... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The National Historical Publications and Records Commission is pleased to announce that The Ohio Historical Society is one of more than 10000 institutions and organizations throughout the country participating in the production of a Directory of Repositories of Historical Records The guide which will provide summary information on historical records of all types in as many repositories as possible is expected to include many more institutions than any prior ...
... THE GREAT MAN IN HISTORY THE GREAT MAN IN HISTORY By PAUL F B L OOMHARDT You will agree with me that credit is due Mr Overman and those who have arranged today's program for their alertness in recognizing the centennial of Carlyle's famous dictum The idea for his Hero lectures seems to have taken shape in his mind between February 27 and March 2 1840 The first of this series of addresses is dated Tuesday 5th May 1840 Expanded to about double the size of the lectures the essays appeared in an ...
... SIEUR DE LA SALLE SIEUR DE LA SALLE The Great French Explorer Along the Maumee and Wabash Rivers in the years 1669 and 1670 BY CHARLES E SLOCUM M D PH D DEFIANCE OHIO M Jean Talon Intendant of New France wrote to Louis XIV king of France under date of loth October 1670 that he had dispatched persons of resolution who promise to penetrate further than has ever been done the one to the West and to the Northwest of Canada and the others to the South West and South Paris Document I New York ...
... 424 Ohio Arch 424 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications federacy at the opening of the Civil War He remained in Kansas and continued steadfast in his devotion to the union of the states He died August 14 1864 WILSON SHANNON Wilson Shannon was born in Belmont County Ohio in 1 80 2 He was graduated from the Ohio University at Athens and Transylvania University Kentucky He began the practice of law at St Clairsville Ohio in 1835 He was governor of Ohio from December 13 1838 to December I6 1840 ...
... RUTH BORDIN RUTH BORDIN A Baptism of Power and Liberty The Women's Crusade of 1873-1874 Throughout the winter of 1873 and 1874 a grass roots women's temperance crusade swept through Ohio the Midwest and parts of the East Thousands of women marched in the streets prayed in saloons and organized their own temperance societies in hundreds of towns and cities of the American heartland The Crusade had an immense impact on these women Cut loose from the quiescence and public timidity that was their ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Abolitionists amp the South 1831-1861 By Stanley Harrold Lexington The University of Kentucky Press 1995 x 245p illustrations notes bibliography index 2995 Did the struggle to end slavery cause the Civil War Twentieth-century theories of the war from Charles Beard's economic interpretation to the currently fashionable cultural split between North and South have relegated abolitionist radicals to the sidelines as a causative factor in the war and by implication ...
... CARL M CARL M BECKER Newspapers in Battle The Dayton Empire and the Dayton Journal During the Civil War Throughout the Civil War as Union armies fought and bled Northern newspapers opposing and supporting the Lincoln administration engaged in a war of words that sometimes triggered violence on the home front Especially in the Middle West the Peace Democrats or Copperheads as these ultra-conservative Democrats came to be known employed the press for a continuing assault on Lincoln and his ...
... Mills Maryland disrupted his speech by steaming a whistling locomotive back and forth past his platform At times the hostility of his Pennsylvania opponents led to extreme measures Near 16 National Intelligencer July 23 1840 Bear Life and Travels 60-70 17 Axe June 25 1840 National Intelligencer September 26 1840 Niles' Register September 26 1840 Bear Life and Travels 70-80 18 Bear Life and Travels 90 Cleveland Herald October 30 1840 John W ...
... SOME UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN CULTURAL ANSOME UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY1 By JOHN GILLIN Cultural anthropology is a comparatively old branch of learning if we mean by it the contemplation of the objects of material culture and a vague awareness of strange customs The Babylonians of the time of Hammurabi are said to have had museums of artifacts recovered from the Sumerians and the Greeks notably Herodotus evinced a lively interest in the customs of barbarians It is only during ...
... Historical News Historical News THE OHIO-INDIANA AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION held its fall meeting at Kent State University on November 7 1959 Papers were read at the morning session on Clarence Darrow and the American Literary Tradition Abe C Ravitz of the department of English Hiram College Communal Societies on the American Frontier Hallock C Raup of the department of geography Kent State and Magazine Fiction Image or Mirage William Coyle of the department of English Wittenberg University ...
... History in the study and iin the schools by HENRY R WINKLER Like so many college students in our time we historians have been going through an identity crisis of our own Who are we Where are we going Why do we do what we do What is its purpose Is it worth the trouble Why And so on And so on Most of us to be sure manage to avoid thinking about the rationale of our subject most of the time Our work is interesting We are absorbed in it When we teach we receive some stimulation from our students ...
... 255 255 GENERAL ARTHUR ST CLAIR The Columbus Dispatch contained the following editorial in its issue of April 5 1934 Tuesday was the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of a man closely connected with the early history of Ohio whose life was a pitiable tragedy--Gen Arthur St Clair governor of the Northwest Territory when Ohio formed the body of it He was born in Scotland April 3 1734 and came to America in his young manhood With ability as a soldier he served with the British forces in ...
... 272 Ohio Arch 272 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications General George Florence and Mr Clarence D Laylin who were declared duly elected Trustees for the term of three years It was stated that the Committee on Cooperation with Ohio State University had no report to make On motion the meeting recessed to 130 P M AFTERNOON MEETING The meeting was called to order by President Arthur C Johnson who stated It is with mingled feelings that I stand before you this afternoon a humble successor to the ...
... 1902 to 1912 he was one of Johnson's key aides in the famous street railway controversy which had as its goals municipal control and lower fares He aided also in the effort to derive additional revenue for the city by reassessment of railroads and utilities As mayor of Cleveland 1912-1916 after the defeat and death of Johnson Baker won the admiration of Progressives for his personal integrity and the maintenance of Cleveland's reputation as ...
... Adena Hopewellian Adena features below the Adena mound the maize was Adena component rather than Hopewellian or Late Woodland hopefully he will be the last Editorially the volume gets very high marks standing head and shoulders above such comparable symposia volumes published previously ...
... Mills then one of Akron's foremost industries Later he operated a berry farm In recent years he has lived a retired life in his comfortable home at 152 N Portage Path Akron He leaves a widow Mrs Alice M Brown formerly Miss Alice Pettit a son by a former marriage Gerald H Brown a veteran of the War with Spain who lives at 182 Maplecliff Drive Lakewood Ohio and three grandchildren JOHN BROWN HOME IN AKRON The house in which John Brown lived for ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Peace Heroes in Twentieth-Century America Edited and with an Introduction by Charles DeBenedetti Bloomington Indiana University Press 1986 276p illustrations notes index 2250 The publication of this book serves to remind us of the great loss the historical profession suffered in the death of Charles DeBenedetti at so young an age An edited work with eight chapters written by various authors it is a book that should have a large readership both inside and outside the ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Ohio Pottery and Glass Marks and Manufacturers By Lois Lehner Des Moines Iowa Wallace-Homestead Books 1978 113p illustrations notes bibliography A useful updating of John Ramsay's 1947 check list of Ohio potteries with additional material on Ohio glass manufacturers this work contains brief company histories arranged alphabetically by town or city and accompanied by reproductions of known ware marks The bibliography indicates an uneven utilization of available material ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Society members might be interested in adding this information to their list of little known facts During 1895 this Society did not publish Ohio History's predecessor The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly but instead subsidized a two-year-old journal published in Waterloo Indiana The Archaeologist The publication moved to Columbus Ohio and for the next nine monthly issues it became the official organ of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The State History Day Contest for Ohio will be held in Cleveland on Saturday May 16 1981 at the Western Reserve Historical Society and Case Western Reserve University To qualify for the sixth annual state event 6th through 12th grade students throughout Ohio will compete in one of eleven district contests Students may compete in one of the following categories individual paper individual or group projects and individual or group performances on the junior ...