... Benjamin W Abramson 1974 Ohio Historical Society Columbus 252 OHIO HISTORY 252 OHIO HISTORY crises in the Jewish community in the past some of the finest leadership from all congregations joined hands in covering-up and in having that person removed from town-and he left in a hurry We were always able to use the good auspices of prominent people to cover-up So that covering-up is not such a bad thing10 Even with a carefully constructed ...
... RICHARD K RICHARD K FLEISCHMAN AND R PENNY MARQUETTE Chapters in Ohio Progressivism The Cincinnati and Dayton Bureaus of Municipal Research and Accounting Reform Introduction During the Progressive era in American history reformers attacked corruption bossism unbridled plutocracy and what they perceived to be the decay of traditional American morality Following the depression of 1893 one of the most severe in the nation's history many reformers focused on a new common cause-the appalling ...
... Book Notes Book Notes State Maps on File Midwest Illinois Indiana Iowa Michigan Minnesota Missouri Ohio Wisconsin New York Facts on File Publications 1984 maps index and Illustrated Dictionary of Place Names United States and Canada Edited by Kelsie B Harder New York Facts on File Publications 1985 reprint xiv 631p illustrations bibliography State Maps on File is one of a seven-volume series of state maps compiled by the publishers and specifically geared to the needs of teachers students and ...
... PROCEEDINGS 243 PROCEEDINGS 243 by the Society as its chief contribution in connection with the State-wide celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Establishment of Civil Government within the limits of the State His general presentation is printed in this number of the QUARTERLY as a part of the Prospectus for a History for the State of Ohio pp 249-259 Miss Bertha E Josephson editorial associate of the Mississippi Valley Historical Review was next on the program CRITICAL INVESTIGATION ...
... 600 Ohio Arch 600 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The Registrar has reported the additions to the Museum from Oct o ber 1 1926 to September 1 1927 as follows Accessions to Museum Collections October 1 1 926 to September 1 1 927 The most important additions to the Archaeological collection aside from the material secured by explorations have been the collections of the late Dr G Miesse Lancaster Ohio which was bequeathed to the Society of Mr C O Tracy Bexley Ohio presented by his son Mr ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Covered Wooden Truss Bridges of Greene County Ohio A collection of photos and data of a vanishing era By James H Shell Xenia Ohio Greene County Historical Society 1998 76p illustrations bibliography At first glance this slender volume appears to be just another covered bridge picture book Many of this genre emphasize numbingly repetitive photos of bridge exteriors and indeed the lead section of this book includes the expected photo gallery But this publication actually ...
... 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 ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Papers of Ulysses S Grant Volume V April 1-August 31 1862 Edited by JOHN Y SIM ON Carbondale Southern Illinois Press 1973 xxv 458 p introduction chronology maps illustrations calendar index 15 Like its predecessors Volume V of the Grant Papers is skillfully edited and artfully produced by John Y Simon and his editorial team The packaging is increasingly essential since Grant's correspondence is thin and given to silences on issues which intrigued his ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XVIII No l JANUARY 1909 SERPENT MOUND TOWER It will be recalled that the Seventy-Seventh General Assembly 1908 in the appropriations for the Society made provision by a special appropriation of 500 for the erection of a tower at Serpent Mound At the meeting of the Executive Committee held July 16 1908 the matter of making a contract and supervising the erection of this tower was placed in charge of a special committee consisting of Treasurer Wood and Secretary ...
... 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 ...
... Nelson Winter-Spring 2001 pp 5-25 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page with footnotes according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page The Ideal of Nature and the Good Farmer Louis Bromfield and the Quest for Rural Community By Philip J Nelson click to view larger image World War II and its aftermath dominated the 1940s as have few events in other decades ...
... IN MEMORIAM IN MEMORIAM Read and adopted at the afternoon session of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society April 30 1931 EDWIN FOREST WOOD WHE REAS It has pleased Divine Providence to remove from our midst our co-worker associate and friend Edwin Forest Wood and W HEREAS He had been prominently identified with the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society since 1890 serving first as Assistant Treasurer and after the death of S S Rickly November 23 1905 as Treasurer of the ...
... URINALYSIS INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION THE URINALYSIS INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION THE STETHOSCOPE ET CETERA OF THE PERIOD 1835-1858 By HOWARD DITTRICK M D The period 1835 to 1858 was one during which there was little or no advance in the scientific side of medicine According to F H Garrison the scientific movement did not start until well after the middle of the nineteenth century Medicine of the early half was with a few exceptions only part and parcel of the stationary theorizing of the preceding ...
... EDGAR STILLMAN-KELLEY OHIO COMPOSER EDGAR STILLMAN-KELLEY OHIO COMPOSER By OPHIA D SMITH Among the outstanding men of Ohio is Edgar StillmanKelley the dean of American composers For sixty years he has enriched the musical literature of the world Contemporaneous with Edward McDowell Horatio Parker George Chadwick and Arthur Foote he struggled as they did for recognition in a day when only Europeans could win applause Edgar Kelley was born in Sparta Wisconsin on April 14 1857 the first child ...
... ROGER MEADE ROGER MEADE Book Notes Studies on Indiana Indiana History Resource Series Volume I A Bibliography of Theses and Dissertations Submitted to Indiana Institutions of Higher Education for Advanced Degrees 1902-1977 Compiled by Betty Jarboe and Kathryn Rumsey Indianapolis Indiana Historical Bureau 1980 xiii 377p author index name and subject index bibliography This bibliography was compiled with the idea that nowhere else has Indiana been more thoroughly studied than its universities ...
... 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 ...
... GREGORY L GREGORY L CRIDER William Dean Howells and the Gilded Age Socialist in a Fur-lined Overcoat William Dean Howells was among the foremost of several latenineteenth century novelists including Mark Twain and Hamlin Garland who left small midwestern towns to seek their literary fortunes in the East Esteemed as a first-rank novelist the Father of American Realism and the nation's most prominent literary critic he became a celebrated symbol of Gilded Age culture When four hundred guests ...
... 224 Ohio Arch 224 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications FIRST NAVIGATOR OF THE OHIO RIVER It is a most interesting but generally unknown fact which we have verified by a letter from Mr William Loeb secretary to the President that the brother of the grandfather of President Roosevelt was the first man to navigate a steamboat on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers says Mr Charles C Allen Captain Roosevelt was a warm personal friend of Robert Fulton the inventor of steam craft and soon after ...
... 36 Ohio Arch 36 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications NOTES HONORABLE JAMES W GOOD Honorable James W Good Secretary of War in the cabinet of President Hoover was the most distinguished official who attended the unveiling of the monument in honor of General Anthony Wayne and he delivered the principal address at the banquet in the evening in the Commodore Perry Hotel No one who heard him would have predicted that this would be the last distinguished service of this character he would perform ...
... THE MIDDLE WEST AND THE COMING OF THE MIDDLE WEST AND THE COMING OF WORLD WAR II by JEANNETTE P N ICHOLS Such a topic as The Middle West and the Coming of World War II admits the premise that public opinion in a particular section of a nation can importantly affect the foreign policy of the central government particularly in a country run on the representative principle This premise has received endorsement repeatedly in the history of the United States and other countries and especially among ...