... Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 595 Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 595 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO OCTOBER 2 1924 Present Messrs Campbell Bareis Prince Goodman Johnson Wood Furniss and Dawes On motion of Mr Wood duly seconded James E Campbell was elected President of the Society Professor Prince moved that George F Bareis be elected First Vice President of the Society At the suggestion of ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Territorial Papers of the United States Compiled and edited by Clarence E Carter Vol XIII The Territory of Louisiana-Missouri 1803-1806 Washington Government Printing Office 1948 xi 641p 350 This is the first of three volumes devoted to what the editor calls for lack of a simpler name the Territory of LouisianaMissouri-the part of the Louisiana Purchase to the north of the present state of Louisiana called officially the District of Louisiana 1804-5 the Territory ...
... MINUTES OF MINUTES OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Meeting at the Deshler-Wallick Hotel Columbus Ohio April 24 1947 The Ohio Academy of History met in Columbus April 24 1947 in joint meeting with the Mississippi Valley Historical Association at the luncheon conference with 160 in attendance President F P Weisenburger introduced Governor Thomas J Herbert who made some appropriate remarks as to the historian's place in the world today He then introduced Harlan Hatcher Dean of the College of Arts ...
... J J MORTON HOWELL HIS GIFT TO THE MUSEUM OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY When Egypt had attained the degree of independence that entitled her to an envoy extraordinary and a minister plenipotentiary from the United States President Harding made a survey to determine who would be best suited to inaugurate diplomatic relations between our country and the ancient seat of civilization in the Valley of the Nile Very naturally such a person was found among the native sons of Ohio Dr J ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 393 following device A shield in form a circle On it in the foreground on the right a sheaf of wheat on the left a bundle of seventeen arrows both standing erect in the background and rising above the sheaf and arrows a mountain range over which shall appear a rising sun SEC 2 The great seal of the state shall be two and one-half inches in diameter on which shall be engraved the device as described in the preceding section and it shall be surrounded with these words ...
... PETER WITT 377 PETER WITT 377 irascible exterior and his biting invective there were qualities of honesty fidelity and generosity that made him the loyal sentimental friend of many people He had genuine oratorical gifts though he sometimes attacked unreasonably and without full information about the facts and he had a tongue that he always found it hard to curb He never attacked with a rapier A meat cleaver was his favorite tool as he himself readily admitted to his friends But he never lacked ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue RUSSEL B NYE is in the Department of English of Michigan State College East Lansing GEORGE W RIGHTMIRE is President Emeritus of the Ohio State University Columbus WILLIAM MARION MILLER is Associate Professor of Romanic Languages Miami University Oxford Ohio WILLIAM D OVERMAN is Curator of History and Archivist of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society of Columbus JAMES H RODABAUGH is Associate Director of Research Hayes Memorial Fremont Ohio ...
... 36 Ohio 36 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications This state was the thoroughfare for all the races and all the people in their struggle to reach the west Its foundations were laid by the very best brains of this country when that great American stream of settlers founded this composite Ohio Wherever you look you will find the Ohio man and as long as we have The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society to perpetuate the greatness of the Ohioan and mark the places where they have ...
... ROBERT A ROBERT A BURNHAM Obstacles to Plan Implementation in the Age of Comprehensive City Planning Cincinnati's Experience During the period from roughly 1915 to 1945 when city planning became institutionalized in the United States efforts to rationalize the city through comprehensive city planning often met with only measured success1 This stemmed in part from the nature of planning itself in that planning at one level was just that planning a vision to guide the future development of the ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY A HISTORY OF CHINESE CIVILIZATION A SHORT HISTORY OF CHINESE CIVILIZATION BY RICHARD WILHELM TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY JOAN JOSHUA VIKING PRESS NEW YORK This is a single volume which covers the entire subject in 284 pages In his preface the author states that works previously published may be divided into two classes the one following the native Chinese Annals and dealing with the actual history of ...
... 96 Ohio Arch 96 Ohio A rch a nd Hist Society Publications A YOUTHFUL HISTORIAN Sometime before the holidays 1907 The Daily News of Springfield Ohio offered three prizes for the best three essays on some local historical subject essays to be written by the pupils of the public schools and to be confined to one thousand words each The judges selected as the awarding committee were Prof B F Prince professor in history in Wittenberg College ex-President Clark County Historical Society and for many ...
... Charles Burleigh Galbreath 129 Charles Burleigh Galbreath 129 where strivings end where peace is perpetual and where mortals on their way to a better estate find a fitting abode for the night in this many-chambered mansion of rest Hither have come the representatives of every walk of life Among them are those once eminent in the affairs of the city the state and the Republic Of these it were superfluous to speak Their deeds have been recorded Their place in local history at least is secure To ...
... 390 Ohio Arch 390 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Mr Rickly was President He served that institution thoroughly acquainting himself with the banking business until November 4 1905 having been Assistant cashier for many years past On October 21 1905 he was elected Secretary of the Ohio State Savings and Loan Association of which institution he had been a Director some ten or twelve years previous assuming the duties of his new position November 14 1905 On January 1 1906 Mr Wood was ...
... OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR KENTUCKY-MOTHER OF UNITED STATES SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES This is the title of valuable compilation by A C Quisenberry published in The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society for January 192 0 It appears from this that Kentucky has given to other states sixty-one United States senators and one hundred fifty-one represensatives in Congress making a total ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 313 Reviews Notes and Comments 313 conditions at the time he said I am not surprised at the action of the United States government Slavery is now recognized as morally and economically wrong but at the time of the Harper's Ferry raid it was legalized by the United States and the State of Virginia It is generally admitted now that the blow at Harper's Ferry hastened the outbreak of the Civil War which brought slavery to an end in the United States John Brown's ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Delaware Culture Chronology By Vernon Kinietz Prehistory Research Series Vol III No 1 Indianapolis Indiana Historical Society 1946 143p In this study the author offers a significant report of the development of an extensive body of historical data concerning a single tribal culture and the application of a systematic use of that data in a field investigation of the surviving culture today The tribe investigated was the Delaware The problem studied was the process of ...
... CHARACTERISTICS AND ACHIEVEMENTS CHARACTERISTICS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF DAVID ZEISBERGER REV WILLIAM N SCHWARZE M A Professor of Historical Theology Moravian College and Theological Seminary Bethlehem Pa In the middle of the eighteenth century Nathaniel Seidel and David Zeisberger were deputed by the Board controlling Moravian activity in America to report to Count Zinzendorf and his coadjutors in Europe the character which the mission among the Indians was assuming as well as to explain its ...
... ESSAY AND COMMENT 49 ESSAY AND COMMENT 49 The True Profile of the Harding administration will emerge only as the new historiography is joined with a modification of the old DAVID H JENNINGS Professor of History Ohio Wesleyan University ESSAY AND COMMENT Oral History in Ohio During the past half century as the telephone and computer are replacing the personal letter and the telegraph a new era in historical research is emerging No longer does the detailed letter serve as the major source of ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 287 students of the Ohio State University Mr C P McClelland and Mr C C Huntington working under the direction of Professor J E Hagerty of the Department of Political Science and Economics Ohio State University and by whom the preface is written In an introductory note by the Secretary of the Society it is said This monograph does not attempt of course to discuss in any way the question of the policy of the State as to the retention or abandonment of the canals The ...
... POLITICAL INFLUENCE OF OHIO PIONEERS POLITICAL INFLUENCE OF OHIO PIONEERS GEORGE M GADSBY In present day politics we find the principle of like father like son a very potent one Or as a ward chairman of this city recently remarked when speaking of the politics of a candidate an apple never falls very far from the tree If now this system of paternal or traditional politics is noticeable in recent generations it is fair to presume that a trace may be found running back to the time of the ...