... BENTLEY'S LAKE BENTLEY'S LAKE A J BAUGHMAN MANSFIELD Secretary of the Richland County Historical Society The Bentley Lake seven miles east of Mansfield was created in 1846 and had a peculiar origin In 1821 Jonas Ballyet entered the northwest quarter of section 15 Mifflin township Richland county and near the center of this tract there was a circular marsh of eight or ten acres surrounded by a rim of elevations of gentle slope giving a bowl-like appearance in the place At the east side or end ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 215 Reviews Notes and Comments 215 OTHNIEL LOOKER For many years the biographies that have appeared from time to time of Governor Othniel Looker have been far from satisfactory The text of the sketch which has appeared in many publications is reproduced in the note below As will be seen it is incorrect in almost every particular The editor recently learned that Governor Looker died in the village of Palestine Illinois A very obliging correspondent was found in the ...
... Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 581 Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 581 FORT ST CLAIR Mr H R McPherson read the report of the Committee as follows As chairman of The Fort St Clair Committee I have the honor to report as follows Since securing possession of Fort St Clair December 1923 the following work has been performed on the grounds Purchased 280 rods of wire for fence and new posts for 80 rods of old wire fence A total of 360 rods of fence has been erected Four hundred and ninety-one steel posts ...
... 272 Ohio Arch 272 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications General George Florence and Mr Clarence D Laylin who were declared duly elected Trustees for the term of three years It was stated that the Committee on Cooperation with Ohio State University had no report to make On motion the meeting recessed to 130 P M AFTERNOON MEETING The meeting was called to order by President Arthur C Johnson who stated It is with mingled feelings that I stand before you this afternoon a humble successor to the ...
... ROBERT P ROBERT P SWIERENGA Ethnicity and American Agriculture Ethnic Patterns in Land Settlement Rural America was never as ethnic as urban America The vastness of the agricultural hinterland and the traditional family farm both worked against the formation and survival of ethnic communities Nevertheless ever since Americans populated the land every national and denominational group in greater or lesser degree is represented in the farming population Rural America especially the Upper Middle ...
... FOUNDING OF THE FINNISH SETTLEMENTS IN FOUNDING OF THE FINNISH SETTLEMENTS IN OHIO By JOHN I KOLEHMAINEN In the fall of 1886 the septuagenarian Henry Howe returned to Ashtabula on his second historic tour of Ohio Not the least interesting innovation which there captured the fancy of the beloved white bearded chronicler was the presence at the Harbor of the Fins a new element lately come into this region1 The coming of the Finns to Ohio can be traced with some precision About eighteen years ...
... EXPLORATIONS OF THE SEIP GROUP OF PREEXPLORATIONS OF THE SEIP GROUP OF PREHISTORIC EARTHWORKS BY HENRY C SHETRONE AND EMERSON F GREENMAN CONTENTS Prefatory Note Introductory The Earthworks in General Structural Aspects of the Central Mound The Primary Mound The Retaining Walls The Floor Crematory Basins Depressions Pits and Post-molds Burial Platforms Burials and Deposits of Major Interest The Great Multiple Burial Burials 2-7 The Burnt Offering The Ceremonial Cache Burials 1 10 1 9 26 28 32 ...
... EARLY OHIO POSTAL ROUTES EARLY OHIO POSTAL ROUTES BY WILLIAM D OVERMAN Regular United States mail service followed closely upon the heels of organized government in the Northwest Territory The statesmen of that day were aware of the value of a contact with the new settlers in the West and the postmasters-general1 urged 1 Samuel Osgood 1789-91 and Timothy Pickering 1791-94 21 22 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 22 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY the extension of ...
... The Soldier's Creed The Soldier's Creed By LESTER J CAPPON Patriotism is an essential factor in waging war and shaping its outcome Since the causes of a war as fixed in the minds of the participants affect both the deeper and shallower feelings of patriotism and are in turn influenced by it loyalty and the will to fight are closely interrelated The concern of the military in recent years with the soldier's ideas of war aims has aroused interest in his attitudes during previous conflicts Among ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Losing Our Souls The American Experience in the Cold War By Edward Pessen Chicago Ivan R Dee 1993 255p notes index 2495 Assigning responsibility for the Cold War has long been one of the indoor sports of American scholars Led by those favorably inclined toward American motives in general and those of the Truman administration in particular the majority of historians one can safely say have placed major blame on the Soviet Union and Joe Stalin Fueled by its World War ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 68 NUMBER 1 JANUA R Y 1 959 Friedrich Hassaurek Cincinnati's Leading Forty-Eighter By CARL WITTKE THE ABORTIVE GERMAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1848 and 1849 led to an exodus of political refugees from Europe to the United States which was unique in the history of American immigration Among the German immigrants who crossed the Atlantic in the 1850's in quest of greater economic opportunities and political liberty there were a significant ...
... MORUS MULTICAULIS OR SILKWORMS MUST EAT MORUS MULTICAULIS OR SILKWORMS MUST EAT By ROBERT PRICE Acres of mulberry trees--multitudes of silkworms--mills booming--a corner on the world's silk market It would be a fantastic dream indeed for an Ohioan today a vision such as this of wealth to be derived from a monopoly on raw silk but in 1836 such hopes were stirring hundreds of people not only in Ohio but throughout the East and South By 1838 at least seven states Massachusetts Pennsylvania ...
... ANDREW BIRTLE ANDREW BIRTLE Governor George Hoadly's Use of the Ohio National Guard in the Hocking Valley Coal Strike of 1884 During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the United State experienced a large number of labor strikes that involved outbreaks of violence While the causes of this violence are both numerous and varied some students of labor history cite the intervention of police forces as a major catalyst1 Indeed the list of clashes between police and labor during this ...
... LAURA RUSSELL LAURA RUSSELL Book Notes Choose You This Day The Legacy of the Hanbys By Dacia Custer Shoemaker Edited by Harold B Hancock and Millard J Miller Westerville Ohio The Westerville Historical Society 1983 xv 137p illustrations notes appendix selected bibliography index The publication of this book represents the final realization of Dacia Custer Shoemaker's dream to rescue the Hanbys from obscurity by preserving and recording many heretofore unknown facts about the famous father and ...
... GEORGE WELLS KNIGHT GEORGE WELLS KNIGHT Dr George Wells Knight joined the Faculty of the Ohio State University in 1885 He served as teacher of History in that institution to within a short time of his death which occurred Wednesday morning February 10 1932 In this long and uninterrupted service his teaching and personality left an impression upon a large number of students who in their turn will transmit it in an ever widening circle of influence When he came to accept a position in the ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA WILLIAM McKINLEY Elsewhere in this Quarterly we report at some length the interesting ceremonies held on Ohio Day July 18 at the Pan-American Exposition Little did we suspect on that joyful day that in two brief months a terrible tragedy would transform the bright banners bedecking the buildings into the trappings and suits of woe On Friday September 6 President McKinley attended the Exposition and in the afternoon while holding a public reception in the Temple of ...
... PROCEEDINGS 217 PROCEEDINGS 217 lands as sites for the establishment of state parks along the shores of Lake Erie for conservation and recreation purposes Be it further resolved that copies of this resolution be transmitted by the secretary of this organization to Conservation Commissioner L Wooddell and to each member of the conservation council and to the chairman of the Senate Conservation and Finance Committees and to the Governor of the State of Ohio Mr Miller read a report of receipts ...
... THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1864 THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1864 IN OHIO BY ELIZABETH F YAGER M A B A B S IN EDUCATION INTRODUCTION A brief resume of early Ohio politics serves to show that the state had been for the most part Democratic 30 far as national politics were concerned The Democrats who drew up the first constitution controlled the electoral vote until 1836 in 1836 and in 1840 William Henry Harrison carried the state and Henry Clay secured the electoral vote in 1844 Ohio went ...
... LAURA RUSSELL LAURA RUSSELL Book Notes Growth Amidst Struggle A Sesquicentennial History of the Longenecker Mennonite Church By James O Lehman Winesburg Ohio Longenecker Mennonite Church 1980 160p illustrations maps notes index Once again James O Lehman puts together the history of a congregation and in so doing makes an important contribution to Ohio's local history In Growth Amidst Struggle Lehman traces the two meetinghouses-Kolb's and Longenecker's-which today comprise the Longenecker ...
... JOHN BROWN'S LAST LETTER JOHN BROWN'S LAST LETTER BY CLARENCE S GEE John Brown of Harper's Ferry fame sat in his prison cell in Charlestown Virginia now West Virginia on the morning of December 2nd 1859 well aware that he had not long to live His trial had resulted in a verdict against him and he was sentenced to die on this date In papers recently restored to the files of the Circuit Court in Charlestown we find the original verdict We the Jury find the defendant John Brown the prisoner at ...