... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy By William Wade Hinshaw Richmond Ind Friends Book and Supply House distributors 1937 Vol I 1185p 2000 with discount to libraries and Meetings Genealogy which is an auxiliary of historical science has been defined as the systematic account of the origin descent and relations of families Genealogical knowledge becomes of great importance in many ways both as to individual interests and as an aid in interpreting historical ...
... You have been in politics long enough to know that no man in public office owes the public anything In these or closely similar words Mark Hanna is alleged to have advised the attorney general of Ohio in 1890 to drop an antitrust suit against the Standard Oil Company Historians looking for a succinct illustration of how the late nineteenth century's robber barons and their vassals operated in the political field have found the alleged remark invaluable It first did duty in the Democratic ...
... DAVID TOD AND THE GUBERNATORIAL CAMPAIGN DAVID TOD AND THE GUBERNATORIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1844 by DELMER J TRESTER Historian Wright Air Development Center The sound of twenty-six cannon shots rolled across Columbus on the morning of January 8 1844 noisily signaling the beginning of a lively day in the capital At 9 o'clock the Columbus Guards met the Dayton Artillery east of the Scioto river just as the most splendidly beautiful brass piece of the Dayton Artillery sent forth several rounds In half ...
... Historical News Historical News The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies held in Washington DC January 26-27 featured a panel of twelve scholars discussing the relevance of eighteenth-century ideas in twentieth-century society Thinking Americans have been aroused from their complacency by the greatly increased contact with other nations and cultures many of which are in sharp conflict with our national interest values and way of life The startling ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY S K Stevens President The Association is publishing a new quarterly journal titled American Heritage It will deal exclusively with the teaching of local community history in our schools historical societies museums and similar agencies throughout the United States and Canada The editor will be Miss Mary Cunningham well known for her work as editor of New York History and the New York State Historical Association's ...
... SHIRLEY LECKIE SHIRLEY LECKIE Brand Whitlock and the City Beautiful Movement in Toledo Ohio We are hearing much of the city beautiful in these days wrote Brand Whitlock in 1912 Hardly a city or a town that has not its commission and its plans for a unified treatment of its parks for a civic center of some sort-in a word its dream To Whitlock who had recently appointed a second Toledo City Hall and Civic Center Commission these were the expression of that divine craving in mankind for harmony ...
... 266 Ohio Arch 266 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications sentiment has not been aroused to the point of appreciation and to a large degree self-support is too frequently committed Respectfully submitted Signed H R MCPHERSON The report was ordered received and placed on file REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON EARLY OHIO SCHOOL BOOKS The Chairman of the Committee Mr John R Horst read the following report Your committee on Ohio Early School Books respectfully reports that it has completed a fair ...
... 56 Ohio Arch 56 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications These swarming hordes of careless unclean illy housed and frequently immoral people make the conservation of the health of the children a moral question with which religionists as well as humanitarians must deal Let us not forget that while we are doing something for the children they are doing a great deal for us Those who freely give out love and service and sacrifice get much that is of inestimable value in return The reflex action ...
... 164 Ohio Arch 164 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 RIO GRANDE COLLEGE-REV J M DAVIS PRESIDENT When asked but a few hours ago to take part in the exercises of this forenoon I gladly consented for in my opinion no interest that has been developed in Gallia county in the first century of its settlement is more worthy of being brought to remembrance and notice than its educational interests and my connection for a number of years with Rio Grande college enables me to set forth briefly ...
... SPECIAL CROPS IN OHIO BEFORE 1850 SPECIAL CROPS IN OHIO BEFORE 1850 BY ROBERT LESLIE JONES A noteworthy aspect of agriculture in Ohio before 1850 was the attention paid to a number of minor crops--rice cotton hemp flax clover seed white beans castor beans hops madder mustard broom corn cow cabbage sugar beets Rohan potatoes and tobacco The farmers were actually carrying on an American tradition for their colonial ancestors had experimented with most of these special crops and with others ...
... Historical News Historical News THE INSTITUTE OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE and the Jamestown Foundation announce the establishment of a special prize competition for the best unpublished book-length manuscript about seventeenth-century America The annual prize will consist of 1000 and publication by the institute All manuscripts submitted whether winning an award or not will be considered for publication by the institute The competition will be judged by the publications committee of ...
... 132 Ohio Arch 132 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications POEMS BY C B GALBREATH1 MORNING GLORIES From the shadows of night they called for the dawn In notes that were subtle and clear In a strain of music too exquisite For the range of mortal ear From their leafy columns and battlements That were moist with the morning dew A call for light and a reveille From the bells of their bugles they blew And lo up the east in the blush of the rose Came the tremulous light of the morn And earth awoke in ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 499 HONORARY AND LIFE MEMBERS OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY HONORARY MEMBERS Baird Prof S F Washington D C Bancroft Hon Hubert Howe San Francisco Cal De Reune Mrs Mary Augusta Ga Gladden Washington D D LL D Columbus Howe Henry Columbus Nicholson Jno P Pittsburg Pa Putnam Prof F W Cambridge Mass Smucker Isaac Newark Winslow Rev Dr Wm Copley Boston Mass Whittlesey Col Chas Cleveland LIFE MEMBERS Anderson Judge Jas HColumbus Ohio Andrews John W ...
... THE McNEELY NORMAL SCHOOL AND THE McNEELY NORMAL SCHOOL AND HOPEDALE NORMAL COLLEGE R H ECKELBERRY Ohio State University Among the many educational institutions which have existed in Ohio and have now been discontinued few are more interesting than the McNeely Normal School which later became the Hopedale Normal College It was in operation for about forty-five years of which forty-three were continuous and contributed to the education of some ten thousand students In many respects its history ...
... 262 Ohio Arch 262 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Fort Miami -- We regret to report that this property is still in the hands of owners who do not seem much interested in its historic value Fallen Timbers-- At this writing the State Architect is engaged in landscaping the site chosen for the future monument to honor the memory of a great soldier and mark an historic spot It will be recalled that two years ago the Legislature appropriated 2000 for this purpose We had asked for 40000 for ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The National Historical Publications and Records Commission is pleased to announce that The Ohio Historical Society is one of more than 10000 institutions and organizations throughout the country participating in the production of a Directory of Repositories of Historical Records The guide which will provide summary information on historical records of all types in as many repositories as possible is expected to include many more institutions than any prior ...
... SOME NOTES ON OHIO HISTORIOGRAPHY SOME NOTES ON OHIO HISTORIOGRAPHY1 BY CLARENCE E CARTER MIAMI UNIVERSITY The rise of historiography in the trans-Alleghany states in the first half of the nineteenth century follows the order of development so familiar in every national experience European as well as American in which annalists antiquarian compilers and composers of didactic narrative successively emerge This conventional order of succession is observable moreover in the American colonies and ...
... WHEN DID OHIO IN FACT BECOME A SOVEREIGN WHEN DID OHIO IN FACT BECOME A SOVEREIGN STATE OF THE UNION BY HON RUSH R SLOANE In considering this question it is necessary to advert to the fact that after the Declaration of Independence Connecticut set up a claim to the north part of Ohio above latitude 41 north and Virginia claimed Ohio below that line as being within the limits of her charter While these questions caused some discussion and negotiation they were amicably settled and on the 13th ...
... 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 ...
... 654 Ohio Arch 654 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications made worthy of the many heroic events in the history of our state which it perpetuates Signed WILLIA D COTTON Member of Campus Martius Committee The Chairman of the Committee on BIG BOTTOM PARK submitted the following report The local grange held its annual picnic in the park on August 28th They put the grounds in good condition and repaired the pump A part of their program consisted of a pageant of the Massacre at that place in 1791 ...