Ohio History Journal

compiled by

HELEN M. THURSTON

A Survey of Publications

on the History and Archaeology

of Ohio, 1971 to 1972

ARCHAEOLOGY

Central States Archaeological Journal, 1971, published by several archaeological societies.

CERAM, C. W., The First American: A Story of North American Archaeology. New York,

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1971. 357p. Ohio archaeology.

MILLER, JEFFERSON J., II, and LYLE M. STONE, Eighteenth-Century Ceramics from Fort Michili-

mackinac: A Study in Historical Archaeology. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institute

Press, 1970. 130p.

MURPHY, JAMES L., "The Fairport Harbor Site (33-La-5), Lake County, Ohio," Pennsylvania

Archaeologist, XLI (September 1971), 26-43.

MURPHY, JAMES L., "The Lyman Site (33-La-2), Lake County, Ohio," Pennsylvania Archae-

ologist, XLI (September 1971), 12-25.

Ohio Archaeologist, 1971, published by the Archaeological Society of Ohio. A quarterly

devoted to the discussion and illustration of artifacts found primarily in Ohio.

ARTS AND CRAFTS

BENTLEY, GILL WRIGHT, Toledo: Significant Architecture for the Future. Maumee, Maumee

Valley Historical Society, 1969. ¹⁹p.

BRAIDER, DONALD, George Bellows and the Ashcan School of Painting. Garden City, N.Y.,

Doubleday Co., 1971. 153p. An Ohio artist.

CAMPEN, RICHARD N., Architecture of the Western Reserve, 1800-1900. Cleveland, Case West-

ern Reserve University Press, 1971. 260p.

HOLIDAY, JOSEPH E., "Collector's Choice of the Gilded Age," Cincinnati Historical Society,

Bulletin, XXVIII (1970), 295-315. Art and collecting in Cincinnati.

KING, ARTHUR G., M.D., "John Lambert Richmond, M.D. 'The First Caesarian Section in

America,' " Cincinnati Historical Society, Bulletin, XXIX (1971), 59-64.

CALKINS, DAVID L., "19th Century Black History: A Bibliographic Essay [for Cincinnati],"

Cincinnati Historical Society, Bulletin, XXVIII (1970), 337-353.

DURFEE, DAVID A., comp., William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841; John Tyler, 1790-1862. Dobbs

Ferry, N.Y., Oceana Publications, Inc., 1970. 144p. Contains chronology, documents,

and bibliographical aids.

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FURER, HOWARD B., comp., James A. Garfield, 1831-1881; Chester A. Arthur, 1830-1886. Dobbs

Ferry, N.Y., Oceana Publications, Inc., 1970. ¹⁴⁸p. Contains chronology, documents, and

bibliographical aids.

GEPHART, RONALD M., comp., Periodical Literature on the American Revolution: Historical

Research and Changing Interpretations, 1895-1970. Washington, D.C., U. S. Government

Printing Office, 1970. 93p.

HUTSLAR, DONALD A., A Checklist of Ohio Gunsmiths and Related Tradesmen of the 18th

and 19th Centuries. Worthington, Ohio, Golden Age Arms Co., 1970. 69p.

LAYTON, EDWIN T., JR., ed., A Regional Union Catalog of Manuscripts Relating to the History

of Science and Technology located in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. Cleveland, Case West-

ern Reserve University Press, 1971. 215p.

SCHATZ, WALTER, comp., Directory of Afro-American Resources. New York, R. R. Bowker

Co., 1970. ⁴⁸⁵p.

TURNER, DARWIN T., comp., Afro-American Writers. New York, Appleton-Century Crofts,

1970. ¹¹⁷p. Contains Ohio entries.

WRIGHT, DONALD E., Libraries in Southwestern Rural Ohio: An Overview and a Framework

for Future Development. Columbus, Ohio Library Foundation, 1970. 53p.

BIOGRAPHY

ABELS, JULES, Man on Fire: John Brown and the Cause of Liberty. New York, Macmillan

Co., 1971. 428p.

BALDERSTON, MARION, "Rachel Patterson: Primitive Quaker," Quaker History, LIX (1970),

44-48. From Ohio.

CROUT, GEORGE, Lucky Cloverleaf of the 4-H. Minneapolis, T. S. Dennison and Co., Inc.,

1971. ⁸⁸p. Biography of A. B. Graham, founder of the 4-H Club.

CUMMINGS, CHARLES, Yankee Quaker Confederate General: The Curious Career of Bushrod

Rust Johnson. Cranbury, N.Y., Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1971. ⁴¹⁷p. An

Ohioan.

GAYLE, ADDISON, Oak and Ivy. New York, Doubleday, 1971. Biography of Paul Laurence

Dunbar, 1872-1906, black poet from Ohio.

GRUBER, FRANK, Zane Grey: A Biography. New York, World Publishing Co., 1970. 248p.

LYNN, KENNETH SCHUYLER, Biography of William Dean Howells: An American Life. New

York, Harcourt Press, 1971. 372p.

MERRILL, JAMES M., William Tecumseh Sherman. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1971. 445p.

OATES, STEPHEN B., To Purge This Land With Blood: A Biography of John Brown. New York,

Harper and Row Co., Inc., 1970. 43p.

SEASONGOOD, MURRAY, "Remembrances of a Youthful Nonagenarian," Cincinnati Historical

Society, Bulletin, XXIX (1971), 7-27. Autobiography.

SIMON, JOHN Y., ed., The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 3: October 1, 1861-January 7,

1862. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1971. ⁴⁷⁹p.

STANLEY-BROWN, JOSEPH, "My Friend Garfield," American Heritage, XXII (August 1971),

49-53, 100-101.

STEWART, EDGAR I., "A Psychoanalytic Approach to Custer: Some Reflections," Montana,

the Magazine of Western History, XXI (Summer 1971), 74-77.

Zane Grey Collector, edited by G. M. Farley. A quarterly devoted to the life and times of

Zane Grey.

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BLACK HISTORY

ANDERSON, DAVID., ed., The Dark and Tangled Path; Race in America. New York, Houghton-

Mifflin, 1971. 44p. A collection of documents.

GATEWOOD, WILLIAM B., JR., [comp.], "Smoked Yankees" and the Struggle for Empire: Let-

ters from Negro Soldiers, 1898-1902. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1971. 328p. In-

cludes Negro volunteers from Ohio.

FOWLER, ARLEN L., The Black Infantry in the West, 1869-1891; Contributions in Afro-

American Studies, No. 6. Westport, Conn., Negro Universities Press, 1971. ¹⁶⁷p.

BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY

Cincinnati. A monthly containing articles of cultural and commercial interest.

CREWS, GUY M., comp., History of the American Jersey Cattle Club, 1868-1968. Columbus,

American Jersey Cattle Club, 1968. l11p.

CROCKETT, NORMAN L., The Woolen Industry of the Midwest. Lexington, University Press of

Kentucky, 1970. ¹⁴⁹p.

Dayton. A monthly containing articles of cultural and commercial interest.

FARRELL, RICHARD T., "Internal-Improvement Projects in Southwestern Ohio, 1815-1834,"

Ohio History, LXXX (Winter 1971), 4-23.

FOGEL, ROBERT W. and STANLEY L. ENGERMAN, The Reinterpretation of American Economic

History. New York, Harper and Row, 1971. ⁴⁹⁴p.

GARBER, D. W., Waterwheels and Millstones: A History of Ohio Gristmills and Milling. Colum-

bus, Ohio Historical Society, 1970. 138p.

GLADDEN, WASHINGTON, Working People and Their Employers. New York, Arno Press, Inc.,

1969. 241p. Reprint of 1876 edition.

MORTIMER, WYNDHAM, Organize! My Life as a Union Man. Boston, Beacon Press, 1971.

274p. Autobiography of Ohio union leader and cofounder of the United Automobile

Workers.

SHARP, JAMES ROGER, The Jacksonians versus the Banks: Politics in the States after the Panic

of 1837. New York, Columbia University Press, 1970. 392p. Ohio is included in the study.

THOMAS, SAMUEL W. and EUGENE H. CONNER, eds., "The Falls of the Ohio River and its

Environs: The Journals of Increase Allen Lapham for 1827-1830," Filson Club History

Quarterly, XLV (1971), Part I, 5-34; Part II, 199-226; Conclusion, 381-403. Observations

on the building of the canal at Louisville, Ky.

WHITE, JOHN H., JR., "The Steam Fire Engine: A Reappraisal of a Cincinnati 'First,'"

Cincinnati Historical Society, Bulletin, XXVIII (1970), 317-335.

EDUCATION AND CULTURE

ASBURY, ESLIE, "The Literary Club [of Cincinnati, 1849]," Filson Club History Quarterly,

XLIV (1970), 209-226.

BELCH, GEORGE EUGENE, Tempered Crises: The Centennial History of Ohio Northern Uni-

versity. Ada, Ohio, Ohio Northern University Press, 1971. 42p.

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BIGGLESTONE, W. E., "Oberlin College and the Negro Student, 1865-1940," Journal of Negro

History, LVI (July 1971), 198-219.

BRAMMER, MAUCK, "Winthrop B. Smith: Creator of the Eclectic Educational Series," Ohio

History, LXXX (Winter 1971), 45-59.

CHESNUTT, CHARLES W., The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories. Reprint of 1899 edition

with an introduction by Earl Schenck Miers. ³³⁶p. The Marrow of Tradition. Reprint of

1901 edition with an introduction by Robert M. Farnsworth. 350p. The Conjure Woman.

Reprint of 1899 edition with an introduction by Robert M. Farnsworth. ²⁵²p. Ann Arbor,

University of Michigan Press, 1971. Chesnutt is a black author from Cleveland.

CLARK, THOMAS D., "Building Libraries in the Early Ohio Valley," Journal of Library His-

tory, VI (1971), 101-119.

HANCOCK, HAROLD B., The History of Otterbein College, 1930-1972. Westerville, Ohio, Otter-

bein College, 1971. 197p.

KINNISON, WILLIAM A., Building Sullivant's Pyramid: An Administrative History of The Ohio

State University, 1870-1907. Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 1970. 225p.

KNEPPER, GEORGE W., New Lamps for Old: One Hundred Years of Urban Higher Education

at The University of Akron. Akron, Ohio, University of Akron, 1970. 407p.

NOTESTEIN, LUCY LILIAN, Wooster of the Middle West. Kent, Ohio, Kent State University

Press, 1971. Vol. I, ³³³p.; Vol. II, ⁴³³p.

VOIGT, DAVID QUENTIN, "The Boston Red Stockings: The Birth of Major League Baseball,"

New England Quarterly, XLIII (1970), 531-549.

WALKER, BYRON H., comp., Ohio History Resource Guide for Frontier Ohio. Columbus, Divi-

sion of Elementary and Secondary Education, Ohio State Department of Education,

1971. ¹⁷⁹p.

WEISENBURGER, FRANCIS P., "William Oxley Thompson: Clergyman and Educator," Journal

of Presbyterian History, XLIX (Spring 1971), 80-97.

YOCUM, JAMES C. and FREDERICK D. STOCKER, The Development of Franklin County Public

Libraries, 1980. Columbus, Ohio State University College of Administrative Science,

1970. ²50p.

GENEALOGY

The American Genealogist. Privately published quarterly.

Armstrong Surname Bulletin. Published quarterly by the Armstrong Surname Organization,

472 8th Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84103.

The Detroit Society for Genealogical Research. Contains genealogical records pertaining to

Michigan.

Family Fare. A quarterly list of additions to the Historical Library of Fort Wayne and

Allen counties, Indiana.

Gateway to the West. A quarterly containing genealogical material taken from early Ohio

records of various kinds.

The Hoosier Genealogist. Published quarterly by the Indiana Historical Society, 140 N.

Senate Avenue, Indianapolis 46204. Contains some genealogical material pertinent to

Ohioans.

Kentucky Ancestors. Published by the Kentucky Historical Society. A quarterly containing

genealogical material.

MAXWELL, WILLIAM, Ancestors. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. 31lp. Well-known novel-

ist describes his ancestors in Ohio and Illinois.

Michigan Heritage. A quarterly magazine of biography, local, and family history.

Ohio Records and Pioneer Families. A quarterly containing genealogical material taken from

early Ohio records of various kinds.

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QUANDT, JEAN B., From the Small Town to the Great Community: The Social Thought of

Progressive Intellectuals. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1970. ²⁶0p. Includes

Frederic Howe in the list of nine progressive intellectuals discussed.

The Report. A quarterly published by the Ohio Genealogical Society, 454 Park Avenue

West, Mansfield, Ohio 44906.

Your Family Tree. A quarterly published by the Hoenstine Rental Library, 414 Montgomery

Street, Hollidaysburg, Pa. 16648. Contains Pennsylvania genealogy and history.

GENERAL

ALLSWANG, JOHN M., A House for All Peoples: Ethnic Politics in Chicago, 1890-1936. Lex-

ington, University Press of Kentucky, 1971. 253p.

BARNHART, JOHN D. and DOROTHY L. RIKER, Indiana to 1816: The Colonial Period. India-

napolis, Indiana Historical Society, 1971. 520p.

HAVIGHURST, WALTER, River to the West: Three Centuries of the Ohio. New York, G. P.

Putnam's Sons, 1970. 318p.

Inland Seas: Quarterly Journal of the Great Lakes Historical Society. Devoted to the dis-

cussion and illustration of the history, geography, geology, transportation, and industry

of the Great Lakes region.

Limnos. The magazine of the Great Lakes Foundation. A quarterly containing scientific

and educational articles concerning the Great Lakes Basin.

WARNER, H. LANDON, ed., Reforming American Life in the Progressive Era. New York,

Jerome S. Ozer, Inc., 1971. ¹⁹⁵p.

INDIANS AND THE WARS

ANSON, BERT, The Miami Indians. Norman, Okla., University of Oklahoma Press, 1970. 329p.

DEBO, ANGIE, A History of the Indians of the United States. Norman, Okla., University of

Oklahoma Press, 1970. 358p.

HEROLD, ELAINE BLUHM, "Hopewell: Burial Mound Builders," The Palimpsest, LI (Decem-

ber 1970), 497-528.

WOEHRMANN, PAUL, At the Headwaters of the Maumee: A History of the Forts of Fort Wayne.

Indianapolis, Indiana Historical Society, 1971. 306p. With an introduction by Richard

C. Knopf.

LOCAL HISTORY

FAIR, CHARLES A., "The Beginning of the 10 Years of War of Wood County, Ohio," North-

west Ohio Quarterly, XLIII (Summer 1971), 43-65.

FROHMAN, CHARLES E., Put-in-Bay: Its History. Columbus, Ohio Historical Society, 1971.

156p.

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MC DERMOTT, JOHN FRANCIS, "The Earliest View of 'Cincinnati,' " Cincinnati Historical So-

ciety, Bulletin, XXIX (1971), 53-57.

Northwest Ohio Quarterly, XLIII (Spring 1971). Issue devoted to a Landmarks Tour of the

Maumee Valley.

Pickaway Quarterly. Published by the Pickaway County Historical Society and contains

various items of local historical interest.

SCHEIBER, HARRY N., "Amasa Delano: An Optimist in Ohio," Dartmouth College Library

Bulletin, XI (1970), 2-18.

SCHRIER, ARNOLD, "A Russian Observer's Visit to 'Porkopolis,' " Cincinnati Historical So-

ciety, Bulletin, XXIX (1971), 29-51.

SPRESS, PHILIP D., II, "Exhibitions and Expositions in 19th Century Cincinnati," Cincinnati

Historical Society, Bulletin, XXVIII (1970), 171-192.

The Tallow Light. The bulletin of the Washington County Historical Society. A quarterly

containing historical articles and notes of interest to genealogists and members.

Towpaths. Published by the Canal Society of Ohio. A quarterly containing articles and

illustrations of historical interest to canal buffs.

WHEELER, THOMAS BEMIS, Troy: The Nineteenth Century. Troy, Troy Historical Society,

1970. 321p. History of Troy, Ohio.

WORTMAN, ROY T., "An IWW Document on the 1919 Rossford Strike," Northwest Ohio

Quarterly, XLIII (Summer 1971), 37-42.

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

DEBS, EUGENE V., edited by JEAN Y. TUSSEY, Eugene V. Debs Speaks. New York, Pathfinder

Press, Inc., 1970. 320p.

HOWARD, VICTOR B., "The 1856 Election in Ohio: Moral Issues in Politics," Ohio History,

LXXX (Winter 1971), 24-44.

IGNASIAS, C. DENNIS, "Propaganda and Public Opinion in Harding's Foreign Affairs: The

Case for Mexican Recognition," Journalism Quarterly, XLVIII (Spring 1971), 41-52.

JENSEN, RICHARD J., The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Political Conflict, 1888-1896.

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1971. 357p.

LUXEMBURG, ROSA, edited by MARY-ALICE WATERS, Rosa Luxemburg Speaks. New York, Path-

finder Press, Inc., 1970. ⁴⁷³p.

MC CORMAC, JOHN W., Ohio Civil Rules Practice. Cincinnati, W. H. Anderson, 1970. 494p.

MORRIS, JAMES M., "William Haller 'The Disturbing Element,' " Cincinnati Historical So-

ciety, Bulletin, XXVIII (1970), 259-293. A pro-labor Cincinnati politician.

SWIFT, DON C., "Ohio Republicans and the Hayes Administration Reforms," Northwest

Ohio Quarterly, XLIII (Winter 1971), Part II, 11-22.

TUTOROW, NORMAN E., "The Whigs of Ohio and Texas Annexation," Northwest Ohio Quar-

terly, XLIII (Winter 1971), 23-33.

RELIGION

ANDERSON, DAVID D., "[William Dean] Howells, [Joseph C.] Dylks, and the Backwood

Millenium [sic]," Northwest Ohio Quarterly, XLII (Winter 1971), 4-10.

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ALEXANDER, THOMAS G., "A Conflict of Perceptions: Ulysses S. Grant and the Mormons,"

Ulysses S. Grant Association Newsletter, VIII (July 1971), 29-42.

CONNOR, ELIZABETH, Methodist Trail Blazer: Philip Gatch, 1751-1834. Cincinnati, Creative

Writers and Publishers, Inc., 1970. 244p.

DURNBAUGH, DONALD F., ed., The Church of the Brethren Past and Present. Elgin, Ill., Brethren

Press, 1971. 182p.

ELLIOTT, ERROL T., Quakers on the American Frontier. Richmond, Ind., Friends United Press,

1969. ⁴³⁴p.

SLAVERY, CIVIL WAR, RECONSTRUCTION

ABZUG, ROBERT H., "The Copperheads: Historical Approaches to Civil War Dissent in the

Midwest," Indiana Magazine of History, LXVI (March 1970), 40-55.

BIRNEY, JAMES GILLESPIE, Correspondence Between the Hon. F. H. Elmore and James G.

Birney. New York, Arno Press, Inc., 1969. 68p. Reprint of the 1838 edition.

BIRNEY, JAMES GILLESPIE, A Letter on the Political Obligations of Abolitionists. New York,

Arno Press, Inc., 1969. ³⁶p. Reprint of the 1839 edition.

BIRNEY, JAMES GILLESPIE, The American Churches: The Bulwarks of American Slavery. New

York, Arno Press, Inc., 1969. 44p. Reprint of the 1842 edition.

BLACK, WILFRED W., ed., "Civil War Letters of George Washington McMillen and Jefferson

O. McMillen, 122nd Regiment, O.V.I.," West Virginia History, XXXII (April 1971),

171-193.

HENRY, STUART C., "The Lane Rebels: A Twentieth Century Look," Journal of Presbyterian

History, XLIX (Spring 1971), 1-14.

LANE, ANN J., ed., The Debate Over Slavery: Stanley Elkins and His Critics. Urbana, Univer-

sity of Illinois Press, 1971. 378p.

MABEE, CARLETON, Black Freedom: The Nonviolent Abolitionists from 1830 Through the

Civil War. New York, Macmillan Co., 1970. 425p.

MILLIGAN, JOHN D., ed., From the Freshwater Navy: 1861-64; The Letters of Acting Master's

Mate Henry R. Browne and Acting Ensign Symmes E. Browne. Annapolis, United States

Naval Institute, 1970. 327p. Brothers from Ohio.

RANKIN, JOHN, Letters on American Slavery. New York, Arno Press, Inc., 1969. Reprint of

the 1838 edition.

Proceedings of the American Anti-Slavery Society at Its Second Decade, Held in the City

of Philadelphia, Dec. 3d, 4th, and 5th, 1853. Westport, Conn., Negro Universities Press,

1970. 176p. Reprint of the 1854 edition, printed by the American Anti-Slavery Society.

ROBINSON, DONALD L., Slavery in the Structure of American Politics, 1765-1820. New York,

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1971. 564p.

WALKER, HENRY P., "Bugler! No Pay Call Today. The Year the Army Went Payless," Mon-

tana, the Magazine of Western History, XXI (Summer 1971), 35-43. Ohioans mentioned

in article.

WEEKS, LOUIS, "John P. Porter: Black Abolitionist Entrepreneur, 1827-1900," Ohio History,

LXXX (Spring 1971), 155-162. From Ripley, Ohio.

TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION

AMES, WILLIAM E., A History of the "National Intelligencer." Chapel Hill, University of North

Carolina Press, 1971. ³⁸4p. A newspaper published in Washington, D.C.

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HAITES, ERIK F. and JAMES MAK, "Steamboating on the Mississippi, 1810-1860: A Purely Com-

petitive Industry," Business History Review, XLV (Spring 1971), 52-78.

STEVENS, HARRY R., "A Company of Hands and Traders: Origins of the Glenn-Fowler Ex-

pedition of 1821-22," New Mexico Historical Review, XLVI (July 1971), 181-221. Ohioans

participated in opening trade between the United States and Mexico via the Santa Fe

Trail.

WAGNER, RICHARD M. and ROY J. WRIGHT, Cincinnati Streetcars: No. 3 Cable Cars and Earli-

est Electrics. Cincinnati, Wagner Car Co., 1969. 73p.

WAGNER, RICHARD M. and ROY J. WRIGHT, No. 4 Millcreek Valley Lines. Cincinnati, Wagner

Car Co., 1970. 176p.

TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION

BAILY, FRANCIS, edited by JACK D. L. HOLMES, Journal of a Tour in Unsettled Parts of North

America in 1796 & 1797. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1969. ³³⁶p.

Contains some Ohio-related material.

DAVISON, KENNETH E., "Travels of President Rutherford B. Hayes," Ohio History, LXXX

(Winter 1971), 60-72.

PRICE, ROBERT, ed., "The Road to Boston: 1860 Travel Correspondence of William Dean

Howells," Ohio History, LXXX (Winter 1971), 85-154.

(Continued in Winter 1972 issue of Ohio History.)