... THE ELECTION OF 1848 IN OHIO THE ELECTION OF 1848 IN OHIO BY ERWIN H PRICE CHAPTER I THE LEGISLATIVE AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND In the year 1848 in Ohio the Whig administration under Governor William Bebb was drawing to a close In the Legislature there was a Whig majority whose efforts were sometimes embarrassed by an energetic group of Democrats This opposition moreover had the advantage of working with the party in power in national politics at Washington The Ohio representation in Congress ...
... DANIEL DRAKE AND THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE IN DANIEL DRAKE AND THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE IN THE OHIO VALLEY1 By DAVID A TUCKER JR Biographical Sketch This is the story of a man of whom few of you have heard Such is fame For Daniel Drake was in his day the greatest physician of the West the founder of sound medical education in the Ohio Valley and one of the most unique and picturesque figures in the history of American medicine He was born on a farm in New Jersey October 20 1785 His parents were ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 65 NUMBER 1 JANUARY 1956 From England to Ohio 1830-1832 The Journal of Thomas K Wharton Edited by JAMES H RODABAUGH This is the journal of an immigrant boy who came from his native England to the United States in 1830 and lived for nearly two years in Ohio It was transcribed by the author in 1854 and here and there recollections were added It is an interesting journal for several reasons It relates in detail the story of the ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 419 his trustees that he would not serve unless they would pledge themselves to raise an endowment fund They decided to start at once The financial committee which will have charge of raising the fund consists of L P Baldwin D Z Norton and W S Hayden Its power to name other members is unlimited Until the endowment fund is raised the museum will be supported as for the past two years in part on its guarantee fund and in part from the proceeds of a lecture course The ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR THOMAS BARTLEY ACTING GOVERNOR AND JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO Singular though it may seem the biographies of Judge Bartley that have appeared from time to time in Ohio publications are without exception incomplete Beyond the record of the fact that he served a short time as governor to fill out the unexpired term of Wilson Shannon who had been appointed ...
... 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 ...
... JANET R JANET R DALY BEDNAREK False Beacon Regional Planning and the Location of Dayton's Municipal Airport Introduction At first glance one might logically conclude that the location of Dayton's municipal airport represented a case of deliberate regional planning Approximately eleven miles north of the city's central business district its placement near the city of Vandalia Ohio suggests that those who chose that location had an image or vision of the city of Dayton which extended beyond the ...
... ROBERT A ROBERT A BUERKI Pharmaceutical Education in Nineteenth-Century Ohio The development of pharmacy as a profession in America had its roots in English customs and traditions the colonial practice of pharmacy differing from that of its mother country only in being more lax and unrestricted and standing on a somewhat lower level Only a small minority of its practitioners was educated beyond an apprenticeship that lacked both the system and standards that strong English guilds had once ...
... THE MICHIGAN-INDIANA-OHIO MUSEUMS THE MICHIGAN-INDIANA-OHIO MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION Edited by HARLOW LINDLEY In the autumn of 1927 at the invitation of Mr George R Fox of the Chamberlain Memorial Museum of Three Oaks Michigan a small group of museum workers from Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan met in Three Oaks for a conference and round table discussion Mr Charles E Brown chief of the Wisconsin Historical Museum at Madison was in attendance and led some of the discussions At the close of ...
... Remarks of J Remarks of J V Jones 175 REMARKS OF J V JONES ESQ LADIES AND GENTLEMENIt would hardly be proper for me to say fellow-citizens for the reason of having been absent from your county for nearly fifty-eight years During that time many changes have been wrought in the city of Gallipolis and Gallia county Eighty-one years ago a young married couple might have been seen slowly wending their way on horseback down the slopes of the Blue Ridge and foot-hills of the Allegheny Mountains of ...
... 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 ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS HISTORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ORAGNIZATION IN THE NORTHWEST 1824-184 0 BY HOMER J WEBSTER PH D Department of History University of Pittsburgh NOTE In the preparation of this work the writer has received very helpful suggestions from Professor Frederic L Paxson of the University of Wisconsin while in every part of the work he has received invaluable assistance from his wife-Edith Francisco Webster To both of these he desires to express here ...
... CLAUDE MEEKER CLAUDE MEEKER 1861-1929 IN MEMORIAM Addresses Delivered at a Special Meeting of the Kit-Kat Club of Columbus Ohio December 2 1930 Interesting remarks were also made on this occasion by Mr Osman C Hooper who brought a message from Professor French and with it a copy of Mr Meeker's book-plate which Professor French had made for him Mr Arthur C Johnson Sr spoke of Mr Meeker's never failing interest in newspaper work and stated that he had prepared a number of articles the last year ...
... a 422 EXPLORATION OF THE MOUND CITY GROUP EXPLORATION OF THE MOUND CITY GROUP BY WILLIAM C MILLS INTRODUCTORY NOTE Probably no other American prehistoric earthwork has excited so great a degree of historic interest as the so-called Mound City group of Ross County Ohio Certainly from the prehistoric viewpoint it stands unsurpassed Through the partial examination of the group in 1846 by Squier and Davis and the publication of the report in Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 3 31 Mrs Tuttle is a writer of great merit being a lady of unusual culture and scholarship Her husband was the late Prof Herbert Tuttle the distinguished historical writer and lecturer at Cornell University With her husband Mrs Tuttle spent some years abroad and became proficient as a linguist and an artist She not only writes in a delightful manner but wields the artist's brush both in portraiture and landscape with equal talent and charm That she is deeply ...
... SUNSET COX OHIO'S CHAMPION OF COMPROMISE IN SUNSET COX OHIO'S CHAMPION OF COMPROMISE IN THE SECESSION CRISIS OF 1860-1861 by DAVID LINDSEY Associate Professor of History Baldwin-Wallace College Among the political leaders of the blundering generation of 1860-61 no one deplored the tragic drift of events toward armed conflict more than Samuel Sullivan Cox of Ohio Son of a pioneer printer from New Jersey Cox had been born and reared in Zanesville and schooled at Ohio University and Brown ...
... Organizing a National Convention Organizing a National Convention A Lesson from Senator Dick E dited by THOMAS E FELT FROM THE CIVIL WAR to the present the engineers and operators of Ohio's major party machinery have been obliged by circumstances to learn their trade thoroughly The state's strategic geographic position its coveted electoral votes and its diverse economic interests have made it not only a home of presidents and would-be presidents but a school for party managers as well In this ...
... 580 Ohio Arch 580 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications portunity to know both sides of the story of the conquest of the Northwest Territory Clark's achievement gave the infant Republic of the United States its claim to the vast region northwest of the River Ohio and east of the Mississippi Assuredly he and his followers are entitled to the memorial that is to be erected on the site of Old Vincennes February 25 1929 commemorative of the capture of that Post February 25 1779 OFFICIAL ROSTER ...
... 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 ...
... Haverkamp Summer-Autumn 2001 pp 121-135 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page with footnotes according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page Roosevelt and Taft How the Republican Vote Split in Ohio in 1912 By Michael Haverkamp click to view full image We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord Teddy Roosevelt told supporters outside the Republican ...