... HOWELLS' BLISTERING AND CAUTERIZING HOWELLS' BLISTERING AND CAUTERIZING by Louis J BUDD Assistant Professor of English Duke University As a sexagenarian describing his early manhood William Dean Howells reminisced If there was any one who had his being more wholly in literature than I had in 1860 I am sure I should not have known where to find him1 Such testimony cannot be ignored Yet it has encouraged our accepting too hastily the trite picture of still another introverted lad who quietly ...
... GEORGE WELLS KNIGHT GEORGE WELLS KNIGHT Dr George Wells Knight joined the Faculty of the Ohio State University in 1885 He served as teacher of History in that institution to within a short time of his death which occurred Wednesday morning February 10 1932 In this long and uninterrupted service his teaching and personality left an impression upon a large number of students who in their turn will transmit it in an ever widening circle of influence When he came to accept a position in the ...
... SANDUSKY PIONEER LINK BETWEEN SAIL AND RAIL SANDUSKY PIONEER LINK BETWEEN SAIL AND RAIL by LEOLA M STEWART Lakewood High School Lakewood Ohio Sandusky Ohio located on a large bay indenting the shore line of Lake Erie and possessing one of the finest natural harbors on the Great Lakes was the first port west of the Appalachians to profit from the advantages afforded by the combination of two means of transportation sail and rail It became the lake terminus of two railroads the Mad River and ...
... Fortieth Annual Meeting 263 Fortieth Annual Meeting 263 healthy condition even though it carries the scars of the damage caused by storm three years ago The General Gibson Grove that was planted a year ago is growing with few losses and they are being replaced Thousands of people continue to visit this historic old tree annually On October 4th the Ohio History Day Association held its annual meeting at the Park and with most unfavorable weather conditions had more than 3000 people present Mr ...
... 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 ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 641 Forty-First Annual Meeting 641 PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE WORK OF RESTORING AND PARKING OF THE MOUND CITY GROUP IN CAMP SHERMAN ROSS COUNTY OHIO Under instruction of the Director the Curator of Archaeology spent the month of October 1 9 25 on the preliminary work of restoring the Mound City Group of Prehistoric Earthworks located in Camp Sherman Chillicothe Ohio preparatory to converting the area turned over to the Society by the War Department into a State Park ...
... THE FAILURE OF THE OHIO LIFE INSURANCE THE FAILURE OF THE OHIO LIFE INSURANCE AND TRUST COMPANY 1857 by MORTIMER SPIEGELMAN Most writers on the economic history of the United States refer to the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company as the institution whose failure precipitated the panic of 1857 The failure is usually attributed to depreciated railroad investments and the losses stated in amounts as high as 7000000 dollars1 A search into the history of this institution that played a leading ...
... 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 ...
... LEWIS L LEWIS L GOULD William McKinley and the Expansion of Presidential Power In the wake of the Vietnam War and Watergate much attention both scholarly and popular has been devoted to the rise of the Imperial Presidency in this century1 Those who have traced the evolution of this concept of presidential power appear to date its modern emergence from the accession of Theodore Roosevelt to the office in September 1901 Writing in the mid-1950s in his influential The American Presidency Clinton ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Territorial Papers of the United States Compiled and edited by Clarence E Carter Vol XIII The Territory of Louisiana-Missouri 1803-1806 Washington Government Printing Office 1948 xi 641p 350 This is the first of three volumes devoted to what the editor calls for lack of a simpler name the Territory of LouisianaMissouri-the part of the Louisiana Purchase to the north of the present state of Louisiana called officially the District of Louisiana 1804-5 the Territory ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments and awards within the professional community of Ohio historians include Edmund J Danziger of Bowling Green State University has been promoted to Chairman of the Department of History Gary R Hess of Bowling Green State University has been appointed Acting Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve David C Skaggs of Bowling Green State University will take a leave of absence to attend the ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Papers of Ulysses S Grant Volume V April 1-August 31 1862 Edited by JOHN Y SIM ON Carbondale Southern Illinois Press 1973 xxv 458 p introduction chronology maps illustrations calendar index 15 Like its predecessors Volume V of the Grant Papers is skillfully edited and artfully produced by John Y Simon and his editorial team The packaging is increasingly essential since Grant's correspondence is thin and given to silences on issues which intrigued his ...
...array much of the work done in it is shoddy and almost anything goes Ill-trained practioners are so often the victims of ignorance faulty thinking nonsense from the softer social sciences and propaganda what difference does mastery of the numbers make Can we expect those to read algebraic equations intelligently who can scarcely catch the meaning in a page of English prose p 225 In the chapter on Ethnicity and the New History Handlin dismisses ...
... ROBERT CLARKE ROBERT CLARKE 1829-1899 - Robert Clarke was a native of Annan Dumfreeshire Scotland where he was born May 1st 1 829 He came with his parents to Cincinnati in 1840 and was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati and at Woodward College For a short time he was bookkeeper for William Hanna and then followed his bent by becoming interested in a little second-hand book-store near the corner of 6th and Walnut streets The story of his subsequent life is the history of the famous ...
... KATHLEEN M KATHLEEN M DILLON Painters and Patrons The Fine Arts in Cincinnati 1820-1860 In short we should foster western genius encourage western writers patronize western publishers augment the number of western readers and create a western heart1 -Daniel Drake 1833 Dr Daniel Drake a Cincinnati physician and public benefactor made his plea for a distinctly western culture at a gathering of Ohio and Kentucky teachers in 1833 If the arts received public support Drake believed Cincinnati and ...
... THE BACKGROUND OF CALVIN E THE BACKGROUND OF CALVIN E STOWE'S REPORT ON ELEMENTARY PUBLIC INSTRUCTION IN EUROPE 1837 By CHARLES G MILLER In 1836 Calvin E Stowe was a professor in a theological seminary Lane in the young state of Ohio Though no formal connection existed between the seminary and the State there already existed the idea of the higher schools' responsibility to the State to such a degree that the General Assembly requested Stowe with no mention of compensation but see below quite ...
... BOOK NOTES BOOK NOTES Women In Kentucky By Helen Deiss Irvin Lexington The University Press of Kentucky 1979 134p photographs source listing Another contribution to the Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf series this work outlines the history of the Kentucky women from 1775 through the 1930s The six chapters focus on the lives of settlers workers and reformers without doting on the contributions of exceptional Kentucky women Based upon published diaries autobiographies biographies and newspapers ...
... 312 Ohio Arch 312 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications REMARKS ON ADDRESS OF DR SPARKS BY DR T C MENDENHALL Mr President and Members of the Society I had a story to tell this afternoon but in view of the late hour I have begged the Chairman to let me off As he insists on not doing so I will put off my story for a future day and speak very briefly of a thought that has been in my mind while listening to the extremely interesting paper of Dr Sparks and the very impressive address of General ...
... Some Memoranda of the Locust Some Memoranda of the Locust Season in Ohio 1855 Edited by RENDELL RHOADES THE FIRST CHATTEL I ever remember buying at a public sale was a bushel of books This was in August 1931 at the John L West farm about three miles north of Hillsboro in Highland County Ohio The lot consisted of such choice items as a history of the modern world up to 1828 a volume of funereal poetry a running account of Greek mythology and an old-fashioned bound copybook containing a few ...
... 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 ...