... 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 ...
... THE The collection of manuscripts letters books and other items of literary and historical interest listed in this catalog was presented to the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society in memory of Dolores Cameron Venable by her husband Emerson Venable and her daughter Evelyn Venable THE DOLORES CAMERON VENABLE MEMORIAL COLLECTION Correspondence Boxes 2-16 Letters from William Henry Venable1 to Coates Kinney2 and from Coates Kinney to William Henry Venable 238 letters covering the ...
... JAMES FAIRCHILD BALDWIN M JAMES FAIRCHILD BALDWIN MD 1850-1936 by GEORGE M CURTIS MD James Fairchild Baldwin surgeon extraordinary was born in the little village of Orangeville New York on February 12 1850 He died at Columbus Ohio on January 20 1936 approximately 86 years of age He had practiced almost sixty years and nearly forty of these as a surgeon A master of his craft this rugged individualist was finally conquered by one of the surgical diseases of which the least was then known i e ...
... 600 Ohio Arch 600 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications He was community-minded He was proud of his city He loved his neighbor He was devoted to his friends He was so unselfish gracious thoughtful and kind as Governor Cox said that he exalted the thing we too casually call friendship He found good in everything and was always of good cheer--a kindhearted courteous high-minded cultured gentleman the like of which we shall not look upon again soon CLAUDE MEEKER AS MEMBER OF THE KIT-KAT CLUB ...
... DORAMAE O'KELLEY DORAMAE O'KELLEY Late Nineteenth Century Courthouse Architecture in Northwestern Ohio As one drives through northwestern Ohio the most impressive object to be seen on the skyline of many communities might be the massive towered form of the county courthouse Often the city's largest and most distinguished example of architecture these courthouses were all built in the last thirty years of the nineteenth century The importance these structures held for the people of the county ...
... 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 ...
... Benjamin Drake and Edward D Benjamin Van Cleve Memoirs entry for August 1 1792 in Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio Quarterly Publications XVII Nos 1-2 January-June 1922 40 13 Timothy Flint Recollections of the Last Ten Years Boston 1826 15 14 Western Keelboatmen in American Pioneer II 1843 272-273 15 Noah Miller Ludlow Dramatic Life as I Found It St Louis 1880 35-38 58 84-85 16 ...
... Benjamin Peixotto appointed Benjamin D Nicola United States commissioner Charles I Russo first assistant United States district attorney Anthony Fioretti assistant law director Michael Picciano chief police prosecutor Samuel Lograsso assistant police prosecutor Alexander De Maioribus councilman and Eleanor C Farina assistant police prosecutor The Office of Police Prosecutor has been ...
... THE OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE 1941 THE OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE 1941 The Ohio History Conference April 4-5 1941 included the Fifty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Columbus Genealogical Society the Third Annual Meeting of the Committee on Archives and Medical History of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society with the cooperation of the Ohio State ...
... ROBERT B ROBERT B FAIRBANKS Housing the City The Better Housing League and Cincinnati 1916-1939 A varity of historians have dealt with the housing movement in America prior to the Great Depression examining how the reformers viewed the housing needs around them Robert H Bremner in From the Depths explained how the environmental emphasis of Progressive housing reform reflected the changing view of poverty from the mid-nineteenth century notion which had blamed individual moral breakdown Roy ...
... Benjamin Franklin Chapter Columbus Chas C Shearer President Nathaniel Greene Chapter Xenia Robert M Davidson President George Washington Chapter Newark Disney Rogers President Nathan Hale Chapter Youngstown Board of Management O W Aldrich Columbus James H Anderson Columbus Charles O Probst Columbus Thomas M Anderson Sandusky John W Harper Cincinnati Moulton Houk Toledo James H Hayward Columbus and the officers of the Society ex-officio ...
... 328 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 328 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY DOCUMENTARY DATA BY BERTHA E JOSEPHSON Among comments evoked by the April-June issue was a suggestion that researchers might like to learn more about the private papers of Ohio governors in possession of this department The official or public executive correspondence from 1803 to 1 928 and from 1941-1944 are under custody here as State Archives For the period from 1803-1878 there is an unpublished ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR SOLDIERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BURIED IN OHIO This is the title of a book which has long been in demand by citizens of Ohio and many beyond the borders of that state who have learned through tradition or otherwise that their Revolutionary ancestors came to this state and are probably buried here The arduous work of collecting material for this volume was undertaken by the Daughters of the American Revolution under the ...
... JOHN BROWN JOHN BROWN ADDITIONAL NOTES BY C B GALBREATH JOHN BROWN'S FRIENDS IN WASHINGTON The following letter to John Brown Jr which so far as we know has never before been published states clearly whom the writer regarded as friends in Congress This letter is now of historic interest only Had it been published at the time it was written it would doubtless have created some commotion and have made trouble for some of the congressmen named The letter is here reproduced literally ROCHESTER N Y ...
... Eggleston was named recording secretary and authorized to visit Chicago and arrange suitable accommodations for the Ohio delegation while in Chicago At the same time Cartter was invested with authority to summon the Ohio delegates together for a special meeting at any time prior to the Convention should he deem it expedient to do so80 While these events were taking place in Columbus Chase now senator-elect81 was in the East pushing his own ...
... GOOD WILL IN FIELDS OF PEACE GOOD WILL IN FIELDS OF PEACE By Louis BLAKE DUFF We hear in these September days the clock of destiny click the clock of your destiny the clock of Canadian destiny the clock of world destiny A momentous month draws to a close In it your role and ours has been changed By one stroke there has been made a new relationship and may no evil fate ever disturb it There sprang up overnight almost a new doctrine that the defense of the North American continent is one single ...
... LETTERS OF SENATOR H LETTERS OF SENATOR H B PAYNE OF OHIO CONTRIBUTED BY DUANE MOWRY MILWAUKEE WIS The original of the following letters are in the possession of the contributor They treat of interesting political events interesting particularly to residents of the Buckeye state and to students of the history of the Middle West They would seem to have something more than passing significance because of the prominence of the author of them and of the public men and public measures considered It ...
... Benjamin Columbus Ohio World War insignia loan Mr Eli Gabriel Columbus Ohio Chinese opium outfit and pipe made by soldier of Civil war Mr Harry R McPherson Columbus Ohio Darke County record books Dr Harlow Lindley Columbus Ohio wooden butter mould Mr Homer Zimmerman Sugar Creek Ohio glass flask Miss Bertha Eisenbeis Columbus Ohio valentine of 1830 Mr J Russell Hayes Swarthmore Pa 1 70 Quaker books Robert M Miller Columbus Ohio gas mask The ...
... COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS The ITINERANT ARTIST In Early Ohio by DONALD R MacKENZIE THE PAINTING collection of the Ohio Historical Society represents all phases of midwestern painting in the nineteenth century Since the opening of the Hall of Paintings at the Ohio State Museum in 1953 a new emphasis has been placed on the Society's permanent collection and its contribution to knowledge of the cultural heritage of the state Today the native American quality of early nineteenth century paintings ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews PR Politics in Cincinnati Thirty-Two Years of City Government Through Proportional Representation By Ralph A Straetz New York New York University Press 1958 xvii312p bibliography and appendix 500 From an early day the political history of Cincinnati has been a study in contrasts The home of such notable national figures as Edward McLean Joseph B Foraker William Howard Taft Nicholas Longworth Judson Harmon and Robert A Taft it also numbers among its sons such divergent ...