... RICHARD K RICHARD K FLEISCHMAN AND R PENNY MARQUETTE Chapters in Ohio Progressivism The Cincinnati and Dayton Bureaus of Municipal Research and Accounting Reform Introduction During the Progressive era in American history reformers attacked corruption bossism unbridled plutocracy and what they perceived to be the decay of traditional American morality Following the depression of 1893 one of the most severe in the nation's history many reformers focused on a new common cause-the appalling ...
... MINUTES OF MINUTES OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Deshler-Wallick Hotel Columbus Ohio April 9 1948 The Ohio Academy of History met in Columbus April 9 1948 in connection with the Ohio College Association The morning session opened at 10 A M with Clayton S Ellsworth of the College of Wooster presiding Two papers were given The Name of the Holy Roman Empire by Richard G Salomon of Kenyon College and The Good Neighbor Policy by Arvid T Johnson of the University of Toledo Forty members attended ...
... Historical News Historical News THE RUTHERFORD B HAYES L IBRA RY has acquired in the past few months a file of the weekly Clyde Enterprise from the first issue on March 21 1878 through December 1900 The issues for 1958 are being received as published and the file for the intervening years will be completed at a later date Two original letters written by Rutherford B Hayes have been added to the Hayes collections One dated October 31 1884 was addressed to Colonel H J Johnson of Cumberland ...
... INDEX TO THE MINUTES OF THE FORTY-FIRST INDEX TO THE MINUTES OF THE FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY AND THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Archaeological and Historical Society gifts to Museum 623-624 list of acholds Annual Meeting 607 urges cessions 624-629 the Seip Mound completion of Building 607-608 need 630 American Anthropological Assofor expansion of Building 656-658 ciation Central section at the MuArchives Committee on appointed 608 seum 630 re-elected 668 Donahue ...
... 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 ...
... THE SOCIETY AND THE QUARTERLY THE SOCIETY AND THE QUARTERLY THE past fifteen years have witnessed especially in the United States a striking and continuing zeal for the pursuit of historical study and investigation By the side of the historical student the archaeologist has been pursuing his studies with unflagging energy The evidences of what we may call the new historic spirit are seen on all sides Never before in the history of this country have there been so many specialists pursuing ...
... 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 STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS JAMES R MORRIS James R Morris was born at Rogersville Green County Pennsylvania January 10 1 820 He died at Woodsfield Ohio December 24 1899 His father Joseph Morris was elected to Congress in 1843 and re-elected two years later Joseph Morris moved with his family to Waynesburgh Pennsylvania in 1828 in the following year to Antioch Ohio and two years later to Woodsfield Ohio ...
... OHIO CANALS OHIO CANALS WORK ON THEM INAUGURATED IN 1825 The year 1825 was a memorable one in the history of Ohio On May 19 General Lafayette crossed the river in his tour through what were then called the western states and stepped on the Ohio shore at Cincinnati in the midst of patriotic demonstrations unparalleled in the history of the state For a time he was the guest of this city then the metropolis of the West after which he proceeded up the river to Wheeling making short stops at ...
... 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 ...
... 302 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 302 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY The book includes addresses of welcome by governors and other public officials descriptions of banquets parades balls and other ceremonies which took place while Lafayette was making his five thousand mile journey through the South and West The picture given by the local press reports throws much light on the social economic and political life of the times H L NOTES Dorothy V Martin is a cataloger ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 328 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 328 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY DOCUMENTARY DATA BY BERTHA E JOSEPHSON Among comments evoked by the April-June issue was a suggestion that researchers might like to learn more about the private papers of Ohio governors in possession of this department The official or public executive correspondence from 1803 to 1 928 and from 1941-1944 are under custody here as State Archives For the period from 1803-1878 there is an unpublished ...
... 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 ...
... ORIGIN OF SOME EARLY BELMONT COUNTY ORIGIN OF SOME EARLY BELMONT COUNTY NEWSPAPERS By FRANCIS C HIBBARD The history of the early newspapers of Belmont County Ohio is to some extent confused and contradictory Much that has been written on the subject is based apparently upon tradition and second-hand information An attempt will herewith be made to clear up some of the confusion and rectify at least some of the errors Two of the present-day papers of the county--the St Clairsville Gazette and ...
... 562 Ohio Arch 562 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications GATHERING UNDER THE OAKS On July 6th the Secretary of the Society was the honored invitee of the committee of arrangements at the semi-centennial anniversary celebration of the birth of the Republican party held at Jackson Mich in a picturesque grove of oak trees just outside the city limits It was at Jackson Mich on July 6 1854 that the first great mass meeting of members of the Whig Abolitionist Anti-slavery Democrat and other members ...
... A HOPEWELL SCULPTURED HEAD A HOPEWELL SCULPTURED HEAD By RICHARD G MORGAN During the excavation of Seip Mound No 1 Ross County Ohio in 1927 a sculptured human head was found1 It was in a fragmentary condition due partly to its having been subjected to fire and partly to an accident in its removal hence an adequate description was not possible at the time the report was written The specimen has now been restored from dozens of small fragments and due to its unique character it has been ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue Miss LOUISE RAU is assistant editor of the Burton Historical Collection in the Detroit Public Library DR DAVID A T U CKER JR is professor of the history of medicine in the College of Medicine of the University of Cincinnati Reprints Reprints of any paper published in the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY may be obtained by the contributor Estimates of the cost will be furnished on request and requests should be made to the editor before ...
... 498 Ohio Arch 498 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications clay Coppoc His relationship to the Coppocs may have led Hinton into an error which has been repeated by many subsequent writers Barclay Coppoc however was in Kansas about this time and was closely associated with those who were aiding negroes to escape from Missouri Whether he actually had any part in this particular raid is a question Chaulkley T Lipsey was born at Mount Pleasant Ohio in 1838 Ball came from Springdale Iowa to Kansas ...