... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Broken Circle By Carl G Doney New York Fleming H Revell Company 1943 187p Written as a memorial volume to a beloved son who when living had exerted a wide and beneficent influence on many people The Broken Circle tells the story of Paul H Doney minister and teacher who died at the early age of forty-one Its writing was a labor of love done by a sorrowing father who wished to present the faith which animated his son's life and the philosophy which underlay his ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Greek Revival Architecture in America By Talbot Hamlin New York Oxford University Press 1944 Cloth 439p 750 The author who is librarian of the Avery Memorial library and the Fine Arts library at Columbia University is an architect and the author of a number of books on architecture In this book he has traced the important trend in American architecture and life during the period previous to the Civil War emphasizing the development of Greek revival architecture in the ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 497 Reviews Notes and Comments 497 Dr Mendenhall was educated in the public schools was one of the members of the first faculty of the Ohio State University was called to the Imperial University of Japan where he occupied the chair of physics from 1878-1881 returned to Ohio State University where he taught three years after which he was successively professor of the U S Signal Corps President of Rose Polytechnic Institute Superintendent of the U S Coast and Geodetic ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Presidency of Rutherford B Hayes By KENNETH E DAVISON Westport Conn Greenwood Press Inc 1972 xiii 266p illustrations notes and index 1200 In his account of the Hayes presidency Professor Davison has attempted to correct the interpretation of the Gilded Age as an era of ruthless plunder depicted by Parrington Beard Josephson Twain and others He portrays Hayes as a decent high-principled experienced statesman a unifier pacifier and reformer He views the Hayes ...
... Ohio's Industrial Growth 1900-1957 Ohio's Industrial Growth 1900-1957 And Some Possibilities for Study By ROBERT E HOLMES In discussing Ohio's or any other area's industrial growth it would be extremely difficult and perhaps even naive or unrealistic to try to separate history from economics fundamental from applied research commerce from romance or chance from plan These elements are so intermingled in the development and expansion of regions or countries and their industries that there is ...
... MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Friday April 12 1946 100 P M The meeting was called to order by President Arthur C Johnson Sr at 100 PM with a larger and more representative attendance than usual In opening the meeting President Johnson made the following introductory remarks We are now at an important crossroads in the life of the Society We will not read the reports of the activities for the past year ...
... 408 Ohio Arch 408 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications That was my first impression and Dr Schlesinger's that the Archaeological Museum will become in time the mecca for county historians or as he phrased it a laboratory for scientific historical research experiment synthesis and exploitation - forever We are still receiving papers from 67 of the 88 Ohio counties in many cases two or three papers from a county making about 150 papers in all scrap-books are being formed steadily by daily ...
... The Sorrow of the Nations The Sorrow of the Nations 385 THE SORROW OF THE NATIONS IN MEMORIAM WM MCKINLEY BY JOHN P SMITH SHARPSBURG MARYLAND Corresponding Member of the Maryland Historical Society and of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society There's darkness over every land - Man takes his fellow by the hand The hearts of men now almost fail For all the earth is one sad wail There's sorrow in the hut and hall Our land's enshrouded with a pall The bells of death do sadly toll ...
... Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 645 Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 645 Mr Edward S Lewis 22 1 7 McGregor Place Cincinnati Ohio Mrs Rhea Mansfield Knittle 177 E Main St Ashland Ohio Mr C Allen Boughton 1 25 W Fifth St Mansfield Ohio Mrs Henry V Weil 1 26 E 57th St New York City N Y Mr Ralph H Beaton 1578 E Long St Columbus Ohio Rev L L Roush 5725 Gallia Ave Portsmouth Ohio Mr C E Spindler Ashville Ohio Miss Gertrude H Terrell New Vienna Ohio R F D No 3 Mr Edward S Thomas 1116 ...
... 224 Ohio Arch 224 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications in Civil War time for he says that soon a hundred thousand men were singing 'And his soul goes marching on' It was the singing of this song by thousands of the boys in blue that inspired Julia Ward Howe the wife of Samuel G Howe the financial supporter of John Brown to write The Battle Hymn of the Republic a poem that still has its appeal to those who have not come completely under the spell of the new literature The world seems to be ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Nelson Lichtenstein has been named the new editor of Ohio History He received his BA from Dartmouth and his PhD from the University of California Berkeley He has published articles in Labor History Radical America New Politics and the Dictionary of American Biography Editor of the recently published The Kennedy Years and The Johnson Years two volumes in the Facts on File Political Profile series Dr Lichtenstein served as lecturer in history at The Ohio State ...
... Benjamin Townsend Albany State University of New York Press 1993 xxvi 737p illustrations notes genealogical charts maps chronology selected bibliography index From the Heart of Crow Country The Crow Indians' Own Stories By Joseph Medicine Crow New York Orion Books 1992 xxii 138p illustrations index John Marshall Harlan Great Dissenter of the Warren Court By Tinsley E Yarbrough New York Oxford University Press 1992 xvi 395p notes ...
... Benjamin F 540 Sullivant Jane 518 519 Roberts D W 519 Taylor Edward L Jr 519 Rohland Mrs C B 519 Tecumseh Relics of 526 Root Ephraim 548-549 Thompson Dr W 0 515 539-540 reSecretary Report of 515-521 marks 541-542 560-561 Sherman Walter J 521 538 540 Treasurer Report of 534-536 change in Shetrone Henry C eulogized 514 515 organization 570-571 assistant treasappointed to vacancy on Building Exurer named 571 tension Committee 517 presents ...
... In Memoriam Summer-Autumn 2002 pp 198-199 PDF of In Memoriam CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Frank L Byrne A Gifted Civil War Historian By Leonne M Hudson Frank L Byrne was born on May 12 1928 in Hackensack New Jersey At the time of his death on April 21 2002 he was Professor Emeritus of History at Kent State University After graduating from Trenton State College in 1950 he attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison where he ...
... PAINTED SKELETONS PAINTED SKELETONS BY WM C MILLS Curator Ohio State Archaeological Historical Society Very peculiar burials have been reported from the western part of Concord Township Ross County Ohio The burials were first brought to my notice by Mr A B Coover of Roxabell Ohio who removed several skeletons from a gravel pit in the western part of Concord Township and these were covered with red ocre One year later Mr Almer Hegler of Washington C H notified me that a number of skeletons ...
... DOCUMENTS DOCUMENTS A STATE MOTTO By Harlow Lindley The recent appearance of a book published by the Ohio Development and Publicity Commission entitled Ohio an Empire within an Empire offers an opportunity to make some comments concerning a state motto This title is purported to be taken from the State's motto the State of Ohio however has no official motto In 1866 a law was passed providing for the inscription of a motto on the State seal The motto adopted was Imperium in Imperio--an empire ...
... J J MORTON HOWELL HIS GIFT TO THE MUSEUM OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY When Egypt had attained the degree of independence that entitled her to an envoy extraordinary and a minister plenipotentiary from the United States President Harding made a survey to determine who would be best suited to inaugurate diplomatic relations between our country and the ancient seat of civilization in the Valley of the Nile Very naturally such a person was found among the native sons of Ohio Dr J ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Middle Innings A Documentary History of Baseball 1900-1948 Compiled and edited by Dean A Sullivan Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 1998 xviii 238p illustrations bibliography index Baseball if no longer reigning as the national pastime still occupies a secure place in America's collective psyche Evidence of this nostalgic affection is deeply rooted in the game's vast statistical lore it's colorful phraseology and an odd sometimes zany cast of characters Figures such as ...
... 634 Ohio Arch 634 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS O SEPTEMBER 9 1922 12 o'clock noon Present Messers James E Campbell George F Bareis B F Prince E F Wood J Warren Keifer Edward Orton Jr Frank L Packard Webb C Hayes Director Mills and Secretary Galbreath were also present The meeting was called to order by President Campbell On motion of Mr E F Wood President James E Campbell was reelected President of the Society Mr ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The fall meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held October 17 1986 at the University of Akron Retirements within the professional community include Jeanette E Tuve at the end of the 1984-85 academic year from Cleveland State University and promoted to the rank of Professor Emerita Edwin R King of the University of Dayton in May 1986 and in June 1986 Richard W Smith of Ohio Wesleyan University The Western History Association has put out a call for ...