... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Broken Circle By Carl G Doney New York Fleming H Revell Company 1943 187p Written as a memorial volume to a beloved son who when living had exerted a wide and beneficent influence on many people The Broken Circle tells the story of Paul H Doney minister and teacher who died at the early age of forty-one Its writing was a labor of love done by a sorrowing father who wished to present the faith which animated his son's life and the philosophy which underlay his ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Lakewood The First Hundred Years By Jim and Susan Borchert Norfolk The Donning Company 1989 192p illustrations maps bibliography index This thoroughly researched and well-written centennial history chronicles the dramatic changes both physical and cultural which transformed East Rockport from vineyards and orchards to suburb and eventually Cleveland satellite city Abundantly illustrated Borchert's book is neatly organized into fourteen chapters that alternate between ...
... TRAILING ADAM'S ANCESTORS TRAILING ADAM'S ANCESTORS BY HENRY C SHETRONE Lest the above title may not be readily intelligible to the reader it may be explained that this paper has to do solely with the origin and antiquity of the human race It goes without saying that humans through the ages have concerned themselves with queries as to the genesis significance and destiny of their kind It is equally true that every race and every people from the lowest savagery to highest civilization have ...
... School and Other Days 1859 School and Other Days 1859 Selections from the Diaries of Robert and Sylvester Bishop Edited by JOHN WEATHERFORD ROBERT WAS ELEVEN and Sylvester nine when they began their diaries in the Christmas season of 1858 They kept them with fair regularity during 1859 except for summer vacation Their father Robert Hamilton Bishop II encouraged journals among those of his twelve children who were the right age Professor of Latin at Miami University and son of its first ...
... PREGLACIAL MAN IN OHIO PREGLACIAL MAN IN OHIO AT the meeting of the Boston Society of Natural History2 for November 4 1885 Mr Putnam showed an implement chipped from a pebble of black flint found by Dr C L Metz in gravel eight feet below the surface in Madisonville Ohio This rude implement is about the same size and shape of one made of the same material found by Dr Abbott in the Trenton N J gravel and is of special interest as the first one known from the gravels of Ohio This announcement ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 90 Secretary--Harry Brent Mackoy Covington Ky Deputy Secretary - Murray Marvin Shoemaker Cincinnati Treasurer - Howard Sydenham Winslow Cincinnati Registrar - Robert Ralston Jones Cincinnati Historian - John Uri Lloyd Norwood Chancellor - Herbert Jenney Cincinnati Surgeon - Dr Phineas Sanborn Conner Cincinnnati Chaplain - Rev Henry Melville Curtis Cincinnati Gentlemen of the Council - Nathaniel Henchman Davis Cincinnati Edwin C Gashorn Cincinnati Charles Humphrey ...
... DOCUMENTS DOCUMENTS A LETTER FROM GREENE COUNTY OHIO DECEMBER 28 1817 Among recent acquisitions to the Manuscript and Archives collections in the Library of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is the following letter which describes pioneer conditions in Greene County Ohio in the year 1817 The letter was addressed to Nathan Fisher Mendon Worcester County Massachusetts and was postmarked at Xenia December 31 It evidently reached its destination January 18 1818 The postage was ...
... A Prophecy A Prophecy 351 Wait on the Queen of Arts in her own bowers Perfumed with all the fragrance of the earth From blooming shrubbery and radiant flowers And hope with rapture wed life's calm and peaceful hours Oft as the spring wakes on the verdant year And nature glows in fervid beauty dress'd The loves and graces shall commingle here To charm the queenly City of the West Her stately youth with noble warmth impress'd Her graceful daughters smiling as in MayApollos these and Hebes those ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 551 Reviews Notes and Comments 551 house and the first church established in the Ohio Country When this property is improved it is to be transferred to the custody of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society A bill introduced by Honorable Thomas L Calvert of Clark County appropriates 10000 for the purpose of aiding in paying the cost of constructing a monument to General George Rogers Clark and to commemorate the battle of Piqua and birthplace of Tecumseh ...
... 46 Ohio Arch 46 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications LAUNCHING THE SHIP BY IDA ECKERT-LAWRENCE This poem was written by Mrs Lawrence and read by her as she stood by President McKinley upon the occasion of the launching of the Ohio at San Francisco May 18 1901 Mrs Lawrence is a native of Richland county Ohio and now a resident of Toledo She is the author of the well-known little volume of poems entitled Day Dreams I Oh Star of empire thou that went before The pilgrim in the misty days of yore ...
... THE PUBLIC AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY THE PUBLIC AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY by SAVOIE LOTTINVILLE Director University of Oklahoma Press It has been said that if you scratch a historian you will surely find an author There is scarcely a discipline in America today as productive as history--and I do not exclude even the sciences whose cosmic chill seems to work inversely enkindling the imagination of mankind the more as the outlook for the future becomes the less Perhaps it is because the record ...
... Slavery and Antislavery Slavery and Antislavery Subjects in Search of Authors By Louis FILLER I T IS P OSSIBLE that a revaluation of slavery and antislavery--and more especially of the relationship between antislavery and abolition--has been in order perhaps overdue The literature about these last two related fields is of course enormous but whether the residue of them which the historical profession carries about with it and can bring to bear upon them suffices to maintain our understanding ...
... 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 HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 66 NUMBER 3 JULY 1957 Social History A Nation Announcing Itself By PHILIP D JORDAN Twenty-odd years ago when the series entitled A History of American Life seemed a shining new constellation in the heavens of historiography a caravan of wise men journeyed by day and by night to Providence Rhode Island to stargaze These priests of Clio ministering to a general session of the American Historical Association were carried away with ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Academy of History's 1989 Spring Meeting will be held at The Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio on April 21-22 1989 Those interested in further information regarding the meeting should contact Dr Richard Francis Spall Jr Program ChairpersonOAH Department of History Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware Ohio 43015 The Mormon History Association will hold its annual meeting at the Quincy Holiday Inn Quincy Illinois May 11-14 1989 For further ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS THE NEW COMMONWEALTH 18771890 By John A Garraty New York Harper amp Row 1968 xv 364p editor's introduction preface illustrations bibliographical essay and index 795 225 paper With the welcome appearance of Professor Garraty's masterful synthesis and reevaluation of the Hayes to Harrison period of our national development we have the most important study of these highly significant but long neglected years since the 1930's when Ida M Tarbell and Arthur M Schlesinger Sr ...
... 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 ...
... A STUDY OF THE OKLAHOMA ECCENTRIC FLINTS A STUDY OF THE OKLAHOMA ECCENTRIC FLINTS By H HOLMES ELLIS Since March 1936 when they were first called to the attention of the general public7 the Oklahoma eccentric flints have presented a puzzling archaeological phenomenon Dr Forrest E Clements1 collaborating with Mr Alfred Reed Jr wrote the only satisfactory account of the find and the circumstances surrounding it but due to lack of time and facilities he was unable to carry out a detailed analysis ...
... 2 EXCAVATION OF THE REEVE VILLAGE SITE EXCAVATION OF THE REEVE VILLAGE SITE LAKE COUNTY OHIO By EMERSON F GREENMAN 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Foreword 5 Description of the Site 5 Burial 10 Artifacts 11 Bibliography 31 Appendix 32 4 EXCAVATION OF THE REEVE VILLAGE SITE EXCAVATION OF THE REEVE VILLAGE SITE LAKE COUNTY OHIO Foreword The entire season of 1 929 was spent in locating and examining a number of aboriginal sites in northern Ohio from the eastern border of the ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 97 RANDALL AND THE CITY LIBRARY BY JOHN J PUGH LIBRARIAN It is not without emotion that I approach the subject Mr Randall and the Library The intimacy of my relations with Mr Randall during the thirty-five years he served as Trustee of the Public Library was such that the personal note cannot be excluded However a Johnson can well afford to have a Boswell The estimate of Mr Randall as a factor of the Library does not suffer even though written by a ...