... 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 ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Adena People No 2 By William S Webb and Raymond S Baby with chapters by Charles E Snow and Robert M Goslin Columbus Ohio State University Press for the Ohio Historical Society 1957 xi123p illustrations map chart tables bibliography and index Paper 300 This attractive well organized and well executed volume summarizes the current views of the authors concerning the Adena people and their culture in the Ohio Valley Data from forty-nine new Adena sites for the most ...
... NEWSPAPERS AND HISTORY NEWSPAPERS AND HISTORY By RAYMOND F FLETCHE R Time's out of joint when a newspaper man ventures to speak at an annual gathering of a great state historical society Whenever a member of the Fourth Estate appraises history he must agree with the sages that it is at the root of all science the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature the unrolled scroll of prophecy the record of man in quest of complete living What possible connection can there be between proud ...
... 664 Ohio Arch 664 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications AFTERNOON SESSION AUDITORIUM OF THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING 130 O'CLOCK The addresses delivered at the afternoon session of the meeting were of an unusually high order Members of the Society and their friends came in large numbers to hear the two noted speakers on the program They soon filled the auditorium to the limit of its capacity and a number were turned away for lack of room The high anticipations of the audience were not ...
... 228 OHIO HISTORY 228 OHIO HISTORY LAKE ERIE Deep shallow becalmed turbulent Restless undulant constantly nascent Shingled by feathers and aerated spray Its mobile surface rarely quiescent Glacier-born and glacier-scoured Time-clock of steady terrestrial action Unfolding to eager sensate ears Nature's story in constant redaction Symbol of restless liquidity Nursery of storms and tumultuous roaring Playground of sail and fin and man Magnet of wing's resistant soaring By day its dome uplifted ...
... JAMES N JAMES N GIGLIO Lawyer as Lobbyist Harry M Daugherty and the Charles W Morse Case 1911-1922 Of all President Warren G Harding's 1920 Cabinet selections none received more opposition than the Attorney General appointment of Harry M Daugherty-a fellow Ohioan who had directed the presidential nomination campaign Both the press and various public officials considered Daugherty a freewheeling lobbyist with a rather unsavory past To buttress their assessment they uncovered the indiscretions ...
... 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 ...
... ROBERT M ROBERT M MENNEL The Family System of Common Farmers The Origins of Ohio's Reform Farm 1840-1858 The early history of the Ohio Reform School for Boys1 which opened in 1858 provides a unique opportunity to analyze the development of attitudes and policies toward juvenile delinquency and related problems such as dependency and neglect-all major concerns of nineteenth century society As the first American institution to combine a decentralized family or cottage building plan with an ...
... The Reds of 1869 by DAVID QUENTIN VOIGT We are a band of baseball players From Cincinnati City We come to toss the ball around And sing to you our ditty And if you listen to the song We are about to sing We'll tell you all about baseball And make the welkin ring The ladies want to know Who are those gallant men in Stockings red they'd like to know When the victorious 1869 Red Stockings were on tour they introduced themselves by singing the team's official song set to the tune of Bonnie Blue ...
... THE SOCIETY'S STATE MEMORIALS WAHKEENA NATURAL HISTORY PRESERVE by DAVID H STANSBERY OVER 200000000 years ago coarse sand and gravel from a slowly eroding mountain range were washed into a shallow sea that covered what is now south-central Ohio During the millions of years that followed the huge beds of sand that formed along the edge of this ocean were first compressed into solid rock then were slowly lifted above the sea level This rock formation the Blackhand Sandstone forms the bedrock ...
... Public Opinion and the Chinese Question 1876-1879 by GARY PENNANEN Diplomatic problems are not considered to have been of much consequence during the presidency of Rutherford B Hayes While not many preWorld War I judgments concerning the history of the period have escaped revisionism an assessment of Hayes's diplomacy made by Charles R Williams in 1914 has withstood the test of time Few subjects of large importance in the foreign relations of the Government demanded action or attention during ...
... EXPLORATIONS OF THE GARTNER MOUND AND EXPLORATIONS OF THE GARTNER MOUND AND VILLAGE SITE WM C MILLS CURATOR OF THE STATE ARCH AND HIST SOCIETY The Gartner mound located partly upon the land of Mr Adam Gartner and partly upon that of Miss Elizabeth Lievy is situated about six miles north of Chillicothe on the east side of the Scioto river The river bank at this point is quite high upward of 70 feet above low water mark and is very irregular with here and there spurs running up to the river ...
... THE REFORM MOVEMENT IN OHIO AT THE TURN THE REFORM MOVEMENT IN OHIO AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY By JAME S H RODABAUGH The end of the nineteenth century in a very real sense sounded the knell of the frontier or pioneer period of American development and opened the doors upon a new era in which industrialization and its concomitant social and economic reorganization and readjustments and political bewilderment were the dominant forces Frederick Jackson Turner opened his remarkably perceptive ...
... MEMBERSHIP IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEMBERSHIP IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF OHIO BY B H PERSHING Professor in Wittenberg College Since pure democracy is not possible in any country with a numerous population every republic finds itself under the necessity of devising some system of representation The emergence in America of geographical areas having in every case a historical background and a political consciousness has made the problem more complex here than in lands in which artificial ...
... HENRY B HENRY B CURTIS A MEMORIAL ADDRESS1 AT the re-organization of this Society in March 1885 Hon Henry B Curtis of Mt Vernon was elected as its First Vice President It is now our sad duty formally to announce the death of Mr Curtis which occurred on the fifth day of last November at the residence of his grand-daughter Mrs Charles D Seeberger in the City of Chicago Ill where he was stopping for a few days on his way home from a business trip farther West Upon this occasion it is eminently ...
... LAWRENCE GROSSMAN LAWRENCE GROSSMAN In His Veins Coursed No Bootlicking Blood The Career of Peter H Clark Peter H Clark was one of the most prominent black leaders of the nineteenth century Working as a schoolteacher he emerged as a champion of the antebellum Negro community in Cincinnati achieved recognition after the Civil War as one of the leading black men of Ohio and became a figure of national importance in racial matters by the 1880s Though Clark's fame proved ephemeral an understanding ...
... Miss Newcomb and the Talking Machine Miss Newcomb and the Talking Machine Edited by ROBERT M WARNER ON THE MORNING OF MAY 25 1878 the girls of the female seminary at Painesville Ohio interrupted their normal school routine to bark mew crow and tell Mother Goose rhymes to a most unusual auditor--a strange looking machine which listened patiently to all their confidences and then performed the amazing feat of repeating them all back again to the intrigued listeners For the first time in their ...
... GERALD W GERALD W WOLFF Mark Hanna's Goal American Harmony 'A man who won't meet his men half-way is a G d fool' declared Mark Hanna one day in 1894 He was referring to the Pullman strike and the fact that troops had been sent to end it That terse profane comment tells a great deal about Hanna He was above all else a pragmatist with a canny ability to successfully adjust to changing conditions Twenty years previously when his coal mines were struck troops had been brought in--with disastrous ...
... THE FORMATION OF THE ECLECTIC SCHOOL THE FORMATION OF THE ECLECTIC SCHOOL IN CINCINNATI By RALPH TAYLOR MD It is now more than a century since the first Eclectic College was organized in Ohio and the century mark for the Eclectic Medical Institute will soon be reached It is difficult to visualize the social domestic and commercial life of the country when these schools were founded The writer doubts if one can thoroughly visualize Ohio without a single college of any appreciable size instead ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments Reviews Notes and Comments 559 He was a Kentuckian by birth and his daughter became the wife of George D Prentice the gifted editor and writer of Louisville Kentucky HONORS AWARDED TO OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY MEN The following announcement in a local paper is of general interest We are pleased to note that our state archaeologist is included in the honor roll Membership in the Ohio State University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa honorary scholastic fraternity has been ...