... 2 8 6 GEORGE W RIGHTMIRE President of the Ohio State University GEORGE W GEORGE W RIGHTMIRE PRESIDENT OF OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY When Professor George W Rightmire of the College of Law Ohio State University was notified after the resignation of Dr W O Thompson that he had been chosen as Acting President of the University he was perhaps more completely surprised than any other member of the faculty or teaching force of this great institution The notification of his selection was the first ...
... BUFFALO CHILD LONG LANCE BUFFALO CHILD LONG LANCE Buffalo Child Long Lance a scholarly Indian chieftain from Alberta Canada spoke at the annual meeting of the Society October 2 An account of his address and his visit to Ohio is found on a succeeding page In introducing him at the annual meeting Governor James E Campbell President of the Society spoke in part as follows I am going to introduce a real live Indian of the Blood tribe His name in our language is Buffalo Child Long Lance His name in ...
... 314 Ohio Arch 314 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications historic building but no one has come forward with the money to purchase and preserve it It is likely to share the fate of the house in Niles in which William McKinley was born JUDSON HARMON Judson Harmon jurist attorney general in the cabinet of President Cleveland and twice elected governor of Ohio died in Cincinnati February 22 1927 He was a graduate of Denison University a lawyer of eminent ability and a life member of the Ohio ...
... Melodrama in Ohio Melodrama in Ohio Avery Hopwood and Boss Cox of Cincinnati By ARNO L BADE R W HEN THE OHIO PLAYRIGHT Aver y Hopwood died in 1928 his reputation was that of an immensely successful writer of light comedies and bedroom farces which had brought him a fortune If anyone remembered that as a youngster he had written The Powers That Be a serious play attacking civic corruption and political bossism that fact was not mentioned in his obituaries Yet for one week in 1907 The Powers ...
... 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 ...
... Historical News Historical News Eventful Years and Experiences by Bertram W Kom has recently been published by the American Jewish Archives Cincinnati These studies deal with the life of the American Jew and include an essay on Isaac M Wise among others with Ohio connections Richard C Knopf historian of the Anthony Wayne Parkway Board has had several articles published recently Wayne's Western Campaign The Wayne-Knox Correspondence appeared in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography ...
... 198 198 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications learned and was a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Joseph Green Butler Jr married Harriet Voorhes Ingersoll of Honesdale Pennsylvania January 10 1866 Of this union were born Mrs Blanche Butler Ford Mrs Grace Ingersoll Butler McGraw and Mr Henry A Butler The latter two survive Mrs Butler died in 1921 Mr Butler was familiarly known as Uncle Joe and his wide circle of acquaintances and friends felt a personal loss ...
... 148 Ohio Arch 148 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Mr Meeker is the author of a number of books The list according to information at hand is as follows Washington Territory West of the Cascade Mountains 1870 Hop Growing in the United States 1883 Pioneer Reminiscences of Puget Sound 1905 The Tragedy of Leschi 1906 The Oregon Trail 1907 Uncle Ezra's Pioneer Stories for Children 1916 Eighty-five Years of a Busy Life 1916 Seventy Years of Progress in Washington 1921 Ox-Team Days on the ...
... 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 ...
... History in the study and iin the schools by HENRY R WINKLER Like so many college students in our time we historians have been going through an identity crisis of our own Who are we Where are we going Why do we do what we do What is its purpose Is it worth the trouble Why And so on And so on Most of us to be sure manage to avoid thinking about the rationale of our subject most of the time Our work is interesting We are absorbed in it When we teach we receive some stimulation from our students ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Fall Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be October 13-14 1989 at Ohio University The Missouri Valley History Conference sponsored by the University of Nebraska at Omaha's History Department will be held March 8-10 1990 Those interested in further information concerning the conference should contact Jerold Simmons Program Coordinator MVHC Department of History University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha Nebraska 68182 The Pennsylvania Historical and ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS THE NEW COMMONWEALTH 18771890 By John A Garraty New York Harper amp Row 1968 xv 364p editor's introduction preface illustrations bibliographical essay and index 795 225 paper With the welcome appearance of Professor Garraty's masterful synthesis and reevaluation of the Hayes to Harrison period of our national development we have the most important study of these highly significant but long neglected years since the 1930's when Ida M Tarbell and Arthur M Schlesinger Sr ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments and awards within the professional community of Ohio historians include Dr Allan Peskin of Cleveland State University has been promoted to Professor Peter Rutkoff of Kenyon College has received an NEH Fellowship Department Chairman for more than 30 years Dr Robert E Bader of Mount Union College has retired at the end of the 1980-81 academic year Professor Richard Doyle of Mount Union College spent Spring 1981 on sabbatical to ...
... METHODS OF TREATMENT OF SOME OF THE MORE METHODS OF TREATMENT OF SOME OF THE MORE COMMON DISEASES BY THE PIONEER PHYSICIANS OF OHIO By DAVID A TUCKER MD As a preface to the description of the treatment of some common diseases in the Ohio Valley a century or more ago I should like to sketch briefly the knowledge with which the physician of that period was equipped First he was familiar with the gross appearance of body in health and disease as anatomical studies were greatly stressed but knew ...
... 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 ...
... Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 645 Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 645 Mr Edward S Lewis 22 1 7 McGregor Place Cincinnati Ohio Mrs Rhea Mansfield Knittle 177 E Main St Ashland Ohio Mr C Allen Boughton 1 25 W Fifth St Mansfield Ohio Mrs Henry V Weil 1 26 E 57th St New York City N Y Mr Ralph H Beaton 1578 E Long St Columbus Ohio Rev L L Roush 5725 Gallia Ave Portsmouth Ohio Mr C E Spindler Ashville Ohio Miss Gertrude H Terrell New Vienna Ohio R F D No 3 Mr Edward S Thomas 1116 ...
... Charles Burleigh Galbreath 135 Charles Burleigh Galbreath 135 The final phase But why delay the bitter truth-- The story of my pride and fall-- The transit from my vernal youth To wreckage sad and skeletal Spurned by the feet of passers-by An outcast in the mire and rain Unworthy of a passing sigh And dead alike to joy or pain Fair maiden speed--I ask no more-- My flight aloft on fiery wings To Nature's mighty reservoir-- The goal of all material things Your hope serene I may not claim Of joys ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Presidency of Rutherford B Hayes By KENNETH E DAVISON Westport Conn Greenwood Press Inc 1972 xiii 266p illustrations notes and index 1200 In his account of the Hayes presidency Professor Davison has attempted to correct the interpretation of the Gilded Age as an era of ruthless plunder depicted by Parrington Beard Josephson Twain and others He portrays Hayes as a decent high-principled experienced statesman a unifier pacifier and reformer He views the Hayes ...
... 612 Ohio Arch 612 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications This is the order of nature it must be for the best I remembered this when we were called to his obsequies Worthy fellow-man public-spirited upright citizen generous faithful friend beloved fellow-member we honor ourselves by placing this modest wreath at the shrine of his memory CLAUDE MEEKER AS A YOUNG REPORTER BY HAROLD G SIMPSON I think it probable that my intimate acquaintance with Claude Meeker began earlier and therefore extended ...
... Brief Biography of William Henry Holmes 511 Brief Biography of William Henry Holmes 511 younger son William Heberling Holmes having a wife and three daughters is in business in Detroit BEAR HUNT IN YELLOWSTONE PARK -- 1872 BY W H HOLMES I had a curious little bear hunt experience in the Gallatin Range when I was with the first Hayden expedition We started out to climb one of the mountains one party going in one direction and the other with the outfit in another direction As we went along we ...