... RELIC DEPARTMENT OF THE CENTENNIAL RELIC DEPARTMENT OF THE CENTENNIAL ONE of the interesting and attractive features of the celebration was the display of historical relics It was a matter of great regret to the Committee that a list and catalogue of the articles with the names of owners and exhibitors could not be prepared before the celebration The following is a complete list of articles displayed The value of the list would be greatly enhanced could the name of the owner of each of the ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XXVII INDEX TO VOLUME XXVII EXPLANATORY NOTE With the exception of a few pages Volume Twenty-six is made up of two articles History of Educational Legislation in Ohio by Prof Miller and The Indians in Ohio by H C Shetrone These articles are so foreign to each other that few of the subjects treated are identical hence an index covering both would possess no special advantage Besides these articles are of such value in themselves that there will be undoubtedly a demand for their ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments and awards within the professional community of Ohio historians include Edmund J Danziger of Bowling Green State University has been promoted to Chairman of the Department of History Gary R Hess of Bowling Green State University has been appointed Acting Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve David C Skaggs of Bowling Green State University will take a leave of absence to attend the ...
... JAY D JAY D GREEN Nothing to Advertise Except God Christian Radio and the Creation of an Evangelical Subculture in Northeast Ohio 1958-1972 How I praise God for friends like you exclaimed an excited Elise Marshall in a 1961 letter There have been times in my life when I felt very lonely Now I have many friends who love my precious Lord the same as I do and I have sweet fellowship with each one of you even though I may never see you1 Testimonials like this were frequent in the 1960s among an ...
... Fortieth Annual Meeting 263 Fortieth Annual Meeting 263 healthy condition even though it carries the scars of the damage caused by storm three years ago The General Gibson Grove that was planted a year ago is growing with few losses and they are being replaced Thousands of people continue to visit this historic old tree annually On October 4th the Ohio History Day Association held its annual meeting at the Park and with most unfavorable weather conditions had more than 3000 people present Mr ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 641 Forty-First Annual Meeting 641 PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE WORK OF RESTORING AND PARKING OF THE MOUND CITY GROUP IN CAMP SHERMAN ROSS COUNTY OHIO Under instruction of the Director the Curator of Archaeology spent the month of October 1 9 25 on the preliminary work of restoring the Mound City Group of Prehistoric Earthworks located in Camp Sherman Chillicothe Ohio preparatory to converting the area turned over to the Society by the War Department into a State Park ...
... A New Letter of Hiram Powers A New Letter of Hiram Powers By THOMAS B BRUMBAUGH Make me as I am Mr Powers and be true to nature always and in everything Andrew Jackson reportedly told the sculptor Hiram Powers 1805-1873 born in Vermont trained as a young man in Watson's clock factory in Cincinnati and later employed by Dorfueille's Western Museum scarcely needed such advice for on the road to making High Art he had also been a maker of writhing wax figures controlled by automatic insides for ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XXIX INDEX TO VOLUME XXIX Abenakis See Abinakis Auditors report of 495-503 Abinakis 336 440 Avolachy 186 188 Adams Gilbert C presentation of archaeological specimens by 507 Backus Elijah 147 Advocate and Tribune 153 Bailey Abby extracts from journal of Akron Germania attitude on peace negorelative to visit of Lafayette to Cintiations following the World War 52 cinnati 260-263 53 54 61 66 69 73 75 76 78 Baker Newton D at Spiegel Grove Park Alexander T B telegram from 544-545 328 ...
... THE MIDDLE WEST AND THE COMING OF THE MIDDLE WEST AND THE COMING OF WORLD WAR II by JEANNETTE P N ICHOLS Such a topic as The Middle West and the Coming of World War II admits the premise that public opinion in a particular section of a nation can importantly affect the foreign policy of the central government particularly in a country run on the representative principle This premise has received endorsement repeatedly in the history of the United States and other countries and especially among ...
... Science and Democracy Science and Democracy A History of the Cincinnati Observatory 1842-1872 by Stephen Goldfarb The Spy Glass out on the hill Is now enti re ly finished Th e distance t w ixt u s and th e moon Is s ensibly diminished When Mitchel looks it comes near He sees th e h ills and tr ees Which most conclusively doth prove That 'tis no t made of cheese --Cincinnati Enquirer 18451 The Cincinnati Observatory housing an eleven-and-one-half-inch refractor telescope was opened for viewing ...
... A BRAND FROM THE CRITICS' FIRE OR A WORD FOR A BRAND FROM THE CRITICS' FIRE OR A WORD FOR WHITLOCK by WINTHROP TILLEY Associate Professor of English University of Connecticut Now in midcentury when so much badly needed revaluation of America's literary product is going forward seems an appropriate time to speak a word for Brand Whitlock The new Literary History of the United States by Spiller and others mentions Whitlock only as a single-taxer a humanitarian and an early realist and adds that ...
... INDEX INDEX COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ACE of Roosevelt The 74 Ahlstrom Sydney E 66 Albacete MJ Architecture in Canton 87 with D'Arti and Reeves Ohio Quilts A Living Tradition 87 Alexander Charles C Here the Country Lies Nationalism and the Arts in Twentieth-Century America rev 135-37 American City 21 American Institute of Architects 7 29 Angel William D Jr book rev 121-22 Athony Wayne Trail 33 Anti-Saloon League of Cleveland 71 Annual Meeting Non-Partisan WCTU 1875 70 1889 72 Annual Report ...
... 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 ...
... THE The collection of manuscripts letters books and other items of literary and historical interest listed in this catalog was presented to the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society in memory of Dolores Cameron Venable by her husband Emerson Venable and her daughter Evelyn Venable THE DOLORES CAMERON VENABLE MEMORIAL COLLECTION Correspondence Boxes 2-16 Letters from William Henry Venable1 to Coates Kinney2 and from Coates Kinney to William Henry Venable 238 letters covering the ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent appointments retirements and awards within the professional community of Ohio historians include H Roger Grant of The University of Akron has been appointed to the editorial board of Railroad History Warren F Kuehl who joined the history department of The University of Akron in 1964 has retired Roberta S Alexander of the University of Dayton received an NEH-Project '87 Grant to attend a conference on the Constitution Erving Beauregard of the ...
... AN INDENTURE OF 1831 IN PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO AN INDENTURE OF 1831 IN PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO By FREDERICK C WAITE The procedure of apprenticeship in the crafts as a method of preparing for a vocation is of ancient origin It was firmly established in Europe when the American Colonies were settled and was prevalent in these colonies and in the United States until well into the nineteenth century Although the method is familiar to all that are acquainted with the history of the crafts comparatively ...
... 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 ...
... AN ECONOMIC ASPECT OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR by TOM EDWARD TERRILL In the early months of 1898 the McKinley administration confronted a mounting crisis with Spain over the Cuban revolution Domestic pressures exerted by the press and politicians especially in the month of March placed heavy demands upon President McKinley to intervene to pacify Cuba One of the President's closest advisers thought war was possible in February By March 28 he believed it was probable1 The report on the sinking ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Bougainville The Forgotten Campaign 1943-1945 By Harry A Gailey Lexington The University Press of Kentucky 1991 vii 237p maps illustrations notes glossary bibliography index 2700 On November 1 1943 US Marines landed on the west coast of Bougainville the largest and most northerly of the Solomon Islands Following successes on Guadalcanal and New Guinea this assault opened the last phase of the campaign to reduce Japan's base at Rabaul and oust Japan from the southwest ...
... JOHN GRAY WASHINGTON'S LAST SOLDIER JOHN GRAY WASHINGTON'S LAST SOLDIER BORN NEAR MT VERNON VA JANUARY 6TH 1764 DIED NEAR HIRAMSBURG O MARCH 29TH 1868 BY PRIVATE DALZELL Read at the Marietta Centennial Celebration One by one the severed links have started Bonds that bound us to the sacred past One by one our patriot sires departed Time hath brought us to behold the last Last of all who won our early glory Lonely traveler of the weary way Poor unknown unnamed in song or story In his western ...