... STEPHEN SIEK STEPHEN SIEK Frank Lloyd Wright's Westcott House in Springfield To investigate the career of Frank Lloyd Wright from 1893 to 1910 is to examine a period of architectural thought so rich that later historians would term this era Wright's First Golden Age1 The automobile and the airplane were two inventions that became synonymous with the advent of the twentieth century but no less innovative were the attempts of Frank Lloyd Wright to develop an architecture indigenous to American ...
... JOHN SHERMAN AND THE SILVER DRIVE OF 1877-78 JOHN SHERMAN AND THE SILVER DRIVE OF 1877-78 THE ORIGINS OF THE GIGANTIC SUBSIDY By JEANNETTE P NICHOLS That tour de force the Silver Purchase Act of 1934 is too close to the present to be judged fairly1 While some critics claim that it simply signifies a cowardly unpatriotic surrender to a small group of wealthy mine-owners others suspect that the faithful servitors of those interests--the fourteen senators from the seven silver states--had the ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments and retirements within the academic community of Ohio historians include Lester Lee appointed as an Assistant Professor at Antioch College Gary R Hess will succeed Edmund J Danzinger as Department Chair at Bowling Green State University William R Rock has been named as a Graduate Advisor and Michael Moore as an Undergraduate Advisor at Bowling Green State University Virginia B Platt Professor Emeritus was recently appointed to ...
... 586 Ohio Arch 586 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications the show places of Ohio Its interest for botanists is well known and Professor Robert F Griggs has published a survey of this and a much larger region of which it is a part under the name of the Sugar Grove Region This pamphlet is a Biological Survey and is published by the Ohio State University Not least among the attractions of the region to which a much more distinctive name the Queer Creek Region might be given are the trees most ...
... A STUDY OF THE OKLAHOMA ECCENTRIC FLINTS A STUDY OF THE OKLAHOMA ECCENTRIC FLINTS By H HOLMES ELLIS Since March 1936 when they were first called to the attention of the general public7 the Oklahoma eccentric flints have presented a puzzling archaeological phenomenon Dr Forrest E Clements1 collaborating with Mr Alfred Reed Jr wrote the only satisfactory account of the find and the circumstances surrounding it but due to lack of time and facilities he was unable to carry out a detailed analysis ...
... George Armstrong Custer 651 George Armstrong Custer 651 GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER BY GOVERNOR GEORGE WHITE On December 5th 1839 the people of New Rumley were extending their neighborly congratulations upon the birth of a boy Today after the lapse of nearly a hundred years the people of Ohio are extending to the village of New Rumley their congratulations upon the same event and the nation honors Ohio as the birthplace of George Armstrong Custer a national hero In the unveiling of this splendid ...
... EDITORIAL NOTES EDITORIAL NOTES DR I W ANDREWS-At the annual meeting of the Ohio Teachers' Association held at Sandusky June 28 1888 memorial exercises occurred in honor of the late Israel W Andrews Professor M R Andrews read a memorial sketch In it he paid tribute in the highest terms to the many virtues of the deceased scholar and educator His conservative but persistent and hopeful nature his accuracy and painstaking care as a student and instructor his unswerving fidelity to every trust ...
... WHIG CONVENTION COLUMBUS OHIO 1840 WHIG CONVENTION COLUMBUS OHIO 1840 Letter of JOHN M W OODBRIDGE COLUMBUS Feb 21 1840 DEAR UNCLE The object of this communication is to inform you of the movements in this city at the present time I do wish you were here to participate with us in the festivities of the occasion Columbus is already filled to overflowing It is computed that there will be between fifteen and twenty thousand Whigs in the city before the close of the week Truly this is a movement ...
... FOUNDING OF THE FINNISH SETTLEMENTS IN FOUNDING OF THE FINNISH SETTLEMENTS IN OHIO By JOHN I KOLEHMAINEN In the fall of 1886 the septuagenarian Henry Howe returned to Ashtabula on his second historic tour of Ohio Not the least interesting innovation which there captured the fancy of the beloved white bearded chronicler was the presence at the Harbor of the Fins a new element lately come into this region1 The coming of the Finns to Ohio can be traced with some precision About eighteen years ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 137 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 137 of the Ohio State University was attended by over fifty persons representing the various organizations cooperating in the Ohio History Conference H C Shetrone director of the Society presided introducing Mrs Janet Wethy Foley of Akron New York who gave an address on An Adventure in Genealogy in which she related her own and her husband's experiences in adopting genealogy as their profession General Session 800 P M ...
... OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY OF THE PERIOD OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY OF THE PERIOD 1835-1858 CONTRIBUTIONS OF OHIO PHYSICIANS TO THE INVENTIONS OF THE PERIOD 1835-1858 By DONALD D SHI R A M D When the chairman of this section suggested the title of this paper it seemed to be a relatively easy assignment Offhand one would naturally assume that many Ohio physicians must have conceived and perfected inventions outside the field of medicine However such does not seem to be the case Evidently most physicians ...
... R R DOUGLAS HURT Ohio Agriculture Since World War II The atomic bombs which exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 not only ended the Second World War but they also marked the beginning of a new age Thereafter life was never quite the same as it had been prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor Indeed fundamental change spurred by wartime industrialization and economic need characterized American life after the war The history of Ohio agriculture since World War II is the story of ...
... A HOPEWELL SCULPTURED HEAD A HOPEWELL SCULPTURED HEAD By RICHARD G MORGAN During the excavation of Seip Mound No 1 Ross County Ohio in 1927 a sculptured human head was found1 It was in a fragmentary condition due partly to its having been subjected to fire and partly to an accident in its removal hence an adequate description was not possible at the time the report was written The specimen has now been restored from dozens of small fragments and due to its unique character it has been ...
... SOURCES FOR OHIO WORLD WAR HISTORY IN THE SOURCES FOR OHIO WORLD WAR HISTORY IN THE PAPERS OF THE FOOD ADMINISTRATION IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES By ALMON R WRIGHT Twenty-one years ago on August 1O 1917 an executive order drafted by a native Ohioan Robert A Taft and signed by President Woodrow Wilson launched the United States upon a gigantic program of food conservation1 Many volumes have been written concerning the military campaigns and the diplomatic entanglements of the period of the great ...
... OSCAR WILDE IN CLEVELAND OSCAR WILDE IN CLEVELAND by FRANCIS X ROELLINGER JR Assistant Professor of English Oberlin College A Clevelander in search of amusement during the week of February 12 1882 could rejoice at the number and variety if not the excellence of his opportunities At the Euclid Avenue Opera House Mr John McCullough the eminent tragedian fresh from a brilliant season in London was presenting a repertoire that included Othello and Richard III At the Academy of Music Buffalo Bill ...
... 574 Ohio Arch 574 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications terial down to this Library The task now seems so large that it seems to this committee unlikely that the consolidation can be effected before the summer of 1925 The intervening months will be used in preparing plans securing the appropriation doing the physical work and rearranging the Society's books and material all of which is preliminary to receiving the University's collection The situation with regard to Museum of Natural History ...
... McCormick Winter-Spring 2003 pp 19-26 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2003 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved A High School to Remember The Greenfield Legacy of McClain Harris and Ittner By Virginia E McCormick McClain High School Greenfield Ohio Photo courtesy Virginia E McCormick As Supreme Court justices legislators and educators begin the twenty-first century wrestling with equitable funding for Ohio schools and the School Facilities Commission ...
... THE PUBLIC AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY THE PUBLIC AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY by SAVOIE LOTTINVILLE Director University of Oklahoma Press It has been said that if you scratch a historian you will surely find an author There is scarcely a discipline in America today as productive as history--and I do not exclude even the sciences whose cosmic chill seems to work inversely enkindling the imagination of mankind the more as the outlook for the future becomes the less Perhaps it is because the record ...
... FRANK P FRANK P VAZZANO The Feud Renewed Martin Davey John Bricker and the Ohio Campaign of 1940 They were old enemies Democrat Martin L Davey and Republican John W Bricker two fierce rivals posed against each other for the second time in a contest for Ohio's governorship Their first race in 1936 degenerated into a barrage of accusations and mudslinging Their second in 1940 promised more of the same If anything as Davey's local newspaper the Ravenna Evening Record and Daily Courier-Tribune ...
... THE OHIO VALLEY HISTORIC INDIAN CONFERENCE THE OHIO VALLEY HISTORIC INDIAN CONFERENCE PAPERS READ AT ITS FIRST MEETING NOVEMBER 20-21 1953 In 1951 the board of trustees authorized the staff of the state historical society to set up a project to be known as the Ohio Historic Indian Center As a part of the work of this project a research associate was assigned to a study of the Indians and the campaigns of the Indian Wars 1790-95 The Anthony Wayne Parkway Board has cooperated with the society in ...