... 26 Ohio Arch 26 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications extent of the town and the obligations of the founders Incidentally they show that sometime between October 6 and December 15 1821 the town acquired the name of Bucyrus Colonel Kilbourne was a man of varied accomplishments for his day He was soldier minister educator congressman and we are told a musician whose songs delighted companions and audiences Someone has said half in jest half in earnest Poetry is lies and it follows that poets ...
... INDEX TO MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH INDEX TO MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY Baker C B 620 Society 595-596 recommends purBaker R C 593 chase of photostat equipment 598Bareis George F 593 620 report as 599 620 621 motion by 627 629 chairman of museum committee 627offers resolution to amend constitu628 634 elected first vice-president tion 630-632 634 elected secretary of Society 634 motion by 634 librarian and editor of Society 634 Battelle Gordon 620 Gard D H 593 ...
... DEVELOPMENT OF THE TEACHING OF ANATOMY IN OHIO DEVELOPMENT OF THE TEACHING OF ANATOMY IN OHIO 1890-1945 by LINDEN F EDWARDS Professor of Anatomy Ohio State University In America during the nineteenth century there was an unprecedented expansion of population over an enormous territory This situation created a huge demand for doctors with the result that proprietary medical colleges under private ownership were founded in great numbers According to Flexner American towns produced over four ...
... 560 Ohio Arch 5 60 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications mysterious Mound Builder was at all events a good liver The weather proved delightful and the State officials as well as trustees pronounced themselves as highly pleased first with the fact that the State had secured the property and second that it was being so admirably protected under the custodianship of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society HARRISON-TARHE PEACE CONFERENCE MEMORIAL On Tuesday June 28 1904 at Columbus ...
... JOHN OFFNER JOHN OFFNER President McKinley's Final Attempt to Avoid War With Spain By April 1 1898 war between the United States and Spain seemed certain Rebellious Republican congressmen had forced President William McKinley's diplomatic pace by threatening to join Democrats in declaring war and were kept in line only by promises that the president would shortly turn over the Cuban issue to Congress McKinley had informed the Spanish government of his terms for a settlement and Madrid's March ...
... JAMES FAIRCHILD BALDWIN M JAMES FAIRCHILD BALDWIN MD 1850-1936 by GEORGE M CURTIS MD James Fairchild Baldwin surgeon extraordinary was born in the little village of Orangeville New York on February 12 1850 He died at Columbus Ohio on January 20 1936 approximately 86 years of age He had practiced almost sixty years and nearly forty of these as a surgeon A master of his craft this rugged individualist was finally conquered by one of the surgical diseases of which the least was then known i e ...
... AMERICA'S FIRST WOMAN MAYOR AMERICA'S FIRST WOMAN MAYOR BY ALFRED HEWETSON MITCHELL A native of Ohio who became America's first woman mayor has been honored at Argonia Kansas by a plaque which was erected through the efforts of Kansas club women and dedicated on November 10 1933 Kansas believes in flowers for the living so this plaque was unveiled in the presence of Mrs Susanna M Salter the Ohio-born woman who had made history at the age of twenty-seven when she was elected mayor of Argonia in ...
... PROCEEDINGS 219 PROCEEDINGS 21 9 SOME PROBLEMS OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORIOGRAPHY1 By WALTER L DORN Among the multiple tendencies which inspire historians of every variety in our day one of the strongest is a synthetic or comparative study of history Although national histories are still being written in all the countries of western society there is a keen consciousness everywhere that national history in its isolation does not constitute an intelligible field of historical study Comparative ...
... PIPE'S CLIFF PIPE'S CLIFF A J BAUGHMAN MANSFIELD Pipe's Cliff is the highest point of a ledge of fragmentary rocks that for a mile or more skirt Pleasant Run Valley on the north nine miles southeast of Mansfield Richland county Ohio The cliff is named for Captain Pipe a chief of the Monsey branch of the Delaware Indian tribe Captain Pipe's home was at Jeromeville on the Jerome Fork of the Mohican from 1795 to 1812the period between the signing of the treaty of Greenville and the war of 1812 He ...
... Ohio Valley Hist Ohio Valley Hist Ass'n Fifth Annual Meeting 31 engaged strong and able men at all points along the river Pittsburgh ever at the front in enterprise has contributed her full share It is our good fortune to have homes in this Valley dear to many of us as our birthplace and to all of us by fond memories and cherished associations We who love the Valley and the River here pay tribute to all who have labored for and through their labors have advanced the improvement of the greatest ...
... Slavery and Antislavery Slavery and Antislavery Subjects in Search of Authors By Louis FILLER I T IS P OSSIBLE that a revaluation of slavery and antislavery--and more especially of the relationship between antislavery and abolition--has been in order perhaps overdue The literature about these last two related fields is of course enormous but whether the residue of them which the historical profession carries about with it and can bring to bear upon them suffices to maintain our understanding ...
... THE FAIRPORT HARBOR VILLAGE SITE THE FAIRPORT HARBOR VILLAGE SITE BY RICHARD G MORGAN AND H HOLMES ELLIS PREFACE The Indian village site described in this report was explored by the Department of Archaeology of the Ohio State Museum in cooperation with the Harding High School of Fairport Harbor Ohio The existence of the site was brought to the attention of the Museum by Mr Elijah H Brown principal of the high school Through the efforts of Mr Brown permission was secured to excavate the site ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries A number of professional meetings of interest to Ohio History readers will be held this coming autumn The Ohio Historical Society will host the 1979 annual meeting of the National Historic Communal Societies Association at Zoar on October 18-20 1979 California State College and Washington and Jefferson College will co-host the forty-eighth annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical Association on Friday and Saturday October 12-13 1979 suggestions for ...
... CHARACTER SKETCH OF GENERAL ULYSSES S CHARACTER SKETCH OF GENERAL ULYSSES S GRANT BY JUDGE HUGH L NICHOLS Chairman of the U S Grant Memorial Centenary Association My earlier life was spent at New Richmond Clermont County Ohio on the banks of the Ohio River five miles west of Point Pleasant where Ohio's greatest son first saw the light of day As a youth I was greatly interestd in General Grant always having regarded him - and it would seem rightlyas Ohio's most famous citizen and since he was ...
... HUGH T HUGH T LOVIN The Ohio Farmer-Labor Movement in the 1930s Throughout the 1930s a generation of American radicals sought unsuccessfully to build a viable third party on the considerable political terrain that lay to the left of the New Deal coalition Their failure in the greatest of all American depressions has long been accounted either a tribute to the resiliency of the two-party system and the political skill of Franklin Roosevelt or a confirmation of the utopian chiliastic character ...
... 224 Ohio Arch 224 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications in Civil War time for he says that soon a hundred thousand men were singing 'And his soul goes marching on' It was the singing of this song by thousands of the boys in blue that inspired Julia Ward Howe the wife of Samuel G Howe the financial supporter of John Brown to write The Battle Hymn of the Republic a poem that still has its appeal to those who have not come completely under the spell of the new literature The world seems to be ...
... 0 0 K J WARREN KEIFER The above is the most used form of expression in the Commercial world and is used in the United States oftener perhaps in conversation than any other purely arbitrary expression in the English language It has no classic origin or derivation it has no linguistic Greek or Latin root it cannot be claimed for it even the dignity of an American slang birth nor is it an abbreviation of an established expression or form of words properly found in any language Its universally ...
... 418 Ohio Arch 418 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications exercises of the day were presided over by Mr Emil Schlup retiring president of the Pioneer Association The election of the officers for the ensuing year resulted in the selection of Mr Amos Nye as president and of the re-election of Mr Mark Karr as secretary An interesting program of music and speeches was successfully carried out Music was furnished by the Adrian Cornet Band composed of E K Ewing Eugene Ewing Fred Ewing Thomas Reardan ...
... Story of the First Geological Survey in Ohio 135 Story of the First Geological Survey in Ohio 135 Among the other books which contained useful reference material were Hasse's Economic Material in the Documents of the States Ohio II Ohio Second Geological Survey Columbus 1869 G P Merrill's The First Hundred Years of American Geology New Haven 1924 and for the biographical information Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography New York 1900 In the periodical and newspaper field the most ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent appointments and retirements within the professional community of Ohio historians include the following at the Ohio State University Alan D Beyerchen appointed to associate professor Robert J Donia to assistant professor and Joseph H Lynch has assumed new duties as Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Andreas Dorpalen who retired this year received the Distinguished Service Award of the Ohio Academy of History in April At the ...