... EXPLORATION OF THE WRIGHT GROUP OF EXPLORATION OF THE WRIGHT GROUP OF PRE-HISTORIC EARTHWORKS BY H C SHETRONE CURATOR OF ARCHAEOLOGY The Wright Group of Earth-works is located in Perry Township IFran-kli County Ohic one mile northeast of the vill ag e of Dubl in The three uni l s composing the group --a rectangular and two circular enclosures - lie mostly upon the land of Samuel M Wright whose name in recognition of examination privileges and personal assistance accorded by him is hereby given ...
... Minutes of the Fall Business Meeting Minutes of the Fall Business Meeting Of the Ohio Academy of History Tiffin October 12 1956 The fall meeting of the Ohio Academy of History was held at Heidelberg College The president of the Academy Dr Grover C Platt called the business meeting to order and requested Dr Robert W Twyman of Bowling Green to act as temporary secretary for the purpose of taking minutes Thirty persons were present The president called the attention of those assembled to the fact ...
... MICHAEL SPEER MICHAEL SPEER The Little Steel Strike Conflict for Control Historically strikes in the American iron and steel industry have been bloody affairs The 1892 Homestead strike and the 1919 steel strike stand as outstanding examples of industry's militant refusal to share the power of decision-making with labor representatives for steel management such strikes provided what amounted to an opportunity for crushing an incipient union movement By the mid-1930's however the conflict ...
... 436 THEODORE E THEODORE E BURTON Theodore E Burton was born at Jefferson Ohio December 20 1851 was graduated from Oberlin College in 1872 received the degree of LL D from Oberlin and Dartmouth Colleges and from New York University Ohio University and other institutions was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Cleveland in 1875 was elected to the National House of Representatives and served through the fifty-first fifty-fourth to sixtieth and sixty-sixth and sixty-eighth ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 333 ROBERT WHITE McFARLAND The Faculty of the Ohio State University as a mark of respect and wishing to preserve in some permanent form a simple record of the life of its late member and associate Robert White McFarland who died at his home Oxford Ohio October 23 1910 prepared the following memorial Professor McFarland was born in Champaign county Ohio June 16 1825 and was a descendant of Simon Kenton He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1847 and for four ...
... Book Reviews Winter-Spring 2001 pp 85-115 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page BOOK REVIEWS and Book Notes Battle For The Soul Meacutetis Children Encounter Evangelical Protestants at Mackinaw Mission 1823-1837 By Keith R Widder East Lansing The Michigan State University Press 1999 xxiv 254p illustrations ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Papers of Thirteen Early Ohio Political Leaders An Inventory to the 1976-77 Microfilm Editions compiled by Linda E Kalette has been published by the Ohio Historical Society Included in this inventory are the manuscript collections of Ethan Allen Brown Samuel Huntington Return J Meigs Jr Arthur St Clair Micajah T Williams Thomas Worthington Charles Hammond Thomas Kirker Othniel Looker Jeremiah Morrow Winthrop Sargent Edward Tiffin and Allen Trimble as ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS And Then the Storm By Sister M Monica New York Longm ans Green amp Co 1937 231 p 250 Few foreigners have been privileged to study Spain from so many and widely different viewpoints as the author of And Then the Storm and little escaped her discerning and compassionate eyes Chaperoned by the two charming sisters of Don Juan de Cardenas the then Spanish ambassador at Washington Sister Monica had intimate contact with the old aristocracy and found the Spanish women kind ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... AN ECONOMIC ASPECT OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR by TOM EDWARD TERRILL In the early months of 1898 the McKinley administration confronted a mounting crisis with Spain over the Cuban revolution Domestic pressures exerted by the press and politicians especially in the month of March placed heavy demands upon President McKinley to intervene to pacify Cuba One of the President's closest advisers thought war was possible in February By March 28 he believed it was probable1 The report on the sinking ...
... EMIL R EMIL R PINTA Samuel M Smith Dr Cure-Awl's Assistant at the Ohio Lunatic Asylum His 1841 Case-Reports on Insanity The first half of the nineteenth century was an enlightened era for understanding and treating mental illness One prevailing theory was that insanity was a physical disease This replaced beliefs that considered the mind to be an emanation from the Creator and therefore not subject to physical laws and interventions In 1812 Benjamin Rush 1745-1813 the Father of American ...
... WHITELAW REID IN COLUMBUS WHITELAW REID IN COLUMBUS EDWARD L TAYLOR Whitelaw Reid's first experience as a correspondent for a newspaper was in Columbus It began late in April or in May 1861 Before that time he had been for a few years the proprietor and editor of the Xenia Torchlight a paper published weekly at Xenia Ohio In the fall or early winter of 1860 his health not being good he disposed of that paper and went to Minnesota where he spent the winter for his health It is my recollection ...
... 156 Ohio Arch 15 6 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications his countenance betokened a sensual rather than an intellectual quality of character he had not inherited the Napoleon cast of face he was Beauharnais not Bonaparte the forehead was broad the nose prominent suggesting a certain German type the eyes small grayish-blue in color rather expressionless as one biographer said 'if they were windows of his soul their blinds were constantly drawn' his hair was iron-gray his natural 'make-up' ...
... A BRAND FROM THE CRITICS' FIRE OR A WORD FOR A BRAND FROM THE CRITICS' FIRE OR A WORD FOR WHITLOCK by WINTHROP TILLEY Associate Professor of English University of Connecticut Now in midcentury when so much badly needed revaluation of America's literary product is going forward seems an appropriate time to speak a word for Brand Whitlock The new Literary History of the United States by Spiller and others mentions Whitlock only as a single-taxer a humanitarian and an early realist and adds that ...
... Historical News Historical News THE ELEUTHERIAN MILLS-HAGLEY FOUNDATION in c ooperation with the University of Delaware is again offering two fellowships in American history and museum training The fellowships carry an annual stipend of 1800 renewable for the second year and lead to a master's degree The fourteenth annual spring exhibition at the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio The Turn of the Century Cincinnati from 1890 to 1910 will be held from April 22 through June 26 Leslie H ...
... ADDRESSES OF APRIL SEVENTH ADDRESSES OF APRIL SEVENTH ADDRESS OF WELCOME BY GOVERNOR J B FORAKER FELLOW-C IT IZENS The duty that has been assigned to me in connection with this occasion is very simple in its character It does not require nor even allow me to enumerate much less elaborate any of the many interesting and important suggestions which a consideration of the event we celebrate is calculated to start in every intelligent mind Neither does it authorize me to recount the progress and ...
... 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 ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR DEATH OF GRANDSON OF JOHN BROWN On March 21 1927 Charles P Brown son of Jason Brown and grandson of John Brown of Osawatomie and Harper's Ferry fame died at his home in Akron at the age of seventy-three He was the second son of Jason Brown His older brother Austin went with Jason and John Brown Jr to Kansas before John Brown Sr left for the West Austin died on the ...
... THE EQUIPMENT INSTRUMENTS AND DRUGS OF THE EQUIPMENT INSTRUMENTS AND DRUGS OF PIONEER PHYSICIANS OF OHIO BY HOWARD DITTRICK MD In the equipment instruments and drugs of the Ohio physicians prior to 1835 there was exhibited a wide divergence depending on differences in training financial means and on contact with medical supplies as well as with educational stimulation Nor is this strange the same factors operate today in the same directions it is only a question of degree Those few pioneer ...