... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS THE SEPARATIST SOCIETY OF ZOAR AN EXPERIMENT IN COMMUNISM -FROM ITS COMMENCEMENT TO ITS CONCLUSION BY E O RANDALL LL M SECRETARY OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY It is somewhat singular if indeed not really significant that just at this time while the views of Edward Bellamy1 are attracting world-wide attention and receiving an enthusiastic acceptance almost startling in its extent one of the most complete and perhaps most ...
... Johnny Appleseed Johnny Appleseed 305 buried near what is now the city of Fort Wayne To the end he was true to his mission of planting nurseries and sowing the seeds of medicinal herbs To the pioneers of Ohio he was an unselfish benefactor and we are here today to aid in transmitting to coming generations our grateful memory of his deeds HISTORICAL SKETCH The historical sketch of Johnny Appleseed was prepared and presented by Mr A J Baughman a recognized authority in the early history of ...
... BRIAN P BRIAN P BIRCH A British View of the Ohio Backwoods The Letters of James Martin 1821-1836 Although the British formed a sizeable minority of the early farm settlers in Ohio very little is known about them1 A few accounts exist of particular British notably Welsh and Scots colonies but with no language barrier to separate them from the broad tide of American settlers moving across the Appalachians in the early nineteenth century the British were largely absorbed into that stream and left ...
... Report of the Forty-fifth Annual Meeting 539 Report of the Forty-fifth Annual Meeting 539 probably purchase these volumes at that price if they had the opportunity to do so It is suggested that two years hence a request should be made for the republication of the volumes to be distributed at cost to those desiring to purchase ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY Within the past year progress has been made in additions to the library Books and bound pamphlets to the number of 882 have been accessioned ...
... 276 Ohio Arch 276 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications his pedantry King James little understood the hidden meaning of the sea-to-sea extension Under this charter of 1609 modified by that of 1612 Virginia held until the formation of the federal constitution in 1788 In reading of Mr Avery's work we are tempted to halt and linger at particularly important and interesting events The reader reluctantly leaves his story which we again commend to both the general reader and the close student Both ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS HISTORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ORAGNIZATION IN THE NORTHWEST 1824-184 0 BY HOMER J WEBSTER PH D Department of History University of Pittsburgh NOTE In the preparation of this work the writer has received very helpful suggestions from Professor Frederic L Paxson of the University of Wisconsin while in every part of the work he has received invaluable assistance from his wife-Edith Francisco Webster To both of these he desires to express here ...
... EARLY INTERNSHIPS IN ST EARLY INTERNSHIPS IN ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL-- A REMINISCENCE by H M PLATTER MD In September 1889 I enrolled in Starling Medical College with Dr Thomas C Hoover as my preceptor I had already completed three years of preliminary education at Ohio Wesleyan University Dr Hoover was professor of surgery at the college and the visiting surgeon to St Francis Hospital At the conclusion of my freshman year the first house physician or intern was appointed for St Francis and the ...
... ANNE BAILEY ANNE BAILEY VIRGIL A LEWIS Mr Lewis is the State Historian of West Virginia the author of The History of West Virginia and many valuable publications concerning the early historical events in the Ohio Valley All that was earthly of Anne Bailey the Pioneer Heroine of the Great Kanawha Valley that has not crumbled to dust has been removed to Point Pleasant and re-interred in Tu-EndieWei Park It is therefore now time to eliminate from the story of her wonderful career and life of ...
... Dedication of the Hayes Memorial Dedication of the Hayes Memorial 4 39 ask each and every one of you to register here on this consecrated spot a solemn vow to preserve this nation forever and forever to the American - peaceably if we can forcibly if we must but for America America forever and forever Mr Charles R Williams of Princeton biographer of Rutherford Birchard Hayes then delivered the following address ADDRESS OF CHARLES R WILLIAMS We are met today to signalize the formal dedication of ...
... GENERAL JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE-- GENERAL JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE-- The Canadian Governor Who Attempted to Make Ohio a Part of Canada Annual Paper by JAMES A GREEN Historian of the Club American visitors to Canada are always struck with the beauty and charm of Lake Simcoe which is situated fifty miles north of Toronto in the midst of one of the most fertile regions of Ontario It is a lovely lake blue as Como Joined to it by a short and narrow strait is Lake Couchicing equally lovely In the city park of ...
... THE TOWNS CALLED CHILLICOTHE THE TOWNS CALLED CHILLICOTHE In Volume XI page 230 of the Society's Publications was a valuable article by Prof R W McFarland of Oxford Ohio on the Chillicothes This article led to an interesting discussion in the Chillicothe News-Advertiser of which Mr W H Hunter one of the trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is editor We reprint the articles which speak for themselves The communications by Dr Morgan and Prof McFarland appeared in the ...
... THE LEATHER WOOD GOD THE LEATHER WOOD GOD FROM NARRATIVE TO NOVEL by HASKELL S SPRINGER In 1916 at the age of seventy-nine William Dean Howells published the last great novel of his long career Less than four years later he was dead In writing The Leatherwood God Howells was fulfilling a long-time intention to make use of his enthusiasm for the history of his native Ohio as well as -- in the way of an old man -- returning to the recollections of his boyhood1 His source for the basic story of ...
... ADDRESS AT MARIETTA OHIO 1858 ADDRESS AT MARIETTA OHIO 18581 BY HON THOMAS EWING EDITED BY C L MARTZOLFF ATHENS OHIO Ladies and GentlemenWe meet to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the first landing of our Pioneer Fathers on the shores of the Ohio in the North Western Territory An age-the full age allotted to men has elapsed since that hardy band of brave men and brave women fresh from the war of the Revolution a few of the boldest and most adventurous of the relics of that war through ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XXVIII No 2 APRIL 1919 TEMPERANCE AND CHURCH-BUILDING IN PIONEER DAYS ON THE WESTERN RESERVE By JUSTUS NEWTON BROWN OBERLIN OHIO In the fall of 1826 my mother's father Rev Joseph Edwards removed from Manlius New York where he had been pastor of the Presbyterian church to Greenfield Huron County Ohio The next year he preached the first sermon ever preached by an ordained minister in the township of Ripley in the same county to a congregation consisting of seven ...
... 374 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 374 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY the semi-centennial program at two o'clock An abstract of the minutes of the meeting of the Board of Trustees follows ABSTRACT OF THE MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY APRIL 23 1935 The regular annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society convened in the Trustees' Room of ...
... Ohio's Industrial Growth 1900-1957 Ohio's Industrial Growth 1900-1957 And Some Possibilities for Study By ROBERT E HOLMES In discussing Ohio's or any other area's industrial growth it would be extremely difficult and perhaps even naive or unrealistic to try to separate history from economics fundamental from applied research commerce from romance or chance from plan These elements are so intermingled in the development and expansion of regions or countries and their industries that there is ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 95 ENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICANA The latest and one of the best encyclopedias to appear is that known as the Encyclopedia Americana published under the auspices of the Scientific American Company and edited by Frederick Converse Beach and a corps of competent assistants It comprises sixteen large volumes and is produced in the best mechanical and typographical form with copious illustrations maps tables etc One of its excellent features is that the articles on leading ...
... ISRAEL PUTNAM ISRAEL PUTNAM READ BY MRS II G EDGERTON BEFORE THE COLONEL GEORGE CROGHAN CHAPTER D A R In the days when forests covered most of New England when the Indian war-whoop still echoed on its borders when children ate corn-meal porridge from pewter porringers and their elders stirred their hot drinks with a poker heated in the fireplace -- in those good old days two centuries ago there was born one of the great heroes of our Nation To be more exact on January 7 1718 in an old ...
... DUNCAN McARTHUR THE MILITARY PHASE DUNCAN McARTHUR THE MILITARY PHASE By C H CRAMER Duncan McArthur had won his military spurs before the War of 1812 broke out and had been commissioned a general in the State Militia In the spring of 1812 with war looming on the horizon Congress authorized the President to organize a number of volunteers who were to be ready to march on short notice The Ohio quota was 1200 men1 McArthur ordered his militia division to assemble and used his forensic powers in ...
... DR DR ALVA CURTIS IN COLUMBUS THE THOMSONIAN RECORDER AND COLUMBUS' FIRST MEDICAL SCHOOL By JONATHAN FORMAN M D In 1769 in the town of Astead New Hampshire was born one Samuel Thomson He lived and grew up as a farmer's son He became a keen observer of men and things He was particularly interested in all that he could learn about the healing art He was entirely self-taught and he learned from the Indians about him from the old women who were handy with the sick and from the medical books ...