... northwestern states Hassaurek of Cincinnati spoke for two and a half hours to the Cleveland Germans on behalf of Lincoln and August Thieme perhaps Cleveland's leading German intellectual stumped Ohio for the Republicans Carl Schurz whom Lincoln described as the foremost among the Republican orators and whom the Democratic Plain Dealer of Cleveland denounced as a red republican with a black ...
... settlement of Warrensville Township Cuyahoga County Ohio by the Shakers SOCIAL HISTORY HEUCK Robert Show Business Over-The-Rhine Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio Bulletin XVI 1958 121-142 German section of Cincinnati History of the Amish in Wayne County Ohio Mennonite Quarterly ...
... EXPLORATION OF THE GINTHER MOUND EXPLORATION OF THE GINTHER MOUND H C SHETRONE CURATOR OF ARCHAEOLOGY The type of prehistoric tumuli known variously as Temple mounds Platform mounds Truncated mounds and Flat-topped mounds has furnished substance for much speculation in the archaeological literature of Ohio The early attitude of writers on the subject may be summarized in the words of Squier and Davis whose opinion is expressed as follows So ...
... OHIOOHIO and the PANAMA CANAL by CHARLES D AMERINGER Uncle Sam digging under the influence of the Sons of Ohio at the right place So ran a toast proposed at the twenty-second annual banquet of the Cincinnati Commercial Club at the Queen City Club on November 13 1902 The reference was to the role
... 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 ...
... settlement so-called shotgun settlement of oustanding claims against European powers including the difficult and protracted dispute with France Belohlavek reserves his highest praise for Jackson's handling of American ties with Great Britain Setting aside past animosities Jackson successfully concluded agreements with America's former enemy over such issues as trade in the West Indies and ...
... FAILURE IN inner - direction by CARL M BECKER In David Riesman's brilliant study of social character types The Lonely Crowd the inner-directed man appears as a typical--indeed the dominant--characterological product of nineteenth-century American civilization1 His values implanted early in life by adult authority and then internalized by the self and supported by edifying print the innerdirected man was rigidly individuated and self-oriented measuring all of life by a personalized yardstick ...
... JAMES LEFFEL DOUBLE TURBINE WATER WHEEL INVENTOR by CARL M BECKER Though the evolution of steam engines in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was a dramatic advance in the development of prime movers waterpower mechanisms retained substantial importance in the industrial growth of western Europe and the United States Indeed European and American inventors were substantially improving conventional water wheels and developing new kinds of fluid mechanisms Much of NOTES ARE ON ...
... DAVID E DAVID E KYVIG Amending the US Constitution Ratification Controversies 1917-1971 Do the American people have the final approval of proposed amendments to the Constitution of the United States or is that power solely in the hands of their state legislators This might seem an inconsequential legal point had not state legislatures on various occasions in the twentieth century actually ratified amendments in the face of clear voter opposition By referendum voters in several states rejected ...
... BOOK REVIEWS THE WESTERN BOOK TRADE CINCINNATI AS A NINETEENTH-CENTURY PUBLISHING AND BOOK TRADE CENTER CONTAINING A DIRECTORY OF CINCINNATI PUBLISHERS BOOKSELLERS AND MEMBERS OF ALLIED TRADES 1796-1880 By Wa l ter Sutton Columbus Ohio State University Press for the Ohio Historical Society 1961 xv360p illustrations bibliography and index 800 On November 9 1793 there came from the crude hand ...
... settlement in the meantime remained conservative in growth as it was in politics Only 12 00 persons resided in that community But most of us today are less enthusiastic about mere expansion and magnitude than we used to be We want to know whether the process is healthy growth or pathological swelling Some people in Cincinnati would be willing to swap the near West End for the Marietta Campus Martius and throw in something to boot Before ...
... settlements in eighteen states settlements is in Lancaster settlement on the one hand and more recent political BOOK REVIEWS 475 BOOK REVIEWS 475 economic and cultural factors on the other Eleven of the twenty-seven chapters deal largely with the period prior to the establishment of statehood The present reviewer fully comprehends the ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR CONFERENCE OF PARK SUPERINTENDENTS The first annual conference of superintendents of parks under the custody of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Museum and Library building August 7 and 8 1929 The work of the conference is set forth in the following PROGRAM FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF PARK SUPERINTENDENTS
... AMERICA'S FIRST WOMAN MAYOR AMERICA'S FIRST WOMAN MAYOR BY ALFRED HEWETSON MITCHELL A native of Ohio who became America's first woman mayor has been honored at Argonia Kansas by a plaque which was erected through the efforts of Kansas club women and dedicated on November 10 1933 Kansas believes in flowers for the living so this plaque was unveiled in the presence of Mrs Susanna M Salter the
... MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT IN AN AVERAGE CITY MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT IN AN AVERAGE CITY CLEVELAND 1876-1900 by JAMES B WHIPPLE Instructor in History Western Reserve University I Studies of municipal politics have tended to emphasize the best governed city or the worst In many ways this may be an accurate reflection of the national scene where contemporaries were preoccupied with the same extremes Cleveland between 1876 and 1900 does not fall into either of these classifications Nevertheless taken as ...
... CLAUDE MEEKER CLAUDE MEEKER JOURNALIST-DIPLOMAT-GENTLEMAN BY LOWRY F SATER A stranger entering the office of Claude Meeker in his absence would have recognized almost at a glance the unusual qualities that characterized the man The arrangement and completeness of the room evidenced a well-ordered and discriminating mind a love of the beautiful a familiarity with good literature an enthusiasm for outdoor life a wide acquaintanceship with the leading men of the State and nation the elements of a ...
... LETTERS OF SENATOR H LETTERS OF SENATOR H B PAYNE OF OHIO CONTRIBUTED BY DUANE MOWRY MILWAUKEE WIS The original of the following letters are in the possession of the contributor They treat of interesting political events interesting particularly to residents of the Buckeye state and to students of the history of the Middle West They would seem to have something more than passing significance because of the prominence of the author of them and ...
... settlement extended past the Ohio Valley Cincinnati became the Central West no longer on the edge of the nation While Drake compared Cincinnati to a green and growing sapling full of potential Cist acknowledged its remoteness from the great art schools of the world88 As the useful technological arts grew and the fine arts declined Cincinnati ironically realized Daniel Drake's dream of a ...
... ROBERT A ROBERT A BURNHAM Obstacles to Plan Implementation in the Age of Comprehensive City Planning Cincinnati's Experience During the period from roughly 1915 to 1945 when city planning became institutionalized in the United States efforts to rationalize the city through comprehensive city planning often met with only measured success1 This stemmed in part from the nature of planning itself in that planning at one level was just that planning a vision to guide the future development of the ...