... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Territorial Papers of the United States Compiled and edited by Clarence Edwin Carter Washington United States Government Printing Office 1934 Vol I preliminary printing 15 V ol s II and III 200 each Of the projected volumes of this monumental work the ones now published are especially important to those interested in the history of Ohio The series deals with certain western tracts of land which were governed by Congress and the National Executive as colonies or ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Greek Revival Architecture in America By Talbot Hamlin New York Oxford University Press 1944 Cloth 439p 750 The author who is librarian of the Avery Memorial library and the Fine Arts library at Columbia University is an architect and the author of a number of books on architecture In this book he has traced the important trend in American architecture and life during the period previous to the Civil War emphasizing the development of Greek revival architecture in the ...
... DOCUMENTS DOCUMENTS A STATE MOTTO By Harlow Lindley The recent appearance of a book published by the Ohio Development and Publicity Commission entitled Ohio an Empire within an Empire offers an opportunity to make some comments concerning a state motto This title is purported to be taken from the State's motto the State of Ohio however has no official motto In 1866 a law was passed providing for the inscription of a motto on the State seal The motto adopted was Imperium in Imperio--an empire ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 201 Reviews Notes and Comments 201 Western Reserve Historical Society and the Cleveland Foundation Mr Palmer was a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and was at one time a member of its Board of Trustees DEATH OF DR WILLIAM C MILLS While the current issue of the QUARTERLY was passing through the press Dr William C Mills since 1898 archaeologist and director of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society passed to his final ...
... SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL XLVII For Index of Authors see Contents ABILITY DISTRIBUTION OF Stevens H R A Study of Notable Ohioans 159-167 Abstract of the Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society April 1 1938 215-217 Advancing the Ohio Frontier by Frazer Ells Wilson--Book review by J O M 188-191 American Frontier by Elisabeth Peck--Book review by Lois R Hiestand 374 AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS--FOREIGN ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 429 Reviews Notes and Comments 429 REV NATHANIEL BARRETT COULSON LOVE Rev Nathaniel Barrett Coulson Love was born in Rushville Ohio October 29 1830 He died at his home in Perrysburg Ohio December 29 1922 He had therefore passed his ninety-second birthday He was one of the pioneer ministers of Ohio His father William Love was Scotch-Irish his mother Susannah Force was of English and Scotch-Irish descent Rev Love was educated in the common schools and privately taught ...
... JEFFERY C JEFFERY C LIVINGSTON Between America First and All-Out Internationalism The Fulbright Resolution and Ohio Republican John M Vorys In the US House of Representatives on June 16 1943 Congressman John M Vorys interrupted a floor debate on domestic programs to present the Fulbright Resolution Passed by the House in September 1943 the Fulbright Resolution was during the Second World War the first official endorsement of permanent US participation in a collective security arrangement The ...
... THE BELMONT MEDICAL SOCIETY 1847-1860 THE BELMONT MEDICAL SOCIETY 1847-186 0 AN EARLY COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY IN OHIO By ROBERT G PATERSON PH D At the Centennial Exposition held in Philadelphia in 1876 Dr John S Billings presented a review of Medical Literature and Institutions1 for the hundred years 1776 to 1876 In the course of his review he took occasion to refer to the publications of the Belmont County Medical Society in the following language A rare medical periodical and curiosity in its ...
... 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 ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Without Right Angles The Round Barns of Iowa By Lowell J Soike Des Moines Iowa State Historical Department Office of Historic Preservation 1983 viii 103p illustrations notes index Round barns in Mr Soike's definition were structures which could be truly round octagonal or in some other polygonal form He catalogs 160 round barns in Iowa and traces the general history of this aberrant but practical design for the past 200 years in this well-researched and illustrated book ...
... MINUTES OF MINUTES OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Columbus Ohio April 3 1954 The Ohio Academy of History held its annual spring meeting at Columbus April 3 1954 Registration was followed at 10 A M by two concurrent sessions at the Ohio State Museum At one with Robert Hilliard of Ohio Northern University as chairman James H Rodabaugh of the Ohio Historical Society presented a paper on Opportunities for Writing and Research in Ohio History Comments were made by Randolph C Downes of the ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 499 HONORARY AND LIFE MEMBERS OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY HONORARY MEMBERS Baird Prof S F Washington D C Bancroft Hon Hubert Howe San Francisco Cal De Reune Mrs Mary Augusta Ga Gladden Washington D D LL D Columbus Howe Henry Columbus Nicholson Jno P Pittsburg Pa Putnam Prof F W Cambridge Mass Smucker Isaac Newark Winslow Rev Dr Wm Copley Boston Mass Whittlesey Col Chas Cleveland LIFE MEMBERS Anderson Judge Jas HColumbus Ohio Andrews John W ...
... Book Notes Book Notes History of Upper Arlington A Suburb of Columbus Ohio By the History Committee of the Upper Arlington Bicentennial Committee Columbus Upper Arlington Historical Society 1977 337p illustrations notes maps appendices index The book was written by community residents and focuses on the history of the fire and police departments library municipal government schools religion and sports Personal interviews official records newspapers local publications maps and plates were ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR SARGENT GENEALOGY Epes Sargent of Gloucester and His Descendants by Emma Worcester Sargent and Charles Sprague Sargent Houghton Mifflin Company publishers Boston and New York 1923 One of the most valuable and finely wrought books that has been added to the library of the Society is the sumptuous volume entitled Epes Sargent of Gloucester and His Descendants ...
... 222 Ohio Arch 222 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications sack Anthony Bleecker Samuel Bayard Peter G Stuyvesant and John Pintard met in the picture room of the old city hall in Wall Street to organize this society whose principal object should be to collect and protect materials relating to the natural civil and ecclesiastical history of the United States in general and the State of New York in particular The society was incorporated by an act of the legislature of February 9 1809 It is now ...
... Historical News Historical News The Steubenville Herald-Star celebrated its 150th birthday on June 7 Founded as the Western Herald by William Lowry and John Miller it was operated for thirty years--from 1815 to 1845--by James Wilson the paternal grandfather of President Woodrow Wilson and by his son Robert who succeeded him It is the second oldest newspaper in continuous existence in Ohio the oldest being the Chillicothe Gazette It is a member of the BrushMoore chain Earle W Newton former ...
... THE CINCINNATI LANCET-CLINIC THE CINCINNATI LANCET-CLINIC by DAVID A TUCKER JR MD Professor of the History of Medicine University of Cincinnati The Cincinnati Lancet-Clinic was formed in 1878 by the merger of the Lancet and Observer 1842 with the Clinic 1871 It was known as the Lancet and Clinic until 1888 when the hyphenated title was assumed The Lancet and Observer was founded by L M Lawson in 1842 as the Western Lancet a monthly journal It was issued in Cincinnati under his direction for ...
... KANSAS' DEAD IN FRANCE KANSAS' DEAD IN FRANCE BY WHITTIER C MITCHELL Leans from his warrior's heaven down John Brown Immortal Madman Brown Who shamed a nation by a deed Bolder than that of Winkelreid Swept to his dauntless breast the spears Of Freedom's foes and ere her tears Streamed on his bier with God's own fire Enkindled Slavery's funeral pyre That by its glare might all men see That all are bond till all are free He leans and smiles A measured tread Echoes up from the trenches red New ...
... COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS REMBRANDT and THE OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY b y WILLIAM C KEENER A FEW MONTHS ago the Metropolitan Museum of Art shocked the public and certainly surprised the museum world by paying the remarkable sum of 2300000 for Rembrandt's painting of Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer It was an historic occasion and one filled with more than its share of drama Socialites art dealers critics collectors and museum people gathered for the sale in the austerely ...
... THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXHIBIT FOR THE OHIO THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXHIBIT FOR THE OHIO CENTENNIAL THE collection of Ohio prehistoric relics made at Philadelphia and at New Orleans attracted much attention and demonstrated the richness of Ohio archaeological treasures By common consent Ohio was given the first place among the states in this class of exhibits And yet the collections were far from satisfactory to archaeological students and to those who made the collections and superintended the ...