... William D William D Gallagher Champion of Wester Literary Periodicals By JAM ES A TAGUE DURING THE 1830's a number of attempts were made in Ohio to create a successful literary journal one that would be devoted to subjects other than the predominant interests of the majority of the newspapers and magazines of the day The existing media for the most part published articles on religion politics and growth of the area and there were few local outlets for the aspiring author if he did not write on ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Lincoln the President Springfield to Gettysburg By J G Randall New York Dodd Mead amp Company 19 45 2 v 750 Although biographies of Abraham Lincoln have been written in great profusion this work based on documentary sources and a reevaluation of previously published materials offers what might be termed a revisionist point of view or more properly a restoration of historical truth The author conceiving his purpose as both biography and history has employed the ...
... The Century and Its Lessons The Century and Its Lessons 27 of the distinguished gentlemen whom we have assembled here to greet This city of ours has in time sent forth her sons and daughters who with willing hands and strong hearts have engaged in founding other cities and States thus following the noble example set by their ancestors Many of these sons and daughters have returned in response to invitations cordially extended and I desire to say to them as well as the strangers within our ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA WILLIAM HENRY HUNTER William H Hunter Trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society died suddenly at his residence Chillicothe Ohio in the early morning of Wednesday June 19 1906 after an illness of only five days' duration Mr Hunter closed his earthly career as he had often expressed a desire to do in the very midst of his daily activities Never was he more energetic or enthusiastic in his life work On the ...
... 128 Ohio Arch 128 Ohio Arch and His Society Pub li cations the citizens of all the states and the republics to the south of us may spend many pleasant hours and may find rest and comfort It is my duty to turn our building over to the Pan-American and in doing so I express the sincere hope that your exposition may have the great success which always should accompany efforts so earnest so able and so magnificent and wonderful in results as are those made by the officials of the exposition and ...
... ROBERT A ROBERT A TRENNERT JR William Medill's War with the Indian Traders 1847 William Medill's tenure as Commissioner of Indian Affairs in the Polk administration came at the critical time of continental expansion which resulted in forceful removal of the Indian from lands desired by white settlers Soon after he took office Medill attempted to make some basic reforms in policy governing relations with the Indians One of the most controversial aspects of his reforming activities as ...
... CALEB ATWATER VERSATILE PIONEER CALEB ATWATER VERSATILE PIONEER A RE-APPRAISAL By HENRY C SHETRONE BACK EAST Educator minister lawyer and antiquarian advocate of internal improvements co-founder of Ohio's school system Ohio's first historian intellectual and social pioneer of the Middle West Such was Caleb Atwater of Massachusetts New York--and Ohio Without an understanding of the times in which Caleb Atwater lived particularly of his years in the East before coming to Ohio one might well ...
... THOMSONIANISM IN OHIO THOMSONIANISM IN OHIO By FREDERICK C WAITE PhD Ohio has long been a battleground Because of its geographical position its terrain and its internal and bordering waterways it was the site of many wars between different Indian nations before the white man came and also near the end of the eighteenth century the location of the major warfare between the white men and the Indians Because of the geographical position fertility of the soil and ownership during the colonial ...
... Minutes of the Meeting of the Minutes of the Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History Columbus April 13 1957 One hundred historians attended the spring meeting of the Ohio Academy of History at the Ohio State Museum on Saturday April 13 1957 At one of the two concurrent morning sessions Erving E Beauregard of the University of Dayton introduced Edward J Goodman of Xavier University who presented a paper on Spanish Nationalism in the Struggle Against Napoleon and Alfred D Low of Marietta College ...
... COMMERCIAL VS COMMERCIAL VS SCIENTIFIC COLLECTING A PLEA FOR ART FOR ART'S SAKE WARREN K MOOREHEAD Curator of Archaeology Phillips Academy Andover Mass It occurs to me that so far as it could be accomplished without infringing upon the rights of individuals museum curators should combine against dealers in archeological specimens There seem to be two classes of these men and the one should not be confounded with the other Of recent years the dealers of archaeologic specimens have increased to ...
... 558 Ohio Arch 558 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications County Several additional parks shortly will be placed in our custody In connection with two or three of the park properties there has been some lack of agreement as to methods of administration The Director accompanied by Trustee J C Goodman Chairman of the Committee on State Parks recently visited these properties conferred with local committees and provided means for correcting the situations It may seem superfluous to consume the ...
... TEACHING OF ANATOMY IN OHIO 331 TEACHING OF ANATOMY IN OHIO 331 Mendel Thomas Huxley Ernst Haeckel Johann Meckel Georges Cuvier and Sir Richard Owen This period witnessed also the founding of the science of anthropology which was a definite outgrowth of the biologic and evolutionary thinking of the nineteenth century The biological aspect of anatomy nurtured in European and especially in German universities was brought to the United States during the latter years of the nineteenth century by ...
... 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 ...
... ANNUAL ADDRESS OF F ANNUAL ADDRESS OF F C SESSIONS PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY Read in the Senate Chamber at the Fourth Annual Meeting Thursday Evening January 31 1889 ALMOST one year ago this Society went to Marietta O to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the settlement by Americans of the Northwest Territory of which Ohio is an integral part and of which she is the oldest State and one of the most powerful of American commonwealths The settlement was hence the first by Americans in ...
... OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR KENTUCKY-MOTHER OF UNITED STATES SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES This is the title of valuable compilation by A C Quisenberry published in The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society for January 192 0 It appears from this that Kentucky has given to other states sixty-one United States senators and one hundred fifty-one represensatives in Congress making a total ...
... EXPLORATIONS OF THE WESTENHAVER MOUND EXPLORATIONS OF THE WESTENHAVER MOUND BY WILLIAM C MILLS The Westenhaver Mound is located in Wayne township Pickaway county Ohio on the west bank of the Scioto river The land on which the mound is situated is owned by Mr and Mrs George E Roth and lies about six miles southwest of Circleville and three miles north of the village of Yellow Bud The site of the earthwork is a level plateau comprising the first bottom of the Scioto river which at this point is ...
... 136 Ohio Arch 136 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications THE BUNCH OF GRAPES TAVERN In Old Boston Taverns -a rare little pamphlet published in Boston in 1886 and written by Samuel Adams Drake--is an entertaining little chapter on the Bunch of Grapes Tavern the inn that figured so historically in the early stages of the organization of the Ohio Company of Associates The tavern stood in King Street now State Street at the upper corner of Kilby Street It was not far from the site of the Boston ...
... Dedication of the Hayes Memorial Dedication of the Hayes Memorial 4 39 ask each and every one of you to register here on this consecrated spot a solemn vow to preserve this nation forever and forever to the American - peaceably if we can forcibly if we must but for America America forever and forever Mr Charles R Williams of Princeton biographer of Rutherford Birchard Hayes then delivered the following address ADDRESS OF CHARLES R WILLIAMS We are met today to signalize the formal dedication of ...
... ROGER D ROGER D BRIDGES John Sherman and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson In Irving Brant's recent study of the impeachment process by the United States Congress he characterized the Radical Republican attempt to remove Andrew Johnson from the presidency in 1868 as the most insidious assault on constitutional government in the nation's history It was Brant charged carried on in direct violation of the limitations deliberately placed in the Constitution to prevent such a happening If it had ...
... Nelson Winter-Spring 2001 pp 5-25 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 The Ideal of Nature and the Good Farmer Louis Bromfield and the Quest for Rural Community By Philip J Nelson click to view larger image World War II and its aftermath dominated the 1940s as have few events in other decades ...