... THE ODYSSEY OF PETROLEUM VESUVIUS NASBY by DAVID D ANDERSON After more than a century the American Civil War remains garbed in tragedy and pathos heroes and hero worship sentiment and cynicism as it has been since the guns fell silent and the printing presses began to pour out a still unabated torrent of memoirs histories and biographies As an age of heroes it is resplendent with the names of Lincoln Grant Lee Sherman Sheridan -- and Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby Perhaps the least remembered of ...
... 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 ...
... 100 Ohio Arch 100 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications NOAH'S ARK The construction and voyage of Noah's Ark is not exactly material pertinent to Ohio history or archaeology but as a matter of universal curiosity we herewith republish from very recent popular press items the following M V Millard archaeologist and distinguished excavator along the Nile who was recently at Indianapolis declared that he had discovered the place where Noah built the ark Millard for a year past was engaged in ...
... PRESENTATION OF RARE COLLECTION BY PRESENTATION OF RARE COLLECTION BY PROFESSOR EMERSON VENABLE After adjourning to the Library as above noted the following proceedings were had SECRETARY GALBREATH Mr Emerson Venable teacher author and writer will present the Dolores Cameron Venable Memorial Collection in honor of his late wife MR EMERSON VENABLE Mr Galbreath and Members of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society I regret that my daughter Evelyn Venable is unable to be present on ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era SHGAPE announces the third SHGAPE Article Prize a biennial competition for the best published article dealing with any aspect of US history in the period 1865-1917 The article must have appeared in journals dated 1995 or 1996 Eligibility is open to any graduate student or individual with a doctorate awarded after 1987 who has not yet published a book An article may be nominated by the author or ...
... A CHRONOLOGY A CHRONOLOGY By WILLIAM D OVERMAN 1822--First effort at organizing a historical society in Ohio 1831--Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio 1875--Ohio Archaeological Society founded at Mansfield 1885--OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY organized Allen Granberry Thurman president Albert Adams Graham secretary 18 87--Francis Charles Sessions second president publication of the first QUARTERLY in June 1888--Centennial Celebration at Marietta April 7 1889--Society ...
... 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 ...
... Moore Winter-Spring 2002 pp 25-43 Copyright 2002 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 Class Conflict over Residential Space in an African American Community Cleveland's Lee-Seville Public Housing Controversy By Leonard Moore When discussing the conflict over residential space in America historians have placed ...
... 216 Ohio Arch 216 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications REV PURLEY A BAKER On March 30 Rev P A Baker died at his home in Westerville Ohio He was born in Jackson County Ohio April 10 1858 He was prominently identified with the work of the Anti-saloon League almost from its beginning This organization like many other movements began in Ohio in 1893 and extended to every state of the Union Its founder was Rev Howard H Russell who is still living in Westerville Rev P A Baker was in charge of the ...
... 330 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 330 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Charles W Byrd Edward F Noyes Thomas Kirker Thomas L Young Samuel Huntington Charles Foster Return J Meigs James E Campbell Othniel Looker George Hoadly Ethan Allen Brown Asa S Bushnell Jeremiah Morrow George S Nash8 Joseph Vance John M Pattison Thomas Bartley Andrew L Harris8 William Bebb Judson Harmon Seabury Ford James M Cox Reuben Wood Frank B Willis William Medill Harry L Davis William ...
... ROBERT CLARKE ROBERT CLARKE 1829-1899 - Robert Clarke was a native of Annan Dumfreeshire Scotland where he was born May 1st 1 829 He came with his parents to Cincinnati in 1840 and was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati and at Woodward College For a short time he was bookkeeper for William Hanna and then followed his bent by becoming interested in a little second-hand book-store near the corner of 6th and Walnut streets The story of his subsequent life is the history of the famous ...
... 404 Ohio Arch 404 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ory of a mind equipped with rare accomplishments and of a character whose influence could not cease with his demise Yes the grave hath quenched that eye and Death's relentless frost Withered that arm but the unfading fame the remembrance With which the happy spirit contemplates Its well-spent pilgrimage on earth Shall never pass away ODE FOR STANTON DAY Written by Prof George C S Southworth and read at the celebration at Kenyon College ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Women and the American Labor Movement From Colonial Times to the Eve of World War I By Philip S Foner New York The Free Press Macmillan Publishing Co Inc 1979 xi 621p illustrations notes bibliography index 1595 The wealth of material on American working women in Philip Foner's new book should convince even the most intransigent critic of women's history that working women do have an active lively and moving history Foner making use of the growing body of excellent ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The McNamara Strategy and the Vietnam War Program Budgeting in the Pentagon 1960-1968 By Gregory Palmer Westport Greenwood Press 1978 169p tables notes bibliography index 1595 Recently a research fellow at the Institute of United States Studies at the University of London Gregory Palmer has written an important critique of rationalism in American strategy and especially in the McNamara Pentagon Published in Greenwood's Contributions in Political Science series and ...
... ERIC J ERIC J CARDINAL The Ohio Democracy and the Crisis of Disunion 1860-1861 One of the least understood political groups in American history has been the northern Democratic party during the Civil War Their contemporary Republican foes vilified them as traitors and subsequent historians have for the most part agreed with that verdict1 Political partisanship ideological conflicts and wartime passions account for the original animus it is less clear why scholars have tended to follow so ...
... WINTHROP SARGENT VII WINTHROP SARGENT VII By the death of Winthrop Sargent VII of Haverford Pennsylvania on March 29 1932 this Society sustained the loss of a generous friend and life member It was chiefly through his aid that the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society came into the possession of the valuable historical papers of Winthrop Sargent Secretary of the Northwest Territory from its organization until 1798 In the year 1904 the writer learned that a relative of his who was a ...
... GILBERT D GILBERT D SCHNEIDER Daniel Emmett's Negro Sermons and Hymns An Inventory Daniel Decatur Emmett author of the immortal Dixie was born in Mt Vernon Ohio on October 29 1815 the oldest child of Abraham and Sarah Emmett During the 1840s and 1850s he became a major figure in the development of Negro minstrelsy His natural abilities as singer fiddler banjoist and black-face comedian found favor with audiences across the United States and overseas Emmett if alive today would be part of the ...