... Railroad which Mr Pixton Railroad equally as clearly Railroad by way of Wheeling and the panic of 1857 took a heavy toll The chief misfortunes however sprang from what Mr Pixton calls implacable economic developments namely the rise to economic precedence of northern Ohio and the subsequent eclipse of Cincinnati and St Louis by Chicago Mr ...
... 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 ...
... DIALECT DISTRIBUTION AND SETTLEMENT PATTERNS DIALECT DISTRIBUTION AND SETTLEMENT PATTERNS IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION by ALVA L DAVIS Assistant Professor of English Western Reserve University The study of dialect distribution in the eastern United States and in the secondary settlement areas of the Great Lakes Region has now reached a point where it is possible to show some interesting correlations between the linguistic features and the settlement patterns of these regions It is simple perhaps ...
... LEWIS L LEWIS L GOULD Chocolate Eclair or Mandarin Manipulator William McKinley the Spanish-American War and the Philippines A Review Essay The Spanish War An American Epic-1898 By GJA O'Toole New York W W Norton 1984 447p photographs notes bibliography index 1995 Sitting in Darkness Americans in the Philippines By David Haward Bain Boston Houghton Mifflin 1984 464p notes bibliography index photographs 2495 The Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection that followed were significant ...
... Railroad tracks but more importantly of non-Hungarians living there They were not one immigrant emphasized our people Lower Buckeye 25 Weinberg Hungarian Oral History Tapes These are not rank ordered merely a summary of the comments 26 Samuel Hays The Changing Political Structure of the City in Industrial America Journal of Urban History I November 1974 14-15 provides insight on the selectivity of immigrants' perspectives I did not attempt to ...
... Miami Valley resident Miami country was Miami Country Cincinnati Miami University Library Oxford Ohio 8 Surgeon-General's Office Index-Catalogue of the Library Washington 1891 XII 265 ibid Washington 1909 2 Ser XIV 660 9 Joseph Sabin Dictionary of Books Relating to America New York ...
... A Salvation Army Prelude The Christian A Salvation Army Prelude The Christian Mission in Cleveland Ohio By HERBERT A WISBEY JR At the corner of North Fourth and Oxford streets in Philadelphia a small inconspicuous plaque in the sidewalk declares Here on Sunday October 5 1879 was begun the work of the Salvation Army in the United States Although Philadelphia may be credited as the birthplace of the Salvation Army in America Salvation Army work actually was introduced in the United States at ...
... 304 Ohio Arch 3 04 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications ADDRESS OF GENERAL BRINKERHOFF General Roeliff Brinkerhoff of the Board of Park Commissioners in his address spoke as follows We have met here today to dedicate a monument to one of the earliest and most unselfish of Ohio benefactors His name was John Chapman but to the pioneers he was everywhere known as Johnny Appleseed The field of his operations in Ohio was mainly the valleys of the Muskingum river and its tributaries and his ...
... THE SOCIETY AND THE QUARTERLY THE SOCIETY AND THE QUARTERLY THE past fifteen years have witnessed especially in the United States a striking and continuing zeal for the pursuit of historical study and investigation By the side of the historical student the archaeologist has been pursuing his studies with unflagging energy The evidences of what we may call the new historic spirit are seen on all sides Never before in the history of this country have there been so many specialists pursuing ...
... Miami was closed from Miami Years 1809-1959 New York 1958 134-136 19 Shaw Ohio Manuscript chap 12 pp 1-2 20 Shaw Diary January 16 1874 Mary Shaw Fisher to Shaw April 8 1882 Shaw Family Letters Shaw Manuscripts CORRESPONDENCE OF W H TAFT AND J C HEMPHILL 1 See George E Mowry Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement Madison Wis 1947 Chaps II-VII Henry F Pringle The Life and Times of ...
... Little Big Bruce A Little Big Horn and its defeated colonel In how much more detail do we need to study this battle which after all tells us very little about westward expansion the course of empire or the behavior of man My own interest in the Custer phenomenon concerned the heroic epic that Americans collectively made of the few known ...
... PATRICK F PATRICK F CALLAHAN Women Higher Education and the Home Front Women Students at the University of Cincinnati during World War II As the University of Cincinnati marked the first anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor Dean of Women Katherine Ingle told the women students assembled at the Women's Convocation that We are surrounded by danger but there is also opportunity opportunity such as has come to no other generation of women to no other race of women1 Ingle foresaw the coming ...
... Miami some twenty miles from Cincinnati In 1810 Waldsmith built the second paper mill in Ohio1 As the rest of Ohio was opened for settlement thousands of Germans made their homes in the so-called backbone counties especially Columbiana Stark Wayne Tuscarawas and Holmes Place names that evoked the Old Country abounded Berlin Wirtemberg Saxon Hanover Dresden Osnaburg Frankfurt Spires and Potsdam Singly and in groups the German emigrants ventured ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Early Stockaded Settlements in the Governador New Mexico By Edward Twitchell Hall Jr Columbia Studies in Archaeology and Ethnology Vol II Pt I New York Columbia University Press 1944 96p Illus 200 This is a report of excavations carried on in north-central New Mexico by a joint expedition from Columbia University and the Laboratory of Anthropology Santa Fe New Mexico The purpose of the expedition was to expand our knowledge of the Rosa culture phase the oldest known ...
... LORI D LORI D GINZBERG Women in an Evangelical Community Oberlin 1835-1850 Women and men joined the first coeducational college in order to create both a model Christian community and trained missionaries for the world's enlightenment and regeneration' Oberlin College was not a feminist experiment for the concept of feminism did not truly exist It was an evangelical project in which women were an integral part An understanding of why certain women came to Oberlin and what they found there may ...
... MARIAN J MARIAN J MORTON Temperance Benevolence and the City The Cleveland Non-Partisan Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1874-1900 Here they come now fifty redoubtable and respectable women prayer books in one hand and umbrellas in the others for it looks like rain on this March morning of 1874 in Cleveland Ohio They are striding vigorously down Euclid Avenue headed for the several saloons on Public Square which they intend to close down with their hymns and fervent prayers They are the ...
... Little affirmed that The only truly useful life is one lived in obedience to the will of God and such a life starts with a personal dealing with God about our sins Then as we obey the instructions of God's Word and follow the leading of the Holy Spirit we find that God shapes our affairs and gives purpose and value to our lives84 Through WCRF this notion of ultimate meaning was repeatedly communicated to its listeners 80 Why Conservative ...
... Railroad Co records 1830-1890 1 linear foot Children's International Summer Villages Inc records 1951-1975 6 linear feet Cincinnati Fire Department records 1840-1960 50 linear feet John B Hollister Papers 1920-1977 401 feet and the Civil Defense Collection 1941-1944 10 linear feet The Clark County Historical Society has received the files for the Clark County Probate Court 1818-1919 Recent promotions appointments retirements and leaves within ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Genesis of Dental Education in the United States By Van B Dalton Columbus Spahr amp Glenn c1946 216p illus Visiting foreign lecturers are often heard to remark to their admiring audiences that the United States' only contributions to the culture of the world are the modern bathrooms and the comic strip They would no doubt admit however that they had been guilty of one omission and that is the Art and Science of Modern Dentistry In The Genesis of Dental Education ...
... Historical News Historical News The Alexander Hamilton Bicentennial Commission established by congress in 1954 for the celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of Hamilton's birth in 1957 is pursuing a comprehensive program of memorial exercises publications activities in the field of education and public affairs commemorative exhibitions and the issuance of special coins stamps and medals Its publication program is well under way with Columbia University undertaking to edit and publish a ...