... Thirty-Second Annual Meeting Thirty-Second Annual Meeting 569 Col Curry stated that he would start the collection by presenting the Society a full roster of Ohio soldiers in the civil war On motion the meeting adjourned ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES SOCIETY BUILDING SEPTEMBER 28 1917 Present Messrs Wright Cole Buck Prince Ryan Bareis Moore Treadway Schaus Randall Wood and Thompson Absent Messrs Hayes Palmer and Campbell The meeting was called to order by President Wright Secretary Randall ...
... COMMENTS NOTES AND REVIEWS COMMENTS NOTES AND REVIEWS JOHN SHERMAN--A CHARACTERIZATION One of the greatest of Ohio's sons as well as one of the most prominent and influential of our National characters has passed away in the person of John Sherman He belonged to a distinguished family America has produced families no less illustrious than those of old England or the Continental countries But America's families are eminent through the law of heredity and not the law of patent nobility The ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSS E LL ABOLITIONISM Theodore Dwight Weld's Anti-Slavery Mission in Ohio by Vernon L Volpe 5-18 Abolitionist Actuarv Atheist Elizur Wright and the Reform Impulse by Lawrence B Goodheart rev 168-170 Abzug Robert Passionate Liberator Theodore Dwight Weld and the Dilemma of Reform 6 8 9 Adjutant General's General Order Number 12 1916 45-46 Adjutant General ONG office of 40-56 Agriculture Butter and Egg Business Implications From the Records of a Nineteenth-Century ...
... 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 ...
... LLOYD SPONHOLTZ LLOYD SPONHOLTZ The 1912 Constitutional Convention in Ohio The Call-up and Nonpartisan Selection of Delegates Until recently little scholarly interest has been shown in the nonpartisan system and its place in the American election process neither advocates of the reform nor students of politics have examined the actual effect of elimination of partisanship from the ballot in Ohio1 In the 1910-1911 period an opportunity for an analysis of the nonpartisan system and the resulting ...
... BOOK REVIEWS INDEX TO THE WILLIAM McKINLEY PAPERS The Library of Congress Presidents' Papers Index Series Washington Manuscript Division Reference Department Library of Congress 1963 x482p introduction and appendices 325 An index often is thought of as merely a finding list but this one functions in numerous ways Its most important functions are three-fold it testifies it terrifies and it teaches First as to its testimony It testifies to a growth in recognition of historical needs --by ...
... 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 ...
... JUDGE TOURGEE AND RECONSTRUCTION JUDGE TOURGEE AND RECONSTRUCTION By RUSSEL B NYE Albion Winegar Tourgee Ohioan novelist political thinker soldier editor jurist and diplomat was a man whose comments upon the political and social questions of the late nineteenth century form an interesting chapter in the development of American thought Born in Williamsfield Ohio in 1838 of Huguenot German and Yankee stock he spent a normal boyhood amid the farms and villages of northern Ohio1 After study at ...
... ECHOES OUT OF THE PAST ECHOES OUT OF THE PAST BY CAROLINE M ZIMMERMAN The museum of the Clark County Ohio Historical Society houses many objects worthy of song or story many objects around which cluster a wealth of romantic lore fit to inspire a modern saga of great worth and beauty Of all these objets d'art there is doubtless none that carries a greater feminine appeal than a quaint little piano more than a century old the first in fact to have been brought into the county There it stands ...
... array of implements array of polychrome murals sculptures engravings and paintings in the caverns of France Spain and adjacent regions The Solutreans strangely enough although wedged in between these two artistic peoples had but little art They had however developed the techniques of working flint to a degree of perfection not shared by either their predecessors or their successors The ...
... array of strengths and weaknesses that we ourselves can so readily and even sympathetically relate to Marquette University Robert P Hay Labor Leaders in America Edited by Melvyn Dubofsky and Warren Van Tine Champaign University of Illinois Press 1987 xvi 396p illustrations bibliographic notes index 1495 paper 3495 cloth Melvyn Dubofsky and Warren Van Tine have edited a volume that will prove indispensable to students of American labor history ...
... array of faculty opposition At the same time the Trustees may well have been influenced by the moderation of both the Faculty Council and the Conference Committee Neither body demanded a completely unrestricted 27 Campus Speakers 5 Cleveland Plain Dealer October 27 1951 Citizen October 4 16 1951 28 For an example of faculty support of the rule see J F Haskins Professor of Physics to Bevis nd Box 45 File Prof Rugg Official Correspondence Bevis ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews An Ohio Portrait By George W Knepper Columbus The Ohio Historical Society 1976 282p illustrations maps index 2000 An Ohio Portrait is one of a growing list of publications resulting from the bicentennial which raises the hope that whatever the ultimate assessment may be of other phases of this national birthday celebration it will be viewed in the future as having provided the same kind of noteworthy stimulus to publications in the field of state and local history as ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Educating for Democracy A Symposium Yellow Springs The Antioch Press 1937 148p Antioch College is responsible for the publication of this interesting symposium on one of the most pertinent and many faceted problems facing educational leaders of today what is the function of education in a democratic state Believing that a discussion of some of the issues involved in such a question would be of value and wishing to honor its first president Horace Mann Antioch College ...
... BLAST-FURNACES OPERATED BY THE BLAST-FURNACES OPERATED BY THE SEPARATIST SOCIETY OF ZOAR OHIO BY E J BOGNAR A most important contribution to the success of the Separatist Society of Zoar was iron ore The village of Zoar was founded in 1817 by 300 or more Separatists who had embarked early that spring from Wurtemburg1 Germany The party was led by one Joseph M Bimeler2 and the desire for religious freedom brought them to this country where they settled in the inviting wooded region of the ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR DEATH OF GRANDSON OF JOHN BROWN On March 21 1927 Charles P Brown son of Jason Brown and grandson of John Brown of Osawatomie and Harper's Ferry fame died at his home in Akron at the age of seventy-three He was the second son of Jason Brown His older brother Austin went with Jason and John Brown Jr to Kansas before John Brown Sr left for the West Austin died on the ...
... SPECIAL CROPS IN OHIO BEFORE 1850 SPECIAL CROPS IN OHIO BEFORE 1850 BY ROBERT LESLIE JONES A noteworthy aspect of agriculture in Ohio before 1850 was the attention paid to a number of minor crops--rice cotton hemp flax clover seed white beans castor beans hops madder mustard broom corn cow cabbage sugar beets Rohan potatoes and tobacco The farmers were actually carrying on an American tradition for their colonial ancestors had experimented with most of these special crops and with others ...
... 26 Ohio Arch 26 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications extent of the town and the obligations of the founders Incidentally they show that sometime between October 6 and December 15 1821 the town acquired the name of Bucyrus Colonel Kilbourne was a man of varied accomplishments for his day He was soldier minister educator congressman and we are told a musician whose songs delighted companions and audiences Someone has said half in jest half in earnest Poetry is lies and it follows that poets ...
... Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 585 Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 585 umes of which was completed some time ago is still passing through the press As originally planned this work was to have been completed in four volumes When the fourth volume was in type it was found that enough manuscript remained for a fifth volume This we learn from the printer is in type awaiting the index to the entire work Increased appropriations for the Publications of the Society were allowed by the last General Assembly ...
... OHIO'S GERMAN-LANGUAGE PRESS AND THE WAR OHIO'S GERMAN-LANGUAGE PRESS AND THE WAR BY CARL WITTKE Instructor in American History Ohio State University In April 1917 when the war cloud settled over America most of the German-language publications in this country found themselves in an extremely embarrassing position To the very last they had opposed America's entry into the war To them it seemed that Germany's cause had been grossly misrepresented by an Anglicised press and the German contention ...