... 10 OHIO HISTORY 10 OHIO HISTORY TO CINCINNATI by EDWARD A M'LAUGHLIN Fair is thy seat in soft recumbent rest Beneath the grove-clad hills whence morning wings The gentle breezes of the fragrant west That kiss the surface of a thousand springs Nature her many-colored mantle flings Around thee and adorns thee as a bride While polished Art his gorgeous tribute brings And dome and spire ascending far and wide Their pointed shadows dip in thy Ohio's tide So fair in infancy -- O what shall be Thy ...
... DORAMAE O'KELLEY DORAMAE O'KELLEY Late Nineteenth Century Courthouse Architecture in Northwestern Ohio As one drives through northwestern Ohio the most impressive object to be seen on the skyline of many communities might be the massive towered form of the county courthouse Often the city's largest and most distinguished example of architecture these courthouses were all built in the last thirty years of the nineteenth century The importance these structures held for the people of the county ...
... Story of the First Geological Survey in Ohio 135 Story of the First Geological Survey in Ohio 135 Among the other books which contained useful reference material were Hasse's Economic Material in the Documents of the States Ohio II Ohio Second Geological Survey Columbus 1869 G P Merrill's The First Hundred Years of American Geology New Haven 1924 and for the biographical information Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography New York 1900 In the periodical and newspaper field the most ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XXXII INDEX TO VOLUME XXXII Alder Jonathan early pioneer honored Bible Indian translates Gospels into with marker 533-536 sketch of life Shawnee language 339-340 Bibles proby great-granddaughter 534-535 advided for prisoners at Ohio Penidresses by C B Galbreath L C tentiary 390 Dick and others 535 unveiling by Bibliography Shorthorn Cattle 65-66 descendants 535 list of descendants works of George Kennan 226 Mitchpresent 535-536 ener's Legend of the White Woman Alford Thomas ...
... STEVEN P STEVEN P GIETSCHIER The 1951 Speaker's Rule at Ohio State Like many public institutions of higher learning The Ohio State University's support for the principles of academic freedom has often been limited by the political and social views of those who have shaped its destiny Because of the university's location in the state capital and certainly because of its dependence upon a penurious General Assembly for funding Ohio State has over the years generally reflected its origins as a ...
... 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 ...
... edited by edited by DONALD A HUTSLAR Crossroads The Xenia Tornado A Retrospective View It is possible to factually document the cataclysmic tornado which cut a path through southwestern Ohio on the third of April 1974 Pictures can show the destruction words convey the impressions of the participants There will be many publications of this nature What is difficult perhaps impossible to impart is the break in historic continuity such an event will produce particularly in a community such as ...
... The Beef Cattle Industry in Ohio The Beef Cattle Industry in Ohio Prior to the Civil War--II By ROBERT LESLIE JONES v The Cattle Industry Outside the Specialized Grazing and Feeding Regions The grazing industry in Madison County and its neighbors and the feeding industry of the Scioto Valley attracted so much attention that it is difficult to realize that together they comprised only a minor fraction of the beef cattle industry in Ohio before 1850 The 20000 or so cattle driven from Madison ...
... RITA S RITA S SASLAW Student Societies in Nineteenth Century Ohio Misconceptions and Realities Student societies flourished in American colleges in the first half of the nineteenth century Historians of higher education have viewed this development as a student attempt to bring about substantive change in the curriculum and extracurricular life1 This idea follows logically from the fact that these societies grew in a period of numerous reform movements movements dedicated to deliberate ...
... SAMUEL ROBINSON CHAMPION OF THE SAMUEL ROBINSON CHAMPION OF THE THOMSONIAN SYSTEM By PHILIP D JORDAN PHD Thomsonian medicine as a system of medical botany created a decided stir both among physicians and the laity during the nineteenth century when so many curious panaceas were being sponsored by scientific groups and by social organizations The Thomsonian school was represented in Ohio not only by scores of physicians but also by medical journals dedicated to the dictum that the flora of our ...
... 426 Ohio Arch 426 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ADDRESS OF DR W O THOMPSON Mr Chairman my election to a position in this Archaeological and Historical Society was accepted as a distinct honor I therefore rejoice in the hour that is now here with all the other members of the Archaeological and Historical Society For indeed this is an hour of genuine rejoicing It gives the Society as we hope a permanent place in the history of the State I happen in the fortune of life to be here as the ...
... BYRON D BYRON D FRUEHLING AND ROBERT H SMITH Subterranean Hideaways of the Underground Railroad in Ohio An Architectural Archaeological and Historical Critique of Local Traditions During the decade that preceded the Civil War the underground railroad became increasingly active in Ohio and elsewhere in the north1 Although underground originally may have had much the same figurative connotation that it has today in expressions such as underground newspaper it was almost inevitable that the term ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue Miss HELEN MARY CARPENTER is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University with graduate training in Columbia University She is now teacher of history in the Norwalk Ohio high school GEORGE A KATZENBERGER is an attorney-at-law at Greenville Ohio He has previously written articles for the QUARTERLY on Major David Zeigler and Major George Adams EM ERSON F GREENMAN is curator of archaeology in the Ohio State Museum LLOYD EMERSON SIBERELL is the author of A ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy By William Wade Hinshaw Richmond Ind Friends Book and Supply House distributors 1937 Vol I 1185p 2000 with discount to libraries and Meetings Genealogy which is an auxiliary of historical science has been defined as the systematic account of the origin descent and relations of families Genealogical knowledge becomes of great importance in many ways both as to individual interests and as an aid in interpreting historical ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Academy of History annual meeting will be held on Friday and Saturday April 26-27 1991 at Capital University in Columbus Ohio For details concerning the meeting contact Clayton R Koppes OAH Program Committee Oberlin College Department of History Oberlin Ohio 440741095 The Second Annual University of Cincinnati Social History Conference invites interested scholars to submit papers in social history broadly defined as any aspect of the history of ...
... Annual Report of the Society for 1960 Annual Report of the Society for 1960 AFTER LAST YEAR ' S extensive report of the Society's development through its seventy-five years we shall offer but a simple review of the activities for 1960 At the end of each year the heads of the divisions and the departments prepare annual reports which are submitted to the director These statements supply most of the information from which the Society's annual report is compiled The work of the Society is after ...
... BRIAN P BRIAN P BIRCH Taking the Breaks and Working the Boats An English Family's Impressions of Ohio in the 1830s While the frontier was a great leveler of people in putting them back into log cabins and deerskins it was also a zone of increasingly varied economic opportunities as the new settlements created a demand for services and communications Not only was there a need as the frontier moved across an area for farmfolk to occupy land to clear the forests and to till the soil Opportunities ...
... THE INFLUENCE OF NEW ENGLAND IN DETHE INFLUENCE OF NEW ENGLAND IN DENOMINATIONAL COLLEGES IN THE NORTHWEST 1830-1860 BY E KIDD LOCKARD By the third decade of the nineteenth century New England had come to regard the Northwest as a boundless meadow spiritually whitening for harvest The West itself cognizant of its latent possibilities in secular as well as in ecclesiastical affairs felt the increasing necessity for college-bred churchmen1 The need rose to such proportions that both parties felt ...
... Ohio Valley Hist Ohio Valley Hist Ass'n Fifth Annual Meeting 31 engaged strong and able men at all points along the river Pittsburgh ever at the front in enterprise has contributed her full share It is our good fortune to have homes in this Valley dear to many of us as our birthplace and to all of us by fond memories and cherished associations We who love the Valley and the River here pay tribute to all who have labored for and through their labors have advanced the improvement of the greatest ...
... DONALD A DONALD A HUTSLAR God's Scourge The Cholera Years in Ohio Introduction Between 5 August and 23 September 1834 fifty-six residents of the small Ohio village of Zoar Tuscarawas County died of cholera Zoar was the home of a communal society of about three hundred German Separatists persons who had differed with the doctrine of the Lutheran Church and migrated to the United States During the summer of 1834 a boat on the Ohio Canal stopped at Zoar with one sick passenger Mr Allen Wallace he ...