... 286 Ohio Arch 286 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications worship It may have been the great religious temple of the mound builders for the Ohio Valley The book gives a full account of the rescue of the mound from destruction by Prof F W Putnam the eminent American archaeologist of Cambridge Mass Professor Putnam succeeded in interesting some worthy and philanthropic ladies of Boston who purchased the property restored it and presented it to the Peabody Museum The latter institution ...
... LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH IN OHIO DURING LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH IN OHIO DURING THE PERIOD 1835-1858 By ROBERT G PATERSON Ph D Early pioneers in the settlement of Ohio brought with them the ideas methods and practices which prevailed among the colonists on the Atlantic Seaboard This was true especially in their struggles with epidemic diseases Today it is difficult for us to recreate the stark fear with which our forefathers awaited an approaching epidemic Scarcely a winter went by without a ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 249 where we shall regard him with worshipful admiration and reverence Though decorated with all the honors a nation-a world-could bestow there shines through all the man-the noble spotless man There is no incident in history to our mind like that journey from Washington to Canton of the funeral train The catafalque upon which rested the body of the illustrious dead occupied the center of a spacious car-the sides of which were glass It was brilliantly lighted at night ...
... 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 ...
... An Ohio Farmer's Account of Morgan's Raid An Ohio Farmer 's Account of Morgan's Raid Edited by ARVILLE L FUNK A LTH OUG H OHIO contributed soldiers to all of the major battles of the Civil War the state itself was to know war only through an exciting thirteen-day invasion of its borders by The Thunderbolt of the Confederacy General John Hunt Morgan and his Confederate cavalry division The purpose of the raid through Kentucky Indiana and Ohio in July 1863 was to divert federal troops in these ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Greek Revival Architecture in America By Talbot Hamlin New York Oxford University Press 1944 Cloth 439p 750 The author who is librarian of the Avery Memorial library and the Fine Arts library at Columbia University is an architect and the author of a number of books on architecture In this book he has traced the important trend in American architecture and life during the period previous to the Civil War emphasizing the development of Greek revival architecture 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 ...
... PAINTED SKELETONS PAINTED SKELETONS BY WM C MILLS Curator Ohio State Archaeological Historical Society Very peculiar burials have been reported from the western part of Concord Township Ross County Ohio The burials were first brought to my notice by Mr A B Coover of Roxabell Ohio who removed several skeletons from a gravel pit in the western part of Concord Township and these were covered with red ocre One year later Mr Almer Hegler of Washington C H notified me that a number of skeletons ...
... Slaybaugh Summer-Autumn 2002 pp 183-197 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved From New Womanhood to Companionate Marriage in the Progressive Era The Case of Frances Cochran MacDaniels By Douglas Slaybaugh When Frances Cochran was growing up in Cincinnati in the first decade of the twentieth century she mocked her girlfriends interest in boys and scoffed when they suggested the possibility of her falling in love1 At Oberlin ...
... ROBERT B ROBERT B FAIRBANKS Housing the City The Better Housing League and Cincinnati 1916-1939 A varity of historians have dealt with the housing movement in America prior to the Great Depression examining how the reformers viewed the housing needs around them Robert H Bremner in From the Depths explained how the environmental emphasis of Progressive housing reform reflected the changing view of poverty from the mid-nineteenth century notion which had blamed individual moral breakdown Roy ...
... Fortieth Annual Meeting 259 Fortieth Annual Meeting 259 REPORT OF THE MUSEUM COMMITTEE Vice President George F Bareis Chairman of the Committee read the following report The Museum Committee held one well-attended meeting on June 17 1925 Director Mills outlined his plans for the occupation of the new building as to departments and space Professor Hine the new Curator of Natural History was present and made a report as to his plans and progress The committee heartily approved the plans and ...
... Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 621 Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 621 Outlines of Psychology by Dr Henry G Williams now President of Wilmington College Wilmington Ohio One lot of school publications by R Heber Holbrook in the interest of the Lebanon School to-wit The Reunion The National Normal The Home and School The National Normal Exponent Also catalogues of the school for the years 1873-74 1875-76 1882-83 1883-84 and 1891-93 Among the noted graduates from this school were ...
... JACK S JACK S BLOCKER JR Market Integration Urban Growth and Economic Change in an Ohio County 1850-1880 In March 1870 the editor of a local newspaper in Washington Court House county seat of Fayette County Ohio announced the inauguration of a new service by the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley Railroad The Train which leaves this place at 616 in the morning arrives in the city at 105 and leaves Cincinnati at 350 pm thus affording our citizens some FIVE HOURS for business or pleasure It is a ...
... HENRY B HENRY B CURTIS A MEMORIAL ADDRESS1 AT the re-organization of this Society in March 1885 Hon Henry B Curtis of Mt Vernon was elected as its First Vice President It is now our sad duty formally to announce the death of Mr Curtis which occurred on the fifth day of last November at the residence of his grand-daughter Mrs Charles D Seeberger in the City of Chicago Ill where he was stopping for a few days on his way home from a business trip farther West Upon this occasion it is eminently ...
... 424 Ohio Arch 424 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications pass through the Governor's office for he holds the veto power and we are equally indebted therefore to good Governor Judson Harmon who has long been a member of our Society and taken a deep and active interest in its proceedings We had a very delightful and successful voyage through the Governor's office Governor Harmon is not able to be present in person but we are greatly favored in having with us his good Secretary Honorable George ...
... Announcing Announcing THE HISTORY OF THE STATE OF OHIO Edited by CARL WITTKE and Published under the Auspices of the OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY in Six Volumes Volumes I II and III are now available and Volume VI is in press Volumes IV and V are expected in 1942 The price of the complete set is 2500 and orders should be sent direct to the Secretary Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Ohio State Museum Columbus Ohio Because of the limited edition sets will not ...
... The National Negro Convention 1848 The National Negro Convention 1848 By HOWARD H BELL ON SEPTEMBER 6 1848 a small but determined group of men gathered at Cleveland Ohio to discuss the peculiar problems facing them and to lay plans for improving their position in the land of their birth They were mainly men of the Old Northwest but there were also representatives from Canada where the escaped slave was finding a haven of refuge in ever increasing numbers1 They were carpenters editors barbers ...
... THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE JUDICIAL THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM OF OHIO By PROF F R AUMANN Ohio State Unive r sity Before Statehood--Any attempt to discuss the growth of the judicial system of this State would carry us back to the time when Ohio as a part of the Northwest Territory was controlled by the Federal Government On July 13 1787 the Congress of the United States passed the Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio Although ...
... GEORGE B GEORGE B COTKIN Strikebreakers Evictions and Violence Industrial Conflict in the Hocking Valley 1884-1885 In 1904 Boston trade unionist Frank K Foster called the strikebreaker an industrial excresence the Iscariot of the industrial world That same year novelist Jack London coined his famous definition of the scab A strikebreaker wrote London is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul a water-logged brain and a combination backbone made of jelly and glue Where others have hearts he ...
... THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF THE THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF THE TOLEDO BLADE By DOUGLAS C MCMURTRIE The Toledo Blade is approaching its one hundredth birthday--a long life for a mid-western newspaper-- and it occupies still as it did during its infancy a commanding position in the life of its community In view of its long service the history of its beginnings becomes of special interest There is here presented a detailed record of the first decennium of its existence The Blade was not the first ...