... VIRGINIA E VIRGINIA E McCORMICK Butter and Egg Business Implications From the Records of a NineteenthCentury Farm Wife Few stereotypes have a clearer image or more persistent endurance than that of the nineteenth-century married woman who devoted herself to home and family and relied upon her husband as the economic provider This image produces the perspective that a dramatic increase has occurred in the labor force participation of women of all income levels including married women who ...
... The Chillicothe Germans by LA VERN J RIPPLEY For nearly a century an element of German culture could be observed in the community life of Chillicothe Ohio Until World War I brought an abrupt end to the general use of their language the Germans developed their own churches schools publications cultural societies and special activities on a scale comparable with other Ohio localities Now however half a century later the Chillicothe Germans as an ethnic group are little more than a dim memory ...
... THE MEMORIAL STRUCTURE AT MARIETTA THE MEMORIAL STRUCTURE AT MARIETTA REPORT OF A COMMITTEE OF THE OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MADE APRIL 6 1888 THE erection of a monumental structure at Marietta to commemorate the important historical events that became a fulfillment of the past as well as the foundation of the future when on the 7th day of April 1788 the pioneer band settled down upon the virgin soil of the Northwest Territory has been a favorite object in the proceedings of ...
... DeMatteo Winter-Spring 2002 pp 7-24 Copyright 2002 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 Death Knell for Progressive Leadership in Cleveland Peter Witt and the Mayoral Election of 1915 By Arthur E DeMatteo click to view larger image Between 1890 and the early 1920s a number of progressive mayors assumed office ...
... Annual Report for 1958 Annual Report for 1958 FOR A DOZEN YEAR S OR MOR E the annual report of this Society has regularly recorded significant advancements in our operations Since World War II we have acquired nine properties including Adena Glendower Fort Meigs and the W P Snyder Jr visitation to the State Memorials has increased by over 1000000 collections have expanded and the educational research publication exhibit library and other services have recorded growing programs The year 1958 ...
... 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 ...
... ROBERT L ROBERT L DAUGHERTY Problems in Peacekeeping The 1924 Niles Riot On November 1 1924 Niles Ohio was the scene of one of the state's most famous riots Replete with violence the riot was characterized by beatings overturned automobiles and even shootings Bands of armed men freely roamed the streets of Niles meeting with little or no opposition from law enforcement agencies Local civil authority in the Niles area-both municipal and county-had all but evaporated in the face of violence and ...
... JEFFREY P JEFFREY P BROWN Samuel Huntington A Connecticut Aristocrat on the Ohio Frontier Samuel Huntington Jr was one of the many ambitious Americans who went west in the early nineteenth century hoping to improve their station in life Although most western pioneers were humble yeoman farmers a significant number of well-to-do citizens also emigrated to the frontier in search of their fortunes Huntington typified this latter group Born to one of Connecticut's most prominent families he moved ...
... MARC LEE RAPHAEL MARC LEE RAPHAEL The Industrial Removal Office in Columbus A Local Case Study Historical studies of American institutions and organizations have overwhelmingly concentrated on the national headquarters of such groups and generally ignored personalities and activities on the local level A look from the bottom-up might clarify the effect of national decisions on local branches the pressures local groups exerted upon national organizations the actuality of national policies and ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Government and Administration of Ohio By Francis R Aumann and Harvey Walker American Commonwealth Series edited by W Brooke Graves New York Thomas Y Crowell Company 1956 xiv489p frontispiece appendix bibliography and index 595 Students of Ohio's government have had their task greatly facilitated in the 1950's by the publication of two volumes In 1953 Professor Albert Rose of the University of Dayton published his Ohio Government State and Local In 1956 Professors ...
... WILLIAM M WILLIAM M DONNELLY Disappointments and Distresses The 37th Infantry Division During the Korean War The Ohio National Guard's 37th Buckeye Infantry Division had a short and unhappy Korean War A division with a proud record in two world wars it did not enter Federal service until early 1952 and it never deployed overseas Indeed by the end of the war in July 1953 the 37th had ceased to exist both as an Ohio National Guard division and as a tactical unit To provide individual ...
... RICHARD M RICHARD M BUDD Ohio Army Chaplains and the Professionalization of Military Chaplaincy in the Civil War While the study of military chaplains is fascinating if only because of the apparent incongruity of peacemakers serving in an institution of warmakers military chaplaincy during the American Civil War is of particular interest because of the insight it offers into the development of the office of chaplain While chaplains had been appointed by Congress as far back as 1775 their role ...
... LORLE A LORLE A PORTER The Lecompton Issue in Knox County Politics Division of the Democracy 1858 The division of the Democratic party in 1857-58 over the issue of the Lecompton Constitution for Kansas proved to be a decisive turning point in American history President James Buchanan by accepting this semi-fradulent attempt to admit Kansas into the Union as a slave state bitterly divided the only remaining national party Senator Stephen A Douglas the Little Giant opposed the constitution and ...
... THE CASE OF THE CASE OF Sara Lucy Bagby A LATE GESTURE by JOHN E VACHA Four southern states had seceded when John Goshorn and his son William S Goshorn set out from Wheeling Virginia for Cleveland Ohio in January of 1861 for the purpose of reclaiming Sara Lucy Bagby an escaped slave who had found temporary refuge doing domestic work in Cleveland Even though the nation was in the midst of its climactic crisis over the slavery issue the Goshorns planned to invoke the invidious Fugitive Slave law ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 473 hours are spent with his family at home where his large library is a notable attraction His appointment as Trustee is regarded by the people who know him well as an eminently appropriate one Albert Douglas of Chillicothe was elected by the Board of Trustees to serve as one of their number for the term of three years from May 23 1913 He was born in Chillicothe Ohio on April 25 1852 He is descended from patriotic New Englanders his great-grandfather having served in ...
... Military Posts in the State of Ohio Military Posts in the State of Ohio 313 FORT ANCIENT AN OUTLINE DESCRIPTION The accompanying map from the survey made under my direction by Messrs Fowke and Cowen will acquaint the reader with the hillsides and the embankments The walls run in very crooked lines always following the brink of deep ravines twisting and turning in the directions which would afford best protection The following briefly narrated facts regarding the embankments should be carefully ...
... 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 ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 109 Then with my waking thoughts Bright with Thy praise Out of my stony griefs Bethel I'll raise So by my woes to be Nearer my God to Thee Nearer to Thee The meeting was concluded with prayer BENEDICTION BY DR JOSEPH S KORNFELD To the departed Emilius Oviatt Randall whom we now affectionately remember may peace and bliss be granted in the realm of eternal life There may he find grace and mercy before the Lord of Heaven and earth May his soul ...
... WILLIAM THOMAS MATHEWS WILLIAM THOMAS MATHEWS The following sketch of William T Mathews one of the most distinguished painters of our state and generation was prepared by his brother Major Charles H Mathews New Philadelphia Ohio and is a sympathetic tribute to the memory of the notable citizen who was known as the Buckeye ArtistEDITOR William T Mathews bachelor artist was a resident of Washington D C for ten or fifteen years previous to his death which occurred at the Emergency Hospital ...
... Dedication of Ohio's World War Memorial 473 Dedication of Ohio's World War Memorial 473 tions in manuscripts newspaper files and local history being especially notable ADDRESS OF CHARLES T GREVE At the conclusion of Mr Cathcart's address which was liberally applauded Professor Siebert introduced Mr Charles T Greve Secretary of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio and well-known author who spoke as follows Mr Chairman and Our Hosts The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical ...