... CINCINNATI-A CIVIC ODE CINCINNATI-A CIVIC ODE WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE Professor William Henry Venable ranks among the first of Ohio's most honored educators and authors For many years he was professor in the High Schools of Cincinnati His published works embrace history poetry literature and fiction He has been a devoted student of the literature of the Ohio Valley He delivered the address on Ohio Literary Men and Women at the Ohio Centennial celebration Chillicothe May 20 1903 His splendid ode ...
... PROCEEDINGS 241 PROCEEDINGS 241 Joint Session Saturday April 2 1000 A M Ohio State Museum Harlow Lindley Presiding The first speaker of the Saturday morning session was the executive director of the Federal Government's Northwest Territory Celebration Commission Mr E M Hawes A resume of his extemporaneous remarks follows THE HISTORICAL PROGRAM OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY CELEBRATION COMMISSION By E M HAWES I have had to qualify as an expert on oxen building of boats and as a pilot trying to get ...
... MARILYN VAN VOORHIS WENDLER MARILYN VAN VOORHIS WENDLER Doctors and Diseases on the Ohio Frontier Nineteenth century Ohio historian Samuel Hildreth observed that As a class no order of men have done more to promote the good of mankind and develop the resources and natural history of our country than the physicians Hildreth likely referred to professional contributions in the field of natural science yet doctors also played an integral part in bringing civilization to the frontier Whether drawn ...
... 198 198 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications learned and was a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Joseph Green Butler Jr married Harriet Voorhes Ingersoll of Honesdale Pennsylvania January 10 1866 Of this union were born Mrs Blanche Butler Ford Mrs Grace Ingersoll Butler McGraw and Mr Henry A Butler The latter two survive Mrs Butler died in 1921 Mr Butler was familiarly known as Uncle Joe and his wide circle of acquaintances and friends felt a personal loss ...
... Johnny Appleseed Johnny Appleseed 313 To-day the events which stirred the souls and tried the courage of the pioneers seem to come out of the dim past and glide as panoramic views before me A number of the actors in those scenes were of my kith and kin who have long since crossed over the river in their journey to the land where Enoch and Elijah are pioneers while I am left to exclaim Oh for the touch of a vanished hand And the sound of a voice that is still While the scenes of those pioneer ...
... AN EXAMPLE OF POLITICAL ORATORY IN AN EXAMPLE OF POLITICAL ORATORY IN 1855 BY MRS ARTHUR G BEACH Mr Albert Beveridge has painted a vivid picture of the decade 1850-1860 as a background to his study of Abraham Lincoln There have been preserved at Marietta Ohio a border town some letters and papers written during those years by a student at Marietta College Search through them brought to light an account of one of the stump speeches of Mr Henry A Wise of Virginia which furnishes evidence that ...
... NOTES ON THE OHIO HISTORY DAY ASSOCIATION NOTES ON THE OHIO HISTORY DAY ASSOCIATION TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY MEETING The Twenty-fifth Anniversary Meeting of the Ohio History Day Association was held at Park Place the home of Dr and Mrs Howard Jones Circleville Ohio Sunday October 3 1937 Ohio History Day is usually held at Logan Elm State Park but because of rain the first in the history of the celebration the 1937 meeting was moved into Circleville The feature of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary ...
... NORMAN A NORMAN A GRAEBNER Thomas Corwin and the Sectional Crisis Thomas Corwin viewed the sectional crisis of 1860 with consternation but scarcely with surprise For a dozen years this conservative Ohio politician had warned Americans that the sectional struggle over slavery in the territories would one day propel the nation into a bloody civil war In his dramatic speech to the Senate of February 11 1847 he had predicted that the annexation of Mexican territory would unleash sectional forces ...
... GERALD W GERALD W WOLFF Mark Hanna's Goal American Harmony 'A man who won't meet his men half-way is a G d fool' declared Mark Hanna one day in 1894 He was referring to the Pullman strike and the fact that troops had been sent to end it That terse profane comment tells a great deal about Hanna He was above all else a pragmatist with a canny ability to successfully adjust to changing conditions Twenty years previously when his coal mines were struck troops had been brought in--with disastrous ...
... JOHN WHITE GEARY JOHN WHITE GEARY As Kagi in his letters to the press severely criticized Governor Geary it is but fair to state here that the Governor went to Kansas Territory as he afterwards freely admitted with erroneous opinions as to conditions there He was sincerely desirous to do justice to the contending parties but his preconceived prejudices were in favor of the pro-slavery party This led to severe criticism on the part of the free state men It was not long however until the ...
... AN OHIO DOCTOR IN THE EARLY NAVY AN OHIO DOCTOR IN THE EARLY NAVY by HOWARD D K RA MER Assistant Professor of History Western Reserve University Recently the journals of Lewis A Wolfley an Ohio doctor who served in the United States Navy from 1832 to 1844 were lent to the writer by a representative of Wolfley's descendants The manuscript material in the Wolfley Collection consists of the surgeon's journals on four cruises and his diary in Paris where he studied medicine under world-famous ...
... INDEX TO THE MINUTES OF THE FORTIETH INDEX TO THE MINUTES OF THE FORTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY AND THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Alexander T B 228 278-280 Cockerell Mrs Clinton 228 Alexander Mrs T B 228 278-2 Cole W H 228 260-261 Allen William 234 269 Constitution of Society Amendments to Architect State 230 254-258 262 suggested 232 read and adopted 277Armaments Limitation of 282 278 Armstrong Carl 237 Co-operation with Ohio State University Artifacts from Seip Mound ...
... AMY HILL SHEVITZ AMY HILL SHEVITZ Bull Moose Rabbi Judaism and Progressivism in the Life of a Reform Rabbi When he spoke Mrs R told me it was just like the voice of God This is how one of his congregants described Rabbi Isador Philo almost fifty years after his death His successor in the pulpit of Reform temple Rodef Sholom in Youngstown Ohio eulogized Philo in 1948 with similar words He was blessed with a rich resonant voice and a keen analytical mindhis entire dignified physical appearance ...
... OHIO OHIO and the PANAMA CANAL by CHARLES D AMERINGER Uncle Sam digging under the influence of the Sons of Ohio at the right place So ran a toast proposed at the twenty-second annual banquet of the Cincinnati Commercial Club at the Queen City Club on November 13 1902 The reference was to the role Ohioans had played in the decision of the United States to construct an interoceanic canal in Panama and the man who offered the toast was in a position to know whereof he spoke He was Philippe ...
... Rutherford B Rutherford B Hayes and JOHN SHERMAN b y JEANNETTE PADDOCK NICHOLS At noon on Wednesday January 18 1893 the United States Senate convened and according to custom heard a brief opening prayer by the Chaplain When Dr J G Butler had finished the senior Senator from Ohio John Sherman addressed his colleagues Mr President it becomes my painful duty to announce to the Senate the death of Rutherford Birchard Hayes at his residence in Fremont Ohio last evening at 11 o'clock It was my good ...
... G G WALLACE CHESSMAN Town Promotion in the Progressive Era The Case of Newark Ohio On July 8 1910 an angry mob stormed the county jail at Newark Ohio seized a young white dry detective being held there carried him off to the courthouse square and lynched him1 That violent act stunned local leaders who had long promoted their booming industrial town in Licking County as the best place in Ohio to live and work At the same time it dramatized the inter-city struggle that had long engaged business ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 103 RANDALL THE MAN BY DANIEL J RYAN Emilius O Randall had the inestimable advantage of being well-born Not by inheritance of the muniments of wealth or caste or rank but through the influences of forebears whose chief purposes in life and whose aspirations and achievements were within the sphere of the intellectual and spiritual They were Americans more than a century before Bunker Hill and were among the founders of New England of whom Longfellow ...
... GEORGE C GEORGE C RABLE William T Sherman and the Conservative Critique of Radical Reconstruction Paradoxes abound The avenging angel of the Union whose army made not only Georgia but the Carolinas howl became the generous conciliator after Appomattox The insecure general who loathed partisan machination was sucked into the maelstrom of Washington politics The arch-enemy of the Confederacy turned into the friend of his fallen foes A superb subject for psychological analysis William Tecumseh ...
... FINE TIMBER FINE TIMBER By JOSEPHINE E PHILLIPS I went to woork a tuseday morning for Mr Gilman at 12 Shilings pr day he is a bulding 2 Ships and thare top timbers are all red seder and lokes I have worked wales 68 feet long fine timber in this Countery and as good land as Ever lay out adors I dont think I shall Stay in the Sittey maney months Ales is the wellest she has bin this five years but dont like Meriette thank God i am well and hartey But Alles is Cros as yousyell Thus wrote a settler ...
... CHARLES BURLEIGH GALBREATH1 CHARLES BURLEIGH GALBREATH1 BY JOHN F CARLISLE Charles Burleigh Galbreath was born on a farm near Leetonia Columbiana County Ohio February 25 1858 and died February 23 1934 just two days before his birthday date He was the son of Edward Paxson Galbreath and Jane Minerva Shaw Galbreath and was a birthright member of the Society of Friends In the closing days of the Civil War he began his elementary education He learned to read from the McGuffey Readers and to figure ...