... THE SOCIETY AND THE QUARTERLY THE SOCIETY AND THE QUARTERLY THE past fifteen years have witnessed especially in the United States a striking and continuing zeal for the pursuit of historical study and investigation By the side of the historical student the archaeologist has been pursuing his studies with unflagging energy The evidences of what we may call the new historic spirit are seen on all sides Never before in the history of this country have there been so many specialists pursuing ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 331 Hayes Spiegel Grove is indeed the Mount Vernon of Ohio It is this magnificent estate and home that the present owner Colonel Webb C Hayes is transferring to the State of Ohio for the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society to be by the latter preserved intact for historic and educational purposes After reading Mr Meek's production one might think that Sandusky county had a monopoly on Ohio history It certainly is rich in the lore of the brave days of old ...
... MINUTES OF MINUTES OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Deshler-Wallick Hotel Columbus Ohio April 9 1948 The Ohio Academy of History met in Columbus April 9 1948 in connection with the Ohio College Association The morning session opened at 10 A M with Clayton S Ellsworth of the College of Wooster presiding Two papers were given The Name of the Holy Roman Empire by Richard G Salomon of Kenyon College and The Good Neighbor Policy by Arvid T Johnson of the University of Toledo Forty members attended ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 329 Reviews Notes and Comments 329 shown as the Josh Billings house on August 8 1845 from John Tift jr for 1100 and resold it to John Tift on January 3 1848 for 1050 That Josh Billings had always dreamed of buying back the old place in Norwalk is attested by a correspondence covering a long number of years between the humorist and W J Alley of Norwalk a lifelong friend of Billings The daughter of Mr Alley who is still living in Norwalk remembers as a little girl when ...
... 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 ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 353 Reviews Notes and Comments 353 The amount of money provided in the different states for additional compensation to World War veterans varies from 2500000 in Rhode Island to 45000000 in New York TABLET FOR CAMPUS MARTIUS The Ohio Daughters of the American Revolution will have placed upon the old Campus Martius house at Marietta a tablet marking this as an important historic point in our state It will be unveiled Wednesday September 28 1921 Dr Edwin Earl Sparks of ...
... 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 ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Middle Innings A Documentary History of Baseball 1900-1948 Compiled and edited by Dean A Sullivan Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 1998 xviii 238p illustrations bibliography index Baseball if no longer reigning as the national pastime still occupies a secure place in America's collective psyche Evidence of this nostalgic affection is deeply rooted in the game's vast statistical lore it's colorful phraseology and an odd sometimes zany cast of characters Figures such as ...
... Historical News Historical News David C Riede has been appointed an instructor in the department of history at the University of Akron Mr Riede received the BA and MA degrees in history from the University of Iowa and is now completing his dissertation for the doctor's degree Maxwell Whiteman has been appointed assistant director of the American Jewish Archives Jacob R Marcus the director of the archives is the recipient of the 1954-55 National Service Award of Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity This ...
... MINUTES OF MINUTES OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Columbus Ohio April 18 1953 The spring meeting of the Ohio Academy of History was held at Columbus April 18 1953 Registration was followed at 1030 AM by two concurrent sessions at the Ohio State Museum One chairmaned by Dr Fred Kershner of Ohio University was devoted to the topic A Consideration of Some of the Intellectual Currents of the Early 20th Century Dr Robert H Bremner of Ohio State University presented a paper on The New View of ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent retirements within the professional community include Ruth Helmuth Case Western Reserve University Archivist William D Aeschbacher teacher and administrator at the University of Cincinnati and Lenore R O'Boyle and Leon C Soule of Cleveland State University The 1986 Northern Great Plains History Conference will be held September 25-27 For details contact Jack M Lauber University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Department of History Eau Claire Wisconsin 54701 ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The State History Day Contest for Ohio will be held in Cleveland on Saturday May 16 1981 at the Western Reserve Historical Society and Case Western Reserve University To qualify for the sixth annual state event 6th through 12th grade students throughout Ohio will compete in one of eleven district contests Students may compete in one of the following categories individual paper individual or group projects and individual or group performances on the junior ...
... Historical News Historical News Virginius C Hall director of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio since 1945 died in Cincinnati on June 8 1957 after a brief illness Mr Hall a native of North Carolina and a graduate of Trinity College Duke University came to Cincinnati in 1923 where he engaged in the advertising business and later in stockbroking until 1934 In that year he joined the faculty of the Cincinnati Country Day School and then in 1942 became a master in the French ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments and retirements within the academic community of Ohio historians include Lester Lee appointed as an Assistant Professor at Antioch College Gary R Hess will succeed Edmund J Danzinger as Department Chair at Bowling Green State University William R Rock has been named as a Graduate Advisor and Michael Moore as an Undergraduate Advisor at Bowling Green State University Virginia B Platt Professor Emeritus was recently appointed to ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 424 Ohio Arch 424 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications federacy at the opening of the Civil War He remained in Kansas and continued steadfast in his devotion to the union of the states He died August 14 1864 WILSON SHANNON Wilson Shannon was born in Belmont County Ohio in 1 80 2 He was graduated from the Ohio University at Athens and Transylvania University Kentucky He began the practice of law at St Clairsville Ohio in 1835 He was governor of Ohio from December 13 1838 to December I6 1840 ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent appointments and retirements within the professional community of Ohio historians include the following at the Ohio State University Alan D Beyerchen appointed to associate professor Robert J Donia to assistant professor and Joseph H Lynch has assumed new duties as Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Andreas Dorpalen who retired this year received the Distinguished Service Award of the Ohio Academy of History in April At the ...
... JOHN GRAY WASHINGTON'S LAST SOLDIER JOHN GRAY WASHINGTON'S LAST SOLDIER BORN NEAR MT VERNON VA JANUARY 6TH 1764 DIED NEAR HIRAMSBURG O MARCH 29TH 1868 BY PRIVATE DALZELL Read at the Marietta Centennial Celebration One by one the severed links have started Bonds that bound us to the sacred past One by one our patriot sires departed Time hath brought us to behold the last Last of all who won our early glory Lonely traveler of the weary way Poor unknown unnamed in song or story In his western ...