... ROBERT A ROBERT A BUERKI Pharmaceutical Education in Nineteenth-Century Ohio The development of pharmacy as a profession in America had its roots in English customs and traditions the colonial practice of pharmacy differing from that of its mother country only in being more lax and unrestricted and standing on a somewhat lower level Only a small minority of its practitioners was educated beyond an apprenticeship that lacked both the system and standards that strong English guilds had once ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy By William Wade Hinshaw Richmond Ind Friends Book and Supply House distributors 1937 Vol I 1185p 2000 with discount to libraries and Meetings Genealogy which is an auxiliary of historical science has been defined as the systematic account of the origin descent and relations of families Genealogical knowledge becomes of great importance in many ways both as to individual interests and as an aid in interpreting historical ...
... 354 Ohio Arch 354 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren His interest in local history as attested by numerous articles and the voluminous History of Sandusky County his kindly and cheerful disposition and his optimistic spirit will long be remembered by his fellow members of the Society MEETING OF CRESAP SOCIETY The Cresap Society will hold its meeting in Columbus September 15-16 The first session will be held Friday evening September 15 at the ...
... LEE SOLTOW LEE SOLTOW Inequality Amidst Abundance Land Ownership in Early Nineteenth Century Ohio As the great trans-Appalachian West opened to settlement in the years after the founding of the Republic Americans saw in the virtually unlimited lands of the interior the promise of a prosperous citizenry and a healthy body politic Most believed that those rights declared self-evident in the ringing words of the Declaration of Independence must be firmly grounded in a social fabric characterized ...
... DANIEL F DANIEL F RING The Cleveland Public Library and the WPA A Study in Creative Partnership The dole is a narcotic a subtle destroyer of the human spirit I am not willing that the vitality of our people be sapped by the giving of cash1 In a large way this statement of President Franklin D Roosevelt summarizes the philosophy and emphasis of the New Deal which was a desire to substitute work for relief2 Expressions of this philosophy were the proliferation of federal agencies and the ...
... Historical News Historical News THE WISCONSIN HISTORY FOUNDATION has been awarded a 45000 research and publication grant from Lilly Endowment Inc of Indianapolis Indiana in support of a three-year program on the history of the American Midwest About one-third of the grant will be used for grants-in-aid to post-doctoral scholars doing research on midwest history between the Civil War and World War I and the balance will be used for publication of the results of these studies as well as of ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS A History of Kentucky By Thomas D Clark Prentice-Hall History Series Ed by Carl Wittke New York PrenticeHall Inc 1937 702p 500 To present in one volume a general history of Kentucky was the purpose of this book In a concise narrative of the political economic and social development of the state Kentucky has been viewed as an important factor in the larger life of the Nation and especially as a factor in the settlement of the South and West Each chapter has been well ...
... Historical News Historical News The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies held in Washington DC January 26-27 featured a panel of twelve scholars discussing the relevance of eighteenth-century ideas in twentieth-century society Thinking Americans have been aroused from their complacency by the greatly increased contact with other nations and cultures many of which are in sharp conflict with our national interest values and way of life The startling ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 587 Reviews Notes and Comments 587 industry of its people has erected into a state which though only thirty-fifth in area has become among its sisters of the Union fourth in population and in wealth exceeded only by New York Pennsylvania and Illinois This text-book is a credit not only to the authors but to the publishers as well By its attractive illustrations its appropriate maps and its illuminating graphics they have produced a work that will make its study ...
... Fortieth Annual Meeting 271 Fortieth Annual Meeting 271 have charge of arrangements for the proposed trip and suggested that members desiring to make the tour communicate with him ASH CAVE Mr Bright stated that Ash Cave has been turned over to the State Forestry Department the state purchased about 1200 acres of land and has made a state park of it Mr Wood for the Committee on Nominations stated that the committee desires to make its report in two sections We have with us today a man who has ...
... DENTISTRY AND DENTAL EDUCATION DENTISTRY AND DENTAL EDUCATION By EDWARD C MILLS D D S F A C D To obtain a true concept of dentistry and dental education during the period under consideration it is necessary to present a general summary of previous conditions and of the qualifications activities and contributions of some of the pioneers in dentistry which ultimately developed into the present system of dental education The course of empire has ever been westward--and this truism may apply in ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Society members might be interested in adding this information to their list of little known facts During 1895 this Society did not publish Ohio History's predecessor The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly but instead subsidized a two-year-old journal published in Waterloo Indiana The Archaeologist The publication moved to Columbus Ohio and for the next nine monthly issues it became the official organ of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical ...
... 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 NOTES Contributors to This Issue CLARE DOWLER holds a Master's degree from Duke University the thesis for which was The Life Letters and Works of John James Piatt 1835-1882 CLARENCE H CRAMER is a member of the History Department of Southern Illinois State Normal University GEORGE KUMMER holds a Master's degree in English from Harvard and is studying for his Doctor's degree at Columbia REV R PIERCE BEAVER is pastor of the Evangelical Reformed Church of Oakley in Cincinnati Ohio The late ...
... Index Index ABBOT W W book rev 389-390 Arizona constitution of 1910 and Toledo Addes George and Toledo Chevrolet trade union 109-128 strike 335 350 355 Arizona Constitutional Petition League of The Adena People No 2 by William S Typographical Union No 63 Toledo Webb and Raymond S Baby rev 158Ohio 111 128 organized 112-113 159 activities of 114 115 119 120 124 Administration of the Historic Sites by 125 Richard S Fatig 261-263 Ashley Henry W 115 Agriculture crops in early northeastern Atlanta ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies CAMPUS MARTIUS MUSEUM Edith S Reiter Curator On May 2 the Museum was the subject of the second of a series of semimonthly broadcasts given over station WMOA by the Marietta Chamber of Commerce The broadcasts are done in the manner of the Information Please broadcast Questions were on the Museum its exhibits and the early history of Marietta CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Charles Stickell President The annual birthday party of the ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 631 Forty-First Annual Meeting 631 my deep appreciation of their cooperation in the welfare of the Museum Respectfully submitted Signed WILLIAM C MILLS Mr John R Horst Chairman of the Committee on EARLY OHIO SCHOOL BOOKS stated that the Ray collection is almost complete and progress is being made in securing other books used in the early schools of the state As to the McGuffey books while the Committee is still seeking the First Readers of the 1843 and 1885 editions ...
... INDEX TO MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH INDEX TO MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY Baker C B 620 Society 595-596 recommends purBaker R C 593 chase of photostat equipment 598Bareis George F 593 620 report as 599 620 621 motion by 627 629 chairman of museum committee 627offers resolution to amend constitu628 634 elected first vice-president tion 630-632 634 elected secretary of Society 634 motion by 634 librarian and editor of Society 634 Battelle Gordon 620 Gard D H 593 ...
... The Ordinance of July 13th 1787 The Ordinance of July 13th 1 787 37 pioneer fathers that in all the slow and tedious processes of building up in cherishing organic ideas and giving them vitality in supporting their Nation and moulding its character in defending its life in time of extremest dangers they have borne their full share of patriotic service and may now pass that nation over with a clean record to posterity sending its ideas and principles onward in their mighty mission of dominion ...
... ORIGIN OF SOME EARLY BELMONT COUNTY ORIGIN OF SOME EARLY BELMONT COUNTY NEWSPAPERS By FRANCIS C HIBBARD The history of the early newspapers of Belmont County Ohio is to some extent confused and contradictory Much that has been written on the subject is based apparently upon tradition and second-hand information An attempt will herewith be made to clear up some of the confusion and rectify at least some of the errors Two of the present-day papers of the county--the St Clairsville Gazette and ...