... 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 ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 261 plained Indeed the annotations themselves have a value second only to the text which they explain They constitute a compendium of information that evidences the faithfulness and enthusiasm with which Mr Connelley has performed his work We cite only one instance especially interesting to Ohio readers It is Mr Connelley's note on the meaning of the word Ohio He says Ohio is derived from the Iroquois The original is variously spoken in the different dialects In ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 111 gave the name of Marietta to the new town in honor of Mary Antoinette and France Generals St Clair of Pennsylvania and Putnam of Massachusetts Samuel Holden Parsons of Connecticut and James M Varnum of Rhode Island were the leaders in the work of establishing the settlement aided by Winthrop Sargent secretary of the Territory and by the noble Manasseh Cutler who was a frequent visitor and a powerful advocate in the East Parsons Varnum and John Cleve Symmes Chief ...
... 404 Ohio Arch 404 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications respondence with local authorities compilers of family histories contributors to historical magazines and members of historical and patriotic societies If this somewhat lengthy list be exhausted without result we may at last resort obtain some information from present day officials of the locality especially those connected with the County Clerk's or Recorder's offices The latter at least will be able to suggest some clue that may lead ...
... BOOK REVIEWS 237 BOOK REVIEWS 237 note numbering in the texts of the documents especially in the later pages A useful chronology of communications gives the dates of origin of documents and their variants and enclosures An extensive bibliography of other materials consulted also has a calendar of communications The seal of the company here delineated for the first time is used as the frontispiece and is stamped on the binding Many of the documents are valuable apart from their connection with ...
... EDITOR'S NOTE EDITOR'S NOTE With the exception of Professor Terrill's article on An Economic Aspect of the Spanish-American War which emphasizes a heretofore unused document in regard to President McKinley's motivation for war all the articles in this edition of Ohio History center around the theme of sectionalism and the Civil War Although Frederick Grimke as Professor Bloomfield points out philosophized optimistically on American institutions in his early writings he was compelled in his ...
... INTRODUCTORY REMARKS INTRODUCTORY REMARKS By PHILIP C NASH LADIES AND GENTLEMEN It is my very great pleasure and honor to declare open the sessions of the Maumee Valley International Historical Convention It was 146 years ago that the Battle of Fallen Timbers was fought and all the events that we are commemorating in this Convention occurred more than a century ago There has been an orderly and gradual development of civilization in this neighborhood and in this country ever since those days ...
... Announcing Announcing THE HISTORY OF THE STATE OF OHIO Edited by CARL WITTKE and Published under the Auspices of the OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY in Six Volumes Volumes I II III and VI are now available Volume V is in press and Volume IV is expected this year The price of the complete set is 2500 and orders should be sent direct to the Secretary Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Ohio State Museum Columbus Ohio Because of the limited edition sets will not be ...
... 390 Ohio Arch 3 90 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications a fondness for history itself Dr Naylor's book is having the large sale it well deserves It is published by the Saalfield Publishing Company Akron Ohio BLENNERHASSETT AGAIN In the July 1901 number of the QUA R TE R LY we made somewhat extended allusion to the then current July Century article by Therese Blennerhassett-Adams entitled The True Story of Harman Blennerhassett In the same number we noticed briefly Prof W H Venable's ...
... 550 Ohio Arch 550 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications LITTLE LOGAN ELMS Sometime early in the current year it was suggested that possibly under the spreading branches of the Logan Elm might be found some seedling baby Logan Elms that with proper care would grow up through the years into sturdy trees like the parent The little park surrounding the Elm is mown every year and the young seedlings fall before the scythe Upon investigation however a number of stubs were found with good live ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 299 known as Campus Martius and shall hold the same and the property thereon subject to such use as the General Assembly may direct E J HOPPLE Speaker of the House of Representatives EARL D BLOOM President of the Senate Passed March 21 1917 Approved March 29 1917 JAMES M Cox G overnor Filed in office of Secretary of State April 2 1917 STEPHEN D PEET IN MEMORIAM It was in one of the early months of the year 1875 that Isaac Smucker of Newark and Stephen D Peet then ...
... SOME NOTES ON OHIO HISTORIOGRAPHY SOME NOTES ON OHIO HISTORIOGRAPHY1 BY CLARENCE E CARTER MIAMI UNIVERSITY The rise of historiography in the trans-Alleghany states in the first half of the nineteenth century follows the order of development so familiar in every national experience European as well as American in which annalists antiquarian compilers and composers of didactic narrative successively emerge This conventional order of succession is observable moreover in the American colonies and ...
... 34 Ohio Arch 34 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications search history other than that of our own state for noble ideas The story of the foundation of our state and its progress is like a romance Well did Washington say in the dark days of the Revolution when he was questioned as to what he would do if he met defeat that he would come out here and settle in the valley of the Muskingum Several years ago a friend of mine a lady of Ohio met an English woman whose whole idea of America was based ...
... OHIO BATTLE FLAGS OHIO BATTLE FLAGS REPORT OF COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO PROVIDE FOR PLACING THE FLAGS IN THE ROTUNDA OF THE STATE CAPITOL House Bill No 247 AN ACT To provide for the display of the battle flags now in the possession of the state in the rotunda of the state house WHEREAS There are now in the relic room of the state the battle flags carried by the sons of Ohio from 1861 to 1865 which flags are the most precious possessions of the state and WH EREA S Their present location is ...
... 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 ...
... BOOK NOTES BOOK NOTES Any book mentioned in this d ep artment can be obtained through the Publisher of the QUARTERLY PRIMITIVE INDUSTRY or Illustrations of the Handiwork in Stone Bone and Clay of the Native Races of the Northern Atlantic Seaboard of America By Charles C Abbott MD Pp 560 Salem Mass Geo A Bates Cincinnati Robert Clarke amp Co 1881 Taken all together Dr Abbott's work on Primitive Industry is the most important single contribution yet made to the subject of American archaeology ...
... THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Addendum to the Minutes of Its Meeting on April 18 1953 The Ohio Academy of History at its Spring meeting on April 18 1953 adopted the following resolutions as amended which were proposed by its Committee on the Teaching of History Whereas the standards of instruction especially in history in the public schools of Ohio are a matter of concern for the members of the Ohio Academy of History individually and as a group and Whereas the ...
... ORIGIN OF INDIAN NAMES OF CERTAIN STATES ORIGIN OF INDIAN NAMES OF CERTAIN STATES AND RIVERS BY WILLIAM E CONNELLEY Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society Explanations of the origin of certain Indian names are varied and conflicting The writer submits the following authoritative statements relative to the derivation and meaning of the names of the states of Iowa Missouri Mississippi Ohio and Kentucky and the rivers Ohio Mississippi Missouri and Neosha IOWA The Iowa Indians called ...
... PROCEEDINGS 217 PROCEEDINGS 217 lands as sites for the establishment of state parks along the shores of Lake Erie for conservation and recreation purposes Be it further resolved that copies of this resolution be transmitted by the secretary of this organization to Conservation Commissioner L Wooddell and to each member of the conservation council and to the chairman of the Senate Conservation and Finance Committees and to the Governor of the State of Ohio Mr Miller read a report of receipts ...
... PROCEEDINGS 219 PROCEEDINGS 21 9 SOME PROBLEMS OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORIOGRAPHY1 By WALTER L DORN Among the multiple tendencies which inspire historians of every variety in our day one of the strongest is a synthetic or comparative study of history Although national histories are still being written in all the countries of western society there is a keen consciousness everywhere that national history in its isolation does not constitute an intelligible field of historical study Comparative ...