... 566 Ohio Arch 566 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications dealers of the kind in question with something of the nature of a certificate from year to year Yours respectfully DAVID BOYLE Superintendent Provincial Museum PAGE HALL COLUMBUS O March 25 1904 MY DEAR PROF MOOREHEADI feel that the dealers and so-called commercially inclined collectors are a great menace to our scientific museums in very many ways Many dealers collect specimens giving
... Melodrama in Ohio Melodrama in Ohio Avery Hopwood and Boss Cox of Cincinnati By ARNO L BADE R W HEN THE OHIO PLAYRIGHT Aver y Hopwood died in 1928 his reputation was that of an immensely successful writer of light comedies and bedroom farces which had brought him a fortune If anyone remembered that as a youngster he had written The Powers That Be a serious play attacking civic corruption and political bossism that fact was not mentioned in his obituaries Yet for one week in 1907 The Powers ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Guarding the Frontier A Study of Frontier Defense from 1815 to 1825 By Edgar Bruce Wesley Minneapolis Minnesota University of Minnesota Press 1935 217p 250 The author who is head of the history department of the University High School and associate professor of education in the University of Minnesota gives in this volume a study of the frontier defenses from 1815 to 1825 He treats particularly of the defensive military measures adopted against various Indian tribes ...
... 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 ...
... METHODS OF TREATMENT OF SOME OF THE MORE METHODS OF TREATMENT OF SOME OF THE MORE COMMON DISEASES BY THE PIONEER PHYSICIANS OF OHIO By DAVID A TUCKER MD As a preface to the description of the treatment of some common diseases in the Ohio Valley a century or more ago I should like to sketch briefly the knowledge with which the physician of that period was equipped First he was familiar with the gross appearance of body in health and disease as anatomical studies were greatly stressed but knew ...
... EARLY INTERNSHIPS IN ST EARLY INTERNSHIPS IN ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL-- A REMINISCENCE by H M PLATTER MD In September 1889 I enrolled in Starling Medical College with Dr Thomas C Hoover as my preceptor I had already completed three years of preliminary education at Ohio Wesleyan University Dr Hoover was professor of surgery at the college and the visiting surgeon to St Francis Hospital At the conclusion of my freshman year the first house physician or intern was appointed for St Francis and the ...
... Miami Conservancy District a landmark flood control system that served as a model for TVA of which he 78 OHIO HISTORY 78 OHIO HISTORY became first chairman In the final analysis Distinguished Shades is not a simple encyclopedic listing of all that is known but is instead a provocative and at times questioning portrait of selected American lives as they really were Ohio Historical Society Steve Gordon Due to the July 1992 State of Ohio budget ...
... Miamisburg Ohio The Miamisburg Ohio 447 regarding the object of its builders It is thought to have been a place for sacrifice or a burial mound The failure to discover a large number of human bones within it seems to disprove these theories It was in all probability used as a place of signaling as it is one of a chain of similar earthen structures through this part of Ohio Fires on its ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Archives-Library Division of The Ohio Historical Society is pleased to announce the opening of the Michael DiSalle Papers to the public DiSalle was governor of Ohio from 1959 to 1963 The collection contains 391 boxes of material covering in part DiSalle's years as governor the national elections of 1960 1964 and 1968 the Ohio gubernatorial elections of 1956 1958 and 1962 as well as material dealing with DiSalle's early career as a member of the Ohio ...
... EDITOR'S NOTE EDITOR'S NOTE Historical anniversaries have a way of reviving interest in events and personalities-long forgotten or neglected Now that centennial observances of the Civil War have run their course our national memory is turning toward the last third of nineteenth century American history Already a major reconsideration of these years is underway A basic source for the study of the period 1865 to 1900 is one of Ohio's finest historical properties The Rutherford B Hayes Library ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 615 Reviews Notes and Comments 615 Judged impartially at this distance it looks a little as though neither Brooks nor Burlingame was eager to fight a duel Of course each naturally desired the public to think that he was not lacking in courage to meet the other in mortal combat While it would doubtless have been dangerous for Brooks to travel through the hostile North direct to Canada had the public been advised of ...
... Railroad Station as part of their American Land and Life Series For information about ordering Living in the Depot contact the University of Iowa Press at 119 W Park Road 100 Kuhl House Iowa City Iowa 52242-1000 The Indiana Historical Society in cooperation with the Tippecanoe County Historical Association recently published Indians and a Changing Frontier The Art of George Winter A lavishly illustrated volume Indians and a Changing Frontier ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA DRAUSIN WULSIN Drausin Wulsin a Life Member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society died at his home in Cincinnati November 14 1910 His career is not only closely connected with the history and development of Cincinnati for nearly 70 years but furnishes an example of the best type of American citizenship What follows is but a brief sketch Mr Wulsin was born in Louisiana June 10 1842 his parents moving to Cincinnati when he was but a child He was ...
... INVOCATION INVOCATION BY REV W H SHEPFER GRACIOUS GOD OUR HEAVENLY FATHER acknowledging our weakness and our sinfulness we invoke thy divine blessing upon us as we have come together to recall the heroic lives and sacrifices of our forefathers in this section of our great country Through the Spirit of Truth give us O God wisdom and understanding We acknowledge Thee Dear Father as the Giver of every good and perfect gift Thou art the Source from whom all our blessings flow We acknowledge Thee ...
... Railroad Map 1874 OHIO TRAVELERS' Pocket Map 1830 PENNSYLVANIA Colton's Township Map of 1873 WESTERN RESERVE AND FIRELANDS September 1826 Photographic copy 7 14 x 9 WORLD WAR I Ohioans in 9 maps of 37th Division in France and Belgium varying sizes Cataloguing is proceeding satisfactorily on some 250 other maps 50 of these dealing particularly with Ohio have already been accessioned catalogued and shelved Work is also progressing on the ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue ROB ERT S FLETCHER is associate professor of history at Oberlin College Oberlin Ohio W SHERMAN SAVAGE PhD Ohio State University 1934 is head of the Department of History at Lincoln University Jefferson City Missouri ALTA HARVEY HEISER who has done work at the University of Cincinnati writes nature and historical articles for the Hamilton Ohio Journal-News and does genealogical research JOSEPHINE E PHILLIPS of Marietta Ohio is a research worker in early ...
... THE CHARCOAL IRON INDUSTRY OF THE THE CHARCOAL IRON INDUSTRY OF THE HANGING ROCK IRON DISTRICT--ITS INFLUENCE ON THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE OHIO VALLEY BY WILBUR STOUT INTRODUCTION The Hanging Rock Iron District as defined by the iron masters embraced the furnaces and furnace lands and also the adjacent properties over which iron ores limestones and charcoal were gathered It included parts of Carter Boyd and Greenup Counties Kentucky and parts of Lawrence Scioto Gallia Jackson Vinton and ...
... Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton and others have demonstrated the value of close collaboration of psychiatrists and other physicians in a general hospital Significant is the large number of well trained serious minded psychiatrists who carry out private practices in their offices and in hospitals They are not restricted to one school of thought or one procedure Using psychotherapy to unravel the deeper threads yet they furnish sedation vitamin ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 125 WILLIAM TRIMBLE McCLINTICK Hon William Trimble McClintick a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society a cultivated gentleman and one of the most distinguished citizens of Ohio died at his residence Chillicothe on October 28 1903 at the unusual age of eightyfour Mr McClintick was a man far above the average in ability and intellectual achievement His long life spanned almost the first century of Ohio's statehood history and he had the ...
... 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 met with sufficient success to bring about not only ...