... array of writers from whom the material is drawn Lincoln Field Sandburg Cartwright Sarett White Lindsay Clemens Lewis Lardner Anderson Darrow Ferber Ade Riley Masters and half a hundred others appear accompanied by brief but invaluable biographical sketches by the editor As the reader finally lays aside the book he looks about him with a new understanding of his homeland and holds a new sympathy for those who have lived there Wellington Ohio ...
... array of primary and secondary sources A good deal of this data - inventories tax lists poor relief statistics and wills - has hitherto been little used certainly not in a major appraisal of the quality of life for those at the bottom of the colonial urban structure One of the most remarkable and successful aspects of The Urban Crucible is its format It is organized in several ways an approach that could easily be confusing but which on ...
... 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 ...
... SINCLAIRE'S DEFEAT SINCLAIRE'S DEFEAT This specimen of early times poetry appeared shortly after St Clair's defeat 1791 and was printed in circular form it is related and was posted up in many a pioneer cabin It reveals the sentiment of the times as well as the Form of expression 'Twas November the fourth in the year ninety-one We had a sore engagement near to Fort Jefferson Sainclaire was our commander which may remembered be For there we left nine hundred men in the West'n Ter'tory At ...
... 284 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 284 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY but it has been customary to present these memorials at the time of the Annual Meeting as well This committee with Dr George W Rightmire as chairman assisted by Mr Freeman T Eagleson prepared the following memorial IN MEMORIAM LOWRY FRANCIS SATER TRUSTEE OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lowry Francis Sater was born on June 15 1867 near what is now New Baltimore Butler County ...
... EXPLORATIONS OF THE WESTENHAVER MOUND EXPLORATIONS OF THE WESTENHAVER MOUND BY WILLIAM C MILLS The Westenhaver Mound is located in Wayne township Pickaway county Ohio on the west bank of the Scioto river The land on which the mound is situated is owned by Mr and Mrs George E Roth and lies about six miles southwest of Circleville and three miles north of the village of Yellow Bud The site of the earthwork is a level plateau comprising the first bottom of the Scioto river which at this point is ...
... 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 ...
... CHARLES BURLEIGH GALBREATH1 CHARLES BURLEIGH GALBREATH1 BY JOHN F CARLISLE Charles Burleigh Galbreath was born on a farm near Leetonia Columbiana County Ohio February 25 1858 and died February 23 1934 just two days before his birthday date He was the son of Edward Paxson Galbreath and Jane Minerva Shaw Galbreath and was a birthright member of the Society of Friends In the closing days of the Civil War he began his elementary education He learned to read from the McGuffey Readers and to figure ...
... MAJOR GEORGE W MAJOR GEORGE W RUE THE CAPTOR OF GENERAL JOHN MORGAN By WILLIAM MARION MILLER Few persons even those whose formal education ended with elementary schooling are unaware of the name and deeds of General John Morgan the famous Confederate raider of Civil War days practically no one even teachers of history in colleges and universities knows the name of the man to whom he surrendered near East Liverpool Ohio on a hot July afternoon in 1863 The reason is not hard to explain his ...
... LANGSTROTH THE BEE MAN OF OXFORD LANGSTROTH THE BEE MAN OF OXFORD by OPHIA D SMITH A revolution in beekeeping began on a summer day in 1838 when Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth saw a large glass globe filled with honey on the parlor table of a friend He was so fascinated by the beautiful sight that he went with his friend to visit his bees in an attic chamber In a moment all the intense curiosity of his childhood and boyhood seemed to burst into full flame When he went home that evening he took ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 577 PRE-HISTORIC MAP Concerning the archaeological atlas of Ohio now being prepared by The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society under the direction of W C Mills Curator of the Society the Associated Press has given out the following statement Work on the archaeological atlas of Ohio a work unique of its kind in the history of literature is about one-fourth completed but so quietly has it been in progress that few if any persons outside the membership of ...
... array of mostly secondary sources ranging from cultural and historical geography land history and aesthetics and symbolism to frontier county histories and newspapers A small sampling of census manuscripts and abstracts of deed registers comprise the main unpublished sources There is no bibliography In addition to students of history this book can be used with great benefit by artists architects surveyors land planners and developers and ...
... ECONOMIC BASIS OF OHIO POLITICS 1820-1840 ECONOMIC BASIS OF OHIO POLITICS 1820-1840 By HAROLD E DAVIS The Geographic Basis Ohio was destined by her geographic characteristics to be the scene of conflicting economic interests and hence of conflicting political interests The land has in some respects a natural unity but in many respects that unity is lacking By far the greater part of the area of the state lies in the valley of the Ohio River so that geographically economically and politically ...
... ANDREW R ANDREW RL CAYTON The State of Ohio's Early History A Review Essay The Ohio Frontier Crucible of the Old Northwest 1720-1830 By R Douglas Hurt Bloomington Indiana University Press 1996 xv 418p illustrations bibliographic essay index 3500 It is axiomatic that each generation creates its own version of the past As much as historians value objectivity most of them see it is a noble but unattainable goal Historians always have and always will interpret the past through the prism of the ...
... SPECULATIVE INTEREST IN OHIO LANDS IN 1829 SPECULATIVE INTEREST IN OHIO LANDS IN 1829 AS REVEALED IN A LETTER FROM HENRY FARMER TO SAMUEL J BROWNE Edited by WILLIAM D OVERMAN The following letter from Henry Farmer to his brother-in-law Samuel J Browne of Cincinnati affords a detailed account by an observant and well-informed Englishman of the unsettled political economic and social conditions in England just prior to the Era of Reform 18321 The statistical data on the cost of poor relief ...
... JAMES N JAMES N GIGLIO The Political Career of Harry M Daugherty 1889-1919 Historians have written about Harry Micajah Daugherty only within the context of the Warren G Harding era His association with the 1920 campaign and the Harding presidency has received extensive coverage Works on the 1920's have amply covered his involvement in the administration scandals Daugherty's pre1912 career however has been virtually ignored only a scant outline of early political adventures has come from 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 ...
... THREE VALLANDIGHAM LETTERS 1865 THREE VALLANDIGHAM LETTERS 1865 CONTRIBUTED BY CHARLES H COLEMAN Associate Professor of History The Eastern Illinois State Teachers College at Charleston The two letters from Clement L Vallandigham to Horace Greeley editor of the New York Tribune are from the Greeley Papers in the New York City Public Library The letter to James W Wall prominent New Jersey Peace Democrat is from the manuscript collection of the library of the New York Historical Society The ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABRIDGMENT of the Laws by Nathan Dane 72 Academic Seal of The Ohio State University 68 Achenbaum W Andrew Shades of Gray Old Age American Values and Federal Policies since 1920 rev 112-13 Acreage Owned by 43 French Persons in the District of Gallipolis in Washington County July 1 1800 65-67 Table 66 Adams John Quincy 6 Adams Robert 130 Adult education 34-45 Aeneid by Vergil 73 Agricultural Experiment Station 39 Agricultural extension service 34-45 ...
... 422 Ohio Arch 422 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications the entrance of the Campus and facing the High street thoroughfare The legislature passed those two bills and the hopes of these officers who have labored for twenty years now see the consummation of our labors And now I have the pleasure of introducing our honored and devoted President Professor G Frederick Wright ADDRESS OF PROF G FREDERICK WRIGHT Ohio has been behind many of her sister states in appreciating her archaeological and ...