... MARIAN J MARIAN J MORTON Homes for Poverty's Children Cleveland's Orphanages 1851-1933 Orphanages were first and foremost responses to the poverty of children Although historians disagree over whether orphanage founders and other child-savers were villainous saintly or neither there is little disagreement that the children saved were poor When this becomes the focus of the story orphans appear less as victims of middle-class attempts to control or uplift them than as victims of poverty ...
... Do the Job He Left Behind Summer-Autumn 2000 pp 144-166 This article is presented page by page and footnoted according to the original print version If a sentence appears to be incomplete scroll down to continue with the next page Copyright 2000 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Do the Job He Left Behind The Cleveland Womanpower Committee 1943-1945 By Julieanne Phillips We feel you just haven't come to grips with the manpower problem or realized that there is a problem ...
... AUGUSTUS NEWTON WHITING AUGUSTUS NEWTON WHITING FRANK THEODORE COLE Mr Whiting was of the Massachusetts family of that name his grandfather's home being in Westford near Lowell Only two children of this grandfather William Whiting had families These were Augustus Whiting who married a daughter of Judge Gustavus Swan of Columbus 0 and lived in New York City and Isaac Newton Whiting who was a book-seller and publisher in Columbus for many years He married September 7 1835 Orrel daughter of Col ...
... ARTHUR E ARTHUR E DeMATTEO The Downfall of a Progressive Mayor Tom L Johnson and The Cleveland Streetcar Strike of 1908 On November 6 1907 Cleveland Mayor Tom L Johnson awoke to headlines announcing his landslide triumph in the previous day's municipal election Democrat Johnson the champion of progressive urban reform and public control of utilities had solidified his position as the city's most powerful politician by crushing the best candidate the Republican Party could offer The vote was a ...
... BAUM PREHISTORIC VILLAGE BAUM PREHISTORIC VILLAGE WILLIAM C MILLS The Baum Prehistoric Village site is situated in Twin Township Ross County Ohio just across the river from the small borough of Bourneville upon the first gravel terrace of Paint Creek The Paint Creek valley is drained by Paint Creek a stream of irregular turbulence flowing in a northeasterly direction and emptying into the Scioto River south of Chillicothe The Valley at the site of this village upwards of two miles in width is ...
... PIONEER PHYSICIANS AND THEIR PARTICIPATION PIONEER PHYSICIANS AND THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN OHIO By ROBERT G PATERSON PhD Participation of the pioneer physicians in the establishment of social institutions in Ohio during the period 1788-1835 was sporadic without long term vision and was born of the immediate necessities of the times Almost without exception such participation was confined to a few outstanding medical men They were as a rule men of ...
... 568 Ohio Arch 568 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ferring the Dedication till next year when all parties cooperating in this work will have full time to do their work unhurried and in the best artistic fashion The contract with the Sculptor calls for the completion of all of his work by January 1st 1926 with possibility of extension of time for cause In no case can the panels in the rotunda be ready for the dedication date Their place in the room can be clearly indicated on that ...
... ABRAHAM LINCOLN VISITS WITH HIS PEOPLE ABRAHAM LINCOLN VISITS WITH HIS PEOPLE by J H CRAMER Associate Professor of History Youngstown College The crossroads of America nurtured Abraham Lincoln they were home to him He spent most of his life in the villages and small towns of the Middle West and the thriving city of Springfield Illinois numbered only seven thousand persons in its population during the years in which Lincoln was one of its leading citizens The teeming life of the American city ...
... 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 ...
... CHRISTOPHER G CHRISTOPHER G WYE Merchants of Tomorrow The Other Side of the Don't Spend Your Money Where You Can't Work Movement For the most part the racial ideologies expressed by black leaders during the nineteen thirties can be classified on a rough continuum from the traditionally conservative and accommodationist Urban League through the more activist and protest-oriented NAACP the labor movement and the rise of industrial unionism and finally the Socialist and Communist parties One ...
... 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 ...
... Index Index ABBOT W W book rev 389-390 Arizona constitution of 1910 and Toledo Addes George and Toledo Chevrolet trade union 109-128 strike 335 350 355 Arizona Constitutional Petition League of The Adena People No 2 by William S Typographical Union No 63 Toledo Webb and Raymond S Baby rev 158Ohio 111 128 organized 112-113 159 activities of 114 115 119 120 124 Administration of the Historic Sites by 125 Richard S Fatig 261-263 Ashley Henry W 115 Agriculture crops in early northeastern Atlanta ...
... Subsistence Homesteading Subsistence Homesteading in Dayton Ohio 1933-1935 by Jacob H Dorn T he United States was born in the country and has moved to the city wrote Richard Hofstadter in a provocative study of modern American reform movements1 The tide of migration from rural areas to urban centers has been with few exceptions continuous and irresistible since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution Driven along by a host of economic social and psychological forces it reached a symbolic ...
... AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HARDING PAPERS by DONALD E PITZER April 25 1964 marked the beginning of an opportunity for a new perspective in telling the story of the life and times of Warren G Harding On that date The Ohio Historical Society opened to the public a collection of Harding papers which it had received in the preceding six months from the Harding Memorial Association at Marion Ohio1 Material never before available for scholarly research thus began to shed a clearer light upon Harding and ...
... 470 Ohio Arch 470 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications fortunate in view and it was through his suggestion and influence that increased provisions were made for the insane that the graded system was introduced into the penitentiary and that many other prison reforms were instituted Among the most important acts of this humanitarian statesman was the founding of the Reform School for Girls at Delaware To him more than any one man in Ohio can be credited the promotion and success of the ...
... ROBERTA MENDEL ROBERTA MENDEL Carl Frederick Wittke Versatile Humanist There're too many do-gooders and organizers and not enough quiet humanitarians among us Cleveland Sun Press November 18 1971 Native Ohioan Carl Frederick Wittke distinguished himself in many areas of academe At such Ohio institutions of higher learning as Ohio State University Oberlin and Western Reserve University he is recognized as an outstanding teacher administrator and mediator Nationally he is remembered as an ...
... 648 Ohio Arch 648 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications It is planned to visit the industrial plants of Dayton and the wonderful flood-prevention work If Mr Wright accompanies the visitors on their tour it may be a profitable day for the Society -- we may secure the first successful airship of the Wright brothers This plane while not in Dayton has not been sent to England If the Society secures the airplane and the mastodon skeleton a place to exhibit them must be provided and the Society ...
... 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 ...
... ADDRESS OF HENRY M ADDRESS OF HENRY M STORRS D D DELIVERED SUNDAY AFTERNOON APRIL EIGHTH Isaiah 35 1 The wilderness shall be glad for them THE pioneers and founders have done their work and gone They have left us material and tools We are to enter into their labors and carry forward their work I make no apology for naming as our subject that nation which they founded as it was and is and shall be THE AMERICAN PEOPLE A SOURCE OF BLESSING Your flint dry and hard is found to have its molecular ...
... 600 Ohio Arch 600 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The Registrar has reported the additions to the Museum from Oct o ber 1 1926 to September 1 1927 as follows Accessions to Museum Collections October 1 1 926 to September 1 1 927 The most important additions to the Archaeological collection aside from the material secured by explorations have been the collections of the late Dr G Miesse Lancaster Ohio which was bequeathed to the Society of Mr C O Tracy Bexley Ohio presented by his son Mr ...