... Historical News Historical News David C Riede has been appointed an instructor in the department of history at the University of Akron Mr Riede received the BA and MA degrees in history from the University of Iowa and is now completing his dissertation for the doctor's degree Maxwell Whiteman has been appointed assistant director of the American Jewish Archives Jacob R Marcus the director of the archives is the recipient of the 1954-55 National Service Award of Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity This ...
... THE EARLY USE OF THE MICROSCOPE IN OHIO THE EARLY USE OF THE MICROSCOPE IN OHIO By RUSSELL L HADEN MD The compound microscope invented in 1 59 0 made possible the observation of a new world of minute things The practical application of this instrument however developed very slowly No field of science for instance has profited more from the revelations of the microscope than medicine Bacteria protozoa and many animal parasites were observed by the early microscopists yet the microscope was not ...
... HOWARD A HOWARD A DeWITT The New Harding and American Foreign Policy Warren G Harding Hiram W Johnson and Pragmatic Diplomacy The historiographical rehabilitation of Warren G Harding has produced a revisionist portrait of a President with moderate talent and moderate views who used persuasion compromise and conciliation to achieve a modicum of success in domestic and foreign affairs1 Although historians are divided over the extent and long-range importance of Harding's accomplishments there is ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Thirty-Sixth Annual Missouri Valley History Conference will be held in Omaha Nebraska March 11-13 1993 For further information contact Dale Gaeddert MVHC Coordinator Department of History University of Nebraska at Omaha Nebraska 68182-0213 The North American Society for Sport History will hold its Twenty-first Annual Convention at Albuquerque New Mexico on May 28-June 1 1993 Those interested in presenting a paper or organizing a session should contact or ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 141 Reviews Notes and Comments 141 state of preservation The title page which is reproduced in facsimile carries the imprint of one of the very early publishers of Columbus PORTRAIT OF SIMON KENTON In Filson Club Publications No 17 the artist who painted the portrait of Simon Kenton is spoken of as Louis Morgan The contribution is by General Samuel W Price himself an artist and an authority on the subject treated in his carefully prepared monograph entitled The Old ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President The December issue of the Reporter contains an article on the early grain business in Allen County It also includes a letter from the president of the society announcing that the building fund of the society stood as of December 13 at 118000 and that 2000 was needed to meet the board's annual goal of 10000 for the fund This amount has been secured for the past three years ...
... 490 Ohio Arch 490 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications DR JACOB ALBRIGHT SHAWAN Dr Jacob A Shawan for many years recognized as one who had attained high place among educators of Ohio died at his home near DeGraff Logan County Ohio May 4 1927 He was born in Wapakoneta June 15 1850 was reared on a farm educated in the public schools of Urbana Ohio and was graduated from Oberlin College in 1880 He received his M A degree from Oberlin College in 1883 and the honorary degree of Ph D from ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Spring Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held April 21-22 1995 at Otterbein College in Westerville Ohio For further information contact Donna L Van Raaphorst History Department Cuyahoga Community College Western Campus Cleveland Ohio 44130-5199 The Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies of Saint Mary's University will be holding its 7th North American Fur Trade Conference in Halifax Nova Scotia on May 24-28 1995 The ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue HARRY R STEVENS who is also the author of Ohio Bridge 1939 and Six Twenty Margaretta Hunt and the Baker-Hunt Foundation 1942 is at present with our fighting forces somewhere in the Pacific area His home is in Cincinnati Ohio ROBERT L JONES is instructor in history at Marietta College EDWARD C REILLEY is assistant professor of history at John Carroll University Cleveland Ohio MABEL WATKINS MRS W C MAYER the granddaughter of the Ohio Hundred Day man Wallace ...
... LITERARY PERIODICALS OF THE OHIO VALLEY LITERARY PERIODICALS OF THE OHIO VALLEY IN a course of investigations concerning Western literary undertakings the writer has given some attention to the history of periodical publications particularly those devoted to literature There have been many such publications in the valley of the Ohio River some of great merit others of little or no value Comparatively few of our Western magazines have been well supported by the public or have lived longer than ...
... RICHARD K RICHARD K FLEISCHMAN AND R PENNY MARQUETTE Chapters in Ohio Progressivism The Cincinnati and Dayton Bureaus of Municipal Research and Accounting Reform Introduction During the Progressive era in American history reformers attacked corruption bossism unbridled plutocracy and what they perceived to be the decay of traditional American morality Following the depression of 1893 one of the most severe in the nation's history many reformers focused on a new common cause-the appalling ...
... THE OHIO STATE THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING April 6 1945 The annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society convened in the auditorium of the Ohio State Museum at 103 0 AM April 6 1 9 45 The meeting was called to order by Mr Arthur C Johnson President of the Society Other members of the Board of Trustees present were Mr Wolfe Mr Amos Mr Eagleson and Mr Florence Considering present day difficulties in ...
... 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 ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Ohio University Press is launching a new series of books to commemorate Ohio's two-hundredth anniversary in 2003 The Ohio Bicentennial Series will provide the public scholars and students with a comprehensive picture of the development of Ohio life Ten books are planned for the series tentative titled include Transportation in Ohio Documentary Heritage of Ohio Women in Ohio History Indigenous Peoples of Ohio Vernacular Architecture of Ohio Governors of Ohio ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies DELAWARE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Delaware Wilbur Main President The society has been holding regular monthly meetings on the third Monday of each month At the meeting in February R B Powers gave a paper on genealogy Mrs John J Swickheimer spoke at the March meeting on the early history of Radnor Township In April the first number of a mimeographed bulletin was published for the purpose of publicizing the society by describing its aims and ...
... THE TEACHING OF PHARMACY IN OHIO THE TEACHING OF PHARMACY IN OHIO by B V CHRISTENSEN Dean of the College of Pharmacy Ohio State University The early development of pharmacy in the United States went hand in hand with the development of medical practice As a matter of fact up until about 1800 there was no appreciable separation between medicine and pharmacy and in many instances both medicine and pharmacy were practiced by the same individuals Not infrequently neither medicine nor pharmacy was ...
... DR DR B F PRINCE A veteran educator life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and for thirtyone years a member of its board of trustees passed peacefully away at his home in Springfield Monday September 11 1933 at the age of ninety-three years The Springfield Daily News published a carefully written obituary from which the following sketch is gleaned 452 Dr Dr B F Prince 453 Dr B F Prince 93 dean of the faculty of Wittenberg college and affectionately called The ...
... Historical News Historical News THE INSTITUTE OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE and the Jamestown Foundation announce the establishment of a special prize competition for the best unpublished book-length manuscript about seventeenth-century America The annual prize will consist of 1000 and publication by the institute All manuscripts submitted whether winning an award or not will be considered for publication by the institute The competition will be judged by the publications committee of ...
... THE BELMONT MEDICAL SOCIETY 1847-1860 THE BELMONT MEDICAL SOCIETY 1847-186 0 AN EARLY COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY IN OHIO By ROBERT G PATERSON PH D At the Centennial Exposition held in Philadelphia in 1876 Dr John S Billings presented a review of Medical Literature and Institutions1 for the hundred years 1776 to 1876 In the course of his review he took occasion to refer to the publications of the Belmont County Medical Society in the following language A rare medical periodical and curiosity in its ...
... Historical News Historical News TH E FIRST ANNUAL American history award of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association went to Donald F Warner professor of history at Wisconsin State College The presentation of the one thousand dollar prize was made on April 23 at the annual meeting of the association in Denver Colorado Dr Warner's winning entry entitled The Idea of Continental Union Agitation for Annexation of Canada to the United States 1849-1893 will be published in early 1960 by the ...