... EXPLORATION OF THE TREMPER MOUND EXPLORATION OF THE TREMPER MOUND WILLIAM C MILLS The Tremper mound is situated five miles north of the city of Portsmouth on the west side of the Scioto river in Rush township Scioto county Ohio The land upon which it is located is a part of the estate of Senator William D Tremper Portsmouth which consists of more than seven hundred acres of the rich bottom lands at the confluence of the Pond creek and Scioto valleys The immediate site of the mound is a level ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL BUSINESS SESSION 1000 AM APRIL 24 1942 OHIO STATE MUSEUM The Fifty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society convened in the auditorium of the Museum at 1000 AM on April 24 1 942 Mr Arthur C Johnson President of the Society called the meeting to order President Johnson in his brief introductory remarks referred to the small attendance caused no doubt by the fact ...
... KATHLEEN A KATHLEEN A LAUGHLIN Sisterhood Inc The Status of Women Commission Movement and the Rise of Feminist Coalition Politics in Ohio 1964-1974 Phyllis Schlafly's STOP ERA organization campaigned vigorously against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment ERA in Ohio during the early 1970s Armed with loaves of bread tied with pink ribbons bus loads of STOP ERA supporters came to the state capitol in Columbus to lobby against the Amendment when the Ohio House of Representatives' State ...
... 414 Ohio Arch 414 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications introduce the speaker of the occasion Dr Benjamin Franklin Shambaugh and I will merely give you a few of his titles sufficient to enable you to judge of his ability for this occasion Superintendent of the State Historical Society of Iowa Editor of the Iowa Journal of History and Politics Head of the Department of Political Science State University of Iowa Editor of the publications of the State Historical Society of Iowa and President ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments Reviews Notes and Comments 151 JOHN DANA On the morning of September 20 1926 John Dana a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society died at his home in Belpre Ohio The news of his death brought sorrow to friends in his home town and in Parkersburg where for many years he had business and social affiliations About a year previous to his death he gave up his business connections with the Dana Company Wholesale Grocers due to failing health Of ...
... THE ROLE OF THE DISTRICT AS A UNIT IN ORTHE ROLE OF THE DISTRICT AS A UNIT IN ORGANIZED MEDICINE IN OHIO1 By ROBERT G PATERSON PHD Use of the district as a basic unit of medical organization and administration is historically the oldest in the State It antedates the county city and state medical societies A district in the sense in which it is used here includes within its area two or more counties From 1811 to 1 90 2 the history of medical organization in Ohio is full of the trial and error ...
... GIRTY'S ISLAND GIRTY'S ISLAND BY N B C LOVE DESHLER O Girty's Island in the Maumee River a hundred years ago was the headquarters of the Indians and was the home for a time of Simon Girty Rich in verdant foliage of varied green And many kindred growth of stately trees Plants flowers and vines with nectar for bees Blended in a quivering summer sheen And around the waters ebbying tide Bending low long boughs with vines interlace And reflect in the liquid mirror's face Scintillating like moving ...
... TWO PREHISTORIC VILLAGES NEAR CLEVELAND TWO PREHISTORIC VILLAGES NEAR CLEVELAND OHIO By EMERSON F GREENMAN Foreword During the field season of 1930 four sites in northern Ohio were excavated for the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society The two forming the subject of this paper were on the Cuyahoga River six and seven miles south of the Public Square of the city of Cleveland Excavations were under the direction of the writer and Mr Robert Goslin field assistant Tuttle Hill was ...
... John Bailhache John Bailhache A British Editor in Early Ohio By WILLIAM L FISK THE WESTERN PRESS was one of the chief formative inf l uences upon public opinion in early ninteenth-century Ohio Cut off by time and distance from eastern standards and eastern inhibitions it might apprise its readers of the imminent threat of British interests in the Old Northwest and at the same time vigorously promote regional or sectional interests or gleefully involve itself in internecine warfare with other ...
... AN ETHNOHISTORIAN'S VIEWPOINT AN ETHNOHISTORIAN'S VIEWPOINT by ERMINIE W VOEGELIN During the past half century or throughout the period that anthropology has been an academic discipline in American universities all branches of the subject--physical anthropology ethnology and archaeology anthropological linguistics and folklore-- have put much emphasis upon original field research No student of anthropology is considered professionally fully trained until he or she has had actual experience in ...
... EXPLORATIONS OF THE SEIP GROUP OF PREEXPLORATIONS OF THE SEIP GROUP OF PREHISTORIC EARTHWORKS BY HENRY C SHETRONE AND EMERSON F GREENMAN CONTENTS Prefatory Note Introductory The Earthworks in General Structural Aspects of the Central Mound The Primary Mound The Retaining Walls The Floor Crematory Basins Depressions Pits and Post-molds Burial Platforms Burials and Deposits of Major Interest The Great Multiple Burial Burials 2-7 The Burnt Offering The Ceremonial Cache Burials 1 10 1 9 26 28 32 ...
... Report of the Forty-eighth Annual Meeting 301 Report of the Forty-eighth Annual Meeting 301 JOINT COMMITTEE PLANS FOR ARCHIVAL SURVEYS By T R SCHELLENBERG It is quite obvious to research students that in the past thirty years the amount of printed matter has increased in geometric ratio Today students are literally engulfed with a mass of materials many of which are printed on a cheap wood-pulp paper which crumbles to dust after a few decades but which reflect quite accurately the passing ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 349 Reviews Notes and Comments 3 49 officers in the allied service There were also citations and high honors conferred upon him Ohioans will experience genuine pride in reading this interesting record of the World War service of one of her distinguished sons The Journal is supplemented by the official reports of General Dawes and the work as a whole deserves a place in every library with a department devoted to World War history We must add of course that these ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 397 tive of the cereal native to the American Continent But one of the most interesting of the displays brought here by Mr Mills clearly proves that these mound builders a race very different from the Indian grew this corn before the Indian drove them South It had been a question said the Ohio man whether the mound builders were agriculturists Now see these charred remains of grain They were dug from an old village site adjacent to one of the principal Ohio mounds ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 85 It is fitting that Mr Hooper should speak for the Club on this occasion Mr Hooper is a charter member of the Club was its first President and has been for many years its Secretary and active Executive I have the privilege of presenting Mr Osman C Hooper RANDALL OUR PRESIDENT BY OSMAN C HOOPER Secretary of the Kit-Kat Club The Kit-Kat Club meets today in sorrow Death has entered our circle and taken our President Emilius Oviatt Randall who ...
... NICOTIANA NICOTIANA AN ETHNOLOGIC HISTORIC AND LITERARY NOVELTY1 BY HENRY CLYDE SHETRONE The complete story of man his institutions activities and habits cannot be compiled solely from documentary evidence Man's physical origin and the spinning of the threads which were to determine the pattern of his behavior antedate by ages his realization of the importance of intentional records Such purposeful records moreover constituting what is popularly known as history supply only the latter chapters ...
... HISTORY OF EDUCATIONAL LEGISLATION HISTORY OF EDUCATIONAL LEGISLATION IN OHIO 1851-1925 BY NELSON L BOSSING PH D CHAPTER IV HIGHER EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Higher education held a conspicuous place in Ohio's early legislation Approximately one-half of the educational legislation passed during the first three years of Ohio's statehood was formulated in the interests of colleges and universities1 From 1803 to 1850 there was a mass of legislation passed which dealt with various phases ...
... 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 ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 331 Hayes Spiegel Grove is indeed the Mount Vernon of Ohio It is this magnificent estate and home that the present owner Colonel Webb C Hayes is transferring to the State of Ohio for the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society to be by the latter preserved intact for historic and educational purposes After reading Mr Meek's production one might think that Sandusky county had a monopoly on Ohio history It certainly is rich in the lore of the brave days of old ...