... OHIO STATE ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR A VISIT FROM BENJAMIN LUNDY A letter of Ruth Galbreath wife of Nathan Galbreath dated New Garden Ohio 2nd mo 3rd 1833 contains among other things a description of a visit from Benjamin Lundy which may be of interest to readers of this issue of the QUARTERLY as it expresses the regard of Columbiana County Quakers for this reformer and bears testimony to the fact that ...
... GOVERNORS OF OHIO 1803-1903 GOVERNORS OF OHIO 1803-1903 JEAN DICK CHEETHAM In accordance with the provisions of the constitution of 1802 Schedule Sec 6 an election for governor members of the general assembly etc was held on the second Tuesday of January 1803 Edward Tiffin being elected Chief Executive The General Assembly convened at Chillicothe on the first Tuesday of March 1803 but it was to hold regular sessions thereafter on the first Monday in December in every year Article 1 Sec 25 ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 633 Forty-First Annual Meeting 633 President Johnson stated that the reports of the Committees on the various Parks should be given great attention On last Sunday he attended the Ohio History Day celebration at Logan Elm Park and was absolutely amazed by the number -- literally thousands -- in attendance The celebration lasted practically all afternoon and great interest was displayed by those present The American people are turning to outdoor life -- picnics camping ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Tree of Liberty By Elizabeth Page Farrar amp Rinehart Inc 1939 985p 300 On the best seller list since its publication in the spring this historic novel offers an unusual combination of entertainment and enlightenment The story is that of Matthew Howard and Jane Peyton the former a frontiersman from the Shenandoah Valley the latter the daughter of a tidewater planter In their married life is dramatized the bitter conflict of the two main traditions which underlie ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 653 Forty-First Annual Meeting 653 change in Logan Elm during the past year The famous old tree continues to hold its own against the elements More than four thousand visitors registered at the park during July and possibly as many or more in August could they have been checked Some time during the first week of August a sneak thief carried away the register and either the same party or another ran an automobile through the wire fence near the creek This makes it ...
... MARK TWAIN'S HADLEYBURG MARK TWAIN'S HADLEYBURG by GUY A CARDWELL Professor of English Washington University St Louis Citizens of Oberlin Ohio have claimed for their town the distinction of being the original for Hadleyburg in Mark Twain's The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg The story reflects Twain's resentment they think at the unfavorable reception they accorded his readings in the First Congregational Church on February 11 1885 Mr Russel Nye examines and approves this Oberlin tradition in a ...
... DOWN THE RHINE TO THE OHIO DOWN THE RHINE TO THE OHIO The Travel Diary of Christoph Jacob Munk April 21-August 17 1832 by AUGUST C MAHR Professor of German Ohio State University The diary published in the following pages in the original German with an English translation merits attention for two principal reasons 1 it gives a complete almost day-by-day account of its writer's emigration with his family from Germany to Ohio and 2 it covers their entire journey that is not only the ocean voyage ...
... THE ANCESTRY OF THE OHIOAN THE ANCESTRY OF THE OHIOAN A M COURTENAY D D The following is a portion of an address delivered in Zanesville by Rev Courtenay who for many years has been an enthusiastic student of Ohio history upon which subject he has delivered many admirable addresses He has written frequently in prose and in verse for current reviews magazines and journals He wrote for and read at the Ohio Centennial Celebration the poem entitled The Ohio Century-EDITOR At a recent notable ...
... THE OHIO STATE MEDICAL JOURNAL THE OHIO STATE MEDICAL JOURNAL by JONATHAN FORMAN BA MD FACA Professor of Medical History Ohio State University Editor OHIO STATE MEDICAL JOURNAL The first medical journals in the Western Country published by the faculties of the new medical colleges were used to promote the interests of their schools There was no better medium through which the professors could keep in touch with their former students the journals served as a means of getting new students for ...
... 266 Ohio Arch 266 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications tiers it might be the means of terminating all future differences without war of cultivating harmony and friendship among the tribes of bringing offenders on both sides to justice and causing treaties to be respected throughout the different nations If such a system could be introduced cultivation and instruction would naturally follow and the Americans and Indians would become one people and have but one interest at heart -the good of ...
... LLOYD SPONHOLTZ LLOYD SPONHOLTZ The 1912 Constitutional Convention in Ohio The Call-up and Nonpartisan Selection of Delegates Until recently little scholarly interest has been shown in the nonpartisan system and its place in the American election process neither advocates of the reform nor students of politics have examined the actual effect of elimination of partisanship from the ballot in Ohio1 In the 1910-1911 period an opportunity for an analysis of the nonpartisan system and the resulting ...
... 228 Ohio Arch 228 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications by assumed super and supra-natural means but in accordance with the laws which govern in the every day world of to-day The twelve labors of Hercules were not more onerous nor more beset with impending perils than were his efforts in the council chambers of chancellories and the closets of cabinets none the less along nervous lines of gathering armies in his task of arousing supine Europe to the point of stamping out the nameless ...
... ABBY L ABBY L GILBERT Thomas Ewing Sr Ohio's Advocate for a National Bank Thomas Ewing Sr lawyer Ohio Senator and Cabinet officer who asserted we must have a National Bank and Abbott Lawrence Massachusetts industrialist politician statesman and philanthropist who firmly believed the currency of this wide extended country never could be properly regulated without some great central controlling power over the State banks were very influential in the attempt to charter a third national bank in ...
... 0 0 K J WARREN KEIFER The above is the most used form of expression in the Commercial world and is used in the United States oftener perhaps in conversation than any other purely arbitrary expression in the English language It has no classic origin or derivation it has no linguistic Greek or Latin root it cannot be claimed for it even the dignity of an American slang birth nor is it an abbreviation of an established expression or form of words properly found in any language Its universally ...
... MARIETTA CENTENNIAL NUMBER MARIETTA CENTENNIAL NUMBER OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY Vol II JUNE 1888 No 1 THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AT MARIETTA APRIL SEVENTH 1888 PRELIMINARY MOVEMENTS THE Washington County Pioneer Association as early as their annual meeting held April 7th 1881 decided to undertake a Centennial Celebration of the first organized and permanent settlement of the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio to be observed in Marietta April seventh 1888 Further attention ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Ohio in the Twentieth Century 1 900 -1938 Planned and compiled by Harlow Lindley The History of the State of Ohio Edited by Carl Wittke Vol VI Columbus The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1942 xiv 563p Illustrations and maps 2500 per set of 6 vols Ohio in the Twentieth Century final volume in the six volume History of the State of Ohio is the fourth in the series to be published Previously presented have been Bond's Foundations of Ohio Utter's ...
... 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 ...
... GUILLOTIN THINKS OF AMERICA GUILLOTIN THINKS OF AMERICA By JOHN FRANCIS MCDERMOTT Among the many Frenchmen who came under the influence of Benjamin Franklin and American ideas in the last quarter of the eighteenth century not the least interesting was Joseph Ignace Guillotin His project for a colony in the Ohio Valley came to nothing because the disastrous adventure that befell the advance party discouraged and frightened the families he had planned to lead there but though the colony did not ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 99 George H Pepper Am Museum Nat History New York Harlan I Smith Am Museum Nat History New York Cecilie Seler Berlin Germany Hjalmar Stolpe Stockholm Sweden Luis A Herrera Uruguay Marshall H Saville New York Adelaf Breton London England C T Hartman Stockholm Sweden At the station before departure Mr Saville made a neat little speech in behalf of the guests thanking their hosts for the pleasure and profit of the day and three cheers were given by each party in behalf ...
... HAROLD HOLZER HAROLD HOLZER Lincoln and the Ohio Printmakers Much has been written about the engraved and lithographed portraiture of Abraham Lincoln a pictorial genre that did much to benefit the nation's sixteenth president both politically and historically1 These crude and homely portrayals helped introduce the little-known Lincoln to American voters following his unexpected nomination to the presidency in 1860 Later engravings and lithographs provided audiences with the first ...