... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments and awards within the professional community of Ohio historians include Carolyn Komer joined the Bowling Green State University Center for Archival Collections as a part-time conservatorbookbinder Reuben G Bullard and Willard W Winter of the Cincinnati Bible College recently served as core staff members of the Tel Abila excavations in Jordan Wilson Hoffman began his tenure as Thorn and Frances Pendleton Professor of History at ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 275 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 275 mind gave way completely Wolfley begged his superiors to grant him leave and return him to Ohio Two days later on May 7 1844 the surgeon was admitted to the sick list as mentally deranged24 When the Decatur put in at Porto Praya Wolfley's commander determined to leave him in the hands of the United States Agent for the Cape Verde Islands The town of Porto Praya rests on a table-land high above the harbor of St Jago ...
... THE KENDAL COMMUNITY THE KENDAL COMMUNITY WENDALL P FOX MASSILLON The following article concerning the Kendal Community was secured for publication through the courtesy of Mr Wendall P Fox of Massillon Ohio Mr Fox in an explanatory letter to the Editor makes the statement a portion of which we use as a preface to the article itself-E 0 R PREFACE According to the History of Stark County the first settlers came to Perry township in the summer of 1806 Perry township included the territory ...
... ROBERT E ROBERT E CAZDEN The German Book Trade In Ohio Before 1848 In the summer of 1796 Jonathan Zane and his brothers as part payment for lands received from the United States Government began to hew a pack trail from the Ohio River at Wheeling to the later site of New Lancaster Ohio through to Chillicothe and on to a point opposite Maysville Kentucky on the Ohio River For a long while this trail called Zane's Trace was the only route connecting Kentucky with the East along it trod many ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Joseph Benson Foraker An Uncompromising Republican By Everett Walters Ohio Governors Series I Columbus Ohio History Press Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1948 xiii 315p illustrations bibliography and index 350 Ohio during the closing decades of the turbulent nineteenth century was in many ways the hub of national politics The state had produced a simply amazing number of legislative giants and private individuals who knew how to stand quietly in ...
... SOURCES FOR OHIO WORLD WAR HISTORY IN THE SOURCES FOR OHIO WORLD WAR HISTORY IN THE PAPERS OF THE FOOD ADMINISTRATION IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES By ALMON R WRIGHT Twenty-one years ago on August 1O 1917 an executive order drafted by a native Ohioan Robert A Taft and signed by President Woodrow Wilson launched the United States upon a gigantic program of food conservation1 Many volumes have been written concerning the military campaigns and the diplomatic entanglements of the period of the great ...
... THE WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY THE WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY By ELBERT J BENTON As the Western Reserve Historical Society has passed the three score and ten commonly allotted as the span of human life having recently celebrated its seventy-fifth birthday it would seem to have attained a respectable age The record however shows that there are twenty-two historical societies in the United States which were founded more than one hundred years ago One who is familiar with the ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies BRECKSVILLE EARLY SETTLERS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Brecksville Mrs Walter S Lister Secretary The society is working on a project to restore the first schoolhouse in Brecksville BUTLER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Hamilton A S Anderson President New officers elected in November are A S Anderson president William E Lakeman vice president Fred Hammerle treasurer and Mrs Henry Kessling secretary pro tem This society was incorporated during the past ...
... THE BEGINNING OF FORMAL DENTAL EDUCATION THE BEGINNING OF FORMAL DENTAL EDUCATION AT BAINBRIDGE OHIO BY EDWARD C MILLS DDS FACD The history of any human endeavor deals with the process of its growth and though its development may be irregular it is a continuous process proceeding from antecedent conditions In this process of evolution it may take on new form and become unlike its former self but continuity retains enough of the old to serve as the basis for tracing subsequent progress ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments awards and retirements within the professional community of Ohio historians include John N Sobczak has replaced Von Hardesty as chairperson at Bluffton College for the 1978-79 academic year and Delbert Gratz is on sabbatical in Switzerland during 1979 at Antioch College Hanna Goldberg has been appointed Interim Executive Dean at the Yellow Springs campus and Irwin Abrams has been elected to the council of the Conference on ...
... THE BEGINNINGS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE THE BEGINNINGS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY By THOMAS N HOOVER Rufus Putman never attended a university but fathered the first institution for higher learning in the Northwest Territory He seldom if ever went to school but contributed much to the cause of education His mother when Rufus was still a small boy inflicted upon him an undesirable domineering illiterate step-father who required the lad to work all day and denied him a ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments Reviews Notes and Comments 557 THE OHIO WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION LAW Since the publication of the QUARTERLY for January 1920 frequent complaints have been made by the representatives of one of the dominant political parties in regard to the article entitled The Ohio Workmen's Compensation Law It has been charged that the author of that article Mr Mengert is a partisan that he has not stated fairly the leading facts in regard to the attitude of prominent public men ...
... LAND GRANTS FOR EDUCATION IN THE OHIO LAND GRANTS FOR EDUCATION IN THE OHIO VALLEY STATES BY CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF In the discussion of the subject at hand I find I am con fronted with three very positive limitations First because the story of land grants for education is one that even the most investigating historian can find but little new general material upon which to write Second the program committee has wisely limited the time in which the subject may be presented However laudable this ...
... TOM L TOM L JOHNSON by ROBERT H BREMNER Instructor in History Ohio State University In 1901 the voters of Cleveland Ohio chose as their mayor a resourceful and unconventional man newly retired from a successful business career who was the best known American follower of Henry George Tom L Johnson remained in office for eight exciting and enlightening years Born in 1854 into an aristocratic southern family which was impoverished during the Civil War Johnson had to go to work while still a child ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The 38th Annual Missouri Valley History Conference will be held in Omaha Nebraska March 9-11 1995 For information about the conference contact Dale Gaeddert Chair MVHC University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha Nebraska 68182 The 1995 Western Historical Association Meeting will be held October 11-14 1995 in Denver Colorado For details write to the Western History Association University of New Mexico 1080 Mesa Vista Hall Albuquerque New Mexico 87131-1181 or phone ...
... PROCEEDINGS 289 PROCEEDINGS 289 The guest speaker of the day was Mr Wilbur D Peat director of the John Herron Art Institute of Indianapolis who spoke on the subject The Museum and Library in Modern Education parts of which follow The place that the museums and public libraries occupy in contemporary life is so well known to curators and librarians that any further comment is unnecessary and instead of reviewing their achievements for you here I would prefer to point out certain dangers that ...
... B O O K R E V I E W S PROGRESSIVISM IN OHIO 1897-1917 By Hoyt Landon Warner Columbus Ohio State University Press for the Ohio Historical Society 1964 xiii 556p bibliography and index 1000 In 1914 Ohio cities under-represented in the state legislature by design and careful calculation were under the control and sway of what Newton D Baker called the rustic garland that makes a member from Pike County our sovereign A half century later Ohio cities in 1964 are still under-represented--but ...
... DOCUMENTS DOCUMENTS A LETTER FROM GREENE COUNTY OHIO DECEMBER 28 1817 Among recent acquisitions to the Manuscript and Archives collections in the Library of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is the following letter which describes pioneer conditions in Greene County Ohio in the year 1817 The letter was addressed to Nathan Fisher Mendon Worcester County Massachusetts and was postmarked at Xenia December 31 It evidently reached its destination January 18 1818 The postage was ...
... OHIO BATTLE FLAGS OHIO BATTLE FLAGS REPORT OF COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO PROVIDE FOR PLACING THE FLAGS IN THE ROTUNDA OF THE STATE CAPITOL House Bill No 247 AN ACT To provide for the display of the battle flags now in the possession of the state in the rotunda of the state house WHEREAS There are now in the relic room of the state the battle flags carried by the sons of Ohio from 1861 to 1865 which flags are the most precious possessions of the state and WH EREA S Their present location is ...
... HARDING ADMINISTRATION HARDING ADMINISTRATION AND RECOGNITION OF MEXICO by EUGENE P TRANI A long period of turmoil in Mexico temporarily came to an end in December 1920 with the assumption of the presidency by General Alvaro Obregon It thus seemed to be a ripe time for the reopening of diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States and settlement of American claims against the Mexican government President Woodrow Wilson however by this time in his lame-duck period in office reacted ...