... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Long Meadows By Minnie Hite Moody New York Macmillan Co 194 1 657p 3 00 Genealogy as genealogy makes mighty dry reading to any but members of the family treated history may be but often is not written with suppressed excitement but when both genealogy and history are molded in the form of fiction by the hand of an artist then we get a masterpiece transcending both genealogy and history That is the result Mrs Minnie Hite Moody has achieved in Long Meadows which is the ...
... compiled by compiled by HELEN M THURSTON A Survey of Publications on the History and Archaeology of Ohio 1972-1973 ANTISLAVERY COFFIN LEVI Reminiscences of Levi Coffin New York AMS Press 1971 Reprint of 1876 ed 712p Reputed president of the Underground Railroad F LAD E LAND BETTY Men and Brothers Ang l o-American Antislavery Cooperation Urbana University of Illinois Press 1972 480p GARRISON WILLIAM LLOYD ed by Louis Ruchames Letters of William Lloyd Garrison A House Dividing Against Itself II ...
... Benjamin Fine Education in Benjamin Fine November 12 Benjamin Education Papers Faculty College of Education A Statement Educational Research Bulletin XXX December 12 1951 1-6 39 James Fullington Faculty Council Committee to Bevis December 7 1951 Box 45 File Rugg Correspondence E-K Bevis Papers Minutes Board of Trustees December 10 1951 ...
... Fowke's Book Reviewed Fowke's Book Reviewed 143 which seem to be very real and very correct This should also be the case with the person who studies the earthworks of Ohio He should be so familiar with ancient Society as to make the monuments speak and interpret the works and relics so that they will be suggestive of the people who used them A negative criticism does not serve any good purpose Every writer should rise to a plane higher than the ordinary observer and should put into the works ...
... Benjamin Harrison descended Benjamin Harrison first saw Benjamin Harrison is perhaps better known than the other because of the charming drive high over the Ohio from Cincinnati to the place The 120 Ohio Arch 120 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications old Harrison farm has long since been dismantled but set into a bluff overlooking the ...
... Cleveland's Johnson Elected Mayor Cleveland's Johnson Elected Mayor By EUGENE C MURDOCK One day in the early fall of 1897 thirty friends of Henry George closeted themselves with the great single-taxer in Tom L Johnson's New York offices The question before them was Should George be a candidate in the approaching New York mayoralty election Some of those present observed that their leader's health was not good and that an exhausing campaign could render permanent damage to him An eminent doctor ...
... Benjamin Hanby upon which he wrote a number of his poems This is of especial interest just now since the Society has during the year acquired the Hanby home in Westerville as a State historical monument The meeting then adjourned to reconvene at two o'clock MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY HELD APRIL 21 1936 The regular annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the ...
... compiled by compiled by HELEN M THURSTON A Survey of Publications on the History and Archaeology of Ohio 1973 to 1974 ANTISLAVERY FILLER LOUIS Abolition and Social Justice in the Era of Reform New York Harper and Row 1972 367p THOMPSON J EARL JR Lyman Beecher's Long Road to Conservative Abolitionism Church History XLII 1973 89-109 President of Lane Seminary ARCHAEOLOGY Central State ArchaeologicalJournal Published by several archaeological societies Covers Illinois Missouri Indiana Arkansas ...
... THE GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY THE GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY by DONNA L ROOT Managing Editor INLAND SEAS and Head History Biography and Travel Di v ision Cleveland Public Library To the librarian and book dealer and possibly to the historian and analyst of human nature too trends in authorship and in reading are a subject for interested examination not without the lure of the inexplicable These trends although related in their most obvious expression to the whole pattern of current ...
... JAMES E JAMES E CAMPBELL HONORED On July 7 1923 Honorable James E Campbell by general consent was hailed as the first citizen of Columbus on the occasion of the celebration of the eightieth anniversary of his birth Throughout the day he was the recipient in his office of many congratulatory greetings and messages from other states and nations In the evening a banquet was given in his honor at the Scioto Country Club by about 250 of his friends Honorable Claude Meeker of Columbus formerly ...
... 126 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 126 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY during the past year Mr Johnson President Mr Eagleson First VicePresident Mr Lindley Secretary and Mr Miller Treasurer be reelected for the coming year and that the secretary be instructed to cast the ballot for their re-election This motion seconded by Mr Spetnagel was unanimously approved Mr Johnson asked that the secretary draft letters to the two retiring members of the Board of Trustees Mr ...
... Benjamin F Wade opposed him bitterly Wade however was far too irascible to be genuinely popular56 A third possibility from Ohio was the aging and conservative United States Associate Justice John McLean whom Lincoln had known well when the justice had presided over the circuit court in the Illinois area and whom Lincoln had supported for the Republican nomination in 185657 Lincoln expressed the view that if he were ten years younger McLean ...
... 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 ...
... LYSLE E LYSLE E MEYER Radical Responses to Capitalism in Ohio Before 1913 By the time Ohio entered the last two decades of the nineteenth century various forms of radicalism had already emerged which challenged the basic tenets of the prevailing style of life A number of communitarian settlements had been established in the state beginning with the first Shaker experiments Union Village in 1805 and Shakertown in 1806 The Wurttemberg Separatists soon after founded the Zoar community in 1817 ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Financing Unemployment Compensation Ohio's Experience By Edison L Bowers Paul G Craig and William Papier Bureau of Business Research Monograph Number 89 Columbus Ohio State University College of Commerce and Administration 1957 xx 314p bibliography 400 An important function of state government in the industrialized society of our day is the organization and administration of an effective system of unemployment compensation Ohio which is well on the way to becoming the ...
... THE ECLECTIC OF ST THE ECLECTIC OF ST CLAIRSVILLE by PHILIP D JORDAN Professor of History University of Minnesota and Research Associate Minnesota Historical Society For decades the charming village of St Clairsville named in honor of a stiff-necked soldier and governor who opposed Buckeye statehood played an important role in determining the development of the Northwest country Other Ohio communities-- classic-tinged Marietta Cincinnati the Queen City of seven hills sturdy ...
... ECHOES OUT OF THE PAST ECHOES OUT OF THE PAST BY CAROLINE M ZIMMERMAN The museum of the Clark County Ohio Historical Society houses many objects worthy of song or story many objects around which cluster a wealth of romantic lore fit to inspire a modern saga of great worth and beauty Of all these objets d'art there is doubtless none that carries a greater feminine appeal than a quaint little piano more than a century old the first in fact to have been brought into the county There it stands ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XXVL No 3 JUNE 1917 COLONEL JOHN W HARPER IN MEMORIAM In the death of John W Harper The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society lost a Trustee and loyal member of long standing conspicuous for his fidelity and support of historical and archaeological research He materially aided in the progress of the Society Colonel Harper was born February 11 1830 in Indianapolis the son of an old English family distinguished for its patriotism and loyalty to this ...
... Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 595 Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 595 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO OCTOBER 2 1924 Present Messrs Campbell Bareis Prince Goodman Johnson Wood Furniss and Dawes On motion of Mr Wood duly seconded James E Campbell was elected President of the Society Professor Prince moved that George F Bareis be elected First Vice President of the Society At the suggestion of ...
... Historical News Historical News THE RUTHERFORD B HAYES LIBRARY has recently published in mimeograph form a twenty-page annual report of the director of research Watt P Marchman He reports the addition of more than a thousand books in the library's field of interest and several hundred manuscript items Included in the latter are a veto message of President Hayes with notations in his own hand a collection of articles about Hayes by Frank G Carpenter and a William Cullen Bryant letter A ...