... MEDICAL JOURNALS OF PIONEER DAYS MEDICAL JOURNALS OF PIONEER DAYS By JONATHAN FORMAN MD We are going back today to a time when entrance into our profession was largely through apprenticeship when operations were done without anesthesia and without antiseptics when mistakes in diagnosis errors in judgment or lack of dexterity in operating were published with every accompaniment of insult and derision which malice could suggest when nursing in hospitals was done by women of the charwomen class ...
... PROCEEDINGS 287 PROCEEDINGS 287 MR STOUT To honor Mr Sater I think it would be very fitting that these resolutions become a part of the Minutes of our Society Will someone make a motion to that effect A motion was made by Mr Spetnagel and seconded by Mr Roof that these resolutions be made a part of the Minutes of the Society The motion was unanimously carried Mr Spetnagel chairman of the Nominating Committee then made the following report Speaking for your Nominating Committee I wish to ...
... 276 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 27 6 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Mr Frank A Livingston President of the first-named organization presided Dr Harold J Grimm of the Ohio State University presented a paper on The Genealogist as Historian and Dr Harlow Lindley of the Ohio State Museum read a paper prepared by Mr Delbert L Gratz of Bluffton Ohio on The Swiss Mennonites of Alien and Putnam Counties THE GENEALOGIST AS HISTORIAN By HAROLD J GRIMM The genealogist ...
... IMMIGRANT COLONIES IN CLEVELAND IMMIGRANT COLONIES IN CLEVELAND By WELLINGTON G FORDYCE In any discussion of the social political religious and economic problems of the United States as related to its immigrant population the cities of New York Chicago and Detroit are usually the principal cities mentioned Little Italy The Ghetto or Chinatown are more apt to provoke visions of the settlements in New York and Chicago than those of any other city The foreign districts of New York are generally ...
... SALMON PORTLAND CHASE SALMON PORTLAND CHASE UNDERGRADUATE AND PEDAGOGUE BY ARTHUR MEIER SCHLESINGER OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Salmon Portland Chase was a significant member of that group of political radicals who plunged the nation into civil convulsions by their accession to governmental power in the late '5o's Much has been written of Chase the anti-slavery lawyer the organizer of the Liberty party the war financier the chief justice but of Chase the youth the college student the school teacher ...
... SALMON PORTLAND CHASE SALMON PORTLAND CHASE UNDERGRADUATE AND PEDAGOGUE BY ARTHUR MEIER SCHLESINGER OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Salmon Portland Chase was a significant member of that group of political radicals who plunged the nation into civil convulsions by their accession to governmental power in the late '5o's Much has been written of Chase the anti-slavery lawyer the organizer of the Liberty party the war financier the chief justice but of Chase the youth the college student the school teacher ...
... PROFESSOR ROBERT WHITE McFARLAND'S PROFESSOR ROBERT WHITE McFARLAND'S HISTORY OF THE ASTRONOMICAL PIER AT MIAMI UNIVERSITY A recent issue of the Alumni News Letter of Miami University published the history of the Astronomical Pier at Miami University Oxford Ohio as it was written by Professor Robert White McFarland with a quill pen in 1904 and sent to Dr Clyde Fisher an alumnus of that institution and now curator of astronomy and visual instruction at the American Museum of Natural History New ...
... STEPHEN C STEPHEN C FOX The Bank Wars the Idea of Party and the Division of the Electorate in Jacksonian Ohio Among the recent interpretations that have reinvigorated Jacksonian studies two in particular have proved to be central to understanding that period first that the Bank of the United States and banking in general were issues with more political than economic significance and second that it was during the Jacksonian era that Americans learned to accept the legitimacy and competitive ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Mrs Harry B Longsworth Secretary and Editor The October and December issues of the Reporter Nos 33 and 34 are devoted to an article on the Faurot Opera House in Lima The story was prompted by the contemplated razing of the Faurot Block The Opera House constructed in 1881 at a cost of 22500000 was said to have been the finest between New York and Denver The Society opened the season's meetings on October 30 ...
... MAN AND NATURE IN MODERN OHIO1 MAN AND NATURE IN MODERN OHIO1 by PAUL B SEARS Professor of Botany Oberlin College My theme is law It is a curious paradox that science whose practitioners proudly boast that they take nothing for granted rests upon faith Science is in fact what our theological friends would call an act of faith The faith to which I refer is a profound belief that the universe of our experience is a universe of law and order2 Without a conviction that the world of experience must ...
... A Granville Cooper's Experience A Granville Cooper's Experience With Barter in the 1820's By PETER FOX SMITH I N 1805 A COMPANY OF NEW ENGLANDERS from Granville Massachusetts journeyed over the mountains to the west crossed the Ohio River and settled near the center of the infant state of Ohio Today Granville Ohio which is populated by some two thousand villagers and fourteen hundred students of Denison University still retains some characteristics of her eastern heritage One of the oldest ...
... THE FINNS IN OHIO THE FINNS IN OHIO BY EUGENE VAN CLEEF The United States has been developed by motley groups of peoples from numerous divergent lands principally from European countries Among the representatives from these foreign nations are stalwart migrants from fascinating Finland In the course of a century or more the Finns have settled largely in our northern tier of states Their numbers today including those born in this country but of foreign or mixed parentage total 320536 Slightly ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 64 NUMBER 4 OCTOBER 1955 The Correspondence of George A Myers and James Ford Rhodes 1910-1923-IV Edited by JOHN A GARRATY RHODES TO MYERS Boston May 22 1920 Dear George I have yr two valued favors of Apr 30 and May 12 the latter enclosing two editorials from the P D which I have read with great interest Senator Lodge is a very able man The contest has been between him and the President The President has had a stroke of ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 417 who are interested in this work The undersigned committee will be glad to receive suggestions concerning speakers lists of names and addresses of history workers details concerning local history organizations and patriotic societies and any other sources of information that will assist in rendering the conference a success Address communications to Frank P Goodwin 3435 Observatory Place Cincinnati Ohio HOW GOVERNOR MEIGS GOT HIS NAME Where did the parents of ...
... JAMES E JAMES E CEBULA The New City and the New Journalism The Case of Dayton Ohio Prior to the introduction of mass transportation systems the nineteenth century city was physically compact with diverse land usages in close proximity to each other With the availability of railroads street cars and inter-urban electric rail lines the urban population could live further away from the workplace and entrepreneurs would recognize the advantages of building in less congested areas These increased ...
... GENERAL INDEX TO VOL GENERAL INDEX TO VOL XLVII Abbott Wilbur C--The Influence of American Historical Review 243 291 292 Graduate Instruction on Historical Writ293 ing 243 244 American Imprints 232 234 Aberdeen Lord Gordon George HamilInventory of 238 ton 20 21 American Institute of Instruction 18 Abolition Movement 37 323 324 325 327 American Library Association 255 Academie de Medicine Paris 158 American Literature 254 Academie des Sciences129 132 American Moral Reform Society 1 Adams John ...
... ORIGIN AND SIGNIFICANCE OF PENNSYLVANIA ORIGIN AND SIGNIFICANCE OF PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH BARN SYMBOLS By AUGUST C MAHR On a great number of Pennsylvania Dutch barns there are geometrical ornaments painted on the outside walls ornaments which as a rule show some sort of star within a circular disk Figs 1 2 8 10b They occur most frequently in Berks and the neighboring counties less frequently in other parts of Pennsylvania and locally even in Ohio and other states of the Union where Pennsylvania ...
... WHISTLE-STOPPING Through Ohio by RICHARD O DAVIES Ohio played an important role in returning Harry S Truman to the White House in 1948 Prior to the election he had been foredoomed to defeat by all reputable political seers Ohio was seen as being safely within the Republican fold and was supposedly prepared to take part in a nationwide Republican blitz Elmo Roper for example quit taking samples of voter preference as early as September 9 with the comment that only a political convulsion could ...
... BERNARD STERNSHER BERNARD STERNSHER Depression and New Deal in Ohio Lorena A Hickok's Reports to Harry Hopkins 1934-1936 Lorena A Hickok newspaperwoman and friend of Eleanor Roosevelt served as Harry Hopkins' Chief Field Investigator during his tenure as head of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration FERA between 1933 and 1935 and the Works Progress Administration WPA from 1935 to 1938 Born in East Troy Wisconsin in 1893 Hickok began her journalistic career with the Milwaukee Sentinel and ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Spring Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held April 21-22 1995 at Otterbein College in Westerville Ohio For further information contact Donna L Van Raaphorst History Department Cuyahoga Community College Western Campus Cleveland Ohio 44130-5199 The Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies of Saint Mary's University will be holding its 7th North American Fur Trade Conference in Halifax Nova Scotia on May 24-28 1995 The ...