... LIFE MEMBERSHIPS LIFE MEMBERSHIPS To Donors of Rare Gifts In presenting life memberships to Mr John H James of Urbana Ohio who was present and to Mr Albert G Giddings of Ashtabula Ohio who was unavoidably absent Secretary Galbreath said 55 5 556 Ohio Arch 556 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications DEAR MR JAMES It is my very pleasant privilege as Secretary to present you this life membership in the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society For three generations in the James family ...
... BOOK BOOK REVIEWS THREE YEARS IN CHILE BY MRS GEORGE G MERWIN Edited with an introduction by C Harvey Gardiner Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press 1966 xviii102p 450 Not widely recognized for what it really is an interesting early Ohio book has been published as the fourth in a valuable series of Latin American Travel reprints The book is presented as a New York publication of Follett Foster amp Company in 1863 and the editor neither mentions the fact that it first came out two years ...
... GOVERNORS OF OHIO 1803-1903 GOVERNORS OF OHIO 1803-1903 JEAN DICK CHEETHAM In accordance with the provisions of the constitution of 1802 Schedule Sec 6 an election for governor members of the general assembly etc was held on the second Tuesday of January 1803 Edward Tiffin being elected Chief Executive The General Assembly convened at Chillicothe on the first Tuesday of March 1803 but it was to hold regular sessions thereafter on the first Monday in December in every year Article 1 Sec 25 ...
... 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 ...
... STEPHEN C STEPHEN C FOX The Bank Wars the Idea of Party and the Division of the Electorate in Jacksonian Ohio Among the recent interpretations that have reinvigorated Jacksonian studies two in particular have proved to be central to understanding that period first that the Bank of the United States and banking in general were issues with more political than economic significance and second that it was during the Jacksonian era that Americans learned to accept the legitimacy and competitive ...
... CLEVELAND'S JOHNSON CLEVELAND'S JOHNSON by EUGENE C MURDOCK Professor of History Rio Grande College In the northwest corner of Cleveland's spacious Public Square amid the clatter and clang of passing streetcars and buses sits a bronze statue The figure a heavily built man with thinning hair and firm features rises six feet above the circular pedestal He reposes comfortably in his easy chair and gazes reflectively out across the nation's seventh city The right hand clasps a small book which ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA BY BERTHA E JOSEPHSON Among collections suitable for investigation and research by graduate students in history economics and American literature are the following from the manuscript vaults of the Department of Documents in the Library of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Jay Cooke Collection--37 boxes plus I carton--pertaining to western land investments of Cooke his Gibralter Island period and the bankruptcy period None of this material ...
... COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS The ITINERANT ARTIST In Early Ohio by DONALD R MacKENZIE THE PAINTING collection of the Ohio Historical Society represents all phases of midwestern painting in the nineteenth century Since the opening of the Hall of Paintings at the Ohio State Museum in 1953 a new emphasis has been placed on the Society's permanent collection and its contribution to knowledge of the cultural heritage of the state Today the native American quality of early nineteenth century paintings ...
... LORI D LORI D GINZBERG Women in an Evangelical Community Oberlin 1835-1850 Women and men joined the first coeducational college in order to create both a model Christian community and trained missionaries for the world's enlightenment and regeneration' Oberlin College was not a feminist experiment for the concept of feminism did not truly exist It was an evangelical project in which women were an integral part An understanding of why certain women came to Oberlin and what they found there may ...
... 266 Ohio Arch 266 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications sentiment has not been aroused to the point of appreciation and to a large degree self-support is too frequently committed Respectfully submitted Signed H R MCPHERSON The report was ordered received and placed on file REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON EARLY OHIO SCHOOL BOOKS The Chairman of the Committee Mr John R Horst read the following report Your committee on Ohio Early School Books respectfully reports that it has completed a fair ...
... THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE EARTH THE three stages of geographical knowledge are these 1 The observation of facts 2 The deduction of a theory of the earth from these facts 3 The adjustment of facts discovered later to this theory The early difficulties in the way of establishing a true theory of the earth were 1 Men's limited knowledge of the earth 2 Their lack of scientific discipline and habit 3 The misleading character of geographical appearances It ...
... EDITORIAL NOTES EDITORIAL NOTES DR I W ANDREWS-At the annual meeting of the Ohio Teachers' Association held at Sandusky June 28 1888 memorial exercises occurred in honor of the late Israel W Andrews Professor M R Andrews read a memorial sketch In it he paid tribute in the highest terms to the many virtues of the deceased scholar and educator His conservative but persistent and hopeful nature his accuracy and painstaking care as a student and instructor his unswerving fidelity to every trust ...
... 240 Ohio Arch 240 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications to him of vouchers approved by the supervisor of public printing and the adjutant general E J HOPPLE Speaker of the House of Representatives EARL D BLOOM President of the Senate Passed March 21 1917 Approved March 30 1917 JAMES M Cox Governor Filed in office of Secretary of State April 2 1917 SPEECH OF GOV FRANK B WILLIS UPON THE OCCASION OF THE REMOVAL OF THE BATTLE FLAGS TO THE ROTUNDA OF THE CAPITOL This is an inspiring spectacle The ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Harding Era Warren G Harding and His Administration B y ROBERT K MURRAY Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press 1969 ix 626p illustrations bibliographical essay and index 1350 In the dialectic of history the hitherto almost unanimous judgment against Warren Harding--as expressed for instance by William Allen White Frederick Lewis Allen Alice Roosevelt Longworth Arthur Schlesinger Jr and Allan Nevins--had to generate sooner or later a rebuttal The opening of the ...
... SOME UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN CULTURAL ANSOME UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY1 By JOHN GILLIN Cultural anthropology is a comparatively old branch of learning if we mean by it the contemplation of the objects of material culture and a vague awareness of strange customs The Babylonians of the time of Hammurabi are said to have had museums of artifacts recovered from the Sumerians and the Greeks notably Herodotus evinced a lively interest in the customs of barbarians It is only during ...
... MARK TWAIN'S HADLEYBURG MARK TWAIN'S HADLEYBURG by GUY A CARDWELL Professor of English Washington University St Louis Citizens of Oberlin Ohio have claimed for their town the distinction of being the original for Hadleyburg in Mark Twain's The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg The story reflects Twain's resentment they think at the unfavorable reception they accorded his readings in the First Congregational Church on February 11 1885 Mr Russel Nye examines and approves this Oberlin tradition in a ...
... FOREWORD FOREWORD BY DR WM W PENNELL As a native of Holmes County and one of its residents for many years my earliest recollections cling to the things that claimed the attention of its people at a very interesting period Among these were the threat of war between the North and South if Lincoln should be elected president runaway slaves and the story Uncle Tom's Cabin These were not peculiar to that county conditions there could have been duplicated a thousand times The threat had no deterring ...
... 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 ...
... NANCY SAHLI NANCY SAHLI A Lost Portrait Frank Duveneck Paints Elizabeth Blackwell Frank Duveneck was probably Ohio's best known artist during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and is certainly one whose reputation has been sustained to the present day Born in Covington Kentucky in 1848 he began his career decorating churches in the United States and Canada In 1870 he traveled to Munich to study with Wilhelm von Diez returning three years later to Cincinnati By 1877 Duveneck's ...
... DANIEL F DANIEL F RING The Cleveland Public Library and the WPA A Study in Creative Partnership The dole is a narcotic a subtle destroyer of the human spirit I am not willing that the vitality of our people be sapped by the giving of cash1 In a large way this statement of President Franklin D Roosevelt summarizes the philosophy and emphasis of the New Deal which was a desire to substitute work for relief2 Expressions of this philosophy were the proliferation of federal agencies and the ...