... Reviews Notes and Comments 433 Reviews Notes and Comments 433 DEATH OF SENATOR FRANK BARTLETTE WILLIS On the evening of March 28 1928 when he was about to deliver an address in his campaign for the nomination of President of the United States at a home-coming celebration in his honor at Gray Chapel Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware Ohio United States Senator Frank B Willis was stricken and ...
... Editor's Note Editor's Note In this issue of Ohio History we are pleased to publish the winning manuscripts from the Ohio Bicentennial Article Contest Sponsored by the Ohio American Revolution Advisory Commission the Ohio Academy of History and the
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR Ohio Art and Artists By Edna Maria Clark MA Richmond Garrett and Massie pp XIII 509 750 In the second paragraph of this attractive interesting and informing volume the author Mrs Clark makes the following statement The need of a volume of this kind was brought forcefully to the author's attention during an eight-year period of service as chairman of art for the
... 132 Ohio Arch 132 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications POEMS BY C B GALBREATH1 MORNING GLORIES From the shadows of night they called for the dawn In notes that were subtle and clear In a strain of music too exquisite For the range of mortal ear From their leafy columns and battlements That were moist with the morning dew A call for light and a reveille From the bells of their bugles they ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 103 Reviews Notes and Comments 103 Resolutions adopted by THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION at its Annual Meeting held at Columbus Ohio December 27-29 1923 WHEREAS there has been in progress for several years an agitation conducted by certain newspapers patriotic societies fraternal orders and others against a number of school textbooks in history and in favor of official censorship and WHEREAS this propaganda has ...
... In Memoriam 559 In Memoriam 559 State In financial circles he had attained success and a creditable record He was a trusted counselor and a man whose judgment was highly regarded by his fellow members on the Board of Trustees and the staff of the Society Mr Wood was born in Bradford County Pennsylvania October 3 1863 In 1879 he came to Columbus where he was subsequently identified with different financial institutions In 1922 he was made General Manager of the
... northeasternOhio travel guide northeasternOhio those interested should write The Western Reserve Magazine PO Box 243 Garrettsville Ohio 44231 Two scholarly meetings of interest to Ohio ...
... AN 1850 PREVIEW OF WORLDS IN COLLISION AN 1850 PREVIEW OF WORLDS IN COLLISION by CARL WITTKE Professor of History and Dean of the Graduate School Western Reserve University Worlds in Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky is still on the best seller lists The book written by a Russian-born physician and Bible student who explored the sciences from medicine and law to psychoanalysis in many European centers of learning continues to be the storm center of one of the liveliest controversies that has ...
... History in the study and iin the schools by HENRY R WINKLER Like so many college students in our time we historians have been going through an identity crisis of our own Who are we Where are we going Why do we do what we do What is its purpose Is it worth the trouble Why And so on And so on Most of us to be sure manage to avoid thinking about the rationale of our subject most of the time Our work is interesting We are absorbed in it When we teach we receive some stimulation from our students ...
... 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 ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Society of American Archivists SAA will hold its 1994 annual meeting at the Westin Hotel in Indianapolis Indiana September 6 through September 11 The general theme will be The Archival Core Defining the Profession in the Information Age For more information about the meeting contact either Bruce L Johnson Director of the Library at the Indiana Historical Society at 317 232-1879 or Eric Pumroy Head of Special Collections and Archives at Indiana ...
... 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
... agriculture forestry commerce and industry transportation libraries population printing and publishing and life and manners In this last category only eight publications appeared These ranged from a social history of the American family and the eighteenth-century theater to types of prairie schooners and historic needlework from Mount Vernon Not until rather recently--indeed not until after Grace Gardner Griffin's death--did the Writings ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue Miss HELEN MARY CARPENTER is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University with graduate training in Columbia University She is now teacher of history in the Norwalk Ohio high school GEORGE A KATZENBERGER is an attorney-at-law at Greenville Ohio He has previously written articles for the QUARTERLY on Major ...
... The Allen County Historical Museum The Allen County Historical Museum By ROBERT C WHEELER An Allen County dream is about to become a reality Late in 1955 the new Allen County Historical Museum will open to the public an event long awaited in and around Lima Few cities in the country can boast such facilities for preserving and interpreting their past The new museum will have in addition to ample exhibit space an auditorium seating 225 a local history library and a thirty-car parking area ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Banks or No Banks The Money Issue in Western Politics 1832-1865 By WILLIAM GERALD SHADE Detroit Wayne State University Press 1972 328p maps tables notes bibliography and index 1595 Banks or No Banks develops a new thesis from which to view the banking controversies of the mid-nineteenth century and the role of the bank issue in state politics Mr Shade looks at the social roots and proposes a broad social interpretation of the significance of the issue He also tries to ...
... A NOTE ON MRS A NOTE ON MRS TROLLOPE By JOHN FRANCIS MCDERMOTT When Charles Joseph Latrobe made his tour of the West with Washington Irving in 1832 they passed through Cincinnati at a very interesting moment The citizens were big with indignation over Mrs Frances Trollope Latrobe related that they found the good citizens of that rising and flourishing city busily ruminating over the first edition of a well-known picture of their domestic manners which the English press had just sent forth for ...
... 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 ...
... ADDRESS BY GOVERNOR A ADDRESS BY GOVERNOR A V DONAHEY At the annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society the audience was favored by the presence and encouraging words of Governor A V Donahey A most cordial reception was accorded to the Governor and he responded with the following address Governor Campbell Ladies and Gentlemen I came here this afternoon to loan my presence for a few minutes and to say that I am ...
... AUTO-SKETCH OF CHARLES WILLIAMS AUTO-SKETCH OF CHARLES WILLIAMS Charles Williams was the first white settler - so claimed - in what is now the city of Coshocton Mr Williams settled there in the spring of 1800 the town being laid out the next year For a season or two prior to his locating at Coshocton Mr Williams had grown a crop of corn on the prairie four miles up the Walhonding River Mr Williams was a typical pioneer and his sketch written by himself is of special interest because giving not ...