... ROBERT BUTLER ROBERT BUTLER Book Notes The Journal of Dr William Schooley Edited by George A Schooley Baltimore Gateway Press 1977 261p illustrations index As Dr Schooley noted his intention in writing this journal was not merely to record his life but at the same time to instruct Hence personal recollection is kept to a minimum a large part of the journal is composed of didactic letters and newspaper articles from the early nineteenth century by the liberal Quaker doctor Though he wrote ...
... Dedication of the Hayes Memorial Dedication of the Hayes Memorial 455 life of the man who from youth to advanced years really served his fellowmen and such a memory will undoubtedly be an inspiration to them to take a high view of the calling of citizenship and to prepare themselves by study and thought to render such service as is within their capacity and opportunity ADDRESS OF U S SENATOR POMERENE United States Senator Pomerene spoke as follows I am glad to have the opportunity to come to ...
... 528 Ohio Arch 528 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications FRANK GEORGE CARPENTER Frank George Carpenter well known correspondent traveler and author was born at Mansfield Ohio May 8 1855 He was the son of George F and Jennette L Carpenter He was graduated from the University of Wooster Ohio in 1877 with the degree of A B Later he received the degrees of A M and Litt D He married Joanna D Condict of Mansfield Ohio January 10 1883 Mr Carpenter began newspaper work as legislative correspondent of ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries This issue of Ohio History marks the completion of the editor's first volumeyear and provides the occasion for a brief report on his tenure and a glimpse into the future The journal has undergone a major revitalization during the past three years and the editor's chief task has always been to continue this process We have increased the number of articles and documents carried per issue enlarged the reviews section and tried to give greater weight to those ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Lakewood The First Hundred Years By Jim and Susan Borchert Norfolk The Donning Company 1989 192p illustrations maps bibliography index This thoroughly researched and well-written centennial history chronicles the dramatic changes both physical and cultural which transformed East Rockport from vineyards and orchards to suburb and eventually Cleveland satellite city Abundantly illustrated Borchert's book is neatly organized into fourteen chapters that alternate between ...
... Minutes of the Meeting of the Minutes of the Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History Columbus April 13 1957 One hundred historians attended the spring meeting of the Ohio Academy of History at the Ohio State Museum on Saturday April 13 1957 At one of the two concurrent morning sessions Erving E Beauregard of the University of Dayton introduced Edward J Goodman of Xavier University who presented a paper on Spanish Nationalism in the Struggle Against Napoleon and Alfred D Low of Marietta College ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to this Issue RICHARD G MORGAN is curator of archaeology H HOLMES ELLIS assistant curator of archaeology is now in war production work ROBERT GOSLIN was formerly a museum assistant in archaeology MRS HOWARD JONES MARY MCMULLIN JONES is president of the Ohio History Day Association EL M ER E NOYES is studying for his doctorate in history at the Graduate School of Ohio State University A Communication November 13 1942 Mr Charles M Thomas Department of History Ohio State ...
... Book Reviews Summer-Autumn 2001 pp 190-192 Copyright 2001 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 Ohio History is pleased to announce the launch of its new online archive wwwohiohistoryorgpublicationsohiohistory Researchers can browse the complete text of the journal including footnotes and images from the ...
... 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 ...
... Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association 403 faded manuscripts for you and put the same into type-written form so that editors will readily accept them or you may not have historic mat ter so much at heart as the writer of these lines has nor have been taught by an honored historian a dear husband how to handle historic facts The leaders of the morning's conference then reported briefly upon their correspondence preparatory to the ...
... 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 ...
... 352 Ohio Arch 352 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications a demand that would have overcome his indifference to display and publicity Three of his sons were prominent in their day Rev B F Morris the author of his life Jonathan D Morris who served two terms as congressman from Ohio Isaac N Morris who served two terms as congressman from Illinois and was appointed by President Grant commissioner for the Union Pacific Railway in 1869 If a daguerreotype or painting of the Senator is in the ...
... 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 ...
... THE RAREY MANSION BY SARA LOWE BROWN Dear old mansion crowning the hill Sweetest of memories cling to you still Memories of the Rareys brave and good Who cleared the acres dense with wood They gathered brush from the wilderness wide And wearying home at eveningtide The mansion built at the edge of the wood Where a lowly cabin once had stood They tilled the soil and sowed the grain They chopped the logs to burn under the crane Spinning and weaving by candle-light They labored late in the winter ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 433 Reviews Notes and Comments 433 DEATH OF SENATOR FRANK BARTLETTE WILLIS On the evening of March 28 1928 when he was about to deliver an address in his campaign for the nomination of President of the United States at a home-coming celebration in his honor at Gray Chapel Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware Ohio United States Senator Frank B Willis was stricken and died while 2500 of his friends and neighbors were waiting to hear him Senator Willis was born in Delaware ...
... Historical News Historical News A GENERAL REORGANIZATION of the headquarters staff of the National Trust for Historic Preservation has been announced by Robert Garvey Jr executive director William J Murtagh formerly assistant to the director now heads a newly created department of education and Mrs Helen Duprey Bullock formerly historian and editor directs the department of information which issues Preservation Ne w s a new monthly publication Newly appointed to the staff is Robert G Stewart ...
... Captain Brown Outfits the Mount Vernon Blues For the Toledo War by PAUL L MASSA The Mount Vernon Blues a militia rifle company was organized in 1835 when Ohio mobilized its military forces in preparation for possible hostilities with Michigan This dispute between the state of Ohio and the territory of Michigan over the location of their common boundary line is known as the Toledo War In Mount Vernon Ohio General William Bevans a former Knox County sheriff authorized Benjamin L Brown to ...
... 540 Ohio Arch 540 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publicat io ns OHIO CAVE DWELLERS BY J H GALBRA IT H Mr Galbraith has for some time been publishing a series of Short Stories of the Buckeye State Many of them are worthy of preservation in permanent form Archaeologists will be interested in the one herewith reprinted Did the Cave Dwellers antedate the Mound Builders - EDITOR When Charles Whittlesey explored the shelter houses or caves under the sandstone outcropping along the Black river in the ...
... THE EARLY USE OF THE MICROSCOPE IN OHIO THE EARLY USE OF THE MICROSCOPE IN OHIO By RUSSELL L HADEN MD The compound microscope invented in 1 59 0 made possible the observation of a new world of minute things The practical application of this instrument however developed very slowly No field of science for instance has profited more from the revelations of the microscope than medicine Bacteria protozoa and many animal parasites were observed by the early microscopists yet the microscope was not ...
... 136 Ohio Arch 136 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications THE BUNCH OF GRAPES TAVERN In Old Boston Taverns -a rare little pamphlet published in Boston in 1886 and written by Samuel Adams Drake--is an entertaining little chapter on the Bunch of Grapes Tavern the inn that figured so historically in the early stages of the organization of the Ohio Company of Associates The tavern stood in King Street now State Street at the upper corner of Kilby Street It was not far from the site of the Boston ...