... MARIAN J MARIAN J MORTON Homes for Poverty's Children Cleveland's Orphanages 1851-1933 Orphanages were first and foremost responses to the poverty of children Although historians disagree over whether orphanage founders and other child-savers were villainous saintly or neither there is little disagreement that the children saved were poor When this becomes the focus of the story orphans appear less as victims of middle-class attempts to ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 119 BLENNERHASSET REDIVIVUS The Century for July 1901 contains an article by Therese Blennerhassett Adams on The True Story of Harman Blennerhassett The author very briefly recites the history of the Blennerhassetts who built that magnificent mansion on the historic island in the Ohio near Belpre in the year 1798 The article is valuable historically as authentically stating that the main if not sole cause of the departure from Ireland and emigration to America of the ...
... A WILSONIAN PARADOX A WILSONIAN PARADOX by PHILLIP R SHRIVER Historians are often prone to conjecture What might have happened if-- Perhaps no other event in the history of the United States has been the subject of as much hindsight speculation as this nation's refusal to join the League of Nations after the conclusion of the first World War Not a few historians have suggested that World War II was in large degree made inevitable when the United States declined to assume the role of world ...
... 594 Ohio Arch 594 Ohio A r ch and Hist Society Publications The most important problem now claiming the immediate attention of the Secretary of the Society is the upbuilding of the Library A large extension of its newspaper collection in the very near future is in prospect The present opportunity may not continue indefinitely The library is accumulating gradually a creditable collection of county histories of Ohio This can be supplemented at any time After a thorough canvass of the Ohio ...
... Miami University Oxford O Breed W J Hotel Alms Cincinnati O Burton S R First National Bank Bldg Cincinnati O Chamberlain H G Mrs Marietta O Chatfield A H Cincinnati O Cincinnati History Teachers' Association Cincinnati O Coleman C B Butler College Indianapolis Ind Colonial Dames Society of in the State of Ohio Cincinnati O Colonial Wars Society of in the State of Ohio Cincinnati O Cole Frank T University School Columbus O Columbus Public ...
... Miami My Catbird The Miami and Other Poems MiamiAn Idyl Cincinnati Miami Woods A Golden Wedding and Other Poems by William Davis Gallagher Cincinnati Robert Clarke and Company 1881 264 pages Autographed copy Poems of Florus B Plimpton Illustrated Cincinnati Mrs F B Plimpton 1886 190 ...
... THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXHIBIT FOR THE OHIO THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXHIBIT FOR THE OHIO CENTENNIAL THE collection of Ohio prehistoric relics made at Philadelphia and at New Orleans attracted much attention and demonstrated the richness of Ohio archaeological treasures By common consent Ohio was given the first place among the states in this class of exhibits And yet the collections were far from satisfactory to archaeological students and to those who made the collections and superintended the ...
... PROCEEDINGS 289 PROCEEDINGS 289 The guest speaker of the day was Mr Wilbur D Peat director of the John Herron Art Institute of Indianapolis who spoke on the subject The Museum and Library in Modern Education parts of which follow The place that the museums and public libraries occupy in contemporary life is so well known to curators and librarians that any further comment is unnecessary and instead of reviewing their achievements for you here I would prefer to point out certain dangers that ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Spring meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held April 4th and 5th 1997 at Malone College in Canton Ohio The historical Encyclopedia of African American Associations is seeking scholars interested in contributing assigned entries This single-volume reference work will include associations established by African Americans and interracial groups working in the interest of African Americans For a list of entries and further information please ...
... Railroad He thereupon wrote Railroad6 This labor crew Railroad on November 8 1872 Railroad The company of Railroad later the Baltimore and Ohio was being replaced by a standard gauge track in anticipation of a heavy movement of iron ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 631 Forty-First Annual Meeting 631 my deep appreciation of their cooperation in the welfare of the Museum Respectfully submitted Signed WILLIAM C MILLS Mr John R Horst Chairman of the Committee on EARLY OHIO SCHOOL BOOKS stated that the Ray collection is almost complete and progress is being made in securing other books used in the early schools of the state As to the McGuffey books while the Committee is still seeking the First Readers of the 1843 and 1885 editions ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 97 RANDALL AND THE CITY LIBRARY BY JOHN J PUGH LIBRARIAN It is not without emotion that I approach the subject Mr Randall and the Library The intimacy of my relations with Mr Randall during the thirty-five years he served as Trustee of the Public Library was such that the personal note cannot be excluded However a Johnson can well afford to have a Boswell The estimate of Mr Randall as a factor of the Library does not suffer even though written by a ...
... 328 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 328 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY DOCUMENTARY DATA BY BERTHA E JOSEPHSON Among comments evoked by the April-June issue was a suggestion that researchers might like to learn more about the private papers of Ohio governors in possession of this department The official or public executive correspondence from 1803 to 1 928 and from 1941-1944 are under custody here as State Archives For the period from 1803-1878 there is an unpublished ...
... Railroad Station in America By H Roger Grant and Charles W Bohi Sioux Falls South Dakota The Center for Western Studies 1988 iv 192p illustrations additional reading list index REPRINT EDITION Indiana's Favorite Sons 1840-1940 By Ralph D Gray Indianapolis Indiana Historical Society 1988 40p illustrations biographical sketches The Streetcars and Interurbans of Old Sandusky By Glenn D Everett Rutland Vermont Academy Books 1988 95p illustrations ...
... THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS The committee found that limitations of time made it necessary to rely on questionnaires in compiling a bibliography of the historical writings of Ohioans during the year 1949 Members of the Ohio Academy of History staff members of departments of history in the state's colleges and universities and officials of local historical societies were asked to list their writings In relying on the use of the ...
... 90 OHIO HISTORY 90 OHIO HISTORY Three books by Louis Filler have recently been re-published Horace Mann on the Crisis in Education and Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom Second Edition with New Preface both by the University Press of America and A Dictionary of American Social Change by the Robert E Krieger Publishing Company Other books of interest are Social Action Collections at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin A Guide issued by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin ...
... HOWARD A HOWARD A DeWITT The New Harding and American Foreign Policy Warren G Harding Hiram W Johnson and Pragmatic Diplomacy The historiographical rehabilitation of Warren G Harding has produced a revisionist portrait of a President with moderate talent and moderate views who used persuasion compromise and conciliation to achieve a modicum of success in domestic and foreign affairs1 Although historians are divided over the extent and long-range importance of Harding's accomplishments there is ...
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... Railroad ran frequently and where voters backed Joshua R Giddings and Ben Wade By 1854 he had assumed full control of the Ashtabula Sentinel and influential leadership in a region which threw crucial support in 1856 to the new Republican party Quite incidentally he transmitted his values to his children The literary-minded son easily might have resented these civic strenuosities which at first had brought family hardships But father and son ...
... 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 ...