Notes and Queries
The Spring Meeting of the Ohio Academy
of History will be held Friday and
Saturday, 23-24 April 1993, at
Wittenberg University.
The Oral History Association will hold
its 1993 Annual Meeting on November 4-7,
1993, at the Birmingham Raddison Hotel
in Birmingham, Alabama. For more informa-
tion write to Kim Lacy Rogers,
Department of History, Dickinson College, Carlisle,
Pennsylvania 17013-2896.
The Forest History Society announces the
availability of Alfred D. Bell, Jr., travel
grants for 1993. Those wishing to study
in the society's library and archives may receive
up to $750 in support of travel and
lodging expenses. Five grants were awarded during
1992. For information on the society's
holdings and application procedures, write to
Bell Travel Grants, Forest History
Society, 701 Vickers Avenue, Durham, North
Carolina 27701, or call (919) 682-9319.
Ohio University's Swallow Press has
recently issued Log Construction in the Ohio
Country, 1750-1850, an abridged version of Donald A. Hutslar's The
Architecture of
Migration: Log Construction in the
Ohio Country, 1750-1850, in an
affordable paper-
back edition. Hutslar's work won The
Ohioana Book Award of 1986 and has been
hailed as "a fine addition to the
scant literature on American log building." The new
paperback version contains over fifty
excellent-quality photographs, drawings, and
illustrations and is an invaluable
resource on log construction. For further information
about Log Construction in the Ohio
Country, 1750-1805, contact the Ohio University's
Swallow Press, Scott Quadrangle, Athens,
Ohio 45701.
The Ohio Historic Preservation Office, a
division of the Ohio Historical Society, has
recently published How to Complete
the Ohio Historic Inventory, by Stephen C.
Gordon. The new historic inventory
manual provides detailed information on how to
conduct historic property surveys and
record properties on Ohio Historic Inventory
forms. The 224-page,
generously-illustrated manual includes sections on using archi-
tectural and structural terminology,
identifying Ohio architectural styles and Ohio
building types, recording engineering
and industrial structures, and completing the
Ohio Historic Landscapes Survey. Also
included are sample inventory forms, a
detailed bibliography, and an index. How
to Complete the Ohio Historic Inventory is
available for $14.95 (plus $2.50 for
shipping and handling) from the Ohio Historical
Center Museum Shop. For further
information write to 1982 Velma Avenue,
Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497, or phone
(614) 297-2414.
Professor John I. Kolehmainen has
recently published his memoirs, Remembering
Bygone Days. A teacher at Heidelberg College for forty-two years, Kolehmainen
details his early days in the Finnish
settlement at Conneaut, his experiences as a
Fulbright scholar in Finland, as well as
his years at Heidelberg. The book sells for
$11.00 per copy (which includes shipping
and handling). To order a copy, write to
John I. Kolehmainen, 192 St. Francis
Avenue, No. 28, Tiffin, Ohio 44883.
The Butler Institute of American Art,
Youngstown, Ohio, has been awarded a
Federal Institute of Museum Services
grant for $75,000 to support general operations.
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This grant marks the ninth consecutive
year that the institute has been recognized by
this Federal agency. Although
applications were received from 1,428 museums of all
types from around the country, only 443
museums received support.
Other grants and awards around the state
include: The Great Lakes Historical
Society received $55,000 for a Handicap
Access Program at their Inland Seas Maritime
Museum and $35,000 for educational
programs at their William G. Mather Museum
from various foundations; the Lawrence
County Historical Society's Gray House
Museum received grants of $3,000 from
the Lawrence County Commissioners, $500
from the Star Bank N.A., and $350 from
the Co-Operative Club; the King Library of
Miami University has been chosen to be a
test site for the American Memory Project of
the Library of Congress; the Mt.
Pleasant Historical Society recently received a
Preservation and Restoration grant from
the Ohio State Questers for use in the renova-
tion of the kitchen at the Elizabeth
House mansion museum; the Pickaway County
Historical Society's Genealogical
Library received a 1991 Bank One grant; the Summit
County Historical Society has received
OAHSM Awards for its publications Housing
with Dignity (Local Historical publication), "What We
Wore" (promotional publica-
tion), and "Old Portage Trail
Review" (newsletter publication); the Warren County
Historical Society has received the 1991
Award of Achievement presented by the Ohio
Association of Historical Societies and
Museums for their Union Village Seminar on
Shaker Studies; Doris L. Page of the
Trenton Historical Society Museum received a
"First" Award in the Annual
Competition of Ohio Association of Historical Societies
and Museums, Local History category, for
her work, Where Was Busenhark?; Richard
Smith, a volunteer at the Wayne County
Public Library and member of the Wayne
County Chapter OGS, received the
McCafferty Award at the Ohio Genealogical con-
vention in April 1992; the Western
Reserve Historical Society Museum received five
Ohio Association of Historical Societies
and Museums Outstanding Achievement
Awards for "Showplace of
America."
The Kentucky Historical Society has
presented its annual Richard H. Collins Award
to Dr. Peter B. Knupfer, professor of
history at Kansas State University. The award,
designed to recognized outstanding
research and writing, was given for Knupfer's arti-
cle, "Henry Clay's Constitutional
Unionism," which appeared in the Winter 1992 issue
of The Register of the Kentucky
Historical Society.
Recent retirements, appointments,
leaves, research projects and other activities with-
in the academic community include: Ralph
E. Luker of Antioch College spoke on the
topic, "Authority and Creativity in
Religion: The Case of Martin Luther King, Jr.," for
the Annual Lecture of the University of
Kansas's Religious Studies Department;
Barbara Beckerman Davis of Antioch
College participated in the summer 1991 NEH
Institute, reading "Marguerite of
Navarre and the Tiers Livre of Rabelais," at Duke
University; Cleveland State University
has appointed Luis Corteguera as Assistant
Professor and Joyce Thomas as Visiting
Instructor; Jim Borchert and Robert Wheeler
of Cleveland State University will be on
leave the winter and spring quarters; David
Robson has been promoted to the rank of
Professor at John Carroll University;
Franscesco Ceasare and Roger Purdy, of
John Carroll University, have been promoted
to Associate Professor with tenure; John
Carroll University's Russell Duncan will be
on research leave for fall semester
1993; Timothy J. Runyan of Cleveland State
University has been named editor of The
American Neptune, a quarterly journal of
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maritime history published by the
Peabody Museum; Jon E. Scharf, Assistant at the
Smith Library of Regional History
(Oxford, Ohio), has accepted the new part-time
position of Director of Historical
Programs and Properties for the Oxford Museum
Association and will serve in both
positions concurrently; after forty years in the class-
room, thirty of them at Wilmington
College, Larry Gara retired in May 1992; Vinton
M. Prince has been appointed Department
Chair at Wilmington College; Albert E.
Misenko, Chief Historian of Aeronautical
Systems Center at Wright-Patterson Air
Force Base since 1968, retired in
September 1992 after almost 33 years of service.
Recent publications within the community
of Ohio historians include: The Social
Gospel in Black and White: American
Racial Reform, 1885-1912, by Ralph E.
Luker of
Antioch College; "Poverty and Poor
Relief in Sixteenth-Century Toulouse," by
Barbara Beckerman Davis of Antioch
College, in Historical Reflections/Reflexions his-
toriques 17 (1991); One Hundred Years
of Magic by the Barberton Public
Library; the
Erie County Historical Society has
published Treasures by the Bay: The Historic
Architecture of Sandusky, Ohio, by Ellie Damm, and From the Widow's Walk, by
Helen Hansen and Virginia Steinemann; Master
of the Inland Seas, by Alexander C.
Meakin of The Great Lakes Historical
Society; Pigmy Zep, a children's book written
and illustrated by Charles Jacobs,
Curator-Director of the Hardin County Historical
Museum; Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune:
The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould
Shaw, by Russell Duncan of John Carroll University; Emma
Goldman and the
American Left, by Marian Morton of John Carroll University; a reprint
of Ohio's
Western Reserve: A Regional Reader, by Harry Lupold of John Carroll University and
Gladys Haddad of Lake Erie College; Lawrence
County History 1990 (family histories)
and 1882 Hardesty 1881 Lake Atlas (a
reprint) by the Lawrence County Historical
Society's Gray House Museum; Young
Nietzsche: Becoming a Genius, by Carl Pletsch
of Miami University's King Library; Housing
with Dignity: Fifty Years and Over of the
Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority and The Only Home They Ever Knew, by the
Summit County Historical Society; The
Amish Mennonite Settlement in Butler County,
Ohio, by Doris L. Page and Marie Johns of the Trenton
Historical Society Museum;
Miltonville's Story and Where Was Busenbark?, by Doris L. Page of
the Trenton
Historical Society Museum; Trenton
People, Trenton Places-175 Years, by Doris L.
Page, Marie Johns, JoAnn Howell, Robert
D. McIntyre, and Myra Garrett of the
Trenton Historical Society Museum; Warren
County Revisited, by Elva Adams, of the
Warren County Historical Society; the
Warren County Historical Society has recently
issued "Beers" History of
Warren County Ohio, Indexed, Combined Atlases of Warren
County Ohio 1875-1891-1903; and Marcus Mote and Eli Harvey, Two Quaker Artists
From Southwest Ohio; Checklist of
Marcus Mote's Works, by Mary Klei and
John
Zimkus of the Warren County Historical
Society; Warren County's Involvement in the
Civil War and Early Transportation in Warren County, by
Dallas Bogan of the Warren
County Historical Society; The
Presidency of Franklin Pierce and a reprint of The
Baby Dodds Story as Told to Larry
Gara, by Larry Gara of Wilmington
College; The
Foulois House: Its Place in the
History of the Miami Valley and American Aviation
and Remarkable Journey: The Wright
Field Heritage in Photographs, by Diana G.
Cornelisse of the Aeronautical Systems
Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base;
History of the Peace Pearl Program, by Bruce R. Wolf of the Aeronautical Systems
Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Lillie, by Jacob C. Williams, Sr., is available through the
Martins Ferry Area
Historical Society. Williams's book is
about his mother-the daughter of slaves who
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moved her family north to escape
southern brutality-and is an account of what life
was like for a young black family in
Martins Ferry during the period between the two
World Wars. The 528-page book may be
purchased by sending $15.00 to the Martins
Ferry Area Historical Society, 627
Hanover Street, Box 422, Martins Ferry, OH 43935.
The Firelands Historical Society has
issued volume ten in the third series of The
Firelands Pioneer. Containing pioneer, Civil War, and World War I diaries
and letters,
as well as old school records from the
Firelands, the new volume can be purchased for
$15.00 plus $1.50 for post and shipping
(make checks payable to "The Firelands
Historical Society"). To order a
copy, contact Mrs. John Stewart, 45 N. Pleasant St.,
Norwalk, Ohio 44857.
The King Library of Miami University and
the Greater Cincinnati Library
Consortium has formed a History and
Archives Group. Recent publications are bibli-
ographies and holdings for libraries in
southwest Ohio on African-Americans and
Columbus. For more information, contact,
Martha McDonald, c/o GCLC, 3333 Vine
Street, Suite 605, Cincinnati, Ohio, or
phone (513) 751-4422.
Important Ohio library accessions and
holdings include: the collection of early 20th
century social critic and novelist James
T. Farrell by the King Library of Miami
University; the Logan County District
Library has the Bellefontaine Examiner (January
6, 1873-present) on microfilm; the
Medina County District Library holds microfilm of
the Medina County Gazette (1860-present),
the Medina Sentinel (1899-1950), an obitu-
ary index to the Gazette, census
for Medina County (1820-1910), and has recently
acquired local county records on
marriage, death, wills, deeds, and land records; Olive
Branch newspaper, Circleville Herald, Circleville Union
Herald, and the Williamsport
News on microfilm for the years 1826 to 1969 at the Pickaway
County Historical
Society's Genealogical Library ; the
Schiappa Library, Branch of the Public Library of
Steubenville and Jefferson Counties, has
Sanborn Maps (Jefferson County),
Steubenville Newspapers (1806-present),
Jefferson County Deed Records 1795-1991
and indexes for 1800-1941, Jefferson
County Common Please Records 1804-1851,
Ohio Tax Records for 1801-1838,
Jefferson County Federal Censuses for 1820-1910,
and Ohio Mortality Schedules for the
years 1850, 1860, and 1880; the Smith Library of
Regional History (Oxford, Ohio), recently
acquired manuscripts to a Record Book of
the Hamilton and Rossville Female
Academy (1847-1895), a Day Book of George
Shellhouse (1829-1833), and a Township
Book of Morgan Township (1820-1871); the
Stow Public Library holds records of
school district #3 (Stow Corners) from 1835 to
1853, records of the school districts in
Stow Township (1835-1850), records of Road
Districts in Stow Township (1835), and
records of the proceedings of the Township
Trustees (March 1884-1961); the
Tuscarawas County Public Library in New
Philadelphia now has a complete run of
the Times-Reporter newspapers, and its ances-
tral newspapers, on microfilm; the
Warren County Historical Society has acquired
microfilm, for the years 1807 to 1992,
of the Warren County newspaper, Western Star,
as well as for other old local papers;
the Wayne County Public Library now
has the 1920 census for Wayne, Holmes,
Ashland, Medina, Stark, and Summit coun-
ties; the Wood County District Public
Library has the Wood County Sentinel (1867-
1906), the Daily Sentinel-Tribune (1890-present),
the Pemberville Leader (1887-1976),
the Unique Weekly (1907-1948),
the Unique-Derrick (1948-1958), Wood County
Census (1830-1920), and Indexes for the
Wood County Census (1820-1880) on
microfilm.
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The Great Lakes Historical Society has
installed and restored the 1905 pilot house
from the steamer Canopus; erected
a full-size, operational replica of the 1877
Vermilion Harbor lighthouse on the
grounds of the Inland Seas Maritime Museum;
opened additional areas to the public,
improved the entry, and installed added educa-
tional exhibits in the steamship William
G. Mather Museum; and obtained a 5-inch
deck gun for installation on the U.S.S.
Cod which the Navy considers to be the most
authentic of WWII fleet submarines on
display.
Other items of interest at state and
local museums around Ohio include: the
Barberton Public Library holds a history
workshop once a month and volunteers are
daily working on a project to index the
library's holdings of the Barberton Herald; the
Belpre Area Historical Society holds
meetings at the Belpre (Farmer's) Branch of the
Washington County Library every second
Monday of the month; the Hardin County
Historical Museums in Kenton, Ohio,
sponsored a living history program entitled
"Goodness Gracious Grady's Magical
History Tour," as well as recently campaigning
for the successful passage of a tax levy
to support and maintain the museums; The
Lakewood Historical Society recently
celebrated its 40th Anniversary with the grand
opening of the Nicholson House, an 1835
house restored by the society; the Lawrence
County Historical Society's Gray House
Museum is nearing completion of the John
Rankin Rooms (he lived at the Gray House
with his Granddaughter, Eliza Humphreys
Gray until his death), is renovating
their clothing rooms for display of antique clothing,
is conducting oral history interviews
with videotape recordings of the local population,
and has reproduced an 1800s Burlington,
Ohio, plat map; the Medina County District
Library opened its local
history/genealogy room, the Franklin Sylvester Room, in the
fall of 1992; the Pickaway County
Historical Society's Genealogical Library answers
free genealogical queries in their
"Pickaway Quarterly" and has monthly meetings on
the last Friday of each month which are
open to the public; the Stow Public Library,
3512 Darrow Road, Stow, Ohio, is seeking
several dedicated volunteers to help do
some preservation and indexing of
materials in their local history archives; a Summit
County Historical Society oral history
program, entitled "World War II: The
Homefront," made for Warner Cable
TV; the Wayne County Public Library has begin-
ning genealogy classes in the fall of
each year, is working on an ongoing project to
record as much as possible about each of
the one-room schoolhouses in Wayne
County, and is indexing all the
obituaries found in Wayne county newspapers (1950-
1991 are complete); the Western Reserve
Historical Society broke ground in June 1992
for a $3 million building expansion
project to include two additions to the East
Boulevard Complex and adding over 26,000
square feet to the museum.
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