... Reviews Notes and Comments 321 Reviews Notes and Comments 321 setts He has a national and international reputation for his contributions to botany and horticulture From 1888 to 1897 he was editor of Garden and Forest He has contributed extensively to publications of the Smithsonian Institution and is author of numerous monographs Winthrop Sargent VII is complimented on page 91 of the volume as follows Winthrop Sargent of the seventh generation the eleventh of that name will always be ...
... PROFESSOR ROBERT WHITE McFARLAND'S PROFESSOR ROBERT WHITE McFARLAND'S HISTORY OF THE ASTRONOMICAL PIER AT MIAMI UNIVERSITY A recent issue of the Alumni News Letter of Miami University published the history of the Astronomical Pier at Miami University Oxford Ohio as it was written by Professor Robert White McFarland with a quill pen in 1904 and sent to Dr Clyde Fisher an alumnus of that institution and now curator of astronomy and visual instruction at the American Museum of Natural History New ...
... GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME LIV GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME LIV ABBOTT LYMAN 51 Allen William 329 Abolition movement and Granville O Allison Charles M 255 223 literature 238 Allison Mrs Jessie 255 Abolitionists Rev John Rankin 234 Amanda see Fort Amanda Academy of Natural Science 198 Amber routes 10 Ackerknecht Erwin H Malaria in the Amendments to Society's constitution Upper Mississippi Valley 1760-90 provisions for 260 rev by Jonathan Forman 413-16 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Ackley Horace ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY AUGUST 1947-JULY 1948 Compiled by JAMES H RODA B AU GH and S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE BARDOLPH Richard Agricultural Literature and the Early Illinois Farmer Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences XXIX No 1-2 Urbana University of Illinois Press 1948 Comparative general material and some specific Ohio data BROMFIELD Louis Malabar Farm New York Harper amp Brothers 1948 vii 405p COMIN Donald Onion ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABOLITION 37-56 Abortion in America The Origins and Evolution of National Policy by James C Mohr rev 218-220 Achenbaum W Andrew Old Age in the New Land The American Experience Since 1790 rev 427-429 Act of February 26 1816 poor house authorization 84 Adams John 133 Adams John Quincy 12 13 16 17 18 1920 22 23 24 26 29 46 Adams-Clay party 13 17 Addams Jane 62 Adelphic Society of Western Reserve College 201 204 206 Adkins vs Children's Hospital 190 ...
... McCook Field 1917-1927 McCook Field 1917-1927 By MAURER MAURER IT IS FITTING that Dayton the birthplace of aviation should be the site of one of the great air fields of the United States Air Force And it is appropriate that the field which for many years has played a major role in the development of aircraft and equipment for the air force should bear the name of Wright The history of that air force activity in the Dayton area however goes back to a field that was not named for the Wright ...
... CONSTITUTION OF CONSTITUTION OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY1 ARTICLE I Name and Location Section 1 This Society which is organized as a corporation not for profit under the laws of the State of Ohio shall pursuant to its Articles of Incorporation be known as The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and shall have its offices at Columbus Ohio where its principal business shall be transacted ARTICLE II Purposes Section 1 The purposes of this Society as set ...
... MINUTES OF MINUTES OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Columbus Ohio April 3 1954 The Ohio Academy of History held its annual spring meeting at Columbus April 3 1954 Registration was followed at 10 A M by two concurrent sessions at the Ohio State Museum At one with Robert Hilliard of Ohio Northern University as chairman James H Rodabaugh of the Ohio Historical Society presented a paper on Opportunities for Writing and Research in Ohio History Comments were made by Randolph C Downes of the ...
... FAIRPORT HARBOR VILLAGE SITE 45 FAIRPORT HARBOR VILLAGE SITE 45 ANIMAL REMAINS6 By ROBERT M GOSLIN Animal remains were found in great abundance at this site scattered through the black earth of the village deposit They include the bones of various mammals fishes birds and reptiles as well as the shells of mussels and snails Most of the bones are in a fragmentary condition but on the whole they are in an excellent state of preservation All of the animal skeletal material was saved and carefully ...
... Miss Newcomb and the Talking Machine Miss Newcomb and the Talking Machine Edited by ROBERT M WARNER ON THE MORNING OF MAY 25 1878 the girls of the female seminary at Painesville Ohio interrupted their normal school routine to bark mew crow and tell Mother Goose rhymes to a most unusual auditor--a strange looking machine which listened patiently to all their confidences and then performed the amazing feat of repeating them all back again to the intrigued listeners For the first time in their ...
... THOMAS S THOMAS S MACH George Hunt Pendleton The Ohio Idea and Political Continuity in Reconstruction America The severe defeat of the Democrats in the 1866 election in Ohio and across the country left some of the party's political positions meaningless With a Republican majority in Congress and Reconstruction issues under its control the Democratic Party pinned its future on the ideas of a politician in the throes of resurrecting a political career George Hunt Pendleton a leading Democrat ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 3 29 and that the meeting could then adjourn to such time or in such way that it could be reconvened for the further business of the Annual Meeting After some discussion of this matter a resolution was offered that when the present meeting concludes such business as is necessary for its present consideration and is prepared to recess that it recess to a second session which is to be called at such date and place as shall be determined by the present President and ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The bicentennial of Daniel Drake 1785-1852 pioneer physician-educator of the Ohio Valley occurs on October 20 1985 The University of Cincinnati which he founded in 1819 is planning to celebrate Drake and his accomplishments during the calendar year 1985 with essays and reviews of some of his major works It is planned to assemble a number of his unpublished orations in a small commemorative volume The Drake Bicentennial will culminate in a symposium on ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies BRECKSVILLE EARLY SETTLERS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Brecksville Ernest M Green President Present officers of the society are Ernest M Green president Alice Green Lewis vice president and Mrs Minnie Bartlett Jones historian secretary and treasurer Trustees are Betty Teter Barrett Susie McCreery Birdsall Benjamin P Forbes Raymond J Thayer Raymond B Perry and Harriet A Wright CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Springfield Orton G Rust President The ...
... 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 ...
... 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 1920s a number of progressive mayors assumed office ...
... KRISTE LINDENMEYER KRISTE LINDENMEYER Saving Mothers and Babies The Sheppard-Towner Act in Ohio 1921-1929 In 1985 the year for which the latest statistics are available 106 American babies died for every 1000 live births in the United States This is a dramatic improvement over the country's 1921 infant mortality rate of 76 per 1000 but as in 1921 the United States' rate continues to compare poorly with many other industrialized countries In 1921 the United States rate ranked seventeenth out of ...
... PROCEEDINGS 215 PROCEEDINGS 215 tory section under the supervision of the State Historical Society It is not intended to limit the activities and interests of the conference to Ohio history alone but rather to develop an annual Ohio History Conference devoted to all phases of history in which the membership might be interested The president called for a report of the Nominating Committee for trustees The chairman of the committee reported that the committee recommended the re-appointment of Dr ...
... AUGUSTUS NEWTON WHITING AUGUSTUS NEWTON WHITING FRANK THEODORE COLE Mr Whiting was of the Massachusetts family of that name his grandfather's home being in Westford near Lowell Only two children of this grandfather William Whiting had families These were Augustus Whiting who married a daughter of Judge Gustavus Swan of Columbus 0 and lived in New York City and Isaac Newton Whiting who was a book-seller and publisher in Columbus for many years He married September 7 1835 Orrel daughter of Col ...
... Tecumseh Tecumseh 497 says her husband was killed fighting by the side of Tecumseh in the battle of the Thames but Shane speaks of him as quoted by Drake as Tecumseh's friend and brother-in-law Wasegoboah It would appear from this that Masonville had united with the Indians assumed an Indian name and becamereconciled to Tecumseh Shane further states that after the War of 1812 Tecumsapease went to Quebec probably with her nephew Pugeshashenwa whence after a time she returned to Detroit where ...