... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Threat of Peace James F Byrnes and the Council of Foreign Ministers 1945-1946 By Patricia Dawson Ward Kent Kent State University Press 1979 x 227p notes bibliography index 1250 The story goes that once when Lyndon Johnson was extolling the virtues of John F Kennedy's Harvard-educated government appointees to Sam Rayburn the venerable Speaker of the House replied You may be right but I wish some of them had at least run for sheriff The story might be apocryphal but ...
... THE FAILURE OF THE OHIO LIFE INSURANCE THE FAILURE OF THE OHIO LIFE INSURANCE AND TRUST COMPANY 1857 by MORTIMER SPIEGELMAN Most writers on the economic history of the United States refer to the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company as the institution whose failure precipitated the panic of 1857 The failure is usually attributed to depreciated railroad investments and the losses stated in amounts as high as 7000000 dollars1 A search into the history of this institution that played a leading ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS A convention of the International Society of Archaeologists was held at Cincinnati on September 29th 1912 The meeting had been called as a semi-official gathering but the large attendance and enthusiastic sessions resulted in its being voted an official convention - the first of the organization The sessions were held at Art Museum arrangements for this privilege having been made by Mr Philip Hinkle curator of that institution ...
... Ohio Valley Hist Ohio Valley Hist Ass'n Fifth Annual Meeting 37 Steel Queen Lee H Brooks Slackwater Frank Tyler Margaret Return Frank Fowler Troubador Sunshine and Emily Jung The fleet was in command of Capt James A Henderson The New Orleans was in command of Melville O Irwin mate Thomas Walker engineer and T Orville Noel steward Fortunately for those in attendance at the Fifth Annual Meeting the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce took the opportunity of President Taft's presence to hold Tuesday ...
... DAVID G DAVID G TAYLOR Hocking Valley Railroad Promotion in the 1870's The Atlantic and Lake Erie Railway Industrialization had begun in Ohio before the Civil War and after a war-imposed delay promised to accelerate rapidly thereafter The Panic of 1873 however stalled the process substantially and destroyed many small industrialists and businessmen With the elimination of the financially weaker businessmen the way was paved for reorganization of the state's railroad coal mining and iron ...
... MICHAEL SPEER MICHAEL SPEER The Little Steel Strike Conflict for Control Historically strikes in the American iron and steel industry have been bloody affairs The 1892 Homestead strike and the 1919 steel strike stand as outstanding examples of industry's militant refusal to share the power of decision-making with labor representatives for steel management such strikes provided what amounted to an opportunity for crushing an incipient union movement By the mid-1930's however the conflict ...
... 28 Ohio Arch 28 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications master introduced Mrs Herbert Backus Vice-President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution RESPONSE OF MRS HERBERT BACKUS Mr Toastmaster Distinguished Guests and Friends A story was told me the other day of a farmer who took unto himself his second wife He brought her to the home of her predecessor After some time had elapsed she told him that she needed some new shoes that all her shoes were worn out He said Well Samantha ...
... JOHN H JOHN H KLIPPART SECRETARY OF THE OHIO STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 1856-1878 by JOHN F CUNNINGHAM Dean Emeritus College of Agriculture Ohio State University When a man devotes his abilities and his energy and his vision to developing something that is of fundamental interest to all the people and does such an outstanding job that he wins the hearty acclaim and the profound respect of his generation and when the results of his work become so much a part of our daily living that we regard ...
... Book Notes Book Notes For the General Welfare Essays in Honor of Robert H Bremner Edited by Frank Annunziata Patrick D Reagan and Roy T Wortman New York Peter Lang 1989 xiv 390p notes This is a collection of articles published by historians who feel professionally indebted to their mentor Bob Bremner Professor Bremner while at The Ohio State University was indeed a unique scholar one who could at the same time devote himself to the classroom and teaching research and publishing and the ...
... Carney Summer-Autumn 2002 pp 121-144 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved The Political Judge Justice John McLeans Pursuit of the Presidency By Thomas E Carney John McLean SC 3565 Ohio Historical Society Collections Introduction John McLean stands out as a singular figure in American legal history He was appointed to the United States Supreme Court by President Andrew Jackson in 1829 and served until his death in 1861 as ...
... John A John A Bingham and Reconstruction The Dilemma of a Moderate by DONALD C SWIFT Congressman John A Bingham of Ohio was one of the foremost Republican politicians in the period following the Civil War Yet he is almost unknown to historians and students not primarily concerned with the Reconstruction era The names of Thaddeus Stevens Benjamin Butler Charles Sumner or Benjamin Wade more readily come to mind As a spokesman for moderation Bingham occupied a place of equal importance to that of ...
... SAMUEL LEWIS PROGRESSIVE EDUCATOR IN THE SAMUEL LEWIS PROGRESSIVE EDUCATOR IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF OHIO BY ALSTON ELLIS It has been said that great men have the shortest biographies By this rule Methusaleh while the oldest was also one of the greatest men that ever lived for in Genesis it is said that all the day of Methusaleh were nine hundred and sixty-nine years and then came the inevitable-he died This is the whole story save that he was the father of numerous sons and daughters and ...
... OHIO OHIO and the PANAMA CANAL by CHARLES D AMERINGER Uncle Sam digging under the influence of the Sons of Ohio at the right place So ran a toast proposed at the twenty-second annual banquet of the Cincinnati Commercial Club at the Queen City Club on November 13 1902 The reference was to the role Ohioans had played in the decision of the United States to construct an interoceanic canal in Panama and the man who offered the toast was in a position to know whereof he spoke He was Philippe ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Papers of Ulysses S Grant Volume II April-September 1861 Edited by JOHN Y SIMON Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press 1969 xxix 399p foreword preface chronology maps illustrations calendar and index 1500 In his own lifetime Ulysses S Grant was an enigma to most politicians and generals who knew him The Grant revealed in his memoirs was either an overly modest or uncommonly fortunate general The shape of his character and the secrets of his success are not ...
... 574 Ohio Arch 574 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications terial down to this Library The task now seems so large that it seems to this committee unlikely that the consolidation can be effected before the summer of 1925 The intervening months will be used in preparing plans securing the appropriation doing the physical work and rearranging the Society's books and material all of which is preliminary to receiving the University's collection The situation with regard to Museum of Natural History ...
... GERALD S GERALD S GREENBERG Literary Bequests in Early Ohio Wills Introduction It is not surprising that besides the family Bible few books or libraries are mentioned in early Ohio wills for life on the frontier demanded that one devote full attention to life's essentials For most this meant the acquisition of a piece of land and the construction of a home It is such proprietary bequests therefore that dominate early Ohio wills One does discover however that the early doctors and lawyers of ...
... DR DR B F PRINCE A veteran educator life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and for thirtyone years a member of its board of trustees passed peacefully away at his home in Springfield Monday September 11 1933 at the age of ninety-three years The Springfield Daily News published a carefully written obituary from which the following sketch is gleaned 452 Dr Dr B F Prince 453 Dr B F Prince 93 dean of the faculty of Wittenberg college and affectionately called The ...
... THE CINCINNATI TABLET AN INTERPRETATION THE CINCINNATI TABLET AN INTERPRETATION By CHARLES C WILLOUGHBY The Great Horned Serpent of our American tribes was usually considered a god of waters lakes and streams His anger was manifested through storms thunder and lightning Forked lightning was the darting of his tongue The Algonquians of the Great Lakes believed that a monster serpent Gitche-Kenebig dwelt in these waters who unless appeased with offerings raised a tempest or broke the ice beneath ...
... Dedication of the Hayes Memorial Dedication of the Hayes Memorial 451 Rich in saving common-sense And as the greatest only are In his simplicity sublime Surely we shall be dull indeed of apprehension if we catch no inspiration from his ardor for humanity if we feel no impulse to emulate the virtues which made his service to the world so great I at least thing of him always as of One who never turned his back but marched breast forward Never doubted clouds would break Never dreamed though right ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR MEETING OF AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION The annual meeting of the American Historical Association to which the attention of the members of the Society was invited by a circular letter under date of December 17 1923 enclosing a detailed program of the meeting was held on schedule time in Columbus December 27-29 1923 The sessions of the Association and the related ...