... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Cleveland Artists Foundation CAF has put out a call for papers on the topic of Cleveland's artistic heritage Proposals for papers on broad topics associated with regional art and cultural history which determine the context of Cleveland's art within national movements will be considered for presentation at the 1896-1996 Cleveland's Artistic Heritage Symposium to be held March 3031 1996 at the Cleveland Museum of Art For the symposium prospectus or more ...
... HARLEY J HARLEY J McKEE Original Bridges on the National Road in Eastern Ohio The approach to this subject is purely descriptive and is based on observations made during 1971 while the author was inspecting structures which had been recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey1 Among the records in question were a number of photographs of bridges on the old National Road taken late in 1933 for which the locations had not been as clearly given as HABS standards require A part of the ...
... VICTOR GILBREATH VICTOR GILBREATH BY C B GALBREATH The war with Mexico like all others had its sidelights its personal triumphs privations and tragedies among the men in the ranks Of course for the most part these are lost to history Occasionally however through some accidental circumstance these are lifted to the public view and endued with a degree of enduring fame not usually accorded to the central figure of the story The War of 1812 had its James Bird1 the war with Mexico had its Victor ...
... Benjamin P Thomas and Harold Benjamin F Stickney 1811-18 Benjamin Franklin of the West Louis LEONARD TUCKER Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio MICHIGAN CIVIL WAR HISTORY AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Edited by George S May Detroit Wayne State University Press 1961 xiii128p index Paper 175 Buffs and serious scholars alike are indebted ...
... 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 ...
... Benjamin T Tanner Henry H Proctor and the Fisk Jubilee Singers Though often paternalistic Gladden raintained a good relationship with the black community in Columbus and in 1915 he was invited to speak at the fiftieth anniversary celebration of emancipation held in the city62 Gladden's goal for the process of urbanization was therefore that the city serve as an assimilating integrating humanizing and progressive force in society For Gladden ...
... Benjamin and Heman Oviatt of Theodore and Kezia Hudson Parmele and of the Baldwins-Stephen and Anner Maria Hudson and Harvey For those of us in academe the account of the founding in 1826 largely through the efforts of David Hudson of the Western Reserve College and subsequent glimpses of its impact on the life of the community hold unusual interest Like Miami University Western Reserve aspired to become the Yale of the West Like Miami Reserve ...
... Benjamin Lundy so far as we have seen them represent him with a smooth face At the time mentioned by the writer he evidently had cultivated an ample beard of war-like color THOMAS CORWIN MENDENHALL Thomas Corwin Mendenhall whose contribution on The Coffin of Edwin Coppoc appears in this issue is one whose name ranks high among America's eminent scholars and educators He was born on a farm in Columbiana County Ohio near the villages of ...
... The analyst of the career of a public figure functioning under a system of representative government finds that the problem of statesmanship is peculiarly complicated The hazards in leadership often seem to conspire to punish statesmanship confronting public figures with dire alternatives which subsequent biographers must not fail to weigh on the scales of the possible and probable As McKinley bluntly explained when pushing a compromise to end a silver stalemate in the house of representatives ...
... GEORGE E GEORGE E STEVENS THE CINCINNA TI POST AND MUNICIPAL REFORM 1914-1941 City government in Cincinnati underwent a drastic overhaul in the 1920's Once called the worst governed city in the United States by Lincoln Steffens1 Cincinnati became a model of good government so quickly that the transformation amazed even the most idealistic reformers The new regime showed so complete a reversal of form from the old that it left observers dazed wrote Alvin F Harlow2 This reversal of form was made ...
... Benjamin maneuvers for in 271 380-383 1892 Republican national convention A History of Presidential Elections by 58-59 Eugene H Roseboom rev 84-85 Harrison Harry P Culture Under CanHogsett Thomas Cleveland law director vas The Story of Tent Chautaqua rev 35 399-400 Holt E E book rev 290-291 Hart Louis 339 348 Honest Money League of Illinois 319 Harvey Anna Halliday wife of W H Horr Roswell G debated with W H Harvey 305 Harvey 321 Harvey Anna ...
... About WS 2003 Summer-Autumn 2003 Contents Staff and Advisory Board OHS Board of Trustees Instructions for Authors PDF of these pages Click page numbers to view articles PDF links are also provided for printing articles Can't read PDFs Get Adobe Acrobat Reader ARTICLES 68 Property and Power Women Religious Defend Their Rights in Nineteenth-Century Cleveland by Leslie Liedel PDF of this article 87 The State of Ohio in 1848 As Seen by Traugott Bromme translated by Richard L Bland PDF of this ...
... SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL XLV For Index of Authors see Contents ABOLITIONISTS Price Robert Further Notes on Granville's Anti-abolition Disturbances of 1836 365-368 Price Robert The Ohio Anti-slavery Convention of 1836 173-188 AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY see PHOTOGRAPHY AERIAL Annual Report of the Secretary of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society April 23 1935-April 21 1936 273-278 ANTI-ABOLITIONISTS see ABOLITIONISTS Anti-slavery Convention 1836 by ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 547 Reviews Notes and Comments 547 Senator Fess then delivered an eloquent address on the origin and achievements of the government of the United States He paid a glowing tribute to the Revolutionary fathers and the framers of our institutions This he followed with a survey of the progress under our republican form of government His address was received with frequent applause by the attentive and appreciative audience Mr Henry Williams recited the famous message of ...
... Book Reviews THE INTELLECTUAL AS URBAN REFORMER BRAND WHITLOCK AND THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT By Jack Tager Cleveland Press of Case Western Reserve University 1968 198p bibliography and index 650 This is a book about Toledo's erudite reform mayor who served from 1906-1913 The author who teaches history at the University of Massachusetts has organized his study around a central theme He says Brand Whitlock's progressivism can be explained by his rejection of authority images his denial of ...
... DAVID L DAVID L PORTER Ohio Representative John M Vorys and the Arms Embargo in 1939 During the last few years Congress increasingly has favored a reduction in American commitments to foreign nations This action has reversed a long-standing policy of globalism stemming from World War II Congress probably has not witnessed such widespread noninterventionist sentiments since shortly before World War II when the legislative branch refused to repeal the arms embargo or permit munitions sales to ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 427 Reviews Notes and Comments 427 ago entertained Lafayette In the failure to adopt and carry out generally a program for such celebration of the anniversary of this remarkable tour the patriotic societies of America lost a real opportunity The following editorial of the Cincinnati Times-Star of May 18 reflects the spirit that this celebration revived in the Queen City of the West WHEN LAFAYETTE CAME TO CINCINNATI The most romantic figure in American history was not ...
... Eggleston 450 R Smith and B Eggleston to Hoadly 350 30 March 1884 telegrams in AR 1884 pp 168-72 177 180-81 55 Finley to Hoadly 412 and 506 30 March 1884 telegrams in ibid pp 178-79 181 and Gen Order no 1 30 March 1884 p 208 Enquirer 31 March 1884 News-Journal 31 March 1884 56 Enquirer 31 March 1884 Ryan to Hoadly 1041 30 March 1884 telegram in AR 1884 p 188 and report of Col Hunt p 226 ...
... A CLEVELAND DRUG STORE OF 1835 A CLEVELAND DRUG STORE OF 1835 by HOWARD DITTRICK MD Editorial Director the Cleveland Clinic Cleveland This presentation outlines many activities of an early Cleveland druggist with some mention of contemporary patrons and customs The information is based upon a manuscript volume which was presented recently to the Howard Dittrick Museum of Historical Medicine in the Cleveland Medical Library Written in long hand the book deals with drugs medicine and a number of ...
... Benjamin Odell for the party's gubernatorial nomination in 1906 As a candidate for governor Hughes had the support of the national administration President Roosevelt sent Secretary Root to Utica to deliver an address in Hughes' behalf which some historians contend played an important role in the outcome of the election1 Although he had helped to elect Hughes governor of New York in 1906 Roosevelt felt he would not make a good presidential ...