... 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 ...
... 2 8 6 GEORGE W RIGHTMIRE President of the Ohio State University GEORGE W GEORGE W RIGHTMIRE PRESIDENT OF OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY When Professor George W Rightmire of the College of Law Ohio State University was notified after the resignation of Dr W O Thompson that he had been chosen as Acting President of the University he was perhaps more completely surprised than any other member of the faculty or teaching force of this great institution The notification of his selection was the first ...
... 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 ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 591 Reviews Notes and Comments 591 THE DUNMORE TREATY In the hope that some trace might be discovered of the Dunmore Treaty to which references were made in the meeting of the McGuffey Society at the Logan Elm an account of which is published in this issue Governor James E Campbell President of the Society on August 3 addressed a letter to the American Ambassador at London England to which he has received the following answer DEAR SIRI have been instructed by the ...
... 28 Ohio Arch 28 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications master introduced Mrs Herbert Backus Vice-President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution RESPONSE OF MRS HERBERT BACKUS Mr Toastmaster Distinguished Guests and Friends A story was told me the other day of a farmer who took unto himself his second wife He brought her to the home of her predecessor After some time had elapsed she told him that she needed some new shoes that all her shoes were worn out He said Well Samantha ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 637 Forty-First Annual Meeting 637 have brought more than one hundred persons to the park on a single day Three thousand three hundred and thirty-six names have been secured on a register which has been offered to the public at such times as the custodians could carry it to them When the shelter house is completed the register will be available permanently Our custodians report no complaints or criticisms that the public is delighted and practically every reunion ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Jonathan Draws the Long Bow By Richard M Dorson Cambridge Mass Harvard University Press 1946 274p 450 This reviewer used to enjoy the old story told in Licking County of how a remarkable providence once saved a sleepy pioneer resident of Granville from drowning in the rampaging waters of Raccoon Creek The villager drove into town late one pitchdark stormy night and did not learn until the next day that the planking of the bridge he crossed had been washed away by the ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Society of American Archivists SAA will hold its 1994 annual meeting at the Westin Hotel in Indianapolis Indiana September 6 through September 11 The general theme will be The Archival Core Defining the Profession in the Information Age For more information about the meeting contact either Bruce L Johnson Director of the Library at the Indiana Historical Society at 317 232-1879 or Eric Pumroy Head of Special Collections and Archives at Indiana ...
... MICHAEL J MICHAEL J ANDERSON McCarthyism Before McCarthy Anti-Communism in Cincinnati and the Nation During the Election of 1944 The wave of intense anti-communist sentiment that swept over the United States in the years following the Second World War sometimes called the second red scare1 had a great impact on American society Political debate came to be dominated by the desire of both major parties to appear tough on international communism The political Left historically not a major force ...
... THE IMPACT OF SCIENCE UPON THE HISTORY THE IMPACT OF SCIENCE UPON THE HISTORY OF OHIO by JOHN S MILLIS President of Western Reserve University I recall that many years ago a teacher informed a class of which I was a member that history was the record of the answers to the questions Who What Where and When Since that time I have learned that history also embraces the answers to the questions of How and Why Further it has been those parts of history which deal with the latter two questions which ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR AN EARLY OHIO SCHOOL BOOK Through the kindly interest of Mr Kora F Briggs the Society has come into the possession of an interesting school book published in Columbus in the year 1818 two years after this city became the seat of the state government From the copyright notice it appears that this book was first published in 1814 by the author Rufus W Adams On a page ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Presidency of Rutherford B Hayes By KENNETH E DAVISON Westport Conn Greenwood Press Inc 1972 xiii 266p illustrations notes and index 1200 In his account of the Hayes presidency Professor Davison has attempted to correct the interpretation of the Gilded Age as an era of ruthless plunder depicted by Parrington Beard Josephson Twain and others He portrays Hayes as a decent high-principled experienced statesman a unifier pacifier and reformer He views the Hayes ...
... 262 Ohio Arch 262 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Fort Miami -- We regret to report that this property is still in the hands of owners who do not seem much interested in its historic value Fallen Timbers-- At this writing the State Architect is engaged in landscaping the site chosen for the future monument to honor the memory of a great soldier and mark an historic spot It will be recalled that two years ago the Legislature appropriated 2000 for this purpose We had asked for 40000 for ...
... THE GREAT MAN IN HISTORY THE GREAT MAN IN HISTORY By PAUL F B L OOMHARDT You will agree with me that credit is due Mr Overman and those who have arranged today's program for their alertness in recognizing the centennial of Carlyle's famous dictum The idea for his Hero lectures seems to have taken shape in his mind between February 27 and March 2 1840 The first of this series of addresses is dated Tuesday 5th May 1840 Expanded to about double the size of the lectures the essays appeared in an ...
... FRANK P FRANK P VAZZANO Martin Davey John Bricker and the Ohio Election of 1936 There's something wrong in Columbus With those words John W Bricker the Republican nominee for governor of Ohio opened the 1936 campaign against his Democratic opponent Martin L Davey Bricker's declaration more an accusation than a challenge initiated a contest destined to become one of the meanest in the history of Ohio But the campaign did more than that it generated a bitter personal feud between two of the ...
... STEPHEN C STEPHEN C FOX Politicians Issues and Voter Preference in Jacksonian Ohio A Critique of an Interpretation Two recent studies of the Jacksonian era which devote either substantive or exclusive attention to Ohio James R Sharp The Jacksonians versus the Banks Politics in the States after the Panic of 1837 and Donald J Ratcliffe The Role of Voters and Issues in Party Formation Ohio 1824 have been welcomed as valuable additions to our understanding of political activity in an important but ...
... ANDREW R ANDREW RL CAYTON The State of Ohio's Early History A Review Essay The Ohio Frontier Crucible of the Old Northwest 1720-1830 By R Douglas Hurt Bloomington Indiana University Press 1996 xv 418p illustrations bibliographic essay index 3500 It is axiomatic that each generation creates its own version of the past As much as historians value objectivity most of them see it is a noble but unattainable goal Historians always have and always will interpret the past through the prism of the ...
... Historical News Historical News The Hayes Memorial Library has recently acquired some small but important additions to its manuscript collections They include papers of H H Morton and Dr George R Morton Sandusky 7 items 1855-77 papers on the election of 1876 5 items letters of Rutherford B Hayes to the Rev L W Bacon 5 letters 1881-82 photostatic copies from Yale University Library additions to the William and Mary B Claflin papers 22 items 1866-89 a letterbook of General H W Benham 1877-82 ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Academy of History annual meeting will be held on Friday and Saturday April 26-27 1991 at Capital University in Columbus Ohio For details concerning the meeting contact Clayton R Koppes OAH Program Committee Oberlin College Department of History Oberlin Ohio 440741095 The Second Annual University of Cincinnati Social History Conference invites interested scholars to submit papers in social history broadly defined as any aspect of the history of ...
... THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE EARTH THE three stages of geographical knowledge are these 1 The observation of facts 2 The deduction of a theory of the earth from these facts 3 The adjustment of facts discovered later to this theory The early difficulties in the way of establishing a true theory of the earth were 1 Men's limited knowledge of the earth 2 Their lack of scientific discipline and habit 3 The misleading character of geographical appearances It ...