... THE INTRODUCTION OF ANESTHESIA INTO OHIO THE INTRODUCTION OF ANESTHESIA INTO OHIO By HOWARD DITTRICK MD Since the practical application of anesthesia for the relief of dental and surgical pain originated in the United States it is not strange that early Ohio practitioners followed closely along the trails blazed by colleagues in the Eastern States and in foreign centers of science Even the name anesthesia was coined by our own Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes directly following William Thomas Green ...
... GERALD W GERALD W WOLFF Mark Hanna's Goal American Harmony 'A man who won't meet his men half-way is a G d fool' declared Mark Hanna one day in 1894 He was referring to the Pullman strike and the fact that troops had been sent to end it That terse profane comment tells a great deal about Hanna He was above all else a pragmatist with a canny ability to successfully adjust to changing conditions Twenty years previously when his coal mines were struck troops had been brought in--with disastrous ...
... REMARKS OF I REMARKS OF I N STURTEVANT DD I HAV E an ambition to speak on this occasion I wish to make a statement in the line of what has been said to-day which it may be bold for me to make and yet there is a fire in my bones that will not let me rest unless I make it I have looked to-day on the cemeteries here the burial places of the Indians-nothing left of these but the monuments of their day the cemetery where sleep the dead the soldier heroes of four wars and somehow filled as I have ...
... Lewis D Lewis D Campbell and the Know-Nothing Party in Ohio b y WILLIAM E VAN HORNE The period of the late 1840's and early 1850's was one of confusion in the The period of the late 1840's and early 1850's was one of confusion in the ranks of the two old established parties a situation which resulted in large part from the controversy over the status of slavery in the territories acquired by the United States during the decade 1840-1850 Even the Free Soil party formed on the basis of ...
... THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXHIBIT FOR THE OHIO THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXHIBIT FOR THE OHIO CENTENNIAL THE collection of Ohio prehistoric relics made at Philadelphia and at New Orleans attracted much attention and demonstrated the richness of Ohio archaeological treasures By common consent Ohio was given the first place among the states in this class of exhibits And yet the collections were far from satisfactory to archaeological students and to those who made the collections and superintended the ...
... 114 Ohio Arch 114 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications THE LATEST PREHISTORIC NEWS The actual results of archaeological explorations in Ohio and elsewhere in this country are sufficient to arouse interest and curiosity in the life and world of the lost and unrecorded people But what the newspapers say concerning these explorations surpasses the tales of Arabian Nights or Baron Munchausen For instance concerning the exhumations by Prof W C Mills at Fort Ancient the past summer 1908 a leading ...
... The Rise and Decline of The Rise and Decline of The Cheese Industry In Lorain County By FRANK C VAN CLEEF THE SECTION OF OHIO NOW KNOWN AS LORAIN COUNTY was first settled about 1820 The ensuing three decades saw the southerly and westerly portion of the Western Reserve being cleared of forests and the land put into pastures and meadows The soil the topography and the climate proved to be quite ideally adapted to dairy farming And so this entire section in a period of thirty to forty years was ...
... 136 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 136 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY tainly have an interest in historical background I hope that each of these papers will be deposited with the secretary of this section and I want to say that from what I have heard we will want to publish as nearly all of them as possible I would like to have at least abstracts so that in the course of the year we can carry this out and make the discussions a matter of record The Ohio State ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Empire as a Way of life An Essay on the Causes and Character of America's Present Predicament Along With a Few Thoughts About an Alternative By William Appleman Williams New York Oxford University Press 1980 xiv 226p notes 1495 Even more than most of the works of William Appleman Williams this slim volume is an attempt to influence the social and political currents of our time Unfortunately it is written with no sense of the tensions that necessarily exist between ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era SHGAPE announces the third SHGAPE Article Prize a biennial competition for the best published article dealing with any aspect of US history in the period 1865-1917 The article must have appeared in journals dated 1995 or 1996 Eligibility is open to any graduate student or individual with a doctorate awarded after 1987 who has not yet published a book An article may be nominated by the author or ...
... ROBERT L ROBERT L DAUGHERTY Problems in Peacekeeping The 1924 Niles Riot On November 1 1924 Niles Ohio was the scene of one of the state's most famous riots Replete with violence the riot was characterized by beatings overturned automobiles and even shootings Bands of armed men freely roamed the streets of Niles meeting with little or no opposition from law enforcement agencies Local civil authority in the Niles area-both municipal and county-had all but evaporated in the face of violence and ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Labor History Project of The Ohio Historical Society has completed the Preliminary Guide to Sources in Ohio Labor History a forty-seven page pamphlet listing over 350 entries Copies can be obtained for 225 by writing to Ohio Labor History Project Ohio Historical Society ArchivesManuscripts Division Columbus Ohio 43211 Please make checks payable to the Ohio Historical Society The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a 25000 grant to the ...
... 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 ...
... STEPHEN Z STEPHEN Z STARR The Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry A View from the Inside Anyone sufficiently interested in a Civil War regiment to make an intensive study of its history would normally begin with the Official Records Its 128 ponderous volumes contain a bare chronicle telling where the regiment was at any given time which larger units it was a part of from time to time and what its varying fortunes were in the scouts expeditions skirmishes fights and battles in which all or parts of it ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Free Soil The Election of 1848 By JOSEPH G RAYBACK Lexington University Press of Kentucky 1971 ix 326p notes and index 1250 Rayback's purpose is to analyze the campaign of 1848 from its origin in the early days of Polk's administration to the election of the Whig Zachary Taylor over Martin Van Buren for the Free Soilers and Lewis Cass for the Democrats The author finds that the presidential election of 1848 marked the emergence of antislavery sentiment as a ...
... RUSSELL D RUSSELL D PARKER The Philosophy of Charles G Finney Higher Law and Revivalism As it related to the antislavery crusade in the United States the higher law doctrine involved an insistence that slavery was contrary to the principles upon which the nation was established in that there were rules of right existing in the public mind prior to the framing of the Constitution These rules were expressed in the Declaration of Independence the true basis of government In American history the ...
... 464 Ohio Arch 464 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Honorary members-persons of note in the local historical field 4 Corresponding members--persons not residing in the Ohio Valley but interested in the work of this Association All members including societies shall be elected at the regular meeting of the Association upon recommendations of the Executive Committee 4 The officers of the Association shall consist of a president four Vice Presidents a Recording Secretary and Curator a ...
... NOTES AND QUERIES NOTES AND QUERIES The annual spring meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held at the Fawcett Center on the Ohio State University campus in Columbus April 24 and 25 1981 Address all inquiries to Professor H Roger Grant OAH Program Chair Department of History The University of Akron Akron Ohio 44324 Phone 216 375-7006 A call for papers is requested for the Thirteenth Annual Dakota History Conference to be held at Madison South Dakota on the campus of Dakota State ...
... ERIC JOHANNESEN ERIC JOHANNESEN The Architectural Legacy of Guy Tilden of Canton For forty years from the mid-1880's to the mid-1920's Guy Tilden was the leading architect of Canton Ohio according to Edward T Heald Stark County's encyclopedic historian1 Of Tilden's enormous output only a remnant exists but this sample serves to indicate both the variety and the quality of building done in a growing Ohio industrial town during those years Buildings reveal the needs ambitions tastes and whims of ...
... ROBERT EARNEST MILLER ROBERT EARNEST MILLER War Within Walls Camp Chase and the Search for Administrative Reform The historical literature about Civil War military prisons can be divided into three major categories prisoners' accounts accounts of the camp administrators and subsequent historical analyses1 Interest in how captives lived in these prisons North and South has never abated The historian's desire to find out what prison life was really like however has been frustrated by the utter ...