Ohio History Journal




compiled by

compiled by

HELEN M. THURSTON

 

A Survey of Publications

on the History and Archaeology

of Ohio, 1970 to 1971

 

 

 

ARCHAEOLOGY

 

Central States Archaeological Journal, 1970, published by several archaeological societies.

Ohio Archaeologist, 1970, published by the Archaeological Society of Ohio. A quarterly

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

PRUFER, OLAF H., and ORRIN C. SHANE, III, Blain Village and the Fort Ancient Tradition in

Ohio. Kent, Ohio, Kent State University Press, 1970. 287p.

 

 

 

ARTS AND CRAFTS

 

ANDERSON, DAVID D., "'Shane's Castle': Myth and Reality in Louis Bromfield's Fiction,"

Northwest Ohio Quarterly, XLII (1970), 38-46.

BRADIER, DONALD, Five Early American Painters: Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley,

Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, John Trumbull. New York, Meredith Pub. Co.,

1969. 188p.

PHILIPS, HAZEL SPENCER, Traditional Architecture Warren County, Ohio. Privately published,

1970. 129p.

STARR, S. FREDERICK, "Wesley Chapel," Cincinnati Historical Society, Bulletin, XXVIII

(1970), 7-26. Concerns the oldest public building in Cincinnati.

 

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

LARSON, DAVID R., "Checklist of Major Research-in-Progress Relating to Ohio," Ohio His-

tory, LXXVIII (1969), 297-301.

LENTZ, ANDREA D., ed., The Warren G. Harding Papers: An Inventory to the Microfilm Edi-

tion. Columbus, Ohio Historical Society, 1970. 283p.

LINK, ARTHUR S., and WILLIAM M. LEARY, JR., comps., The Progressive Era and the Great

War 1896-1920. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969. 85p.



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THURSTON, HELEN M., comp., "A Survey of Publications on the History and Archaeology of

Ohio, 1969-1970," Ohio History, LXXVIII (1969), 288-296.

 

BIOGRAPHY

 

BLANCHARD, HOMER D., "Lenau's Ohio Venture," Ohio History, LXXVIII (1969), 237-251.

Concerns the German poet Nikolaus Lenau.

CLARKE, DWIGHT L., William Tecumseh Sherman: Gold Rush Banker. San Francisco, Cali-

fornia Historical Society, 1969.

DOWNES, RANDOLPH C., The Rise of Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1865-1920. Columbus, Ohio

State University Press, 1970. 734p.

GRANT, ULYSSES S., 3d, Ulysses S. Grant: Warrior and Statesman. New York, William Mor-

row and Co., Inc., 1969. 480p.

GRAY, GENEVIEVE S., ed., Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. New York, Grosset and

Dunlap, Inc., 1970. 181p.

GRIFFIN, JAMES B., "Richard Morgan, 1903-1968," American Antiquity, XXXIV (1969), 467-

470. Morgan was a former curator of archaeology at the Ohio State Museum.

HOOD, MARILYN G., ed., The First Ladies of Ohio and the Executive Mansions. Columbus,

Ohio Historical Society, 1970. 32p.

HUDSON, GOSSIE HAROLD, ed., "An Unpublished Letter Written to Paul Lawrence Dunbar,

1894," Journal of Negro History, LV (1970), 215-217.

KLEMENT, FRANK L., The Limits of Dissent: Clement L. Vallandigham and the Civil War.

Lexington, Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1970. 351p.

SIMON, JOHN Y., ed., The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Vol. II, April-Sept. 1961. Carbondale,

Southern Illinois Press, 1969. 399p.

SMITH, GIBBS M., Joe Hill. Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1969. 286p. A Swedish

immigrant, migrant worker, and IWW songwriter.

SMITH, JAMES, "The Saga of James Smith," American History Illustrated, V (July 1970),

Part 1, pp. 34-40; (August 1970), Part 2, pp. 36-42.

SPEER, MICHAEL, ed., "Autobiography of Adam Lowry Rankin," Ohio History, LXXIX (1970),

18-55.

TAGER, JACK, The Intellectual as Urban Reformer: Brand Whitlock and the Progressive Move-

ment. Cleveland, Press of Case Western Reserve Univ., 1970. 198p.

TAYLOR, JOHN M., Garfield of Ohio: The Available Man. New York, W.W. Norton and Co.,

Inc., 1970. 336p.

WAGENKNECHT, EDWARD, William Dean Howells, the Friendly Eye. New York, Oxford Uni-

versity Press, 1970. 340p.

The Zane Grey Collector, 1970, edited by G. M. Farley. A quarterly devoted to the life and

times of Zane Gray.

 

BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY

 

BEAVER, ROY C., The Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad, 1869-1969. San Marino, California,

Golden West Press, 1969. 184p.

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

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

DOWNARD, WILLIAM L., "When Gambrinus Was King," Cincinnati Historical Society, Bul-

letin, XXVII (1969), 272-291. Concerns brewing industry in Cincinnati.

O'CONNELL, WILLIAM E., JR., "The Development of the Private Railroad Freight Car, 1830-

1966," Business History Review, XLIV (Summer 1970), 190-209.



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WRIGHT, RICHARD J., Freshwater Whales: A History of the American Ship Building Company

and Its Predecessors. Kent, Ohio, Kent State University Press, 1970. 299p. From 1880

to 1947.

 

EDUCATION AND CULTURE

 

PABST, ANNA C. SMITH, The Haning-Atwood Vision: Rio Grande College. Mimeographed, 1970.

324p.

RHODES, JAMES A., Alternative to a Decadent Society. Indianapolis, Sams, Howard W. and

Co., Inc., 1969. 108p. Concerns vocational training in Ohio.

SHAPIRO, HENRY D., and ZANE L. MILLER, eds., Physician to the West: Selected Writings of

Daniel Drake on Science and Society. Lexington, Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1970. 419p.

VITZ, ROBERT C., "The Eclipse of Cincinnati's Golden Age in Art," Cincinnati Historical

Society, Bulletin, XXVII (1969), 304-319.

 

GENEALOGY

 

Armstrong Surname Bulletin, published quarterly by the Armstrong Surname Organization

(473 8th Ave., Salt Lake City, Utah 84103.)

BRIEN, LINDSAY M., A Genealogical Index of Pioneers in the Miami Valley, Ohio. Privately

published, 1970. 196p.

FISHER, FRANK, "Rear Admiral Harley Hannibal Christy," Pickaway Quarterly, X (Spring

1970), 5-9.

Gateway to the West (1970) a quarterly containing genealogical material taken from early

Ohio records of various kinds.

The Hoosier Genealogist (July-August 1970) contains genealogical material pertinent to

Ohioans.

MYRICK, SHELBY, JR., "Glossary of Legal Terminology," History News, XXV (July 1970),

147-154. An aid to genealogists.

Ohio Records and Pioneer Families (1970) a quarterly containing genealogical material

taken from early Ohio records of various kinds.

UHRBROCK, RICHARD STEPHEN, "The Pierrot-Gateway Family of Ohio," National Genealogical

Society Quarterly, LVIII (September 1970), 180-191.

VANDENBARK, HELEN, and ISA D. REED, History of the Vandenbark Family. Privately pub-

lished, 1970. 414p.

See Ohioana Quarterly (Autumn 1970) for additional genealogy listings.

 

 

GENERAL

 

BERGMAN, PETER M., The Chronological History of the Negro in America. New York, Harper

and Row, Pub., 1969. 698p.

FRIED, ALBERT, comp., Socialism in America: From the Shakers to the Third International;

a Documentary History. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday Inc., 1970. 580p.

HORSMAN, REGINALD, The Frontier in the Formative Years, 1783-1815. New York, Holt, Rine-

hart, and Winston, Inc., 1970. 237p.

Inland Seas: Quarterly Journal of the Great Lakes Historical Society, 1970. Devoted to the

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

of the Great Lakes region.



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INDIANS AND THE WARS

 

FABEN, w.w., "Indians of the Tri-State Area: The Miamis 1654-1752," Northwest Ohio Quar-

terly, XLI (Fall 1969), 157-162.

WALLACE, ANTHONY F.C., The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca. New York, Alfred A. Knopf,

Inc., 1970. 384p.

WILCOX, FRANK, Ohio Indian Trails. Kent, Ohio, Kent State University Press, 1958, 1970.

144p. Updated edition with color illustrations.

 

LABOR

 

BRODY, DAVID, Steelworkers in America: The Nonunion Era. New York, Harper and Row,

Pub., 1969. 303p.

FONER, PHILIP S., "The IWW and the Black Worker," Journal of Negro History, LV (January

1970), 45-64.

SPEER, MICHAEL, "The 'Little Steel' Strike: Conflict for Control," Ohio History, LXXVIII

(1969), 273-287.

YELLOWITZ, IRWIN, The Position of the Worker in American Society, 1865-1896. Englewood

Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1969. 118p.

 

LITERATURE

 

ANDERSON, DAVID D., "Ohio's Pioneer Poets," Northwest Ohio Quarterly, XLII (Winter

1969-1970), 9-18.

APPEL, PAUL P., ed., Homage to Sherwood Anderson, 1876-1941. New York, Mamaroneck

Press, 1970. 212p. Essays previously published in Story Magazine (Sept.-Oct. 1941).

BRYSON, THOMAS A., "Walter George Smith and General Grant's Memoirs," Pennsylvania

Magazine of History and Biography, XCIV (1970), 233-244.

OLSEN, OTTO H., Bricks Without Straw, by Albion W. Tourgee. Baton Rouge, Louisiana

State University Press, 1970. 455p.

REED, KENNETH T., 'W.D. Howells Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio,' Cincinnati Historical

Society, Bulletin, XXVIII (1970), 133-141.

UNTERECKER, JOHN, Voyager: A Life of Hart Crane. New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

and Co., 1970.

WHITLOCK, BRAND, Forty Years of It. Cleveland, Press of Case Western Reserve Univ.,

1970. 373p. Reprint of the 1914 edition with an introduction by Louis Filler.

 

LOCAL HISTORY

 

Allen County Reporter, issued quarterly by the Allen County Historical Society, Lima, Ohio.

Contains items of historical and local interest.

ASHTABULA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Quarterly Bulletin, XVII (1970). Contains items

of historical and local interest.

BURRESS, MARJORIE BYRNSIDE, It Happened 'Round North Bend: A History of Miami Town-

ship and Its Borders. Privately published, 1970. Unpaged.

CROUCH, TOM D., "Thomas Kirkby: Pioneer Aeronaut in Ohio," Ohio History, LXXIX (1970),

56-61.



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KELLER, KATHRYN M., "Association Cemetery--Sylvania, Ohio," Northwest Ohio Quarterly,

XLII (Winter 1969-1970), 29-36.

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

State University. Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 1970. 225p.

Ohio Cues, published by the Maumee Valley Historical Society. A quarterly devoted to

Ohio history of interest to school-age children.

Pickaway Quarterly, published by the Pickaway County Historical Society and contains

various items of local historical interest.

RENICK, MARION, Ohio. New York, Coward-McCann, 1970. 129p. A history for youths.

The Tallow Light, the bulletin of the Washington County, Ohio, Historical Society. A quar-

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

Towpaths, published by the Canal Society of Ohio. A quarterly containing articles and illus-

trations of historical interest to canal buffs.

YEAGER, HENRY J., "Nouvelles du Scioto: The Story of a Fraud," Ohio History, LXXVIII

(1969), 261-272. Concerns the French settlement of the Ohio country.

See Ohioana Quarterly (Autumn 1970) for additional local history listings.

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

CARROTT, M.B., "The Supreme Court and Minority Rights in the Nineteen-Twenties," North-

west Ohio Quarterly, XLI (Fall 1969), 144-156. Concerns Chief Justice William Howard

Taft.

CROUCH, TOM D., "Up, Up, and--Sometimes--Away," Cincinnati Historical Society, Bulletin,

XXVIII (1970), 109-132.

KIEFER, KATHLEEN J., "Flying Sparks and Hooves: Prologue," Cincinnati Historical Society,

Bulletin, XXVIII (1970), 83-107. The advent of the professional fireman in Cincinnati

in the nineteenth century.

KNIGHT, MARIAN, "Historic Mount Adams," Cincinnati Historical Society, Bulletin, XXVIII

(1970), 27-38. Illustrations.

SMITH, THOMAS, Historical Atlas of Ohio. Kent, Ohio, Kent State University Press, 1970.

WEAVER, VALERIA W., "The Failure of Civil Rights 1875-1883 and Its Repercussions," Jour-

nal of Negro History, LIV (1969), 368-382. Contains information on Ohio.

The Wonderful World of Ohio, published monthly by the State. Contains items of historical

and local interest.

 

 

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

 

ABRAMS, RICHARD M., ed., The Issues of the Populist and Progressive Eras, 1892-1912. New

York, Harper and Row, Pub., 1969. 283p.

DOWNES, RANDOLPH C., ed., "The University of Toledo and the Presidential Campaign of

1928," Northwest Ohio Quarterly, XLII (Winter 1969-1970), 3-8.

EIDSON, WILLIAM G., "Who Were the Stalwarts?" Mid-America Historical Review, LII (1970),

235-261.

FOLK, PATRICK A., "Out Frank: The Congressional Career of Frank Hurd," Northwest Ohio

Quarterly, XLII (Summer 1970), Part 1, pp. 47-63.

FONER, ERIC, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before

the Civil War. New York, Oxford University Press, 1970. 353p.

GRIFFIN, J. DAVID, "Historians and the Sixth Article of the Ordinance of 1787," Ohio His-

tory, LXXVIII (1969), 242-260.



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KLEMENT, FRANK L., The Limits of Dissent: Clement L. Vallandigham and the Civil War.

Lexington, Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1970. 351p.

MANNERS, WILLIAM, TR and Will: A Friendship that Split the Republican Party. New York,

Harcourt, Brace, and World, Inc., 1969. 335p.

MOORE, DOROTHY L., "William A. Howard and the Nomination of Rutherford B. Hayes for

the Presidency," Vermont History, XXXVIII (1970), 316-319.

NORRIS, JAMES D., and ARTHUR H. SHAFFER, eds., Politics and Patronage in the Gilded Age:

The Correspondence of James A. Garfield and Charles E. Henry. Madison, State Historical

Society of Wisconsin, 1970. 304p.

RAUCHER, ALAN, "Frank Tracy Carlton and the 'New' Liberalism," Northwest Ohio Quar-

terly, XLI (Fall 1969), 129-143.

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

Ohio Quarterly, XLII, (Fall 1970), Part 1, pp. 99-106.

WILHELMY, ROBERT W., "Senator John Smith and the Aaron Burr Conspiracy," Cincinnati

Historical Society, Bulletin, XXVIII (1970), 39-60.

WINTERS, DONALD L., Henry Cantwell Wallace as Secretary ofAgriculture, 1921-1924. Urbana,

University of Illinois Press, 1970. 313p.

WYNAR, LUBOMYR R., comp., American Political Parties: A Selective Guide to Parties and

Movements of the 20th Century. Littleton, Colo., Libraries Unlimited, 1969. 427p.

ZIEGER, ROBERT H., Republicans and Labor. Lexington, Univ. of Kentucky Press, 1969. 303p.

 

 

RELIGION

 

CALKINS, DAVID L., "Billy Sunday's Cincinnati Crusade," Cincinnati Historical Society, Bul-

letin, XXVII (1969), 292-303.

WEST, EARL IRVIN, "Early Cincinnati's 'Unprecedented Spectacle,' " Ohio History, LXXIX

(1970), 5-17.

See Ohioana Quarterly (Autumn 1970) for additional religion listings.

 

 

SLAVERY, CIVIL WAR, RECONSTRUCTION

 

BONADIO, FELICE A., North of Reconstruction Ohio Politics, 1865-1870. New York, New

York University Press, 1970. 204p.

CUMMINGS, CHARLES M., "The Scott Papers: An Inside View of Reconstruction," Ohio His-

tory, LXXIX (1970), 112-118.

CHASE, SALMON P., and CHARLES DEXTER CLEVELAND, Anti-Slavery Addresses of 1844 and

1845. New York, Negro Universities Press, 1969. 167p. Reprint of the 1867 edition.

CONNER, JAMES, "The Antislavery Movement in Iowa," Annals of Iowa, XL (Summer 1970),

Part 1, pp. 343-376. Compares the political strategy of abolitionists in Iowa to that of

those in Ohio.

KLEMENT, FRANK L., "Ohio and the Dedication of the Soldiers' Cemetery at Gettysburg,"

Ohio History, LXXIX (1970), 76-100.

LEVSTIK, FRANK R., "The Fifth Regiment, United States Colored Troops, 1863-1865," North-

west Ohio Quarterly, XLII (Fall 1970), 86-98.

MARSZALEK, JOHN F., JR., "The Stanton-Sherman Controversy," Civil War Times Illustrated,

IX (October 1970), 4-12.

MARSZALEK, JOHN F., JR., "William T. Sherman and the Verbal Battle of Shiloh," North-

west Ohio Quarterly, XLII, (Fall 1970), 78-85.



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MURPHY, JAMES B., ed., "A Confederate Soldier's View of Johnson's Island Prison," Ohio

History, LXXIX (1970), 101-111.

SHANKMAN, ARNOLD, ed., "Vallandigham's Arrest and the 1863 Dayton Riot--Two Letters,"

Ohio History, LXXIX (1970), 119-123.

SPEAR, DONALD P., "The Sutler in the Union Army," Civil War History, XVI (June 1970),

121-138. Includes incidents related to Ohio regiments.

STEWART, JAMES BREWER, Joshua R. Giddings and the Tactics of Radical Politics. Cleveland,

Press of Case Western Reserve Univ., 1970. 318p.

 

 

TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION

 

HUNT, JOHN CLARK, "Over the Alleghenies into History," American History Illustrated, V

(August 1970), 24-33. The National Road in Ohio.

 

TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION

 

HUDDLESTON, EUGENE L., "James Elliot and 'The Garden of North America': A New En-

glander's Impressions of the Old Northwest," Northwest Ohio Quarterly, XLII (Summer

1970), 64-73.

 

 

URBAN HISTORY

 

CLAPP, TOM, "Toledo Industrial Peace Board 1935-1943," Northwest Ohio Quarterly, XLII

(Winter 1969-1970), 19-28.

SAUNDERS, TALITHA SLAUGHTER, The Negro in Avondale, Ohio. New York, Vantage Press,

1970. 58p. A Cincinnati suburb.

 

 

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS ON OHIO SUBJECTS

IN OHIO COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

 

BIEVENS, ALLEN, Housing Patterns in Cincinnati. Univ. of Cincinnati, M.A., 1970.

BLISS, MICHAEL G., Politics and Social Welfare in Cincinnati, 1900-1924. Univ. of Cincinnati,

M.A., 1970.

BRINKER, LEA J., The Role of Women in Art as an Institution in Cincinnati in the 19th

Century. Univ. of Cincinnati, M.A., 1970.

CERVELLI, JACK DURANT, Cleveland and the National Election of 1924: A Progressive Re-

vival. Case Western Reserve Univ., M.A., 1970.

CHILDRESS, JO ANN, Norwood, Ohio, 1787-1915. Univ. of Cincinnati, M.A., 1970.

DICKES, ALLEN LEROY, The Development of the Port of Toledo, 1946-1966. Univ. of Toledo,

M.A., 1970.

DONALDSON, C. ROBERT, Antislavery Career of Marius Robinson. Ohio State Univ., M.A.,

1970.

FRENCH, DAVID M., The Conversion of an American Radical: Elizur Wright, Jr., and the

Abolitionist Commitment. Case Western Reserve Univ., Ph.D., 1970.



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GAMBLE, DOUGLAS, Garrisonian Abolitionism in Ohio: The Western Anti-Slavery Society.

Ohio State Univ., M.A., 1970.

GERMANN, STEVEN, Miami River Conservancy: A Study in the Urban-Rural Conflicts. Wright

State Univ., M.A., 1970.

GUYTON, PRUDENCE PRISCILLA, John Hunt. Univ. of Toledo, M.A., 1970.

HARROLD, STANLEY C., JR., Opposition to the Mexican War in Ohio. Kent State Univ., M.A.,

1970.

HIBLER, BETTY M., Cincinnati's Response to Reconstruction. Univ. of Cincinnati, M.A., 1970.

HODGSON, ILA, William Bickham: Battling the Copperheads in Dayton 1863-1864. Wright

State Univ., M.A., 1970.

HUDSON, GOSSIE, A Biography of Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Ohio State Univ., Ph.D., 1970.

KUSMER, KENNETH L., Black Cleveland: The Origins and Development of a Ghetto, 1890-

1930. Kent State Univ., M.A., 1970.

LEARMONTH, DOLORIS F., Response to Poverty: A Study of Charitable Institutions in Cin-

cinnati, 1870-1880. Univ. of Cincinnati, M.A., 1970.

LENTZ, ANDREA D., A Question of Community: The 1910 Street Car Strike in Columbus,

Ohio. Ohio State Univ., M.A., 1970.

MERZ, RAYMOND, Masked Power in Hamilton County: The Ku Klux Klan in Twenties.

Univ. of Cincinnati, M.A., 1970.

MICHAEL, DEBORAH A., The Cincinnati Jewish Community before 1860. Univ. of Cincinnati,

M.A., 1970.

MURPHY, MELVIN, The Columbus Urban League. Ohio State Univ., Ph.D., 1970.

NORDSIECK, JOSEPH E., The Prohibition Crusade in Cincinnati. Univ. of Cincinnati, M.A.,

1970.

ROBINSON, MARLENE, Ohio's Reaction to John Brown's Raid. Kent State Univ., M.A., 1970.

ROCKWOOD, DEAN STEPHEN, The Peoples' Party in Ohio, 1891-1896. Miami Univ., M.A.,

1970.

SABGIR, RICHARD M., The Role of the F. & R. Lazarus Company in the Development of

Columbus, Ohio. Ohio State Univ., M.A., 1970.

SCARBROUGH, MARY BRADY, A History of the Appalacian Regional Development Act of

1965. Ohio State Univ., M.A., 1970.

SCHOTT, ROBERT H., John Gano, Urban Frontiersman, 1788-1822. Univ. of Cincinnati, M.A.,

1970.

SCHRODER, ALAN M., A History of Mortgage Lending in Portage County, Ohio: 1840-1899.

Kent State Univ., M.A., 1970.

SNYDER, LARRY M., Franklin Village, 1950-1970. Ohio State Univ., M.A., 1970.