... THE FAIRPORT HARBOR VILLAGE SITE THE FAIRPORT HARBOR VILLAGE SITE BY RICHARD G MORGAN AND H HOLMES ELLIS PREFACE The Indian village site described in this report was explored by the Department of Archaeology of the Ohio State Museum in cooperation with the Harding High School of Fairport Harbor Ohio The existence of the site was brought to the attention of the Museum by Mr Elijah H Brown principal of the high school Through the efforts of Mr Brown permission was secured to excavate the site ...
... Ohio Day at the Jamestown Exposition Ohio Day at the Jamestown Exposition 185 But if for the first time in the history of the race somebody is to draw a line around thrift and enterprise I am sure Ohio will insist on trying the experiment for herself For all economic measures are necessarily experiments especially those which deal with new conditions And when the atmosphere is charged with discontent and resentment no matter how just the eye is not always sure nor the hand always steady so ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Celebrating the City A Pictorial Essay of Toledo 1890-1940 Compiled by Morgan J Barclay Toledo Toledo-Lucas County Public Library 1979 48p illustrations The Toledo-Lucas County Public Library and Ohio Program in the Humanities combined forces to produce an outstanding exhibit displaying a selection of the work of two late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century Toledo photographers Charles Mensing and Norman Hauger Thirty-eight of the photographs are reproduced in an ...
... Historical News Historical News THE LOYOLA UNIVERSITY HISTORY DEPARTMENT has established an annual national master's essay competition open in the academic year 1959-60 The first William P Lyons Master's Essay Award will be made for the best essay submitted by July 15 1960 in manuscript form from those which have merited MA degrees from American universities during 1959-60 The award will recognize work that is exemplary in style and method based solidly on original sources and interpretatively ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue H HOLMES ELLIS is Research Associate of the Lithic Laboratory for the Eastern United States at the Ohio State Museum and since 1939 is Assistant Curator of Archaeology Ohio State Museum WELLINGTON G FORDYCE Head of the History Department and Dean of Boys at Euclid Central High School is a member of Cleveland Council for American Unity and worker with immigrant groups in the process of Americanization JOHN I KOLEHMAINEN PHD in history Western Reserve ...
... GEORGE BANCROFT SMITH GEORGE BANCROFT SMITH Secretary-Treasurer of C F Kettering Inc Dayton Ohio George Bancroft Smith Secretary-Treasurer of C F Kettering Inc Dayton Ohio was born November 16 1867 at Phillipsburg Ohio a son of Lewis R Smith who was actively identified in the legal profession at one time in the contracting business and of Mary John Smith Ancestry on father's side Scotch and Holland Dutch on mother's side of Welsh descent George Bancroft Smith received a public school education ...
... BOOK NOTES BOOK NOTES L IFE JOURNALS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF REV MANASSEH CUTLER LLD By his Grandchildren William Parker Cutler and Julia Perkins Cutler Two volumes Cincinnati Robert Clarke amp Co 1888 The diary correspondence and papers of Dr Cutler ought to throw a flood of light upon many events in the early history of the Northwest and upon the policy of the old Congress in organizing and providing for the settlement of the region beyond the Ohio river Portions of his journals were published ...
... THE FIRST PURELY REPUBLICAN FORM OF THE FIRST PURELY REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA BY WILLIAM M PETTIT The historical political controversy that raged in the years 1636-37 was over the demand of Anne Hutchinson that women be accorded equal political rights with men in Massachusetts Sir Harry Vane was elected governor in 1636 being a representative of the Hutchinson faction but in 1637 he was defeated by John Winthrop The General Court of Massachusetts tried the famous Hutchinson ...
... 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 Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs when club women made frequent ...
... FAIRPORT HARBOR VILLAGE SITE 45 FAIRPORT HARBOR VILLAGE SITE 45 ANIMAL REMAINS6 By ROBERT M GOSLIN Animal remains were found in great abundance at this site scattered through the black earth of the village deposit They include the bones of various mammals fishes birds and reptiles as well as the shells of mussels and snails Most of the bones are in a fragmentary condition but on the whole they are in an excellent state of preservation All of the animal skeletal material was saved and carefully ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The ABC-CLIO America History and Life Award is a biennial award of 750 given to recognize and encourage scholarship in American history in journal literature advancing new perspectives on accepted interpretations or previously unconsidered topics The award is not confined to any particular subject area or chronological period but instead seeks to recognize journal articles that display a seminal character articles that do not simply elaborate previous ...
... A NEWLY DISCOVERED EXTENSION OF THE A NEWLY DISCOVERED EXTENSION OF THE NEWARK WORKS By DACHE M REEVES1 The study of aerial photographs of the famous Newark group of prehistoric earthworks resulted in the discovery of a hitherto unknown extension to these works An interesting feature of this discovery is the fact that an important section of the works was found on the Newark flying field This area had been prepared for flying purposes after having been under cultivation for a long period and ...
... HAROLD HOLZER HAROLD HOLZER Lincoln and the Ohio Printmakers Much has been written about the engraved and lithographed portraiture of Abraham Lincoln a pictorial genre that did much to benefit the nation's sixteenth president both politically and historically1 These crude and homely portrayals helped introduce the little-known Lincoln to American voters following his unexpected nomination to the presidency in 1860 Later engravings and lithographs provided audiences with the first ...
... PETER WITT 377 PETER WITT 377 irascible exterior and his biting invective there were qualities of honesty fidelity and generosity that made him the loyal sentimental friend of many people He had genuine oratorical gifts though he sometimes attacked unreasonably and without full information about the facts and he had a tongue that he always found it hard to curb He never attacked with a rapier A meat cleaver was his favorite tool as he himself readily admitted to his friends But he never lacked ...
... Recent Addresses of James Edwin Campbell 53 Recent Addresses of James Edwin Campbell 53 neath rest those whom we call The Dead but they are not dead And dare ye call that dying The dignity sublime Which gains a furlough from the grave and then reports to time Doth the earth give up the daisies to a little sun and rain And keep at their roots the heroes while weary ages wane Sling up thy trumpet Israel Sweet bugler of our God For nothing waits thy summons beneath this broken sod The deadest of ...
... Ohio Day at the Jamestown Exposition Ohio Day at the Jamestown Exposition 187 An honored picture his who built so fair The soldier-statesman who in days of stress Toiled 'midst the brave high-hearted pioneers To make a garden of the wilderness From old Virginia he blessed with her dower Of courage high Could nobler gift be given 'Twas on her shore that our fair freedom's flower Raised its first bravely shining bud toward heaven Ah those who went to brave the Western wilds To fell the forest ...
... THE HOPEWELL CULTURE THE HOPEWELL CULTURE by RAYMOND S BABY Curator of Archaeology Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society This prehistoric culture named by William C Mills from the Hopewell mound group in Ross County closely followed Adena in time and like the Adena people the Hopewell people lived along the principal streams emptying into the Ohio River Valley Sites and centers of occupation of the Hopewell people are located in the main along or in the valleys of the Scioto Little ...
... 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 died while 2500 of his friends and neighbors were waiting to hear him Senator Willis was born in Delaware ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 329 Reviews Notes and Comments 329 shown as the Josh Billings house on August 8 1845 from John Tift jr for 1100 and resold it to John Tift on January 3 1848 for 1050 That Josh Billings had always dreamed of buying back the old place in Norwalk is attested by a correspondence covering a long number of years between the humorist and W J Alley of Norwalk a lifelong friend of Billings The daughter of Mr Alley who is still living in Norwalk remembers as a little girl when ...
... 84 Ohio Arch 84 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications INVOCATION BY REV IRVING MAURER 0 God bless us in this hour with worthy memories We thank Thee for the life of this friend of ours for his genial presence and his noble heart We thank Thee for his faith in the simple virtues for his confidence in the ways of the people for his trust in Thee Grant to us as we think of him in this fellowship of kindred spirits a more steadfast loyalty to the institutions which were dear to him that for each ...