... DOUGLAS V DOUGLAS V SHAW Interurbans in the Automobile Age The Case of the Toledo Port Clinton and Lakeside From the first decade of the twentieth century until the early 1930s electric interurban railways connected almost all Ohio towns and villages of more than 5000 population With its numerous cities and market towns within reasonable proximity of one another prosperous agriculture and generally favorable topography everywhere but in the southeast Ohio provided ideal territory for ...
... 582 Ohio Arch 582 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications We now have a driveway leading from the main entrance passing through the valley walnut grove over the hillside and through the battlefield returning to the main entrance Respectfully submitted W H ORTT Chairman On motion the report was accepted and ordered placed on file President Campbell called attention to the fact that at the last Annual Meeting the Society passed a resolution complimenting Director W C Mills on his long and ...
... Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association 401 that I know of in Columbus still resting in the old desk where its owner a distinguished scientific man of Ohio left it over thirty years ago still undisturbed unless it be by the prying fingers of curious little grandchildren The men who settled this region preserved the letters received by them and in cases of importance copies of their own letters These should be found published or copied ...
... THE IMPACT OF SCIENCE UPON THE HISTORY THE IMPACT OF SCIENCE UPON THE HISTORY OF OHIO by JOHN S MILLIS President of Western Reserve University I recall that many years ago a teacher informed a class of which I was a member that history was the record of the answers to the questions Who What Where and When Since that time I have learned that history also embraces the answers to the questions of How and Why Further it has been those parts of history which deal with the latter two questions which ...
... MICHAEL J MICHAEL J ANDERSON McCarthyism Before McCarthy Anti-Communism in Cincinnati and the Nation During the Election of 1944 The wave of intense anti-communist sentiment that swept over the United States in the years following the Second World War sometimes called the second red scare1 had a great impact on American society Political debate came to be dominated by the desire of both major parties to appear tough on international communism The political Left historically not a major force ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Oral History Association will hold its 1992 Annual Meeting October 15-18 1992 at the Stouffer Tower City Hotel in Cleveland Ohio Proposals for papers panels media presentations or entire sessions should be sent by December 1 1991 to Donna M DeBlasio Program Chair Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor PO Box 533 Youngstown Ohio 44501 The Black Film CenterArchive at Indiana University-Bloomington is planning a conference entitled In Touch With ...
... Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting 407 Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting 407 various mounds and parks He congratulated the Society on its work and stated this meeting will give him renewed enthusiasm Mr Randall stated that the Historical Commission of Ohio was appointed without legal authority a year ago last January or February by Governor Cox it is simply a committee acting voluntarily The purpose is to gather at once the material and data of the activities of Ohio in connection with the Great War This ...
... DAVID L DAVID L PORTER Ohio Representative John M Vorys and the Arms Embargo in 1939 During the last few years Congress increasingly has favored a reduction in American commitments to foreign nations This action has reversed a long-standing policy of globalism stemming from World War II Congress probably has not witnessed such widespread noninterventionist sentiments since shortly before World War II when the legislative branch refused to repeal the arms embargo or permit munitions sales to ...
... 290 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 290 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY DR WITTKE Are there any further announcements or further business to come before the meeting Then a motion to adjourn will be in order MR MILLER I move that we adjourn This motion was seconded by Mr Fisher and carried ABSTRACT OF THE MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY HELD APRIL 20 1937 The regular annual meeting of the ...
... JOHN M JOHN M WEGNER Partisanship in the Ohio House of Representatives 1900-1911 An Analysis of Roll-Call Voting Students of legislative behavior have long had a penchant for examining the workings of the United States Congress foreign parliaments and other national assemblies They have paid less attention to state legislatures Despite a growing interest in subnational legislative bodies research on state legislatures is still in its infancy1 Lack of attention by historians to this area of ...
... SPECULATIVE INTEREST IN OHIO LANDS IN 1829 SPECULATIVE INTEREST IN OHIO LANDS IN 1829 AS REVEALED IN A LETTER FROM HENRY FARMER TO SAMUEL J BROWNE Edited by WILLIAM D OVERMAN The following letter from Henry Farmer to his brother-in-law Samuel J Browne of Cincinnati affords a detailed account by an observant and well-informed Englishman of the unsettled political economic and social conditions in England just prior to the Era of Reform 18321 The statistical data on the cost of poor relief ...
... EMINENT REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SARGENT EMINENT REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SARGENT FAMILY CHARLES SPRAGUE SARGENT The Sargent family somewhat extensively noted in a previous issue of the QUARTERLY is one of the most continuously and favorably noted in American History The definite genealogy of this family begins with William Sargent who married Mary daughter of Peter Duncan and Mary Epes of Gloucester June 21 1678 The marriage ceremony was performed by Deputy Governor Samuel Symonds of Ipswich ...
... Brand Whitlock's Macochee Brand Whitlock's Macochee Puritan Theo-Politics in the Midwest By ABE C RAVITZ TO BE REGARDED as an American Hardy or an American Turgenev was a lifelong ambition of Brand Whitlock wellknown midwest political figure and diplomat who to his everlasting disappointment failed in his ambitious quest for such literary renown1 Held in high esteem however by political scientists and historians alike for his successful methods in the administration of local government and ...
... THE CINCINNATI LANCET-CLINIC THE CINCINNATI LANCET-CLINIC by DAVID A TUCKER JR MD Professor of the History of Medicine University of Cincinnati The Cincinnati Lancet-Clinic was formed in 1878 by the merger of the Lancet and Observer 1842 with the Clinic 1871 It was known as the Lancet and Clinic until 1888 when the hyphenated title was assumed The Lancet and Observer was founded by L M Lawson in 1842 as the Western Lancet a monthly journal It was issued in Cincinnati under his direction for ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 331 Ryan Columbus O C E Schenk J R Schindel Murray Seasongood Frank H Schaffer D H T Smith Rufus B Smith Dr R W Stewart Thomas T Swift G S Sykes Rev Geo A Thayer Bryant Venable Emerson Venable R O Venable Dr Chas E Walton J W Worthington F B Wiborg J O White Charles B Wilby Joseph Wilby John F Winslow Isidor Wise Paul Wisenall E J Wohlgemuth Everett I Yowell MARTIN DEWEY FOLLETT Judge M D Follett one of the organizers of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical ...
... OHIO IN KNEE PANTS OHIO IN KNEE PANTS by VIRGINIUS C HALL Director Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio Mr Chairman Ladies and Gentlemen Here in Columbus on December 31 1831 there was formed the first historical society west of the mountains That Society the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio later removed to Cincinnati So in coming to Columbus as the representative of that Society I am coming back to the birthplace back to the old home town back to our raising It seemed to ...
... OHIO ARTIST IN AUSTRALIA LIVINGSTON HOPKINS OHIO ARTIST IN AUSTRALIA LIVINGSTON HOPKINS by FREDERICK D KERSHNER JR In times present and past Americans have complained bitterly about the lack of knowledge of the United States revealed by foreigners Commonly they have attributed this ignorance to nationalistic myopia upper-class snobbery intellectual narcissism or a combination of the three One hundred percent Yankees like to supplement their critiques with gratuitous prophecies of impending ...
... THE MANUFACTURE AND USE OF ABORIGINAL THE MANUFACTURE AND USE OF ABORIGINAL STONE IMPLEMENTS PROBABLY no other equal area in the Union has furnished so great a number and variety of the so-called Indian Relics as has been found within the southern half of Ohio and the adjacent portions of Kentucky and West Virginia Although few persons have made any particular study of them curiosity in regard to them is active among all classes and the successful collector often finds life made a burden by ...
... TRAVEL TO CINCINNATI IN 1853 TRAVEL TO CINCINNATI IN 1853 EDITED BY WILLIAM D HOYT JR Writers have described the hardships of travel in the middle of the nineteenth century when railroads were in their infancy but few accounts are as expressive or as vivid as that penned by the Honorable Peter Vivian Daniel Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States while on his way to the Mississippi Valley to hold judicial sessions in his circuit A letter written to his daughter from the ...
... Historical News Historical News The Hayes Memorial Library has recently acquired some small but important additions to its manuscript collections They include papers of H H Morton and Dr George R Morton Sandusky 7 items 1855-77 papers on the election of 1876 5 items letters of Rutherford B Hayes to the Rev L W Bacon 5 letters 1881-82 photostatic copies from Yale University Library additions to the William and Mary B Claflin papers 22 items 1866-89 a letterbook of General H W Benham 1877-82 ...