... CLAUDE MEEKER CLAUDE MEEKER JOURNALIST-DIPLOMAT-GENTLEMAN BY LOWRY F SATER A stranger entering the office of Claude Meeker in his absence would have recognized almost at a glance the unusual qualities that characterized the man The arrangement and completeness of the room evidenced a well-ordered and discriminating mind a love of the beautiful a familiarity with good literature an enthusiasm for outdoor life a wide acquaintanceship with the leading men of the State and nation the elements of a ...
... WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS AND THE WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS AND THE ASHTABULA SENTINEL By EDWIN HARRISON CADY Few facts about the formative years of William Dean Howells are known except what the author himself left in the form of personal reminiscence Books such as A Boy's Town My Literary Passions My Year in a Log Cabin and Years of My Youth are mellow and interesting autobiography Mildred Howells' Life in Letters of her father contains a few early letters and two revealing photographs The amount of ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Rutherford B Hayes Library announced that it will publish a comprehensive microfilm edition of The Papers of Rutherford B Hayes A printed guide will accompany the microfilm edition The edition will include Hayes' genealogical records diaries commonplace books correspondence presidential records Civil War records business papers speeches notes vetoes executive orders and miscellaneous items For further information write to Thomas A Smith Manuscripts ...
... MINUTES OF MINUTES OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Deshler-Wallick Hotel Columbus Ohio April 21 1950 The Ohio Academy of History met in Columbus April 21 in connection with the Ohio College Association The morning session at 1000 A M was attended by nearly one hundred persons This session was devoted to a panel discussion conducted by the members of the committee on the teaching of history in Ohio colleges of which Frank L Esterquest of Western College is the chairman Robert L Jones of Marietta ...
... HERMAN MELVILLE AND THE OHIO PRESS HERMAN MELVILLE AND THE OHIO PRESS By GEORGE KUMMER Early in 1858 Herman Melville passed through Ohio on a lecture tour The hastily written notices of his address which appeared in the newspapers of Cleveland Cincinnati and Chillicothe add a few details to our sketchy knowledge of his career as a lecturer and show how the author of Moby Dick impressed the people of what was then called the West The average Ohioan of that day was not greatly interested in ...
... 328 Ohio Arch 328 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications high character and mechanical execution of its predecessors in the series which is generally recognized as the monumental work on the The Mythology of All Races JOSH BILLINGS ONCE LIVED IN NORWALK OHIO The special edition of the Sandusky Register published December 21 1922 abounds in interesting history of Sandusky Erie County and adjacent territory One contribution proves clearly that the noted humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw known as Josh ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Auntie Kate Her Journey Through Ninety Years By Katharine Garford Thomas Columbus Ohio History Press Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1949 252p illustrations 350 Volumes of biography based upon reminiscences can be fruitful resources for the historian who is attempting to reconstruct the details of social history In this book the memories of Katharine Moody Smith who during her long lifetime from 1838 to 1932 lived reasonably close to the main current ...
... Annual Meeting Ohio alley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio alley Historical Association 463 until along in the eighties This was made possible just as the completion of the turnpike roads had been rendered possible by means of county subscriptions and for a long time the railroad was operated in the interest of the counties through which it passed and which had contributed to its construction A new chapter in the development of transportation and intercourse between the two towns ...
... Historical News Historical News THE RUTHERFORD B HAYES L IBRA RY has acquired in the past few months a file of the weekly Clyde Enterprise from the first issue on March 21 1878 through December 1900 The issues for 1958 are being received as published and the file for the intervening years will be completed at a later date Two original letters written by Rutherford B Hayes have been added to the Hayes collections One dated October 31 1884 was addressed to Colonel H J Johnson of Cumberland ...
... THE INDIAN MOUND MIAMISBURG OHIO THE INDIAN MOUND MIAMISBURG OHIO This mound is located on the upland about a mile southeast of town and is the largest of its kind in the world It was originally about eighty-five feet in height but was reduced to sixty-five feet by digging of exploring parties It measures about three hundred feet in diameter at the base In 1869 a number of citizens sunk a shaft from the top to two feet below its base So far as startling revelations are concerned the ...
... 424 Ohio Arch 424 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications pass through the Governor's office for he holds the veto power and we are equally indebted therefore to good Governor Judson Harmon who has long been a member of our Society and taken a deep and active interest in its proceedings We had a very delightful and successful voyage through the Governor's office Governor Harmon is not able to be present in person but we are greatly favored in having with us his good Secretary Honorable George ...
... DOUGLAS A DOUGLAS A GAMBLE Joshua Giddings and the Ohio Abolitionists a Study in Radical Politics Much recent scholarship on American abolitionism emphasizes its role as part of a general antebellum reform movement' Perceptive and valuable though this work is its broad focus necessarily blurs important distinctions within and among different factions of abolitionism In spite of recent contrary opinion there is still much to learn by studying the diversity of abolitionism Identifying the social ...
... Minutes of the Meeting of the Minutes of the Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History Columbus March 26 1960 THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY held its twenty-seventh annual meeting at the Ohio State Museum on Saturday March 26 1960 Two concurrent sessions were held in the morning and two in the afternoon John Hall Stewart of Western Reserve University acted as chairman of the modern European history section at which James M Laux of the University of Cincinnati delivered a paper on De Gaulle in Power ...
... 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 ...
... THREE VALLANDIGHAM LETTERS 1865 THREE VALLANDIGHAM LETTERS 1865 CONTRIBUTED BY CHARLES H COLEMAN Associate Professor of History The Eastern Illinois State Teachers College at Charleston The two letters from Clement L Vallandigham to Horace Greeley editor of the New York Tribune are from the Greeley Papers in the New York City Public Library The letter to James W Wall prominent New Jersey Peace Democrat is from the manuscript collection of the library of the New York Historical Society The ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 26 7 Defiance has better claims for such a monument as is proposed The beauty of the site here situated in the heart of the city should give Defiance the precedence The Maumee Valley Pioneer Association wishes to save Roche de Boeuf from being used as a pier for a bridge to be built across the river at that point by the Cincinnati Northern Traction Co Secretary J L Pray said the association would probably first attempt to persuade the electric company to change its ...
... SCIENCE AND THE AMERICAN TRADITION SCIENCE AND THE AMERICAN TRADITION by JAMES B CONANT President of Harvard University We are gathered here tonight I take it because we believe that to be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to be always a child I count it a privilege to give the address at this annual dinner of a society dedicated to a furtherance of the study of the history of this state I am particularly glad to be here when you are dedicating a new addition to your building ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Papers of Ulysses S Grant Volume V April 1-August 31 1862 Edited by JOHN Y SIM ON Carbondale Southern Illinois Press 1973 xxv 458 p introduction chronology maps illustrations calendar index 15 Like its predecessors Volume V of the Grant Papers is skillfully edited and artfully produced by John Y Simon and his editorial team The packaging is increasingly essential since Grant's correspondence is thin and given to silences on issues which intrigued his ...
... Captain Brown Outfits the Mount Vernon Blues For the Toledo War by PAUL L MASSA The Mount Vernon Blues a militia rifle company was organized in 1835 when Ohio mobilized its military forces in preparation for possible hostilities with Michigan This dispute between the state of Ohio and the territory of Michigan over the location of their common boundary line is known as the Toledo War In Mount Vernon Ohio General William Bevans a former Knox County sheriff authorized Benjamin L Brown to ...
... Report of the Forty-fifth Annual Meeting 539 Report of the Forty-fifth Annual Meeting 539 probably purchase these volumes at that price if they had the opportunity to do so It is suggested that two years hence a request should be made for the republication of the volumes to be distributed at cost to those desiring to purchase ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY Within the past year progress has been made in additions to the library Books and bound pamphlets to the number of 882 have been accessioned ...