... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments awards and retirements within the professional community of Ohio historians include John N Sobczak has replaced Von Hardesty as chairperson at Bluffton College for the 1978-79 academic year and Delbert Gratz is on sabbatical in Switzerland during 1979 at Antioch College Hanna Goldberg has been appointed Interim Executive Dean at the Yellow Springs campus and Irwin Abrams has been elected to the council of the Conference on ...
... THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY In the Ohio Centennial at Columbus September 4 to October 19 1888 THIS department was organized to embody a distinctive feature in the Ohio Centennial i e to exhibit in one place articles illustrative of the growth made in Ohio's history To do this properly it was decided to group all articles into classes regardless of ownership each class typical of a distinct idea This made a collective exhibit and hence all ...
... REMARKS OF EDWARD EVERETT HALE D REMARKS OF EDWARD EVERETT HALE D D I AM sure that all of us who have come from a distance and listened to so many things have been impressed with the change in things I for one recollect perfectly well that the fathers of one hundred years ago would have all gone to bed at nine o'clock at night whoever came to address them whether it was a Shawnee Chief or Mad Anthony himself I am quite sure that at the bottom of the heart of even an Ohio gentleman there must ...
... 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 ...
... Ohio's Industrial Growth 1900-1957 Ohio's Industrial Growth 1900-1957 And Some Possibilities for Study By ROBERT E HOLMES In discussing Ohio's or any other area's industrial growth it would be extremely difficult and perhaps even naive or unrealistic to try to separate history from economics fundamental from applied research commerce from romance or chance from plan These elements are so intermingled in the development and expansion of regions or countries and their industries that there is ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 293 Reviews Notes and Comments 293 Normal School then as Ohio Normal University and finally as Ohio Northern University Among interesting relics given by Dr Lehr to the institution that he founded were a flag carried by his grandfather at the battles of the Brandywine Germantown and Monmouth and the epaulettes worn by his father as Brigadier-General in the Militia of Pennsylvania Dr Lehr belonged to the Grand Army of the Republic and the Masonic order He was a member ...
... AboutSA2002 Summer-Autumn 2002 Contents Editorial Staff and Advisory Board Instructions for Authors OHS Board of Trustees 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 101 Visions of America 17871501788 The Ohio of Reverend Manasseh Cutler by Louis W Potts PDF of this article 121 The Political Judge Justice John McLeans Pursuit of the Presidency by Thomas E Carney PDF of this article ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 499 Reviews Notes and Comments 499 respondence between Rutherford Birchard Hayes and his college classmate and intimate friend Guy Morrison Bryan The two were members of the same college club at Kenyon After graduation Mr Bryan returned to Texas Of opposite political views and identified in sympathy with their respective sections their warm personal friendship extended over many years and their correspondence was unbroken except through the period of the Civil War ...
... The Black Hand The Black Hand 457 thyself be beaten by the cunning right hand of a boy Disgraced thou art and no longer shalt thou be numbered among the members of my frame And the hand clung to the rock and turned black and spread and grew until it was as the hand of a giant and while the chief Ahyomah and the tribe stood silently watching the wonder the defeated warrior wrapped his robe about him spoke no word of farewell and striding swiftly into the dark depths of the forest was seen no ...
... 496 Ohio Arch 496 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications whiskers and red ones too mind how would it look could be devoted to the best of causes following the Divine Master in humility of soul Yet such I believe is the fact But you will say why mention red She knows he can't change the color True but why not cut them off for surely red looks fiercer than black The portraits of Benjamin Lundy so far as we have seen them represent him with a smooth face At the time mentioned by the writer he ...
... 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 ...
... LEWIS L LEWIS L GOULD Chocolate Eclair or Mandarin Manipulator William McKinley the Spanish-American War and the Philippines A Review Essay The Spanish War An American Epic-1898 By GJA O'Toole New York W W Norton 1984 447p photographs notes bibliography index 1995 Sitting in Darkness Americans in the Philippines By David Haward Bain Boston Houghton Mifflin 1984 464p notes bibliography index photographs 2495 The Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection that followed were significant ...
... The three decades preceding the American Civil War appear in retrospect as an era of intellectual as well as political turbulence Everywhere the forces of romantic subjectivism were gaining ground at the expense of longestablished modes of thought and behavior In religion the revivalist spirit placed the heart above the head and swept away the discipline imposed by ecclesiastical formalism in philosophy the mechanistic sensationalism of Locke yielded to more intuitive approaches to the problem ...
... K K AUSTIN KERR The Movement for Coal Mine Safety in Nineteenth-Century Ohio In the nineteenth century Ohioans as other Americans faced a host of new situations arising from the industrial revolution As the level of industrial production increased unique forms of occupational organization emerged which often confronted workers or the public with unaccustomed hazards creating demands that government begin regulating the affairs of private industry By the 1860s state government began addressing ...
... 492 Ohio Arch 492 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ZACHARIAH T SMITH The following article is the expression of respect to the memory of Z T Smith by J L Lewis and published in an Upper Sandusky newspaper Mr Smith was for many years a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and was potently interested in securing the proper legislation for the appropriation for the erection of a building for the Society's Museum and Library It has oft been said that 'Tis not ...
... Report of the Forty-eighth Annual Meeting 301 Report of the Forty-eighth Annual Meeting 301 JOINT COMMITTEE PLANS FOR ARCHIVAL SURVEYS By T R SCHELLENBERG It is quite obvious to research students that in the past thirty years the amount of printed matter has increased in geometric ratio Today students are literally engulfed with a mass of materials many of which are printed on a cheap wood-pulp paper which crumbles to dust after a few decades but which reflect quite accurately the passing ...
... STEVEN P STEVEN P GIETSCHIER The 1951 Speaker's Rule at Ohio State Like many public institutions of higher learning The Ohio State University's support for the principles of academic freedom has often been limited by the political and social views of those who have shaped its destiny Because of the university's location in the state capital and certainly because of its dependence upon a penurious General Assembly for funding Ohio State has over the years generally reflected its origins as a ...
... NOTES ON THE PREVENTION OF COMMUNICABLE NOTES ON THE PREVENTION OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES IN COLUMBUS 1890-1945 by HERBERT M PLATTER MD In the fall of 1893 I opened an office for the general practice of medicine in Columbus and was elected secretary of the Columbus Academy of Medicine which position I held for more than six years Columbus Medical College had just merged with Starling Medical College but Ohio Medical University opened its doors and thus there were at that time two medical ...
... THE SECRET SIX THE SECRET SIX AN INQUIRY INTO THE BASIC MATERIA MEDICA OF THE THOMSONIAN SYSTEM OF BOTANIC MEDICINE By PHILIP D JORDAN PHD Perhaps no single man of medicine exerted a greater popular influence during the hectic days of scientific thought in the nineteenth century than did Dr Samuel Thomson Although the intimate details of his professional career did not always coincide with the stories which Thomson himself told1 the general biographical facts are rather well established The ...
... 102 Ohio Arch 102 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications was introduced by Mr Burdell and asked to invoke the Divine blessing REVEREND NAPHTALI LUCCOCK Our Father's God from out whose hand The centuries fall like grains of sand We stand in this sunlit hour of privilege with grateful hearts for the splendid inheritance thou hast given us in the midst of the years We thank thee for the happy memories which crowd our hearts and for the great opportunities which open before us Put thy blessing ...