... SIMON KENTON-SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE SIMON KENTON-SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE R W MCFARLAND Inasmuch as I had personally known only a part of Simon Kenton's family and the record of the William Kenton family gave only two or three items about Simon I consulted one of Simon's descendants and he gave the number of children of each marriage to the best of his knowledge The date of the second marriage was taken from the county records From the same gentleman I got a clue which enabled me to locate Simon ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 69 NUMBER 4 OCTOBER 1960 Learning and Piety in Ohio Colleges 1865-1900 By SHERMAN B BARNES BECAUSE IN THE Gilded Age a flood of new knowledge was received into the collegiate curriculum the question often arises whether traditional Protestant piety impeded or hastened the adoption of new curricular offerings in science history psychology philosophy fine arts and modern languages Excellent histories of a number of Ohio colleges ...
... 1 1 The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 69 NUMBER 1 J ANUARY 1 960 Recent Writings on Midwestern Economic History By HARRY R STEVENS ACADEMIC HISTORIANS OF MIDWESTERN ECONOMY have studied their subject long and productively but having established at an early date certain approaches to their material and forms in which to present it that were quite satisfactory they have continued to make use of them with surprising tenacity1 Soon after they began to work in the 1880's they developed three ...
... DOUGLAS V DOUGLAS V SHAW Interurbans in the Automobile Age The Case of the Toledo Port Clinton and Lakeside From the first decade of the twentieth century until the early 1930s electric interurban railways connected almost all Ohio towns and villages of more than 5000 population With its numerous cities and market towns within reasonable proximity of one another prosperous agriculture and generally favorable topography everywhere but in the southeast Ohio provided ideal territory for ...
... Historical News Historical News THE WISCONSIN HISTORY FOUNDATION has been awarded a 45000 research and publication grant from Lilly Endowment Inc of Indianapolis Indiana in support of a three-year program on the history of the American Midwest About one-third of the grant will be used for grants-in-aid to post-doctoral scholars doing research on midwest history between the Civil War and World War I and the balance will be used for publication of the results of these studies as well as of ...
... ANTECEDENT EXPERIENCE OF WILLIAM ANTECEDENT EXPERIENCE OF WILLIAM MAXWELL OHIO'S FIRST PRINTER BY DOUGLAS C McMURTRIE The facts regarding the first printing in Ohio are well known and clearly established William Maxwell set up a printing office in Cincinnati and published the first issue of the Centinel of the North-Western Territory on November 9 17931 But where Maxwell came from and what his previous experience was are points of information which have never been dealt with in any of the ...
... Moore Winter-Spring 2002 pp 25-43 Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page with footnotes according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page Class Conflict over Residential Space in an African American Community Cleveland's Lee-Seville Public Housing Controversy By Leonard Moore When discussing the conflict over residential space in America historians have placed ...
... AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HARDING PAPERS by DONALD E PITZER April 25 1964 marked the beginning of an opportunity for a new perspective in telling the story of the life and times of Warren G Harding On that date The Ohio Historical Society opened to the public a collection of Harding papers which it had received in the preceding six months from the Harding Memorial Association at Marion Ohio1 Material never before available for scholarly research thus began to shed a clearer light upon Harding and ...
... 294 Ohio Arch 294 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The Captain has given his native town and state wide and honorable publicity His book is a lively modest straightforward statement of his services in the World War as full of thrills as his daring exploits It is written in attractive form and excellent spirit and deserves a place in every American library-especially those of Ohio Captain Rickenbacker's native state In this connection it may be proper to say a number of Captain ...
... 265 265 Book Reviews The Loyalist Americans A Focus on Greater New York Edited by Robert A East and Jacob Judd Tarrytown Sleepy Hollow Restorations 1975 xiv 176p illustrations notes appendix index 1200 Few aspects of life during the colonial era have failed to be singled out and judged in terms of their importance to the American Revolution yet important phases of that event remain inadequately explored Although the subject of several recent investigations Loyalism is a case in point For this ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Little Cities of Black Diamonds Urban Development in the Hocking Coal Region 1870-1900 By Ivan M Tribe Athens Athens County Historical Society and Museum 1988 vii 130p tables notes index and Sprinkled with Coal Dust Life and Work in the Hocking Coal Region 1870-1900 By Ivan M Tribe Athens Athens County Historical Society and Museum 1989 viii 168p tables notes index Tribe's two books constitute a history of the Hocking Valley coal mining towns in the corners of Perry ...
... SHIRLEY SUI LING TAM SHIRLEY SUI LING TAM Police Roundup of Chinese in Cleveland in 1925 A Case Study of a Racist Measure and the Chinese Response On September 22 1925 a Chinese waiter named Yee Chock was found dead with his head chopped off in the Chinatown section of Cleveland Ohio Identifying such a hatchet murder as being connected with rivalry among tongs a kind of Chinese association in America the Safety Director of Cleveland Edwin D Barry ordered a wholesale arrest of all the Chinese ...
... B O O K R E V I E W S PROGRESSIVISM IN OHIO 1897-1917 By Hoyt Landon Warner Columbus Ohio State University Press for the Ohio Historical Society 1964 xiii 556p bibliography and index 1000 In 1914 Ohio cities under-represented in the state legislature by design and careful calculation were under the control and sway of what Newton D Baker called the rustic garland that makes a member from Pike County our sovereign A half century later Ohio cities in 1964 are still under-represented--but ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA BY BERTHA E JOSEP H SON Since the last summary this department has accomplished a general check-up on accessioned and unaccessioned manuscript materials with an interfiling of collections in the manuscript vaults so that all collections cataloged and uncataloged are now filed in one alphabetical arrangement Temporary cards were made for the uncataloged collections and these are now in the Manuscript Catalog This was done to simplify housing of collections and ...
... PRESIDENT HAYES'S GRADUATION SPEECHES PRESIDENT HAYES'S GRADUATION SPEECHES by WYMAN W PARKER Rutherford B Hayes upon graduation from Kenyon College in 1842 gave the valedictory for his class He also presented an oration as did his eight classmates As Hayes came into prominence a legend grew about the superior qualities of his talks that commencement This reputation was increased rather than diminished by the local newspaper report of the proceedings that day the only available public evidence ...
... THE MAKING OF PINE TAR IN HOCKING THE MAKING OF PINE TAR IN HOCKING COUNTY BY PASCAL A BRIGHT One of the primitive industries in southern Ohio where pine trees are found native was the making of pine tar In the summer of 1929 in company with Mr Emory Bainter who then lived on Big Pine Creek Mr A L Burgess of Columbus whose photographs have done so much to help popularize the state parks and his son I was on a trip in the park region of Hocking County We were in the hollow which contains Sand ...
... EARLY HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY EARLY HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN OHIO ON July 13th 1 854 the anniversary of the Ordinance of 1787 there assembled at Neil's New Hall Columbus Ohio a large delegate convention representing every town in the State having for its purpose to fuse into one practical organization all political elements which opposed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and were ready to resist the extension of slavery into Kansas and Nebraska A similar convention met on ...
... THOMAS A THOMAS A EDISON VISITS HIS BIRTHPLACE The village of Milan Erie County Ohio has acquired nation-wide and world-wide fame as the birthplace of one of the great inventors of the age Thomas Alva Edison was born there February 11 1847 A more extended sketch of this famous son of Ohio is reserved for the future It is the purpose here to record briefly a recent visit of Edison to the place of his birth on Saturday August 11 1923 He came in company with Henry Ford and Harvey S Firestone the ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Genesis of Dental Education in the United States By Van B Dalton Columbus Spahr amp Glenn c1946 216p illus Visiting foreign lecturers are often heard to remark to their admiring audiences that the United States' only contributions to the culture of the world are the modern bathrooms and the comic strip They would no doubt admit however that they had been guilty of one omission and that is the Art and Science of Modern Dentistry In The Genesis of Dental Education ...
... ROBERT BUTLER ROBERT BUTLER Book Notes The Journal of Dr William Schooley Edited by George A Schooley Baltimore Gateway Press 1977 261p illustrations index As Dr Schooley noted his intention in writing this journal was not merely to record his life but at the same time to instruct Hence personal recollection is kept to a minimum a large part of the journal is composed of didactic letters and newspaper articles from the early nineteenth century by the liberal Quaker doctor Though he wrote ...