologist, VI (1956), 68.
WACHTEL, H. C., "Bar Amulets,"
Ohio Archaeologist, V (1955), 138-139.
WACHTEL, H. C., "Hopewell
Art," Ohio Archaeologist, VI (1956), 1, 36.
WACHTEL, H. C., "Some Large
Pipes," Ohio Archaeologist, VI (1956), 44-45. Most
are Ohio effigy pipes.
WEATHERFORD, John W., "Warren King
Moorehead and His Papers," Ohio
Historical Quarterly, LXV (1956), 179-190.
WITTHOFT, John, "Middle Woodland
Blade and Core Industries of the Eastern
United States," Eastern States
Archaeological Federation, Bulletin, XV (January
1956), 11.
ARTS AND CRAFTS
BAER, Elizabeth, "Music: An
Integral Part of Life in Ohio, 1800-1860," Historical
and Philosophical Society of Ohio, Bulletin,
XIV (1956), 197-210.
BORCHERS, Perry E., Jr., "The Last
Hundred Years of Ohio Architecture," Ohio
Architect, XIV, Nos. 2, 3, 4, 6 (February, March, April, June
1956). Each install-
ment of the series covers a decade,
beginning with 1857.
BRACY, Hazel McClaflin, "The Spirit
of '76," Daughters of the American Revolution,
Magazine, XC (1956), 219-220. On the famous painting by Archibald
Willard of
Cleveland.
BUCK, R. D., "An Experiment in
Co-operative Conservation [of Paintings]," Studies
in Conservation, II (1956), 101-108. A history of the organization of
the Inter-
museum Conservation Association in 1951
with headquarters at Oberlin, Ohio.
DEMAREST, Doug, "Bob
Hines--Wildlife Artist," American Forests, LXI, No. 11
(November 1955), 40-41. Hines was from
Fremont, Ohio.
FARRIS, Red, "Ohio Gunsmiths,"
Muzzle Blasts, XVII, No. 8 (April 1956), 11-12.
A roster.
MARSHALL, George Sidney, The History
of Music in Columbus, Ohio. Columbus,
Franklin County Historical Society,
1956. 193p.
OLDHAM, Esther, "A Shaker
Industry--Fan Making," Antiques Journal, X, No. 10
(October 1955), 22-23, 34. A paragraph
on the work at North Union, Ohio.
SMITH, Ophia D., "The Early Theater
of Cincinnati," Historical and Philosophical
Society of Ohio, Bulletin, XIII
(1955), 231-253.
THORNBURG, Opal, "Marcus Mote and
His Pioneer School of Design," Indiana
Magazine of History, LI (1955), 323-334. Mote lived and worked in Ohio until
about the age of forty-eight.
THORNBURG, Opal, "Marcus
Mote--Early Ohio Artist," Historical and Philo-
sophical Society of Ohio, Bulletin, XIV
(1956), 186-196.
TURPIN, Ronald, "Win Woods,
Southern Ohio Gunsmith," Muzzle Blasts, XVII,
No. 9 (May 1956), 8, 10.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES, GUIDES, AND CATALOGS
HOOK, Alice P., "Resources of the
Library," Historical and Philosophical Society of
Ohio, Bulletin, XIV (1956),
105-121.
HUBACH, Robert R., "Unpublished
Travel Narratives on the Early Midwest, 1720-
1850: A Preliminary Bibliography," Mississippi
Valley Historical Review, XLII
(1955-56), 525-548. Many of the
narratives deal with Ohio.
MARCHMAN, Watt P., "The Rutherford
B. Hayes Memorial Library," College and
Research Libraries, XVII (1956), 224-227.
ROWE, H. D., Hart Crane: A
Bibliography. Denver, Alan Swallow, 1955. 30p.
Crane was born in Portage County, Ohio.
SMITH, S. Winifred, comp., "A
Survey of Publications in Ohio History, Archaeology,
and Natural History, August 1954-July
1955," Ohio Historical Quarterly, LXIV
(1955), 438-453.
BIOGRAPHY
ABBE, Truman, Professor Abbe and the
Isobars: The Story of Cleveland Abbe,
America's First Weatherman. New York, Vantage Press, 1955. 259p. Abbe was
director of the weather observatory at
Cincinnati.
BAUR, John I. H., Charles Burchfield.
New York, Macmillan Company, 1956. 86p.
Burchfield was an Ohio artist.
BELDEN, Thomas Graham, and Marva Robins
Belden, So Fell the Angels. Boston,
Little, Brown and Company, 1956. 401p. A
biography of Salmon P. Chase and his
daughter Kate and her husband.
BENJAMIN, Mary A., ed., "Grant and
the Lost $1,000," The Collector, LXIX
(1956), 17-20. Concerns a collection of
papers relating to the loss of money by
U. S. Grant in 1848.
BOASE, Paul H., "Philip Gatch:
Preacher; Pioneer; Public Servant," Historical and
Philosophical Society of Ohio, Bulletin,
XIII (1955), 286-296.
BODER, Bartlett, "Mrs. Quantrill
and Zerelda James Samuel, Two Mothers," Museum
Graphic, VII, No. 4 (Fall 1955), 7-9. Mrs. Quantrill of Canal
Dover, Ohio, was
the mother of William Clarke Quantrill,
the Civil War guerilla leader.
CLARK, Robert D., The Life of Matthew
Simpson. New York, Macmillan Company,
1956. 344p.
CLELAND, Hugh, George Washington in
the Ohio Valley. Pittsburgh, University
of Pittsburgh Press, 1955. 405p.
COLUMBUS BRANCH, A.A.U.W., A
Biographical Directory of Representative
Women of Franklin County from 1803 to
1953. Columbus, 1955. Unpaged.
Mimeographed.
DEBUS, Allen G., "Elsie
Janis," Hobbies, LXI, No. 5 (July 1956), 31, 36, 39.
FOSDICK, Raymond B., John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., A Portrait. New York, Harper &
Brothers, 1956. 477p.
HALL, Grace McCartney, "Anne Bailey
in West Virginia Tradition," West Virginia
History, XVII (1955-56), 22-85. Anne Bailey lived her last
twenty years or so
in Ohio.
HARRELL, D. Tudor, "Shrine of
Daniel Decatur Emmet," Hobbies, LX, No. 7
(September 1955), 84-85. At his
birthplace, Mount Vernon, Ohio.
'I Speak for Patrick Gass," Wellsville
Echoes, VII (1955), 38-45. Gass was an Ohioan
with the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
McGRATH, Edward J., "Reuben
Springer, Cincinnatian: Business Man, Philanthropist,"
Historical and Philosophical Society of
Ohio, Bulletin, XIII (1955), 271-285.
406
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MILLS, Lois, Three Together. Chicago,
Follett Library Book Company, 1955. 160p.
Orville, Wilbur, and Katharine Wright.
For young people.
N[ORTON], L[aurence] H., "Alfred Mewett,"
Western Reserve Historical Society,
The Historical Society News, X, No. 7 (July 1956), [1-3].
POLLARD, James E., William Oxley
Thompson, "Evangel of Education." Columbus,
Ohio State University, 1955. 303p.
PRESCOTT, Orville, The Five-Dollar
Gold Piece. New York, Random House, 1956.
234p. Largely
autobiographical. His early years were spent in Cleveland.
RODABAUGH, James H., "Harriet
Beecher Stowe House," Museum Echoes, XXIX
(1956), 1-6. Deals mainly with the life
and work of Mrs. Stowe.
RODABAUGH, James H., "Paul Laurence
Dunbar House," Museum Echoes, XXIX
(1956), 11-14. Deals mainly with the
life and work of Dunbar.
RODABAUGH, James H., "Ulysses S.
Grant," Museum Echoes, XXIX (1956),
19-21.
SMITH, S. Winifred, "Hanby
House," Museum Echoes, XXIX (1956), 51-54. Deals
mainly with the life and work of
Benjamin Hanby.
SMITH, S. Winifred, "John Rankin
House," Museum Echoes, 35-37. Deals mainly
with the life of Rankin.
SETZLER, Frank M., Henry Clyde
Shetrone. Columbus, Ohio Historical Society,
1955. 11p.
SETZLER, Frank M., "Henry Clyde
Shetrone--1876-1954," American Antiquity, XXI
(1955-56), 296-299. Same as the one
above, but with a bibliography of Shetrone's
writings compiled by Raymond S. Baby.
WARWICK, Jack, "Growing Up with
Harding," Northwest Ohio Quarterly, XXVIII
(1956), 10-25.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY
BROEHL, Wayne, G., Jr., Trucks,
Trouble, and Triumph: The Norwalk Truck Line
Company. New York, Prentiss-Hall, 1954. 226p.
The Col-Met Handbook. Columbus, Columbus Chamber of Commerce, [1955]. 20p.
Comparative statistics showing growth of
Columbus metropolitan area since 1940.
CRAIG, Paul G., and James C. Yocum, Trends
in Ohio Economy: Industrial Com-
position and Growth. Columbus, Bureau of Business Research, College of Com-
merce and Administration, Ohio State
University, 1955. 67p.
DAVIDSON, William R., The Wholesale Wine Trade in Ohio:
A Study of the
Market and Selected Operating
Practices of Wholesale Wine Merchants. Columbus,
Bureau of Business Research, College of
Commerce and Administration, Ohio State
University, 1955. 94p. Development since
1934.
NOYES, Edward M., "Granville
Furnace," Historical and Philosophical Society of
Ohio, Bulletin, XIV (1956),
37-49. An iron manufactory in Licking County.
PAPIER, William, "Growth of Ohio's
Chemical Industry," Bulletin of Business Re-
search, XXX, No. 2 (February 1955), 6.
PAPIER, William Bernard, Ohio's
Industrial Growth; Paper Delivered before Fifth
Ohio Workshop on Economic Education,
Ohio University, Athens, July 2, 1956.
25p. Mimeographed.
SMITH, Richard Austin. "The Boiling
Ohio," Fortune, LIII, No. 6 (June 1956),
109-122. Gives historical background.
DIARIES, LETTERS, AND MEMOIRS
APPLETON, Dorothy Hubbard, Letters:
Fanny Arabella Hayes Platt; Diary and
Correspondence of Fanny Platt Fullerton,
1847-1896. Privately printed, 1956.
91p.
A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS 407
BENJAMIN, Mary A., "William Henry
Harrison Presidential Frank, Unique Item,"
The Collector, LXIX (1956), 49-51.
BLACK, Wilfred W., ed., "Civil War
Letters of George M. Wise," Ohio Historical
Quarterly, LXV (1956), 53-81.
GARRATY, John A., ed., The Barber and
the Historian: The Correspondence of
George A. Myers and James Ford
Rhodes, 1910-1923. 156p. Reprinted,
with four
additional letters and minor changes,
from the Ohio Historical Quarterly, January-
October, 1955.
GARRATY, John A., ed., "The
Correspondence of George A. Myers and James Ford
Rhodes, 1910-1923-IV," Ohio
Historical Quarterly, LXIV (1955), 363-405.
McCREERY, Irene, ed., "Samuel
Allen: Pioneer of Vistula, from the Recollection
of His Daughter, Mrs. Thomas
Dunlap," Northwest Ohio Quarterly, XXVIII
(1956), 106-108.
MACDONALD, Susanne Rike, Three Score
Years and Then . . . Memoirs of Anne
Macfarland. New York, Exposition Press, 1955. 106p. The author's
memoirs. Anne
Macfarland is a pen name.
SANFORD, Charles L., "'A New
Home--Who'll Follow?': Letters of a New
England Emigrant Family in Ohio,
1831-1842," Ohio Historical Quarterly, LXV
(1956), 152-166.
SHRIVER, Phillip R., ed., "William
Howard Taft and Myron T. Herrick: Selected
Letters, 1912-1916," Historical and
Philosophical Society of Ohio, Bulletin, XIV
(1956), 221-231.
TITUS, Leo G., ed., "Swiss
Emigrants Seek Home in America: Diary Describes Their
Impressions of Ohio in 1831,"
Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio,
Bulletin, XIV (1956), 167-185.
WEATHERFORD, John, "Sherman Liked
the South--Once," Manuscripts, VIII
(1955-56), 73-77.
EDUCATION
HALL, Virginius C., "Historical and
Philosophical Society of Ohio: A Short History,"
Historical and Philosophical Society of
Ohio, Bulletin, XIV (1956), 87-104.
SHOEMAKER, Forest L., "Ohio's
Schools in 1855: The Passing Frontier Shaped
the Beginnings of the State's Plans for
Public Education," Ohio Schools, XXXIII,
No. 8 (November 1955), 10-11, 38-39, 45.
STRALER, Robert L., The Unseen
Harvest: Horace Mann and Antioch College.
Yellow Springs, Ohio, Antioch College,
1955. 39p.
FOLKLORE
FLANAGAN, John T., "Folklore in the
Stories of James Hall," Midwest Folklore,
V (1955), 159-168.
RAPP, Marvin A., "John
Maynard--Lake Erie Hero," Inland Seas, XII (1956), 3-15.
GENEALOGY
DICKORE, Marie, "Othniel Looker,
Ohio's Fifth Governor," Historical and Philo-
sophical Society of Ohio, Bulletin, XIV
(1956), 157-164.
MAIN, Mrs. Carl, "Bible Records,
Fisher-Hopkins," American Genealogist, XXXII
(1956), 153-154. Bible in possession of
Daisy Stilley and Phoebe Wintermute of
Sunbury, Ohio.
408
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PEAIRS, C. A., comp., "The Peairs
Family," Detroit Society for Genealogical Re-
search, Magazine, XIX (1955),
71-76. Several branches of the family lived in Ohio.
ROBINSON, George A., Jr., Abstracts
of Law Suits for Genealogical Material, 1828-
1875, for Fayette County, Ohio. Washington Court House, Ohio, [1956].
"Roster of Members," Society
of Indiana Pioneers, Year Book, 1955, 50-110. Gives
names of ancestors and places of origin.
Many from Ohio.
GENERAL
COLLINS, William R., Ohio: The
Buckeye State. Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice-
Hall, 1956. 352p. Junior-high-school
text.
HAVIGHURST, Walter, Wilderness for
Sale: The Story of the First Western Land
Rush. New York, Hastings House, 1956. 372p.
KEELEY, Irene Thomas, My Ohio Home
and Little Journeys to Homes of Famous
Ohioans. Columbus, F. J. Heer, 1954. 160p. For use in schools.
MORRISON, O. D., Ohio, "Gateway
State": A History, Social, Economic, Political,
In Four Parts: The History, Unit
Program for Teaching, Maps and Charts, Organ-
ization and Practice in Government. Athens, Ohio, 1956. 76+119+63+56p.
Mimeographed.
MORRISON, O. D., Ohio in Maps and
Charts, A Historical Atlas. Athens, Ohio,
1956, 153p. Mimeographed.
ROBERTS, Carl H., and Paul R. Cummins, Ohio:
Geography, History, Government.
New York, Laidlaw Brothers, 1956. 432p.
Elementary-school text.
HISTORICAL FICTION
CARLIER, Mary, The Lark's on the
Wing. Milwaukee, Bruce Publishing Company,
1955. 291p. Brown and Butler County
locale.
MUSGRAVE, Florence, Marged: The Story
of a Welsh Girl in America. New York,
Ariel Books, 1956. 250p. The girl's
family settled by the Ohio River in 1900.
For teen-age readers.
TERRY, J. William, A Restless Breed. Cleveland,
World Publishing Company, 1956.
Story laid in "New Hartford,"
[Cuyahoga County] Ohio, in the mid-nineteenth
century.
WYNGARD, Rhoda, Winds of Change: Ohio
in the 1850's (American Heritage
Series). New York, Aladdin Books, 1955.
191p. The struggle for women's rights
seen through the eyes of a boy at
Oberlin. For younger readers.
INDIANS AND INDIAN WARS
BARNHART, John D., ed., "A New
Diary of Lieutenant-Governor Henry Hamilton,"
Missouri Historical Society, Bulletin,
XII (1955), 10-24.
LANING, Paul F., "The Captivities
and Escapes of John Miller and Daniel Convers,
1791-1794." Inland Seas, XII
(1956), 86-94.
PECKHAM, Howard H., "Indian
Captives Brought to Detroit," Detroit Historical
Society, Bulletin, XII, No. 9
(June 1956), 4-9. Includes some taken or kept in Ohio.
"The Recollections of Frank
Buckshot Standing Horse, Formerly of Bono, Ohio," in
"Sparks from Ottawa
Campfires," Northwest Ohio Quarterly, XXVIII (1956),
38-43.
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A Short History of the Life of John
Anderson. Transcribed from the
original in the
Michigan Historical Collection by
Richard C. Knopf. Columbus, Anthony Wayne
Parkway Board, 1956. 48p. Mimeographed.
Indian trader in Detroit area.
STEVENSON, Augusta, Tecumseh, Shawnee
Boy (Childhood of Famous Americans
Series). New York, Bobbs-Merrill
Company, 1955. 192p. Juvenile.
TALBERT, Charles G., "Kentucky
Invades Ohio--1782," Kentucky Historical Society,
Register, LIII (1955), 288-297. Campaign against the Shawnees in
the Miami Valley.
TUCKER, Glenn, Tecumseh: Vision of
Glory. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company,
1956. 399p.
WEATHERFORD, John W., "Warren King
Moorehead and His Papers," Ohio His-
torical Quarterly, LXV (1956), 179-190.
INVENTIONS AND INVENTORS
CARMAN, Twila, "Tinkerhollow, Ohio
. . . and the Case of the Left-handed Monkey
Wrench," Inside Ohio Magazine, IV,
No. 9 (September 1955), 5. Inventions of the
Tinker family of near Conneaut.
SMITH, S. Winifred, "Alexander E.
Brown and George H. Hulett," Museum Echoes,
XXVIII (1955), 67-70.
SMITH, S. Winifred, "Charles
Francis Brush, Inventor," Museum Echoes, XXVIII
(1955), 59-62.
SMITH, S. Winifred, "Sidney Howe
Short," Museum Echoes, XXVIII (1955), 75-77.
SMITH, S. Winifred, "Thomas Alva
Edison," Museum Echoes, XXVIII (1955), 91-93.
WEISENBURGER, Francis P., "Benjamin
Garver Lamme, Inventor," Museum Echoes,
XXVIII (1955), 83-86.
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
DONALD, David, "Toward a Western
Literature, 1820-60," in Lincoln Reconsidered:
Essays on the Civil War Era (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1956), 167-186. Written
in collaboration with Frederick A.
Palmer and first published in the Mississippi
Valley Historical Review, XXXV (1948), 413-428.
HUGLEY, Gwendolyn, "Charles Waddell
Chestnut [Chesnutt]: Pioneer in the Fiction
of Negro Life," Negro History
Bulletin, XIX (1955-56), 54-55.
MAHR, August C., "Eighteenth
Century Terminology of Delaware Indian Cultivation
and Use of Maize: A Semantic
Analysis," Ethnohistory, II (1955), 209-240.
MAHR, August C., "Semantic Analysis
of a Few Anatomical Terms of the 18th-
Century Delaware Indians," Ohio
Journal of Science, LV (1955), 363-371.
WILEY, Earl W., "Buckeye Criticism of
the Gettysburg Address," Speech Monographs,
XXIII (1956), 1-8.
LOCAL HISTORY
CHURCHILL, Alfred Vance,
"Midwestern: An Oberlin Family," Northwest Ohio
Quarterly, XXVII (1955), 177-190.
DODDS, Gilbert F., "Edwards
Station," Franklin County Historical Society, His-
torical Bulletin, VIII (1956), 44.
DODDS, Gilbert F., "Henry
Innis--Agriculturist," Franklin County Historical
Society, Historical Bulletin, VII
(1955), 88.
DODDS, Gilbert F., "Pioneer
Blacksmith in Franklin County," Franklin County His-
torical Society, Historical Bulletin,
VIII (1956), 20.
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DOWNES, Randolph C., "Wamba Week:
The End of an Era in Toledo Civic Pro-
motionalism," Northwest Ohio
Quarterly, XXVII (1955), 160-172.
EHLERT, Mrs. William C., ed., "The
History of Mentor Harbor Yacht Club,"
Inland Seas, XII (1956), 79-85.
FABEN, W. W., "Old Settlers' Tales:
Stories of Williams County," Northwest Ohio
Quarterly, XXVIII (1956), 44-49, 109-115.
"The Goodale Letters,"
Connecticut Historical Society, Bulletin, XX (1955),
85-95. Letters to Ebenezer Goodale, Jr.,
two of which are from Julius House of
Perkins, Ohio. Letters and annotation
describe settlement and pioneer conditions
at Perkins and Parkman, Ohio.
HEALD, Edward Thornton, Free People
at Work, 1917-1955; Being Scripts 232-301
As Broadcast over WHBC--WHBC-FM:
Rearranged and Edited as a County
History (The Stark County Story,
Volume IV, Part 1). Canton, Ohio,
Stark County
Historical Society, 1955. 856p.
HEISER, Alta Harvey, West to Ohio. Yellow
Springs, Ohio, Antioch Press, 1954.
219p. Pictures frontier life in the
Great Miami Valley.
KOCINSKI, John, "Lucas County
Soldiers' Relief Commission, Toledo, Ohio," North-
west Ohio Quarterly, XXVIII (1956), 50-52.
MARSH, John O., "The Vagrant Comes
to Franklin County--1893," Franklin County
Historical Society, Historical
Bulletin, VIII (1956), 18-20.
"Members of the Society,
1831-1850," Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio,
Bulletin, XIV (1956), 181-183.
PABST, Anna C. Smith, ed. and comp., Berlin
Township and Delaware County, Ohio,
History Told by Contemporaries. Delaware, Ohio, Anna C. Pabst, 1955. 99p.
Mimeographed.
REPS, John W., "Urban Redevelopment
in the Nineteenth Century: The Squaring
of Circleville," Society of
Architectural Historians, Journal, XIV, No. 4 (De-
cember 1955), 23-26.
RODABAUGH, James H., "'Our House'
and Gallipolis," Museum Echoes, XXIX
(1956), 43-45.
The Salem Story. Salem, Ohio,
Sesqui-Centennial Committee, Salem
Historical
Society, 1956. 178p.
SHEPARD, Lee, "The Cincinnati
Historical Society," Historical and Philosophical
Society of Ohio, Bulletin, XIV
(1956), 122-130.
STEVENS, Herbert W., "The
Rebuilding of a City [Cincinnati)," Historical and
Philosophical Society of Ohio, Bulletin,
XIV (1956), 211-220.
STONEROCK, George A., "Firemarks in
Columbus," Franklin County Historical
Society, Historical Bulletin, VIII
(1956), 21-22.
STORM, Colton, "They Called It the
West," Historical and Philosophical Society of
Ohio, Bulletin, XIV (1956), 3-20.
Early adventurers in the old Northwest, especially
John Armstrong of Cincinnati.
TALCOTT, Kathryn H.,
"Williamsfield," Ashtabula County Historical Society,
Quarterly Bulletin, IV, No. 1 (March 15, 1956), 1-4.
[WHEELER, Robert C.], "Canton's
Peter Kaufmann," Ohio Local History News, I,
No. 6 (February 1956), [3].
[WHEELER, Robert C.], "The Strange
Case of Germantown," Ohio Local History
News, I, No. 6 (February 1956), [1, 2-3].
WILLIAMS, Fannie C.,
"Ashtabula," Ashtabula County Historical Society, Quarterly
Bulletin, IV, No. 2 (June 15, 1956), 1-5.
Williams' Cincinnati Directory, City
Guide and Business Mirror, or Cincinnati in 1856.
Cincinnati, C. S. Williams, 1856. 308p.
Reprinted, Cincinnati, Robert A. Cline, 1955.
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MEDICINE
FORMAN, Jonathan, "A Meeting of the
Faculty of Starling Medical College in 1858,"
Ohio State Medical Journal, LII (1956), 734-735.
FORMAN, Jonathan, "The Northside
[Columbus] Medical Research Society: 1908,"
Ohio State Medical Journal, LII (1956), 165-167, 272-274.
GOLDMAN, Leon, "Some Excerpts from
the 1837 Case Report Books of the Com-
mercial Hospital and Lunatic Asylum of
the State of Ohio," Ohio State Medical
Journal, LII (1956), 601-604.
PARSONS, Delbert Joseph, History of
the Medical Society of Clark Co., Ohio,
1815-1955. Privately printed, 1955. 70p.
YOUNG, Agatha, Scalpel: Men Who Made
Surgery. New York, Random House, 1956.
Ohioans Harvey Cushing and George Crile
are included.
MISCELLANEOUS
A History of the Anthony Wayne
Parkway Board, 1940-1956. 42p.
Mimeographed.
Ohioana Library Year Book, 1956 (Martha Kinney Cooper Ohioana Library Associa-
tion Publication). Cleveland, World
Publishing Company, 1955. 128p.
MYERS, Frank A., comp., "The
Manitoulin 'Griffon' vs. the Tobermory 'Griffon,'"
Inland Seas, XII (1956), 142-149.
ORIANS, G. Harrison, "My Life in a
Log-House," Northwest Ohio Quarterly,
XXVII (1955), 146-159.
VAN TASSEL, Valentine, "When
Friendly Lucas Went to Iowa," Antiques Journal,
XI, No. 6 (June 1956), 14-15, 30. Data
on Robert Lucas and his wife, Friendly, in
Ohio and Iowa. Especially on "Plum
Grove."
OHIO IN THE WARS
BLACK, Wilfred W., ed., "Civil War
Letters of George M. Wise," Ohio Historical
Quarterly, LXV (1956), 53-81.
BURT, Jesse C., "Sherman, Railroad
General," Civil War History, II (1956), 45-54.
CATTON, Bruce, "Sheridan at Five
Forks," Journal of Southern History, XXI (1955),
305-315. An account of Philip Sheridan
relieving General Warren of his command.
COBURN, Wallace David, "The Battle
of the Little Big Horn," Montana, the
Magazine of Western History, VI, No. 3 (July 1956), 28-41.
EPSTEIN, Beryl, and Samuel F. Epstein, The
Andrews Raid or, The Great Locomotive
Chase, April 12, 1862. New York, Coward-McCann, 1956. 253p. Juvenile. Raid
carried on by Ohio volunteers under
General O. M. Mitchel.
KNOPF, Richard C., "Crime and
Punishment in the Legion, 1792-1793," Historical
and Philosophical Society of Ohio, Bulletin,
XIV (1956), 232-238.
SAUNDERS, Robert, Newfoundland's Role
in the Historic Battle of Lake Erie,
September 10th, 1813. Poole, England, J. Looker, 1954, 56p.
THOMAS, Benjamin P., "Three Years with Grant as
Recalled by War Correpondent
* Sylvanus Cadwallader," American
Heritage, VI, No. 6 (October 1955), 66-93.
PLACE NAMES
BAUMAN, Robert F., "When the Maumee
Was Called the Tawa," Northwest Ohio
Quarterly, XXVIII (1956), 60-87.
RAUP, H. F., "The Names of Ohio's
Streams," Ohio Conservation Bulletin, XX,
No. 7 (July 1956), 10-11, 27.
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POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
BREMNER, Robert H., "The Civic
Revival in Ohio--What Happened to the Civic
Revival," American Journal of
Economics and Sociology, XV (1955-56), 195-202.
COLLINS, Ernest M., "Cincinnati
Negroes and Presidential Politics," Journal of
Negro History, XLI (1956), 131-137.
DE SANTIS, Vincent P., "Benjamin
Harrison and the Republican Party in the
South, 1889-1893." Indiana
Magazine of History, LI (1955), 279-302.
DOWNES, Randolph C., "Jones and
Whitlock and the Promotion of Urban
Democracy," Northwest Ohio
Quarterly, XXVIII (1956), 26-37.
DOWNES, Randolph C., "Watered
Securities and the Independent Revolution in
Toledo Politics, 1901-1907," Northwest
Ohio Quarterly, XXVIII (1956), 88-105.
GARRATY, John A., ed., The Barber and
the Historian: The Correspondence of
George A. Myers and James Ford
Rhodes, 1910-1923. Columbus, Ohio
Historical
Society, 1956. 156p. Reprinted, with
four additional letters and minor changes, from
the Ohio Historical Quarterly, January-October,
1955.
GARRATY, John A., ed., "The
Correspondence of George A. Myers and James Ford
Rhodes, 1910-1923-IV," Ohio
Historical Quarterly, LXIV (1955), 363-405.
GITTEAU, William B., The Government
of Ohio, State and Local: A Reference
Book for High School Students. Painesville, Ohio, the Ohio State Association of
Township Trustees and Clerks, 1956.
154p.
HALL, Martin Hardwick, "The
Campbell-Sherman Diplomatic Mission to Mexico,"
Historical and Philosophical Society of
Ohio, Bulletin, XIII (1955), 254-270.
MURDOCK, Eugene C., "Cleveland's
Johnson: Elected Mayor," Ohio Historical
Quarterly, LXV (1956), 28-43.
PIXTON, John E., Jr., "Charles G.
Dawes and the McKinley Campaign," Illinois
State Historical Society, Journal, XLVIII
(1955), 283-306.
ZORNOW, William Frank, "'Bluff Ben'
Wade in Lawrence, Kansas: The Issue of
Class Conflict," Ohio Historical
Quarterly, LXV (1956), 44-52.
RECREATION AND ENTERTAINMENT
RAMSEY, C. R., and John Barsotti,
"Them 'Ole Days," Muzzle Blasts, XVI, No.
12 (August 1955), 6-8, 15. On shooting
matches at Wellston, Ohio, around the
turn of the century.
REVETT, Marion S., A Minstrel Town. New
York, Pageant Press, 1955. 333p. A de-
tailed account of plays, minstrel shows,
concerts, and circuses in Toledo from 1843.
SEYMOUR, Harold, "Baseball's First
Professional Manager," Ohio Historical
Quarterly, LXIV (1955), 406-423.
RELIGION
BOASE, Paul H., "Philip Gatch:
Preacher; Pioneer; Public Servant," Historical and
Philosophical Society of Ohio, Bulletin,
XIII (1955), 286-296.
BOASE, Paul H., "Romance Rides the
Circuit," Ohio Historical Quarterly, LXV
(1956), 167-178.
BUEHRING, Paul H., "Wilhelm
Schmidt, Founder of the Columbus [Ohio]
Seminary," The Lutheran
Quarterly, VII (1955), 348-357.
"Columbus' First Presbyterian
Church Honors Memory of Rev. James Hoge,"
Franklin County Historical Society, Historical
Bulletin, VIII (1955-56), 12-13.
A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS 413
DODDS, Gilbert F., "Observe 150th
Anniversary of Presbyterianism in Franklin
County--1806-1956," Franklin County
Historical Society, Historical Bulletin, VIII
(1955-56), 10-11.
First Presbyterian Church of
Lancaster: History of the First One Hundred and Fifty
Years. Lancaster, Ohio, First Presbyterian Church, 1956. 114p.
GAVIN, Donald Philip, In All Things Charity: History
of the Sisters of Charity
of St. Augustine, Cleveland, Ohio,
1851-1954. Milwaukee, Bruce Publishing
Com-
pany, 1955. 164p.
GRAY, Leslie R., "The Moravian
Missionaries, Their Indians, and the Canadian
Government," Canadian Historical
Association, Report (1955), 96-104.
HEINS, Lester F., ed., Thank God for
the Church: American Lutheran Church, 1930-
1955. Columbus, Wartburg Press, 1955. 95p. Articles and
illustrations include the
Ohio scene.
MILLER, Marcella Henry, and others, "The
Evangelical United Brethren Church,
Germantown, Ohio, 1806-1956. Germantown, Ohio, Evangelical United Brethren
Church, 1956. [24]p.
RICHARDS, William T., A Brief History
of the Sharon Valley Welsh Calvinistic
Methodist Church. Granville, Ohio, Granville Times Press, 1956.
RODABAUGH, James H., "The Friends
Yearly Meeting House at Mount Pleasant,"
Museum Echoes, XXIX (1956), 27-30.
SCHREIBER, William I., "The
Obituaries of the Sugarcreek Budget," Midwest Folk-
lore, V (1955), 221-228. Amish and Mennonite obituaries.
THORNBURG, Opal, "Cultural
Resources of Quaker Pioneers in Ohio: A Glimpse
of the Home Community of Marcus Mote,
Artist," Friends Historical Association,
Bulletin, XLIV (1955-56), 94-99.
SOCIAL HISTORY
BOASE, Paul H., "Romance Rides the
Circuit," Ohio Historical Quarterly, LXV
(1956), 167-178.
FIFE, Dale, Weddings in the Family. New
York, Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956.
248p. An Alsatian family in Toledo in
the early 1900's.
GRAHAM, Philip, "Showboats and
Calliopes," Midwest Folklore, V (1955), 229-235.
Several references and general
application to Ohio.
LINDSEY, David, "A 'Backwoods
Utopia': The Berea Community of 1836-1837,"
Ohio Historical Quarterly, LXV (1956), 272-296.
QUENZEL, Carrol H., "Life Was
Rugged a Century Ago: Experiences of an English
Immigrant," Ohio Historical
Quarterly, LXV (1956), 297-301. Concerns George H.
Cadman, who settled near Cincinnati in
1857.
SCHNEIDER, Norris F., Lodge of Amity,
No. 5, F. and A. M., Zanesville, Ohio,
1805-1955. Zanesville, Ohio, Lodge of Amity, 1955. 153p.
TRANSPORTATION
CHASE, Harold B., Auto-biography:
Recollections of a Pioneer Motorist, 1896 to 1911.
New York, Pageant Press, 1955. 174p.
Lived for a time in Knox County.
"The Conestoga Wagon," Indiana
History Bulletin, XXXIII (1956), 11-14. Re-
printed; first appeared as No. 5 of the Historic
Pennsylvania Leaflet series.
DUNCAN, Francis, "The Story of the
D & C," Inland Seas, XI (1955), 181-186,
285-288; XII (1956), 54-57, 95-103.
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MARVIN, Walter Rumsey, "Site of New
Veterans Memorial Building Was Locale of
City's First Freight Depot,"
Franklin County Historical Society, Historical Bulletin,
VIII (1955-56), 14-15.
"The Story of the Delta
Queen," Living Museum, XVII (1955), 26-27. A steamboat
now on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
WAY, Frederick, Jr., "Early
Sternwheelers Were Not Sternwheelers," Historical and
Philosophical Society of Ohio, Bulletin,
XIII (1955), 297-301.
TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION
RODABAUGH, James H., ed., "From
England to Ohio, 1830-1832: The Journal of
Thomas K. Wharton," Ohio
Historical Quarterly, LXV (1956), 1-27, 111-151.
WILSON, Frazer Ells, James Elliot Explores Primitive
Ohio. N.p., n. pub., 1956.
32p. Mimeographed. Journal of a soldier
at Fort Greene Ville in 1795-96.
MASTERS THESES ON OHIO SUBJECTS IN OHIO
COLLEGES
AND UNIVERSITIES
KOKKINOU, Epiphanie Clara, The Political
Career of Robert Cumming Schenck.
Miami University, 1955. 236p.
LEWIS, Linda Anne, A History of Radio
Broadcasting at Miami University. Miami
University, 1955. 131p.
NEFF, Ruth B., History of Camden, Ohio,
1803-1955. Miami University, 1955. 264p.
POOLE, Mary Parker, A History of
Fairborn, Ohio. Miami University, 1956. 202p.
SCARBOROUGH, Paul G., The Impact of the
John Morgan Raid in Indiana and
Ohio. Miami University, 1955. 254p.