... Editorialana Editorialana 119 BLENNERHASSET REDIVIVUS The Century for July 1901 contains an article by Therese Blennerhassett Adams on The True Story of Harman Blennerhassett The author very briefly recites the history of the Blennerhassetts who built that magnificent mansion on the historic island in the Ohio near Belpre in the year 1798 The article is valuable historically as authentically stating that the main if not sole cause of the departure from Ireland and emigration to America of the ...
... 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 ...
... 136 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 136 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY tainly have an interest in historical background I hope that each of these papers will be deposited with the secretary of this section and I want to say that from what I have heard we will want to publish as nearly all of them as possible I would like to have at least abstracts so that in the course of the year we can carry this out and make the discussions a matter of record The Ohio State ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 551 Academy of Sciences and a contributor to the organ of that body During his years of study and field explorations Mr Brown assembled a large collection of Geological and Archaeological specimens A few years before his death he presented to the Bellbrook High School where as a youth he had been a pupil his Geological collection and a few years previously gave his Archaeological collection to the Museum of the O S A and H Society On May 23 1861 in St Barnabas Church ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Delaware Culture Chronology By Vernon Kinietz Prehistory Research Series Vol III No 1 Indianapolis Indiana Historical Society 1946 143p In this study the author offers a significant report of the development of an extensive body of historical data concerning a single tribal culture and the application of a systematic use of that data in a field investigation of the surviving culture today The tribe investigated was the Delaware The problem studied was the process of ...
... BOOK REVIEWS FRONTIER AMERICAN LITERATURE AND THE AMERICAN WEST By Edwin Fussell Princeton N J Princeton University Press 1965 xvi450p introduction and index 850 This is a stimulating though highly speculative book In the preface Fussell explains he offers it as an example of imaginative historiography a method of writing history in which facts are used merely as emblems to illustrate the theme His procedure seems somewhat similar to that employed in Increase Mather's Divine Providences in ...
... TEXTILE FABRICS FROM THE BURIAL MOUNDS OF TEXTILE FABRICS FROM THE BURIAL MOUNDS OF THE GREAT EARTHWORK BUILDERS OF OHIO By CHARLES C WILLOUGHBY A brief description of the various types of primitive weaving shown in the cloth from the burial mounds of the great earthwork builders of Ohio will help materially to a clearer understanding of the early pre-loom stages of the textile art in general which probably passed through a similar evolution in certain other parts of the world Primitive ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Manuscript Sources in the Library of Congress for Research on the American Revolution Compiled by John R Sellers Gerard W Gawalt Paul H Smith and Patricia Molen van Ee Washington DC Library of Congress 1975 iii 372 p indexes 870 The Library of Congress is many things to many people a legislative library a leader in the introduction of new library techniques the world's largest depository of written materials and the custodian of internationally significant collections ...
... 126 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 126 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY during the past year Mr Johnson President Mr Eagleson First VicePresident Mr Lindley Secretary and Mr Miller Treasurer be reelected for the coming year and that the secretary be instructed to cast the ballot for their re-election This motion seconded by Mr Spetnagel was unanimously approved Mr Johnson asked that the secretary draft letters to the two retiring members of the Board of Trustees Mr ...
... REMARKS OF I REMARKS OF I N STURTEVANT DD I HAV E an ambition to speak on this occasion I wish to make a statement in the line of what has been said to-day which it may be bold for me to make and yet there is a fire in my bones that will not let me rest unless I make it I have looked to-day on the cemeteries here the burial places of the Indians-nothing left of these but the monuments of their day the cemetery where sleep the dead the soldier heroes of four wars and somehow filled as I have ...
... EXPLORATION OF THE HOPEWELL GROUP OF EXPLORATION OF THE HOPEWELL GROUP OF PREHISTORIC EARTHWORKS PREFATORY The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society's examination of the Hopewell Group of Prehistoric Earthworks if set down in detail would more than fill the allotted space and yet such a report without some mention of two former partial explorations would lack much of being a complete story Moreover should anything like a full review of previous explorations be included the resultant ...
... 134 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 134 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Public Session of the Ohio Committee on Medical History and Archives 200 P M April 7 Ohio State Museum Library Jonathan Forman Presiding The public session of the Ohio Committee on Medical History and Archives was called to order by Dr Jonathan Forman its chairman at 2 00 P M o n April 7 1939 in the Library of the Museum The program was concerned with The Pioneer Physicians of Ohio Their Lives and ...
... MINUTES OF MINUTES OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Columbus Ohio April 7 1951 The Ohio Academy of History met in Columbus April 7 at 1000 A M with Dr Raymond W Bixler of Ashland College in the chair Grover C Platt of Bowling Green State University opened the morning session with a discussion of The Civilization Course in the Ohio College History Curriculum and Frederick B Joyner of Miami University spoke on The Basic American History Course in Ohio Colleges Donald R Tuttle of Fenn College ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS BUCYRUS CENTENNIAL The centennial of the city of Bucyrus Ohio was most appropriately celebrated in a program of exercises extending from October 2 to 5 1921 There were addresses by Honorable Harry L Davis Governor of Ohio Honorable Hugh L Nichols former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio Honorable Benson W Hough Judge of the Supreme Court Mrs Frank H Alfred great-granddaughter of Samuel Norton one of the founders of Bucyrus Nevin O ...
... KRISTE LINDENMEYER KRISTE LINDENMEYER Saving Mothers and Babies The Sheppard-Towner Act in Ohio 1921-1929 In 1985 the year for which the latest statistics are available 106 American babies died for every 1000 live births in the United States This is a dramatic improvement over the country's 1921 infant mortality rate of 76 per 1000 but as in 1921 the United States' rate continues to compare poorly with many other industrialized countries In 1921 the United States rate ranked seventeenth out of ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 313 Reviews Notes and Comments 313 conditions at the time he said I am not surprised at the action of the United States government Slavery is now recognized as morally and economically wrong but at the time of the Harper's Ferry raid it was legalized by the United States and the State of Virginia It is generally admitted now that the blow at Harper's Ferry hastened the outbreak of the Civil War which brought slavery to an end in the United States John Brown's ...
... edited by edited by MARVIN R ZAHNISER John W Bricker Reflects Upon the Fight for the Bricker Amendment John W Bricker long a prominent name in the politics of Ohio and the United States will forever be known to students of American history as the author of a proposed amendment to the Constitution1 Popularly called the Bricker Amendment this Senate Joint Resolution was first introduced on September 14 1951 as Senate Joint Resolution 102 Following extensive consultation Senate hearings and much ...
... OHIO'S GERMAN-LANGUAGE PRESS AND THE PEACE OHIO'S GERMAN-LANGUAGE PRESS AND THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS BY CARL WITTKE Instructor in American History Ohio State University Long before the conclusion of the armistice all of Ohio's German-language newspapers that had survived the trials and stress of the first years of the war had completed their strategic retreat from a position of open pro-Germanism to one of unswerving loyalty to the cause of America At the beginning of the war it was perhaps to ...
... 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 ...
... John Hay in London 1897-1898 John Hay in London 1897-1898 By Louis MARTIN SEARS The mission of John Hay to London 1897-98 was among the most successful in his country's annals Time and the man had met The Venezuelan incident happily was past leaving few scars The Boer War while looming larger as a portent had not yet terminated Britain's golden age yet forces were already casting the diplomacy of Great Britain and America as well into a new mold The two leaders of the Anglo-Saxon world ...