... FISH-HOOKS FOUND AT THE BAUM VILLAGE SITE FISH-HOOKS FOUND AT THE BAUM VILLAGE SITE A COMPARISON WITH THOSE FOUND AT MADISONVILLE AND OTHER PARTS OF THE STATE BY W C MILLS The Baum Prehistoric Village Site is situated in the western part of Ross County Ohio near the small village of Bournville and is located upon one of the gravel terraces in the valley of Paint Creek For two years during the months of July and August the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society has been exploring in ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent appointments retirements and awards within the professional community of Ohio historians include H Roger Grant of The University of Akron has been appointed to the editorial board of Railroad History Warren F Kuehl who joined the history department of The University of Akron in 1964 has retired Roberta S Alexander of the University of Dayton received an NEH-Project '87 Grant to attend a conference on the Constitution Erving Beauregard of the ...
... ERIC J ERIC J CARDINAL The Ohio Democracy and the Crisis of Disunion 1860-1861 One of the least understood political groups in American history has been the northern Democratic party during the Civil War Their contemporary Republican foes vilified them as traitors and subsequent historians have for the most part agreed with that verdict1 Political partisanship ideological conflicts and wartime passions account for the original animus it is less clear why scholars have tended to follow so ...
... Benjamin Wilson Virginia Revolutionary Army lent by Mr Daniel Weiny Columbus O China Teapot gift The Hall China Company East Liverpool O Old Document gift Mrs O D Dryer Columbus O Specimen of Limestone gift Mr Charles Rockhold Columbus 0 Medals gift Mr W J Schultz Cincinnati O 562 Ohio Arch 562 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Stalactites and Photographs of Ohio Caverns gift Mr I E Smith West Liberty O Samples of Early Ohio Brick gift ...
... BRIAN M BRIAN M LINN Pretty Scaly Times The Ohio National Guard and the Railroad Strike of 1877 The employment of the Ohio National Guard at Newark during the railroad strike of 1877 represents an effective use of military force during a potentially explosive labor dispute In contrast to West Virginia Maryland Pennsylvania Illinois Missouri and Indiana the state authorities of Ohio did not have to call on federal troops to enforce civil authority During the strike relations between the militia ...
... LINCOLN'S MINISTER TO MEXICO LINCOLN'S MINISTER TO MEXICO by J JEFFERY AUER Associate Professor of Speech Oberlin College Among the incongruities facing Abraham Lincoln in 1861 was the fact that his minister to Mexico would hold America's most important diplomatic post1 Although France and England the chief consumers of southern cotton were powerful nations possessed of great maritime strength in the event of a Union blockade of the South they could continue the cotton trade only through the ...
... Socialist Party of Ohio-- War and Free Speech by Richard A Folk D uring World War I Ohio Socialists faced the dilemma of what action to take when two imperialistic-capitalistic economies come into conflict According to theoretical Marxism Socialists could not support a struggle the purpose of which was to expand the capitalist system In the United States the Socialist party's National Executive Committee followed this doctrine in August 1914 when it proclaimed the party's opposition to the ...
...Benjamin Van Cleve Israel Benjamin 357 army of Washington is commisVictor Gilbreath an historic character sioned Captain-Lieutenant in artil575 a native of Ohio 576 excerpts lery 585 in battles of Trenton from pamphlet on 576-577 false Princeton Brandywine 585-586 sufstatements the facts in the case 577 fers with soldiers at Valley Forge is birth removal to Wisconsin 578 to commissioned Major ...
... MARIAN J MARIAN J MORTON Go and Sin No More Maternity Homes in Cleveland 1869-1936 In 1869 the Woman's Christian Association of Cleveland founded the Retreat the first of the city's maternity homes and refuges for women who had lost the glory of their womanhood1 Its founders sought to emulate Christ's injunction to Mary Magdalen Woman sin no more thy faith hath saved thee2 As its name suggests the Retreat was a shelter a refuge in which the fallen woman both victim and sinner could be saved ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Early Maps of the Ohio Valley A Selection of Maps Plans and Views Made by Indians and Colonials from 1673 to 1783 By Lloyd Arnold Brown Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press 1959 xiv 132p illustrations maps plans and bibliography 1200 This handsome volume edited by Lloyd A Brown for the Eavenson Cartography Fund is an attractive picture book which summarizes the cartographic history of the Ohio River region from 1673 to 1783 It features a brief introductory ...
... Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 585 Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 585 umes of which was completed some time ago is still passing through the press As originally planned this work was to have been completed in four volumes When the fourth volume was in type it was found that enough manuscript remained for a fifth volume This we learn from the printer is in type awaiting the index to the entire work Increased appropriations for the Publications of the Society were allowed by the last General Assembly ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Ohio in the American Revolution A Conference to Commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the Ft Gower Resolves Edited by Thomas H Smith Volume I of The Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Conference Series Columbus The Ohio Historical Society 1976 34p illustrations 200 Though not one of the thirteen original colonies the Ohio country did play a role in the revolutionary events that the American people have been commemorating during the bicentennial During the decade ...
... WILLIAM GIFFIN WILLIAM GIFFIN Black Insurgency in the Republican Party of Ohio 1920-1932 An extraordinary change in Negro voting patterns has occurred between the postCivil War period and the present The black vote was remarkably consistent for the party of Lincoln from the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment to the New Deal period but this solidly Republican bloc vote was broken during the 1930's The black vote became more and more overwhelmingly Democratic following the New Deal A misleading ...
... Benjamin F 155 CAESAR Julius Benjamin F 11 12 33 Walker Alexander 49 Walker Robert 181 Walker William O 43-45 49-51 53 54 66 Wards 62 Warner Willard 156 Warren Robert Charles 45-46 48 63 66 Washington Booker T 42 45 48 50-51 65-67 Booker T Washington The Wizard of Tuskegee 1901-1915 by Louis R Harlan rev 99-100 Washington Tribune 50 Wasserman test for venereal disease 122 WCA See Woman's ...
... Historical News Historical News The Steubenville Herald-Star celebrated its 150th birthday on June 7 Founded as the Western Herald by William Lowry and John Miller it was operated for thirty years--from 1815 to 1845--by James Wilson the paternal grandfather of President Woodrow Wilson and by his son Robert who succeeded him It is the second oldest newspaper in continuous existence in Ohio the oldest being the Chillicothe Gazette It is a member of the BrushMoore chain Earle W Newton former ...
... Benjamin H Bristow of Benjamin H Bristow was the Benjamin H Bristow So am I Benjamin H Bristow At this Benjamin H Bristow was not Benjamin F Wade Cleveland
... Benjamin's series of articles The Druids IS III Nos 2-5 IV January IV Nos 1-2 March-May 51 Philadelphia Record November 10 1882 72 THE OHIO HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 72 THE OHIO HISTORICAL QUARTERLY thank that the friends of the metre have not yet succeeded in forcing sweeping enactments upon us the institute has caused a halt and so far has proved a stumbling block to our adversary This was the boast of the International Standard52 For the ...
... Howells' Campaign Biography Howells' Campaign Biography Of Rutherford B Hayes A Series of Letters Edited by LEO P COYLE In 1860 William Dean Howells wrote the campaign Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin his first venture in the field of biography Sixteen years later his literary position assured Howells again projected a campaign biography This time the subject was Rutherford B Hayes who occupied the White House from 1877 to 18811 The second campaign book avowedly ...
... Benjamin Harrison offered him the 3 New York Times February 7 1900 4 Robert Lee Dunn William Howard Taft American Boston 1908 262 Dunn's book carries a two-page appendix summarizing the chief events in Taft's life to 1908 5 Pringle Taft I 44 Dunn Taft 262 6 Horace Dutton Taft Memories and Opinions New York 1942 48 7 Dictionary of American Biography XVIII 268 Hereafter cited as DAB 8 Ibid 266 9 Francis McHale President and Chief Justice The ...
... THOMAS A THOMAS A EDISON VISITS HIS BIRTHPLACE The village of Milan Erie County Ohio has acquired nation-wide and world-wide fame as the birthplace of one of the great inventors of the age Thomas Alva Edison was born there February 11 1847 A more extended sketch of this famous son of Ohio is reserved for the future It is the purpose here to record briefly a recent visit of Edison to the place of his birth on Saturday August 11 1923 He came in company with Henry Ford and Harvey S Firestone the ...