... DR DR WILLIAM OXLEY THOMPSON HONORED Dr William Oxley Thompson was the recipient of distinguished honors at the Scioto Country Club in Columbus Friday evening June 6 1924 The occasion was a silver jubilee dinner in celebration of the completion of his twenty-five years of service as president of the Ohio State University Guests to the number of 420 including trustees faculty alumni fellow college presidents and prominent citizens of the state and city were present and a spokesman from each ...
... 112 Ohio Arch 112 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The years in which Professor Randall taught were previous to the introduction of the Case system in the Colleges of Law In a degree he anticipated this method of teaching He had familiarized himself with a large number of the important decisions of the courts in cases where commercial paper was the cause of the litigation In addition he had the happy faculty of developing by hypothesis a well constructed controversy His students from ...
... LOWRY F LOWRY F SATER Lowry F Sater was born and passed his boyhood days on a Miami Valley farm in Crosby Township Hamilton County Ohio After teaching school for five years and spending one year at Marietta College he entered Ohio State University from which he graduated in Arts and Law respectively in 1895 and 1897 360 Lowry F Lowry F Sater 361 Immediately upon his admission to the Bar he entered the office of his uncle John E Sater with whom he was associated in the practice until 1907 ...
... 540 Ohio Arch 540 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publicat io ns OHIO CAVE DWELLERS BY J H GALBRA IT H Mr Galbraith has for some time been publishing a series of Short Stories of the Buckeye State Many of them are worthy of preservation in permanent form Archaeologists will be interested in the one herewith reprinted Did the Cave Dwellers antedate the Mound Builders - EDITOR When Charles Whittlesey explored the shelter houses or caves under the sandstone outcropping along the Black river in the ...
... 560 Ohio Arch 5 60 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications mysterious Mound Builder was at all events a good liver The weather proved delightful and the State officials as well as trustees pronounced themselves as highly pleased first with the fact that the State had secured the property and second that it was being so admirably protected under the custodianship of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society HARRISON-TARHE PEACE CONFERENCE MEMORIAL On Tuesday June 28 1904 at Columbus ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 109 Then with my waking thoughts Bright with Thy praise Out of my stony griefs Bethel I'll raise So by my woes to be Nearer my God to Thee Nearer to Thee The meeting was concluded with prayer BENEDICTION BY DR JOSEPH S KORNFELD To the departed Emilius Oviatt Randall whom we now affectionately remember may peace and bliss be granted in the realm of eternal life There may he find grace and mercy before the Lord of Heaven and earth May his soul ...
... 352 Ohio Arch 352 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ALBERT DOUGLAS The county of Ross is one of the richest in Ohio in historic lore It figured potently in the pioneer and early state annals Chillicothe was the first capital of the state There on April 25 1852 was born Albert Douglas who at the last annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society of which he has long been a life and interested member was elected a Trustee Mr Douglas was educated in the Chillicothe ...
... 226 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 226 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY and Commander Webb C Hayes for terms of three years The Committee realizing the deep interest and long service of Mr Harold T Clark and bowing to his personal desire for retirement nominated for the third vacancy Dr Charles E Holzer of Gallipolis The Secretary was instructed by the Chairman to cast the ballot for each of the nominees President Johnson Last year Dr Overman of our staff presented a ...
... PROCEEDINGS 287 PROCEEDINGS 287 MR STOUT To honor Mr Sater I think it would be very fitting that these resolutions become a part of the Minutes of our Society Will someone make a motion to that effect A motion was made by Mr Spetnagel and seconded by Mr Roof that these resolutions be made a part of the Minutes of the Society The motion was unanimously carried Mr Spetnagel chairman of the Nominating Committee then made the following report Speaking for your Nominating Committee I wish to ...
... ORIGIN OF SOME EARLY BELMONT COUNTY ORIGIN OF SOME EARLY BELMONT COUNTY NEWSPAPERS By FRANCIS C HIBBARD The history of the early newspapers of Belmont County Ohio is to some extent confused and contradictory Much that has been written on the subject is based apparently upon tradition and second-hand information An attempt will herewith be made to clear up some of the confusion and rectify at least some of the errors Two of the present-day papers of the county--the St Clairsville Gazette and ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 393 left little or nothing to be desired in the treatment of his subject To the presentation of his facts he gives logical organization and from the results draws a judicial and convincing conclusion After a painstaking minute and unprejudiced investigation the author sums up the evidence -in his chapter on the Legal Aspects and the Equities - and elicits the verdict that the seating of Mr Hayes was a justifiable compromise of a doubtful perversion of political rights ...
... THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXHIBIT FOR THE OHIO THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXHIBIT FOR THE OHIO CENTENNIAL THE collection of Ohio prehistoric relics made at Philadelphia and at New Orleans attracted much attention and demonstrated the richness of Ohio archaeological treasures By common consent Ohio was given the first place among the states in this class of exhibits And yet the collections were far from satisfactory to archaeological students and to those who made the collections and superintended the ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue Miss LOUISE RAU is assistant editor of the Burton Historical Collection in the Detroit Public Library DR DAVID A T U CKER JR is professor of the history of medicine in the College of Medicine of the University of Cincinnati Reprints Reprints of any paper published in the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY may be obtained by the contributor Estimates of the cost will be furnished on request and requests should be made to the editor before ...
... 114 Ohio Arch 114 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications THE LATEST PREHISTORIC NEWS The actual results of archaeological explorations in Ohio and elsewhere in this country are sufficient to arouse interest and curiosity in the life and world of the lost and unrecorded people But what the newspapers say concerning these explorations surpasses the tales of Arabian Nights or Baron Munchausen For instance concerning the exhumations by Prof W C Mills at Fort Ancient the past summer 1908 a leading ...
... 562 Ohio Arch 562 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications GATHERING UNDER THE OAKS On July 6th the Secretary of the Society was the honored invitee of the committee of arrangements at the semi-centennial anniversary celebration of the birth of the Republican party held at Jackson Mich in a picturesque grove of oak trees just outside the city limits It was at Jackson Mich on July 6 1854 that the first great mass meeting of members of the Whig Abolitionist Anti-slavery Democrat and other members ...
... HERMAN MELVILLE AND THE OHIO PRESS HERMAN MELVILLE AND THE OHIO PRESS By GEORGE KUMMER Early in 1858 Herman Melville passed through Ohio on a lecture tour The hastily written notices of his address which appeared in the newspapers of Cleveland Cincinnati and Chillicothe add a few details to our sketchy knowledge of his career as a lecturer and show how the author of Moby Dick impressed the people of what was then called the West The average Ohioan of that day was not greatly interested in ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 119 BLENNERHASSET REDIVIVUS The Century for July 1901 contains an article by Therese Blennerhassett Adams on The True Story of Harman Blennerhassett The author very briefly recites the history of the Blennerhassetts who built that magnificent mansion on the historic island in the Ohio near Belpre in the year 1798 The article is valuable historically as authentically stating that the main if not sole cause of the departure from Ireland and emigration to America of the ...
... SOME UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN CULTURAL ANSOME UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY1 By JOHN GILLIN Cultural anthropology is a comparatively old branch of learning if we mean by it the contemplation of the objects of material culture and a vague awareness of strange customs The Babylonians of the time of Hammurabi are said to have had museums of artifacts recovered from the Sumerians and the Greeks notably Herodotus evinced a lively interest in the customs of barbarians It is only during ...
... METHODS OF TREATMENT OF SOME OF THE MORE METHODS OF TREATMENT OF SOME OF THE MORE COMMON DISEASES BY THE PIONEER PHYSICIANS OF OHIO By DAVID A TUCKER MD As a preface to the description of the treatment of some common diseases in the Ohio Valley a century or more ago I should like to sketch briefly the knowledge with which the physician of that period was equipped First he was familiar with the gross appearance of body in health and disease as anatomical studies were greatly stressed but knew ...
... Ohio the Site of the Garden of Eden Ohio the Site of the Garden of Eden 225 OHIO THE SITE OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN THE SERPENT MOUND THE HOME OF ADAM AND EVE THE THEORY OF REV LANDON WEST The following article is not exactly archaeology nor history though it contains something of each It is however so unique and entertaining that we reproduce it as it has been given to the public in the daily press-EDITOR Here is food for the higher critics the Egyptologists archaeologists and the Biblical ...