... DR DR ALVA CURTIS IN COLUMBUS THE THOMSONIAN RECORDER AND COLUMBUS' FIRST MEDICAL SCHOOL By JONATHAN FORMAN M D In 1769 in the town of Astead New Hampshire was born one Samuel Thomson He lived and grew up as a farmer's son He became a keen observer of men and things He was particularly interested in all that he could learn about the healing art He was entirely self-taught and he learned from the Indians about him from the old women who were handy with the sick and from the medical books ...
... OHIO'S HISTORY IN THE PLACE OF OUR OHIO'S HISTORY IN THE PLACE OF OUR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Abstract of an Address by HON JOHN W BRICKER Governor John W Bricker in an excellent address which unfortunately had not been reduced to a manuscript closed the program of the Convention It brought out the great historical significance of the Maumee Valley in relation to the United States He said that few events in our American history had more effect upon the country's welfare than the defense of Fort ...
... edited by edited by THOMAS E HACHEY Cincinnati Through English Spectacles A British Diplomat's Confidential View in 1945 In the months immediately following the Second World War British consuls stationed throughout the United States forwarded to the London Foreign Office a substantial number of telegrams memoranda and dispatches regarding the climate of American opinion toward England What Winston Churchill had called the Grand Alliance seemed in the judgment of many of these diplomats to be ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Ohio University Press is launching a new series of books to commemorate Ohio's two-hundredth anniversary in 2003 The Ohio Bicentennial Series will provide the public scholars and students with a comprehensive picture of the development of Ohio life Ten books are planned for the series tentative titled include Transportation in Ohio Documentary Heritage of Ohio Women in Ohio History Indigenous Peoples of Ohio Vernacular Architecture of Ohio Governors of Ohio ...
... EXCAVATION OF THE COON MOUND AND AN EXCAVATION OF THE COON MOUND AND AN ANALYSIS OF THE ADENA CULTURE E F GREENMAN CURATOR OF ARCHAEOLOGY EXCAVATION OF THE COON MOUND AND AN EXCAVATION OF THE COON MOUND AND AN ANALYSIS OF THE ADENA CULTURE TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Introductory Note 369 General Features of the Coon Mound 370 Contents of the Mound 375 The Burial 375 The Tomb 379 The Gravel Circle 387 The Horizontal Log-Molds 392 The Passage 397 Reconstruction 4 00 Conclusion 408 The Adena ...
... 240 Ohio Arch 240 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications to him of vouchers approved by the supervisor of public printing and the adjutant general E J HOPPLE Speaker of the House of Representatives EARL D BLOOM President of the Senate Passed March 21 1917 Approved March 30 1917 JAMES M Cox Governor Filed in office of Secretary of State April 2 1917 SPEECH OF GOV FRANK B WILLIS UPON THE OCCASION OF THE REMOVAL OF THE BATTLE FLAGS TO THE ROTUNDA OF THE CAPITOL This is an inspiring spectacle The ...
... INDEX TO THE MINUTES OF THE FORTYINDEX TO THE MINUTES OF THE FORTYFOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Annual meeting Discussion on notificaEaton Starling L 624 tion of 634 Fallen Timbers Battlefield of 630 Archaeology Department of 623 Archaeology Department of 623 First suggestion of change in name of Armstrong Jeremiah 617 Society 626 Society 626 Armstrong Minter 617 Armstrong Minter 617 Fitch engine ...
... THE ARCHAIC CULTURES AND THE ADENA PEOPLE THE ARCHAIC CULTURES AND THE ADENA PEOPLE by WILLIAM S WEBB Head Department of Anthropology University of Kentucky The Early Hunters Early man in America cannot boast a record of great antiquity There is no evidence to suggest his development from more primitive ancestors in very ancient times as is the case of man's record in the Old World Early man in America was a migrant coming to this continent from Siberia as a hunter of big game some time ...
... Remarks of Gov Remarks of Gov James E Campbell 161 REMARKS OF GOVERNOR JAMES E CAMPBELL It was a long-deferred pleasure one year ago on the 19th of October to make my first visit here I learned after arriving that it was an auspicious day being the ninety-ninth anniversary of the landing upon the banks of yonder river of the little band of French settlers who founded this handsome and flourishing city During an address to the people who gathered on that occasion to hear the political ...
... ROBERT B ROBERT B FAIRBANKS Housing the City The Better Housing League and Cincinnati 1916-1939 A varity of historians have dealt with the housing movement in America prior to the Great Depression examining how the reformers viewed the housing needs around them Robert H Bremner in From the Depths explained how the environmental emphasis of Progressive housing reform reflected the changing view of poverty from the mid-nineteenth century notion which had blamed individual moral breakdown Roy ...
... Book Notes Winter-Spring 2002 pp 94-95 Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page BOOK NOTES Field Guide to Projectile Points of the Midwest By Noel D Justice and Suzanne K Kudlaty Bloomington and Indianapolis Indiana University Press 2001 xii 53 p 112 figures appendixes This slim volume is intended as a beginner's ...
... MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY APRIL 24 1942 The Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met at 1 00 PM Friday April 24 1942 in the Trustees' room of the Ohio State Museum President Johnson presided over the meeting which was attended by the following Trustees Messrs Johnson Eagleson Florence Miller Norton Rightmire and Spetnagel Director ...
... SOURCES OF THE NAMES OF THE COUNTIES SOURCES OF THE NAMES OF THE COUNTIES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE By FREDERICK C WAITE An examination of the names of the eighty-eight counties in Ohio shows that over half of these names commemorate individuals such as signers of the Declaration of Independence generals in the Revolutionary War early presidents of the United States and statesmen of the early period of our national history A considerable number of county names are of Indian origin Part of these ...
... MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Board of Trustees of The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met in annual session in the Trustees' Room of the Museum and Library Building at 1 o'clock p m Tuesday April 24 1934 The following trustees were present Mr Arthur C Johnson Sr President Messrs Goldman Eagleson Miller Goodman Florence Sater and Mrs Dryer Director Shetrone ...
... THE BACKGROUND OF CALVIN E THE BACKGROUND OF CALVIN E STOWE'S REPORT ON ELEMENTARY PUBLIC INSTRUCTION IN EUROPE 1837 By CHARLES G MILLER In 1836 Calvin E Stowe was a professor in a theological seminary Lane in the young state of Ohio Though no formal connection existed between the seminary and the State there already existed the idea of the higher schools' responsibility to the State to such a degree that the General Assembly requested Stowe with no mention of compensation but see below quite ...
... JANET A JANET A MILLER Urban Education and the New City Cincinnati's Elementary Schools 1870 to 1914 In 1903 Richard G Boone the Superintendent of Schools in Cincinnati announced that schools in the city were gradually workng toward the modern idea The elementary course he stated had been enriched treatment of children was more humane and reasonable and teachers were awakened to what was being done elsewhere in the nation1 While still plagued with traditional problems of finance facilities and ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 233 collection A very large and unique celt of Williamstite is one of the finest of its kind found in Ohio A new type of stone relic made of granite cylindrical about 4 inches long and 2 12 inches in diameter with a groove near each end is one of the novelties of this collection four specimens being shown An important addition to the Museum collections is the material taken from the so-called Hilltop mound which stood in the city of Portsmouth The material includes a ...
... ROGER MEADE ROGER MEADE Book Notes Studies on Indiana Indiana History Resource Series Volume I A Bibliography of Theses and Dissertations Submitted to Indiana Institutions of Higher Education for Advanced Degrees 1902-1977 Compiled by Betty Jarboe and Kathryn Rumsey Indianapolis Indiana Historical Bureau 1980 xiii 377p author index name and subject index bibliography This bibliography was compiled with the idea that nowhere else has Indiana been more thoroughly studied than its universities ...
... Reviews and Comments 317 Reviews and Comments 317 education He overcame this and other handicaps and reached the limit of his days crowned with success To his friends he was loyal and he had the faculty of binding others to himself with a friendship as loyal as his own Employes were thoroughly devoted to his interests To those in need he was generous He was charitable without ostentation He was public-spirited and gave freely for the upbuilding of Columbus Beneath a rugged reticent and ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 275 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 275 mind gave way completely Wolfley begged his superiors to grant him leave and return him to Ohio Two days later on May 7 1844 the surgeon was admitted to the sick list as mentally deranged24 When the Decatur put in at Porto Praya Wolfley's commander determined to leave him in the hands of the United States Agent for the Cape Verde Islands The town of Porto Praya rests on a table-land high above the harbor of St Jago ...