... Reviews Notes and Comments 101 Reviews Notes and Comments 101 who figured in the stories and afterward led to an appreciative study of life on the plains with scarcely any depreciation in his estimate of the spectacular character of Buffalo Bill A famous Iowa writer has declared that nothing lies like history and expresses the opinion that we must go to the imagination for realities This is a part of his apology for writing a romance of the famous Johnny Appleseed While we are not prepared at ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Croquet An Annotated Bibliography from the Rendell Rhoades Croquet Collection By Nancy L Rhoades Metuchen NJ Scarecrow Press Inc 1992 xx 214p illustrations bibliography appendix Today croquet might appear a quaint insignificant game in an environment dominated by professional football baseball and basketball But this annotated bibliography underscores croquet's position of prominence among American sports in the years following the Civil War as well as its revival in the ...
... 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 ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Labor History Project of The Ohio Historical Society has completed the Preliminary Guide to Sources in Ohio Labor History a forty-seven page pamphlet listing over 350 entries Copies can be obtained for 225 by writing to Ohio Labor History Project Ohio Historical Society ArchivesManuscripts Division Columbus Ohio 43211 Please make checks payable to the Ohio Historical Society The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a 25000 grant to the ...
... 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 ...
... 148 Ohio Arch 148 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Mr Meeker is the author of a number of books The list according to information at hand is as follows Washington Territory West of the Cascade Mountains 1870 Hop Growing in the United States 1883 Pioneer Reminiscences of Puget Sound 1905 The Tragedy of Leschi 1906 The Oregon Trail 1907 Uncle Ezra's Pioneer Stories for Children 1916 Eighty-five Years of a Busy Life 1916 Seventy Years of Progress in Washington 1921 Ox-Team Days on the ...
... DOWN THE RHINE TO THE OHIO DOWN THE RHINE TO THE OHIO The Travel Diary of Christoph Jacob Munk April 21-August 17 1832 by AUGUST C MAHR Professor of German Ohio State University The diary published in the following pages in the original German with an English translation merits attention for two principal reasons 1 it gives a complete almost day-by-day account of its writer's emigration with his family from Germany to Ohio and 2 it covers their entire journey that is not only the ocean voyage ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY EDITORIAL NOTES AND COMMENT RECOLLECTIONS OF ROYALTY Elsewhere in this issue reference has been made to an address delivered by our late Secretary Emilius Oviatt Randall before the Kit-Kat club entitled Recollections of Royalty This address will long be remembered by those who heard it as one of the most interesting and entertaining every delivered before a Columbus gathering It was published in the April number of ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 328 Ohio Arch 328 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications high character and mechanical execution of its predecessors in the series which is generally recognized as the monumental work on the The Mythology of All Races JOSH BILLINGS ONCE LIVED IN NORWALK OHIO The special edition of the Sandusky Register published December 21 1922 abounds in interesting history of Sandusky Erie County and adjacent territory One contribution proves clearly that the noted humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw known as Josh ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS ON THE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF OHIO 1965-1967 RELIGION WEIS James The Problem of Language Transition Among Lutherans in Ohio 18361858 Concordia Historical Institution Quarterly XXXIX 1966 5-19 Concerns the conflict over the use of the German and English languages in Lutheran services and seminaries WELSH Edward Burgett Origins of Ohio Presbyterianism Journal of Presbyterian History XLIII March 1965 16-27 SOCIAL HISTORY BORGWALD Charles W and Milton N Gallup Memories ...
... 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 ...
... GUILLOTIN THINKS OF AMERICA GUILLOTIN THINKS OF AMERICA By JOHN FRANCIS MCDERMOTT Among the many Frenchmen who came under the influence of Benjamin Franklin and American ideas in the last quarter of the eighteenth century not the least interesting was Joseph Ignace Guillotin His project for a colony in the Ohio Valley came to nothing because the disastrous adventure that befell the advance party discouraged and frightened the families he had planned to lead there but though the colony did not ...
... 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 with red ocre One year later Mr Almer Hegler of Washington C H notified me that a number of skeletons ...