... FOUR BUCKEYE ARGONAUTS IN CALIFORNIA FOUR BUCKEYE ARGONAUTS IN CALIFORNIA by SCHUYLER C MARSHALL President Polk's message to congress in December 1848 set of the gold mania in the East The following year thousands of young men left their farms to follow one of the overland trails or perhap go round the Horn or across the isthmus of Panama to the dig gings While we often speak of those who went to California a Forty-Niners the Gold Rush was by no means limited to tha year Early in 1850 many ...
... 588 Ohio Arch 588 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society in connection with the articles published Applause SCHOENBRUNN Rev J E Weinland Chairman of the Committee stated that he had not realized the importance of a written report but would make a short verbal report Schoenbrunn is the oldest village site in the State For years it was believed that Marietta was the oldest town in the State of Ohio and then the fact was unearthed that in 1772 a ...
... MARCUS A MARCUS A HANNA AND THEODORE E BURTON by WILBUR DEVEREUX JONES Instructor in History University of Georgia The tempestuous career of Marcus A Hanna during the triumphant days of the Republican party at the turn of the century is still the object of considerable interest to the historian While his importance is generally recognized possibly even exaggerated the available biographical material on Hanna is not very satisfactory partly because the accounts tend to be biased partly because ...
... Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 631 Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 631 MUSEUM COMMITTEE 1 The Committee desires to extend SPECIAL invitations to certain cities and communities to visit the Museum on certain week days or Sunday afternoons 2 The Committee suggests that the Library retain the use of the south rooms of the main building for the present and suggests that the present Board of Directors' Room and Director Mills' Office Rooms be set aside and fitted up for special ...
... THE FORMATION OF THE ECLECTIC SCHOOL THE FORMATION OF THE ECLECTIC SCHOOL IN CINCINNATI By RALPH TAYLOR MD It is now more than a century since the first Eclectic College was organized in Ohio and the century mark for the Eclectic Medical Institute will soon be reached It is difficult to visualize the social domestic and commercial life of the country when these schools were founded The writer doubts if one can thoroughly visualize Ohio without a single college of any appreciable size instead ...
... Robert C Schenck and Robert C Schenck and The Emma Mine Affair By CLARK C SPENCE THE PLAYER WITH A WORTHLESS HAND had generally better begin by 'raising' when he goes in or else nobody will be likely to believe in his pretended strong hand Thus wrote Robert C Schenck celebrated author of Draw-poker in 18801 Schenck was of course referring to the game on which he was the country's foremost expert but this statement might also have been applied to another area within the field of his ...
... ROBERT BUTLER ROBERT BUTLER Book Notes The Life and Adventures of Daniel Boone By Michael A Lofaro Lexington University Press of Kentucky 1978 x 141p map illustrations bibliography This brief biography part of the Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf provides an easily-read introduction to Boone and his times Besides the standard account of his life Lofaro adds numerous anecdotes such as the fact that James Fenimore Cooper used Boone as a model for many of his fictional frontiersmen The author's ...
... Gold Summer-Autumn 2001 pp 165-189 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page with footnotes according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page Natural Rights and the Admission of Women to the Ohio Bar By David M Gold In 1859 the Judiciary Committee of the Ohio House of Representatives rejected the idea that laws should be enacted to enhance women's rights in any ...
... TABLET TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN AT MANSFIELD TABLET TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN AT MANSFIELD WHERE THE ORGANIZED MOVEMENT BEGAN TO MAKE HIM PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES SPEECH BY HONORABLE CHARLES II WORKMAN I arise on behalf of the Abraham Lincoln Association of Richland county We meet to give proper recognition to our forebears in 1858 in this city and in this country for their political acumen sagacity and intuition We meet to commemorate an important fact or event in the political history of the United ...
... Montrie Winter-Spring 2002 pp 44-63 Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page with footnotes according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page Agriculture Christian Stewardship and Aesthetics Ohio Farmers' Opposition to Coal Surface Mining in the 1940s By Chad Montrie In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries more than a few American farmers took up coal ...
... ASA S ASA S BUSHNELL REV J W ATWOOD Asa S Bushnell was born in Rome New York September 16 1834 and died in Columbus Ohio January 15 1 90 4 He came of a family long and honorably identified with the history and life of New England which included in its membership Horace Bushnell of Hartford one of the most forceful and original thinkers that America has produced its greatest theologian with the exception of Jonathan Edwards a great citizen and a profound scholar The family settled in ...
... A Visit to the Ohio State Prison in 1837 A Visit to the Ohio State Prison in 1837 Edited by MERTON L DILLON ONE OF THE MANY SOCIAL PROBLEMS that demanded solution in the early nineteenth century was how best to deal with convicted criminals The answer provided by the system inaugurated in 1823 at the state prison at Auburn New York enjoyed great vogue among penal reformers and set the fashion in American prison administration for the next half century The Auburn system required the isolation ...
... 600 Ohio Arch 600 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications He was community-minded He was proud of his city He loved his neighbor He was devoted to his friends He was so unselfish gracious thoughtful and kind as Governor Cox said that he exalted the thing we too casually call friendship He found good in everything and was always of good cheer--a kindhearted courteous high-minded cultured gentleman the like of which we shall not look upon again soon CLAUDE MEEKER AS MEMBER OF THE KIT-KAT CLUB ...
... 586 Ohio Arch 586 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications REPORT OF THE SECRETARY The Secretary submitted the following reports of officers and committees The past year has been one of unusual activity in every department of the work of the Society Evidence of this fact is detailed in the reports of the officers and committees herewith submitted It is hoped that the members of the Society will read at least once each of these reports They exhibit generous and devoted effort and substantial ...
... SEED HUMBUGGERY AMONG THE WESTERN FARMERS SEED HUMBUGGERY AMONG THE WESTERN FARMERS 1850-1888 by EARL W HAYTER Professor of Social Sciences Northern Illinois State Teachers College The development of American agriculture as it unfolded from the pioneer subsistence level to that of a diversified enterprise was marked by the general characteristic of change-change from old practices to new ones There were several factors responsible for this inconstancy one of which was a growing necessity for ...
... edited by edited by JAMES B MURPHY A Confederate Soldier's View of Johnson's Island Prison William Henry Asbury Speer of Yadkin County joined the Confederate TwentyEighth North Carolina Volunteers as captain of its First Company when the regiment was organized at Highpoint on September 21 1861 After training and post duty at Wilmington Speer and the regiment moved to New Bern and then on to Gordonsville and Rapidan Station Virginia Ordered to join Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley the ...
... Thomas Boyd and F Scott Fitzgerarld Summer-Autumn 2000 pp 125-143 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 Thomas Boyd and F Scott Fitzgerald A Brief Literary Friendship By Brian Bruce click to view full image In June 1925 F Scott Fitzgerald wrote a spiteful letter to his editor Max Perkins about ...
... 106 Ohio Arch 106 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications FRANK L PACKARD The announcement of the sudden death of Frank L Packard on Friday morning October 26 brought sadness to a wide circle of friends in Ohio and other states In Columbus where he was personally known as almost no other citizen the expressions of regret were general and sincere The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society of which he had been a trustee since he was appointed by Governor Davis October 15 1921 was ...
... JOHN BROWN JOHN BROWN ADDITIONAL NOTES BY C B GALBREATH JOHN BROWN'S FRIENDS IN WASHINGTON The following letter to John Brown Jr which so far as we know has never before been published states clearly whom the writer regarded as friends in Congress This letter is now of historic interest only Had it been published at the time it was written it would doubtless have created some commotion and have made trouble for some of the congressmen named The letter is here reproduced literally ROCHESTER N Y ...
... A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF OHIO A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF OHIO Few American States possess a more national history or one embodying a greater variety of interests than Ohio The centennial celebrations that have lately been held within her borders commemorative of the beginning Of the Northwest Territory were more than local in character They embodied ideas that have a marked bearing on our National history The settlement at Marietta on the Muskingum on that April morning one hundred years ago was ...