... Communications Communications To the Editor Marc Raphael has used his experience as an interviewer for the Columbus Jewish History Project to write a short analysis of the opportunities and difficulties surrounding oral history in an ethnic community Autumn 1977 Much of what Professor Raphael writes is solid and well-reasoned In certain technical areas however he stated as fact what is at best opinion or presented information which is less than accurate Raphael's most significant contribution ...
... 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 ...
... 502 Ohio Arch 502 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications PROLIFIC OHIO LUCIEN SEYMOUR The following poem was recited by the author at the unveiling of the Perry's Victory Monument at Hotel Victory Put-in-Bay Ohio July 8 1907 The sun never shone on a country more fair Than beautiful peerless Ohio There's life in a kiss of her rarified air Ohio prolific Ohio Her sons are valiant and noble and bright Her beautiful daughters are just about right And her babies God bless them are clear out of ...
... township Further definition of the nature of this migration depends on information not as yet explored The following questions suggest the directions such exploration might take 1 What are the qualities of those who migrate as compared with those who stay home 2 Where do the migrants go--how far from home do they go--and what kind of employment do they find 3 Is the return to the farm a return to the parents' farm or to another 4 To what ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue MILO M QUAIFE is Secretary and Editor of the Burton Historical Collection Detroit Public Library Detroit Michigan PHILIP C NASH is President of the University of Toledo CARL WITTKE is Professor of History and Dean of Oberlin College LEWIS BLAKE DUFF is a resident of Welland Ontario Canada and a business man who makes a hobby of Canadian and local history He is a past President and member of the Council of the Ontario Historical Society R CLYDE FORD is a ...
... A Buckeye Home Coming 503 A Buckeye Home Coming 503 A BUCKEYE HOME COMING THOMAS M EARL This poem was written to be sung at the Home Coming of the Buckeyes at Columbus Ohio September 2-6 1907 My native state Ohio Once more thy sward I tread Once more my eyes behold thy skies Of azure overspread I breathe again thy buoyant air I taste thy waters cool And feel the joy of growing boy By the old swimming pool I've wandered in the Westlands And East I've chanced to roam But never yet could ere ...
... THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Addendum to the Minutes of Its Meeting on April 18 1953 The Ohio Academy of History at its Spring meeting on April 18 1953 adopted the following resolutions as amended which were proposed by its Committee on the Teaching of History Whereas the standards of instruction especially in history in the public schools of Ohio are a matter of concern for the members of the Ohio Academy of History individually and as a group and Whereas the ...
... 354 Ohio Arch 354 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren His interest in local history as attested by numerous articles and the voluminous History of Sandusky County his kindly and cheerful disposition and his optimistic spirit will long be remembered by his fellow members of the Society MEETING OF CRESAP SOCIETY The Cresap Society will hold its meeting in Columbus September 15-16 The first session will be held Friday evening September 15 at the ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue WELLINGTON G FORDYCE instructor in history at Euclid Central High School Cleveland received his master's degree from Ohio State University This is his second article on immigrant groups in Cleveland CLARENCE H CRAMER is a member of the history faculty of Southern Illinois State Normal University JEANNETTE PADDOCK NI CHOLS o f the Library of Congress and her husband Professor Roy F Nichols of the History Department of the University of Pennsylvania ...
... HONORARY AND LIFE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY HONORARY AND LIFE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY HONORARY MEMBERS Baird Prof S F Washington D C Bancroft Hon Hubert Howe San Francisco Cala De Reune Mrs Mary Augusta Ga Gladden Washington DD LLD Columbus Howe Henry Columbus Nicholson Jno P Philadelphia Pa Putnam Prof F W Cambridge Mass Smucker Isaac Newark Winslow Rev Dr Wm Copley Boston Mass Whittlesey Col Chas Cleveland LIFE MEMBERS Barney E J Dayton Brown Benjamin S Columbus Burgess Solon Cleveland Collins W ...
... 492 Ohio Arch 492 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications GENERAL THOMAS EWING The Society has recently received copies of a very interesting pamphlet entitled The Struggle for Freedom in Kansas by General Thomas Ewing This was published in 1894 while the General was still living It is our hope to reproduce this at some time in the coming year with other material setting forth important events in the life of General Ewing In the struggle to make Kansas a free state in the Civil War in the ...
... 136 Ohio Arch 136 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The shadows of the night By magic of their might And with electric light Illume the world1 Thy sons are bold to soar On airways to explore Celestial things They rise to dizzy height They bask in higher light And scorn the eagle's flight On swifter wings2 Ohio bounteous state Home of the brave and great Of faith sublime Pride of the great Northwest Heart in the Nation's breast State we would make the best Through endless time Copyrighted ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF DARD HUNTER A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF DARD HUNTER From the Private Press of Dard Hunter at Marlborough-on-the-Hudson 1 The Etching of Figures by William Aspinwall Bradley with an original etching by William Aurback Levy Printed for the Chicago Society of Etchers 1915 Quarto 13p and colophon black and red Grey boards jv back 250 copies 2 The Etching of Contemporary Life by Frank Weitenkampf with an original etching by Ernest D Roth laid in Printed for the Chicago Society of Etchers ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to this Issue Robert C Wheeler at one time a member of the staff of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is at present with the fighting forces in North Africa Helen M Dudley great-granddaughter of Governor Thomas Worthington resides in Morrow Ohio Ray Baker Harris librarian of the Supreme Council of the Thirty-third and Last Degree Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Southern Jurisdiction located at Washington D C is now in the armed ...
... JOHN BROWN JOHN BROWN The Great Republic bred her free-born sons To smother conscience in the coward's hush And had to have a freedom-champion's Blood sprinkled in her face to make her blush One will become a passion to avenge Her shame-a fury consecrate and weird As if the old religion of Stonehenge Amid our weakling worships reappeared It was a drawn sword of Jehovah's wrath Two-edged and flaming waved back to a host Of mighty shadows gathering on its path Soon to emerge as soldiers when 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 ...
... COUNT BYRON KHUN DE PROROK COUNT BYRON KHUN DE PROROK Count Byron Khun de Prorok on the evening of January 28 1924 delivered his lecture in the audience room of the Elks' Club to an appreciative audience on the subject My Excavation of Ancient Carthage When the Count reached Columbus those interested in the lecture were surprised to find in him a very young man He might easily have passed without notice among the thousands of students at the Ohio State University He is still in his twenties ...
... 110 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 110 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY NOTES Contributors to This Issue WAYNE JORDAN journalist a graduate of Marietta College is on the staff of Business Week ALFRED B SEARS is in the Department of History University of Oklahoma Norman Oklahoma ROBERT SAMUEL FLETCHER is associate professor of history at Oberlin College Oberlin Ohio OPHIA D SMITH is author of The Life and Times of Giles Richards being volume VI of the Society's Ohio ...