... NOTES ON CHOLERA IN SOUTHWESTERN OHIO NOTES ON CHOLERA IN SOUTHWESTERN OHIO By DAVID A TUCKER JR M D The first invasion of the North American continent by epidemic or Asiatic cholera occurred in 1832 The disease appears to have been carried across the Atlantic by emigrants from Ireland who landed during April and May at Gross Isle thirtytwo miles below the city of Quebec Cholera had appeared in a serious epidemic at Jessore India on the Delta of the Ganges in 1816-1817 It had spread slowly ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Abolitionists amp the South 1831-1861 By Stanley Harrold Lexington The University of Kentucky Press 1995 x 245p illustrations notes bibliography index 2995 Did the struggle to end slavery cause the Civil War Twentieth-century theories of the war from Charles Beard's economic interpretation to the currently fashionable cultural split between North and South have relegated abolitionist radicals to the sidelines as a causative factor in the war and by implication ...
... GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME L GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME L Aberdeen O 118 American Periodical Literature Index Abolitionists 262 to Early 316 Aboriginal Man 141-4 American Philosophical Society336 Ackley Horace 340 American Public Health Association Adams Co250 365 382 Adams John 58 American Republicans 20 Adams John Quincy 21 American Revolution 4 17 25 31 33 Adams Randolph G12 47 99 36 37 44 60 66 71 72 74 85 86 87 Adams Samuel 186 88 244 274 Adena Mounds 203 American State Papers 317 Adena Plain ...
... 255 255 GENERAL ARTHUR ST CLAIR The Columbus Dispatch contained the following editorial in its issue of April 5 1934 Tuesday was the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of a man closely connected with the early history of Ohio whose life was a pitiable tragedy--Gen Arthur St Clair governor of the Northwest Territory when Ohio formed the body of it He was born in Scotland April 3 1734 and came to America in his young manhood With ability as a soldier he served with the British forces in ...
... 246 Ohio Arch 246 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Mississippi Their bones are heaped in trenches where the leaden hail fell thickest and bleach unfound in prison pens where ghastly famine stalked The turbulent waves of the Atlantic and the tepid waters of the Gulf flow over the iron ships in which they are forever coffined They are the Unknown Dead -peace to their ashes These war-wasted flags are their most glorious memorial-these flags that are While for their precious honor red for ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies BRECKSVILLE EARLY SETTLERS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Brecksville Mrs Eddy Burke Fosnocht President New officers of the association are Mrs Eddy Burke Fosnocht president and treasurer Ernest Green first vice president Mrs Elmer Lewis second vice president Mrs Walter Lister secretary and Harriet Wright curator Trustees are Rev J Chandler Adams Mrs Albert Birdsall Benjamin P Forbes Ernest Green Mrs Elmer Lewis Ray Thayer and Dr Charles K Teter ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 85 It is fitting that Mr Hooper should speak for the Club on this occasion Mr Hooper is a charter member of the Club was its first President and has been for many years its Secretary and active Executive I have the privilege of presenting Mr Osman C Hooper RANDALL OUR PRESIDENT BY OSMAN C HOOPER Secretary of the Kit-Kat Club The Kit-Kat Club meets today in sorrow Death has entered our circle and taken our President Emilius Oviatt Randall who ...
... COUNTY HISTORICAL MATERIAL IN THE OHIO COUNTY HISTORICAL MATERIAL IN THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY LIBRARY Compiled by CLARENCE L WEA VE R and HELEN MILLS ADAMS COUNTY Caldwell J A Illustrated historical atlas of Adams county Ohio Newark O J A Caldwell 1880 Evans N W and Stivers E B History of Adams county Ohio West Union O E B Stivers 1900 Hillsboro Belfast and Peebles electric railroad promoters' co Prospectus Peebles O Leader book and job print 1906 ALLEN COUNTY Bowen ...
... ABBY L ABBY L GILBERT Thomas Ewing Sr Ohio's Advocate for a National Bank Thomas Ewing Sr lawyer Ohio Senator and Cabinet officer who asserted we must have a National Bank and Abbott Lawrence Massachusetts industrialist politician statesman and philanthropist who firmly believed the currency of this wide extended country never could be properly regulated without some great central controlling power over the State banks were very influential in the attempt to charter a third national bank in ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews An Archeological History of the Hocking Valley By James Murphy Athens Ohio University Press 1975 xi 360p illustrations tables figures appendix index 1500 In the past the major portion of the archaeological literature for Ohio has been derived from work done in the central southern and southwestern parts of the state that situation is currently changing for the better In An Archeological History of the Hocking Valley James Murphy broadens our knowledge of prehistoric ...
... DANIEL DRAKE AS A PIONEER IN MODERN DANIEL DRAKE AS A PIONEER IN MODERN ECOLOGY by ADOLPH E WALLER Associate Professor and Curator of the Botanic Garden Ohio State University When in 1895 Warming of Copenhagen summarized his studies of the coastal dunes of the North Sea he wakened biologists to a new point of view He wrote the word oecology into the record It soon became widely used as a tool to aid in the understanding of the complex relations existing between organism and environment As a ...
... array of projects From the time of his first employment in a Cleveland mercantile house in 1855 Rockefeller had been making donations to needy individuals and worthy charitable projects giving largely through his church1 As his income grew with his success in the oil business so too did the flow of his charitable giving and his reputation as a philanthropist It was not unusual for Clevelanders to look to the Kenneth W Rose has been the ...
... DAVID G DAVID G THOMPSON Ohio's Best The Mobilization of the Fourth Infantry Ohio National Guard in 1917 In World War I the United States created and sent to France a massive army which effectively turned the tide of the conflict against Germany Although the American forces were built up from an indispensable cadre of Regular US Army troops and professional officers the National Guard also played an important part Two of the first four American divisions to reach France in 1917 and eventually ...
... PROSPECTUS FOR A HISTORY OF THE STATE OF PROSPECTUS FOR A HISTORY OF THE STATE OF OHIO CARL WITTKE Edit o rin -C h ief EDITORIAL COMMITTEE HARLOW LINDLEY C hairm an CARL W I TTKE WILLIAM T UTTER An Announcement Ohio has been strangely backward in the preservation of her historical material and in the writing of her history With the exception of Roseboom and Weisenburger's History of Ohio published in 1934 there is not a single history of the state which meets the standards of scientific and ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 563 Reviews Notes and Comments 563 serted that it was his nephew Richard M Johnson who later became vice president of the United States It seems that no record exists emanating from Richard M Johnson in which he personally either asserts or denies the credit but there does exist a positive statement from Cave Johnson that he did not kill Tecumseh In the Draper Mss under File No 9J168 Cave Johnson makes this statement Strange as it may seem I never fired a gun at an ...
... BAUM PREHISTORIC VILLAGE BAUM PREHISTORIC VILLAGE WILLIAM C MILLS The Baum Prehistoric Village site is situated in Twin Township Ross County Ohio just across the river from the small borough of Bourneville upon the first gravel terrace of Paint Creek The Paint Creek valley is drained by Paint Creek a stream of irregular turbulence flowing in a northeasterly direction and emptying into the Scioto River south of Chillicothe The Valley at the site of this village upwards of two miles in width is ...
... A STUDY OF NOTABLE OHIOANS A STUDY OF NOTABLE OHIOANS By HARRY R STEVENS In the past three or four years there have been published many social studies of genius Data have been accumulated analyzed and interpreted problems have been defined and some answers attempted1 Underlying much of this seems to be the criticism formulated a century ago by De Tocqueville that American society being a democracy naturally tended to inhibit the development of genius individuality and leadership That challenge ...
... HARLEY J HARLEY J McKEE Original Bridges on the National Road in Eastern Ohio The approach to this subject is purely descriptive and is based on observations made during 1971 while the author was inspecting structures which had been recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey1 Among the records in question were a number of photographs of bridges on the old National Road taken late in 1933 for which the locations had not been as clearly given as HABS standards require A part of the ...
... THE MICHIGAN-INDIANA-OHIO MUSEUMS THE MICHIGAN-INDIANA-OHIO MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION Edited by HARLOW LINDLEY In the autumn of 1927 at the invitation of Mr George R Fox of the Chamberlain Memorial Museum of Three Oaks Michigan a small group of museum workers from Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan met in Three Oaks for a conference and round table discussion Mr Charles E Brown chief of the Wisconsin Historical Museum at Madison was in attendance and led some of the discussions At the close of ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Papers of Ulysses S Grant Volume III October 1 1861-January 7 1862 Edited by JO HN Y SIMON Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press 1971 xxv 479p chronology maps illustrations calendar and index 1500 The Papers of Ulysses S Grant Volume IV January 8-March 31 1862 Edited by JOHN Y SIMON Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press 1972 xxv 520p chronology maps illustrations calendar and index 1500 Like their subject these volumes of Ulysses S Grant's personal ...