... 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 ...
... 216 Ohio Arch 216 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications REV PURLEY A BAKER On March 30 Rev P A Baker died at his home in Westerville Ohio He was born in Jackson County Ohio April 10 1858 He was prominently identified with the work of the Anti-saloon League almost from its beginning This organization like many other movements began in Ohio in 1893 and extended to every state of the Union Its founder was Rev Howard H Russell who is still living in Westerville Rev P A Baker was in charge of the ...
... 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 ...
... SOME UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN CULTURAL ANSOME UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY1 By JOHN GILLIN Cultural anthropology is a comparatively old branch of learning if we mean by it the contemplation of the objects of material culture and a vague awareness of strange customs The Babylonians of the time of Hammurabi are said to have had museums of artifacts recovered from the Sumerians and the Greeks notably Herodotus evinced a lively interest in the customs of barbarians It is only during ...
... BOOK NOTES BOOK NOTES Any book mentioned in this department can be obtained through the Pub lisher of the QUARTERLY AMERICAN STATE CONSTITUTIONS A Study of their Growth By Henry Hitchcock LL D New York and London G P Putnam's Sons 1887 This little volume is No XXXVII of Questions of the Day It is an interesting study of certain currents of political thought in the United States as seen in State Constitutions and was originally delivered as an address before the New York State Bar Association ...
... MARC LEE RAPHAEL MARC LEE RAPHAEL Oral History in an Ethnic Community The Problems and the Promise Oral history whether viewed by proponents or detractors is rarely taken lightly Barbara Tuchman for example has charged that with the appearance of a tape recorder a monster with the appetite of a tapeworm we now have through its creature oral history an artificial survival of trivia of appalling proportions1 In contrast Saul Benison among the ablest practitioners of the art of oral history ...
... 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 ...
... KANSAS' DEAD IN FRANCE KANSAS' DEAD IN FRANCE BY WHITTIER C MITCHELL Leans from his warrior's heaven down John Brown Immortal Madman Brown Who shamed a nation by a deed Bolder than that of Winkelreid Swept to his dauntless breast the spears Of Freedom's foes and ere her tears Streamed on his bier with God's own fire Enkindled Slavery's funeral pyre That by its glare might all men see That all are bond till all are free He leans and smiles A measured tread Echoes up from the trenches red New ...
... 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 ...
... OPENING REMARKS OPENING REMARKS by JOHN W BENNE TT On behalf of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and the Ohio State University I want to welcome you all to this first meeting of the organization tentatively entitled Ohio Valley Historic Indian Conference Our discussions today will be general rather than specific a matter of viewpoints and perspectives of the three disciplines represented in the meeting--archaeology ethnohistory and history We hope this will be the ...
... 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 ...
... Brief Biography of William Henry Holmes 511 Brief Biography of William Henry Holmes 511 younger son William Heberling Holmes having a wife and three daughters is in business in Detroit BEAR HUNT IN YELLOWSTONE PARK -- 1872 BY W H HOLMES I had a curious little bear hunt experience in the Gallatin Range when I was with the first Hayden expedition We started out to climb one of the mountains one party going in one direction and the other with the outfit in another direction As we went along we ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 566 Ohio Arch 566 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications dealers of the kind in question with something of the nature of a certificate from year to year Yours respectfully DAVID BOYLE Superintendent Provincial Museum PAGE HALL COLUMBUS O March 25 1904 MY DEAR PROF MOOREHEADI feel that the dealers and so-called commercially inclined collectors are a great menace to our scientific museums in very many ways Many dealers collect specimens giving little or no attention to authentic data and offer ...
... Other Books of Interest Other Books of Interest Teachers for the Prairie The University of Illinois and the Schools 1868-1945 By HENRY C JOHNSON JR and ERWIN V JOHANNINGMEIER Urbana University of Illinois Press 1972 xx 508p bibliography and index 1500 Conception A History of the First Century of the Conception Colony 1858-1958 A History of the First Century of Conception Abbey 1873-1973 A History of New Engelberg College Conception College and the Immaculate Conception Seminary 1886-1971 By ...
... ROBERT D ROBERT D MARCUS James A Garfield Lifting the Mask The Garfield Orbit The Life of President James A Garfield By Margaret Leech and Harry J Brown New York Harper amp Row 1978 xi 369 p illustrations notes index 1500 Garfield By Allan Peskin Kent Kent State University Press 1978 x 716p notes sources listed index 2000 Had Garfield Arthur Harrison and Hayes been young' Or had they all been born with flowing whiskers sideburns and wing collars speaking gravely from the cradle of their ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA By BERTHA E JOSEPHSON Contrary to expectations the summer months brought an increase in the activities of this department Not only have the collateral duties of editing been unusually heavy what with the completion of the History of the State of Ohio series the issuing of another volume in the Ohio Historical Collection series and the compilation of a revised list of Publicatio n s in Print and For Sale --all these in addition to the routine editing of Museum ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES REVIEWS AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL WING The dedication of the Memorial Wing of the Museum and Library Building of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society on April 6 1926 the anniversary of the entrance of the United States into the World War was an occasion long to be remembered by those whose privilege it was to be in attendance In spite of the inclement weather ...
... 354 Ohio Arch 354 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren His interest in local history as attested by numerous articles and the voluminous History of Sandusky County his kindly and cheerful disposition and his optimistic spirit will long be remembered by his fellow members of the Society MEETING OF CRESAP SOCIETY The Cresap Society will hold its meeting in Columbus September 15-16 The first session will be held Friday evening September 15 at the ...