... Book Reviews Summer-Autumn 2000 pp 187-189 Copyright 2000 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 NOTES AND QUERIES The 2001 spring meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held April 6 and 7 at Capital University in Columbus For details contact Prof Thomas C Maroukis Department of History amp Political Science Capital ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS ON THE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF OHIO 1965-1967 RELIGION WEIS James The Problem of Language Transition Among Lutherans in Ohio 18361858 Concordia Historical Institution Quarterly XXXIX 1966 5-19 Concerns the conflict over the use of the German and English languages in Lutheran services and seminaries WELSH Edward Burgett Origins of Ohio Presbyterianism Journal of Presbyterian History XLIII March 1965 16-27 SOCIAL HISTORY BORGWALD Charles W and Milton N Gallup Memories ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Ohio Pottery and Glass Marks and Manufacturers By Lois Lehner Des Moines Iowa Wallace-Homestead Books 1978 113p illustrations notes bibliography A useful updating of John Ramsay's 1947 check list of Ohio potteries with additional material on Ohio glass manufacturers this work contains brief company histories arranged alphabetically by town or city and accompanied by reproductions of known ware marks The bibliography indicates an uneven utilization of available material ...
... County in 1830 along with scenes of a young Lincoln splitting rails and rafting down the Mississippi River on a flatboat The company responsible for commissioning this charming effort was headed by Jesse K Dubois who had been an intimate friend of the late president26 and may well have supplied the 26 See Paul M Angle Here I Have Lived A History of Lincoln's Springfield Chicago and New Salem 1971 191 252 284 Ohio Printmakers 415 Ohio ...
... County Oklahoma on the County Oklahoma 1 50 miles County find To add to the confusion a collector from Fort Smith Arkansas claims to have found eleven such eccentrics accompanying a double burial in the Spiro Mound prior to the complete excavation by the University of Oklahoma Two ear-spools and a stone pipe were also said to have been ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 323 Reviews Notes and Comments 323 The question Are any of the Griffiths there yet Mr Gessner answered in the affirmative The General then humorously observes The town of Batavia must now be very much dried up with all the facilities the people have to get away I used to take much delight in visiting there and through Clermont And then he added with a touch of pathos But I have made my last visit In this connection the author makes some statements that will be news ...
... County July 21 1806 The County published in 1879 County Ohio He stated that the other 14 part belonged to Jacob Bowman of Brownsville Pa Bever estimated his 34 interest at 9000 Yours very truly Signed WILLIAM H VODREY 94 ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 125 WILLIAM TRIMBLE McCLINTICK Hon William Trimble McClintick a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society a cultivated gentleman and one of the most distinguished citizens of Ohio died at his residence Chillicothe on October 28 1903 at the unusual age of eightyfour Mr McClintick was a man far above the average in ability and intellectual achievement His long life spanned almost the first century of Ohio's statehood history and he had the ...
... Essay and Comment Essay and Comment OHIO NETWORK OF AMERICAN HISTORY RESEARCH CENTERS A PROPOSAL A general characteristic of Americans has always been the overemphasis on quantity and competition to the point of blurring a full consideration of the advantages of quality and cooperation The rapid changes of the twentieth century resulting in the formation of a complex of ever-increasing interwoven relationships between people and their institutions necessitates the redirection of traditional ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Academy of History annual meeting will be held on Friday and Saturday April 26-27 1991 at Capital University in Columbus Ohio For details concerning the meeting contact Clayton R Koppes OAH Program Committee Oberlin College Department of History Oberlin Ohio 440741095 The Second Annual University of Cincinnati Social History Conference invites interested scholars to submit papers in social history broadly defined as any aspect of the history of ...
... ESSAY AND COMMENT ESSAY AND COMMENT Historiography and WARREN G HARDING re The Shadow of Blooming Grove Warren G Harding in his Times by Francis Russell New York McGraw-Hill Company 1968 xvi691p index 1250 The image of Warren G Harding has been derived largely from pre1940 books by Samuel Hopkins Adams Frederick Lewis Allen Mark Sullivan and William Allen White To these life-and-times accounts must be added the memoirs of Nan Britton Harry Daugherty and Gaston B Means The picture presented was ...
... County It comprises many County The Burket collection which was begun many years ago by Mr Burket's father the late Judge Jacob F Burket is purely local in character and is rich in the ceremonial and problematic forms found in northern central Ohio One of the largest and finest chipped flint spear-points in the state also is in the collection ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Museums Association OMA a nonprofit statewide organization of nature centers zoos art science history and natural history museums has located its headquarters at the Ohio Historical Center in Columbus Ohio Although separate from the Ohio Historical Society the OMA provides workshops conferences annual meetings and a monthly newsletter to OHS and other organizations throughout the state in an effort to provide educational opportunities for staff ...
... 296 Ohio Arch 296 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications This is a little volume just issued from the press in which the author recounts A tale of the Mound Builders The location of the events of the story is mainly at Serpent Mound and Marietta at which latter place the author locates the capital or abiding place of the king of the Mound Builders whom he calls Oko The story is not intricate and is simply and speedily told It is an imaginative portrayal of the life and character of the Mound ...
... 444 Ohio Arch 444 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications ored guest at their gatherings and re-unions He was a member of the military order of the Loyal Legion of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the Sons of the American Revolution being president of the Benjamin Franklin Chapter Columbus Ohio at the time of his death General Wright for many years past had taken an active part in the work of The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society He was a life member February 25 1897 Governor Asa ...
... County Public Library This County Public Library 325 Michigan Street Toledo Ohio 43624 Manuscripts Guide to Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign edited by Maynard J Brichford et al is a comprehensive inventory of the holdings of the University Archives the Illinois Historical Survey and the library's Rare Book Room Business Archives and History Library Copies may be ...
... PETER WITT 377 PETER WITT 377 irascible exterior and his biting invective there were qualities of honesty fidelity and generosity that made him the loyal sentimental friend of many people He had genuine oratorical gifts though he sometimes attacked unreasonably and without full information about the facts and he had a tongue that he always found it hard to curb He never attacked with a rapier A meat cleaver was his favorite tool as he himself readily admitted to his friends But he never lacked ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Western Reserve Historical Society is sponsoring a Bicentennial Conference of American Genealogy and Family History August 8-12 1976 The conference will center on the people and records of the American Revolution migrations to and within the United States following the Revolution the preparation and printing or publishing of genealogical material and the nature and use of some major genealogical collections and family history studies in American ...