... 134 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 134 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Public Session of the Ohio Committee on Medical History and Archives 200 P M April 7 Ohio State Museum Library Jonathan Forman Presiding The public session of the Ohio Committee on Medical History and Archives was called to order by Dr Jonathan Forman its chairman at 2 00 P M o n April 7 1939 in the Library of the Museum The program was concerned with The Pioneer Physicians of Ohio Their Lives and ...
... 550 Ohio Arch 550 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications THOMAS J BROWN Thomas J Brown a life member of this Society died at his home in Waynesville Warren county Ohio early on Wednesday morning April 2nd 1913 He was born near the village of Bellbrook Greene county Ohio August 16th 1833 thus at the time of his death being but a few months under eighty years of age Mr Brown's entire life was spent in the immediate vicinity of the place of his birth and the home of his boyhood Thomas J Brown ...
... DEVELOPMENT OF THE TEACHING OF ANATOMY IN OHIO DEVELOPMENT OF THE TEACHING OF ANATOMY IN OHIO 1890-1945 by LINDEN F EDWARDS Professor of Anatomy Ohio State University In America during the nineteenth century there was an unprecedented expansion of population over an enormous territory This situation created a huge demand for doctors with the result that proprietary medical colleges under private ownership were founded in great numbers According to Flexner American towns produced over four ...
... HAROLD HOLZER HAROLD HOLZER Lincoln and the Ohio Printmakers Much has been written about the engraved and lithographed portraiture of Abraham Lincoln a pictorial genre that did much to benefit the nation's sixteenth president both politically and historically1 These crude and homely portrayals helped introduce the little-known Lincoln to American voters following his unexpected nomination to the presidency in 1860 Later engravings and lithographs provided audiences with the first ...
... ROBERT L ROBERT L DAUGHERTY Book Notes The Overland Journal of Amos Piatt Josselyn Zanesville Ohio to the Sacramento Valley April 1849 to September 11 1849 Edited by J William Barrett II Baltimore Gateway Press 1978 129 p illustrations appendices bibliography index The principal value of this brief work is that Josselyn was one of the few forty-niners to record his experiences As told through his journals and letters Josselyn's description of his three-year affliction with gold fever recounts ...
... WILLIAM D WILLIAM D JENKINS Robert Bulkley Progressive Profile Twenty years ago American historians characterized progressivism as a political movement whose reform impulse was rooted in the status anxieties of its predominately middle-class membership Since then a generation of historians has effectively challenged the simplicity of that hypothesis and replaced it with the notion that progressivism was more diffuse in nature No longer viewed then as a movement cohesive in philosophy and ...
... 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 ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 631 Forty-First Annual Meeting 631 my deep appreciation of their cooperation in the welfare of the Museum Respectfully submitted Signed WILLIAM C MILLS Mr John R Horst Chairman of the Committee on EARLY OHIO SCHOOL BOOKS stated that the Ray collection is almost complete and progress is being made in securing other books used in the early schools of the state As to the McGuffey books while the Committee is still seeking the First Readers of the 1843 and 1885 editions ...
... 212 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 212 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY stalled Lithic Laboratory and assisted generally in routine duties in the Museum The Department of Natural History completed the rearrangement of the bird and mammal study collections conducted work on a series of distribution maps on orthoptera and Ohio mammals collected more than 10000 specimens of Ohio insects received numerous accessions of birds mammals reptiles amphibia and insects from ...
... 132 Ohio Arch 132 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications POEMS BY C B GALBREATH1 MORNING GLORIES From the shadows of night they called for the dawn In notes that were subtle and clear In a strain of music too exquisite For the range of mortal ear From their leafy columns and battlements That were moist with the morning dew A call for light and a reveille From the bells of their bugles they blew And lo up the east in the blush of the rose Came the tremulous light of the morn And earth awoke in ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... THE OLD RIVER BRIDGE THE OLD RIVER BRIDGE JAMES BALL NAYLOR Read at the dedication of the Malta-McConnelsville steel bridge July 8th 1902 The flew steel bridge superseded the old wooden toll bridge built in 1867 The old river-bridge grown decrepit and gray In the warfare of years has alas passed away For Time the remorseless has triumphed at lastAnd the faithful old bridge is a part of the past Like a warrior it stood with its feet in the tide And its lean arms outstretched to the bridegroom ...
... Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 579 Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 579 is evidenced by the registration list which has been as follows for the year ending Sept 1st 1 924 viz September 1147 April 175 October 413 May 11 73 November 169 June 1092 December 128 July 1522 January 35 August 2108 February 14 March 177 Total 8153 The Maximum Sunday attendance was 245 The maximum week day attendance was 160 The average daily attendance was 24 The maximum monthly attendance was 2108 The average monthly ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 275 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 275 mind gave way completely Wolfley begged his superiors to grant him leave and return him to Ohio Two days later on May 7 1844 the surgeon was admitted to the sick list as mentally deranged24 When the Decatur put in at Porto Praya Wolfley's commander determined to leave him in the hands of the United States Agent for the Cape Verde Islands The town of Porto Praya rests on a table-land high above the harbor of St Jago ...
... Minutes of the Meeting of the Minutes of the Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History Columbus April 8 1961 T HE OHIO ACADEMY o f History held its twenty-eighth annual meeting at the Ohio State Museum on April 8 1961 Two concurrent sessions were held in the morning and two in the afternoon Robert L Gilmore of Ohio University presided over the Latin American history section at which Father Charles E Ronan SJ of Xavier University delivered a paper entitled Clavigero Eighteenth Century Voice of ...
... Book Notes Winter-Spring 2002 pp 94-95 Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page BOOK NOTES Field Guide to Projectile Points of the Midwest By Noel D Justice and Suzanne K Kudlaty Bloomington and Indianapolis Indiana University Press 2001 xii 53 p 112 figures appendixes This slim volume is intended as a beginner's ...
... Historical News Historical News THE OHIO-INDIANA AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION held its fall meeting at Kent State University on November 7 1959 Papers were read at the morning session on Clarence Darrow and the American Literary Tradition Abe C Ravitz of the department of English Hiram College Communal Societies on the American Frontier Hallock C Raup of the department of geography Kent State and Magazine Fiction Image or Mirage William Coyle of the department of English Wittenberg University ...
... Comments Notes and Reviews Comments Notes and Reviews 531 dead A chart was shown delineating the bundled bones of Indians at the surface of the ground at Mille Lacs with mounds of earth built over them James W Lynd historian of the Sioux nation was quoted showing that the Dakota people were at Mille Laces at a very ancient period in fact so long ago that no tradition remained to show where they came from or how long they had been there No trace of two distinct classes of stone implements and ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 399 Society The article is most complete and satisfactory written with the customary scholarly accuracy characteristic of Professor Knight Judge James H Anderson the President of The Old Northwest Genealogical Society has an interesting and of course sympathetic article upon his son James Thomas Anderson Lieutenant U S A who died in Colorado Springs March 13 1904 and was buried on the 17th of March at Marion Ohio There is also an article by the late William Trimble ...