compiled by
DAVID R. LARSON
Checklist of Major
Research-in-Progress
Relating
to Ohio*
REFERENCE WORKS
BELL, OLIVER, History of Ohio (seventh grade school text). Research
Associate, Educational
Research Council.
DITTBRENNER, CURTIS H., Guide to County
and Municipal Government Records in Ohio.
Archives Specialist, Ohio Hist. Society.
DOOLEN, RICHARD M., THOMAS H. SMITH, and
HARRY R. STEVENS, Readings and Sources in
Ohio History. Hist. profs., Ohio Univ.
LARSON, DAVID R., Reference Guide to
Researching Ohio History. Chief, Archives and Mss.
Div., Ohio Hist. Society.
LAYTON, EDWIN T., Guide to Archives of
Contemporary Science in Ohio, Michigan, and
Indiana. Hist. prof., Case Western
Reserve Univ.
LENTZ, ANDREA DURHAM, Guide to
Manuscripts at the Ohio Historical Society. (2nd ed.)
Curator of Mss., Ohio Hist. Society.
LENTZ, EDWARD R., Guide to the Urban
Research Collection at the Ohio Historical Society.
Mss. Field Rep., Ohio Hist. Society.
NEWBORG, GERALD G., Guide to the State
Government Archives at the Ohio Historical
Society. Assist. Archivist, Ohio Hist.
Society.
PIKE, KERMIT J., Guide to Manuscripts
and Archives in the Western Reserve Historical
Society, Librarian and Curator of Mss.,
Western Reserve Hist. Society.
SMITH, THOMAS H., Historic Ohio Maps.
Hist. prof., Ohio Univ.
SOCIETY OF OHIO ARCHIVISTS, Guide to
Manuscripts and Archives in Ohio.
SWANSON, PATRICIA M., Union Bibliography
of Ohio Printed State Documents, 1803-1970.
(2nd ed.) Archives Specialist, Ohio
Hist. Society.
WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
Guide to the Shaker Manuscript Collection.
*This 1969 checklist inaugurates an
annual series that will be published in Ohio History as a com-
plement to the bibliography of completed
research. The list includes 116 entries (59 books and 57
doctoral dissertations) and has been
compiled with the aid of staff members of the Ohio Historical
Society from records of patron
registrations at research centers in the state, from published lists in
professional journals, and from
information solicited from professors at Ohio's graduate schools.
Revisions, corrections, and additions
should be directed to the compiler, Chief, Archives and Mss. Div.,
Ohio Hist. Society, for inclusion in the
1970 list.
298 OHIO
HISTORY
RESEARCH PROJECTS COVERING THE PERIOD
1788-1860
ABELS, JULES, Biography of John Brown.
Author, Washington, D.C.
ADLER, JOSEPH G., Origins of the Whig
Party in Ohio. Case Western Reserve Univ., Ph.D.,
hist. dept.
CARROLL, STEPHEN G., Thomas
Corwin and the Whig Party. Univ. of Colorado, Ph.D.,
hist. dept.
EARNHART, HUGH, Biography of Alexander Long. Hist. prof., Youngstown
State Univ.
FOLK, RICHARD A., The Negro in Ohio
During the 1850's. Univ. of Toledo, Ph.D., hist. dept.
GLAZER, WALTER S., Cincinnati in 1840: A Community Profile. Univ. of
Michigan, Ph.D.,
hist. dept.
HUFF, CAROLYN, Political Abolitionism in
Ohio as Illustrated in the Career of John A. Bing-
ham. Univ. of No. Carolina, Ph.D., hist.
dept.
HUTSLAR, DONALD A. and JEAN L. HUTSLAR,
Log Structures in Ohio. Assoc. Curators of His-
tory, Ohio Hist. Society.
KESILMAN, SYLVAN H., Popular Support of
the Tyler Administration from the Center: Ohio
as an Example. Ohio State Univ., Ph.D.,
hist. dept.
KINDIG, EVERETT W.,
Anti-Jacksonianism in the Ohio Valley, 1824-1836. Stanford Univ.,
Ph.D., hist. dept.
LAKE, HERBERT M., Moravian
Missions in Ohio and Pennsylvania, 1765-1782. Author, Wil-
loughby, O.
MERRILL, JAMES M., Biography of William
T. Sherman. Hist. prof., Univ. of Delaware.
MULLER, EDWARD K., Urban Growth in the
Ohio Valley, 1820-1860. Univ. of Wisconsin,
Ph.D., geography dept.
O'DELL, RICHARD F., The Anti-Slavery
Movement in Ohio, 1787-1861. Hist. prof., Northern
Michigan Univ. at Marquette.
PIH, RICHARD W., The Negro in
Cincinnati, 1800-1865. Miami Univ., Ph.D., hist. dept.
POSH, JOSEPH F., Biography of Edward Tiffin. Lawyer, Willard, O.
ROBERTS, CARL, The Lives of Three Ohio
Civil War Soldiers from Birth to Death. Man-
agement consultant, Ann Arbor, Mich.
RODGER, ANDREW DENNY, III,
Frontier Surveyors of the Northwest Territory. Author, Colum-
bus, O.
SAMPSON, PATTI B., Biography of
Arthur St. Clair. Housewife, Saratoga, Calif.
SCHOB, DAVID E., Agricultural Labor in
the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1815-1860. Univ. of
Illinois, Ph.D., hist. dept.
SHADE, WILLIAM G., Free Banking in the
Northwest, 1837-1865. Hist. prof., Lehigh Univ.
STREIFTHAN, DONNA L., Cincinnati
Furniture, 1800-1830. Ohio State Univ., Ph.D., hist. dept.
SWICK, RAY,
History of Belpre, Ohio, 1789-1818. Miami Univ., Ph.D., hist. dept.
VANNORSDALL, MILDRED, A History of the
State Library of Ohio, 1817-1956. Univ. of Mich-
igan, Ph.D., lib. sci. dept.
WERTHEIM, SALLY H., Educational
Periodicals Published in Ohio Prior to the Civil War.
Case Western Reserve Univ., Ph.D., ed.
dept.
WICKMAN, JOHN E., Biography of Benjamin Tappan. Director,
Eisenhower Presidential
Library.
RESEARCH PROJECTS COVERING THE PERIOD
1860-1920
BARKLEY, KAY, Biographies of Pioneers in
Early Cincinnati Medical History. Librarian,
Cincinnati Jewish Hospital.
BAXTER, JOSEPH R., Urbanization
in Cincinnati, 1850-1880. Univ. of Cincinnati, Ph.D., hist.
dept.
Research-in-Progress 299
BECKER, CARL M., The Industrial Life of
Dayton, Ohio, 1830-1910. Univ. of Cincinnati,
Ph.D., hist. dept.
BOWER, JERRY L., The Civil War Career of
Jacob Dolson Cox. Michigan State Univ., Ph.D.,
hist. dept.
BROWN, HARRY J. and FREDERICK D.
WILLIAMS, eds., The Diary of James A. Garfield. (2
vols. pub.; 2 vols. in preparation).
Hist. profs., Michigan State Univ.
BURKE, JAMES L., The Public Career of
Judson Harmon. Ohio State Univ., Ph.D., hist. dept.
CEBULA, JAMES E., Biography of James M.
Cox. Univ. of Cincinnati, Ph.D., hist. dept.
CLOSSMAN, RICHARD, History of the
Baptists in Ohio. Ohio State Univ., Ph.D., hist. dept.
CURL, DONALD W., Biography of Murat
Halstead. Hist prof., Florida Atlantic Univ.
DAVISON, KENNETH E., Biography of
Rutherford B. Hayes. Hist. prof., Heidelberg College.
DORN, JACOB H., PAUL G. MERRIAM, and
CARL M. BECKER, An Urban History of Dayton,
Ohio. Hist. profs., Wright State Univ.
DOWNES, RANDOLPH C., Ohio and
Presidential Politics. Hist. prof., Univ. of Toledo.
FELT, THOMAS E., Biography of Mark
Hanna. State Dept. Educ., N.Y.
FROHMAN, CHARLES E., Put-In-Bay.
Businessman, Sandusky, O.
GERBER, DAVID A., The Negro in Ohio,
1870-1920. Princeton Univ., Ph.D., hist. dept.
GRUBER, ROBERT, Political Career of Salmon Chase, 1808-1861. Univ. of
Maryland, Ph.D.,
hist. dept.
HARRISON, JOHN M., Biography of David
Ross Locke. English prof., Pennsylvania State
Univ.
HAUPT, RICHARD W., Early History of the
Ohio Historical Society, 1885-1912. Ohio State
Univ., Ph.D., hist. dept.
HOROWITZ, ROBERT F., Biography of James
M. Ashley. City Univ. of New York, Ph.D.,
hist. dept.
HOWSON, EMBREY B., Biography of Jacob
Sechler Coxey, 1854-1951. Ohio State Univ.,
Ph.D., hist. dept.
HUDSON, GOSSIE H., A Biography of Paul
Laurence Dunbar. Ohio State Univ., Ph.D., hist.
dept.
HUGHES, DAVID F., Biography of Salmon P.
Chase. Pol. sci. prof., Centre College.
JACKSON, W. SHERMAN, Ohio and the
Thirteenth Amendment. Ohio State Univ., Ph.D.,
hist. dept.
JAROS, JAMES A., Americanization
in Cleveland. Case Western Reserve Univ., Ph.D., Amer.
Studies dept.
MARCHMAN, WATT P., ed., Diaries and
Notes of Rutherford B. Hayes. (6 vols.). Director,
Hayes Presidential Library.
MASSOUH, MICHAEL, The Business Career of
Thomas L. Johnson. Case Western Reserve
Univ., Ph.D., hist. dept.
NELSON, NICHOLAS, Child Labor Reform in
Ohio. Ohio State Univ., Ph.D., hist. dept.
NICHOLS, JEANETTE, Biography of John
Sherman. Hist. prof., retired, Univ. of Pennsylvania.
NIXON, EDGAR B., History of the
Zoar, Ohio Community. Assoc. Director, Roosevelt Presi-
dential Library.
OATES, STEPHEN B., Biography of John
Brown. Hist. prof., Univ. of Massachusetts.
PAD, DENNIS N., The Contributions of
Rutherford B. Hayes to Education. Ohio State Univ.,
Ph.D., ed. dept.
PESKIN, ALLAN, Biography of James A. Garfield. Hist. prof., Cleveland
State Univ.
PITZER, DONALD E., The Story of
Professional Revivalism in Ohio. Hist. prof., Indiana State
Univ. at Evansville.
RENTSCHLER, THOMAS B., Civil War Arms
Manufactured in Ohio. Businessman. Hamilton, O.
RODABAUGH, JAMES H., ed., Letters of
Samuel L. Jones. Hist. prof., Miami Univ.
SIMON, JOHN Y., ed., The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. (2 vols. pub.;
more vols. in prepara-
tion). Hist. prof., Southern Illinois
Univ.
SPEER, MICHAEL S., Urbanization of
Columbus, Ohio. Ohio State Univ., Ph.D., hist. dept.
300
OHIO HISTORY
SOLVICK, STANLEY D., Biography of
William Howard Taft. Hist. prof., Wayne State Univ.
SUSLAW, RITA S., History of Western
Reserve College. Case Western Reserve Univ., Ph.D.,
ed. dept.
TAYLOR, DAVID G., The Business and
Political Career of Thomas Ewing, Jr., 1829-1896.
Univ. of Kansas, Ph.D., hist. dept.
THERRY, JAMES R., The Life of General Robert Cumming Schenck, 1809-1890.
Georgetown
Univ., Ph.D., hist. dept.
Voss, DAVID M., Dayton During the
Progressive Era, 1900-1917. Indiana Univ., Ph.D., hist.
dept.
RESEARCH PROJECTS COVERING THE PERIOD
1920-PRESENT
ADAMS, ROBERT W., Columbus, Ohio Urban
Renewal Policy, 1950-1961. Ohio State Univ.,
Ph.D., pol. sci. dept.
ALBERTSON, DEAN, Biography of Warren G.
Harding.
Hist.
prof., Univ. of Massachusetts.
BAUGHIN, WILLIAM A., Biography of Murray
Seasongood. Univ. of Cincinnati, Ph.D., hist.
dept.
BRASHARES, JEFFREY R., Electric Railways
in Central Ohio, 1900-1933. Student, Mansfield, O.
CAMPBELL, THOMAS H. and LOUIS MASOTTI,
Cleveland: Tom Johnson to Carl Stokes. Hist.
prof., Cleveland State Univ. and pol.
sci. prof., Case Western Reserve Univ.
CHANCE, C. WILLIAM, An Analysis of
Legislative Voting Agreements in the 107th Ohio
General Assembly. Ohio State Univ.,
Ph.D., pol. sci. dept.
CRAMER, C. H., History of the Cleveland Public Library. Hist. prof.,
Case Western Reserve
Univ.
CUBAN, LARRY, Political Leadership in
the Cleveland Negro Community, 1910-1940. Case
Western Reserve Univ., Ph.D., hist.
dept.
DAVIES, RICHARD O., Biography of John W.
Bricker. Hist. prof., Memphis State Univ.
DOWNES, RANDOLPH C., The Presidency of
Warren G. Harding. Hist. prof., Univ. of Toledo.
DUNFEE, C. DENNIS, Harold H. Burton's
First Term as Mayor of Cleveland, 1935-1937. Case
Western Reserve Univ., Ph.D., hist.
dept.
FLINN, THOMAS A., State Politics in
Ohio. Pol. sci. prof., Ohio State Univ.
GALUSH, WILLIAM J., Polish Immigrants in
Cleveland. Univ. of Minnesota, Ph.D., hist. dept.
GOLDFARB, STEPHEN J., History of the Cincinnati Astronomical Society. Case
Western
Reserve Univ., Ph.D., hist. dept.
HABERMAN, IAN S., The Van Sweringens of
Cleveland. Case Western Reserve Univ., Ph.D.,
hist. dept.
JIRRAN, RAYMOND J., Cleveland and the Negro Following World War II. Kent
State Univ.,
Ph.D., hist. dept.
JOHNSTON, DAVID A., Legislative
Appropriations in Ohio. Ohio State Univ., Ph.D., pol. sci.
dept.
KLAIN, MAURICE, Study of Power and Decision Making in Cleveland Area
Politics. Pol.
sci. prof., Case Western Reserve Univ.
KRAUSE, JOHN R., JR., The Glenville
Incident in Cleveland. Case Western Reserve Univ.,
Ph.D., pol. sci. dept.
KURTZ, ERNEST E., Cleveland, 1912-1934.
Harvard Univ., Ph.D., Hist. of Amer. Civilization
dept.
LOVENSTEIN, MENO, History of Ohio University During the Alden Years.
Econ. prof., Ohio
Univ.
Research-in-Progress 301
MARLOWE, BYRON H., Voter Behavior in Ohio School Tax
and Bond Elections, 1946-1967.
Univ. of Cincinnati, Ph.D., pol. sci.
dept.
MURPHEY, MELVIN L., The Columbus, Ohio Urban League, 1917-1967. Ohio State
Univ.,
Ph.D., hist. dept.
NETHERS, JOHN L., Biography of Simeon D. Fess. Hist. prof., Ashland
College.
OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY (sponsor).
Twentieth Century History of Ohio. (2 vols. planned.)
PARTHENAKIS, THOMAS, George M. Humphrey:
Secretary of Treasury, 1953-1957. Kent
State Univ., Ph.D., hist. dept.
PATTERSON, JAMES T., Biography of Robert
A. Taft. Hist. prof., Indiana Univ.
RUPPEL, GEORGE J., History of the Aerospace Medical Laboratory at
Wright Patterson Air
Force Base. Hist. prof., Univ. of
Dayton.
RUPPEL, GEORGE J., Biography of Vic Donahey. Hist. prof., Univ. of
Dayton.
SWART, STANLEY L., The Growth of
State Level Police Activity in Ohio. Northwestern Univ.,
Ph.D., hist. dept.
TALBERT, ROY, JR., A Study of the Career
and Philosophy of Arthur E. Morgan. Vander-
bilt Univ., Ph.D., hist. dept.
THOMAS, LOUIS, The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, 1890-1950. Univ. of
Cincinnati, Ph.D.,
hist. dept.
WOODS, WILLIAM K., Municipal Reform in the
1920's: Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Detroit.
Univ. of Cincinnati, Ph.D., hist. dept.
WORTMAN, ROY, I.W.W. Activities in Ohio, 1905-1950. Ohio State Univ.,
Ph.D., hist. dept.
WYE, CHRISTOPHER G., The Negro in
Cleveland, 1929-1944. Kent State Univ., Ph.D., hist.
dept.