... CLAUDE MEEKER CLAUDE MEEKER JOURNALIST-DIPLOMAT-GENTLEMAN BY LOWRY F SATER A stranger entering the office of Claude Meeker in his absence would have recognized almost at a glance the unusual qualities that characterized the man The arrangement and completeness of the room evidenced a well-ordered and discriminating mind a love of the beautiful a familiarity with good literature an enthusiasm for outdoor life a wide acquaintanceship with the leading men of the State and nation the elements of a ...
... THE ANTI-GALLOWS MOVEMENT IN OHIO THE ANTI-GALLOWS MOVEMENT IN OHIO By ALBERT POST The criminal codes of colonial America were based on those of England but in the New World where the social structure and traditions were less binding these codes were modified by reducing the number of capital crimes In England during the eighteenth century over two hundred felonies were capital while in the North American colonies the average number was about twelve With the publication in 1764 of the Essay on ...
... EDGAR STILLMAN-KELLEY OHIO COMPOSER EDGAR STILLMAN-KELLEY OHIO COMPOSER By OPHIA D SMITH Among the outstanding men of Ohio is Edgar StillmanKelley the dean of American composers For sixty years he has enriched the musical literature of the world Contemporaneous with Edward McDowell Horatio Parker George Chadwick and Arthur Foote he struggled as they did for recognition in a day when only Europeans could win applause Edgar Kelley was born in Sparta Wisconsin on April 14 1857 the first child ...
... Fortieth Annual Meeting 263 Fortieth Annual Meeting 263 healthy condition even though it carries the scars of the damage caused by storm three years ago The General Gibson Grove that was planted a year ago is growing with few losses and they are being replaced Thousands of people continue to visit this historic old tree annually On October 4th the Ohio History Day Association held its annual meeting at the Park and with most unfavorable weather conditions had more than 3000 people present Mr ...
... REPORT OF COMMITTEES ON HISTORICAL REPORT OF COMMITTEES ON HISTORICAL ACTIVITIES Dr Harlow Lindley read the following report of the Committee on Historical Activities in Ohio which was filed with the other reports for publication in the Quarterly REPORT ON HISTORICAL ACTIVITIES IN OHIO BY HARLOW LINDLEY Chair man Co mm ittee on Cooperation From information at hand it appears that there are about forty local county and regional historical societies now in existence in the State of Ohio Some of ...
... BOOK NOTES BOOK NOTES L IFE JOURNALS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF REV MANASSEH CUTLER LLD By his Grandchildren William Parker Cutler and Julia Perkins Cutler Two volumes Cincinnati Robert Clarke amp Co 1888 The diary correspondence and papers of Dr Cutler ought to throw a flood of light upon many events in the early history of the Northwest and upon the policy of the old Congress in organizing and providing for the settlement of the region beyond the Ohio river Portions of his journals were published ...
... EXPLORATION OF THE GINTHER MOUND EXPLORATION OF THE GINTHER MOUND H C SHETRONE CURATOR OF ARCHAEOLOGY The type of prehistoric tumuli known variously as Temple mounds Platform mounds Truncated mounds and Flat-topped mounds has furnished substance for much speculation in the archaeological literature of Ohio The early attitude of writers on the subject may be summarized in the words of Squier and Davis whose opinion is expressed as follows So far as ascertained they cover no remains and seem ...
... THE LIBERTY PARTY LEADERS OF OHIO EXPONENTS THE LIBERTY PARTY LEADERS OF OHIO EXPONENTS OF ANTISLAVERY COALITION by JOSEPH G RAYBAC K Assistant Professor of American History The Pennsylvania State College If there is one aspect of American history that has received the attention that is its due it is the role of the abolitionist in the antislavery movement The main outlines of the part played by that small semifanatical body of men and women have long been revealed the eternal history of the ...
... EDITORIAL NOTES EDITORIAL NOTES DR I W ANDREWS-At the annual meeting of the Ohio Teachers' Association held at Sandusky June 28 1888 memorial exercises occurred in honor of the late Israel W Andrews Professor M R Andrews read a memorial sketch In it he paid tribute in the highest terms to the many virtues of the deceased scholar and educator His conservative but persistent and hopeful nature his accuracy and painstaking care as a student and instructor his unswerving fidelity to every trust ...
... ADDRESSES BEFORE THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEADDRESSES BEFORE THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY AT MARIETTA APRIL 5 AND 6 IN CONNECTION WITH THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION ANNUAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT F C SESSIONS THE invitation to hold the third annual meeting of this Society in Marietta came with singular appropriateness It is certainly gratifying to those of us who have seen the movement to celebrate this occasion properly to be permitted to participate in these exercises The few ...
... 286 Ohio Arch 286 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications worship It may have been the great religious temple of the mound builders for the Ohio Valley The book gives a full account of the rescue of the mound from destruction by Prof F W Putnam the eminent American archaeologist of Cambridge Mass Professor Putnam succeeded in interesting some worthy and philanthropic ladies of Boston who purchased the property restored it and presented it to the Peabody Museum The latter institution ...
... THE INTRODUCTION OF ANESTHESIA INTO OHIO THE INTRODUCTION OF ANESTHESIA INTO OHIO By HOWARD DITTRICK MD Since the practical application of anesthesia for the relief of dental and surgical pain originated in the United States it is not strange that early Ohio practitioners followed closely along the trails blazed by colleagues in the Eastern States and in foreign centers of science Even the name anesthesia was coined by our own Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes directly following William Thomas Green ...
... PIONEER PHYSICIANS AND THEIR PARTICIPATION PIONEER PHYSICIANS AND THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN OHIO By ROBERT G PATERSON PhD Participation of the pioneer physicians in the establishment of social institutions in Ohio during the period 1788-1835 was sporadic without long term vision and was born of the immediate necessities of the times Almost without exception such participation was confined to a few outstanding medical men They were as a rule men of ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 153 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 153 ing with the connections I must leave behind me but the society of our friends but poorly compensates for the want of a subsistence We have a large circle of little ones dependent on us and I know of no persuit that would give me more pleasure than that of providing an easy Liveing for them Emigration has ever played its part in the making of history and in every land since Moses led his trusting band to the land ...
... EXPLORATION OF THE WRIGHT GROUP OF EXPLORATION OF THE WRIGHT GROUP OF PRE-HISTORIC EARTHWORKS BY H C SHETRONE CURATOR OF ARCHAEOLOGY The Wright Group of Earth-works is located in Perry Township IFran-kli County Ohic one mile northeast of the vill ag e of Dubl in The three uni l s composing the group --a rectangular and two circular enclosures - lie mostly upon the land of Samuel M Wright whose name in recognition of examination privileges and personal assistance accorded by him is hereby given ...
... 302 Ohio Arch 302 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications it to go beyond what is now the confines of Pickaway Township Further the Cresaps of the present are of the opinion that Logan should have been consistent with the words of his message by his attendance at the Treaty when only six miles distant notwithstanding his threatening note of July 1774 to Captain Michael Cresap tied to a War Club and left in the house of Roberts after Logan had massacred the family Also Logan was inconsistent ...
... Minutes of the Fall Business Meeting Minutes of the Fall Business Meeting Of the Ohio Academy of History Tiffin October 12 1956 The fall meeting of the Ohio Academy of History was held at Heidelberg College The president of the Academy Dr Grover C Platt called the business meeting to order and requested Dr Robert W Twyman of Bowling Green to act as temporary secretary for the purpose of taking minutes Thirty persons were present The president called the attention of those assembled to the fact ...
... JESUP W SCOTT AND A WEST OF CITIES by CHARLES N GLAAB Nineteenth-century writing about the meaning of the American westward movement often emphasizes primitive romantic or agrarian sides of this national experience In the West the American casts off the bonds of Old Europe struggles against elemental forces of nature finds republican virtue in the freehold and adopts the values of an agricultural society Scholars justifiably have paid considerable attention to these conceptions themes to be ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 2 53 'Your house is going up on Tuesday If Wadsworth can't raise it Norton will We will meet at Norton Center for a game of base-ball prepared with wagons and horses if warned by one o'clock that we will be wanted Then when we come every Wadsworth man must stand back and see Norton men put up the frame' The same messenger then slyly told the leading men of the whisky party the plan being to bring all Wadsworth to see Norton's triumph The day came Being myself the ...
... Rejoicing in Divine Workmanship Rejoicing in Divine Workmanship 227 REJOICING IN DIVINE WORKMANSHIP Abstract of a sermon preached by the Rev George W Lasher D D editor of the Journal and Messenger Cincinnati Ohio in the First Baptist Church Text Psalm CXLIX 2 Let Israel rejoice in Him that made him let the children of Zion be joyful in their King There are two ways of writing history the one to refer every event to some over-ruling power superior to man and to human agency the other to find ...