... ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1945 To THE OFFICERS TRUSTEES AND MEMBERS OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Herewith is submitted the Annual Report of the Society for the year 1945 The cooperation and the many courtesies which you have shown to the staff personnel during the year are greatly appreciated Respectfully submitted April 1 2 19 46 HENRY C SHETRONE Director REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR The year 1945 was a ...
... JOHN SHERMAN AND THE SILVER DRIVE OF 1877-78 JOHN SHERMAN AND THE SILVER DRIVE OF 1877-78 THE ORIGINS OF THE GIGANTIC SUBSIDY By JEANNETTE P NICHOLS That tour de force the Silver Purchase Act of 1934 is too close to the present to be judged fairly1 While some critics claim that it simply signifies a cowardly unpatriotic surrender to a small group of wealthy mine-owners others suspect that the faithful servitors of those interests--the fourteen senators from the seven silver states--had the ...
... CHARACTERISTICS AND ACHIEVEMENTS CHARACTERISTICS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF DAVID ZEISBERGER REV WILLIAM N SCHWARZE M A Professor of Historical Theology Moravian College and Theological Seminary Bethlehem Pa In the middle of the eighteenth century Nathaniel Seidel and David Zeisberger were deputed by the Board controlling Moravian activity in America to report to Count Zinzendorf and his coadjutors in Europe the character which the mission among the Indians was assuming as well as to explain its ...
... INDEX TO THE MINUTES OF THE FORTYINDEX TO THE MINUTES OF THE FORTYFOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Annual meeting Discussion on notificaEaton Starling L 624 tion of 634 Fallen Timbers Battlefield of 630 Archaeology Department of 623 Archaeology Department of 623 First suggestion of change in name of Armstrong Jeremiah 617 Society 626 Society 626 Armstrong Minter 617 Armstrong Minter 617 Fitch engine ...
... EXPLORATIONS OF THE SEIP MOUND EXPLORATIONS OF THE SEIP MOUND WILLIAM C MILLS The Seip Mound is located within the largest prehistoric earthworks of the Paint Creek Valley known as the Seip Group1 One very large mound and another half its size enclosed with earthworks which form a combination of two circles and a square and five mounds situated outside the earthworks but in close proximity to them constitute the Seip Group This group is located in Paxton Township Ross County about 3 miles east ...
... STEPHEN M STEPHEN M MILLETT Charles E Ruthenberg The Development of an American Communist 1909-1927 The Communist Party of America was the product of native radicalism and a foreign ideology that inflamed extremists world wide after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 in Russia In the United States many Socialists who had resisted American involvement in the First World War on moral and ideological grounds later saw the Bolshevik experiment as man's only hope for international peace class ...
... ROBERTA MENDEL ROBERTA MENDEL Carl Frederick Wittke Versatile Humanist There're too many do-gooders and organizers and not enough quiet humanitarians among us Cleveland Sun Press November 18 1971 Native Ohioan Carl Frederick Wittke distinguished himself in many areas of academe At such Ohio institutions of higher learning as Ohio State University Oberlin and Western Reserve University he is recognized as an outstanding teacher administrator and mediator Nationally he is remembered as an ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews First Generations Women in Colonial America By Carol Berkin New York Hill and Wang 1996 xiv 234p bibliographical essay index 2300 cloth 1200 paper In First Generations Carol Berkin has written a marvelous synthesis of the existing literature on women in the colonial era It will likely become a classroom standard Clearly the area of colonial women's history has been one in need of synthesis Imaginative and meticulous scholars have been creating histories out of the ...
... ASA S ASA S BUSHNELL REV J W ATWOOD Asa S Bushnell was born in Rome New York September 16 1834 and died in Columbus Ohio January 15 1 90 4 He came of a family long and honorably identified with the history and life of New England which included in its membership Horace Bushnell of Hartford one of the most forceful and original thinkers that America has produced its greatest theologian with the exception of Jonathan Edwards a great citizen and a profound scholar The family settled in ...
... OHIO DAY AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE OHIO DAY AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION On October 6 1 90 4 the Buckeyes from all parts of the United States celebrated Ohio Day upon the grounds of the Exposition St Louis Missouri The exercises were held in the afternoon and evening in the beautiful Ohio Building The Ohio Commission appointed by Governor Nash under authority of an act passed by the 75th General Assembly consisted of Hon William F Burdell President Columbus life member of the Ohio ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Territorial Papers of the United States Compiled and edited by Clarence E Carter Vol XIII The Territory of Louisiana-Missouri 1803-1806 Washington Government Printing Office 1948 xi 641p 350 This is the first of three volumes devoted to what the editor calls for lack of a simpler name the Territory of LouisianaMissouri-the part of the Louisiana Purchase to the north of the present state of Louisiana called officially the District of Louisiana 1804-5 the Territory ...
... Cleveland's New Stock Lawmakers and Progressive Reform by John D Buenker During the highly productive progressive era of the early 1900's Ohioans enacted a myriad of reforms designed to cope with the serious political economic and social problems of the day Included in their efforts was the updating of the state constitution more attuned to the complexities of twentieth century life The contributions made to this record by such eminent reformers as Tom L Johnson Samuel Golden Rule Jones Brand ...
... Thirty-First Annual Meeting Thirty-First Annual Meeting 111 meeting shall be mailed by the Secretary to all members of the Society at least ten days before such annual meeting is held The following were duly elected to life membership Mr Clay Barnes Waverley Dr H E Twitchell Hamilton Mr A J Rayner Piqua Prof A M Schlesinger Columbus Mr H C Shetrone Columbus Hon Harry L Goodbread Nevada Ohio Dr Wm D Tremper Portsmouth Mr W O Feurt Portsmouth Mr Geo H Heinisch Portsmouth Mr Wilbur Stout ...
... FRANK P FRANK P VAZZANO Martin Davey John Bricker and the Ohio Election of 1936 There's something wrong in Columbus With those words John W Bricker the Republican nominee for governor of Ohio opened the 1936 campaign against his Democratic opponent Martin L Davey Bricker's declaration more an accusation than a challenge initiated a contest destined to become one of the meanest in the history of Ohio But the campaign did more than that it generated a bitter personal feud between two of the ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA WILLIAM McKINLEY Elsewhere in this Quarterly we report at some length the interesting ceremonies held on Ohio Day July 18 at the Pan-American Exposition Little did we suspect on that joyful day that in two brief months a terrible tragedy would transform the bright banners bedecking the buildings into the trappings and suits of woe On Friday September 6 President McKinley attended the Exposition and in the afternoon while holding a public reception in the Temple of ...
... LOCAL HISTORY-FOUNDATION OF OUR FAITH IN LOCAL HISTORY-FOUNDATION OF OUR FAITH IN DEMOCRACY by S K STEVENS State Historian Commonwealth of Pennsylvania It is not merely a pleasure but a genuine honor to be with you this evening at the capital of the first great state to be carved out of the Northwest Territory with its government framed in accordance with the principles of that outstanding charter of liberties-the Northwest Ordinance Ohio has come a long way since 1803 when its state ...
... The Wisconsin Archaeological Society The Wisconsin Archaeological Society 341 about Madison describing the locations of the camps trail and fur-trade stations as described by early travelers He was followed by Mr Emilius O Randall secretary of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society who protested that he was not a professional archaeologist history being his bent if he had any bent at all and regretted that his place on the program was not filled by Prof W C Mills the successful ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA By BERTHA E JOSEPHSON During recent months the Department of Documents which includes under its jurisdiction state archives manuscripts maps posters photostats and broadsides has catalogued and arranged in a vertical file about one hundred small and pamphlet-folder maps Some of the more important of these are ANDREWS REPORT FOR 1854 MAPS ACCOMPANYING THE ISRAEL D One showing railroads in U S in operation and progress in the fifties two of the St Lawrence ...
... FREDERICK J FREDERICK J BLUE Chase and the Governorship A Stepping Stone to the Presidency In January of 1854 Senator Salmon P Chase of Ohio wrote what he would soon refer to as the most valuable of my works1 The Appeal of the Independent Democrats helped to set in motion a series of events that led to the formation of the Republican party It also played a major role in Chase's own career as the new party soon offered him its nomination for Governor of Ohio For Chase however election as ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 417 who are interested in this work The undersigned committee will be glad to receive suggestions concerning speakers lists of names and addresses of history workers details concerning local history organizations and patriotic societies and any other sources of information that will assist in rendering the conference a success Address communications to Frank P Goodwin 3435 Observatory Place Cincinnati Ohio HOW GOVERNOR MEIGS GOT HIS NAME Where did the parents of ...