... settlement and as eastern settlement in July 1796 but settlement was slow for the settlement John Mack Faragher noted that after 1835 rural families often had more female relatives in geographic proximity than male relatives Daughters were more likely to marry and settle near their ...
... ROBERT B ROBERT B FAIRBANKS Housing the City The Better Housing League and Cincinnati 1916-1939 A varity of historians have dealt with the housing movement in America prior to the Great Depression examining how the reformers viewed the housing needs around them Robert H Bremner in From the Depths explained how the environmental emphasis of Progressive housing reform reflected the changing view of poverty from the mid-nineteenth century notion which had blamed individual moral breakdown Roy ...
... SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL XLVII For Index of Authors see Contents ABILITY DISTRIBUTION OF Stevens H R A Study of Notable Ohioans 159-167 Abstract of the Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society April 1 1938 215-217 Advancing the Ohio Frontier ...
... BEHIND LINCOLN'S VISIT TO OHIO IN 1859 BEHIND LINCOLN'S VISIT TO OHIO IN 1859 by EARL W WILEY Professor of Speech Ohio State University The wheels of Buckeye politics were set spinning on September 1 1859 That was the day when the Ohio Statesman published in Columbus tardily and ...
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... PRESIDENT HARDING AND HIS CABINET by ROBERT K MURRAY Among the many controversial facets involving the life of the twenty-ninth president of the United States few have prompted more conjecture and analysis than the choosing of his cabinet The fact that one of his selections achieved the distinction of being the only cabinet officer to go to jail that another resigned under a cloud of suspicion and still a third narrowly missed criminal conviction places Warren Gamaliel Harding in a unique ...
... HISTORIANS AND THEIR HELPERS HISTORIANS AND THEIR HELPERS by JOHN HALL STEWART Associate Professor of History Western Reserve University For far too many years far too many people have been calling themselves--or permitting others to call them--historians I have been conscious of this ever since I first entered the ranks of what we academic folk like to think of as the professional historians But I was never as fully aware of the dangers inherent in this common practice until I began to ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 153 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 153 ing with the connections I must leave behind me but the society of our friends but poorly compensates for the want of a subsistence We have a large circle of little ones dependent on us and I know of no persuit that would give me more pleasure than that of providing an easy Liveing for them Emigration has ever ...
... settlement had failed and sensing a political benefit in taking on the CIO he ordered the guard to protect anyone wishing to reenter the Little Steel facilities The militia which soon numbered some 5800 troops broke up mass picket lines and maintained open access to the plants for strikebreakers In Canton where strike militancy remained high the guard arrested ninety-six strikers on June 27 and on succeeding days escorted returning workers ...
... settlement in the village of South Bloomfield where he worked as blacksmith for the stagecoach line After his wife taught him to read he took an increasing interest in politics The Whig party got his allegiance because it supported education and a protective tariff6 After his success in Columbus as a Whig orator Bear hastened to South Bloomfield where he said goodbye to his wife and children and set out on a stumping trip which he thought ...
... Report of the Forty-eighth Annual Meeting 301 Report of the Forty-eighth Annual Meeting 301 JOINT COMMITTEE PLANS FOR ARCHIVAL SURVEYS By T R SCHELLENBERG It is quite obvious to research students that in the past thirty years the amount of printed matter has increased in geometric ratio Today students are literally engulfed with a mass of materials many of which are printed on a cheap wood-pulp paper which crumbles to dust after a few decades but which reflect quite accurately the passing ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 653 Forty-First Annual Meeting 653 change in Logan Elm during the past year The famous old tree continues to hold its own against the elements More than four thousand visitors registered at the park during July and possibly as many or more in August could they have been checked Some time during the first week of August a sneak thief carried away the register and either the same party or another ran an automobile through the wire fence near the creek This makes it ...
... settlements and the Peoples settlement around 1790 through settlement possible The complexities of Dr Kolodny's analysis can only be suggested in this short review Ranging through three centuries of fiction poetry and personal narratives of the frontier experience her study also analyzes the Indian captivity accounts tracing parallels ...
... OLD FORT INDUSTRY OLD FORT INDUSTRY BY S S KNABENSHUE Editorial in Toledo Blade January 24 1903E O R Fort Industry existed that is there are men still living who can recall its remains But that is all we know about it In boyhood they saw the clay bluff afterward cut down which occupied the site of the block bounded by Summit Water Monroe and Jefferson streets On its summit some six or eight doors north of Monroe street was an excavation which had apparently been a cellar under a cabin and at ...
... OHIO RAILROADS OHIO RAILROADS BY R S KAYLER STATE COMMISSIONER OF RAILROADS Ohio was among the first of the States to commence the building of railroads As early as 1832 when there were but two hundred and twenty-nine miles of railroad in operation in the United States a special charter was granted by the State of
... edited by edited by JACK S BLOCKER JR Annie Wittenmyer and the Women's Crusade The Women's Temperance Crusade a spontaneous non-violent movement against the saloon involved at least 56000 women in 912 places in 26 states 5 territories and the District of Columbia It came to a focus in the creation of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Cleveland Ohio 18-20 November 1874 At that convention Annie Turner Wittenmyer also spelled ...
... The Naive Liberal the Devious Communist and the Johnson Case by David L Sterling Particularly during the decade of the 1950's but by no means unheard today the allegation has been made that in any cause where liberals and Communists join either fortuitously or by design the former are inevitably manipulated by the latter for propagandist and even more sinister purposes The accusation has emanated from congressional committees newspapers and other publications veterans and patriotic ...
... FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN AND BALDWIN-WALLACE FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN AND BALDWIN-WALLACE COLLEGE by F A NORWOOD Associate Professor of History Baldwin-Wallace College Without German Pietism John Wesley would not have had a warming of the heart He would have remained a devoted strict churchman somewhat bigoted fulfilling his ecclesiastical duties unflinchingly but he would never have gained access to the hearts of the multitudes he would not have kindled a fire that enlightened and warmed the hearts and ...
... DeMatteo Winter-Spring 2002 pp 7-24 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 Death Knell for Progressive Leadership in Cleveland Peter Witt and the Mayoral Election of 1915 By Arthur E DeMatteo click to view larger image Between 1890 and the early ...
... The Rubber Industry in Ohio The Rubber Industry in Ohio By WILLIAM D OVERMAN Many of us think of the rubber industry in terms of tire sizes and a system of retail distribution centers It is this But for the past half century or longer it has also been one of the moving factors in the life not only of the United States but of the entire world Also when many of us think of rubber we think in ...