... CALEB ATWATER CALEB ATWATER AS HISTORIAN by PHILIP SKARDON Caleb Atwater whose A History of the State of Ohio Natural and Civil published in 18381 was the first lengthy survey of Ohio's development has remained relatively obscure to this day despite a multi-faceted career with several exceptional achievements He has been credited variously with producing the earliest systematic and well authenticated account of the prehistoric Indian remains in the Ohio Valley2 and with being a founder of ...
... 36 Ohio Arch 36 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications NOTES HONORABLE JAMES W GOOD Honorable James W Good Secretary of War in the cabinet of President Hoover was the most distinguished official who attended the unveiling of the monument in honor of General Anthony Wayne and he delivered the principal address at the banquet in the evening in the Commodore Perry Hotel No one who heard him would have predicted that this would be the last distinguished service of this character he would perform ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments and retirements within the academic community of Ohio historians include Lester Lee appointed as an Assistant Professor at Antioch College Gary R Hess will succeed Edmund J Danzinger as Department Chair at Bowling Green State University William R Rock has been named as a Graduate Advisor and Michael Moore as an Undergraduate Advisor at Bowling Green State University Virginia B Platt Professor Emeritus was recently appointed to ...
... Putting Aircraft to Work The First Air Freight by ROGER E BILSTEIN Orville and Katherine went to Simms to see Mr Phil o Parmelee sic start to Columbus with several bolts of silk in an aeroplane He flew there in 61 minutes and delivered the goods From BISHOP MILTON WRIGHT'S Diary November 7 1910 NOTES ON PAGE 277 248 OHIO HISTORY 248 OHIO HISTORY Milton Wright a bishop of the United Brethren in Christ church in Dayton Ohio maintained a keen interest in the activities of his lively family ...
... Book Reviews Summer-Autumn 2000 pp 190-224 Copyright 2000 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page BOOK REVIEWS The National Road Edited by Karl Raitz Baltimore Maryland The Johns Hopkins University Press 1996 xviii 489p illustrations maps notes references appendices contributors index 3495 A Guide to the National Road Edited by ...
... CARY D CARY D WINTZ Race and Realism in the Fiction of Charles WChesnutt In this day of increased awareness of the role blacks have played in American history and culture it is somewhat surprising that Charles W Chesnutt is only recently being recognized by students of history and literature He played an important part in the development of black American literature during the last decade of the nineteenth century and also helped to lay the foundation for the Negro Renaissance of the 1920's ...
... 558 Ohio Arch 558 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications County Several additional parks shortly will be placed in our custody In connection with two or three of the park properties there has been some lack of agreement as to methods of administration The Director accompanied by Trustee J C Goodman Chairman of the Committee on State Parks recently visited these properties conferred with local committees and provided means for correcting the situations It may seem superfluous to consume the ...
... BLAST-FURNACES OPERATED BY THE BLAST-FURNACES OPERATED BY THE SEPARATIST SOCIETY OF ZOAR OHIO BY E J BOGNAR A most important contribution to the success of the Separatist Society of Zoar was iron ore The village of Zoar was founded in 1817 by 300 or more Separatists who had embarked early that spring from Wurtemburg1 Germany The party was led by one Joseph M Bimeler2 and the desire for religious freedom brought them to this country where they settled in the inviting wooded region of the ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Croquet An Annotated Bibliography from the Rendell Rhoades Croquet Collection By Nancy L Rhoades Metuchen NJ Scarecrow Press Inc 1992 xx 214p illustrations bibliography appendix Today croquet might appear a quaint insignificant game in an environment dominated by professional football baseball and basketball But this annotated bibliography underscores croquet's position of prominence among American sports in the years following the Civil War as well as its revival in the ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Country Printer New York State 1785-1830 By Milton W Hamilton New York Columbia University Press 1936 361p 375 One of the most colorful figures in the period immediately following the Revolutionary War was the country printer the printer-editor-publisher who was indeed a distinctive character in his community Too often the press as an institution and influence is identified with the great dailies published in the chief cities of our country Too little attention is ...
... FOUNDING OF THE FINNISH SETTLEMENTS IN FOUNDING OF THE FINNISH SETTLEMENTS IN OHIO By JOHN I KOLEHMAINEN In the fall of 1886 the septuagenarian Henry Howe returned to Ashtabula on his second historic tour of Ohio Not the least interesting innovation which there captured the fancy of the beloved white bearded chronicler was the presence at the Harbor of the Fins a new element lately come into this region1 The coming of the Finns to Ohio can be traced with some precision About eighteen years ...
... BOOK REVIEWS FREEDOM'S FORUM THE CITY CLUB 1912-1962 By Thomas F Campbell Cleveland The City Club 1963 128p frontispiece and index 350 The occasion for this book was the celebration of the golden anniversary of the City Club of Cleveland in 1962 The phrase Freedom's Forum incorporated in the title underscores the spirit and purpose of the club Its dedicated adherence to free speech has been the key to its vigorous life and survival It was founded during the progressive era when city clubs ...
... 130 OHIO HISTORY 130 OHIO HISTORY not to be bound by the result23 Under these circumstances talk of a Hayes Garfield or other candidacy persisted Hayes lightened the tension perhaps by giving a reception Monday evening for the incoming Republican governor General Edward F Noyes It was attended by the warring factions and described by Hayes as A very lively happy thing24 Late on Tuesday evening two Republicans--a state senator and a representative--rang Hayes's doorbell They assured him that ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES Cincinnati Jacob Marcus Director The growing collections of congregational minute books genealogies and personal papers of notable Jewish personalities are being cataloged and made available for researchers Dr Stern-Taeubler's book The Court Jew has recently been published BRECKSVILLE EARLY SETTLERS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Brecksville Ernest Green President The association is at present furnishing a room at the museum ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Midwest Pioneer--His Ills Cures and Doctors By Madge E Pickard and R Carlyle Buley Crawfordsville Indiana R E Banta 1945 346p Frontispiece 500 At the time of the celebration in Columbus of the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Medical College at the Willoughby University of Lake Erie 1834-1934 a group of those who are interested in local medical history began cooperative work in this field First there appeared a source book in which was chronicled ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 261 and statistics the value of which cannot be too highly estimated The author has gathered and assorted material from which history may be written Mr Bareis has neglected no subject deserving of note He has chapters on the school literary entertainments roads and railroads coaches and mail lines churches graveyards etc The book is not crowded and its value depreciated as is the case with most books of its kind by having biographical sketches of anybody and everybody ...
... GEOLOGY AS A FACTOR IN HUMAN GEOLOGY AS A FACTOR IN HUMAN LIFE AND CHARACTER GERARD FOWKE Human history is a by-product of geology The earliest men fished in the rivers and the seas hunted in the mountains and the forests Shelter was as necessary as food and they had to live where they could find protection from inclement weather Where caves existed they were utilized where there was no such natural refuge an artificial one had to be provided This must be made of wood at first perhaps only of ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY Since the annual meeting of the society held on June 5 1903 the proceedings of which were published in volume twelve pp 187-218 the meetings of the trustees have been as follows that of the executive committee held June 30 1903 in the rooms of the society Page Hall Ohio State University After the determination of the compensation to be accorded the different salaried officers of the society the standing committees for the year were agreed ...
... F M WHITAKER F M WHITAKER Ohio WCTU and the Prohibition Amendment Campaign of 1883 The Woman's Christian Temperance Union may be said to be a product of Ohio in at least two ways One its foundation is the only lasting result of a phenomenon of the winter and spring of 1873-1874 known as the Woman's Crusade which achieved its first success and national recognition in Ohio This movement in which bands of respectable ladies marched in groups upon saloons in various locations singing praying and ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 227 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 227 planned with Ohio State University Broadcasting station and is being offered each Tuesday afternoon over WOSU This series which is professional in caliber has attracted wide attention and is being rebroadcast by several additional stations Dr William D Overman as historian deserves credit for the exhaustive research which has made these broadcasts unique up to the present time As of January 1 1940 two members of ...