... Book Notes Book Notes Covered Wooden Truss Bridges of Greene County Ohio A collection of photos and data of a vanishing era By James H Shell Xenia Ohio Greene County Historical Society 1998 76p illustrations bibliography At first glance this slender volume appears to be just another covered bridge picture book Many of this genre emphasize numbingly repetitive photos of bridge exteriors and indeed the lead section of this book includes the expected photo gallery But this publication actually ...
... JOHN M JOHN M WEGNER Partisanship in the Ohio House of Representatives 1900-1911 An Analysis of Roll-Call Voting Students of legislative behavior have long had a penchant for examining the workings of the United States Congress foreign parliaments and other national assemblies They have paid less attention to state legislatures Despite a growing interest in subnational legislative bodies research on state legislatures is still in its infancy1 Lack of attention by historians to this area of ...
... Historical News Historical News THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATIO N for State and Local History has established an annual prize and a grant-in-aid program to encourage the publication of sound interpretive localized history A prize of one thousand dollars will be awarded each year for the book-length manuscript in localized history which in the opinion of the research and publications committee makes the most distinguished contribution to American or Canadian historiography The grants-in-aid which are ...
... PURVEYORS TO THE PROFESSION CINCINNATI PURVEYORS TO THE PROFESSION CINCINNATI DRUG HOUSES 1850-1860 By PHILIP D JORDAN During the twenty years prior to the Civil War the hardworked Ohio physician could replenish his saddlebags and his office drug stock from well-established and reputable pharmaceutical houses at home and abroad1 No longer was it necessary for the doctor to search the fields and pastures of the back country for the makings of a botanic materia medica He was freed at last from ...
... HISTORICAL ORGANIZATIONS IN OHIO HISTORICAL ORGANIZATIONS IN OHIO Allen County Historical and Archaeological Society Lima James A MacDonell President Mrs H B Longsworth Secretary Alliance Historical Society Alliance Mrs Fred Donaldson President Ashland County Historical Society Ashland William A Duff Secretary Association for the Study of Negro Life and History Columbus William F Savoy State Director Barnesville History Club Barnesville Francis H Hibbard President Bezaleel Wells Historical ...
... COMMENTS NOTES AND REVIEWS COMMENTS NOTES AND REVIEWS JOHN SHERMAN--A CHARACTERIZATION One of the greatest of Ohio's sons as well as one of the most prominent and influential of our National characters has passed away in the person of John Sherman He belonged to a distinguished family America has produced families no less illustrious than those of old England or the Continental countries But America's families are eminent through the law of heredity and not the law of patent nobility 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 ...
... 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 ...
... LAURA RUSSELL LAURA RUSSELL Book Notes Choose You This Day The Legacy of the Hanbys By Dacia Custer Shoemaker Edited by Harold B Hancock and Millard J Miller Westerville Ohio The Westerville Historical Society 1983 xv 137p illustrations notes appendix selected bibliography index The publication of this book represents the final realization of Dacia Custer Shoemaker's dream to rescue the Hanbys from obscurity by preserving and recording many heretofore unknown facts about the famous father and ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABBOTT Grace 107 10 8 112 117 134 Abolitionism Newspapers in Battle The Dayton Empire and the Dayton Journal During the Civil War by Carl M Becker 29-50 Towards a National Antislavery Party The Giddings-Sumner Alliance by Beverly Wilson Palmer 51-71 Accidents of pregnancy 119-120 Action 40 Adams Charles Francis 56 66 Adams John Quincy 54-55 58 60 61 Administration Division Ohio State Department of Health 114 Agricultural Extension Service OSU 127 Alexander ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA By Bertha E Josephson During the first two months of the current year the Department of Documents has been devoting as much time as possible to an inventory and organization of numerous heterogenous and individual items Because these materials do not belong to any definite collections they have hitherto been neglected yet many of them are of considerable importance and value They are now being sorted and a card catalogue with name and subject crossreferences ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY S K Stevens President The Association is publishing a new quarterly journal titled American Heritage It will deal exclusively with the teaching of local community history in our schools historical societies museums and similar agencies throughout the United States and Canada The editor will be Miss Mary Cunningham well known for her work as editor of New York History and the New York State Historical Association's ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA BY BERTHA E JOSEPHSON THE DOCUMENTARY TREASURE CHEST Beginning with the present issue the curator of this department will try to include in every quarterly report not only information about recent acquisitions and data on materials which have been cataloged but also informal jotations on some of the valuable deposits in the Society's document vaults The head of this department believes that one of the reasons why doctoral dissertations are so dull is because ...
... 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 ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Country Printer New York State 1785-1830 By Milton W Hamilton New York Columbia University Press 1936 361p 375 One of the most colorful figures in the period immediately following the Revolutionary War was the country printer the printer-editor-publisher who was indeed a distinctive character in his community Too often the press as an institution and influence is identified with the great dailies published in the chief cities of our country Too little attention is ...
... 284 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 284 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY but it has been customary to present these memorials at the time of the Annual Meeting as well This committee with Dr George W Rightmire as chairman assisted by Mr Freeman T Eagleson prepared the following memorial IN MEMORIAM LOWRY FRANCIS SATER TRUSTEE OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lowry Francis Sater was born on June 15 1867 near what is now New Baltimore Butler County ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments Reviews Notes and Comments 2 97 HAVE WE FORGOTTEN Have we forgotton those who went away When hope burned low behind the window-pane And the wide sea was very cold and gray Have we forgotten those who went away And will not come again Have we forgotten those who went away On great gray ships into the fog and rain Who left the dear warm arms that bade them stay Have we forgotten those who went away And will not come again Have we forgotten those who went away To follow ...
... JAMES F JAMES F RICHARDSON Urban Political Change in the Progressive Era The nature and sources of political change in the early twentieth century are among the favorite topics for assessment and reassessment among American historians The degree of concern is understandable for the Progressive period witnessed considerable expansion in governmental functions and major changes in governmental structure This transformation in form and function was perhaps more pronounced in the nation's cities ...