... 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 ...
... 336 Ohio Arch 336 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Maps and Military Register of 193rd Reg't O V I Earl W Benton Toy Bureau Miss Janet Gelley Columbus Loan Chinese and Javanese material C C Underhill Columbus Election Tickets of Lincoln and Hamlin Douglas and Johnson W H Swartz Columbus H R GOODWIN Registrar REPRINTS Reprints of any paper published in the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly may be obtained by the contributor Estimates of the cost will be furnished on request ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA DRAUSIN WULSIN Drausin Wulsin a Life Member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society died at his home in Cincinnati November 14 1910 His career is not only closely connected with the history and development of Cincinnati for nearly 70 years but furnishes an example of the best type of American citizenship What follows is but a brief sketch Mr Wulsin was born in Louisiana June 10 1842 his parents moving to Cincinnati when he was but a child He was ...
... OHIO POPULATION TRENDS 1920-1940 OHIO POP U LATION TRENDS 1920-1940 BY RANDOLPH C DOWN ES From the point of view of population figures Ohio has almost stopped growing The following table1 taken from the 1940 census report shows that the increase of 260915 in the 1930's is the smallest 10-year growth since the first decade of the eighteenth century and the smallest percentage of growth in Ohio's entire history Census 10-yr Increase 10-yr Increase Year Population In Numbers In Percentages 1940 ...
... Centennial Anniversary of the Birth of Ulysses S Centennial Anniversary of the Birth of Ulysses S Grant 287 published in the character sketch by Judge Hugh L Nichols in the April QUART E RLY POETIC TRIBUTES ON THE OCCASION OF THE GRANT CENTENARY Though General Grant as his son has stated cared little for music and as other writers have told us was not fond of poetry the centennial celebration of his birth called forth poetic tributes The following appeared in the papers of Georgetown the first ...
... OHIO DAY AT THE JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION OHIO DAY AT THE JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION For much of the material in the following account of Ohio Day at the celebration of which the Editor was present indebtedness is due to the official report of the Ohio Commissioners made by Mr Stuart R Bolin Circleville Ohio to the Governor of the state Mr Bolin was Executive Commissioner to the Ohio Jamestown Commission and resided in the Ohio Building during the continuation of the Exposition The General Assembly 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 ...
... 620 Ohio Arch 620 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications appointed by the Governor to make a complete survey of all the historical and archaeological parks and sites to outline a program for their improvement and maintenance and to submit an estimate of the amount that should be appropriated by the Legislature for the purpose Our experience with the work of caring for these parks has shown us that in most instances even the essential needs of these parks cannot be adequately met because of ...
... IN MEMORIAM IN MEMORIAM Read and adopted at the afternoon session of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society April 30 1931 EDWIN FOREST WOOD WHE REAS It has pleased Divine Providence to remove from our midst our co-worker associate and friend Edwin Forest Wood and W HEREAS He had been prominently identified with the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society since 1890 serving first as Assistant Treasurer and after the death of S S Rickly November 23 1905 as Treasurer of the ...
... THIS MONUMENT IS OLDER THAN THE GREAT THIS MONUMENT IS OLDER THAN THE GREAT PYRAMIDS BY FELIX J KOCH If you want to set your wits to work over something to which there may be an infinity of answers -each based on facts as logical as the next and yet each trying to solve a problem of utmost importance to the historian and the scientist and of interest to intelligent persons the world over just try to figure out how old the little mound in the accompanying picture may be This mound or tumulus is ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to this Issue JOHN FRANCIS MCDERMOTT is in the English Department of Washington University St Louis Missouri PHILIP D JORDAN is in the Department of History Miami University Oxford Ohio and is writing volume V of the proposed History of Ohio CHARLES M THOMAS is in the Department of History Ohio State University Columbus GEORGE WALTON BRAINERD is with the Carnegie Institution at Boulder Colorado His mammal bone key was worked out in connection with his dissertation PhD ...