... Historical News Historical News Eventful Years and Experiences by Bertram W Kom has recently been published by the American Jewish Archives Cincinnati These studies deal with the life of the American Jew and include an essay on Isaac M Wise among others with Ohio connections Richard C Knopf historian of the Anthony Wayne Parkway Board has had several articles published recently Wayne's Western Campaign The Wayne-Knox Correspondence appeared in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Free Soil The Election of 1848 By JOSEPH G RAYBACK Lexington University Press of Kentucky 1971 ix 326p notes and index 1250 Rayback's purpose is to analyze the campaign of 1848 from its origin in the early days of Polk's administration to the election of the Whig Zachary Taylor over Martin Van Buren for the Free Soilers and Lewis Cass for the Democrats The author finds that the presidential election of 1848 marked the emergence of antislavery sentiment as a ...
... LESLIE J LESLIE J STEGH A Paradox of Prohibition Election of Robert J Bulkley as Senator from Ohio 1930 Hail Hallowed Ohio Rich and beautiful state Rivers and roads and railways And queenly cities and great Fertile fields and factories Happy homes and healthM-O-T-H-E-R of Prohibition And a s-o-b-e-r Commonwealth1 The issue of prohibition of the liquor traffic was one that had kept Ohio in turmoil prior to the enactment of state prohibition and the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President The society has recently received two additions to its file of historical and genealogical materials the bill book of Hollister Bliss and Lytle a general store at Delphos from September 1850 to August 1854 and a five-volume compilation of Ohio gravestone inscriptions made by Charles Wagner of Columbus Mr Wagner's work contains thirty thousand inscriptions from grave markers in ...
... JAMES E JAMES E CEBULA The New City and the New Journalism The Case of Dayton Ohio Prior to the introduction of mass transportation systems the nineteenth century city was physically compact with diverse land usages in close proximity to each other With the availability of railroads street cars and inter-urban electric rail lines the urban population could live further away from the workplace and entrepreneurs would recognize the advantages of building in less congested areas These increased ...
... A Century of Voting A Century of Voting In Three Ohio Counties By I RIDGWAY DAVIS BECAUSE VOTING IS OF KEY IMPORTANCE in a democracy analyses of voting behavior on the national and state levels in the United States have been of major interest to students of history and government Comparatively little research however has been forthcoming on the local level In this study the voting records of three Ohio counties Ross Pike and Scioto have been examined for the period 1859-1959 a century of ...
... DANIEL F DANIEL F RING The Cleveland Public Library and the WPA A Study in Creative Partnership The dole is a narcotic a subtle destroyer of the human spirit I am not willing that the vitality of our people be sapped by the giving of cash1 In a large way this statement of President Franklin D Roosevelt summarizes the philosophy and emphasis of the New Deal which was a desire to substitute work for relief2 Expressions of this philosophy were the proliferation of federal agencies and the ...
... 1 1 The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 69 NUMBER 1 J ANUARY 1 960 Recent Writings on Midwestern Economic History By HARRY R STEVENS ACADEMIC HISTORIANS OF MIDWESTERN ECONOMY have studied their subject long and productively but having established at an early date certain approaches to their material and forms in which to present it that were quite satisfactory they have continued to make use of them with surprising tenacity1 Soon after they began to work in the 1880's they developed three ...
... SHIPS IN THE WILDERNESS A NOTE ON THE INVASION OF CANADA 1813 by HOWARD S MILLER and JACK ALDEN CLARKE At the beginning of 1813 Lake Erie was dominated by a British naval force The English with their flotilla of transports came and went as they pleased supplying the troops that had occupied the whole of Michigan and now threatened Ohio It became increasingly apparent to President Madison and his closest military advisers that there was little chance of recovering Michigan and even less of ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA NEW TRUSTEES OF THE SOCIETY REV WILLIAM HENRY RICE D D Among the historic characters who played a thrilling and imperishable part in the early annals of Ohio were the three Moravian missionaries Christian Frederick Post David Zeisberger and John Heckewelder From the last named in direct descent is the Rev W H Rice for many years past a life and active member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and at the last annual meeting February 26 elected a ...
... Historical News Historical News A number of cities are taking steps to preserve protect and in some cases reconstruct historical areas the American Society of Planning Officials has reported Such programs the society suggests are to the benefit of the cities because they stimulate tourist trade and save certain areas from declining into slums Charleston South Carolina has established by law a zone known as the old and historic Charleston district which comprises the area in which there is the ...
... LARRY L LARRY L NELSON Cultural Mediation Cultural Exchange and the Invention of the Ohio Frontier There was little rest for Alexander McKee during the autumn of 1793 Over the course of the preceding three years a loose confederation of Native Americans from along the Maumee River Valley had looked to their British allies for assistance In their campaign to expel the United States from the Ohio Country the northwestern tribes had already frustrated two American expeditions into the region In ...
... MARIETTA CENTENNIAL NUMBER MARIETTA CENTENNIAL NUMBER OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY Vol II JUNE 1888 No 1 THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AT MARIETTA APRIL SEVENTH 1888 PRELIMINARY MOVEMENTS THE Washington County Pioneer Association as early as their annual meeting held April 7th 1881 decided to undertake a Centennial Celebration of the first organized and permanent settlement of the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio to be observed in Marietta April seventh 1888 Further attention ...
... JOHN JAY JANNEY AND HIS RECOLLECTIONS OF THOMAS CORWIN edited by JAMES H HITCHMAN It is a fortunate occurrence when the unpublished recollections of an able recorder like John Janney are preserved His comments on Thomas Corwin afford an exceptional contemporary view of Ohio courts lawyers and politics in the 1830's and 40's and vivid personal reminiscences about the former governor's ability to influence people1 Corwin's political career spanned the years from 1818 to 1865 the era of sectional ...
... Historical News Historical News SEVERAL LA R GE C H ESTS containing important papers of Samuel M Golden Rule Jones were discovered early this year in the attic of the S M Jones Company of Toledo The papers include original letters to Jones copies of letters from Jones clippings from Toledo newspapers on his election and administration as mayor of Toledo 1897-1904 and records of the old Acme Sucker Rod Company now the S M Jones Company which was founded by Mayor Jones The papers are to be given ...
... 48 OHIO HISTORY 48 OHIO HISTORY THE WHISKEY WAR AT PADDY'S RUN EXCERPTS FROM A DIARY OF ALBERT SHAW edited by LLOYD J GRAYBAR In 1874 Albert Shaw later the distinguished editor of the American Review of Reviews and friend of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson was in his seventeenth year An intelligent youth able to observe events with some discernment he kept a diary of his life in the southwestern Ohio village of New London better known as Paddy's Run1 Renamed Shandon in 1893 ...
... DONALD J DONALD J RATCLIFFE Politics in Jacksonian Ohio Reflections on the Ethnocultural Interpretation Who voted for the two great political parties in Jacksonian Ohio Those historians who have asked this question have usually given two sorts of answers Some have seen the popular basis for the party division in essentially socioeconomic terms Occasionally they have detected a class conflict between rich and poor but more commonly they have followed Frederick Jackson Turner in seeing the ...
... LORI D LORI D GINZBERG Women in an Evangelical Community Oberlin 1835-1850 Women and men joined the first coeducational college in order to create both a model Christian community and trained missionaries for the world's enlightenment and regeneration' Oberlin College was not a feminist experiment for the concept of feminism did not truly exist It was an evangelical project in which women were an integral part An understanding of why certain women came to Oberlin and what they found there may ...
... ARTHUR E ARTHUR E DeMATTEO The Downfall of a Progressive Mayor Tom L Johnson and The Cleveland Streetcar Strike of 1908 On November 6 1907 Cleveland Mayor Tom L Johnson awoke to headlines announcing his landslide triumph in the previous day's municipal election Democrat Johnson the champion of progressive urban reform and public control of utilities had solidified his position as the city's most powerful politician by crushing the best candidate the Republican Party could offer The vote was a ...
... About WS 2003 Summer-Autumn 2003 Contents Staff and Advisory Board OHS Board of Trustees Instructions for Authors PDF of these pages Click page numbers to view articles PDF links are also provided for printing articles Can't read PDFs Get Adobe Acrobat Reader ARTICLES 68 Property and Power Women Religious Defend Their Rights in Nineteenth-Century Cleveland by Leslie Liedel PDF of this article 87 The State of Ohio in 1848 As Seen by Traugott Bromme translated by Richard L Bland PDF of this ...