... 224 Ohio Arch 224 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications FIRST NAVIGATOR OF THE OHIO RIVER It is a most interesting but generally unknown fact which we have verified by a letter from Mr William Loeb secretary to the President that the brother of the grandfather of President Roosevelt was the first man to navigate a steamboat on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers says Mr Charles C Allen Captain Roosevelt was a warm personal friend of Robert Fulton the inventor of steam craft and soon after ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NEGRO LIFE AND HISTORY Columbus William F Savoy State Director The Columbus branch of the association observed the 23d annual celebration of Negro History Week during the second week in February Radio speakers were Dr James H Rodabaugh Mrs Julia Burrell Charles Allen Dr William Utterbeck Dr John Bennett Dr Allen Griffen Chester Gray and William F Savoy state director of the association Dr Rodabaugh and Mr Savoy ...
... The President and the Deacon in the Campaign of 1912 The Correspondence of William Howard Taft and James Calvin Hemphill 1911-1912 edited by WILLARD B GATEWOOD The reform impulse of the progressive movement strong and virile after a decade of growth dominated the political atmosphere in which the presidential campaign of 1912 took place So pervasive was its influence that the election turned out to be more of an intramural competition among various schools of progressive thought than a contest ...
... Albion W Albion W Tourgee Propagandist And Critic of Reconstruction By TED N WEISSBUCH LESS THAN FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Ohioan Al b ion W Tourgee was referred to as the most neglected figure in American literature Increasing interest in the writers of the Civil War and Reconstruction era has caused a swing in the pendulum and now his name crops up often in the growing literature dealing with this period in our history Tourgee's work has always interested a small but devoted group of literary ...
... 554 Ohio Arch 554 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications the Hopewell Mounds during the explorations of Professor Moorehead in 1 89 1 It is the further plan of the Director to place on exhibition objects illustrating the various cultural peoples of prehistoric times in Ohio It is further anticipated that the south exhibition hall on the second floor will be devoted to collections illustrating the various types of artifacts used by prehistoric man in Ohio ACCESSIONS TO MUSEUM COLLECTIONS ...
... 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 ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Free Soil The Election of 1848 By JOSEPH G RAYBACK Lexington University Press of Kentucky 1971 ix 326p notes and index 1250 Rayback's purpose is to analyze the campaign of 1848 from its origin in the early days of Polk's administration to the election of the Whig Zachary Taylor over Martin Van Buren for the Free Soilers and Lewis Cass for the Democrats The author finds that the presidential election of 1848 marked the emergence of antislavery sentiment as a ...
... The Civil War had been fought out and peace had returned to the land when a group of churchmen and reformers led by the Rev Charles G Finney of Oberlin who had long served as president of Oberlin College turned to make war on secret societies and the Masonic order in particular The crusade mildly agitated a part of the country for some years but lacking as it did the frenzy hysteria and political potency of the anti-Masonic movement of the 1820's and 1830's it eventually fell of its own ...
... THE INTRODUCTION OF FARM MACHINERY INTO OHIO THE INTRODUCTION OF FARM MACHINERY INTO OHIO PRIOR TO 1865 by ROBERT LESLIE JONES Professor of History Marietta College Ohio agriculture in the fifth decade of the twentieth century is a highly mechanized industry with almost every farmer having a heavy investment in devices ranging from tractors to milking machines and pressure sprayers Contemporary mechanization however is less the product of recent innovations than it is the culmination of a long ...
... 236 Ohio Arch 236 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications GENEALOGY OF WILLIAM McKINLEY BY REV A STAPLETON The following genealogical sketch of President McKinley was prepared by the Rev A Stapleton of Carlisle Pa We give it as it was originally published in the New York Sun-EDITOR It should be a matter of regret to all true historians that the campaign histories of President McKinley were erroneous in several important genealogical details The data herein given may be relied on as correct as ...
... RELIC DEPARTMENT OF THE CENTENNIAL RELIC DEPARTMENT OF THE CENTENNIAL ONE of the interesting and attractive features of the celebration was the display of historical relics It was a matter of great regret to the Committee that a list and catalogue of the articles with the names of owners and exhibitors could not be prepared before the celebration The following is a complete list of articles displayed The value of the list would be greatly enhanced could the name of the owner of each of the ...
... HISTORICAL ORGANIZATIONS IN OHIO HISTORICAL ORGANIZATIONS IN OHIO Allen County Historical and Archaeological Society Lima James A MacDonell President Mrs H B Longsworth Secretary Alliance Historical Society Alliance Mrs Fred Donaldson President Ashland County Historical Society Ashland William A Duff Secretary Association for the Study of Negro Life and History Columbus William F Savoy State Director Barnesville History Club Barnesville Francis H Hibbard President Bezaleel Wells Historical ...
... THE EARLY THEATER IN COLUMBUS OHIO THE EARLY THEATER IN COLUMBUS OHIO 1820-1840 by LUCILE CLIFTON Associate Professor of English Ball State Teachers College Muncie Indiana The citizens of Columbus Ohio which was founded one hundred and forty some years ago have attended plays for at least one hundred and thirty of those years and had a flourishing theater as early as the mid-1830's The first western theatrical circuits followed the natural trade routes down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers As ...
... MARY DEAN VINCENT MOUND MARY DEAN VINCENT MOUND A B COOVER Mr Coover is a Life Member of The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and has assisted Prof W C Mills in many of the archaeological explorations made by the Society Mr Coover acted as Curator of the Museum of the Society during the absence of Prof Mills while in charge of the Society's exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition It was during this time that Mr Coover made the explorations herein described - EDITOR Under directions ...
... A Visit to the Ohio State Prison in 1837 A Visit to the Ohio State Prison in 1837 Edited by MERTON L DILLON ONE OF THE MANY SOCIAL PROBLEMS that demanded solution in the early nineteenth century was how best to deal with convicted criminals The answer provided by the system inaugurated in 1823 at the state prison at Auburn New York enjoyed great vogue among penal reformers and set the fashion in American prison administration for the next half century The Auburn system required the isolation ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Financing Unemployment Compensation Ohio's Experience By Edison L Bowers Paul G Craig and William Papier Bureau of Business Research Monograph Number 89 Columbus Ohio State University College of Commerce and Administration 1957 xx 314p bibliography 400 An important function of state government in the industrialized society of our day is the organization and administration of an effective system of unemployment compensation Ohio which is well on the way to becoming the ...
... Historical News Historical News A NATIONAL ASSEMBLY of the President's Civil War Centennial Commission was held in Washington DC on January 14-15 1958 Major General U S Grant 3d chairman of the commission presided at the sessions and Dr Bell I Wiley the distinguished Civil War historian of Atlanta Georgia made the keynote address The purpose of the commission is to lead the nation in a fitting celebration of the centennial of the Civil War At the meeting a thirteen-point program was outlined ...
... edited by edited by THOMAS E HACHEY Cincinnati Through English Spectacles A British Diplomat's Confidential View in 1945 In the months immediately following the Second World War British consuls stationed throughout the United States forwarded to the London Foreign Office a substantial number of telegrams memoranda and dispatches regarding the climate of American opinion toward England What Winston Churchill had called the Grand Alliance seemed in the judgment of many of these diplomats to be ...
... 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 ...
... 312 Ohio Arch 3 12 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 FORT ANCIENT The General Assembly at the last session passed an act to purchase this remarkable earth-work on the bluffs on the left bank of the Little Miami river in Warren county By some oversight the number of acres authorized to be purchased did not include the entire fortification and there still remains a portion of the south or old fort and little of the north end unpurchased A bill was afterward introduced by Senator Jesse ...