... GILBERT D GILBERT D SCHNEIDER Daniel Emmett's Negro Sermons and Hymns An Inventory Daniel Decatur Emmett author of the immortal Dixie was born in Mt Vernon Ohio on October 29 1815 the oldest child of Abraham and Sarah Emmett During the 1840s and 1850s he became a major figure in the development of Negro minstrelsy His natural abilities as singer fiddler banjoist and black-face comedian found favor with audiences across the United States and overseas Emmett if alive today would be part of the ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 589 Reviews Notes and Comments 589 County and the founders of the first church and school in Ohio This pageant was so highly appreciated that those who presented it were prevailed upon to repeat it on the following evening when a capacity audience again enjoyed and heartily applauded it Nothing so thoroughly arouses and impresses the events of local history upon the general public as the presentation of that history in the form of pageants This fact has been ...
... THIS MONUMENT IS OLDER THAN THE GREAT THIS MONUMENT IS OLDER THAN THE GREAT PYRAMIDS BY FELIX J KOCH If you want to set your wits to work over something to which there may be an infinity of answers -each based on facts as logical as the next and yet each trying to solve a problem of utmost importance to the historian and the scientist and of interest to intelligent persons the world over just try to figure out how old the little mound in the accompanying picture may be This mound or tumulus is ...
... 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 ...
... EDITOR'S NOTE EDITOR'S NOTE Historical anniversaries have a way of reviving interest in events and personalities-long forgotten or neglected Now that centennial observances of the Civil War have run their course our national memory is turning toward the last third of nineteenth century American history Already a major reconsideration of these years is underway A basic source for the study of the period 1865 to 1900 is one of Ohio's finest historical properties The Rutherford B Hayes Library ...
... EARLY OHIO MEDICINE A MUSEUM DISPLAY EARLY OHIO MEDICINE A MUSEUM DISPLAY By EDWARD S T HO MAS As a compliment to the medical history section of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society the Museum of the Society arranged a special exhibit featuring early days of Ohio medicine which attracted a great deal of attention not only on the part of medical practitioners pharmacists and students but also the general public Emphasis was placed on medical practice prior to 1860 but some ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 5 61 their enthusiasm in and loyalty to the order to which they belong We do not give the proceedings in full as they will be published in book form by the Columbus Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution HARWOOD R POOL Mr Harwood R Pool a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society died in New York December 30 1903 He was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Pool and was born in Elyria Ohio October 22 1860 He went to New York in 1868 ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 497 Reviews Notes and Comments 497 Dr Mendenhall was educated in the public schools was one of the members of the first faculty of the Ohio State University was called to the Imperial University of Japan where he occupied the chair of physics from 1878-1881 returned to Ohio State University where he taught three years after which he was successively professor of the U S Signal Corps President of Rose Polytechnic Institute Superintendent of the U S Coast and Geodetic ...
... 36 OHIO HISTORY 36 OHIO HISTORY WINE BARON'S CASTLE Marblehead Peninsula Lake Erie Low thunderheads like distant nebulous hills Hovering on the horizon and the lake In silvered calm reflective eye of summer Casting on earth and sky a spell of vast And brooding quiet -- almost as if time Were an unchanging landscape and its motions With those of wind and weather all suspended That was the afternoon we found the house Known to us only by vague history And local legend then an echoing shell Of ...
... Historical News Historical News THE LOYOLA UNIVERSITY HISTORY DEPARTMENT has established an annual national master's essay competition open in the academic year 1959-60 The first William P Lyons Master's Essay Award will be made for the best essay submitted by July 15 1960 in manuscript form from those which have merited MA degrees from American universities during 1959-60 The award will recognize work that is exemplary in style and method based solidly on original sources and interpretatively ...
... 650 Ohio Arch 650 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Colonel Curry stated that the Secretary had received letters from two members of the Committee which he would place on file NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF TRUSTEES Mr George F Bareis for the Committee on Nominations reported that the Committee recommended the election of Doctor W O Thompson Columbus General Edward Orton Jr Columbus and Colonel Webb C Hayes Fremont to succeed themselves as Trustees of the Society Mr Bareis moved That the ...
... ESSAY AND COMMENT ESSAY AND COMMENT Preservation of the Newsreel Films of President Harding by Robert W Wagner Efforts of the professional archivist in his attempt to preserve historical materials are often complicated by the very nature of the substance he is trying to preserve For example all 35mm motion picture film from 1888 to 1951 was made with a cellulose nitrate base which makes the reels highly flammable and under some circumstances highly explosive A partially decomposed nitrate film ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Among recent publications concerning Ohio history are the following the Marion County Historical Society is publishing a new history of Marion County the first comprehensive history of the county since 1907 those interested should write to the Marion County 1979 History PO Box 976 Marion Ohio 43302 The Putnam County Historical Society has available Putnam County Pioneer Association Centennial History 1873-1973 1880 History and 1895 Atlas of Putnam County one ...
... THE CHARCOAL IRON INDUSTRY OF THE THE CHARCOAL IRON INDUSTRY OF THE HANGING ROCK IRON DISTRICT--ITS INFLUENCE ON THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE OHIO VALLEY BY WILBUR STOUT INTRODUCTION The Hanging Rock Iron District as defined by the iron masters embraced the furnaces and furnace lands and also the adjacent properties over which iron ores limestones and charcoal were gathered It included parts of Carter Boyd and Greenup Counties Kentucky and parts of Lawrence Scioto Gallia Jackson Vinton and ...
... 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 ...
... 630 Ohio Arch 630 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications 1 A circular letter to members of the Society asking them to submit names of prospective members 2 A blank form for the names and addresses of prospective members 3 A stamped envelope for the return of the list of prospective members 4 A circular entitled Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society--Notes on Present Activities Past Achievements and Future Prospects This material will be mailed from the office of the Secretary of ...
... 436 THEODORE E THEODORE E BURTON Theodore E Burton was born at Jefferson Ohio December 20 1851 was graduated from Oberlin College in 1872 received the degree of LL D from Oberlin and Dartmouth Colleges and from New York University Ohio University and other institutions was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Cleveland in 1875 was elected to the National House of Representatives and served through the fifty-first fifty-fourth to sixtieth and sixty-sixth and sixty-eighth ...
... MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Friday April 12 1946 100 P M The meeting was called to order by President Arthur C Johnson Sr at 100 PM with a larger and more representative attendance than usual In opening the meeting President Johnson made the following introductory remarks We are now at an important crossroads in the life of the Society We will not read the reports of the activities for the past year ...
... THE OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE 1941 THE OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE 1941 The Ohio History Conference April 4-5 1941 included the Fifty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Columbus Genealogical Society the Third Annual Meeting of the Committee on Archives and Medical History of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society with the cooperation of the Ohio State ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Transylvania Colony By William Lester Stewart Spencer Indiana Samuel R Guard amp Co 1935 288p 300 Professor W L Stewart has made an exhaustive study of the sources by using the Draper Manuscripts the Haldimand Papers the American State Papers the Swain Manuscripts the Colonial Records of North Carolina newspapers etc He points out in an informative preface that the Transylvania company among the several that were formulated for the exploitation of the land lying ...