... 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 ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Covered Wooden Truss Bridges of Greene County Ohio A collection of photos and data of a vanishing era By James H Shell Xenia Ohio Greene County Historical Society 1998 76p illustrations bibliography At first glance this slender volume appears to be just another covered bridge picture book Many of this genre emphasize numbingly repetitive photos of bridge exteriors and indeed the lead section of this book includes the expected photo gallery But this publication actually ...
... GEORGE BANCROFT SMITH GEORGE BANCROFT SMITH Secretary-Treasurer of C F Kettering Inc Dayton Ohio George Bancroft Smith Secretary-Treasurer of C F Kettering Inc Dayton Ohio was born November 16 1867 at Phillipsburg Ohio a son of Lewis R Smith who was actively identified in the legal profession at one time in the contracting business and of Mary John Smith Ancestry on father's side Scotch and Holland Dutch on mother's side of Welsh descent George Bancroft Smith received a public school education ...
... BOOK NOTES BOOK NOTES Women In Kentucky By Helen Deiss Irvin Lexington The University Press of Kentucky 1979 134p photographs source listing Another contribution to the Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf series this work outlines the history of the Kentucky women from 1775 through the 1930s The six chapters focus on the lives of settlers workers and reformers without doting on the contributions of exceptional Kentucky women Based upon published diaries autobiographies biographies and newspapers ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent retirements within the professional community include Ruth Helmuth Case Western Reserve University Archivist William D Aeschbacher teacher and administrator at the University of Cincinnati and Lenore R O'Boyle and Leon C Soule of Cleveland State University The 1986 Northern Great Plains History Conference will be held September 25-27 For details contact Jack M Lauber University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Department of History Eau Claire Wisconsin 54701 ...
... ROBERT BUTLER ROBERT BUTLER Book Notes The Life and Adventures of Daniel Boone By Michael A Lofaro Lexington University Press of Kentucky 1978 x 141p map illustrations bibliography This brief biography part of the Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf provides an easily-read introduction to Boone and his times Besides the standard account of his life Lofaro adds numerous anecdotes such as the fact that James Fenimore Cooper used Boone as a model for many of his fictional frontiersmen The author's ...
... Historical News Historical News Virginius C Hall director of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio since 1945 died in Cincinnati on June 8 1957 after a brief illness Mr Hall a native of North Carolina and a graduate of Trinity College Duke University came to Cincinnati in 1923 where he engaged in the advertising business and later in stockbroking until 1934 In that year he joined the faculty of the Cincinnati Country Day School and then in 1942 became a master in the French ...
... PAINTED SKELETONS PAINTED SKELETONS BY WM C MILLS Curator Ohio State Archaeological Historical Society Very peculiar burials have been reported from the western part of Concord Township Ross County Ohio The burials were first brought to my notice by Mr A B Coover of Roxabell Ohio who removed several skeletons from a gravel pit in the western part of Concord Township and these were covered ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 645 Reviews Notes and Comments 645 agriculture Secretary Hoover of commerce Secretary Davis of labor and fifteen residents of Marion Plans have already been perfected for raising the funds for the Harding Memorial and before this issue of the QUARTERLY reaches our readers the necessary contributions will have been subscribed DR T C MENDENHALL ENTERTAINS FIRST CLASS TO ENTER OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Dr T C Mendenhall who delivered the annual address published in this ...
... PROCEEDINGS 247 book will be made up of nearly a score of essays treating various aspects of Ohio history and activity While we believe that this section of the book will be of great interest to the general reader and will serve to interpret the State as a whole it is unlikely that it will make significant addition to the body of knowledge on Ohio The second and third sections of the book however will be a unique contribution Because of its large staff widely distributed over the State the ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA BY BERTHA E JOSEPHSON Among collections suitable for investigation and research by graduate students in history economics and American literature are the following from the manuscript vaults of the Department of Documents in the Library of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Jay Cooke Collection--37 boxes plus I carton--pertaining to western land investments of Cooke his Gibralter Island period and the bankruptcy period None of this material ...
... Centennial Tribute to Ohio Centennial Tribute to Ohio 181 Oh the tasseled corn for the whole broad land For the Union no power can sever But the buckeye brown for the Buckeye State Shall be our badge forever CENTENNIAL TRIBUTE TO OHIO BY JOHN HOPLEY Hail fair O HIO from the great Northwest The first established free state and the best Where bounteous Nature spread with lavish hand A fertile soil throughout this favored land And filled the tree-crowned hills with varied stores Of inexhaustible ...
... 296 Ohio Arch 296 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications This is a little volume just issued from the press in which the author recounts A tale of the Mound Builders The location of the events of the story is mainly at Serpent Mound and Marietta at which latter place the author locates the capital or abiding place of the king of the Mound Builders whom he calls Oko The story is not intricate and is simply and speedily told It is an imaginative portrayal of the life and character of the Mound ...
... 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 ...
... SHAPING THE SEMINAR IN LOCAL HISTORY1 SHAPING THE SEMINAR IN LOCAL HISTORY1 by HARVEY WISH Associate Professor of History Western Reserve University History-writing has no prouder tradition than the pretentious seminar for graduate students and yet in far too many cases it has no rival for stuffiness and ineptitude That the seminar has survived and is in no immediate danger of extinction is not due to the guiding principles of Ranke or Herbert B Adams but rather because it serves as a ...
... INDEX TO FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING INDEX TO FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING Auditor Report of 537-538 Good Dr H L 526 Bachert W H 526 Greenman Emerson F 527 Basket Maker Prehistoric presented to Headley J E 524 Society 526 unveiled 567-569 Heer Fred J 521 538 Beaton Ralph 526 Hine James S 527 Bond Beverley W Jr The Old NorthHooper Osman C 519 west to Eastern Eyes 542-555 Houston Mrs William 518 Brown William A 519 Howells William D 518 Bush F W 519 Japan Gifts from 526 Business Agent Office of ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio State University recently announced A research grant by the American Council of Learned Societies has been awarded to Professor Chang Hao National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships have been individually awarded to Professors James M Kittelson and John C Burnham A Fulbright-Hays Lecturer for 1980 Professor Mansel G Blackford will spend the period of March-December in Japan Professor Leila J Rupp has won a research fellowship from the ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Missouri Valley History Conference will be held in Omaha Nebraska March 14-16 1991 For information concerning the meeting contact William C Pratt Program Coordinator MVHC University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha Nebraska 68182 The Oral History Association will hold its 1991 Annual Meeting on October 10-13 1991 at Snowbird near Salt Lake City Utah Proposals for papers panels and speakers particularly on such themes as women ethnic topics and the region of ...
... TO CINCINNATI TO CINCINNATI BY EDWARD A M'LAUGHLIN 1798This poem appeared as one of a collection printed in Cincinnati in 1841 The general title of the book was Lovers of the Deep To any one who is acquainted with the culture of Cincinnati the prophetic vision of the poet can be keenly appreciated City of gardens verdant parks sweet bowers Blooming upon thy bosom bright and fair Wet with the dews of spring and summer's showers And fanned by every breath of wandering air Rustling the foliage of ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The fall meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held October 17 1986 at the University of Akron Retirements within the professional community include Jeanette E Tuve at the end of the 1984-85 academic year from Cleveland State University and promoted to the rank of Professor Emerita Edwin R King of the University of Dayton in May 1986 and in June 1986 Richard W Smith of Ohio Wesleyan University The Western History Association has put out a call for ...