... GOVERNORS OF OHIO 1803-1903 GOVERNORS OF OHIO 1803-1903 JEAN DICK CHEETHAM In accordance with the provisions of the constitution of 1802 Schedule Sec 6 an election for governor members of the general assembly etc was held on the second Tuesday of January 1803 Edward Tiffin being elected Chief Executive The General Assembly convened at Chillicothe on the first Tuesday of March 1803 but it was to hold regular sessions thereafter on the first Monday in December in every year Article 1 Sec 25 ...
... Historical News Historical News The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies held in Washington DC January 26-27 featured a panel of twelve scholars discussing the relevance of eighteenth-century ideas in twentieth-century society Thinking Americans have been aroused from their complacency by the greatly increased contact with other nations and cultures many of which are in sharp conflict with our national interest values and way of life The startling ...
... Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 625 Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 625 Front Inscription To General Anthony Wayne who organized the 'Legion of the United States' by order of President Washington and defeated Chief Little Turtle's Warriors here at Fallen Timbers August 20 1794 This victory led to the Treaty of Greenville August 3 1795 which opened much of the present State of Ohio to white settlers Left Inscription In memory of the white settlers massacred 17831794 Back ...
... MINUTES OF MINUTES OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Columbus Ohio April 18 1953 The spring meeting of the Ohio Academy of History was held at Columbus April 18 1953 Registration was followed at 1030 AM by two concurrent sessions at the Ohio State Museum One chairmaned by Dr Fred Kershner of Ohio University was devoted to the topic A Consideration of Some of the Intellectual Currents of the Early 20th Century Dr Robert H Bremner of Ohio State University presented a paper on The New View of ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN THE WORLD WAR It may be too soon to write a great history of the World War We still stand in the shadow of that volcanic upheaval We are too close to it in time and interest to measure in due perspective its mighty proportions It is not too soon however to record the facts upon which that history is to be built The part of the United States in ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 393 following device A shield in form a circle On it in the foreground on the right a sheaf of wheat on the left a bundle of seventeen arrows both standing erect in the background and rising above the sheaf and arrows a mountain range over which shall appear a rising sun SEC 2 The great seal of the state shall be two and one-half inches in diameter on which shall be engraved the device as described in the preceding section and it shall be surrounded with these words ...
... MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Friday April 12 1946 100 P M The meeting was called to order by President Arthur C Johnson Sr at 100 PM with a larger and more representative attendance than usual In opening the meeting President Johnson made the following introductory remarks We are now at an important crossroads in the life of the Society We will not read the reports of the activities for the past year ...
... The Reds of 1869 by DAVID QUENTIN VOIGT We are a band of baseball players From Cincinnati City We come to toss the ball around And sing to you our ditty And if you listen to the song We are about to sing We'll tell you all about baseball And make the welkin ring The ladies want to know Who are those gallant men in Stockings red they'd like to know When the victorious 1869 Red Stockings were on tour they introduced themselves by singing the team's official song set to the tune of Bonnie Blue ...
... 460 Ohio Arch 460 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications technic Institute the Brooklyn Institute the Missouri Historical Society the Florida State Museum the president of Tufts College the National Society of D A R etc ADDRESS OF CONGRESSMAN OVERMYER Congressman A W Overmyer of the 13th Ohio District who came from Washington D C expressly to take part in the dedicatory exercises then delivered the following address Fortunate indeed are all of us who have been permitted to witness this ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Academy of History Spring Meeting will be held April 28-29 2000 at Otterbein College in Westerville Ohio For further information contact Richard Spall Ohio Wesleyan University Department of History Delaware Ohio 43015 The Academy now has a Home Page at lthttpoahhistoryohiostateedugt Nominations for the Ohio Academy of History Public History Award are sought for the award to be presented at the annual spring meeting of the OAH Public history projects ...
... THE OHIO DELEGATION AT THE THE OHIO DELEGATION AT THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONVENTION OF 1888 by EVERETT WALTERS Instructor Department of History Ohio State University When Governor Joseph Benson Foraker of Ohio arrived at Chicago on June 16 1888 to attend the National Republican Convention he found his fellow delegates in confusion Despite the Ohio delegation's commitment to Senator John Sherman by the state convention of 1887 there was evidence that certain delegates might break their pledge ...
... JUDSON HARMON JUDSON HARMON BY HUGH L NICHOLS Judson Harmon forty-fourth governor of Ohio 1909-1913 was born at Newtown Hamilton County Ohio on the 3rd of February 1846 He was the eldest son of Rev Benjamin Franklin Harmon one of the pioneer preachers of the Baptist faith who extended the field of his spiritual ministrations through the medium of the old-time circuit-riding to the adjoining County of Clermont Judson Harmon was of English ancestry His lineage has been authentically traced to ...
... 222 Ohio Arch 222 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications sack Anthony Bleecker Samuel Bayard Peter G Stuyvesant and John Pintard met in the picture room of the old city hall in Wall Street to organize this society whose principal object should be to collect and protect materials relating to the natural civil and ecclesiastical history of the United States in general and the State of New York in particular The society was incorporated by an act of the legislature of February 9 1809 It is now ...
... TOM D TOM D CROUCH Thomas Kirkby Pioneer Aeronaut in Ohio The decade of the 1830's marked the dawn of American aeronautical history Although the first American balloon ascent had been made on June 24 1784 when Edward Warren a thirteen year old Baltimore lad made a captive flight in a homemade balloon the citizens of the young republic remained aloof from so impractical an enterprise as free ballooning1 The American tour of Jean Pierre Blanchard in 1793 demonstrated that even a highly ...
... LAND GRANTS FOR EDUCATION IN THE OHIO LAND GRANTS FOR EDUCATION IN THE OHIO VALLEY STATES BY CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF In the discussion of the subject at hand I find I am con fronted with three very positive limitations First because the story of land grants for education is one that even the most investigating historian can find but little new general material upon which to write Second the program committee has wisely limited the time in which the subject may be presented However laudable this ...
... EARLY HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY EARLY HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN OHIO ON July 13th 1 854 the anniversary of the Ordinance of 1787 there assembled at Neil's New Hall Columbus Ohio a large delegate convention representing every town in the State having for its purpose to fuse into one practical organization all political elements which opposed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and were ready to resist the extension of slavery into Kansas and Nebraska A similar convention met on ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Labor History Project of The Ohio Historical Society has completed the Preliminary Guide to Sources in Ohio Labor History a forty-seven page pamphlet listing over 350 entries Copies can be obtained for 225 by writing to Ohio Labor History Project Ohio Historical Society ArchivesManuscripts Division Columbus Ohio 43211 Please make checks payable to the Ohio Historical Society The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a 25000 grant to the ...
... NOEL FISHER NOEL FISHER Groping Toward Victory Ohio's Administration of the Civil War The American Civil War posed a vast challenge to the limited administrative capacities of the national and state governments both North and South As the chaos of 1861 painfully revealed recruiting large numbers of men supplying them with weapons uniforms and equipment and transporting them to the field were tasks initially beyond the ability of any American government to perform efficiently To sustain a long ...
... DANIEL HOSMER GARD DANIEL HOSMER GARD At the close of the American Revolution when the Great West was still an unknown vastness save from the tales brought out by leather and fur clothed traders or scouts fortune and fancy invited and beckoned the settlers of the Colonies to come and partake of its virgin fertility The Continental Congress which was without funds desiring to strike the popular chord pleasing to the ear of those who had fought and starved in this dismal battle for Freedom ...
... ROBERT D ROBERT D MARCUS James A Garfield Lifting the Mask The Garfield Orbit The Life of President James A Garfield By Margaret Leech and Harry J Brown New York Harper amp Row 1978 xi 369 p illustrations notes index 1500 Garfield By Allan Peskin Kent Kent State University Press 1978 x 716p notes sources listed index 2000 Had Garfield Arthur Harrison and Hayes been young' Or had they all been born with flowing whiskers sideburns and wing collars speaking gravely from the cradle of their ...