... REPORT OF COMMITTEES ON HISTORICAL REPORT OF COMMITTEES ON HISTORICAL ACTIVITIES Dr Harlow Lindley read the following report of the Committee on Historical Activities in Ohio which was filed with the other reports for publication in the Quarterly REPORT ON HISTORICAL ACTIVITIES IN OHIO BY HARLOW LINDLEY Chair man Co mm ittee on Cooperation From information at hand it appears that there are about forty local county and regional historical societies now in existence in the State of Ohio Some of ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Politics of Community Migration and Politics in Antebellum Ohio By Kenneth J Winkle New York Cambridge University Press 1988 xiii 239p notes tables bibliography index 3250 This interesting but ultimately unsatisfying book probes an apparent contradiction in the findings of modern political and social historians of the mid-nineteenth century Studies of electoral behavior in various constituencies in Ohio and elsewhere show an amazing stability in the proportion of ...
... GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME XLIX GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME XLIX Abbot Capt 275 history 105 nationalism 133 education Acoustic sound 355 185-90 mobilization for war 249-61 reAdams Alice Dana cited 160-1 sources 252 culture 261 Swiss 281 Adams C F cited 50 284 286 cholera 378 383 frontier 404 Adams John 408 life 405 See also British America Adams John Quincy 44 50 52-3 56 Central America and South America 163 304 American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Adams Dr R E W 342-3 Society 162 Adams Co 0 19 232 ...
... AMERICAN ABORIGINES AND THEIR SOCIAL AMERICAN ABORIGINES AND THEIR SOCIAL CUSTOMS REV J A EASTON PH D Mr Easton was a native Ohioan born at Sinking Springs Highland County August 9 1852 His father and grandfather like himself were ministers in the Methodist Episcopal Church Eugene Easton his son the distinguished American newspaper correspondent in the Boer War is the present owner of Fort Hill Highland County which is crowned by one of the most interesting and best preserved prehistoric ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Cities of the American West A History of Frontier Urban Planning By John W Reps Princeton Princeton University Press 1979 xii827p maps illustrations notes selected bibliography index 7500 For John Reps the West begins in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys including the Great Lakes and reaches to the Pacific It or parts of it existed as a frontier as early as the sixteenth century and as late as the 1880s in Oklahoma This definition of the region of course rests not on ...
... PURVEYORS TO THE PROFESSION CINCINNATI PURVEYORS TO THE PROFESSION CINCINNATI DRUG HOUSES 1850-1860 By PHILIP D JORDAN During the twenty years prior to the Civil War the hardworked Ohio physician could replenish his saddlebags and his office drug stock from well-established and reputable pharmaceutical houses at home and abroad1 No longer was it necessary for the doctor to search the fields and pastures of the back country for the makings of a botanic materia medica He was freed at last from ...
... DARD HUNTER THE MOUNTAIN HOUSE AND DARD HUNTER THE MOUNTAIN HOUSE AND CHILLICOTHE By LLOYD EMERSON SIBERELL It is interesting to note that Dard Hunter was born in the little manufacturing town of Steubenville on the majestic Ohio River This town's chief bid for noteworthiness so the inhabitants and historians say lies in the fact that it was one of the very first settlements in the great Northwest Territory some claim it is second only to Marietta Fort Steuben having been erected there in 1789 ...
... The Ohio Experience A Symposium The Ohio Experience A Symposium On Historic Sites Administered By the Ohio Historical Society THE FOLLOWING FIVE PAPERS were given by members of the staff of the Ohio Historical Society at the annual meeting of the North American Association of Historic Sites Public Officials held in Columbus October 7 1957 They deal with five different aspects of the Society's work with its historic properties acquisition development interpretation financing and administration ...
... THE OHIO STATE MEDICAL JOURNAL THE OHIO STATE MEDICAL JOURNAL by JONATHAN FORMAN BA MD FACA Professor of Medical History Ohio State University Editor OHIO STATE MEDICAL JOURNAL The first medical journals in the Western Country published by the faculties of the new medical colleges were used to promote the interests of their schools There was no better medium through which the professors could keep in touch with their former students the journals served as a means of getting new students for ...
... MEDICAL JOURNALS OF PIONEER DAYS MEDICAL JOURNALS OF PIONEER DAYS By JONATHAN FORMAN MD We are going back today to a time when entrance into our profession was largely through apprenticeship when operations were done without anesthesia and without antiseptics when mistakes in diagnosis errors in judgment or lack of dexterity in operating were published with every accompaniment of insult and derision which malice could suggest when nursing in hospitals was done by women of the charwomen class ...
... Thirty-Second Annual Meeting Thirty-Second Annual Meeting 569 Col Curry stated that he would start the collection by presenting the Society a full roster of Ohio soldiers in the civil war On motion the meeting adjourned ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES SOCIETY BUILDING SEPTEMBER 28 1917 Present Messrs Wright Cole Buck Prince Ryan Bareis Moore Treadway Schaus Randall Wood and Thompson Absent Messrs Hayes Palmer and Campbell The meeting was called to order by President Wright Secretary Randall ...
... THE GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY THE GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY by DONNA L ROOT Managing Editor INLAND SEAS and Head History Biography and Travel Di v ision Cleveland Public Library To the librarian and book dealer and possibly to the historian and analyst of human nature too trends in authorship and in reading are a subject for interested examination not without the lure of the inexplicable These trends although related in their most obvious expression to the whole pattern of current ...
... SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL XLVIII For Index of Authors see Contents page iii PAGE ANTHROPOLOGY--STUDY AND TEACHING Gillin John Some Unfinished Business in Cultural Anthropology 4452 BACKUS FAMILY Phillips Mrs J E Ohio's Deep Roots in Connecticut 7482 The Beginning of Formal Dental Education at Bainbridge O by Edward C Mills 243-256 Benjamin F Wade and the Atrocity Propaganda of the Civil War by Harry Williams 3343 BIOGRAPHY Weisenburger F P The Personal ...
... 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 ...
... MARC LEE RAPHAEL MARC LEE RAPHAEL The Industrial Removal Office in Columbus A Local Case Study Historical studies of American institutions and organizations have overwhelmingly concentrated on the national headquarters of such groups and generally ignored personalities and activities on the local level A look from the bottom-up might clarify the effect of national decisions on local branches the pressures local groups exerted upon national organizations the actuality of national policies and ...
... 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 ...
... DANIEL DRAKE AS A PIONEER IN MODERN DANIEL DRAKE AS A PIONEER IN MODERN ECOLOGY by ADOLPH E WALLER Associate Professor and Curator of the Botanic Garden Ohio State University When in 1895 Warming of Copenhagen summarized his studies of the coastal dunes of the North Sea he wakened biologists to a new point of view He wrote the word oecology into the record It soon became widely used as a tool to aid in the understanding of the complex relations existing between organism and environment As a ...
... OHIO'S GERMAN-LANGUAGE PRESS AND THE WAR OHIO'S GERMAN-LANGUAGE PRESS AND THE WAR BY CARL WITTKE Instructor in American History Ohio State University In April 1917 when the war cloud settled over America most of the German-language publications in this country found themselves in an extremely embarrassing position To the very last they had opposed America's entry into the war To them it seemed that Germany's cause had been grossly misrepresented by an Anglicised press and the German contention ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 105 the people as one might suppose it to have been in the days of the tenth century The author carries the credulity of his reader to the very limit For instance he fully describes the girls' and boys' schools at Lekin the name which he gives to the present site of Newark in the vicinity of which there still stand to-day vast and complete earth-works of those long lost tribes These people as General Beatty pictures them with a graphic pen reached a stage of ...