... waiting for waiting for THE WAR'S END the letter of AN OHIO SOLDIER IN ALABAMA after learning of LINCOLN 'S DEATH edited b y LOUIS FILLE R Holiday Ames was a forty-three-year-old blacksmith in Ashland Ohio when he answered President Lincoln's call of July 1 1862 for three hundred thousand three years troops1 Made a second lieutenant in Company B of the newly organized One Hundred and Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry and promoted to first lieutenant before the year ended he served with his ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR HISTORY OF THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTYSECOND FIELD ARTILLERY AND SKETCH OF ITS COLONEL History of the 322nd Field Artillery Yale University Press New Haven The Society is under obligations to Colonel A B Warfield who commanded the 322nd Field Artillery of the National Army in the World War made up almost entirely of Ohio troops The frontispiece of this interesting and ...
... 1 1 The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 69 NUMBER 1 J ANUARY 1 960 Recent Writings on Midwestern Economic History By HARRY R STEVENS ACADEMIC HISTORIANS OF MIDWESTERN ECONOMY have studied their subject long and productively but having established at an early date certain approaches to their material and forms in which to present it that were quite satisfactory they have continued to make use of them with surprising tenacity1 Soon after they began to work in the 1880's they developed three ...
... 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 ...
... ALBERT SHAW'S OHIO YOUTH by LLOYD J GRAYBAR In the twenty-eight years between 1829 and 1857 there were born in Ohio four distinguished American journalists Murat Halstead Whitelaw Reid William Dean Howells and Albert Shaw In 1857 Murat Halstead born in 1829 had already achieved recognition Whitelaw Reid and William Dean Howells were commencing their brilliant careers and Albert Shaw had just been born All four were intimately associated with one small corner of the state--Butler County--and ...
... The Taylor-Livingston Centenary Etc The Taylor-Livingston Centenary Etc 489 Jr of a paper prepared by his father Edward L Taylor Sr address by ex-Governor George K Nash address by Col James Kilbourne address by Hon Phil H Bruck recitation of poem by Mrs William Sprague address by Hon Thomas E Powell The program as carried out was from first to last impressive instructive and entertaining characterized by sentiment wit and humor Immediately upon the conclusion of the exercises supper was served ...
... Captain Brown Outfits the Mount Vernon Blues For the Toledo War by PAUL L MASSA The Mount Vernon Blues a militia rifle company was organized in 1835 when Ohio mobilized its military forces in preparation for possible hostilities with Michigan This dispute between the state of Ohio and the territory of Michigan over the location of their common boundary line is known as the Toledo War In Mount Vernon Ohio General William Bevans a former Knox County sheriff authorized Benjamin L Brown to ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Preliminary Inventory Record Group 10 Indian Affairs Compiled by Manuscript Division Public Archives of Canada Ottawa King's Printer and Controller of Stationery 1951 14xiiip appendices and index The manuscript division of the Public Archives of Canada has launched a series of inventories to describe in some detail all its collections Each of the publications will be concerned with a particular section of the manuscripts in the public archives Record Groups are ...
... FUNERAL OF ADAM WILLIS WAGNALLS FUNERAL OF ADAM WILLIS WAGNALLS September 24 1843 Adam Willis Wagnalls first opened his eyes to the light in the village of Lithopolis Fairfield County Ohio On Wednesday evening September 3 1924 at the close of a life rich in good works and meritorious achievements Adam Willis Wagnalls closed his eyes for the last time on earthly scenes at Doremi Manor Northport Long Island New York the home of his daughter Mrs Mabel Wagnalls Jones Lithopolis the little village ...
... JOHN J JOHN J GRABOWSKI From Progressive to Patrician George Bellamy and Hiram House Social Settlement 1896-1914 The institution most closely associated with the birth and early development of turn of the century Progressivism was the social settlement house which best symbolized the movement's drive for reform and order in urban America As aptly described by Allen Davis the settlement houses were spearheads for reform whose partisans were among the first to recognize and attack problems of ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Fall Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be October 13-14 1989 at Ohio University The Missouri Valley History Conference sponsored by the University of Nebraska at Omaha's History Department will be held March 8-10 1990 Those interested in further information concerning the conference should contact Jerold Simmons Program Coordinator MVHC Department of History University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha Nebraska 68182 The Pennsylvania Historical and ...
... 628 Ohio Arch 628 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Preble County Historical Society due to his removal from Preble County but predicts continued growth and development of Fort St Clair Park in the days to come H R MCPHERSON Columbus Ohio September 26 1927 GEORGE ROGERS CLARK MONUMENT During the year the committee has sought to care for and improve the grounds The monument is located on high ground overlooking the Mad River Valley with a rather steep slope to the south and west Before ...
... Albion W Albion W Tourgee Propagandist And Critic of Reconstruction By TED N WEISSBUCH LESS THAN FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Ohioan Al b ion W Tourgee was referred to as the most neglected figure in American literature Increasing interest in the writers of the Civil War and Reconstruction era has caused a swing in the pendulum and now his name crops up often in the growing literature dealing with this period in our history Tourgee's work has always interested a small but devoted group of literary ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 241 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 241 item of which was a diary 1821-1826 of Charles Willing Byrd the last Secretary of the Northwest Territory The Clark County Historical Society under the direction of Mr Arthur R Altick sent in a most interesting report of the year's activities giving an account of additions to their collections and a summary of exploration and field work Mr Altick feels that the major accomplishment during the past year was the ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Manuscript Sources in the Library of Congress for Research on the American Revolution Compiled by John R Sellers Gerard W Gawalt Paul H Smith and Patricia Molen van Ee Washington DC Library of Congress 1975 iii 372 p indexes 870 The Library of Congress is many things to many people a legislative library a leader in the introduction of new library techniques the world's largest depository of written materials and the custodian of internationally significant collections ...
... A NOTE ON MRS A NOTE ON MRS TROLLOPE By JOHN FRANCIS MCDERMOTT When Charles Joseph Latrobe made his tour of the West with Washington Irving in 1832 they passed through Cincinnati at a very interesting moment The citizens were big with indignation over Mrs Frances Trollope Latrobe related that they found the good citizens of that rising and flourishing city busily ruminating over the first edition of a well-known picture of their domestic manners which the English press had just sent forth for ...
... THE BATTLESHIP OHIO THE BATTLESHIP OHIO The battleship Ohio was built for the United States navy by the Union Iron Works San Francisco under contract dated October 8 1898 at a cost of 2899000 It was launched May 18 1901 in the harbor of San Francisco and christened by Miss Helen Deshler who was designated for this honor by Governor George K Nash who was present on the occasion as was also William McKinley then President of the United States Great crowds were present at these ceremonies ...
... WILLIAM D WILLIAM D JENKINS Robert Bulkley Progressive Profile Twenty years ago American historians characterized progressivism as a political movement whose reform impulse was rooted in the status anxieties of its predominately middle-class membership Since then a generation of historians has effectively challenged the simplicity of that hypothesis and replaced it with the notion that progressivism was more diffuse in nature No longer viewed then as a movement cohesive in philosophy and ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Government and Administration of Ohio By Francis R Aumann and Harvey Walker American Commonwealth Series edited by W Brooke Graves New York Thomas Y Crowell Company 1956 xiv489p frontispiece appendix bibliography and index 595 Students of Ohio's government have had their task greatly facilitated in the 1950's by the publication of two volumes In 1953 Professor Albert Rose of the University of Dayton published his Ohio Government State and Local In 1956 Professors ...
... 218 Ohio Arch 218 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Kintz mandolin orchestra of Somerset an organization composed of Little Folks The afternoon session at city hall was addressed by Col W A Taylor and Dr P A Gordon and musical numbers were contributed by Mrs Frank Randolph and Mrs Emma B Bowman A recitation by Mrs Bess Comly-Cary was also greatly enjoyed THE BANQUET One of the most enjoyable and brilliant events of the week was the banquet at the Armory Monday evening given in honor of ...