... 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 ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Lakewood The First Hundred Years By Jim and Susan Borchert Norfolk The Donning Company 1989 192p illustrations maps bibliography index This thoroughly researched and well-written centennial history chronicles the dramatic changes both physical and cultural which transformed East Rockport from vineyards and orchards to suburb and eventually Cleveland satellite city Abundantly illustrated Borchert's book is neatly organized into fourteen chapters that alternate between ...
... 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 ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Ohio University Press is launching a new series of books to commemorate Ohio's two-hundredth anniversary in 2003 The Ohio Bicentennial Series will provide the public scholars and students with a comprehensive picture of the development of Ohio life Ten books are planned for the series tentative titled include Transportation in Ohio Documentary Heritage of Ohio Women in Ohio History Indigenous Peoples of Ohio Vernacular Architecture of Ohio Governors of Ohio ...
... 136 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 136 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY tainly have an interest in historical background I hope that each of these papers will be deposited with the secretary of this section and I want to say that from what I have heard we will want to publish as nearly all of them as possible I would like to have at least abstracts so that in the course of the year we can carry this out and make the discussions a matter of record The Ohio State ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... ROBERT L ROBERT L DAUGHERTY Book Notes The Overland Journal of Amos Piatt Josselyn Zanesville Ohio to the Sacramento Valley April 1849 to September 11 1849 Edited by J William Barrett II Baltimore Gateway Press 1978 129 p illustrations appendices bibliography index The principal value of this brief work is that Josselyn was one of the few forty-niners to record his experiences As told through his journals and letters Josselyn's description of his three-year affliction with gold fever recounts ...
... 100 Ohio Arch 100 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications NOAH'S ARK The construction and voyage of Noah's Ark is not exactly material pertinent to Ohio history or archaeology but as a matter of universal curiosity we herewith republish from very recent popular press items the following M V Millard archaeologist and distinguished excavator along the Nile who was recently at Indianapolis declared that he had discovered the place where Noah built the ark Millard for a year past was engaged in ...
... 330 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 330 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Charles W Byrd Edward F Noyes Thomas Kirker Thomas L Young Samuel Huntington Charles Foster Return J Meigs James E Campbell Othniel Looker George Hoadly Ethan Allen Brown Asa S Bushnell Jeremiah Morrow George S Nash8 Joseph Vance John M Pattison Thomas Bartley Andrew L Harris8 William Bebb Judson Harmon Seabury Ford James M Cox Reuben Wood Frank B Willis William Medill Harry L Davis William ...
... 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 ...
... LAURA RUSSELL LAURA RUSSELL Book Notes Growth Amidst Struggle A Sesquicentennial History of the Longenecker Mennonite Church By James O Lehman Winesburg Ohio Longenecker Mennonite Church 1980 160p illustrations maps notes index Once again James O Lehman puts together the history of a congregation and in so doing makes an important contribution to Ohio's local history In Growth Amidst Struggle Lehman traces the two meetinghouses-Kolb's and Longenecker's-which today comprise the Longenecker ...
... 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 ...
... Benjamin Harrison on March 14th leads to the inquiry from several quarters concerning the date and place of birth of the so-called Ohio Presidents We give them in order of their succession ...
... 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 ...
... FINNISH NEWSPAPERS IN OHIO FINNISH NEWSPAPERS IN OHIO By JOHN I KOLEHMAINEN The possibilities which Ohio offered for Finnish journalistic enterprise attracted shortly before the year 1884 the attention of two ambitious typesetters Fred Karinen and Alex Wirtamo of the New York Mills Minnesota Uusi Kotimaa In the spring of 1884 the pair arrived in Ashtabula Harbor the largest Finnish settlement in the State and shortly afterward they launched with the assistance of Charles Stenroos Sr and Asser ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 551 Reviews Notes and Comments 551 house and the first church established in the Ohio Country When this property is improved it is to be transferred to the custody of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society A bill introduced by Honorable Thomas L Calvert of Clark County appropriates 10000 for the purpose of aiding in paying the cost of constructing a monument to General George Rogers Clark and to commemorate the battle of Piqua and birthplace of Tecumseh ...
... INVOCATION INVOCATION BY REV W H SHEPFER GRACIOUS GOD OUR HEAVENLY FATHER acknowledging our weakness and our sinfulness we invoke thy divine blessing upon us as we have come together to recall the heroic lives and sacrifices of our forefathers in this section of our great country Through the Spirit of Truth give us O God wisdom and understanding We acknowledge Thee Dear Father as the Giver of every good and perfect gift Thou art the Source from whom all our blessings flow We acknowledge Thee ...
... Charles Burleigh Galbreath 135 Charles Burleigh Galbreath 135 The final phase But why delay the bitter truth-- The story of my pride and fall-- The transit from my vernal youth To wreckage sad and skeletal Spurned by the feet of passers-by An outcast in the mire and rain Unworthy of a passing sigh And dead alike to joy or pain Fair maiden speed--I ask no more-- My flight aloft on fiery wings To Nature's mighty reservoir-- The goal of all material things Your hope serene I may not claim Of joys ...
... 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 ...