... 156 Ohio Arch 15 6 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications his countenance betokened a sensual rather than an intellectual quality of character he had not inherited the Napoleon cast of face he was Beauharnais not Bonaparte the forehead was broad the nose prominent suggesting a certain German type the eyes small grayish-blue in color rather expressionless as one biographer said 'if they were windows of his soul their blinds were constantly drawn' his hair was iron-gray his natural 'make-up' ...
... Report of the Forty-fifth Annual Meeting 539 Report of the Forty-fifth Annual Meeting 539 probably purchase these volumes at that price if they had the opportunity to do so It is suggested that two years hence a request should be made for the republication of the volumes to be distributed at cost to those desiring to purchase ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY Within the past year progress has been made in additions to the library Books and bound pamphlets to the number of 882 have been accessioned ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 26 7 Defiance has better claims for such a monument as is proposed The beauty of the site here situated in the heart of the city should give Defiance the precedence The Maumee Valley Pioneer Association wishes to save Roche de Boeuf from being used as a pier for a bridge to be built across the river at that point by the Cincinnati Northern Traction Co Secretary J L Pray said the association would probably first attempt to persuade the electric company to change its ...
... THE IMPACT OF SCIENCE UPON THE HISTORY THE IMPACT OF SCIENCE UPON THE HISTORY OF OHIO by JOHN S MILLIS President of Western Reserve University I recall that many years ago a teacher informed a class of which I was a member that history was the record of the answers to the questions Who What Where and When Since that time I have learned that history also embraces the answers to the questions of How and Why Further it has been those parts of history which deal with the latter two questions which ...
... 168 Ohio Arch 168 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 THE EDUCATIONAL LESSONS OF THIS HOUR REV H A THOMPSON I appreciate the high honor done me by your Chairman in the invitation which he has extended me to speak for a few moments I must tell you in advance that I am not on the program for the day that I have no speech prepared for your listening ears I am here as a member of the Ohio Historical Society whose members are the guests of your committee I am here for the first time in ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR THOMAS BARTLEY ACTING GOVERNOR AND JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO Singular though it may seem the biographies of Judge Bartley that have appeared from time to time in Ohio publications are without exception incomplete Beyond the record of the fact that he served a short time as governor to fill out the unexpired term of Wilson Shannon who had been appointed ...
... 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 ...
... THE HISTORY AND PROSPECTS OF THE THE HISTORY AND PROSPECTS OF THE SOCIETY ANNUAL ADDRESS BEFORE THE OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY FEBRUARY 23 1887 F C SESSIONS FIRST VICE PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY THE Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society now closes its second year and begins its third May it not be profitable to take in retrospect a view of what has been done and in prospect of what may be done The Society owes its origin to the impulse given to historical study by the great ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Guarding the Frontier A Study of Frontier Defense from 1815 to 1825 By Edgar Bruce Wesley Minneapolis Minnesota University of Minnesota Press 1935 217p 250 The author who is head of the history department of the University High School and associate professor of education in the University of Minnesota gives in this volume a study of the frontier defenses from 1815 to 1825 He treats particularly of the defensive military measures adopted against various Indian tribes ...
... 112 Ohio Arch 112 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The years in which Professor Randall taught were previous to the introduction of the Case system in the Colleges of Law In a degree he anticipated this method of teaching He had familiarized himself with a large number of the important decisions of the courts in cases where commercial paper was the cause of the litigation In addition he had the happy faculty of developing by hypothesis a well constructed controversy His students from ...
... Minutes of the Fall Business Meeting Minutes of the Fall Business Meeting Of the Ohio Academy of History Tiffin October 12 1956 The fall meeting of the Ohio Academy of History was held at Heidelberg College The president of the Academy Dr Grover C Platt called the business meeting to order and requested Dr Robert W Twyman of Bowling Green to act as temporary secretary for the purpose of taking minutes Thirty persons were present The president called the attention of those assembled to the fact ...
... ROBERT D ROBERT D MARCUS James A Garfield Lifting the Mask The Garfield Orbit The Life of President James A Garfield By Margaret Leech and Harry J Brown New York Harper amp Row 1978 xi 369 p illustrations notes index 1500 Garfield By Allan Peskin Kent Kent State University Press 1978 x 716p notes sources listed index 2000 Had Garfield Arthur Harrison and Hayes been young' Or had they all been born with flowing whiskers sideburns and wing collars speaking gravely from the cradle of their ...
... NOTES AND QUERIES NOTES AND QUERIES The annual spring meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held at the Fawcett Center on the Ohio State University campus in Columbus April 24 and 25 1981 Address all inquiries to Professor H Roger Grant OAH Program Chair Department of History The University of Akron Akron Ohio 44324 Phone 216 375-7006 A call for papers is requested for the Thirteenth Annual Dakota History Conference to be held at Madison South Dakota on the campus of Dakota State ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Shawnee By Jerry E Clark Lexington University Press of Kentucky 1977 ix 99p illustrations bibliographical essay 495 Jerry E Clark's summary of the most important findings about the Shawnee is yet another addition to the award-winning Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf a series subsidized by the National Endowment for the Humanities and by numerous groups and individuals interested in Kentucky history Not intended to be an original contribution to knowledge The ...
... 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 ...
... ADDRESSES BEFORE THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEADDRESSES BEFORE THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY AT MARIETTA APRIL 5 AND 6 IN CONNECTION WITH THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION ANNUAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT F C SESSIONS THE invitation to hold the third annual meeting of this Society in Marietta came with singular appropriateness It is certainly gratifying to those of us who have seen the movement to celebrate this occasion properly to be permitted to participate in these exercises The few ...
... About WS 2004 Winter-Spring 2004 Contents Staff and Advisory Board OHS Board of Trustees Instructions for Authors PDF of these pages Click page numbers to view articles PDF links are also provided for printing articles Can't read PDFs Get Adobe Acrobat Reader ARTICLES 4 Communication Technology Transforms the Marketplace The Effect of the Telegraph Telephone and Ticker on the Cincinnati Merchants' Exchange by Bradford W Scharlott PDF of this article 18 Steubenville Ohio and the ...
... VERNON L VERNON L VOLPE Benjamin Wade's Strange Defeat Benjamin Wade is known to countless thousands of undergraduates as Bluff Ben a grim outspoken advocate of equal justice for freed Southern slaves The memorable but not completely flattering portrait of Wade found in most college textbooks sometimes obscures the prominent part the Ohio Senator played in national politics during the great crisis of the Civil War and Reconstruction A leading radical Republican he chaired the powerful Joint ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 109 Then with my waking thoughts Bright with Thy praise Out of my stony griefs Bethel I'll raise So by my woes to be Nearer my God to Thee Nearer to Thee The meeting was concluded with prayer BENEDICTION BY DR JOSEPH S KORNFELD To the departed Emilius Oviatt Randall whom we now affectionately remember may peace and bliss be granted in the realm of eternal life There may he find grace and mercy before the Lord of Heaven and earth May his soul ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Oral History Association will hold its 1992 Annual Meeting October 15-18 1992 at the Stouffer Tower City Hotel in Cleveland Ohio Proposals for papers panels media presentations or entire sessions should be sent by December 1 1991 to Donna M DeBlasio Program Chair Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor PO Box 533 Youngstown Ohio 44501 The Black Film CenterArchive at Indiana University-Bloomington is planning a conference entitled In Touch With ...