... THE GENEALOGICAL SECTION THE GENEALOGICAL SECTION REPORTED BY HELEN S FULLER The joint session of the Columbus Genealogical Society and the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society took place at 7 PM April 1 in the auditorium of the Ohio State Museum Frank A Livingston presided and John F Carlisle presented a paper on William Holmes McGuffey His History and Genealogy in which he pointed out McGuffey's position concerning the selection of reading material adapted to the minds of ...
... Mr Mr Republican Turns SOCIALIST ROBERT A TAFT and Public Housing by RICHARD O DAVIES To the great majority of his contemporaries Senator Robert A Taft embodied the traditional values of self-help private enterprise and dislike for governmental welfare programs Most Americans believed that Taft had as his major purpose the root and branch eradication of all New Deal welfare and regulatory programs His adamant opposition to the proliferation of such governmental activities supposedly led to a ...
... SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL XLIX For Index of Authors see Contents page iii PAGE ALLEE M H--Runaway Linda Book review by L R Hiestand 217-218 ALLEN CO O--GENEALOGY Gratz Delbert L Historical and Genealogical Sketch of the Swiss Mennonites of Allen and Putnam Counties Ohio 282-288 ALTROCCHI J C--Wolves Against the Moon Book review by E S Ballis 408-409 America in Midpassage by C A Beard and M R Beard--Book review by John O Marsh 307-308 American Industrial ...
... JEPTHA H JEPTHA H WADE AND THE CLEVELAND AND CINCINNATI TELEGRAPH COMPANY by RUSSELL H ANDERSON Director Western Reserve Historical Society Jeptha H Wade was the organizer moving spirit and principal owner of the Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company and the story of his activities in building and operating its line leads into his career in the nation-wide telegraph field especially as a principal in the Western Union Telegraph Company It was with this Ohio line that Wade capitalizing ...
... 198 198 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications learned and was a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Joseph Green Butler Jr married Harriet Voorhes Ingersoll of Honesdale Pennsylvania January 10 1866 Of this union were born Mrs Blanche Butler Ford Mrs Grace Ingersoll Butler McGraw and Mr Henry A Butler The latter two survive Mrs Butler died in 1921 Mr Butler was familiarly known as Uncle Joe and his wide circle of acquaintances and friends felt a personal loss ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY MARCH 1888LEGISLATION IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY APRIL 2 1788 a band of forty-eight pioneers left the mouth of the Voughiogheny in the Mayflower of the West Floating out into the Monongahela they emerged on the broad bosom of the Ohio and began an easier journey down that beautiful river to their chosen homes in the valley below Five days after they landed on the bank of the Muskingum river at its confluence with the Ohio and the first ...
... SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL L For Index to Authors see Contents page iii-iv ABERNETHY THOMAS P--Three Virginia Frontiers Book review by Francis Phelps Weisenburger 293-294 The Accomplishments and Future Program of the Ohio Historical Records Survey Project by James H Rodabaugh 277-292 Address at Fort Meigs by W J Cameron 84-88 Address at the Grave of Johnny Appleseed by Robert C Harris 4546 AKELEY MARY L JOBE--The Wilderness Lives Again Carl Akeley and the ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLIANCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Alliance Mrs Fred Donaldson President The Alliance Historical Society is cooperating with other groups in the observance of the centennial of Alliance this summer A series of events is planned culminating in those of the week of August 26 - September 2 1950 Copies of old pictures of Alliance are being made by the society which is also publishing a centennial history of the city AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES Cincinnati ...
... Book Notes Book Notes The Covered Bridges of Pennsylvania A Guide By Susan M Zacher Harrisburg Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission 1982 vi 141p illustrations maps bibliography index As its title might indicate this book functions primarily as a tourist guide to the covered bridges which are found throughout Pennsylvania Following a brief introduction to truss types the book consists of a list of the 227 extant covered bridges in the state with the bridges grouped by region and by ...
... NOTES ON THE ANTE-BELLUM CATTLE INDUSTRY FROM THE McNEILL FAMILY PAPERS by JOHN EDMUND STEALEY III The long-ignored story of the pre-Civil War cattle industry in Ohio has been the subject in recent years of several scholarly studies which have enhanced the meager bibliography of American agricultural history Previously only a few major works dealt with the beef trade on a general national basis The most notable of these are James Westfall Thompson's History of Livestock Raising in the United ...
... THE NINTH OHIO VOLUNTEERS THE NINTH OHIO VOLUNTEERS A PAGE FROM THE CIVIL WAR RECORD OF THE OHIO GERMAN TURNERS OF OHIO BY CARL WITTKE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY The contributions of the German Turner organizations to American cultural history are among the most important of the many results of the extensive German immigration of the nineteenth century That Ohio had received its full share of these new additions to the American population was evident from the numerous social ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR HISTORY OF THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTYSECOND FIELD ARTILLERY AND SKETCH OF ITS COLONEL History of the 322nd Field Artillery Yale University Press New Haven The Society is under obligations to Colonel A B Warfield who commanded the 322nd Field Artillery of the National Army in the World War made up almost entirely of Ohio troops The frontispiece of this interesting and ...
... CARL W CARL W ALBRECHT Book Notes The Papers of Henry Bouquet Volume 5 September 1 1760-October 31 1761 Edited by Louis M Waddell John L Tottenham and Donald H Kent Harrisburg The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission 1984 xxx 875p illustrations bibliography chronology index Henry Bouquet born in Switzerland in 1719 passed his early military training and experience in the service of several European states In 1756 he was recruited to serve as a lieutenant colonel in the Royal American ...
... M M PAUL HOLSINGER Timothy Walker Blackstone For the New Republic In the generation before the Civil War few persons within the state of Ohio were as nationally renowned as Timothy Walker of Cincinnati During the so-called Golden Age of American Law between 1820 and 1860 Walker from his adopted home on the banks of the Ohio River wrote probably the most widely read legal treatise of nineteenth century America the Introduction to American Law A founder of the Cincinnati Law School the first ...
... BELLAMY NATIONALISM IN OHIO 1891 TO 1896 BELLAMY NATIONALISM IN OHIO 1891 TO 1896 by WILLIAM F ZORNOW Instructor in History Case Institute of Technology One aspect of the Progressive movement which is of special interest is the growth of native radicalism as distinct from imported Marxism In this movement Edward Bellamy became one of the chief spokesmen He was a utopian socialist who believed in planning regimentation efficiency and the nationalization of all industry but he also hoped to ...
... JOHN L JOHN L NETHERS Driest of Drys Simeon D Fess The struggle was long and hard fought but the final victory was short-lived for the national prohibition movement in the United States Temporary success came with the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919 but the drys had to admit defeat with adoption of the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933 One contemporary historian has noted that the most importunate of all the crusades of this generation was that against Demon Rum1 Many persons and ...
... ON THE HISTORY OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY ON THE HISTORY OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY BY RAYMOND D CAHALL For more than a score of years I have been giving a course at Kenyon College on the Intellectual History of Europe It has been a combination of James Harvey Robinson's course and of the reading of the greatest books dealt with in that course As I have brought it up to date added here or diminished there I have sought to avoid the panoramic and encyclopedic and have tried to lead my students to a ...
... THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND FUTURE PROGRAM THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND FUTURE PROGRAM OF THE OHIO HISTORICAL RECORDS SURVEY PROJECT By JAMES H RODABAUG H Beginnings The Ohio Historical Records Survey Project began operations in February 1936 It was organized and operated by the supervisors of the Writers' Project until November 1936 when it became an independent part of Federal Project No 1 In September 1939 Congress abolished the Federal projects after which the Ohio survey was established as a State ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Academy of History Spring Meeting will be held April 28-29 2000 at Otterbein College in Westerville Ohio For further information contact Richard Spall Ohio Wesleyan University Department of History Delaware Ohio 43015 The Academy now has a Home Page at lthttpoahhistoryohiostateedugt Nominations for the Ohio Academy of History Public History Award are sought for the award to be presented at the annual spring meeting of the OAH Public history projects ...