... THE WRITING OF HISTORY IN OHIO 1935-1945 THE WRITING OF HISTORY IN OHIO 1935-1945 By FRANCIS P WEISENBURGER Ten years ago in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the organization of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society an endeavor was made by the present writer to summarize what had been accomplished in Ohio in the field of historical writing during that half century of the life of the Society 188519351 Now at the end of another decade it seems fitting to carry through the ...
... array or mean more to the populations along the shores than on the Upper Ohio The villages and towns on the banks were the homes of the crews--masters pilots engineers and mates--whose standing was 88 Ohio Arch 88 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Old Ohio River Steamboat Days 89 Old Ohio River Steamboat Days 89 professional--and office clerks stewards watchmen firemen cabin boys porters maids and deck-hands The first of these ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Joe L Dubbert 43 Professor of History at Muskingum College died September 27 1983 after a valiant fight against cancer Born in Laurens Iowa Dr Dubbert pursued a fascination for rural American culture at Parsons College BA 1962 and the University of Minnesota PhD 1967 He joined the history department of Muskingum College in 1967 and has been credited with re-animating the study of American history at that institution Noted for his fairness his common sense ...
... 352 Ohio Arch 352 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ALBERT DOUGLAS The county of Ross is one of the richest in Ohio in historic lore It figured potently in the pioneer and early state annals Chillicothe was the first capital of the state There on April 25 1852 was born Albert Douglas who at the last annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society of which he has long been a life and interested member was elected a Trustee Mr Douglas was educated in the Chillicothe ...
... WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS AND THE WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS AND THE ASHTABULA SENTINEL By EDWIN HARRISON CADY Few facts about the formative years of William Dean Howells are known except what the author himself left in the form of personal reminiscence Books such as A Boy's Town My Literary Passions My Year in a Log Cabin and Years of My Youth are mellow and interesting autobiography Mildred Howells' Life in Letters of her father contains a few early letters and two revealing photographs The amount of ...
... George Armstrong Custer 651 George Armstrong Custer 651 GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER BY GOVERNOR GEORGE WHITE On December 5th 1839 the people of New Rumley were extending their neighborly congratulations upon the birth of a boy Today after the lapse of nearly a hundred years the people of Ohio are extending to the village of New Rumley their congratulations upon the same event and the nation honors Ohio as the birthplace of George Armstrong Custer a national hero In the unveiling of this splendid ...
... SAMUEL J SAMUEL J TAMBURRO Frances Jennings Casement and the Equal Rights Association of Painesville Ohio The Fight for Women's Suffrage 1883-1889 The history of the national struggle for women's suffrage is well chronicled1 While the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 is generally accepted as the starting point of the campaign for women's voting rights women's civil and political rights advanced slowly Although several states granted women the right to vote in municipal and school elections only ...
... BASEBALL IN ITS ADOLESCENCE BASEBALL IN ITS ADOLESCENCE by CARL WITTKE Chairman o f the Department o f History and Dean of the Graduate School Western Reserve University In 1939 Americans celebrated the centenary of their national pastime because a baseball commission created in 1907 to settle the hotly disputed question of who originated the modern game awarded the honor to Abner Doubleday A number of writers continue to insist that Alexander Cartwright of New York City drew up the first ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY AUGUST 1946--JULY 1947 Compiled by JAMES H RODABAUGH and S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE ALEY Howard C First Hundred Years the Centennial History of the Mahoning County Agricultural Society Youngstown Ohio the Author 1946 113p BEACH F H The First 100 Years for the Ohio Horticultural Society in Ohio Farmer CXCIX No 6 March 15 1947 22-23 BROMFIELD Louis The Farm New York Harper Brothers c1946 382p ...
... ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT BY CHARLES B GALBREATH1 The numerous acquaintances and friends of Archer Butler Hulbert have heard with regret the news of his death This is especially true in Ohio where he lived many years where he finished his college education at Marietta where he commenced his literary career at Columbus and where he taught for a time in his alma mater Though born in another State his interest in Ohio and her uncomparable history was sympathetic and abiding We ...
... B B W COLLINS Economic Issues in Ohio's Politics During the Recession of 1857-1858 Historians are just beginning to integrate the study of local and state issues with the study of national issues in American politics For some periods federal issues are so important and interesting that state history tends to be reduced to a batch of mere case studies detailing the local impact of great national questions One period suffering acutely from such neglect is the 1850s Recently however state and ...
... A STUDY OF THE OKLAHOMA ECCENTRIC FLINTS A STUDY OF THE OKLAHOMA ECCENTRIC FLINTS By H HOLMES ELLIS Since March 1936 when they were first called to the attention of the general public7 the Oklahoma eccentric flints have presented a puzzling archaeological phenomenon Dr Forrest E Clements1 collaborating with Mr Alfred Reed Jr wrote the only satisfactory account of the find and the circumstances surrounding it but due to lack of time and facilities he was unable to carry out a detailed analysis ...
... THE FIRST PURELY REPUBLICAN FORM OF THE FIRST PURELY REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA BY WILLIAM M PETTIT The historical political controversy that raged in the years 1636-37 was over the demand of Anne Hutchinson that women be accorded equal political rights with men in Massachusetts Sir Harry Vane was elected governor in 1636 being a representative of the Hutchinson faction but in 1637 he was defeated by John Winthrop The General Court of Massachusetts tried the famous Hutchinson ...
... JEFFERY C JEFFERY C LIVINGSTON Between America First and All-Out Internationalism The Fulbright Resolution and Ohio Republican John M Vorys In the US House of Representatives on June 16 1943 Congressman John M Vorys interrupted a floor debate on domestic programs to present the Fulbright Resolution Passed by the House in September 1943 the Fulbright Resolution was during the Second World War the first official endorsement of permanent US participation in a collective security arrangement The ...
... edited by edited by LOUIS FILLER Prevailing Manners and Customs on the Frontier The Memoirs of Irene Hardy Irene Hardy schoolmistress poet and early Stanford University professor was born July 22 1841 in Eaton Ohio the eldest daughter of Kentucky and Virginia parents Her father Walter Buell Hardy was a schoolteacher of culture whose four daughters-he also had a son Lewis-all taught school successfully Irene was so named from a character in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel Rienzi with conscientious ...
... MARK TWAIN IN OBERLIN MARK TWAIN IN OBERLIN By RUSSEL B NYE On the night of February II 1885 the Union Library Association of Oberlin Ohio presented readings by Samuel L Clemens and George W Cable as the third number of its annual lecture series The Twain-Cable lecture took place in the First Congregational Church of Oberlin where Clemens according to a program of the entertainment now in the Oberlin College Library gave as his part of the evening readings of King Sollermun The Tragic Tale of ...
... BRIAN P BRIAN P BIRCH Taking the Breaks and Working the Boats An English Family's Impressions of Ohio in the 1830s While the frontier was a great leveler of people in putting them back into log cabins and deerskins it was also a zone of increasingly varied economic opportunities as the new settlements created a demand for services and communications Not only was there a need as the frontier moved across an area for farmfolk to occupy land to clear the forests and to till the soil Opportunities ...
... 238 Ohio Arch 238 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR INFANTRY 1st Regt O V I 1 2nd Regt O V I 2 3rd Regt 0 V I 2 4th Regt O V I 1 5th Regt O V 1 6th Regt O V I 2 7th Regt O V I 3 8th Regt 0 V I Missing 9th Battalion O V I 1 10th Regt O V I 2 ARTILLERY Bat A 1st L Arty 1 Bat C 1st L Arty 1 Bat G 1st L Arty 1 Bat H 1st L Arty 2 Troop H 1st O V C 1 Respectfully submitted W L CURRY Chairman Captain First Ohio Cavalry Civil War CHARLES HUGHES First Regiment U S C T Civil ...
... CHARLES WILLING BYRD CHARLES WILLING BYRD BY W H BURTNER JR The second secretary and acting governor of the Northwest Territory the first United States judge for Ohio district has had almost nothing printed of his life and endeavors Not ten lines can be found in the histories of Ohio His bones now lie forgotten in a little township cemetery back of the new school house at Sinking Springs Highland County Ohio He was born at Westover Charles County Virginia July 26 1770 He came to Kentucky in ...