... 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 ...
... 292 Ohio Arch 292 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications at the proper time took action in adopting memorial resolutions on the death of Dr Thompson but has had no formal meeting since the death of Mr Galbreath The resolutions adopted by the Board of Trustees are at hand Mr Secretary will you read them DR LINDLEY It seems fitting that the resolution passed at the time of the regular meeting of the Board of Trustees on January 23 1934 should be read before the members at the Annual Meeting ...
... 136 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 136 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY tainly have an interest in historical background I hope that each of these papers will be deposited with the secretary of this section and I want to say that from what I have heard we will want to publish as nearly all of them as possible I would like to have at least abstracts so that in the course of the year we can carry this out and make the discussions a matter of record The Ohio State ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... The MacGahan Monument The MacGahan Monument 217 Thy hills thy fields thy woods have been Since boyhood days my own blood-kin And long my soul and the soul of thee Are blent as one for eternity In infant eyes thy mother-face Poured deep the wine of mystic grace And now to me thy voice and spell Speak high as heaven and deep as hell To breathe of thee all I have known Or dreamed beloved and my own Were to assail a sacred lore But thine and mine forevermore Thus much howe'er I may impart That in ...
... Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association 403 faded manuscripts for you and put the same into type-written form so that editors will readily accept them or you may not have historic mat ter so much at heart as the writer of these lines has nor have been taught by an honored historian a dear husband how to handle historic facts The leaders of the morning's conference then reported briefly upon their correspondence preparatory to the ...
... ROBERT D ROBERT D MARCUS James A Garfield Lifting the Mask The Garfield Orbit The Life of President James A Garfield By Margaret Leech and Harry J Brown New York Harper amp Row 1978 xi 369 p illustrations notes index 1500 Garfield By Allan Peskin Kent Kent State University Press 1978 x 716p notes sources listed index 2000 Had Garfield Arthur Harrison and Hayes been young' Or had they all been born with flowing whiskers sideburns and wing collars speaking gravely from the cradle of their ...
... FINNISH NEWSPAPERS IN OHIO FINNISH NEWSPAPERS IN OHIO By JOHN I KOLEHMAINEN The possibilities which Ohio offered for Finnish journalistic enterprise attracted shortly before the year 1884 the attention of two ambitious typesetters Fred Karinen and Alex Wirtamo of the New York Mills Minnesota Uusi Kotimaa In the spring of 1884 the pair arrived in Ashtabula Harbor the largest Finnish settlement in the State and shortly afterward they launched with the assistance of Charles Stenroos Sr and Asser ...
... 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 his going a journey to the point designated seems not ...
... Charles Burleigh Galbreath 135 Charles Burleigh Galbreath 135 The final phase But why delay the bitter truth-- The story of my pride and fall-- The transit from my vernal youth To wreckage sad and skeletal Spurned by the feet of passers-by An outcast in the mire and rain Unworthy of a passing sigh And dead alike to joy or pain Fair maiden speed--I ask no more-- My flight aloft on fiery wings To Nature's mighty reservoir-- The goal of all material things Your hope serene I may not claim Of joys ...
... About WS 2004 Winter-Spring 2004 Contents Staff and Advisory Board OHS Board of Trustees Instructions for Authors PDF of these pages Click page numbers to view articles PDF links are also provided for printing articles Can't read PDFs Get Adobe Acrobat Reader ARTICLES 4 Communication Technology Transforms the Marketplace The Effect of the Telegraph Telephone and Ticker on the Cincinnati Merchants' Exchange by Bradford W Scharlott PDF of this article 18 Steubenville Ohio and the ...
... 496 Ohio Arch 496 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications whiskers and red ones too mind how would it look could be devoted to the best of causes following the Divine Master in humility of soul Yet such I believe is the fact But you will say why mention red She knows he can't change the color True but why not cut them off for surely red looks fiercer than black The portraits of Benjamin Lundy so far as we have seen them represent him with a smooth face At the time mentioned by the writer he ...
... THIS MONUMENT IS OLDER THAN THE GREAT THIS MONUMENT IS OLDER THAN THE GREAT PYRAMIDS BY FELIX J KOCH If you want to set your wits to work over something to which there may be an infinity of answers -each based on facts as logical as the next and yet each trying to solve a problem of utmost importance to the historian and the scientist and of interest to intelligent persons the world over just try to figure out how old the little mound in the accompanying picture may be This mound or tumulus is ...
... McKinley's Attempt to Avoid War 135 McKinley's Attempt to Avoid War 135 tional sovereignty22 In effect Spain still clung to sovereignty over Cuba and autonomy for the island At the same time that McKinley was dealing with the Spanish minister he made a final attempt to get the Cuban Junta to cooperate Rubens later explained that just before McKinley's message went to Congress the president's emissary told him that if the Cubans agreed to the armistice McKinley would place a reference to Cuban ...
... Notes Notes 289 are many others as important as the 'Serpent' which need attention at once to preserve them A member of the Society writes We must do something before the centennial celebration for their purchase and protection or be disgraced Every member of the Society should use his influence to interest the members of the Legislature in the matter in order that the State may fitly add to the glory of its centennial by the purchase of the more important of the works of its prehistoric ...
... Minutes of the Fall Business Meeting Minutes of the Fall Business Meeting Of the Ohio Academy of History Tiffin October 12 1956 The fall meeting of the Ohio Academy of History was held at Heidelberg College The president of the Academy Dr Grover C Platt called the business meeting to order and requested Dr Robert W Twyman of Bowling Green to act as temporary secretary for the purpose of taking minutes Thirty persons were present The president called the attention of those assembled to the fact ...
... 248 Ohio Arch 2 48 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications such service varies but never ceases And it must come from its citizens themselves if our Republic is to live Sincerely yours JUDSON HARMON TRIBUTE OF EX-GOV J B FORAKER APRIL II 1917 DEAR MR LIGGITT I have your letter of April 9th and sincerely thank you for the privilege you give me of saying something about the Battle Flags to be incorporated in the Memorial Book you are intending to publish If I were in better health I would no ...
... 374 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 374 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY the semi-centennial program at two o'clock An abstract of the minutes of the meeting of the Board of Trustees follows ABSTRACT OF THE MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY APRIL 23 1935 The regular annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society convened in the Trustees' Room of ...
... ESSAY AND COMMENT 49 ESSAY AND COMMENT 49 The True Profile of the Harding administration will emerge only as the new historiography is joined with a modification of the old DAVID H JENNINGS Professor of History Ohio Wesleyan University ESSAY AND COMMENT Oral History in Ohio During the past half century as the telephone and computer are replacing the personal letter and the telegraph a new era in historical research is emerging No longer does the detailed letter serve as the major source of ...