... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Mrs Harry B Longsworth Secretary and Editor The October and December issues of the Reporter Nos 33 and 34 are devoted to an article on the Faurot Opera House in Lima The story was prompted by the contemplated razing of the Faurot Block The Opera House constructed in 1881 at a cost of 22500000 was said to have been the finest between New York and Denver The Society opened the season's meetings on October 30 ...
... INDEX INDEX COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABZUG Robert H Passionate Liberator Theodore Dwight Weld amp the Dilemma of Reform rev 350-351 Access to the Past Museum Programs and Handicapped Visitors A guide to Section 504-making existing programs and facilities accessible to disabled persons by Alice P Kenney 260 Accounting systems Buckeye Steel Castings Company 246-247 Acheson David C and David S McLellan editors Among Friends Personal Letters of Dean Acheson rev 93-94 Acheson Dean Among Friends ...
... CARL M CARL M BECKER Newspapers in Battle The Dayton Empire and the Dayton Journal During the Civil War Throughout the Civil War as Union armies fought and bled Northern newspapers opposing and supporting the Lincoln administration engaged in a war of words that sometimes triggered violence on the home front Especially in the Middle West the Peace Democrats or Copperheads as these ultra-conservative Democrats came to be known employed the press for a continuing assault on Lincoln and his ...
... REBECCA A REBECCA A SHEPHERD Restless Americans The Geographic Mobility of Farm Laborers in the Old Midwest 1850-1870 Groups of people moving westward with their families and belongings were a common sight for residents of the Midwest in the nineteenth century Observers and diarists commented on the westward movement at the time and it later became an important consideration in historians' study of the frontier There were many motives for people joining the westward-moving stream increased ...
... INDEX INDEX The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly Volume 57 ABB UT FRANCIS E LL IN sGWOO U article on American AgrictulItrist Langstroth conin Northwest Ohio Quarterly 434 tributed to 154 Abbotts' Bridge 238 American Anti-Slavery Society 29 and Abell Aaron I 182 coalition sith abolition forces 165-166 Abolition and abolitionists 2 165-174 opposed to formation of abolition party 177-178 in Western Reserve 24-47 167 the Presbyterian Church and 120 121 American Ble Jotritl cited ...
... 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 ...
... Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting 623 Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting 623 diers of Ohio who served in the World War also a similar resolution adopted October 18 1921' The approval of the State Architect has been secured to this partial construction Bids for the erection of this building are being opened at 1000 A M today Plans for the completed building and for that portion to be built at once are submitted for the inspection of the Society Studies for the proposed sculptural features of the front ...
... The Naive Liberal the Devious Communist and the Johnson Case by David L Sterling Particularly during the decade of the 1950's but by no means unheard today the allegation has been made that in any cause where liberals and Communists join either fortuitously or by design the former are inevitably manipulated by the latter for propagandist and even more sinister purposes The accusation has emanated from congressional committees newspapers and other publications veterans and patriotic ...
... ESSAY AND COMMENT ESSAY AND COMMENT Historiography and WARREN G HARDING re The Shadow of Blooming Grove Warren G Harding in his Times by Francis Russell New York McGraw-Hill Company 1968 xvi691p index 1250 The image of Warren G Harding has been derived largely from pre1940 books by Samuel Hopkins Adams Frederick Lewis Allen Mark Sullivan and William Allen White To these life-and-times accounts must be added the memoirs of Nan Britton Harry Daugherty and Gaston B Means The picture presented was ...
... ROBERT F ROBERT F HOROWITZ James M Ashley and the Presidential Election of 1856 When the name James M Ashley of Toledo Ohio is mentioned one usually thinks of the vindictive impeacher of President Andrew Johnson but Ashley's contributions to the history of mid-nineteenth century America transcend this one event This becomes evident from studying his activities in connection with the 1856 presidential election Ashley played a prominent part in establishing the machinery for a national ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR DEATH OF HONORABLE DANIEL J RYAN Early Friday morning June 15 1923 Daniel Joseph Ryan Vice President of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society breathed his last He had been in poor health for some time but the end came unexpectedly He passed without pain from the repose of sleep to the repose of death This announcement brings sadness to the members of ...
... PRESENTATION OF RARE COLLECTION BY PRESENTATION OF RARE COLLECTION BY PROFESSOR EMERSON VENABLE After adjourning to the Library as above noted the following proceedings were had SECRETARY GALBREATH Mr Emerson Venable teacher author and writer will present the Dolores Cameron Venable Memorial Collection in honor of his late wife MR EMERSON VENABLE Mr Galbreath and Members of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society I regret that my daughter Evelyn Venable is unable to be present on ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR NEWLY ELECTED OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES HENRY CLYDE SHETRONE Henry Clyde Shetrone was born in Millersport Fairfield County Ohio August 10 1876 He was edu cated in the public schools and attended Denison University At an early age he became interested in archaeology and museums and soon began gathering the literature relating to these In 1913 the opportunity came to ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 299 known as Campus Martius and shall hold the same and the property thereon subject to such use as the General Assembly may direct E J HOPPLE Speaker of the House of Representatives EARL D BLOOM President of the Senate Passed March 21 1917 Approved March 29 1917 JAMES M Cox G overnor Filed in office of Secretary of State April 2 1917 STEPHEN D PEET IN MEMORIAM It was in one of the early months of the year 1875 that Isaac Smucker of Newark and Stephen D Peet then ...
... DORAMAE O'KELLEY DORAMAE O'KELLEY Late Nineteenth Century Courthouse Architecture in Northwestern Ohio As one drives through northwestern Ohio the most impressive object to be seen on the skyline of many communities might be the massive towered form of the county courthouse Often the city's largest and most distinguished example of architecture these courthouses were all built in the last thirty years of the nineteenth century The importance these structures held for the people of the county ...
... The National Negro Convention 1848 The National Negro Convention 1848 By HOWARD H BELL ON SEPTEMBER 6 1848 a small but determined group of men gathered at Cleveland Ohio to discuss the peculiar problems facing them and to lay plans for improving their position in the land of their birth They were mainly men of the Old Northwest but there were also representatives from Canada where the escaped slave was finding a haven of refuge in ever increasing numbers1 They were carpenters editors barbers ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews First Generations Women in Colonial America By Carol Berkin New York Hill and Wang 1996 xiv 234p bibliographical essay index 2300 cloth 1200 paper In First Generations Carol Berkin has written a marvelous synthesis of the existing literature on women in the colonial era It will likely become a classroom standard Clearly the area of colonial women's history has been one in need of synthesis Imaginative and meticulous scholars have been creating histories out of the ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy By William Wade Hinshaw Richmond Ind Friends Book and Supply House distributors 1937 Vol I 1185p 2000 with discount to libraries and Meetings Genealogy which is an auxiliary of historical science has been defined as the systematic account of the origin descent and relations of families Genealogical knowledge becomes of great importance in many ways both as to individual interests and as an aid in interpreting historical ...
... AndersonBertaux Summer-Autumn 2002 pp 145-182 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Poor Men But Hard-Working Fathers The Cincinnati Orphan Asylum and Parental Roles in the Nineteenth-Century Working Class By M Christine Anderson and Nancy E Bertaux Male laborers such as these were the fathers of children institutionalized at the Cincinnati Orphan Asylum Image copyright the Cincinnati Historical Society Library Introduction ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Midwest Pioneer--His Ills Cures and Doctors By Madge E Pickard and R Carlyle Buley Crawfordsville Indiana R E Banta 1945 346p Frontispiece 500 At the time of the celebration in Columbus of the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Medical College at the Willoughby University of Lake Erie 1834-1934 a group of those who are interested in local medical history began cooperative work in this field First there appeared a source book in which was chronicled ...