... STEPHEN SIEK STEPHEN SIEK Frank Lloyd Wright's Westcott House in Springfield To investigate the career of Frank Lloyd Wright from 1893 to 1910 is to examine a period of architectural thought so rich that later historians would term this era Wright's First Golden Age1 The automobile and the airplane were two inventions that became synonymous with the advent of the twentieth century but no less innovative were the attempts of Frank Lloyd Wright to develop an architecture indigenous to American ...
... Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 591 Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 591 torical Society at Nazareth are assured that every precaution will be taken to insure its safety Some day I hope every one of you can go to the old Church and sit in front of the old fireplace which we discovered was twelve feet long and six feet deep We will have candlesticks along the wall we will serve you on a Moravian service such as was used one hundred and fifty years ago when the Moravians held services there I know the ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Scott Nearing An Intellectual Biography By John A Saltmarsh Philadelphia Temple University Press 1991 xii 337p illustrations notes manuscript sources bibliography index 3995 Loving and Leaving the Good Life By Helen Nearing Post Mills Vermont Chelsea Green Publishing Company 1992 197p illustrations selected bibliography 1995 Charlotte Perkins Gilman A Nonfiction Reader Edited by Larry Ceplair New York Columbia University Press 1991 xi 345p notes bibliography index ...
... 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 ...
... MINUTES OF MINUTES OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Deshler-Wallick Hotel Columbus Ohio April 8 1949 The Ohio Academy of History met in Columbus April 8 1949 in connection with the Ohio College Association More than one hundred persons attended the several sessions The morning session at 10 AM was devoted to a panel discussion on the subject American Cultural History as a Field of Specialization in the College and the Graduate School Members of the panel were Lyon N Richardson chief librarian ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews A Bibliography of Ohio Archeology By James L Murphy Ann Arbor University Microfilms International 1977 xi 488 p index 2375 This is the second comprehensive bibliography of Ohio archaeology The earlier compilation by Richard G Morgan and James H Rodabaugh was published by the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society in 1947 and contained 1351 entries This larger volume has 3138 entries and reflects both the striking growth of publications in the intervening ...
... Book Reviews Winter-Spring 2002 pp 65-93 Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page BOOK REVIEWS A Social Contract for the Coal Fields The Rise and Fall of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund By Richard P Mulcahy Knoxville Tenn The University of Tennessee Press 2000 xiv 274p notes ...
... Albion W Albion W Tourgee Propagandist And Critic of Reconstruction By TED N WEISSBUCH LESS THAN FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Ohioan Al b ion W Tourgee was referred to as the most neglected figure in American literature Increasing interest in the writers of the Civil War and Reconstruction era has caused a swing in the pendulum and now his name crops up often in the growing literature dealing with this period in our history Tourgee's work has always interested a small but devoted group of literary ...
... DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL TO GENERAL DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL TO GENERAL GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER On June 22 1932 in the presence of a very large representative and orderly assembly of people the statue of George Armstrong Custer was unveiled with appropriate ceremonies This celebration occurred too late to give an adequate account in the July issue of the QUARTERLY A full account will be given in the October issue The excellent program was carried out in every detail Hon Earl Lewis State Senator ...
... Historical News Historical News A number of cities are taking steps to preserve protect and in some cases reconstruct historical areas the American Society of Planning Officials has reported Such programs the society suggests are to the benefit of the cities because they stimulate tourist trade and save certain areas from declining into slums Charleston South Carolina has established by law a zone known as the old and historic Charleston district which comprises the area in which there is the ...
... B B W COLLINS Economic Issues in Ohio's Politics During the Recession of 1857-1858 Historians are just beginning to integrate the study of local and state issues with the study of national issues in American politics For some periods federal issues are so important and interesting that state history tends to be reduced to a batch of mere case studies detailing the local impact of great national questions One period suffering acutely from such neglect is the 1850s Recently however state and ...
... Book Notes Book Notes The Liberty Line The Legend of the Underground Railroad By Larry Gara Lexington The University Press of Kentucky 1996 xiv 201p index Appropriately titled when originally published in 1961 this seminal work on one of America's most enduring legends is finally available in paperback edition Having researched written and lectured on this topic for nearly 50 years Professor Gara skillfully distinguishes fact and faction while chronicling the colorful and frequently misstated ...
... JUDGE TOURGEE AND RECONSTRUCTION JUDGE TOURGEE AND RECONSTRUCTION By RUSSEL B NYE Albion Winegar Tourgee Ohioan novelist political thinker soldier editor jurist and diplomat was a man whose comments upon the political and social questions of the late nineteenth century form an interesting chapter in the development of American thought Born in Williamsfield Ohio in 1838 of Huguenot German and Yankee stock he spent a normal boyhood amid the farms and villages of northern Ohio1 After study at ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS In Winter We Flourish By Anna Shannon McAllister New York Longmans Green and Co 1939 398p 350 Outstanding in the civic and charitable enterprises of early Cincinnati was Sarah Worthington King Peter of whom Anna Shannon McAllister has written in her new book In Winter We Flourish Daughter of Thomas and Eleanor Swearingen Worthington the former at one time governor of Ohio Sarah was from childhood accustomed to the assumption of leadership Following what was for that ...
... Historical News Historical News THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE MORMON CHURCH has microfilmed all military records of the division of soldiers' claims of the Ohio adjutant general's office The microfilmed records include grave registration data on Ohio veterans of all wars in which Ohioans participated rosters of Ohio soldiers in these wars and indexes to the rosters original hand-written muster rolls of the Ohio units in the Civil War records of payment to Squirrel Hunters rosters of Ohio ...
... 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 ...
... HENRY T HENRY T HUNT AND CIVIC REFORM IN CINCINNATI 1903-1913 by LANDON WARNER Associate Professor of History Kenyon College One April day in 1903 two law students were watching with interest and curiosity the voting processes during a municipal election in their native city Cincinnati1 Stationed near a polling booth in one of the notorious precincts along the river front they witnessed a long line of Negro voters shuffle from the Silver Moon flophouse through the polling place and with ...
... 580 Ohio Arch 580 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications portunity to know both sides of the story of the conquest of the Northwest Territory Clark's achievement gave the infant Republic of the United States its claim to the vast region northwest of the River Ohio and east of the Mississippi Assuredly he and his followers are entitled to the memorial that is to be erected on the site of Old Vincennes February 25 1929 commemorative of the capture of that Post February 25 1779 OFFICIAL ROSTER ...
... PIPE'S CLIFF PIPE'S CLIFF A J BAUGHMAN MANSFIELD Pipe's Cliff is the highest point of a ledge of fragmentary rocks that for a mile or more skirt Pleasant Run Valley on the north nine miles southeast of Mansfield Richland county Ohio The cliff is named for Captain Pipe a chief of the Monsey branch of the Delaware Indian tribe Captain Pipe's home was at Jeromeville on the Jerome Fork of the Mohican from 1795 to 1812the period between the signing of the treaty of Greenville and the war of 1812 He ...
... Baseball's First Professional Manager Baseball's First Professional Manager By HAROLD SEYMOUR It is fairly common knowledge that Ohio holds the distinction of fielding the first admittedly professional team in baseball history the Cincinnati Red Stockings1 It is less well known that the manager of that famous team was perhaps the outstanding baseball figure of his time Harry Wright's career spanned the amateur and early professional periods of baseball and provided a link between the two He ...