... Think Kindly of Think Kindly of Us of the South A LETTER TO WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN edited by LEE N NEWCOMER The following letter to William Tecumseh Sherman dates from a short and almost forgotten era of United States history the few years following the Civil War in which the South thought well of General Sherman Southern liking for Sherman though short-lived was well-grounded in fact Before the war Sherman taught at what later became Louisiana State University he liked the southerners and ...
... Baseball's First Professional Manager Baseball's First Professional Manager By HAROLD SEYMOUR It is fairly common knowledge that Ohio holds the distinction of fielding the first admittedly professional team in baseball history the Cincinnati Red Stockings1 It is less well known that the manager of that famous team was perhaps the outstanding baseball figure of his time Harry Wright's career spanned the amateur and early professional periods of baseball and provided a link between the two He ...
... Historical News Historical News A GENERAL REORGANIZATION of the headquarters staff of the National Trust for Historic Preservation has been announced by Robert Garvey Jr executive director William J Murtagh formerly assistant to the director now heads a newly created department of education and Mrs Helen Duprey Bullock formerly historian and editor directs the department of information which issues Preservation Ne w s a new monthly publication Newly appointed to the staff is Robert G Stewart ...
... 28 Ohio Arch 28 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications master introduced Mrs Herbert Backus Vice-President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution RESPONSE OF MRS HERBERT BACKUS Mr Toastmaster Distinguished Guests and Friends A story was told me the other day of a farmer who took unto himself his second wife He brought her to the home of her predecessor After some time had elapsed she told him that she needed some new shoes that all her shoes were worn out He said Well Samantha ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Chadwyck-Healey recently announced the availability of the papers of Charles Sumner on microfilm and a printed Guide and Index to all 26000 letters Compiled and edited by Beverly Wilson Palmer the Charles Sumner Papers Project represents the publication of virtually the entire known correspondence of Sumner 1811-1874 and throws new light on the man as well as on the major American political and social issues of the nineteenth century For details concerning ...
... The Naive Liberal the Devious Communist and the Johnson Case by David L Sterling Particularly during the decade of the 1950's but by no means unheard today the allegation has been made that in any cause where liberals and Communists join either fortuitously or by design the former are inevitably manipulated by the latter for propagandist and even more sinister purposes The accusation has emanated from congressional committees newspapers and other publications veterans and patriotic ...
... TRAILING ADAM'S ANCESTORS TRAILING ADAM'S ANCESTORS BY HENRY C SHETRONE Lest the above title may not be readily intelligible to the reader it may be explained that this paper has to do solely with the origin and antiquity of the human race It goes without saying that humans through the ages have concerned themselves with queries as to the genesis significance and destiny of their kind It is equally true that every race and every people from the lowest savagery to highest civilization have ...
... OHIO'S GERMAN-LANGUAGE PRESS AND THE WAR OHIO'S GERMAN-LANGUAGE PRESS AND THE WAR BY CARL WITTKE Instructor in American History Ohio State University In April 1917 when the war cloud settled over America most of the German-language publications in this country found themselves in an extremely embarrassing position To the very last they had opposed America's entry into the war To them it seemed that Germany's cause had been grossly misrepresented by an Anglicised press and the German contention ...
... 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 ...
... Nelson Winter-Spring 2001 pp 5-25 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page with footnotes according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page The Ideal of Nature and the Good Farmer Louis Bromfield and the Quest for Rural Community By Philip J Nelson click to view larger image World War II and its aftermath dominated the 1940s as have few events in other decades ...
... Mr Mr Republican Turns SOCIALIST ROBERT A TAFT and Public Housing by RICHARD O DAVIES To the great majority of his contemporaries Senator Robert A Taft embodied the traditional values of self-help private enterprise and dislike for governmental welfare programs Most Americans believed that Taft had as his major purpose the root and branch eradication of all New Deal welfare and regulatory programs His adamant opposition to the proliferation of such governmental activities supposedly led to a ...
... INDEX INDEX The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly Volume 57 ABB UT FRANCIS E LL IN sGWOO U article on American AgrictulItrist Langstroth conin Northwest Ohio Quarterly 434 tributed to 154 Abbotts' Bridge 238 American Anti-Slavery Society 29 and Abell Aaron I 182 coalition sith abolition forces 165-166 Abolition and abolitionists 2 165-174 opposed to formation of abolition party 177-178 in Western Reserve 24-47 167 the Presbyterian Church and 120 121 American Ble Jotritl cited ...
... 632 Ohio Arch 632 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Quarterly but all numbers are promised from the printer before the close of the calendar year From this brief report it will be seen that the publications of the Society are increasing in volume and value Signed JOSE PH C GOODMAN Chairman SCHOENBRUNN Your committee has been steadily at work throughout the year in seeking to make the Schoenbrunn Memorial Park one of the outstanding historic spots of Ohio An appropriation of 7500 by the ...
... A CLEVELAND DRUG STORE OF 1835 A CLEVELAND DRUG STORE OF 1835 by HOWARD DITTRICK MD Editorial Director the Cleveland Clinic Cleveland This presentation outlines many activities of an early Cleveland druggist with some mention of contemporary patrons and customs The information is based upon a manuscript volume which was presented recently to the Howard Dittrick Museum of Historical Medicine in the Cleveland Medical Library Written in long hand the book deals with drugs medicine and a number of ...
... ARCHAEOLOGICAL MAP OF OHIO ARCH A EOLOGICAL MAP OF OHIO The accompanying map of Ohio showing the distribution of prehistoric Mounds and Enclosures in the state is reproduced on a reduced scale from the Archaeological Atlas of Ohio This map will be of special interest to the public as it shows at a glance the centers of occupation and the relative distribution of prehistoric man in the territory included The valleys of the larger rivers-the Miamis the Scioto the Muskingum the Hocking and their ...
... 284 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 284 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY but it has been customary to present these memorials at the time of the Annual Meeting as well This committee with Dr George W Rightmire as chairman assisted by Mr Freeman T Eagleson prepared the following memorial IN MEMORIAM LOWRY FRANCIS SATER TRUSTEE OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lowry Francis Sater was born on June 15 1867 near what is now New Baltimore Butler County ...
... Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 633 Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 633 us to give the names of the members of most of the households The first log cabin is nearly completed and is attracting a large number of visitors Most of the logs have been hewn for the Schoolhouse and the hand-split shingles are ready Through the personal interest of Mr C B Galbreath we have secured from Dr W N Schwarze Archivist of the Moravian Church in Bethlehem Pennsylvania over 100 pages of translation ...
... THE ODYSSEY OF PETROLEUM VESUVIUS NASBY by DAVID D ANDERSON After more than a century the American Civil War remains garbed in tragedy and pathos heroes and hero worship sentiment and cynicism as it has been since the guns fell silent and the printing presses began to pour out a still unabated torrent of memoirs histories and biographies As an age of heroes it is resplendent with the names of Lincoln Grant Lee Sherman Sheridan -- and Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby Perhaps the least remembered of ...
... THE ECLECTIC OF ST THE ECLECTIC OF ST CLAIRSVILLE by PHILIP D JORDAN Professor of History University of Minnesota and Research Associate Minnesota Historical Society For decades the charming village of St Clairsville named in honor of a stiff-necked soldier and governor who opposed Buckeye statehood played an important role in determining the development of the Northwest country Other Ohio communities-- classic-tinged Marietta Cincinnati the Queen City of seven hills sturdy ...
... 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 ...