... Slaybaugh Summer-Autumn 2002 pp 183-197 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved From New Womanhood to Companionate Marriage in the Progressive Era The Case of Frances Cochran MacDaniels By Douglas Slaybaugh When Frances Cochran was growing up in Cincinnati in the first decade of the twentieth century she mocked her girlfriends interest in boys and scoffed when they suggested the possibility of her falling in love1 At Oberlin ...
... WINTHROP SARGENT VII WINTHROP SARGENT VII By the death of Winthrop Sargent VII of Haverford Pennsylvania on March 29 1932 this Society sustained the loss of a generous friend and life member It was chiefly through his aid that the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society came into the possession of the valuable historical papers of Winthrop Sargent Secretary of the Northwest Territory from its organization until 1798 In the year 1904 the writer learned that a relative of his who was a ...
... 46 Ohio Arch 46 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications LAUNCHING THE SHIP BY IDA ECKERT-LAWRENCE This poem was written by Mrs Lawrence and read by her as she stood by President McKinley upon the occasion of the launching of the Ohio at San Francisco May 18 1901 Mrs Lawrence is a native of Richland county Ohio and now a resident of Toledo She is the author of the well-known little volume of poems entitled Day Dreams I Oh Star of empire thou that went before The pilgrim in the misty days of yore ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 68 NUMBER 3 JULY 1959 The Apathetic Foxes By ALONZO FINLEY KERCHEVAL FOXES ARE LIKE HUMANS in many ways Few folks realize that foxes once lived in this country under organized governments of their own and attended their own schools and churches just like human folks Many years ago the first red foxes were brought to America to supply the hunting needs of wealthy Virginia planters The red fox thrived and multiplied and soon ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Among recent publications concerning Ohio history are the following the Marion County Historical Society is publishing a new history of Marion County the first comprehensive history of the county since 1907 those interested should write to the Marion County 1979 History PO Box 976 Marion Ohio 43302 The Putnam County Historical Society has available Putnam County Pioneer Association Centennial History 1873-1973 1880 History and 1895 Atlas of Putnam County one ...
... JAMES N JAMES N GIGLIO Lawyer as Lobbyist Harry M Daugherty and the Charles W Morse Case 1911-1922 Of all President Warren G Harding's 1920 Cabinet selections none received more opposition than the Attorney General appointment of Harry M Daugherty-a fellow Ohioan who had directed the presidential nomination campaign Both the press and various public officials considered Daugherty a freewheeling lobbyist with a rather unsavory past To buttress their assessment they uncovered the indiscretions ...
... OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY EDITORIAL NOTES AND COMMENT RECOLLECTIONS OF ROYALTY Elsewhere in this issue reference has been made to an address delivered by our late Secretary Emilius Oviatt Randall before the Kit-Kat club entitled Recollections of Royalty This address will long be remembered by those who heard it as one of the most interesting and entertaining every delivered before a Columbus gathering It was published in the April number of ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments Reviews Notes and Comments 151 JOHN DANA On the morning of September 20 1926 John Dana a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society died at his home in Belpre Ohio The news of his death brought sorrow to friends in his home town and in Parkersburg where for many years he had business and social affiliations About a year previous to his death he gave up his business connections with the Dana Company Wholesale Grocers due to failing health Of ...
... THE CLEAN CONSCIENCE OF A DIRTY SWEEP THE CLEAN CONSCIENCE OF A DIRTY SWEEP McGUFFEY'S LITTLE CHIMNEY SWEEP AND ANOTHER by GEORGE L PHILLIPS Assistant Professor of English San Diego State College When by good fortune I come upon a story about a little chimney sweeper one of Lamb's tender novices blooming through their first nigritude the maternal washings not quite effaced from the cheek going sturdily about his business of cleaning soot out of foul chimneys my heart misses a few beats as I ...
... 248 Ohio Arch 2 48 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications such service varies but never ceases And it must come from its citizens themselves if our Republic is to live Sincerely yours JUDSON HARMON TRIBUTE OF EX-GOV J B FORAKER APRIL II 1917 DEAR MR LIGGITT I have your letter of April 9th and sincerely thank you for the privilege you give me of saying something about the Battle Flags to be incorporated in the Memorial Book you are intending to publish If I were in better health I would no ...
... 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 ...
... 562 Ohio Arch 562 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications GATHERING UNDER THE OAKS On July 6th the Secretary of the Society was the honored invitee of the committee of arrangements at the semi-centennial anniversary celebration of the birth of the Republican party held at Jackson Mich in a picturesque grove of oak trees just outside the city limits It was at Jackson Mich on July 6 1854 that the first great mass meeting of members of the Whig Abolitionist Anti-slavery Democrat and other members ...
... 348 Ohio Arch 348 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications INDIANA'S GOLD STAR HONOR ROLL Of all the publications that have come to our notice devoted to the service of American soldiers in the World War none is more attractive and appropriate than the Gold Star Honor Roll recently published by the Indiana Historical Commission This book includes photographs and biographies of more than three thousand Indiana soldiers who died in the World War Almost every brief biography is accompanied by a ...
... 255 255 GENERAL ARTHUR ST CLAIR The Columbus Dispatch contained the following editorial in its issue of April 5 1934 Tuesday was the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of a man closely connected with the early history of Ohio whose life was a pitiable tragedy--Gen Arthur St Clair governor of the Northwest Territory when Ohio formed the body of it He was born in Scotland April 3 1734 and came to America in his young manhood With ability as a soldier he served with the British forces in ...
... GIRTY'S ISLAND GIRTY'S ISLAND BY N B C LOVE DESHLER O Girty's Island in the Maumee River a hundred years ago was the headquarters of the Indians and was the home for a time of Simon Girty Rich in verdant foliage of varied green And many kindred growth of stately trees Plants flowers and vines with nectar for bees Blended in a quivering summer sheen And around the waters ebbying tide Bending low long boughs with vines interlace And reflect in the liquid mirror's face Scintillating like moving ...
... CHOLERA IN CINCINNATI CHOLERA IN CINCINNATI By E W MITCHELL MD A worldwide epidemic of cholera beginning in far-off India in 1826 reached Russia in 1829 England in 1831 and was brought to this country in 1832 by immigrants landing in Quebec Dr Daniel Drake with characteristic foresight published early in 1832 a paper on cholera its causes symptomology and its treatment The first case in Cincinnati was that of a passenger on a steamboat from Portsmouth He had left Kingston Canada nine days ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 589 Reviews Notes and Comments 589 County and the founders of the first church and school in Ohio This pageant was so highly appreciated that those who presented it were prevailed upon to repeat it on the following evening when a capacity audience again enjoyed and heartily applauded it Nothing so thoroughly arouses and impresses the events of local history upon the general public as the presentation of that history in the form of pageants This fact has been ...
... 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 ...
... 126 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 126 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY during the past year Mr Johnson President Mr Eagleson First VicePresident Mr Lindley Secretary and Mr Miller Treasurer be reelected for the coming year and that the secretary be instructed to cast the ballot for their re-election This motion seconded by Mr Spetnagel was unanimously approved Mr Johnson asked that the secretary draft letters to the two retiring members of the Board of Trustees Mr ...
... 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 ...