... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 69 NUMBER 2 APRIL 1960 Governor McKinley's Misfortune The Walker-McKinley Fund of 1893 By H WAYNE MORGAN ONE BALMY SPRING-LIKE DAY in February 1893 Governor William McKinley of Ohio boarded a train for a trip to New York The tang of spring in the air was matched by the bright carnation in his lapel and the genial smile he gave the well-wishers who saw him off In his pocket he had the outline of a speech he was to make to the ...
... THE SEMI-COLON CLUB THE SEMI-COLON CLUB OF CINCINNATI by LOUIS L TUCKER Among the holdings of the Cincinnati Historical Society1 is a box of manuscripts containing 126 documents and a single volume of a shortlived magazine titled The Semi-Colon which consists of three numbers2 These two source materials represent the sole remains of the Semi-Colon Club a literary society that flourished in Cincinnati during the 1830's and 1840's 3 The activities of this club constitute a significant chapter in ...
... THE EXECUTION OF JOHN BROWN THE EXECUTION OF JOHN BROWN BY MURAT HALSTEAD The execution of John Brown was on the second of December 1859 the scene in a field a furlong south of Charlestown seven miles from Harper's Ferry The sensation caused by the John Brown raid was something wonderful The excitement of the whole country was out of all proportion to the material incidents The shock was because the feeling of the people that the slavery question had reached an acute stage and demanded ...
... DONALD J DONALD J RATCLIFFE Politics in Jacksonian Ohio Reflections on the Ethnocultural Interpretation Who voted for the two great political parties in Jacksonian Ohio Those historians who have asked this question have usually given two sorts of answers Some have seen the popular basis for the party division in essentially socioeconomic terms Occasionally they have detected a class conflict between rich and poor but more commonly they have followed Frederick Jackson Turner in seeing the ...
... ERIC J ERIC J CARDINAL The Ohio Democracy and the Crisis of Disunion 1860-1861 One of the least understood political groups in American history has been the northern Democratic party during the Civil War Their contemporary Republican foes vilified them as traitors and subsequent historians have for the most part agreed with that verdict1 Political partisanship ideological conflicts and wartime passions account for the original animus it is less clear why scholars have tended to follow so ...
... strikes this reviewer as one of the two or three most innovative There is a nice mix of topics here ranging from but not limited to a consideration of the phenomena of site and situation as factors affecting the initial location and later development of many Ohio cities including some as small as Conneaut and as large as Cleveland to an attempt to classify by function these communities and to a very welldeveloped section on the internal ...
... CANNON CANNON THROUGH THE FOREST Novels of the Land Battles of the War of 1812 in the Old Northwest by C HARRISON ORIANS On June 18 1812 the Congress of the United States declared war on Great Britain This action was the climax of a half-decade of irritations and controversy The continental conflict in which Britain was engaged aggravated and inflamed the smoldering enmity which existed The declaration marked the victory of the war party in the twelfth congress elected in 1810 The war with ...
... strike20 By the 1930 Census the Poles form the second largest immigrant group in Cleveland The numbers of Polish-born in Cleveland rose from 532 in 1880 to 35024 in 192021 In a survey conducted by the Monitor Polish Daily a number of interesting statistics were collected The investigators report 35163 families of Poles in greater Cleveland and its suburbs and that in 1920 147 of the foreign born in Cleveland were Poles22 It is estimated that ...
... strike last November that started against his paper could not leave their blemish on this memoir with title connoting reflections in warm contentment Although Mr Seltzer will not be sixty until September he can reminisce upon and look ahead from nearly forty-seven years of journalistic experience --all of it in his native city During those years since he left the seventh grade for the newsroom of the old Leader he has recorded much home-town ...
... LESLIE J LESLIE J STEGH A Paradox of Prohibition Election of Robert J Bulkley as Senator from Ohio 1930 Hail Hallowed Ohio Rich and beautiful state Rivers and roads and railways And queenly cities and great Fertile fields and factories Happy homes and healthM-O-T-H-E-R of Prohibition And a s-o-b-e-r Commonwealth1 The issue of prohibition of the liquor traffic was one that had kept Ohio in turmoil prior to the enactment of state prohibition and the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the ...
... strike -- the withholding strikers comprised only a minority of the rural population and their actions shocked their neighbors without achieving anything significant for themselves When economic conditions improved somewhat the movement disintegrated The most prominent personage in the Farmers' Holiday Association was Milo Reno who had long been identified with farmers' organizations As he ...
...strike movement during strike 14-18 30-35 strikes 6-36 Skaggs David Curtis book rev 166-67 Skyles Tavern 141 Slavin Morris A Miniature View of the French Revolution Section Droits de I'Homme 1789-1795 149 Smalley Stephen A Village is Born Mt Washington 154 Smith Clifford Neal Federal Land Series A Calendar of Archival Materials on the Land ...
... JACK S JACK S BLOCKER JR Market Integration Urban Growth and Economic Change in an Ohio County 1850-1880 In March 1870 the editor of a local newspaper in Washington Court House county seat of Fayette County Ohio announced the inauguration of a new service by the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley Railroad The Train which leaves this place at 616 in the morning arrives in the city at 105 and leaves Cincinnati at 350 pm thus affording our citizens some FIVE HOURS for business or pleasure It is a ...
... strike the popular chord pleasing to the ear of those who had fought and starved in this dismal battle for Freedom arranged with the different land-holding companies to pay those who desired in land for their services The Ohio Company whose office may still be seen in a marvelous state of preservation at Marietta Ohio had a grant of land in the Southeast portion of the then known Northwest Territory and a portion of this was offered Among ...
... DOUGLAS V DOUGLAS V SHAW Interurbans in the Automobile Age The Case of the Toledo Port Clinton and Lakeside From the first decade of the twentieth century until the early 1930s electric interurban railways connected almost all Ohio towns and villages of more than 5000 population With its numerous cities and market towns within reasonable proximity of one another prosperous agriculture and generally favorable topography everywhere but in the ...
... SIMON KENTON-SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE SIMON KENTON-SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE R W MCFARLAND Inasmuch as I had personally known only a part of Simon Kenton's family and the record of the William Kenton family gave only two or three items about Simon I consulted one of Simon's descendants and he gave the number of children of each marriage to the best of his knowledge The date of the second marriage was taken from the county records From the same gentleman I got a clue which enabled me to locate Simon ...
... strikes that beset the strikes of 1936-1937 strikes in 1945-1946 strikes challenges the strikes institutional differences between the AFL and the CIO and reasons for the 1955 AFL-CIO merger While Zieger includes southern workers ...
... ADDRESS AT FORT MEIGS ADDRESS AT FORT MEIGS By W J CAMERON The best proof a nation can give that it is gro w ing up is a lively interest in its history From the records of what they have done a people can form an estimate of what they are and from that they may draw an augury of their future Not only does history recall the past it also explains the present This pilgrimage to scenes immortalized in early northwestern history arranged by the historical societies in Ohio Indiana Michigan and ...
... strike simultaneously all of the English forts west of the Appalachians p 142 and cite Howard H Peckham's Pontiac and the Indian Uprising as the standard authority when that book explicitly repudiates such a formulation Caveats and critiscisms aside this latest installment of the five-volume history of the Hoosier State published in commemoration of the state's sesquecentennial by the Indiana Historical Bureau and the Indiana Historical ...