... GUILLOTIN THINKS OF AMERICA GUILLOTIN THINKS OF AMERICA By JOHN FRANCIS MCDERMOTT Among the many Frenchmen who came under the influence of Benjamin Franklin and American ideas in the last quarter of the eighteenth century not the least interesting was Joseph Ignace Guillotin His project for a colony in the Ohio Valley came to nothing because the disastrous adventure that befell the advance party discouraged and frightened the families he had planned to lead there but though the colony did not ...
... ROBERT CUMMING SCHENCK FIRST CITIZEN AND ROBERT CUMMING SCHENCK FIRST CITIZEN AND STATESMAN OF THE MIAMI VALLEY by FRED B JOYNER Professor of History Miami University In 1937 in a radio address celebrating Founders Day of Miami University President A H Upham called attention to the fact that the university had sent two ambassadors to the Court of St James Whitelaw Reid was one Robert Cumming Schenck was the other The work of the former is well known The career of Schenck is less well known A ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments Reviews Notes and Comments 151 JOHN DANA On the morning of September 20 1926 John Dana a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society died at his home in Belpre Ohio The news of his death brought sorrow to friends in his home town and in Parkersburg where for many years he had business and social affiliations About a year previous to his death he gave up his business connections with the Dana Company Wholesale Grocers due to failing health Of ...
... EARLY INTERNSHIPS IN ST EARLY INTERNSHIPS IN ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL-- A REMINISCENCE by H M PLATTER MD In September 1889 I enrolled in Starling Medical College with Dr Thomas C Hoover as my preceptor I had already completed three years of preliminary education at Ohio Wesleyan University Dr Hoover was professor of surgery at the college and the visiting surgeon to St Francis Hospital At the conclusion of my freshman year the first house physician or intern was appointed for St Francis and the ...
... THE PUBLIC AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY THE PUBLIC AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY by SAVOIE LOTTINVILLE Director University of Oklahoma Press It has been said that if you scratch a historian you will surely find an author There is scarcely a discipline in America today as productive as history--and I do not exclude even the sciences whose cosmic chill seems to work inversely enkindling the imagination of mankind the more as the outlook for the future becomes the less Perhaps it is because the record ...
... 212 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 212 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY stalled Lithic Laboratory and assisted generally in routine duties in the Museum The Department of Natural History completed the rearrangement of the bird and mammal study collections conducted work on a series of distribution maps on orthoptera and Ohio mammals collected more than 10000 specimens of Ohio insects received numerous accessions of birds mammals reptiles amphibia and insects from ...
... K K AUSTIN KERR The Movement for Coal Mine Safety in Nineteenth-Century Ohio In the nineteenth century Ohioans as other Americans faced a host of new situations arising from the industrial revolution As the level of industrial production increased unique forms of occupational organization emerged which often confronted workers or the public with unaccustomed hazards creating demands that government begin regulating the affairs of private industry By the 1860s state government began addressing ...
... R R DOUGLAS HURT Ohio Agriculture Since World War II The atomic bombs which exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 not only ended the Second World War but they also marked the beginning of a new age Thereafter life was never quite the same as it had been prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor Indeed fundamental change spurred by wartime industrialization and economic need characterized American life after the war The history of Ohio agriculture since World War II is the story of ...
... ESSAY AND COMMENT 49 ESSAY AND COMMENT 49 The True Profile of the Harding administration will emerge only as the new historiography is joined with a modification of the old DAVID H JENNINGS Professor of History Ohio Wesleyan University ESSAY AND COMMENT Oral History in Ohio During the past half century as the telephone and computer are replacing the personal letter and the telegraph a new era in historical research is emerging No longer does the detailed letter serve as the major source of ...
... SEED HUMBUGGERY AMONG THE WESTERN FARMERS SEED HUMBUGGERY AMONG THE WESTERN FARMERS 1850-1888 by EARL W HAYTER Professor of Social Sciences Northern Illinois State Teachers College The development of American agriculture as it unfolded from the pioneer subsistence level to that of a diversified enterprise was marked by the general characteristic of change-change from old practices to new ones There were several factors responsible for this inconstancy one of which was a growing necessity for ...
... LETTERS OF SENATOR H LETTERS OF SENATOR H B PAYNE OF OHIO CONTRIBUTED BY DUANE MOWRY MILWAUKEE WIS The original of the following letters are in the possession of the contributor They treat of interesting political events interesting particularly to residents of the Buckeye state and to students of the history of the Middle West They would seem to have something more than passing significance because of the prominence of the author of them and of the public men and public measures considered It ...
... AN EARLY PROPOSAL FOR A STATE AN EARLY PROPOSAL FOR A STATE POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL BY ROSCOE H ECKELBERRY Assistant Professor Dept of History of Education Ohio State University The proposal by Governor Ethan Allen Brown of Ohio on January 8 1819 for the establishment of a state polytechnic school must have been one of the earliest in this country The early governors of Ohio like those of many of the other states were far ahead of the legislatures in their educational vision and their conviction of ...
... HISTORICAL ORGANIZATIONS IN OHIO HISTORICAL ORGANIZATIONS IN OHIO Allen County Historical and Archaeological Society Lima James A MacDonell President Mrs H B Longsworth Secretary Alliance Historical Society Alliance Mrs Fred Donaldson President Ashland County Historical Society Ashland William A Duff Secretary Association for the Study of Negro Life and History Columbus William F Savoy State Director Barnesville History Club Barnesville Francis H Hibbard President Bezaleel Wells Historical ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA BY BERTHA E JOSEP H SON Since the last summary this department has accomplished a general check-up on accessioned and unaccessioned manuscript materials with an interfiling of collections in the manuscript vaults so that all collections cataloged and uncataloged are now filed in one alphabetical arrangement Temporary cards were made for the uncataloged collections and these are now in the Manuscript Catalog This was done to simplify housing of collections and ...
... 542 Ohio Arch 542 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Mr Simpson has had three able assistants physically strong and industrious who have done much of the heavy work involved in moving the newspaper files and keeping them in order with no expense to the Society except that in furnishing to each of these workers one meal a day He has gotten along harmoniously and pleasantly with these assistants and from this source has succeeded in getting a service that would have cost the Society ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments Reviews Notes and Comments 559 He was a Kentuckian by birth and his daughter became the wife of George D Prentice the gifted editor and writer of Louisville Kentucky HONORS AWARDED TO OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY MEN The following announcement in a local paper is of general interest We are pleased to note that our state archaeologist is included in the honor roll Membership in the Ohio State University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa honorary scholastic fraternity has been ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORTS Due to the fact that the annual meetings of the various Ohio educational conferences usually held the first week in April and the meetings of the Columbus Genealogical Society and the Committee on Medical History and Archives were not held this year the annual History Conference was cancelled for 1943 and arrangements were made only for the annual business meeting of the Society scheduled ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA HISTORY OF THE MAUMEE RIVER BASIN There has just appeared from the press of Bowen amp Slocum Indianapolis and Toledo a History of the Maumee River Basin from the earliest account to its organization into counties The author is Dr Charles Elihu Slocum a life member of the Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society he has contributed many interesting and valuable articles to its Quarterly and for many years has been an indefatigable and enthusiastic student of ...
... MATTHEW OYOS MATTHEW OYOS The Mobilization of the Ohio Militia in the Civil War Fort Sumter's fall in April 1861 broke like a thunderclap over Ohio Overnight fervent patriotism replaced months of indecision regarding Southern secession When President Abraham Lincoln called for 75000 militia on April 15 thousands of enthusiastic Ohioans rushed forward Among this mass the state's militia played an important role in the first weeks of mobilization At the heights of state government officials ...
... MARIETTA COLLEGE AND THE OHIO COMPANY MARIETTA COLLEGE AND THE OHIO COMPANY A Review of Professor Arthur G Beach's History BY WAYNE JORDAN A college history that is also an outstanding contribution to the general historical literature of Ohio has been published in connection with the 100th anniversary of the present charter of Marietta College and the 138th of the founding of Muskingum Academy The book is entitled A Pioneer College--The Story of Marietta1 and was written by Arthur G Beach ...