... JEPTHA H JEPTHA H WADE AND THE CLEVELAND AND CINCINNATI TELEGRAPH COMPANY by RUSSELL H ANDERSON Director Western Reserve Historical Society Jeptha H Wade was the organizer moving spirit and principal owner of the Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company and the story of his activities in building and operating its line leads into his career in the nation-wide telegraph field especially as a principal in the Western Union Telegraph Company It was with this Ohio line that Wade capitalizing ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 66 NUMBER 4 OCTOBER 1957 Ohio's Germans 1840-1875 By CARL WITTKE The great period of German immigration is long since past and the Germans have been diluted and absorbed along with other nationality groups into a composite Americanism A century ago German immigrants in number and quality constituted one of the most important elements in the American population Most of them were plain people peasants laborers or craftsmen ...
... THE MEDICAL TRAINING OF MATTHEW SIMPSON THE MEDICAL TRAINING OF MATTHEW SIMPSON 1830-1833 by ROBERT D CLARK Assistant Dean College of Liberal Arts University of Oregon Among the sources which give some insight into the medical and general education of the early Ohio physician are the papers of Matthew Simpson Simpson after a brief period as a physician became in the middle of the nineteenth century a bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church and one of the most eloquent pulpit and platform ...
... Tecumseh Tecumseh 497 says her husband was killed fighting by the side of Tecumseh in the battle of the Thames but Shane speaks of him as quoted by Drake as Tecumseh's friend and brother-in-law Wasegoboah It would appear from this that Masonville had united with the Indians assumed an Indian name and becamereconciled to Tecumseh Shane further states that after the War of 1812 Tecumsapease went to Quebec probably with her nephew Pugeshashenwa whence after a time she returned to Detroit where ...
... Index Index Saunders Richard Erie Railroad 7 Scale and Scope The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism by Alfred D Chandler Jr rev 61-63 Scarlet Woman of Wall Street The See Erie Lackawanna Railway Company Scharff Virginia Taking the Wheel Women and the Coming of the Motor Age rev 64-66 Schob David E Schob book rev 147-148 Scioto Company The 117 Scioto River 119 120 Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks One Hundred Years of Preservation and Resource Management California History by Lary M ...
... JUDGE TOURGEE AND RECONSTRUCTION JUDGE TOURGEE AND RECONSTRUCTION By RUSSEL B NYE Albion Winegar Tourgee Ohioan novelist political thinker soldier editor jurist and diplomat was a man whose comments upon the political and social questions of the late nineteenth century form an interesting chapter in the development of American thought Born in Williamsfield Ohio in 1838 of Huguenot German and Yankee stock he spent a normal boyhood amid the farms and villages of northern Ohio1 After study at ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 70 NUMBER 4 OCTOBER 19 61 From Free-Love to Catholicism Dr and Mrs Thomas L Nichols At Yellow Springs By PHILIP GLEASON AS THE SLAVERY controversy grew more intense in the mid1850's many of the reform movements which had preoccupied large numbers of Americans in the previous decade were submerged in the mainstream of the antislavery movement Yet currents of reform not connected with antislavery did persist and one of the most ...
... Who Wrote Who Wrote The Harp of a Thousand Strings By GEORGE KUMMER OF THE ECCENTRICS who flourished in the backwoods areas of America in the first half of the nineteenth century the Hardshell Baptist preachers were among the most amusing to outsiders Travelers through the South and West found diversion in contemplating the oddities of these sermonizers who unlike the clergy of most other denominations made no bones about chewing tobacco or drinking whiskey in public1 Dead set against ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Ohio Its People and Culture By George C Crout and W E Rosenfelt Minneapolis T S Denison amp Co 1977 281p illustrations maps index 695 I optimistically launched my reading of Ohio Its People and Culture with the hope that the book would help to meet the need of junior high school teachers for a fresh and lively treatment of Ohio history Unfortunately my optimism was misplaced In a word the book is sloppy It appears to lack clarity in conceptualization is permeated with ...
... GEORGE C GEORGE C RABLE William T Sherman and the Conservative Critique of Radical Reconstruction Paradoxes abound The avenging angel of the Union whose army made not only Georgia but the Carolinas howl became the generous conciliator after Appomattox The insecure general who loathed partisan machination was sucked into the maelstrom of Washington politics The arch-enemy of the Confederacy turned into the friend of his fallen foes A superb subject for psychological analysis William Tecumseh ...
... 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 ...
... 265 265 Book Reviews The Loyalist Americans A Focus on Greater New York Edited by Robert A East and Jacob Judd Tarrytown Sleepy Hollow Restorations 1975 xiv 176p illustrations notes appendix index 1200 Few aspects of life during the colonial era have failed to be singled out and judged in terms of their importance to the American Revolution yet important phases of that event remain inadequately explored Although the subject of several recent investigations Loyalism is a case in point For this ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Women and the American Labor Movement From Colonial Times to the Eve of World War I By Philip S Foner New York The Free Press Macmillan Publishing Co Inc 1979 xi 621p illustrations notes bibliography index 1595 The wealth of material on American working women in Philip Foner's new book should convince even the most intransigent critic of women's history that working women do have an active lively and moving history Foner making use of the growing body of excellent ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 603 DEATH OF CALEB H GALLUP Hon Caleb Hathaway Gallup for many years a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and Trustee by election of the members for a period of six years from 1909 to 1915 died at Norwalk his home on Saturday October 16 1915 He was a man of unusual ability endowed with a strong determined character His life was a busy and fruitful one He was born in Norwalk Ohio May 10 1834 and had therefore passed his eighty-first ...
... STANLEY L STANLEY L SWART Early Efforts at State-Level Law Enforcement The Failure of Ohio's Supervision of Local Police Authorities 1902-1925 At the time of its founding in 1803 Ohio placed responsibility for enforcing its criminal statutes and maintaining public order in the hands of traditional local officials and did little to change this practice for ninety-nine years1 County sheriffs township constables city and village mayors and marshals and city watches carried the burden until 1859 ...
... SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL XLIV For Index of Authors see Contents Abstract of the Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society April 23 1935 374 Address at the Unveiling of the Galbreath Memorial Plaque by Harold G Simpson 391-392 Afternoon Session of the Forty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 374-392 Annual Report of the Secretary of the Ohio State ...
... FRANK P FRANK P VAZZANO Harry Hopkins and Martin Davey Federal Relief and Ohio Politics During the Great Depression The Great Depression and its accompanying economic and social dislocations catapulted a number of personalities to a national prominence they would never have experienced in easier times They ranged from the eccentric to the demagogic and found ready audiences among Americans eager to grasp any alternative to the despair of the 1930s Foremost of the new prophets were Dr Francis ...
... 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 ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 217 Reviews Notes and Comments 217 A LATE ESTIMATE OF JOHN BROWN The time will never come perhaps when there will not be conflicting opinions in regard to John Brown and his mission It is remarkable however how well without any special advocate his character stands the test of time In spite of the critical portions of the biography written by Oswald Garrison Villard and the severe attack occupying an entire volume by Hill Peebles Wilson written for a consideration ...
... 248 Ohio Arch 2 48 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications such service varies but never ceases And it must come from its citizens themselves if our Republic is to live Sincerely yours JUDSON HARMON TRIBUTE OF EX-GOV J B FORAKER APRIL II 1917 DEAR MR LIGGITT I have your letter of April 9th and sincerely thank you for the privilege you give me of saying something about the Battle Flags to be incorporated in the Memorial Book you are intending to publish If I were in better health I would no ...