... Little or no mention is ever made of Michigan's copper rush which was larger than the California gold rush or the annihilation of the entire Huron nation by the Francophobe Iroquois George Cantor's The Great Lakes Guidebook introduces Lake Superior and western Lake Michigan to the traveler with particular emphasis on the historical development of the region More than just a guidebook this volume is must reading for anybody interested in the ...
... Miami University librarian 2 The emphasis upon the physician gathering his own materia medica may be seen in Gideon C Forsyth Geological Topographical and Medical Information concerning the Eastern Part of the State of Ohio Appendix D in F Cuming Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country Pittsburgh 1810 379 Daniel Drake Picture of Cincinnati Cincinnati 1815 85-7 371 CINCINNATI DRUG HOUSES 373 CINCINNATI DRUG HOUSES 373 cities most of the ...
... Notes Notes 289 are many others as important as the 'Serpent' which need attention at once to preserve them A member of the Society writes We must do something before the centennial celebration for their purchase and protection or be disgraced Every member of the Society should use his influence to interest the members of the Legislature in the matter in order that the State may fitly add to the glory of its centennial by the purchase of the more important of the works of its prehistoric ...
... Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting 407 Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting 407 various mounds and parks He congratulated the Society on its work and stated this meeting will give him renewed enthusiasm Mr Randall stated that the Historical Commission of Ohio was appointed without legal authority a year ago last January or February by Governor Cox it is simply a committee acting voluntarily The purpose is to gather at once the material and data of the activities of Ohio in connection with the Great War This ...
... Little Steel Strike 1937 Ohio State Univ MA 1971 THERRY JAMES R The Life of General Robert Cumming Schenck 1809-1890 Georgetown Univ PhD 1968 WEBER DAVID Negro voting Behavior in Cleveland 1928-1945 Kent State Univ MA 1971 WERTHEIM SALLY H Educational Periodicals Published in Ohio Prior to the Civil War Case Western Reserve Univ PhD 1971 WHITAKER FRANCIS M A History of the Ohio Women's Christian Temperance Union 1874-1920 Ohio State Univ PhD ...
... 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 ...
... Miami University with Miami Medical College as Miami Medical College reopened as a separate institution in 1865 Comegys' connection with this institution has already been noted After the reorganization William H Taylor was professor The Teaching of Physiology in Ohio 359 The Teaching of Physiology in Ohio 359 of physiology pathology and ...
... Historical News Historical News THE RUTHERFORD B HAYES LIBRARY has recently published in mimeograph form a twenty-page annual report of the director of research Watt P Marchman He reports the addition of more than a thousand books in the library's field of interest and several hundred manuscript items Included in the latter are a veto message of President Hayes with notations in his own hand a collection of articles about Hayes by Frank G Carpenter and a William Cullen Bryant letter A ...
... Little Town Athan Billias Little Steel Strike 271n Little Town and Its People Promise by Marc Lee Raphael by Clay C Fisher 280 248-57 Neal Arminta Exhibits for the Small Osthaus Carl R Freedmen PhilanMuseum 136 thropy and Fraud A History of the Nelson Thomas A R 235-36 242 Freedman's Savings Bank rev 67 Index 315 Index 315 PANIC of 1819 ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR COPE MASTER NATURALIST The Life and Letters of Edward Drinker Cope with a Bibliography of His Writings Classified by Subject A Study of the Pioneer and Foundation Periods of Vertebrate Palaeontology in America By Henry Fairfield Osborn Senior Geologist U S Geological Survey Honorary Curator Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology American Museum of Natural History With the co-operation of Helen Ann Warren and others Illustrated ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Celebrating the City A Pictorial Essay of Toledo 1890-1940 Compiled by Morgan J Barclay Toledo Toledo-Lucas County Public Library 1979 48p illustrations The Toledo-Lucas County Public Library and Ohio Program in the Humanities combined forces to produce an outstanding exhibit displaying a selection of the work of two late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century Toledo photographers Charles Mensing and Norman Hauger Thirty-eight of the photographs are reproduced in an ...
... Miami Fla 9-2-'25 648--addition China cups and saucer presented by Mr C M Emerson Columbus O 9-2-'25 444--addition Historical material presented by Miss M Taylor Columbus O 9-4-'25 524--addition Firearms by Mr W E Hightshoe Columbus O 9-13-'25 653--addition Historical material presented by' Miss O F McKim Parkersburg W Virginia 9-22-'25 678--Historic document presented by Mr Arthur C Johnson Columbus O 9-22-'25 679--Photostat copy of letter ...
... Historical News Historical News The University of Chicago and the University of Virginia are sponsoring the publication of a new and complete edition of the papers of James Madison The editors will appreciate information about the location of letters by or to James Madison or his wife especially letters in private possession or among uncalendared manuscripts in the collections of public or private institutions Information should be addressed to The Papers of James Madison 1126 East 59th Street ...
... Miami University Athens Ohio The Lawhead Press 1944 Cloth Illus Maps 488p 300 The full title of this book is A Pilgrimage of Liberty A Contemporary Account of the Triumphal Tour of General Lafayette through the Southern and Western States in 1825 as Reported by the Local Newspapers 302 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 302 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY The book includes addresses of welcome by governors and other ...
... Miami University nearly Miami University and Francis P Weisenburger and Eugene H Roseboom of the Ohio State University Other authorities are contributing sections of the final volume and special chapters in the introductory volume ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 97 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 97 ing of the necessity for propaganda Dr Grimm stressed the importance of missionary work among American youth Their minds must be educated and their wills motivated he said They face a new frontier even as did their progenitors they too are pioneers in new fields and if they know the task ahead of them they can--as did their forebears--arm themselves with faith and hope and the cooperative spirit and by so doing make ...
... 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 ...
... Miami University Miami University conferred upon Jessie Stillman-Kelley the degree of Doctor of Laws and Western College for Women conferred upon her the same year the degree of Doctor of Human Letters SMITH EDGAR STILLMAN-KELLEY OHIO COMPOSER 77 SMITH EDGAR STILLMAN-KELLEY OHIO COMPOSER 77 the logical development of harmonic themes Previous authors have called attention only to the ...
... Railroad 1828-1853 By James Railroad as the prototypical Railroad Museum for primary documents Dilts' history celebrates what the author clearly sees as a major feat of engineering and the full potential of human ingenuity The Great Road will appeal to scholars and students of nineteenth century transportation developments
... DOCUMENTS DOCUMENTS A LETTER FROM GREENE COUNTY OHIO DECEMBER 28 1817 Among recent acquisitions to the Manuscript and Archives collections in the Library of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is the following letter which describes pioneer conditions in Greene County Ohio in the year 1817 The letter was addressed to Nathan Fisher Mendon Worcester County Massachusetts and was postmarked at Xenia December 31 It evidently reached its destination January 18 1818 The postage was ...