... ROBERT BUTLER ROBERT BUTLER Book Notes The Story of Independence By Grace Miller Elizabeth Spellman Kathryn Boyer and Robert Boyer Independence Ohio Independence Historical Society 1979 248p drawings photographs appendices bibliography index This book is an example of local narrative history at its best The authors have concentrated on the story of one town in Ohio's Western Reserve and the record of its changes and growth While the book begins with a brief discussion of the geographic ...
... LAYING CORNER STONE LAYING CORNER STONE OF THE SOCIETY'S BUILDING On the afternoon of Se p tember 12 1 912 the Trustees and officers of the Society laid the Corner Stone of the building of the Society located on the Campus of the Ohio State University The ground was first broken for the excavation on June 25th The weather on the day of the corner stone laying was ideal and a goodly audience of the friends of the Society including many professors of the University assembled to witness the ...
... ESSAY AND COMMENT 213 ESSAY AND COMMENT 213 sued however when the ruling class was so divided and inept or so committed to the use of sporadic unsuccessful force that it was unable to respond creatively to the challenges in time to produce peaceful reform The new youth class if indeed it can be defined as such presents a challenge to society to put into practice the best of its social political and religious ideals Nevertheless the youth class itself faces formidable tests Youth always has ...
... URINALYSIS INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION THE URINALYSIS INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION THE STETHOSCOPE ET CETERA OF THE PERIOD 1835-1858 By HOWARD DITTRICK M D The period 1835 to 1858 was one during which there was little or no advance in the scientific side of medicine According to F H Garrison the scientific movement did not start until well after the middle of the nineteenth century Medicine of the early half was with a few exceptions only part and parcel of the stationary theorizing of the preceding ...
... The Allen County Historical Museum The Allen County Historical Museum By ROBERT C WHEELER An Allen County dream is about to become a reality Late in 1955 the new Allen County Historical Museum will open to the public an event long awaited in and around Lima Few cities in the country can boast such facilities for preserving and interpreting their past The new museum will have in addition to ample exhibit space an auditorium seating 225 a local history library and a thirty-car parking area ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS In Winter We Flourish By Anna Shannon McAllister New York Longmans Green and Co 1939 398p 350 Outstanding in the civic and charitable enterprises of early Cincinnati was Sarah Worthington King Peter of whom Anna Shannon McAllister has written in her new book In Winter We Flourish Daughter of Thomas and Eleanor Swearingen Worthington the former at one time governor of Ohio Sarah was from childhood accustomed to the assumption of leadership Following what was for that ...
... Big Bottom and Its History Big Bottom and Its History 27 This was the first massacre and the principal one during the Indian war then just opening Marietta had been settled two years before and Big Bottom as this place was then known was an overflow from that place and comprised altogether thirty-six persons The year before several other settlements were established from Marietta but thus far this was the most remote No state in the Union was settled by a more worthy or enterprising class of ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 337 OHIO SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION On Saturday April 18 1903 the Ohio Society Sons of the American Revolution held its annual meeting at the Great Southern Hotel Columbus Ohio There was a goodly attendance of members from various parts of the state The usual reports of officers and committees were heard and in the afternoon the election of officers occurred resulting in the following President Colonel James Kilbourne Columbus Vice-Presidents Isaac F Mack ...
... AFTERNOON SESSION AFTERNOON SESSION ADDRESS OF PROFESSOR CARL E GUTHE Chairman Sater called the meeting to order at 2 p m After a few well chosen remarks he introduced Prof Carl E Guthe University Museums of the University of Michigan who delivered an address which was heard with the closest attention entitled Outdoor Guiding in History and Prehistory Professor Guthe spoke as follows OUTDOOR GUIDING IN HISTORY AND PREHISTORY BY CARL E GUTHE The phrase outdoor guiding if considered in the ...
... 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 ...
... WILLIAM BARLOW AND DAVID 0 WILLIAM BARLOW AND DAVID 0 POWELL Homeopathy and Sexual Equality The Controversy Over Coeducation at Cincinnati's Pulte Medical College 1873-1879 The number of women physicians in the United States increased dramatically during the late nineteenth century From a mere 200 or less in 1860 their ranks swelled to over 7000 by 19001 In Ohio the number of female doctors grew from 42 to 451 in the last three decades of the century2 Although reliable statistics are not ...
... In Memoriam 559 In Memoriam 559 State In financial circles he had attained success and a creditable record He was a trusted counselor and a man whose judgment was highly regarded by his fellow members on the Board of Trustees and the staff of the Society Mr Wood was born in Bradford County Pennsylvania October 3 1863 In 1879 he came to Columbus where he was subsequently identified with different financial institutions In 1922 he was made General Manager of the Ohio State Savings Association ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries A number of professional meetings of interest to Ohio History readers will be held this coming autumn The Ohio Historical Society will host the 1979 annual meeting of the National Historic Communal Societies Association at Zoar on October 18-20 1979 California State College and Washington and Jefferson College will co-host the forty-eighth annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical Association on Friday and Saturday October 12-13 1979 suggestions for ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 615 Reviews Notes and Comments 615 Judged impartially at this distance it looks a little as though neither Brooks nor Burlingame was eager to fight a duel Of course each naturally desired the public to think that he was not lacking in courage to meet the other in mortal combat While it would doubtless have been dangerous for Brooks to travel through the hostile North direct to Canada had the public been advised of his going a journey to the point designated seems not ...
... 422 Ohio Arch 422 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications the entrance of the Campus and facing the High street thoroughfare The legislature passed those two bills and the hopes of these officers who have labored for twenty years now see the consummation of our labors And now I have the pleasure of introducing our honored and devoted President Professor G Frederick Wright ADDRESS OF PROF G FREDERICK WRIGHT Ohio has been behind many of her sister states in appreciating her archaeological and ...
... Haverkamp Summer-Autumn 2001 pp 121-135 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page with footnotes according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page Roosevelt and Taft How the Republican Vote Split in Ohio in 1912 By Michael Haverkamp click to view full image We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord Teddy Roosevelt told supporters outside the Republican ...
... Haverkamp Summer-Autumn 2001 pp 121-135 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page with footnotes according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page Roosevelt and Taft How the Republican Vote Split in Ohio in 1912 By Michael Haverkamp click to view full image We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord Teddy Roosevelt told supporters outside the Republican ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 653 Forty-First Annual Meeting 653 change in Logan Elm during the past year The famous old tree continues to hold its own against the elements More than four thousand visitors registered at the park during July and possibly as many or more in August could they have been checked Some time during the first week of August a sneak thief carried away the register and either the same party or another ran an automobile through the wire fence near the creek This makes it ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 433 Reviews Notes and Comments 433 The timely and appreciative words of welcome by Governor Vic Donahey friend of the Society the brief but eloquent speeches delivered in the afternoon by Judge Benson W Hough and Lieutenant Colonel Ralph D Cole former Congressman and the dedicatory address by Congressman Theodore E Burton former United States Senator from Ohio were in the opinion of the large audience among the most impressive ever delivered on the grounds of the ...
... THE BUCKEYE THE BUCKEYE BY ALICE WILLIAMS BROTHERTON The rose and the thistle and the shamrock green And the leek are the flowers of Britain The fleur-de-lys on the flag of France In a band of blood is written But what shall we claim for our own fair land What flower for our own fair token The golden rod or the tasseled maize For each has its own bard spoken Oh the tasseled corn for the whole broad land For the Union no power can sever But the buckeye brown for the Buckeye State Shall be our ...