... 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 ...
... -- Drawings by HR Goodwin 638 TYPICAL SPECIMENS FROM THE SPETNAGEL CACHE NATURAL SIZE THE SPETNAGLE CACHE OF FLINT THE SPETNAGLE CACHE OF FLINT SPEAR-POINTS Few better examples of ceremonial offerings of chipped flint artifacts than the Spetnagel cache of flint spear-points recently placed on exhibition in the Museum of the Society by Mr Albert C Spetnagel of Chillicothe have been found in Ohio or elsewhere This remarkable cache-lot of upwards of 200 ceremonial spears was unearthed in the ...
... In Memoriam In Memoriam Ohio History suffered the loss of one of its most esteemed editorial advisors last December with the death of Elliott M Rudwick of Kent State University Professor Rudwick was born in Philadelphia in 1927 and took his AB at Temple University and his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania A sociologist by training he was throughout his career interested in social history and his most important contributions were in the history of the black experience although much of his ...
... rural muse invites To calmest pleasures and serene delights To us glad fancy brightest prospects shows Rejoicing nature all around us glows Here late the savage hid in ambush lay Or roamed the uncultured valleys for his prey Here frowned the forest with terrific shade No cultured fields exposed the opening glade How changed the scene See nature clothed in smiles ...
... 128 Ohio Arch 128 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Pu blications ows slept the heroic dead of two armies-stood forth as the more appropriate and fitting monument Fort Recovery therefore became the future landmark for treaties and state lines Every age has its peculiar problem The pioneers dealt with the problems of poverty They struggled for the future They laid the foundations of a new state And as we look about in this day of plenty we should remember the sacrifices and suffering of those who ...
... 140 Ohio Arch 140 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications THE GRAND REVIEW It was indeed a rare opportunity for a boy of fifteen to visit Washington and witness the grand review of the victorious Union armies in May 1865 Some idea of what this implied may be gathered from a communication describing the event written by Mr Randall's father Rev D A Randall and published in a Cincinnati paper As already stated the two were companions on this occasion and seated side by side opposite the reviewing ...
... THE BUCKEYE THE BUCKEYE BY ALICE WILLIAMS BROTHERTON The rose and the thistle and the shamrock green And the leek are the flowers of Britain The fleur-de-lys on the flag of France In a band of blood is written But what shall we claim for our own fair land What flower for our own fair token The golden rod or the tasseled maize For each has its own bard spoken Oh the tasseled corn for the whole broad land For the Union no power can sever But the buckeye brown for the Buckeye State Shall be our ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 615 Reviews Notes and Comments 615 Judged impartially at this distance it looks a little as though neither Brooks nor Burlingame was eager to fight a duel Of course each naturally desired the public to think that he was not lacking in courage to meet the other in mortal combat While it would doubtless have been dangerous for Brooks to travel through the hostile North direct to Canada had the public been advised of his going a journey to the point designated seems not ...
... 114 Ohio Arch 114 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications THE LATEST PREHISTORIC NEWS The actual results of archaeological explorations in Ohio and elsewhere in this country are sufficient to arouse interest and curiosity in the life and world of the lost and unrecorded people But what the newspapers say concerning these explorations surpasses the tales of Arabian Nights or Baron Munchausen For instance concerning the exhumations by Prof W C Mills at Fort Ancient the past summer 1908 a leading ...
... Archaeological Exhibit for the Centennial Archaeological Exhibit for the Centennial 173 The State should pay for it pay generously for it and should authorize the placing of a copy of the final report in the hands of every contributor to the exhibition and in every public library of the State with a large edition over for distribution by the proper officers of the State and the experts who prepared the report There are a few magnificent collections which ought to be placed unbroken in the ...
... GUILLOTIN THINKS OF AMERICA GUILLOTIN THINKS OF AMERICA By JOHN FRANCIS MCDERMOTT Among the many Frenchmen who came under the influence of Benjamin Franklin and American ideas in the last quarter of the eighteenth century not the least interesting was Joseph Ignace Guillotin His project for a colony in the Ohio Valley came to nothing because the disastrous adventure that befell the advance party discouraged and frightened the families he had planned to lead there but though the colony did not ...
... 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 ...
... KANSAS' DEAD IN FRANCE KANSAS' DEAD IN FRANCE BY WHITTIER C MITCHELL Leans from his warrior's heaven down John Brown Immortal Madman Brown Who shamed a nation by a deed Bolder than that of Winkelreid Swept to his dauntless breast the spears Of Freedom's foes and ere her tears Streamed on his bier with God's own fire Enkindled Slavery's funeral pyre That by its glare might all men see That all are bond till all are free He leans and smiles A measured tread Echoes up from the trenches red New ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments Reviews Notes and Comments 2 99 NEXT PRESIDENT AN OHIOAN The Republican National Convention in Chicago June 12 nominated Senator Warren G Harding on the tenth ballot for President of the United States The Democratic National Convention in San Francisco July 5 nominated Governor James M Cox on the forty-fourth ballot for President of the United States The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is a strictly non-partisan institution but because of the ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue K WILLIAM McKINLEY assistant to the secretary and librarian of the Society was formerly assistant reference librarian in the Library of the Society JOSEPHINE E PHILLIPS MRS THOMAS D o f M arie tt a is doing research in Ohio history WILBER STOUT besides being State geologist is second vicepresident and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Society and lecturer in the Department of Geology at the Ohio State University JERRY DENNIS is a Columbus attorney ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN BY HONORABLE JAMES R MORRIS Some years ago Judge James R Morris at the request of Honorable M B Archer now serving his second term in the Ohio State Senate wrote on parchment his recollections of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln This manuscript appropriately framed Senator Archer later presented to the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society in whose museum and library building it is now on ...
... 130 Ohio Arch 130 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications 24 1934 and that a copy of the same be sent to his surviving wife and son IN MEMORY T o C B GALBREAT H My grief must not disturb the sleep Of one who found his needed rest Though loss of him has made me weep He loved my happiness the best My songs of gladness and of youth And he would have this tribute be Some unaffected gentle truth For his beloved humanity He gave so much and gave so well And while men whisper He is gone I feel the ...
... THOMAS JEFFERSON'S WORKS THOMAS JEFFERSON'S WORKS Princeton University will sponsor and the Princeton University Press will publish a definitive edition of the writings and correspondence of Thomas Jefferson in approximately fifty volumes This project is made possible through a subvention of 2 00000 by the New York Times Company as a memorial to Adolf S Ochs The editor is Julian P Boyd Librarian of Princeton University who states that the enterprise contemplates the publication of all letters ...
... 540 Ohio Arch 540 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publicat io ns OHIO CAVE DWELLERS BY J H GALBRA IT H Mr Galbraith has for some time been publishing a series of Short Stories of the Buckeye State Many of them are worthy of preservation in permanent form Archaeologists will be interested in the one herewith reprinted Did the Cave Dwellers antedate the Mound Builders - EDITOR When Charles Whittlesey explored the shelter houses or caves under the sandstone outcropping along the Black river in the ...
... Editor's Note Editor's Note An attempt has been made in this double issue of Ohio History to present some insights in connection with the changing pattern of sociopolitical life in Ohio that emerged at the turn of the century It should be noted that changes resulted only after a period of struggle between opposing groups and that change though not necessarily positive was persistent The study of those forces representing the conservative traditional nineteenth century approach is included in ...