... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL BUSINESS SESSION 1000 AM APRIL 24 1942 OHIO STATE MUSEUM The Fifty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society convened in the auditorium of the Museum at 1000 AM on April 24 1 942 Mr Arthur C Johnson President of the Society called the meeting to order President Johnson in his brief introductory remarks referred to the small attendance caused no doubt by the fact ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue H HOLMES ELLIS is Research Associate of the Lithic Laboratory for the Eastern United States at the Ohio State Museum and since 1939 is Assistant Curator of Archaeology Ohio State Museum WELLINGTON G FORDYCE Head of the History Department and Dean of Boys at Euclid Central High School is a member of Cleveland Council for American Unity and worker with immigrant groups in the process of Americanization JOHN I KOLEHMAINEN PHD in history Western Reserve ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 118 Ohio Arch 118 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications EDITORIALANA VOL XXVIII No 1 JANUARY 1919 BIOGRAPHY OF GROVER CLEVELAND The following letter which we gladly publish speaks for itself NEW YORK CITY October 31 1918 Editor Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society DEAR SIR I should be grateful if friends of Mr Cleveland who possess published addresses or other critical comment of historical value concerning his policies or character or letters to or from him or personal recollections ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 141 Reviews Notes and Comments 141 state of preservation The title page which is reproduced in facsimile carries the imprint of one of the very early publishers of Columbus PORTRAIT OF SIMON KENTON In Filson Club Publications No 17 the artist who painted the portrait of Simon Kenton is spoken of as Louis Morgan The contribution is by General Samuel W Price himself an artist and an authority on the subject treated in his carefully prepared monograph entitled The Old ...
... ARTHUR CHARLES JOHNSON ARTHUR CHARLES JOHNSON PRESIDENT OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY It is our pleasure in this issue to present the newly elected President of the Society Mr Arthur Charles Johnson whose portrait appears on the page opposite The death of James E Campbell former governor of Ohio and in recent years president of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society left a vacancy that was difficult to fill After canvassing the availability and ...
... Notes and Queries Winter-Spring 2003 p 64 PDF of Notes and Queries CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2003 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved The Legislative History Editorial Board of the Capitol Square Foundation seeks an academically trained historian to write a single volume comprehensive history of the Ohio General Assembly from 1803-present The expectation is that this work will be suitable for publication by a university press with the final manuscript completed by March 1 ...
... J J MORTON HOWELL HIS GIFT TO THE MUSEUM OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY When Egypt had attained the degree of independence that entitled her to an envoy extraordinary and a minister plenipotentiary from the United States President Harding made a survey to determine who would be best suited to inaugurate diplomatic relations between our country and the ancient seat of civilization in the Valley of the Nile Very naturally such a person was found among the native sons of Ohio Dr J ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...