... THE OHIO THE OHIO Archaeological and Historical Society ORGANIZED MARCH 13 1885 Articles of Incorporation Synopsis of By-Laws and List of Members FROM DATE OF ORGANIZATION UNTIL FEBRUARY 19 1891 317 ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION The undersigned citizens of Ohio having associated themselves together and desiring to form a corporation not for profit under the laws of said State of Ohio do hereby subscribe and acknowledge the following articles of incorporation 1 The ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The State History Day Contest for Ohio will be held in Cleveland on Saturday May 16 1981 at the Western Reserve Historical Society and Case Western Reserve University To qualify for the sixth annual state event 6th through 12th grade students throughout Ohio will compete in one of eleven district contests Students may compete in one of the following categories individual paper individual or group projects and individual or group performances on the junior ...
... NANCY J NANCY J BRCAK Country Carpenters Federal Buildings An Early Architectural Tradition in Ohio's Western Reserve The Western Reserve1 of Ohio was settled in large part by New England emigrants and slightly later by upstate New Yorkers who were themselves transplanted New Englanders These people migrating west in the 1810s and 1820s brought with them a storehouse of cultural tradition as well as dreams for prosperity and success Both the architectural historian Talbot Hamlin and the Ohio ...
... MANSEL G MANSEL G BLACKFORD Scientific Management and Welfare Work in Early Twentieth Century American Business The Buckeye Steel Castings Company At 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon the first heat was turned off from one of the furnaces in the new works of the Buckeye Malleable Iron and Coupler Company in South Columbus Someone gave a signal and in a minute everyone in the building and out of it was on hand to watch the great crane as it lifted the smoking ladle and carried it to the furnace Then ...
... 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 ...
... SINCLAIRE'S DEFEAT SINCLAIRE'S DEFEAT This specimen of early times poetry appeared shortly after St Clair's defeat 1791 and was printed in circular form it is related and was posted up in many a pioneer cabin It reveals the sentiment of the times as well as the Form of expression 'Twas November the fourth in the year ninety-one We had a sore engagement near to Fort Jefferson Sainclaire was our commander which may remembered be For there we left nine hundred men in the West'n Ter'tory At ...
... THE FAILURE OF THE OHIO LIFE INSURANCE THE FAILURE OF THE OHIO LIFE INSURANCE AND TRUST COMPANY 1857 by MORTIMER SPIEGELMAN Most writers on the economic history of the United States refer to the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company as the institution whose failure precipitated the panic of 1857 The failure is usually attributed to depreciated railroad investments and the losses stated in amounts as high as 7000000 dollars1 A search into the history of this institution that played a leading ...
... LLOYD SPONHOLTZ LLOYD SPONHOLTZ The 1912 Constitutional Convention in Ohio The Call-up and Nonpartisan Selection of Delegates Until recently little scholarly interest has been shown in the nonpartisan system and its place in the American election process neither advocates of the reform nor students of politics have examined the actual effect of elimination of partisanship from the ballot in Ohio1 In the 1910-1911 period an opportunity for an analysis of the nonpartisan system and the resulting ...
... 406 Ohio Arch 406 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications TERMS EXPIRE IN 1917 Col Webb C Hayes Fremont Dr W O Thompson Columbus Dr G Frederick Wright Oberlin APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR Hon J W Harper Cincinnati 1915 Hon J W Yeagley New Philadelphia 1915 Hon James E Campbell Columbus 1916 Hon Myron T Herrick Cleveland 1916 Prof B F Prince Springfield 1917 Mr E O Randall Columbus 1917 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES SOCIETY BUILDING JUNE 29 1914 The annual meeting of the trustees of the Society ...
... 240 Ohio Arch 240 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications to him of vouchers approved by the supervisor of public printing and the adjutant general E J HOPPLE Speaker of the House of Representatives EARL D BLOOM President of the Senate Passed March 21 1917 Approved March 30 1917 JAMES M Cox Governor Filed in office of Secretary of State April 2 1917 SPEECH OF GOV FRANK B WILLIS UPON THE OCCASION OF THE REMOVAL OF THE BATTLE FLAGS TO THE ROTUNDA OF THE CAPITOL This is an inspiring spectacle The ...
... 314 Ohio Arch 314 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications historic building but no one has come forward with the money to purchase and preserve it It is likely to share the fate of the house in Niles in which William McKinley was born JUDSON HARMON Judson Harmon jurist attorney general in the cabinet of President Cleveland and twice elected governor of Ohio died in Cincinnati February 22 1927 He was a graduate of Denison University a lawyer of eminent ability and a life member of the Ohio ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Oral History Association will hold its 1992 Annual Meeting October 15-18 1992 at the Stouffer Tower City Hotel in Cleveland Ohio Proposals for papers panels media presentations or entire sessions should be sent by December 1 1991 to Donna M DeBlasio Program Chair Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor PO Box 533 Youngstown Ohio 44501 The Black Film CenterArchive at Indiana University-Bloomington is planning a conference entitled In Touch With ...
... JOSEPH A JOSEPH A HOWELLS Joseph A Howells was born at St Clairsville Belmont County Ohio September 1 1832 He was the son of William C and Mary Dean Howells and a brother of William Dean Howells For fifty-seven years he was foreman editor and proprietor of the Ashtabula Sentinel He was appointed American Con549 550 Ohio Arch 550 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications sul to Turk Islands British West Indies October 30 1905 He died August 10 1912 On July 19 1913 there was placed at the head ...
... 74 OHIO HISTORY 74 OHIO HISTORY and midwestern conditions4 Moreover there survives an excellent combination of materials describing the topic in the state documents which outline the structure of public finance and inspection in the BOSC reports written by Byers which graphically portray conditions in the institutions and conflicts between local governments and the state authorities and in Albert Byers's own diaries and a brief but interesting file of letters sent to him in his official ...
... H H ROGER GRANT Erie Lackawanna An Ohio Railroad The Erie Railroad possessed a strange past In the nineteenth century it could claim to be an unusual road For one thing it was America's first long-distance trunk line Under the corporate banner of the New York amp Erie Railway the company in April 1851 completed a 483-mile route Between the Ocean and Lakes linking the New York communities of Piermont on the Hudson River with Dunkirk on Lake Erie The railroad also extolled its distinctive broad ...
... The analyst of the career of a public figure functioning under a system of representative government finds that the problem of statesmanship is peculiarly complicated The hazards in leadership often seem to conspire to punish statesmanship confronting public figures with dire alternatives which subsequent biographers must not fail to weigh on the scales of the possible and probable As McKinley bluntly explained when pushing a compromise to end a silver stalemate in the house of representatives ...
... 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 ...
... LLOYD SPONHOLTZ LLOYD SPONHOLTZ The Politics of Temperance in Ohio 1880-1912 The Price of an Ohio License What's the price of a license How much did you say The price of men's souls in the market today A license to sell to deform to destroy From the gray hairs of age to the innocent boy How much did you say How much is to pay How compare with your gold A license to poison a crime oft retoldFix a price on the years and the manhood of manWhat's the price did you say1 In 1913 the Anti-Saloon ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 353 Reviews Notes and Comments 353 a year we will have a highway of a splendid character and when the highway has been built the argument that was made in the State Senate last year against the removal of the house in which Grant was born from the State Fair Grounds to its original foundation will be entirely dissipated The foregoing is a succinct and informing statement of fact so far as the road is concerned supplemented by a prophecy in regard to the dissipation ...
... 612 Ohio Arch 612 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications This is the order of nature it must be for the best I remembered this when we were called to his obsequies Worthy fellow-man public-spirited upright citizen generous faithful friend beloved fellow-member we honor ourselves by placing this modest wreath at the shrine of his memory CLAUDE MEEKER AS A YOUNG REPORTER BY HAROLD G SIMPSON I think it probable that my intimate acquaintance with Claude Meeker began earlier and therefore extended ...