... FREDERICK J FREDERICK J BLUE Chase and the Governorship A Stepping Stone to the Presidency In January of 1854 Senator Salmon P Chase of Ohio wrote what he would soon refer to as the most valuable of my works1 The Appeal of the Independent Democrats helped to set in motion a series of events that led to the formation of the Republican party It also played a major role in Chase's own career as the new party soon offered him its nomination for Governor of Ohio For Chase however election as ...
... Historical News Historical News TH E FIRST ANNUAL American history award of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association went to Donald F Warner professor of history at Wisconsin State College The presentation of the one thousand dollar prize was made on April 23 at the annual meeting of the association in Denver Colorado Dr Warner's winning entry entitled The Idea of Continental Union Agitation for Annexation of Canada to the United States 1849-1893 will be published in early 1960 by the ...
... PRESIDENT HARDING AND HIS CABINET by ROBERT K MURRAY Among the many controversial facets involving the life of the twenty-ninth president of the United States few have prompted more conjecture and analysis than the choosing of his cabinet The fact that one of his selections achieved the distinction of being the only cabinet officer to go to jail that another resigned under a cloud of suspicion and still a third narrowly missed criminal conviction places Warren Gamaliel Harding in a unique ...
... BAKER ON THE FIFTH BALLOT THE DEMOCRATIC ALTERNATIVE 1932 by ELLIOT A ROSEN A study of history's might-have-beens is often more interesting and informative than one would suspect from the bare recital of what happened For in addition to the zest of narrative it has the delight of speculation Very often the threads which lead to a great decision are intertwined with other strands which if they had prevailed might have brought about an entirely different aftermath What would have been the ...
... OHIO IN AFRICA OHIO IN AFRICA By EDWARD WESLEY SHUNK The fortunes of the American Colonization Society and its auxiliaries in Ohio were at an extremely low ebb in the 1840's and the failure of the Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851 to aid the cause further depressed its members Yet an amazing spurt of activity in the 1850's almost turned the tables The appointment of a really competent agent David Christy added to the collections from Ohio until the yearly contributions averaged over 2000 ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 587 Reviews Notes and Comments 587 industry of its people has erected into a state which though only thirty-fifth in area has become among its sisters of the Union fourth in population and in wealth exceeded only by New York Pennsylvania and Illinois This text-book is a credit not only to the authors but to the publishers as well By its attractive illustrations its appropriate maps and its illuminating graphics they have produced a work that will make its study ...
... Cleveland's Johnson Elected Mayor Cleveland's Johnson Elected Mayor By EUGENE C MURDOCK One day in the early fall of 1897 thirty friends of Henry George closeted themselves with the great single-taxer in Tom L Johnson's New York offices The question before them was Should George be a candidate in the approaching New York mayoralty election Some of those present observed that their leader's health was not good and that an exhausing campaign could render permanent damage to him An eminent doctor ...
... Big Bottom and Its History Big Bottom and Its History 3 3 ADDRESS OF TOD B GALLOWAY If I were to ask you what I should talk about I suppose you would answer me as the small boy did in Sunday School one day when a man got up and said Now children what shall I talk about and the bright boy said about one minute I am somewhat like an old Scotch preacher I once heard of A man went to church one day and he noticed that the preacher was crying a great deal during the delivery of his sermon Finally ...
... edited by edited by LOUIS FILLER Prevailing Manners and Customs on the Frontier The Memoirs of Irene Hardy Irene Hardy schoolmistress poet and early Stanford University professor was born July 22 1841 in Eaton Ohio the eldest daughter of Kentucky and Virginia parents Her father Walter Buell Hardy was a schoolteacher of culture whose four daughters-he also had a son Lewis-all taught school successfully Irene was so named from a character in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel Rienzi with conscientious ...
... 104 Ohio Arch 104 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications OHIO HISTORY DAY AT THE LOGAN ELM A large and appreciative audience assembled in Logan Elm Park near the grand old tree which gives it its name to celebrate Ohio History Day on October 7 1923 The local papers gave generous space to this notable event The Union Herald prefaces an extended account as follows The celebration of History day at Logan Elm Park Sunday was attended by from 1500 to 1800 people from all over central Ohio and the ...
... EXPLORATION OF THE HOPEWELL GROUP OF EXPLORATION OF THE HOPEWELL GROUP OF PREHISTORIC EARTHWORKS PREFATORY The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society's examination of the Hopewell Group of Prehistoric Earthworks if set down in detail would more than fill the allotted space and yet such a report without some mention of two former partial explorations would lack much of being a complete story Moreover should anything like a full review of previous explorations be included the resultant ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 99 ican Revolution and of the Benjamin Franklin the local chapter He served as an officer in both organizations and spoke upon many occasions on patriotic subjects at their meetings and banquets Col W L Curry a charter member of the State Society a Past President and for many years State Registrar and an active executive of the Society will speak RANDALL SON OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BY COL W L CURRY Emilius Oviatt Randall to whom we pay tribute ...
... ROBERT J ROBERT J ZALIMAS JR Contest MY seat sir Lewis D Campbell Clement L Vallandigham and the Election of 1856 After the October 1856 elections a heated political controversy arose in Ohio's Third Congressional District which mirrored the regional and factional turmoil dividing the nation The District lay in the southwestern part of the state and included three politically diverse counties Butler Montgomery and Preble In the election Democrat candidate Clement L Vallandigham lost to ...
... GRANT TABLET DEDICATION GRANT TABLET DEDICATION ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR ANDREW L HARRIS At Point Pleasant Ohio the birth place of Ulysses S Grant there was dedicated on Wednesday October 2d 1907 a tablet to the memory of the great general and president Many distinguished citizens participated and of the several speeches that of Governor Harris was especially in sympathy with the occasion-EDITOR On this occasion I am doubly honored It is my privilege to respond to an inspiring address of welcome ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments Reviews Notes and Comments 153 A PIONEER LETTER The letter here presented was written by Miss Rachel R Lockwood great aunt of George R Lockwood Editor of the Natio n al Republic published in Washington D C She emigrated from Sussex County Delaware to Preble County Ohio In 1845 she moved with other members of the family to Miami County Indiana where she became the wife of Jonathan Potterfield Dr Dingle to whom the letter was addressed was a member of the State Senate ...
... Historical News Historical News The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies held in Washington DC January 26-27 featured a panel of twelve scholars discussing the relevance of eighteenth-century ideas in twentieth-century society Thinking Americans have been aroused from their complacency by the greatly increased contact with other nations and cultures many of which are in sharp conflict with our national interest values and way of life The startling ...
... DOWN SOUTH BEFORE THE WAR DOWN SOUTH BEFORE THE WAR RECORD OF A RAMBLE TO NEW ORLEANS IN 18 58 ON the second day of December 1857 in company with my friend and fellow-student Alexis E Holcombe of Ravenna Ohio I started on an unpremeditated journey through Kentucky Tennessee Mississippi and Louisiana A tolerably complete diary kept during the six months of our sojourn in the South furnishes the material of the following narrative We set out from Lebanon Ohio by stage-coach for Cincinnati from ...
... 114 Ohio Arch 114 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications THE LATEST PREHISTORIC NEWS The actual results of archaeological explorations in Ohio and elsewhere in this country are sufficient to arouse interest and curiosity in the life and world of the lost and unrecorded people But what the newspapers say concerning these explorations surpasses the tales of Arabian Nights or Baron Munchausen For instance concerning the exhumations by Prof W C Mills at Fort Ancient the past summer 1908 a leading ...
... THE INTRODUCTION OF FARM MACHINERY INTO OHIO THE INTRODUCTION OF FARM MACHINERY INTO OHIO PRIOR TO 1865 by ROBERT LESLIE JONES Professor of History Marietta College Ohio agriculture in the fifth decade of the twentieth century is a highly mechanized industry with almost every farmer having a heavy investment in devices ranging from tractors to milking machines and pressure sprayers Contemporary mechanization however is less the product of recent innovations than it is the culmination of a long ...
... LEWIS L LEWIS L GOULD Chocolate Eclair or Mandarin Manipulator William McKinley the Spanish-American War and the Philippines A Review Essay The Spanish War An American Epic-1898 By GJA O'Toole New York W W Norton 1984 447p photographs notes bibliography index 1995 Sitting in Darkness Americans in the Philippines By David Haward Bain Boston Houghton Mifflin 1984 464p notes bibliography index photographs 2495 The Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection that followed were significant ...