... Reviews Notes and Comments 551 Reviews Notes and Comments 551 house and the first church established in the Ohio Country When this property is improved it is to be transferred to the custody of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society A bill introduced by Honorable Thomas L Calvert of Clark County appropriates 10000 for the purpose of aiding in paying the cost of constructing a monument to General George Rogers Clark and to commemorate the battle of Piqua and birthplace of Tecumseh ...
... 498 Ohio Arch 498 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications clay Coppoc His relationship to the Coppocs may have led Hinton into an error which has been repeated by many subsequent writers Barclay Coppoc however was in Kansas about this time and was closely associated with those who were aiding negroes to escape from Missouri Whether he actually had any part in this particular raid is a question Chaulkley T Lipsey was born at Mount Pleasant Ohio in 1838 Ball came from Springdale Iowa to Kansas ...
... OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS A NEW SERPENT MOUND IN OHIO GEORGE FREDERICK WRIGHT We herewith reproduce with permission from the SeptemberOctober 1908 bi-monthly number of The Records of the Past published at Washington D C an article by the Editor of that publication George Frederick Wright the distinguished traveler scholar and author professor of harmony of sciences and religion Oberlin College Ohio and now President of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 219 Reviews Notes and Comments 219 who lies buried at Bethel will be held in connection with the Grant Memorial Services On the following day April 29 the services will be held at Georgetown Brown County Ohio where Senator Atlee Pomerene will be the principal speaker A detachment of the United States Army will be present on all three occasions accompanied by the Camp Knox Kentucky military band A great many distinguished men and women will be present on all three ...
... THE EXPLORATIONS OF THE EDWIN HARNESS THE EXPLORATIONS OF THE EDWIN HARNESS MOUND WILLIAM C MILLS The Edwin Harness Mound is the largest of the fourteen mounds which are located within the earthworks of the Harness groupl and in close proximity to them and it would equal in dimensions more than all the other mounds of this group combined and perhaps the largest mound in the Scioto Valley proper although not equal in size to the great Hopewell Mound located on the north fork of Paint Creek and ...
... THE STUDY OF HISTORY--A HINDRANCE OR A HELP THE STUDY OF HISTORY--A HINDRANCE OR A HELP IN THE PERFECTING OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION By K C LEEBRICK This statement was made by Nicholas Murray Butler at the 184th Commencement of Columbia University June 1 1938 Ideas and principles as well as kings can abdicate There are many disturbing signs--and not in Europe or in Asia alone--that Democracy is moving in no small measure unconsciously toward abdication The long and steady progress of ...
... CHARLES BURLEIGH GALBREATH CHARLES BURLEIGH GALBREATH BY HENRY C SHETRONE Charles Burleigh Galbreath--1858-1934 A simple statement this of itself but on second thought it becomes much more than a mere epitaph For a human life to span three-quarters of a century is sufficiently unusual but when the life of a Charles Burleigh Galbreath parallels the most remarkable threequarter century period the world has known the result is epochal Time of itself like an unheard sound in the wilderness means ...
... VERNON L VERNON L VOLPE Benjamin Wade's Strange Defeat Benjamin Wade is known to countless thousands of undergraduates as Bluff Ben a grim outspoken advocate of equal justice for freed Southern slaves The memorable but not completely flattering portrait of Wade found in most college textbooks sometimes obscures the prominent part the Ohio Senator played in national politics during the great crisis of the Civil War and Reconstruction A leading radical Republican he chaired the powerful Joint ...
... 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 DEBT OF THE STATE OF OHIO FROM THE DEBT OF THE STATE OF OHIO FROM 1900 TO 1938 INCLUSIVE By HENRY F WALRADT One method of raising money with which to make governmental expenditures is to issue bonds or certificates of indebtedness The record of the State Government of Ohio during the twentieth century as to debt may well be studied in this day when so many political units too recklessly meet their present desire or need for revenue by the easy expedient of going into debt At the beginning ...
... JOSEPH E JOSEPH E WEINLAND REBUILDER OF SCHOENBRUNN BY ROBERT M WILKIN Our meeting tonight is occasioned by the departure of our president from our community and his resignation as president of this Association and chairman of the Schoenbrunn Committee The purpose of the meeting is to take account of his services and express our gratitude for what he has done and what he has been We meet as historians and retrospection is the business of historians Historians look back through the years put ...
... 102 Ohio Arch 102 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications was introduced by Mr Burdell and asked to invoke the Divine blessing REVEREND NAPHTALI LUCCOCK Our Father's God from out whose hand The centuries fall like grains of sand We stand in this sunlit hour of privilege with grateful hearts for the splendid inheritance thou hast given us in the midst of the years We thank thee for the happy memories which crowd our hearts and for the great opportunities which open before us Put thy blessing ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR Ohio Art and Artists By Edna Maria Clark MA Richmond Garrett and Massie pp XIII 509 750 In the second paragraph of this attractive interesting and informing volume the author Mrs Clark makes the following statement The need of a volume of this kind was brought forcefully to the author's attention during an eight-year period of service as chairman of art for the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs when club women made frequent ...
... OHIO'S ONLY WITCHCRAFT CASE OHIO'S ONLY WITCHCRAFT CASE BY ALBERT DOUGLAS The following report of a quaint and amusing case tried some one hundred years ago in Gallia County was originally published in the Scioto Gazette of Chillicothe The young lawyers who opposed one another in the trial afterwards became distinguished in the legal and political annals of Ohio Samuel F Vinton the then Prosecuting Attorney of Gallia County was born of Revolutionary stock at Lynn Massachusetts September 25 ...
... The Allen County Historical Museum The Allen County Historical Museum By ROBERT C WHEELER An Allen County dream is about to become a reality Late in 1955 the new Allen County Historical Museum will open to the public an event long awaited in and around Lima Few cities in the country can boast such facilities for preserving and interpreting their past The new museum will have in addition to ample exhibit space an auditorium seating 225 a local history library and a thirty-car parking area ...
... OPENING REMARKS OPENING REMARKS by JOHN W BENNE TT On behalf of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and the Ohio State University I want to welcome you all to this first meeting of the organization tentatively entitled Ohio Valley Historic Indian Conference Our discussions today will be general rather than specific a matter of viewpoints and perspectives of the three disciplines represented in the meeting--archaeology ethnohistory and history We hope this will be the ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA EXHIBIT AT ST LOUIS Few exhibits in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St Louis attract more interest than that of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society excellently located in the Anthropological Building The Society is certainly to be congratulated upon the success of its exhibit and the commendations it has received from archaeological students and scholars who visit it and give it patient attention There is no presentation of the remains of the ...
... 644 Ohio Arch 644 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications NECROLOGY Since the last Annual Meeting of the Society five alphabetically arranged lists of our membership have been prepared and mailed to members in various parts of the state with a request that the Secretary be notified of the death of any member A card-index list of the members has also been prepared for the use of the President During the year the Society lost by death the following members LIFE MEMBERS Mr A M Woolson Toledo Ohio ...
... THE SCOTCH-IRISH IN CENTRAL OHIO THE SCOTCH-IRISH IN CENTRAL OHIO by WILLIAM L FISK JR Associate Professor of History Muskingum College Historical appraisals of the contributions of various ethnic elements to the growth of American culture have seldom denied recognition to the Scotch-Irish The cutting edge of the frontier they rarely hesitated to assume the vanguard of the westward movement and made it impossible for the writer of history to ignore them deplore their unrefined individualism ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Diaries of George Washington Edited by Donald Jackson Charlottesville The University Press of Virginia 1976 Vol I 1748-65 v 373p Vol II 1766-70 xvi 374p illustrations maps notes bibliography index 1500 each These two volumes mark the beginning of the most massive historical editing project in the nation's history-the writings of George Washington At the same time they represent the acme in the efforts of the National Historical Papers and Records Commission's ...