... GRANT CABIN GRANT CABIN By HENRY CLYDE SHETRONE Removal of the cabin in which General Ulysses S Grant was born to its original site at Point Pleasant Ohio celebrated with fitting ceremonies on October 4 1936 is of two-fold significance Not only does it constitute a timely tribute to another of Ohio's eminent citizens but since the cabin as such has been completely restored and interiorly refurnished mostly with actual Grant items it perpetuates a typical historic pioneer home Every effort is ...
... R R DOUGLAS HURT Ohio Agriculture Since World War II The atomic bombs which exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 not only ended the Second World War but they also marked the beginning of a new age Thereafter life was never quite the same as it had been prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor Indeed fundamental change spurred by wartime industrialization and economic need characterized American life after the war The history of Ohio agriculture since World War II is the story of ...
... 268 Ohio Arch 268 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications PRESERVATION OF HARRISON'S TOMB A sentimental motive prompted Colonel Russell B Harrison son of the late ex-President of the United States to come to Cincinnati yesterday He had a case in the United States Court but his important reason for the visit was to have a conference with his distant relative Colonel Lewis W Irwin in regard to inducing the United States Government to take over the burying ground at North Bend where the tombs of ...
... Slavery and Antislavery Slavery and Antislavery Subjects in Search of Authors By Louis FILLER I T IS P OSSIBLE that a revaluation of slavery and antislavery--and more especially of the relationship between antislavery and abolition--has been in order perhaps overdue The literature about these last two related fields is of course enormous but whether the residue of them which the historical profession carries about with it and can bring to bear upon them suffices to maintain our understanding ...
... Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly 1 59 TRIBUTE OF THE CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY The press prominent citizens and organizations in editorials in personal letters and formal resolutions gave expression to their appreciation of the character and service of Mr Randall The Historical Society of Clark County Ohio on March 3 1 920 recorded its tribute and adopted resolutions as follows Occasionally in life we find a rare character who ...
... OHIO RAILROADS OHIO RAILROADS BY R S KAYLER STATE COMMISSIONER OF RAILROADS Ohio was among the first of the States to commence the building of railroads As early as 1832 when there were but two hundred and twenty-nine miles of railroad in operation in the United States a special charter was granted by the State of Ohio for the construction of a railroad to extend from Sandusky Huron County to Dayton Montgomery County a distance of one hundred and fifty-six miles The road was completed as far ...
... PROTECTION OF PREHISTORIC MOUNDS AND PROTECTION OF PREHISTORIC MOUNDS AND VILLAGE SITES In late years institutions for archaeological research located outside of the State of Ohio have come into the state and largely encroached upon the field of study and investigation which should be reserved for the purposes of home state exploration To give such societies as The Ohio State Archaeological amp Historical Society as is justly due them the right of way in this matter the 80th General Assembly ...
... 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 ...
... ESSAY AND COMMENT 49 ESSAY AND COMMENT 49 The True Profile of the Harding administration will emerge only as the new historiography is joined with a modification of the old DAVID H JENNINGS Professor of History Ohio Wesleyan University ESSAY AND COMMENT Oral History in Ohio During the past half century as the telephone and computer are replacing the personal letter and the telegraph a new era in historical research is emerging No longer does the detailed letter serve as the major source of ...
... DEVELOPMENT OF THE TEACHING OF PHYSIOLOGY DEVELOPMENT OF THE TEACHING OF PHYSIOLOGY IN OHIO by C I REED Professor of Physiology University of Illinois Chicago Professional Colleges In order to bring the subject into perspective it is necessary to go back to the year 1726 when the first curricular representation of physiology was accorded by the University of Edinburgh in appointing Andrew Sinclair professor of the institutes of medicine As applied later this title very often covered much more ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The University Press of Wright State University is currently considering for publication book-length manuscripts on the following subjects aviation history black achievers gifted and talented children and Ohio life and history For additional information write to Carl M Becker Director University Press Wright State University Dayton Ohio 45435 The North American Society for Sport History will hold its Eighteenth Annual Convention at Banff Alberta Canada on ...
... Reviews and Comments 315 Reviews and Comments 315 1885 A copy of each of these with his autograph he presented to the McGuffey Society of Columbus Ohio They are in the list of books presented to the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Just as we go to press Henry Ford has contributed Reprints of the Fifth and Sixth Readers Copyright of 1866 These complete his series of reprints ROBERT FREDERICK WOLFE The capital city of Ohio was shocked on January 13 1927 to learn of the tragic ...
... LAURA RUSSELL LAURA RUSSELL Book Notes Growth Amidst Struggle A Sesquicentennial History of the Longenecker Mennonite Church By James O Lehman Winesburg Ohio Longenecker Mennonite Church 1980 160p illustrations maps notes index Once again James O Lehman puts together the history of a congregation and in so doing makes an important contribution to Ohio's local history In Growth Amidst Struggle Lehman traces the two meetinghouses-Kolb's and Longenecker's-which today comprise the Longenecker ...
... 444 Ohio Arch 444 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications ored guest at their gatherings and re-unions He was a member of the military order of the Loyal Legion of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the Sons of the American Revolution being president of the Benjamin Franklin Chapter Columbus Ohio at the time of his death General Wright for many years past had taken an active part in the work of The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society He was a life member February 25 1897 Governor Asa ...
... 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 ...
... 148 Ohio Arch 148 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Mr Meeker is the author of a number of books The list according to information at hand is as follows Washington Territory West of the Cascade Mountains 1870 Hop Growing in the United States 1883 Pioneer Reminiscences of Puget Sound 1905 The Tragedy of Leschi 1906 The Oregon Trail 1907 Uncle Ezra's Pioneer Stories for Children 1916 Eighty-five Years of a Busy Life 1916 Seventy Years of Progress in Washington 1921 Ox-Team Days on the ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 97 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 97 ing of the necessity for propaganda Dr Grimm stressed the importance of missionary work among American youth Their minds must be educated and their wills motivated he said They face a new frontier even as did their progenitors they too are pioneers in new fields and if they know the task ahead of them they can--as did their forebears--arm themselves with faith and hope and the cooperative spirit and by so doing make ...
... School and Other Days 1859 School and Other Days 1859 Selections from the Diaries of Robert and Sylvester Bishop Edited by JOHN WEATHERFORD ROBERT WAS ELEVEN and Sylvester nine when they began their diaries in the Christmas season of 1858 They kept them with fair regularity during 1859 except for summer vacation Their father Robert Hamilton Bishop II encouraged journals among those of his twelve children who were the right age Professor of Latin at Miami University and son of its first ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Western Reserve Historical Society is sponsoring a Bicentennial Conference of American Genealogy and Family History August 8-12 1976 The conference will center on the people and records of the American Revolution migrations to and within the United States following the Revolution the preparation and printing or publishing of genealogical material and the nature and use of some major genealogical collections and family history studies in American ...
... 248 Ohio Arch 248 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ACCESSIONS TO HISTORICAL COLLECTION 596--Hand-bags presented by Mrs M C Hopewell Chillicothe O 9-29-'24 597--Portrait of Simon Kenton by Morgan loaned by Mr W D McKinney Columbus O 10-2-'24 598--Acts of State of Ohio and other books presented by Mrs G W Landes Columbus O 10-2-'24 599--Quartermaster's Record 1793 presented by Mr F E Wilson Greenville O 10-2-'24 600--Collection of carpenter planes presented by F P Hall Co Columbus O ...