... REPORT OF THE FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING 281 REPORT OF THE FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING 281 spectively are the two more important additions to the State Memorial list during the year A number of park superintendents' residences have been built and others are under construction Storage buildings comfort stations shelters roads trails bridges fences parking areas drinking fountains flagpoles--these are but a few of the improvements to be credited to the accomplishment of the year Landscaping ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments awards and retirements within the professional community of Ohio historians include John N Sobczak has replaced Von Hardesty as chairperson at Bluffton College for the 1978-79 academic year and Delbert Gratz is on sabbatical in Switzerland during 1979 at Antioch College Hanna Goldberg has been appointed Interim Executive Dean at the Yellow Springs campus and Irwin Abrams has been elected to the council of the Conference on ...
... 568 Ohio Arch 568 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The report was received and the committee given authority to receive the donation WARREN COUNTY SERPENT MOUND Mr Cole read the following report furnished by Dr Charles H Hough The mound property is in statu quo except that the wood lot has been somewhat marred by a gravel pit opened along the creek The field is now in grain-stubble All land in that locality is held at very high prices I think it unwise to negotiate with anyone until we ...
... MINUTES OF MINUTES OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Columbus Ohio April 18 1953 The spring meeting of the Ohio Academy of History was held at Columbus April 18 1953 Registration was followed at 1030 AM by two concurrent sessions at the Ohio State Museum One chairmaned by Dr Fred Kershner of Ohio University was devoted to the topic A Consideration of Some of the Intellectual Currents of the Early 20th Century Dr Robert H Bremner of Ohio State University presented a paper on The New View of ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... OHIO A LEGEND OHIO A LEGEND D TOD GILLIAM An Aviator sailing through the skies 'Tis said in quest of Paradise Checked suddenly his rapid flight And gazed in rapture at the sight That burst upon his startled eyes And held him speechless in surprise Quoth he at length his sense regained My long sought purpose is attained If Paradise exist below This surely must be it I know 'Tis Paradise or Ohio I've sailed the skies of every clime I've seen the beautiful sublime But never in my wanderings wide ...
... LOWRY F LOWRY F SATER Lowry F Sater was born and passed his boyhood days on a Miami Valley farm in Crosby Township Hamilton County Ohio After teaching school for five years and spending one year at Marietta College he entered Ohio State University from which he graduated in Arts and Law respectively in 1895 and 1897 360 Lowry F Lowry F Sater 361 Immediately upon his admission to the Bar he entered the office of his uncle John E Sater with whom he was associated in the practice until 1907 ...
... 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 ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 329 Reviews Notes and Comments 329 shown as the Josh Billings house on August 8 1845 from John Tift jr for 1100 and resold it to John Tift on January 3 1848 for 1050 That Josh Billings had always dreamed of buying back the old place in Norwalk is attested by a correspondence covering a long number of years between the humorist and W J Alley of Norwalk a lifelong friend of Billings The daughter of Mr Alley who is still living in Norwalk remembers as a little girl when ...
... MINUTES OF MINUTES OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Meeting at the Deshler-Wallick Hotel Columbus Ohio April 24 1947 The Ohio Academy of History met in Columbus April 24 1947 in joint meeting with the Mississippi Valley Historical Association at the luncheon conference with 160 in attendance President F P Weisenburger introduced Governor Thomas J Herbert who made some appropriate remarks as to the historian's place in the world today He then introduced Harlan Hatcher Dean of the College of Arts ...
... Notes and Queries Winter-Spring 2004 p 52 PDF of Notes and Queries CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2004 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved The 2004 Building Connections Conference will be held November 4-6 2004 at the Columbus Athenaeum Columbus Ohio The meeting is a collaboration of the Ohio Historical Society including the National Afro-American Museum amp Cultural Center National History Day in Ohio and Ohio Historic Preservation Office with Downtown Ohio Inc Heritage Ohio ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Dr William T Doherty Jr Professor of History and University Historian at West Virginia University has been named Editor of West Virginia History Dr Doherty will immediately assume the editorial duties of the quarterly publication of the Department of Culture and History Doherty earned undergraduate degrees from Southeast Missouri State University his Master of Arts degree from American University's School of Social Sciences and Public Affairs and his Doctor ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA REUBEN GOLD THWAITES Reuben Gold Thwaites whose work in the field of Western history has made his name familiar to every American historical student died in Madison Wis on October 22 He was born in Dorchester Mass in 1853 and in 1866 removed to Wisconsin From 1876 to 1886 he was managing editor of the Wisconsin State Journal published in Madison In 1886 he was elected Secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and editor of the society's collections which ...
... 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 ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Oral History Association will hold its 1992 Annual Meeting October 15-18 1992 at the Stouffer Tower City Hotel in Cleveland Ohio Proposals for papers panels media presentations or entire sessions should be sent by December 1 1991 to Donna M DeBlasio Program Chair Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor PO Box 533 Youngstown Ohio 44501 The Black Film CenterArchive at Indiana University-Bloomington is planning a conference entitled In Touch With ...
... 402 Ohio Arch 402 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications 6 Stuart James-Three Years in North America Edinburgh 1833 Vol II 7 Shirreff Patrick-A Tour through North America Edinburgh 1835 8 Steele Mrs Eliza RA Summer Journey in the West New York 1841 9 Buckingham J S-Eastern and Western States of America London 1842 Vol II 10 Godwin Parke-Prose Writings of Wm Cullen Bryant Vol II Bryant Wm C--Illinois Fifty Years Ago New York 1901 11 Dickens Charles-American Notes London 1903 12 Fordham Elias ...
... AN ILLUSTRATED FIELD KEY FOR THE IDENTIFICATION AN ILLUSTRATED FIELD KEY FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF MAMMAL BONES By GEORGE W BRAINERD The key given here is designed for the identification of mammal bones in the field by persons who have not had specialized training in the subject Identifications made under such conditions are of course not always accurate and of necessity often cannot be specific When accurate identifications to species or subspecies are required the material should be checked ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...