... MARK TWAIN IN OBERLIN MARK TWAIN IN OBERLIN By RUSSEL B NYE On the night of February II 1885 the Union Library Association of Oberlin Ohio presented readings by Samuel L Clemens and George W Cable as the third number of its annual lecture series The Twain-Cable lecture took place in the First Congregational Church of Oberlin where Clemens according to a program of the entertainment now in the Oberlin College Library gave as his part of the evening readings of King Sollermun The Tragic Tale of ...
... BLENNERHASSETT BLENNERHASSETT1 I BLENNERHASSETT TRUTH is not only stranger than fiction but often sadder than the grimmest fancy can portray Few pages of American history present more of the picturesque and none offer so much of the pitiful as do those that tell the story of Blennerhassett This man whom Parton the would-be whitewasher of Aaron Burr calls eccentric romantic idle and shiftless descended from choice Irish stock The source of his blood is traced to the times of King John Harman ...
... JOHN HENRI KAGI JOHN HENRI KAGI BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY C B GALBREATH A traveler northward bound on a Pennsylvania local passenger train if he is interested in the smaller stations between Warren and Ashtabula will hear the conductor call out Bristolville To the ninety and nine who hear this call the name will suggest nothing To possibly one out of a thousand it will start a train of thought that will carry him back to the eventful years before the Civil War when hostility to the institution of ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 415 1838 President Van Buren appointed Mr Lucas governor of the Territory of Iowa In this position he exhibited great capabilities in the organization of the territory into the state The election of William H Harrison as Whig President in 1840 caused Mr Lucas' removal from the office of Iowa governor when he returned to Ohio and was nominated by the people of his home district for membership in United States Congress In the election he was unsuccessful He then sold ...
... ANTECEDENT EXPERIENCE OF WILLIAM ANTECEDENT EXPERIENCE OF WILLIAM MAXWELL OHIO'S FIRST PRINTER BY DOUGLAS C McMURTRIE The facts regarding the first printing in Ohio are well known and clearly established William Maxwell set up a printing office in Cincinnati and published the first issue of the Centinel of the North-Western Territory on November 9 17931 But where Maxwell came from and what his previous experience was are points of information which have never been dealt with in any of the ...
... IN MEMORIAM IN MEMORIAM Read and adopted at the afternoon session of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society April 30 1931 EDWIN FOREST WOOD WHE REAS It has pleased Divine Providence to remove from our midst our co-worker associate and friend Edwin Forest Wood and W HEREAS He had been prominently identified with the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society since 1890 serving first as Assistant Treasurer and after the death of S S Rickly November 23 1905 as Treasurer of the ...
... Ethan Allen Brown Ethan Allen Brown And Ohio's Canal System By JOHN S STILL The most important stimulus to Ohio's economy in the first half of the nineteenth century was the construction of a canal system and the individual most responsible for this accomplishment was Ethan Allen Brown Yeoman service it is true was rendered by Alfred Kelley Micajah Williams and others but from the years when his was a voice in the wilderness until the canals were actually in use Brown stood at the forefront ...
... 190 Ohio Arch 190 Ohio Arch and Hist So ciety Publications I HIS DECISIVE CONVERSION David Zeisberger's conversion stands out as clearly and strongly as does that of John Wesley in January 1743 a little company stood on the deck of the James ready to leave for Europe It was a group of Moravian Brethren most of whom had come to take leave of their beloved leader Count Zinzendorf Belonging to this company was a young man twentytwo years of age who had been appointed to return with the Count to ...
... NOEL FISHER NOEL FISHER Groping Toward Victory Ohio's Administration of the Civil War The American Civil War posed a vast challenge to the limited administrative capacities of the national and state governments both North and South As the chaos of 1861 painfully revealed recruiting large numbers of men supplying them with weapons uniforms and equipment and transporting them to the field were tasks initially beyond the ability of any American government to perform efficiently To sustain a long ...
... edited by edited by JOSEPH E WALKER The Travel Notes of Joseph Gibbons 1804 Introduction With General Anthony Wayne's victory over the Indians of the Northwest Territory in 1794 and the resultant Treaty of Greene Ville settlement in eastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania became relatively safe A stream of migrants moved across the mountains and up from the South in sufficient numbers that Ohio could claim statehood in 1803 Why did a family leave the security of eastern Pennsylvania to take ...
... 404 Ohio Arch 404 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications the crowds cheered and waved their hats and handkerchiefs until the automobiles bearing the president and his party passed out of the grounds The evening of the Fourth was observed by a dazzling display of fireworks witnessed by thousands The likenesses of President Harding Eber Baker and General Pershing were reproduced in fireworks display The morning program of the Fifth of July was presided over by George B Christian Sr The first ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR THE NATION'S HISTORY A new edition of The Nation's History by two Ohio authors Arthur R Leonard head of the Department of History in the Central High School and Bertha E Jacobs of the North High School of Columbus Ohio has just been issued by Henry Holt and Company of New York City The content of the volume of 648 pages with addenda including 37 pages of biography a list of important dates in 1789 and a copy of the ...
... RUTLAND-THE CRADLE OF OHIO RUTLAND-THE CRADLE OF OHIO A LITTLE JOURNEY TO THE HOME OF RUFUS PUTNAM E O RANDALL It was in the bright and cheery days of September 1 90 8 that the Editor left the palatial Pullman car at Worcester and boarded a trolley that bore him along a rambling route amid tiny lakes and quiet hills to the little burg of Jefferson Here the trolley was exchanged for a motor bus the electric wings of which fluttered with intermittent and uncertain rapidity till the passengers ...
... 396 EDWIN COPPOC EDWIN COPPOC BY C B GALBREATH Among many villages of our state that pursue the even tenor of their way so peacefully and quietly that they earn their way to honorable obscurity is Winona Columbiana County This name was chosen from Longfellow's Hiawatha for the citizens of this place find time to read enjoy what we dignify as literature and are in a very useful and unpretentious way cultured The church and the school are liberally patronized The moral standard of the ...
... THE LIBRARIES OF PADDY'S RUN THE LIBRARIES OF PADDY'S RUN BY S R WILLIAMS The first State School Commissioner of Common Schools of Ohio called attention to a library founded in a community in the state by the contributions of its pioneer settlers To the inspirations from this library to quote the Commissioner some of the first names in our annals owe the impulse to a distinguished career The history of this library and its successors follows At the opening of the country west of the Great ...
... THE EVOLUTION OF OHIO COUNTIES THE EVOLUTION OF OHIO COUNTIES By J F LANING It is probable that the people who read this article will all know that the State of Ohio was not always divided into the number of counties there now are and that to evolve the present map a long period of time and many mutations of county outlines were necessary But few people however know the extent of the evolution that has been going on in bringing Ohio counties within their present environments From the erection ...
... THE WYANDOT MISSION THE WYANDOT MISSION EMIL SCHLUP The present generation can scarcely comprehend the hardships and privations the early missionaries had to endure when the Ohio country was in a wilderness state But brave men risked their lives in promulgating the Christian doctrine among the aboriginals of the forest The earliest Protestant denomination to enter the new field were the Moravians Christian Frederick Post who had been a missionary among the Moravian Indians in New York and ...
... THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY CALL FOR ANNUAL MEETING COLUMBUS October 1 1921 The annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society will be held in the Museum and Library Building of the Society Wednesday October 12 1 921 The forenoon session which opens at half past nine o'clock will be devoted entirely to the reading of reports and other matters of routine business It ...
... REMINISCENCES OF AN OHIO VOLUNTEER REMINISCENCES OF AN OHIO VOLUNTEER By PHILIP D JORDAN and CHARLES M THOMAS Introduction When Fort Sumter felt the crash of Confederate guns on April 12 1861 a nation knew that an irresistible conflict had at last reached a climax Chattering telegraph keys took the drama of Charleston harbor through the North in frantic haste In the village of Oxford Ohio students of Miami University were gathering for chapel services President John W Hall himself from the ...
... THE HARMAR EXPEDITION OF 1790 THE HARMAR EXPEDITION OF 179 0 By RANDOL PH G ADAMS At the last meeting of the American Historical Association December 1939 the chief of the General Staff of the United States Army made some very critical remarks about the teaching of military history in the United States He expressed the wish that teachers would tell and that text-books would relate the uncomplimentary and unvarnished truth about the ineptitude with which the United States has conducted its wars ...