... Forty-First Annual Meeting 633 Forty-First Annual Meeting 633 President Johnson stated that the reports of the Committees on the various Parks should be given great attention On last Sunday he attended the Ohio History Day celebration at Logan Elm Park and was absolutely amazed by the number -- literally thousands -- in attendance The celebration lasted practically all afternoon and great interest was displayed by those present The American people are turning to outdoor life -- picnics camping ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments and awards within the professional community of Ohio historians include Edmund J Danziger of Bowling Green State University has been promoted to Chairman of the Department of History Gary R Hess of Bowling Green State University has been appointed Acting Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve David C Skaggs of Bowling Green State University will take a leave of absence to attend the ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Harry Hopkins Ally of the Poor and Defender of Democracy By George McJimsey Cambridge Harvard University Press 1987 xiv 474p illustrations notes index 2500 Perhaps it was the common bond of a Grinnell College education that lured George McJimsey to Harry Hopkins as a biographical subject Certainly few men other than heads of state and a handful of generals were more important than Hopkins during World War II and no one including Franklin D Roosevelt himself was more ...
... AARON D AARON D PURCELL Pursuing Peace Arthur Morgan and Ohio's League to Enforce Peace 1915-1920 From the beginning of World War I in 1914 until the United States entered the war in 1917 a significant number of domestic peace societies emerged These organizations raised funds influenced politicians cultivated public interest and by the end of the war in many cases rallied for President Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations proposal During the war years the largest most effective and best ...
... INDEX INDEX THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Volume 59 AARON MOHAWK INDIAN 33 Athens Co O California company organized Abolitionism blamed for the Civil War 150 in 263-264 About Historians 98-100 201-203 321Auburn 0 Forty-Niners from 265 323 448-451 Audubon - son of John James robbed Adams Charles Francis nominated for presien route to California 261 dent by National Christian Association Audubon John James connected with West284 ern Museum 373 Agassiz Louis founder of ...
... DAVID TOD AND THE GUBERNATORIAL CAMPAIGN DAVID TOD AND THE GUBERNATORIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1844 by DELMER J TRESTER Historian Wright Air Development Center The sound of twenty-six cannon shots rolled across Columbus on the morning of January 8 1844 noisily signaling the beginning of a lively day in the capital At 9 o'clock the Columbus Guards met the Dayton Artillery east of the Scioto river just as the most splendidly beautiful brass piece of the Dayton Artillery sent forth several rounds In half ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 489 the Conference probably could not have been held last year Miss Cornelius as secretary invited the Executive Committee to meet late in June at her home in northern Wisconsin and under the generous hospitality of herself and her family the program for the Conference was drafted The letters asking for active and associate memberships were also drawn up there and on the train which brought the committee back to Chicago Now the campaign was on and the work and the ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States Lyndon B Johnson Two Volumes Washington DC Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Service General Services Administration 1970 Vol I January 1 to June 30 1968 lxix 761p A-93p index 1050 Vol II July 1 1968 to January 20 1969 Ixiii p763-1404 A-93p index 950 Most students of the United States are by now familiar with this continuing series Launched in 1957 it now covers in full the Truman ...
... 634 Ohio Arch 634 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The custodian reports that during the year twenty-two thousand visitors to the park have registered and he estimates that fully as many more did not register making at least forty-four thousand people who visited the park during the year This is the largest number of visitors in a single year in the history of the park This may be due in part to the improved road from Hillsboro to Peebles which passes by the park Signed W H COLE WM C ...
... VIRGINIA E VIRGINIA E and ROBERT W McCORMICK Episcopal Versus Methodist Religious Competition in Frontier Worthington One hundred hearty souls were spending their first winter in crude log homes in a wilderness clearing when James Kilbourn wrote Ohio Senator Thomas Worthington We have formed a regular Society for religious purposes amp have Divine Service performed every Sunday in public 1 It was not unusual for westward immigrants to be religious people or for several families of similar ...
... OHIO'S DEEP ROOTS IN CONNECTICUT OHIO'S DEEP ROOTS IN CONNECTICUT By JOSEPHINE E PHILLIPS To Elijah Backus Esq one of his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the County of New London Comes Zebedee Wood one of the Granjurors of our Soverign Lord the King for the County of New London and Complains amp Gives Your Worshop to Understand that Gideon Baker of Norwich in Said County was on or about the Midle of August Last Guilty of Transgression of Law in Sd Norwich for that he the Sd Baker Did Breek ...
... NATIONALITY GROUPS IN CLEVELAND POLITICS NATIONALITY GROUPS IN CLEVELAND POLITICS By WELLINGTON G FORDYCE The importance of the immigrant in the political life of Cleveland was recognized at an early date both by their own leaders and by native born politicians The foreigner realizes the value of team play and may organize for spoils but he has frequently shown independence and has voted a split ticket With the increase in naturalization which has taken place since the war the foreign vote has ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Workers in Industrial America Essays on the 20th Century Struggle By David Brody New York Oxford University Press 1980 ix 257p notes 1495 In recent years as the intellectual luster of the labor movement has dimmed and unions have become as attractive to scholars as say the Knights of Columbus labor historians have beat a hasty retreat Labor history has become working class history ethnic divisions social mobility and the consciousness or workers increasingly have ...
... JOHN J JOHN J GRABOWSKI From Progressive to Patrician George Bellamy and Hiram House Social Settlement 1896-1914 The institution most closely associated with the birth and early development of turn of the century Progressivism was the social settlement house which best symbolized the movement's drive for reform and order in urban America As aptly described by Allen Davis the settlement houses were spearheads for reform whose partisans were among the first to recognize and attack problems of ...
... VERNON L VERNON L VOLPE Benjamin Wade's Strange Defeat Benjamin Wade is known to countless thousands of undergraduates as Bluff Ben a grim outspoken advocate of equal justice for freed Southern slaves The memorable but not completely flattering portrait of Wade found in most college textbooks sometimes obscures the prominent part the Ohio Senator played in national politics during the great crisis of the Civil War and Reconstruction A leading radical Republican he chaired the powerful Joint ...
... PRESIDENT HARDING AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION by DAVID H JENNINGS Even as President-elect Warren Gamaliel Harding was bidding his Marion neighbors a tender moist-eyed farewell1 world affairs engulfed him With the exception of Lincoln said The Nation never have there been so many pressing and unsolved problems The New Republic described the pressures as truly awful2 Each problem was individually intense and was made more so from the neglect occasioned by Woodrow Wilson's illness ...
... 360 Ohio Arch 360 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications AFTERNOON SESSION President Johnson called the meeting to order at 2 o'clock The audience was delightfully instructed and entertained by Dr George W Rightmire who delivered the following timely address on the subject THE HISTORIAN AND HIS MATERIALS I should like to open my remarks with a quotation from an Italian historian Beccari Long ago he wrote Happy is the country without a history To him history meant military campaigns political ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Better Known as Johnny Appleseed By Mabel Leigh Hunt Philadelphia and New York J B Lippincott Co 1950 212p 250 History is a mixture of legend and fact And of the two legend is the more important For it is what people think happened or say happened not what actually did happen that becomes significant over a period of time Truly no matter how close to an historical fact the research scholar may come the mass of people do not pay heed to him They believe the fiction ...
... McCormick Summer-Autumn 2001 pp 136-152 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page with footnotes according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page An Entrepreneurial Enterprise and the Financial Crisis of 1819 The Worthington Manufacturing Company By Virginia and Robert W McCormick James Kilbourn Photo Courtesy the Worthington Hisorical Society The Worthington ...
... 174 Ohio Arch 174 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications of Ohio had ever received He pointed out that the convention allowed two weeks discussion on the proposition of a bond issue for good roads and permitted without limitation a discussion for nearly three weeks of the liquor question 18 In spite of this appeal for fairness the convention gave less than two days to the question which most delegates considered the most important one before them19 Lastly most of the delegates were of the ...