... The Ohio Experience A Symposium The Ohio Experience A Symposium On Historic Sites Administered By the Ohio Historical Society THE FOLLOWING FIVE PAPERS were given by members of the staff of the Ohio Historical Society at the annual meeting of the North American Association of Historic Sites Public Officials held in Columbus October 7 1957 They deal with five different aspects of the Society's work with its historic properties acquisition development interpretation financing and administration ...
... 26 Ohio Arch 26 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications The largest was Cincinnati with 115 000 and in them all there were less than 2 00000 o f population The following y ear the convention assembled which framed the new constitution for the state of Ohio That convention provided and laid down an ironclad rule that all cities should be governed by a general law and that there should be no special charters That perhaps was not an unreasonable rule at that time for then there were but the nine ...
... PROCEEDINGS PROCEEDINGS OF THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE CITY OF GALLOPOLIS OHIO October 16 17 18 and 19 1890 PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS As early as April 1890 the citizens of Gallipolis through their Board of Trade took action to secure a proper celebration of the approaching centennial of the city's settlement On April 22 1890 at a meeting of the Board of Trade the following named gentlemen were elected an Executive Committee of arrangements John L Vance Chairman C Fred Henking W B Shober ...
... NULLIFICATION IN OHIO NULLIFICATION IN OHIO TWELVE years before the famous resistance of South Carolina to Federal authority the State of Ohio through the solemn acts of her Legislature attempted and succeeded for a time to nullify the laws of the United States and to disobey the decisions of her courts It was not merely a legislative nullification but it wa s a complete destruction of Federal standing within the State The United States Courts and the United States Banks were denied the ...
... THE KENTUCKY REVIVAL AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE KENTUCKY REVIVAL AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE MIAMI VALLEY BY J P MAC LEAN The Miami Valley properly embraces all the country north of the Ohio that is drained by the Great and Little Miami rivers and their tributaries In this paper it is used to designate the southwestern quarter of the State of Ohio or that territory lying west of a line drawn due south from Columbus to the Ohio river and south of another line drawn due west from Columbus to the ...
... CHOLERA IN CINCINNATI CHOLERA IN CINCINNATI By E W MITCHELL MD A worldwide epidemic of cholera beginning in far-off India in 1826 reached Russia in 1829 England in 1831 and was brought to this country in 1832 by immigrants landing in Quebec Dr Daniel Drake with characteristic foresight published early in 1832 a paper on cholera its causes symptomology and its treatment The first case in Cincinnati was that of a passenger on a steamboat from Portsmouth He had left Kingston Canada nine days ...
... THE OHIO CANALS PUBLIC ENTERPRISE THE OHIO CANALS PUBLIC ENTERPRISE ON THE FRONTIER By CHESTER E FINN On July 4 1825 the little town of Newark Ohio celebrated the grandest and most glorious fourth of its history The notables of the State and of other States were congregated there and a momentous event in the history of Ohio was about to take place After suitable celebrations in the town the group adjourned to Licking Summit escorted by brilliantly uniformed troops of militia and followed by ...
... 218 Ohio Arch 218 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications THE TREATY OF GREENVILLE ADDRESS OF HON SAMUEL F HUNT DELIVERED ON THE OCCASION OF THE CENTENNIAL OF THE TREATY OF GREENVILLE AUG 3 1895 AT GREENVILLE O Mr President Ladies and Gentlemen of Darke Cou nt y Fellow Citize ns One hundred years have passed since that eventful day in August when the treaty of Greenville was signed The different nations of Indians present and parties to the treaty consisted of one hundred and eight Wyandots ...
... THE IMPACT OF SCIENCE UPON THE HISTORY THE IMPACT OF SCIENCE UPON THE HISTORY OF OHIO by JOHN S MILLIS President of Western Reserve University I recall that many years ago a teacher informed a class of which I was a member that history was the record of the answers to the questions Who What Where and When Since that time I have learned that history also embraces the answers to the questions of How and Why Further it has been those parts of history which deal with the latter two questions which ...
... 190 Ohio Arch 190 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications the beginning to within a few years it was the headquarters of that Order in America From its halls its preachers went into all parts of the country We now find our time gone and we are only getting into out subject Other events are quite as interesting and valuable but we have restricted ourselves to the very first as closely as possible and the half has not been told Some one ought to write a history of the first forty years of ...
... SENECA JOHN INDIAN CHIEF SENECA JOHN INDIAN CHIEF HIS TRAGIC DEATH ERECTION OF MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY COMPILED BY BASIL MEEK SENECA JOHN Not much is known pertaining to the direct biography of Seneca John The most that we have is incidental to and related in the story of his execution He belonged however to a prominent family of his tribe and was one of four brothers or rather of three full brothers named Comstock Steel and Coonstick and himself a half brother of the three named Comstock was a ...
... THE OHIO VALLEY HISTORIC INDIAN CONFERENCE THE OHIO VALLEY HISTORIC INDIAN CONFERENCE PAPERS READ AT ITS FIRST MEETING NOVEMBER 20-21 1953 In 1951 the board of trustees authorized the staff of the state historical society to set up a project to be known as the Ohio Historic Indian Center As a part of the work of this project a research associate was assigned to a study of the Indians and the campaigns of the Indian Wars 1790-95 The Anthony Wayne Parkway Board has cooperated with the society in ...
... JOHN BROUGH JOHN BROUGH OSMAN CASTLE HOOPER John Brough is generally thought of as the last of Ohio's war governors the sturdy Union man who as a candidate for the executive office in 1863 defeated Clement L Vallandigham by the then unheard of majority of more than 100000 votes He was all that but he was more than that and it is the duty as well as the pleasure of Ohioans to recognize it If ever a masterful man sat in Ohio's executive chair it was John Brough No general in the field was more ...
... WESTERN OPINION AND THE WAR OF 1812 WESTERN OPINION AND THE WAR OF 1812 BY JOHN F CADY M A I The determining factor in any situation is the active positive element involved in it In the realm of physics for example force is measured by the product of mass and velocity but the direction of movement is determined by the positive active velocity not by the passive mass acted upon So it is in historical and political movements The desires and convictions of the positive progressive group are of ...
... THE PIONEER PHYSICIANS OF OHIO THE PIONEER PHYSICIANS OF OHIO THEIR LIVES AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE 1788-1835 THE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS FOR MEDICAL PRACTICE--AN ATTEMPT TO REGULATE BY LAW AND THE PURPOSE BEHIND THE MOVEMENT By DONALD D SHIRA AB MD In discussing the legal requirements for medical practice during the period from the first official settlement of the Northwest Territory to the repeal of all laws designed to regulate the practice of physic and surgery in ...
... 472 Ohio Arch 472 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications who had an opportunity to be present at the sessions or read the reports in the public press Colonel Galbraith was elected Department Commander at the first state convention of the American Legion held in Ohio He was elected National Commander on September 29th two years to the day after he performed the act of heroism which won for him the Distinguished Service Cross His citation for this honor reads For extraordinary heroism in action ...
... THE BALLAD OF 'JAMES BIRD THE BALLAD OF 'JAMES BIRD ITS AUTHORSHIP BY C B GALBREATH In a contribution entitled The Battle of Lake Erie in Ballad and History the writer of this article in 1911 related the story of James Bird and reproduced the old ballad commemorating his heroic service on board the Lawrence and his tragic death a year later for desertion on the Niagara In commenting on this quaint pathetic ballad it was assumed to have been written by a bard unlearned and unknown but not ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR OLENTANGY RIVER The name Olentangy applied to an important tributary of the Scioto River has been a puzzler to the etymologists It is said to be of Indian origin but its root significance has never been determined The statement is made in the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society Publications Vol 6 page 93 that this name was legalized through the interest of Colonel Kilbourne We are told that in the year 1833 Colonel ...
... COUNT BYRON KHUN DE PROROK COUNT BYRON KHUN DE PROROK Count Byron Khun de Prorok on the evening of January 28 1924 delivered his lecture in the audience room of the Elks' Club to an appreciative audience on the subject My Excavation of Ancient Carthage When the Count reached Columbus those interested in the lecture were surprised to find in him a very young man He might easily have passed without notice among the thousands of students at the Ohio State University He is still in his twenties ...
... 284 Ohio Arch 284 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications nished containing only a rickety table a broken chair and a dusty bookcase There was of course no carpet Then there was an old red plush lounge which would now hardly be considered good enough for kindling wood That law office was certainly a contrast to the mahogany furnished law offices of the present day When Lincoln was elected president that companionship between Robert Lincoln and McMullan and the latter's intimacy with the ...