... In Memoriam Summer-Autumn 2002 pp 198-199 PDF of In Memoriam CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Frank L Byrne A Gifted Civil War Historian By Leonne M Hudson Frank L Byrne was born on May 12 1928 in Hackensack New Jersey At the time of his death on April 21 2002 he was Professor Emeritus of History at Kent State University After graduating from Trenton State College in 1950 he attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison where he ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 97 RANDALL AND THE CITY LIBRARY BY JOHN J PUGH LIBRARIAN It is not without emotion that I approach the subject Mr Randall and the Library The intimacy of my relations with Mr Randall during the thirty-five years he served as Trustee of the Public Library was such that the personal note cannot be excluded However a Johnson can well afford to have a Boswell The estimate of Mr Randall as a factor of the Library does not suffer even though written by a ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 66 NUMBER 3 JULY 1957 Social History A Nation Announcing Itself By PHILIP D JORDAN Twenty-odd years ago when the series entitled A History of American Life seemed a shining new constellation in the heavens of historiography a caravan of wise men journeyed by day and by night to Providence Rhode Island to stargaze These priests of Clio ministering to a general session of the American Historical Association were carried away with ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 293 Reviews Notes and Comments 293 Normal School then as Ohio Normal University and finally as Ohio Northern University Among interesting relics given by Dr Lehr to the institution that he founded were a flag carried by his grandfather at the battles of the Brandywine Germantown and Monmouth and the epaulettes worn by his father as Brigadier-General in the Militia of Pennsylvania Dr Lehr belonged to the Grand Army of the Republic and the Masonic order He was a member ...
... Melodrama in Ohio Melodrama in Ohio Avery Hopwood and Boss Cox of Cincinnati By ARNO L BADE R W HEN THE OHIO PLAYRIGHT Aver y Hopwood died in 1928 his reputation was that of an immensely successful writer of light comedies and bedroom farces which had brought him a fortune If anyone remembered that as a youngster he had written The Powers That Be a serious play attacking civic corruption and political bossism that fact was not mentioned in his obituaries Yet for one week in 1907 The Powers ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... BRUCE A BRUCE A ROSENBERG Another Look at George Armstrong Custer Cu st er in the Civil War His Unfinished Memoirs Compiled and edited by John M Carroll San Rafael CA Presidio Press 1977 233p illustrations bibliographic checklist index 2750 Centennial Campaign The Sioux War of 1876 By John S Gray Fort Collins CO The Old Army Press 1976 392p bibliography maps index 2000 Lie in Custer's Ca valr Diaries and Letters of Albert and Jennie Barnitz 1867-1868 Edited by Robert M Utley New Haven Yale ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Academy of History's 1989 Spring Meeting will be held at The Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio on April 21-22 1989 Those interested in further information regarding the meeting should contact Dr Richard Francis Spall Jr Program ChairpersonOAH Department of History Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware Ohio 43015 The Mormon History Association will hold its annual meeting at the Quincy Holiday Inn Quincy Illinois May 11-14 1989 For further ...
... 644 Ohio Arch 644 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications NECROLOGY Since the last Annual Meeting of the Society five alphabetically arranged lists of our membership have been prepared and mailed to members in various parts of the state with a request that the Secretary be notified of the death of any member A card-index list of the members has also been prepared for the use of the President During the year the Society lost by death the following members LIFE MEMBERS Mr A M Woolson Toledo Ohio ...
... 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 ...
... 2 EXCAVATION OF THE REEVE VILLAGE SITE EXCAVATION OF THE REEVE VILLAGE SITE LAKE COUNTY OHIO By EMERSON F GREENMAN 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Foreword 5 Description of the Site 5 Burial 10 Artifacts 11 Bibliography 31 Appendix 32 4 EXCAVATION OF THE REEVE VILLAGE SITE EXCAVATION OF THE REEVE VILLAGE SITE LAKE COUNTY OHIO Foreword The entire season of 1 929 was spent in locating and examining a number of aboriginal sites in northern Ohio from the eastern border of the ...
... BOOK NOTES BOOK NOTES Any book mentioned in this d ep artment can be obtained through the Publisher of the QUARTERLY PRIMITIVE INDUSTRY or Illustrations of the Handiwork in Stone Bone and Clay of the Native Races of the Northern Atlantic Seaboard of America By Charles C Abbott MD Pp 560 Salem Mass Geo A Bates Cincinnati Robert Clarke amp Co 1881 Taken all together Dr Abbott's work on Primitive Industry is the most important single contribution yet made to the subject of American archaeology ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR SARGENT GENEALOGY Epes Sargent of Gloucester and His Descendants by Emma Worcester Sargent and Charles Sprague Sargent Houghton Mifflin Company publishers Boston and New York 1923 One of the most valuable and finely wrought books that has been added to the library of the Society is the sumptuous volume entitled Epes Sargent of Gloucester and His Descendants ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... THE CLEAN CONSCIENCE OF A DIRTY SWEEP THE CLEAN CONSCIENCE OF A DIRTY SWEEP McGUFFEY'S LITTLE CHIMNEY SWEEP AND ANOTHER by GEORGE L PHILLIPS Assistant Professor of English San Diego State College When by good fortune I come upon a story about a little chimney sweeper one of Lamb's tender novices blooming through their first nigritude the maternal washings not quite effaced from the cheek going sturdily about his business of cleaning soot out of foul chimneys my heart misses a few beats as I ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 433 Reviews Notes and Comments 433 The timely and appreciative words of welcome by Governor Vic Donahey friend of the Society the brief but eloquent speeches delivered in the afternoon by Judge Benson W Hough and Lieutenant Colonel Ralph D Cole former Congressman and the dedicatory address by Congressman Theodore E Burton former United States Senator from Ohio were in the opinion of the large audience among the most impressive ever delivered on the grounds of the ...
... AN 1850 PREVIEW OF WORLDS IN COLLISION AN 1850 PREVIEW OF WORLDS IN COLLISION by CARL WITTKE Professor of History and Dean of the Graduate School Western Reserve University Worlds in Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky is still on the best seller lists The book written by a Russian-born physician and Bible student who explored the sciences from medicine and law to psychoanalysis in many European centers of learning continues to be the storm center of one of the liveliest controversies that has ...
... Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly 1 59 TRIBUTE OF THE CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY The press prominent citizens and organizations in editorials in personal letters and formal resolutions gave expression to their appreciation of the character and service of Mr Randall The Historical Society of Clark County Ohio on March 3 1 920 recorded its tribute and adopted resolutions as follows Occasionally in life we find a rare character who ...