... LAWRENCE A LAWRENCE A KREISER Jr A Socioeconomic Study of Veterans of the 103rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment After the Civil War In the closing days of the Civil War Major General William Tecumseh Sherman declared to Union soldiers preparing to muster out his belief that as in war you have been good soldiers so in peace you will make good citizens1 Many scholars neglect the second half of Sherman's appeal generalizing about the adjustments that soldiers made to peacetime society rather ...
... THE MEDICAL JOURNALS OF THE PERIOD 1835-1858 THE MEDICAL JOURNALS OF THE PERIOD 1835-1858 By JONATHAN FORMAN M D The period which we are describing today was one in which the American public was very critical of the medical profession To the general charges of fraud and futility was added that of hearsay In order to save the physician's fee family medical books were frequently bought and sold Patent medicines were coming in at a pace parallel to the growth of newspapers in which they could be ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Rutherford B Hayes Library announced that it will publish a comprehensive microfilm edition of The Papers of Rutherford B Hayes A printed guide will accompany the microfilm edition The edition will include Hayes' genealogical records diaries commonplace books correspondence presidential records Civil War records business papers speeches notes vetoes executive orders and miscellaneous items For further information write to Thomas A Smith Manuscripts ...
... ROBERT A ROBERT A BUERKI Pharmaceutical Education in Nineteenth-Century Ohio The development of pharmacy as a profession in America had its roots in English customs and traditions the colonial practice of pharmacy differing from that of its mother country only in being more lax and unrestricted and standing on a somewhat lower level Only a small minority of its practitioners was educated beyond an apprenticeship that lacked both the system and standards that strong English guilds had once ...
... THE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION OF PIONEER THE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION OF PIONEER OHIO PHYSICIANS By FREDERICK C WAITE PHD The early location of physicians for practice in Ohio was coincident with the establishment of settlements and since these settlements began on the Ohio River it was in that region that were found the first resident physicians late in the eighteenth century The northern part of the state was settled somewhat later the northwestern area last of all In the Western Reserve of ...
... 36 Ohio 36 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications This state was the thoroughfare for all the races and all the people in their struggle to reach the west Its foundations were laid by the very best brains of this country when that great American stream of settlers founded this composite Ohio Wherever you look you will find the Ohio man and as long as we have The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society to perpetuate the greatness of the Ohioan and mark the places where they have ...
... compiled by compiled by HELEN M THURSTON A Survey of Publications on the History and Archaeology of Ohio 1969-1970 ARCHAEOLOGY BRITT CLAUDE JR The Hopkins Sites Multi-Component Sites in Miami County Ohio Ohio Archaeologist XVIII October 1968 124-128 GOODMAN KENNETH C A Proposed Standard for Denoting Loci of Features and Artifacts in Archaeological Explorations and Excavations Ohio Archaeologist XVIII October 1968 134-135 HOFFMAN MICHAEL Archaeological Surveys in the Central Ohio River Valley ...
... KATHLEEN A KATHLEEN A LAUGHLIN Sisterhood Inc The Status of Women Commission Movement and the Rise of Feminist Coalition Politics in Ohio 1964-1974 Phyllis Schlafly's STOP ERA organization campaigned vigorously against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment ERA in Ohio during the early 1970s Armed with loaves of bread tied with pink ribbons bus loads of STOP ERA supporters came to the state capitol in Columbus to lobby against the Amendment when the Ohio House of Representatives' State ...
... LEADEN PLATE AT THE MOUTH OF THE MUSKINGUM LEADEN PLATE AT THE MOUTH OF THE MUSKINGUM In the October QUARTE RL Y were published cuts of the leaden plate prepared for deposit at the mouth of the Conewango and the one buried at the mouth of the Kanawha On the following pages are illustrations of the remnant of the plate buried at the mouth of the Muskingum and what was probably its entire text This plate was considerably multilated A portion of the lead was cut away for bullets before the ...
... THE LIBRARY OF AN EARLY OHIO FARMER THE LIBRARY OF AN EARLY OHIO FARMER by ROBERT H IRRMANN Assistant Professor of History and Government Denison University Though not among the founding fathers of Blendon Township in Franklin County Gideon W Hart is noted by William Martin one of the county's early historians as among those who subsequently settled there after the initial waves of migration in 1806 and 1808 Born in Hartford Connecticut on July 16 1785 Hart first came to Franklin County in ...
... VIRGINIA R VIRGINIA R BOYNTON Contested Terrain The Struggle Over Gender Norms for Black Working-Class Women in Cleveland's Phillis Wheatley Association 1920-1950 When Adrien Jean Smith came to live at the Phillis Wheatley Association PWA of Cleveland Ohio in 1947 the young unemployed black woman was hired as a domestic servant by the home for black working women Although her work satisfied her employers for a time Smith's off-hours behavior constantly irritated and concerned the black ...
... 558 Ohio Arch 558 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications County Several additional parks shortly will be placed in our custody In connection with two or three of the park properties there has been some lack of agreement as to methods of administration The Director accompanied by Trustee J C Goodman Chairman of the Committee on State Parks recently visited these properties conferred with local committees and provided means for correcting the situations It may seem superfluous to consume the ...
... SKULLS RAPPERS GHOSTS AND DOCTORS SKULLS RAPPERS GHOSTS AND DOCTORS By PHILIP D JORD AN Henry Ward Beecher fashionable eastern preacher thought it vulgar to call phrenology the science of skull bumps but despite his protests that this popular pseudo-science was an investigation of the mind1 thousands of Americans hung gaily-colored charts above tin wash-basins and analyzed themselves while they shaved Lawyers plead their clients after exhaustive cranial examinations and physicians not to be ...
... array of selected statistics and advocates' reasoning 30 Silver had so high a market value from 1837 to 1855 that it was exported and as late as early 1873 it was not being brought in for coinage 31 Congressional Record 51 cong 1 sess 6450 32 Ibid 45 cong 2 sess 564 628 Both Ohio senators and sixteen of her representatives voted aye with three members apparently not recording their actual preference and only Garfield casting a forthright nay ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Jonathan Draws the Long Bow By Richard M Dorson Cambridge Mass Harvard University Press 1946 274p 450 This reviewer used to enjoy the old story told in Licking County of how a remarkable providence once saved a sleepy pioneer resident of Granville from drowning in the rampaging waters of Raccoon Creek The villager drove into town late one pitchdark stormy night and did not learn until the next day that the planking of the bridge he crossed had been washed away by the ...
... INDEX TO THE MINUTES OF THE FORTY-FIRST INDEX TO THE MINUTES OF THE FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY AND THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Archaeological and Historical Society gifts to Museum 623-624 list of acholds Annual Meeting 607 urges cessions 624-629 the Seip Mound completion of Building 607-608 need 630 American Anthropological Assofor expansion of Building 656-658 ciation Central section at the MuArchives Committee on appointed 608 seum 630 re-elected 668 Donahue ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY AUGUST 1953-JULY 1954 compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE KAATZ Martin R The Settlement of the Black Swamp of Northwestern Ohio Pioneer Days Northwest Ohio Quarterly XXV 1953 134-156 KAATZ Martin R The Settlement of the Black Swamp of Northwestern Ohio Later Days Northwest Ohio Quarterly XXV 1953 201-217 LIPP Frederick J The Home Place Being 150 Years of Ohio Farming Inside ...
... Historical News Historical News THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE MORMON CHURCH has microfilmed all military records of the division of soldiers' claims of the Ohio adjutant general's office The microfilmed records include grave registration data on Ohio veterans of all wars in which Ohioans participated rosters of Ohio soldiers in these wars and indexes to the rosters original hand-written muster rolls of the Ohio units in the Civil War records of payment to Squirrel Hunters rosters of Ohio ...
... JAMES E JAMES E CEBULA The New City and the New Journalism The Case of Dayton Ohio Prior to the introduction of mass transportation systems the nineteenth century city was physically compact with diverse land usages in close proximity to each other With the availability of railroads street cars and inter-urban electric rail lines the urban population could live further away from the workplace and entrepreneurs would recognize the advantages of building in less congested areas These increased ...
... 378 Ohio Arch 378 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications friend and ardent admirer of and deep sympathizer with John Brown He wrote her a letter the night before his execution expressing his appreciation of her long friendship and his perfect resignation to his fate Well do we remember though at that time but a child of eight how on the morning of December 2 after the breakfast meal that mother at the morning invocation broke forth in a fervent prayer that Divine Providence would sustain John ...