...1902 phone 330 972-7006 e-mail cboucharduakronedu 149 UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO Glenn Ames has published Renascent Empire The House of Braganza and the Quest for Stability in Portuguese Monsoon Asia Ca 1640-1683 Amsterdam University Press Diane Britton has received a grant from the Maumee Valley Historical Society for an oral history project on Toledo Scale to be incorporated into the Website Toledo's Attic maintained by Timothy Messer-Kruse of this ...
... 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 ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Historical Society's Local History Office recently established a lending library of over 300 books booklets tapes and slidetape programs dealing with the preservation and interpretation of local history Available to all incorporated historical organizations in Ohio the materials may be checked out for three weeks with no charge beyond return postage To obtain a complete listing of the available items and a copy of the operating rules please contact ...
... THE ODYSSEY OF PETROLEUM VESUVIUS NASBY by DAVID D ANDERSON After more than a century the American Civil War remains garbed in tragedy and pathos heroes and hero worship sentiment and cynicism as it has been since the guns fell silent and the printing presses began to pour out a still unabated torrent of memoirs histories and biographies As an age of heroes it is resplendent with the names of Lincoln Grant Lee Sherman Sheridan -- and Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby Perhaps the least remembered of ...
... LIFE MEMBERSHIPS LIFE MEMBERSHIPS To Donors of Rare Gifts In presenting life memberships to Mr John H James of Urbana Ohio who was present and to Mr Albert G Giddings of Ashtabula Ohio who was unavoidably absent Secretary Galbreath said 55 5 556 Ohio Arch 556 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications DEAR MR JAMES It is my very pleasant privilege as Secretary to present you this life membership in the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society For three generations in the James family ...
... 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 ...
... THE MOBBING OF THE CRISIS THE MOBBING OF THE CRISIS by EUGENE H ROSEBOOM Professor of History Ohio State University On the night of March 5 1863 in the midst of the Civil War the capital city of Ohio was the scene of a species of violence that had more than local significance The office of Samuel Medary's Crisis a weekly newspaper that had won both national acclaim and condemnation for its opposition to the war was wrecked by a crowd of armed men Some writers have attributed the act to ...
... Centennial Anniversary of the Birth of Ulysses S Centennial Anniversary of the Birth of Ulysses S Grant 287 published in the character sketch by Judge Hugh L Nichols in the April QUART E RLY POETIC TRIBUTES ON THE OCCASION OF THE GRANT CENTENARY Though General Grant as his son has stated cared little for music and as other writers have told us was not fond of poetry the centennial celebration of his birth called forth poetic tributes The following appeared in the papers of Georgetown the first ...
... JOHN GRAY WASHINGTON'S LAST SOLDIER JOHN GRAY WASHINGTON'S LAST SOLDIER BORN NEAR MT VERNON VA JANUARY 6TH 1764 DIED NEAR HIRAMSBURG O MARCH 29TH 1868 BY PRIVATE DALZELL Read at the Marietta Centennial Celebration One by one the severed links have started Bonds that bound us to the sacred past One by one our patriot sires departed Time hath brought us to behold the last Last of all who won our early glory Lonely traveler of the weary way Poor unknown unnamed in song or story In his western ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 433 Reviews Notes and Comments 433 DEATH OF SENATOR FRANK BARTLETTE WILLIS On the evening of March 28 1928 when he was about to deliver an address in his campaign for the nomination of President of the United States at a home-coming celebration in his honor at Gray Chapel Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware Ohio United States Senator Frank B Willis was stricken and died while 2500 of his friends and neighbors were waiting to hear him Senator Willis was born in Delaware ...
... 240 Ohio Arch 240 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications to him of vouchers approved by the supervisor of public printing and the adjutant general E J HOPPLE Speaker of the House of Representatives EARL D BLOOM President of the Senate Passed March 21 1917 Approved March 30 1917 JAMES M Cox Governor Filed in office of Secretary of State April 2 1917 SPEECH OF GOV FRANK B WILLIS UPON THE OCCASION OF THE REMOVAL OF THE BATTLE FLAGS TO THE ROTUNDA OF THE CAPITOL This is an inspiring spectacle The ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Without Right Angles The Round Barns of Iowa By Lowell J Soike Des Moines Iowa State Historical Department Office of Historic Preservation 1983 viii 103p illustrations notes index Round barns in Mr Soike's definition were structures which could be truly round octagonal or in some other polygonal form He catalogs 160 round barns in Iowa and traces the general history of this aberrant but practical design for the past 200 years in this well-researched and illustrated book ...
... Mills and Secretary C B Mills approved the same as submitted The motion was then duly seconded and carried Governor Campbell suggested that a day be set to consider the matter of an editorial board mentioned in the annual meeting of the Society Mr Wood stated he thought the Secretary should have time to check up all recommendations made and moved that the meeting adjourn to meet at the call ...
... 132 Ohio Arch 132 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications POEMS BY C B GALBREATH1 MORNING GLORIES From the shadows of night they called for the dawn In notes that were subtle and clear In a strain of music too exquisite For the range of mortal ear From their leafy columns and battlements That were moist with the morning dew A call for light and a reveille From the bells of their bugles they blew And lo up the east in the blush of the rose Came the tremulous light of the morn And earth awoke in ...
... EMERSON AND OHIO EMERSON AND OHIO A New Emerson Letter1 by N C DAVIS Graduate Assistant in English Ohio State University The following excerpt is from the editorial columns of the Cleveland Herald for March 2 1852 RALPH W EMERSON Writes from Concord Feb 26th to one of our citizens who had written to him when recently in Buffalo to come here and lecture Your letter I found on my road but it offered me fruit which I could not eat however fair All my days were promised for the Lyceums along the ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 336 Ohio Arch 336 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Maps and Military Register of 193rd Reg't O V I Earl W Benton Toy Bureau Miss Janet Gelley Columbus Loan Chinese and Javanese material C C Underhill Columbus Election Tickets of Lincoln and Hamlin Douglas and Johnson W H Swartz Columbus H R GOODWIN Registrar REPRINTS Reprints of any paper published in the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly may be obtained by the contributor Estimates of the cost will be furnished on request ...