... Ohio Day at the Jamestown Exposition Ohio Day at the Jamestown Exposition 187 An honored picture his who built so fair The soldier-statesman who in days of stress Toiled 'midst the brave high-hearted pioneers To make a garden of the wilderness From old Virginia he blessed with her dower Of courage high Could nobler gift be given 'Twas on her shore that our fair freedom's flower Raised its first bravely shining bud toward heaven Ah those who went to brave the Western wilds To fell the forest ...
... Historical News Historical News THE SIXTH ANNUAL SUMMER Institute on Historical and Archival Management will be offered by Radcliffe College with the co-sponsorship of the department of history of Harvard University during the six weeks June 29 through August 7 1959 Lawrence W Towner editor of the William and Mary Quarterly and director of graduate studies at the College of William and Mary will direct the course The staff will consist of eighteen or more experts in the fields covered by the ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 615 Reviews Notes and Comments 615 Judged impartially at this distance it looks a little as though neither Brooks nor Burlingame was eager to fight a duel Of course each naturally desired the public to think that he was not lacking in courage to meet the other in mortal combat While it would doubtless have been dangerous for Brooks to travel through the hostile North direct to Canada had the public been advised of his going a journey to the point designated seems not ...
... LARRY D LARRY D O'BRIEN The Ohio National Guard in the Coal Strike of 1932 You don't have to be drunk they said To get throwed in the can The only thing you needed be Was just a union man1 --Harlan County Blues This verse from the Harlan County Blues illustrates a recurrent theme in the history of the American labor movement in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries The resistance which unionization met in the mining industry was perhaps even more severe than in other industries and the ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 90 Secretary--Harry Brent Mackoy Covington Ky Deputy Secretary - Murray Marvin Shoemaker Cincinnati Treasurer - Howard Sydenham Winslow Cincinnati Registrar - Robert Ralston Jones Cincinnati Historian - John Uri Lloyd Norwood Chancellor - Herbert Jenney Cincinnati Surgeon - Dr Phineas Sanborn Conner Cincinnnati Chaplain - Rev Henry Melville Curtis Cincinnati Gentlemen of the Council - Nathaniel Henchman Davis Cincinnati Edwin C Gashorn Cincinnati Charles Humphrey ...
... 652 Ohio Arch and Hist 652 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ber of the Committee from Dayton accompanied by a representative group of Dayton citizens who piloted us to Miami Mound where a short stop was made thence into Dayton where dinner was served and a short meeting held At Dayton we visited the Conservancy Works the Wright Aviation Field and other points of interest This closed our activities for the day There is no question that both of these trips were highly enjoyable and ...
... Dedication of the Hayes Memorial Dedication of the Hayes Memorial 455 life of the man who from youth to advanced years really served his fellowmen and such a memory will undoubtedly be an inspiration to them to take a high view of the calling of citizenship and to prepare themselves by study and thought to render such service as is within their capacity and opportunity ADDRESS OF U S SENATOR POMERENE United States Senator Pomerene spoke as follows I am glad to have the opportunity to come to ...
... 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 ...
... Melodrama in Ohio Melodrama in Ohio Avery Hopwood and Boss Cox of Cincinnati By ARNO L BADE R W HEN THE OHIO PLAYRIGHT Aver y Hopwood died in 1928 his reputation was that of an immensely successful writer of light comedies and bedroom farces which had brought him a fortune If anyone remembered that as a youngster he had written The Powers That Be a serious play attacking civic corruption and political bossism that fact was not mentioned in his obituaries Yet for one week in 1907 The Powers ...
... ANTHONY GENE CAREY ANTHONY GENE CAREY The Second Party System Collapses The 1853 Maine Law Campaign in Ohio As he sat at his desk in Cincinnati in late September 1852 Rutherford B Hayes recorded his thoughts on the apparent disintegration of a party system that had held the loyalties of Americans for a generation Government no longer has its ancient importance he wrote Its duties and its powers no longer reach to the happiness of the people The people's progress progress of every sort no ...
... 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 ...
... Historical News Historical News The Steubenville Herald-Star celebrated its 150th birthday on June 7 Founded as the Western Herald by William Lowry and John Miller it was operated for thirty years--from 1815 to 1845--by James Wilson the paternal grandfather of President Woodrow Wilson and by his son Robert who succeeded him It is the second oldest newspaper in continuous existence in Ohio the oldest being the Chillicothe Gazette It is a member of the BrushMoore chain Earle W Newton former ...
... MARVIN FLETCHER MARVIN FLETCHER War in the Streets of Athens On an August evening in 1904 terror struck the citizens of the small southeastern Ohio town of Athens Thousands of Ohio National Guard and regular army troops were on joint maneuvers in the area On the evening of August 19 some of the regulars marched into town with the aim of freeing one of their comrades who had been arrested by some national guardsmen and locked in the county jail When the military police tried to stop them the ...
... The MacGahan Monument The MacGahan Monument 235 Ladies and gentlemen of New Lexingtonyou who are the neighbors and the kin of MacGahan-you do well to dedicate on this the natal day of your country's freedom a monument to your great apostle of freedom You do well to set up a reminder to the coming generations of the glory and the human kindliness of the liberator of a people But yours is not the power nor the privilege of building the most enduring monument to MacGahan That monument is to be ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA HISTORY OF THE MAUMEE RIVER BASIN There has just appeared from the press of Bowen amp Slocum Indianapolis and Toledo a History of the Maumee River Basin from the earliest account to its organization into counties The author is Dr Charles Elihu Slocum a life member of the Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society he has contributed many interesting and valuable articles to its Quarterly and for many years has been an indefatigable and enthusiastic student of ...
... ABORIGINAL HISTORY OF BUTLER COUNTY ABORIGINAL HISTORY OF BUTLER COUNTY AFTER a brief popular discussion of the evidences of pre-glacial man in France England and New Jersey Mr MacLean spoke of the analogy between the situation of the gravel terraces along the Miami in Butler county and those in which the remains of man have been found in the other places referred to Like the terraces on the Delaware at Trenton New Jersey where Dr C C Abbott had found rough stone implements of pre-glacial age ...
... 576 Ohio Arch 576 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications FORT MEIGS FORT AMANDA FORT MIAMI AND THE BATTLEFIELD OF FALLEN TIMBERS The Chairman of the Committee Mr W J Sherman read the report as follows FORT MEIGS The Fort Meigs Commission has continued improvements at this historic spot during the past year devoting particular attention to the landscaping and planting of the grounds where the Pittsburg Blues are buried and where the Pennsylvania Historical Society has recently erected a ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 563 Reviews Notes and Comments 563 serted that it was his nephew Richard M Johnson who later became vice president of the United States It seems that no record exists emanating from Richard M Johnson in which he personally either asserts or denies the credit but there does exist a positive statement from Cave Johnson that he did not kill Tecumseh In the Draper Mss under File No 9J168 Cave Johnson makes this statement Strange as it may seem I never fired a gun at an ...
... THE DEBT OF THE STATE OF OHIO FROM THE DEBT OF THE STATE OF OHIO FROM 1900 TO 1938 INCLUSIVE By HENRY F WALRADT One method of raising money with which to make governmental expenditures is to issue bonds or certificates of indebtedness The record of the State Government of Ohio during the twentieth century as to debt may well be studied in this day when so many political units too recklessly meet their present desire or need for revenue by the easy expedient of going into debt At the beginning ...
... BASEBALL IN ITS ADOLESCENCE BASEBALL IN ITS ADOLESCENCE by CARL WITTKE Chairman o f the Department o f History and Dean of the Graduate School Western Reserve University In 1939 Americans celebrated the centenary of their national pastime because a baseball commission created in 1907 to settle the hotly disputed question of who originated the modern game awarded the honor to Abner Doubleday A number of writers continue to insist that Alexander Cartwright of New York City drew up the first ...