Notes and Queries
Recent promotions, appointments, and
awards within the professional
community of Ohio historians include:
Dr. Allan Peskin of Cleveland State
University has been promoted to
Professor; Peter Rutkoff of Kenyon College
has received an N.E.H. Fellowship;
Department Chairman for more than 30
years, Dr. Robert E. Bader of Mount
Union College has retired at the end of
the 1980-81 academic year; Professor
Richard Doyle of Mount Union Col-
lege spent Spring 1981 on sabbatical to
continue his research on the socio-
economic mobility of Dutch immigration
to Iowa after 1847; Dr. John E.
Saffell of Mount Union College spent
November-December 1980 at Baika
College, Osaka, Japan, exploring the
possibilities of a sister college re-
lationship; Samuel C. Chu of The Ohio
State University received a research
fellowship from the Committee on
Scholarly Communication with the Peo-
ple's Republic of China and a fellowship
from the American Council of
Learned Societies; Carter V. Findley of
The Ohio State University received
membership at the Institute for Advanced
Study (School of Historical Stud-
ies) at Princeton, 1981-82; John W.
Hevener of The Ohio State University
received an Appalachian Studies
Fellowship from Appalachian Center,
Berea College; Allan R. Millett of The
Ohio State University has been
awarded the 1981 Ohioana Book Award for
his recently published book,
Semper Fidelis: The History of the
United States Marine Corps; John C.
Rule of The Ohio State University has
received a fellowship from the Amer-
ican Council of Learned Societies for
1981-82; Leila Rupp and Verta Taylor
(Sociology) of The Ohio State University
have been awarded a $50,000
grant from the National Endowment for
the Humanities in support of a
project entitled, "The American
Women's Movement in the Post Second
World War Period"; Allan K. Wildman
of The Ohio State University re-
ceived the 1981 Ohio Academy of History
Book Award for his book, The End
of the Russian Imperial Army: The Old
Army and Soldiers' Revolt (March-
April 1917); Sheppard Black has replaced Kerry E. Wichert as an
Archival
Assistant in the Department of Archives
and Special Collections, Ohio Uni-
versity Library; two grants, a $5,000
N.E.H. Youth Project Grant for the
"Hocking Valley Heritage
Project," and a $150,000 three-year N.E.H. Chal-
lenge Grant for cataloging special
collections and materials, have been
awarded to the Department of Archives
and Special Collections, Ohio Uni-
versity Library; Harriette Flory,
Associate Professor at Raymond Walters
College, has been awarded a grant by the
Cincinnati English-Speaking
Union to assist with the expenses of
spending the summer in London, Cam-
bridge and Birmingham, England; Mary
Wagener of Wilmington College
has received a N.E.H. Summer Research
Grant for research in Austria on
Women in fin-de-Siecle in Vienna.
The 1981 Western Reserve Award, given
annually by the Western Re-
serve Architectural Historians in
recognition of the outstanding contribu-
tion toward promoting scholarly research
in the architectural history of the
State of Ohio and the Western Reserve,
was awarded to a recent publication
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of the Western Reserve Historical
Society entitled Make No Little Plans:
Architectural Drawings from the
Collections of the Cuyahoga County Ar-
chives and the Western Reserve
Historical Society, authored by
Michael G.
Lawrence.
Norman J. Schmaltz, professor of history
at Concordia College in Ann
Arbor, Michigan, is the winner of the
Forest History Society's Frederick K.
Weyerhaeuser Award for 1980. The award
recognizes his two-part article,
"Raphael Zon, Forest
Researcher," which was published in January and
April 1980 issues of the Journal of
Forest History.
The 1980 Richard H. Collins Award for
the best article in the Register of
the Kentucky Historical Society has been given to George Wright of the
University of Texas for his article,
"The NAACP and Residential Segrega-
tion in Louisville, Kentucky,
1914-1917," which appeared in the Winter
1980 issue. The award, designed to
recognize outstanding research and
writing, carries a $250 stipend.
Recent scholarly contributions by Ohio
historians include: With the Nez
Perces: Alice Fletcher in the Field,
1889-1892, edited with an introduction
by Frederick E. Hoxie of Antioch College
and co-editor Joan T. Mark; The
Righteous Remnant: The House of
David, by Robert S. Fogarty of Antioch
College; The Social Fabric: American
Life from 1607 to the Present (third
edition), edited by John H. Cary of Cleveland
State University and co-editor
Julius Weinber; The First Russian
Women Physicians, by Jeanette E. Tuve
of Cleveland State University; an
article, "Celebrated Academic Freedom
Cases in Ohio," by Erving E.
Beauregard of the University of Dayton
(Northwest Ohio Quarterly); Studies
in the American Jewish Experience,
edited by Jacob R. Marcus of Hebrew
Union College and co-editor Abraham
J. Peck; Subjugation and Dishonor: A
Brief History of the Travail of the
Native Americans, by James B. Gidney of Kent State University and co-
author Philip Weeks; Ravanche and
Revision: The Ligue des Patriotes and
the Origins of the Radical Right in
France, 1882-1900, by Peter Rutkoff of
Kenyon College; The Public Good:
Philanthropy & Welfare in the Civil War
Era, by Robert H. Bremner of The Ohio State University; Islamic
Society on
the South Asian Frontier: The
Mappilas of Malabar, 1498-1922, by
Stephen
F. Dale of The Ohio State University; The
American West, Essays in Honor
of W. Eugene Hollon, edited by Ronald Lora of The University of Toledo; The
Rise of the Italian State, by Ivan Scott of The University of Toledo; a pam-
phlet, War Resistance in Historical
Perspective, by Larry Gara of Wilming-
ton College; The Village: A History
of Germantown, Ohio, 1804-1976, by
Carl Becker of Wright State University; The
Reform of Oaxaca, 1856-1876:
A Microhistory of the Liberal
Revolution, by Charles R. Berry of
Wright
State University; and John Eliot's
Indian Dialogues: A Study in Cultural
Interaction, edited by James P. Ronda of Youngstown State University
and
co-editor Henry W. Bowden.
The annual spring meeting of the Ohio
Academy of History will be held at
the Ohio Historical Center in Columbus,
April 16-17, 1982. Papers and
session proposals on any historic topic
are invited. The deadline for submit-
ting either individual or session
proposals is November 16, 1981. Address
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all inquires to Professor Marcella
Barton, OAH Program Chair, Liberal
Arts Department, Rio Grande College, Rio
Grande, OH 45674. Telephone
(614) 245-5353.
Ohio regional and local historical
society and library activities include: a
restoration project to protect over 12,000 photographs
of Cleveland and
Ohio by The Cleveland Public Library.
The restoration project is being
carried out by the New England Document
Conservation Center in Andov-
er, Massachusetts, funded by a grant
from the State Library of Ohio from
federal funds under Library Services and
Construction Act-Title I, and is
scheduled for completion in 1982. The
Canal Heritage Society recently re-
ceived a $75,000 grant through Community
Development funds for the
restoration of locks at Lock IV. The
Clark County Historical Society recent-
ly issued The Crabhill House Flowers,
by George H. Berkhofer, and Soldiers
of the Revolution in Clark County,
Ohio, Part II, by Ann Snodgrass.
Several
publications, Bremen's Black Gold,
Fairfield County Gravestone Rubbings:
Explanations, Tools, Techniques, and
Folk Art, have recently been pub-
lished by the Fairfield County District
Library. The Firelands Historical
Society has resumed publication of its
yearly magazine of history and
genealogy, The Firelands Pioneer, with
Series Three, Volume 1. The Greene
County District Library recently announced
the appointment of Julie M.
Overton to the newly created position of
Coordinator of Local History, and
has a new project to collect and catalog
information, articles, and letters of
newspaper columnist and author, Fred
Charters Kelly (1881-1959). The
library staff members of the
Mansfield-Richland County Public Library are
currently compiling an index to Richland
County marriges, using the
woman's last name as the point of
reference to complement the already
completed index using the man's last
name, and also plan an index for the
Mansfield City Cemetery and the
Mansfield Catholic Cemetery. The Mont-
gomery County Historical Society is
currently working in conjunction with
the Continental Heritage Press to
produce a new major history of Dayton,
Ohio. The Friends of the Porter Public
Library and the Westlake Historical
Society are in the proces of publishing
a book entitled, A History and Civics
of Dover Village. The Reynoldsburg-Truro Historical Society recently pub-
lished History of Reynoldsburg and Truro
Township, Ohio, by Cornelia M.
Parkinson. The Rodman Public Library
recently completed an oral history
project of which tapes and transcripts
of interviews and reminiscences of
Alliance area residents are now
available on inter-library loan, and issued
Ohio Genealogical and Biographical
Resources Available at Rodman Public
Library, by Michelle Dillon. Roscoe Village Foundation recently
received a
$35,000 grant from the Institute of
Museum Services.
The Archives of the Archdiocese of
Cincinnati, housed at Mt. St. Mary's
Seminary of the West, is moving from
5440 Moeller Avenue to a new loca-
tion effective September 1, 1981. Its
new address will be: 6616 Beechmont
Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45230.
The William E. and Ophia D. Smith
Library of Regional History (located
in The Oxford Branch Lane Library, 15
South College Avenue, Oxford, OH
45056) was formally opened on July 5,
1981. The addition was initiated
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with a gift of $50,000 from the family
of the late Dr. William E. Smith, a
former Miami University history
professor, and other substantial contribu-
tions by Oxford townspeople. The library hopes to grow
and become an
important research collection. Please
address all communications to Mr.
Leslie Workman, Director.
Manuscript accessions at Ohio historical
societies and libraries of interest
to our readers include: letters from the
Bronson-Beebe families, including
some to President Hayes, and school
memoirs from former teachers at the
Columbia Historical Society; a
collection of 75 letters written by Pvt John
Uhlich, 102 OVI from 1862-1864 to his
family in Mansfield, and the letters
of U.S. Senator John Sherman, at the
Mansfield-Richland County Public
Library. The Ohio University Library has
the following: the papers of Wil-
liam H. Harsha; records and historical
manuscripts from the Alexander
Presbyterian Church, Athens; records,
correspondence, office files and
printed matter of Laborer's Local 83,
Portsmouth; minute book and corres-
pondence of International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers Local 1179,
Portsmouth; scrapbooks of the Black Lung
Association of Southeastern
Ohio; minutes and correspondence of the
1871-1928 session, Second Baptist
Church of Jackson; records and
correspondence of the United Steelworkers
of America Local 2116, Portsmouth; financial
records, minutes, and office
files of Communications Workers of
America Local 4372, Portsmouth; di-
aries and photographs of the
Hatch-Frost-Broadwell family, Athens; min-
ute book, treasurer's volume, clippings
and photographs from the Athens
County Medical Society; records and
correspondence of the International
Molders and Foundry Workers Local 395,
Fultonham. A manuscript by
Nelson W. Evans, History of Scioto
County, and miscellaneous scrapbooks
have been accessed by the Portsmouth
Public Library, and the original
drawings for the "Obadiah"
book series were donated to the Rodman Public
Library by author and illustrator
Brinton Turkle. The Western Reserve
Historical Society has the following:
William Hendry Family Papers; Cleve-
land Arcade Survey Plans; minute records
of Sheet Metal Workers Local 65,
Cleveland; an 1830 manuscript, History
of Music in Tallmadge; Vallan-
digham Family genealogical information;
Cleveland Baseball Company
documents; Emanuel Stern Papers;
Fairmount Temple Records; Plasters
Local Union 80 documents; Emmett Meade,
Sr., Papers; Slovenian Lodge
Records; records for Carpenter's Local
105 and Local 1180, Cleveland;
Judge John J. Sullivan papers; American
Labor News records; Bricklayers
Union #5, Cleveland; Broadway Avenue
Reminiscences; Jacob Landy
Papers; Morris and Eleanor Stamm Papers;
Court Journal, Cleveland (1828
and 1830); "WPA Ceramics and the
Depression Years," by Ms. Edris
Echkhardt; and the Max Jandin Papers.
Mennonite Family History, a new quarterly periodical to feature the
genealogy and family history of those
persons with Mennonite, Amish, and
Brethren origins in Europe, will begin
publication in January 1982. Menno-
nite Family History will not only focus on the genealogy and family history
of these groups, but it will also
include information concerning this new
periodical which will be co-edited by J.
Lemar and Lois Ann (Zook) Mast.
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For further information contact: Mennonite
Family History, P.O. Box 171,
Elverson, PA 19520.
For a survey of published and
unpublished sources on the history of
printing and the allied arts in Ohio,
Gary A. Hunt would like to correspond
with anyone having knowledge of Ohio imprint
collections and pertinent
manuscript collections (e.g., printers'
and publishers' records) whether in
public or private hands. Please contact:
Gary A. Hunt, Ohio University
Library, Athens, OH 45701.
For an edition of the papers of Susan B.
Anthony (1820-1906) and Eliz-
abeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), founders
of the American women's rights
movement, information is sought on the
location of all documents, including
letters addressed by others to them and
newspaper accounts of their
speeches. Especially sought are
documents in private or otherwise obscure
collections. Please contact: Dr.
Patricia Holland, 303 New Africa House,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
01003.