... THE IMPACT OF SCIENCE UPON THE HISTORY THE IMPACT OF SCIENCE UPON THE HISTORY OF OHIO by JOHN S MILLIS President of Western Reserve University I recall that many years ago a teacher informed a class of which I was a member that history was the record of the answers to the questions Who What Where and When Since that time I have learned that history also embraces the answers to the questions of How and Why Further it has been those parts of history which deal with the latter two questions which ...
... HELEN M HELEN M THURSTON The 1802 Constitutional Convention and Status of the Negro What does the 1802 Ohio constitution say regarding freedom suffrage and citizen rights for negroes and mulattoes1 How were decisions made at the constitutional convention Who were the decision-makers Since even today confusion exists in historical studies on these questions it is hoped that answers in some degree can be obtained from a vote by vote study of the eight major motions concerning the negro that were ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Civilization of the Old Northwest 1788-1812 By Beverley W Bond Jr The Macmillan Company New York 1934 543p 350 Dr Bond Professor of History in the University of Cincinnati has made a real contribution to the history of Ohio and the Old Northwest in this book in which he presents a careful study of the political social and economic history of this region between 1788 and 1812 The book is divided into fourteen chapters dealing with the basis for civilization the lure of ...
... DAVID G DAVID G THOMPSON Ohio's Best The Mobilization of the Fourth Infantry Ohio National Guard in 1917 In World War I the United States created and sent to France a massive army which effectively turned the tide of the conflict against Germany Although the American forces were built up from an indispensable cadre of Regular US Army troops and professional officers the National Guard also played an important part Two of the first four American divisions to reach France in 1917 and eventually ...
... THE ECLECTIC OF ST THE ECLECTIC OF ST CLAIRSVILLE by PHILIP D JORDAN Professor of History University of Minnesota and Research Associate Minnesota Historical Society For decades the charming village of St Clairsville named in honor of a stiff-necked soldier and governor who opposed Buckeye statehood played an important role in determining the development of the Northwest country Other Ohio communities-- classic-tinged Marietta Cincinnati the Queen City of seven hills sturdy ...
... THE LIBRARY OF AN EARLY OHIO FARMER THE LIBRARY OF AN EARLY OHIO FARMER by ROBERT H IRRMANN Assistant Professor of History and Government Denison University Though not among the founding fathers of Blendon Township in Franklin County Gideon W Hart is noted by William Martin one of the county's early historians as among those who subsequently settled there after the initial waves of migration in 1806 and 1808 Born in Hartford Connecticut on July 16 1785 Hart first came to Franklin County in ...
... JUDSON HARMON JUDSON HARMON BY HUGH L NICHOLS Judson Harmon forty-fourth governor of Ohio 1909-1913 was born at Newtown Hamilton County Ohio on the 3rd of February 1846 He was the eldest son of Rev Benjamin Franklin Harmon one of the pioneer preachers of the Baptist faith who extended the field of his spiritual ministrations through the medium of the old-time circuit-riding to the adjoining County of Clermont Judson Harmon was of English ancestry His lineage has been authentically traced to ...
... 634 Ohio Arch 634 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications During the year there has been a large number of visitors at the Park The custodian reports more than twenty-five thousand While many of these doubtless have been the usual Sunday and holiday visitors they have been orderly while at the Park and let us hope have carried away with them some wholesome impressions of the significance of the Great Serpent Effigy Signed W H COLE Chairman of Committee REPORT OF SPIEGEL GROVE COMMITTEE A E ...
... KRISTE LINDENMEYER KRISTE LINDENMEYER Saving Mothers and Babies The Sheppard-Towner Act in Ohio 1921-1929 In 1985 the year for which the latest statistics are available 106 American babies died for every 1000 live births in the United States This is a dramatic improvement over the country's 1921 infant mortality rate of 76 per 1000 but as in 1921 the United States' rate continues to compare poorly with many other industrialized countries In 1921 the United States rate ranked seventeenth out of ...
... 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 ...
... TED C TED C HINCKLEY The Politics of Sinophobia Garfield the Morey Letter and the Presidential Election of 1880 Looking backward from the 1890s and ruminating on the almost dozen presidential contests with which he had been familiar Charles Francis Adams Jr reflected So far as the country as a whole is concerned the grand result would in the long run have been about the same whether at any particular election-with the exception of 1864-the party I sympathized with had won the day or whether ...
... 324 Ohio Arch 324 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ing them without political compromise our cooperation in return for greater consideration on their part Encourage Columbus-Franklin County membership approximately one-third of our total to serve as a nucleus of interest and activity these being close at hand can and do avail themselves of the Museum and Library and should be amenable to further interest provided something worth-while is provided for them Utilize these nearby members ...
... Rutherford B Rutherford B Hayes and JOHN SHERMAN b y JEANNETTE PADDOCK NICHOLS At noon on Wednesday January 18 1893 the United States Senate convened and according to custom heard a brief opening prayer by the Chaplain When Dr J G Butler had finished the senior Senator from Ohio John Sherman addressed his colleagues Mr President it becomes my painful duty to announce to the Senate the death of Rutherford Birchard Hayes at his residence in Fremont Ohio last evening at 11 o'clock It was my good ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR DR WILLIAM H ALLEN'S REPORT ON THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Dr William H Allen head of the Institute of Public Service New York was employed by the Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative Reorganization to make an examination of all state educational agencies In his report on the work of the Society he sketches briefly the aims and ...
... Ora et Labora Ora et Labora A German Methodist Utopia By CARL WITTKE IN ALL AGES men have toyed with plans for the regeneration of the race and a map of the world without utopias would be bleak and uninteresting indeed1 A new unsettled land like the United States was especially appealing to utopian dreamers and beginning with the colonial period scores of communitarian experiments flourished for longer or shorter periods in America Some were religious in origin and used a communist pattern as ...
... GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME LI GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME LI ABBREVIATION use of by Americans 106 American Colonization Soc Shunk Abolition and abolitionists 1837 in E W Ohio in Africa79-88 Ill 53 hinder Ohio in Africa American Journal of Dental Science 295 plan 87 American Journal of Dental Surgery 296 Academies in early Ohio 93 American Library Assoc 194 Accessions to Society's Library pamAmerican Medical Assoc 290 phlets periods and vols 216 American Medical Botany 313 Accommodations of travel in ...
... WILLIAM E WILLIAM E SCHEUERMAN Canton and the Great Steel Strike of 1919 A Marriage of Nativism and Politics Prior to 1900 the production of iron and steel in the United States was primarily the domain of the skilled English-speaking worker1 By the turn of the century however the skilled worker was becoming extraneous Technological innovations in the production of steel deskilled the labor force and immigrants from southern and eastern Europe flocked to America's steelmills to assume the bulk ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 313 Reviews Notes and Comments 313 conditions at the time he said I am not surprised at the action of the United States government Slavery is now recognized as morally and economically wrong but at the time of the Harper's Ferry raid it was legalized by the United States and the State of Virginia It is generally admitted now that the blow at Harper's Ferry hastened the outbreak of the Civil War which brought slavery to an end in the United States John Brown's ...
... Hannah Fancher's Notes Hannah Fancher's Notes On Ohio Speech in 1824 edited by JOHN Y SIMON Hannah Fancher of Brown County Ohio was a tireless uplifter of her neighbors In long letters prepared for the newspapers she offered advice on many topics the length of sermons behavior in church how to sing properly the importance of keeping promises even the best method for killing bedbugs1 In 1833 she made a public appeal for forty dollars to have her Rules of Politeness printed an appeal necessary ...