... 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 ...
... Announcing Announcing THE HISTORY OF THE STATE OF OHIO Edited by CARL WITTKE and Published under the Auspices of the OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY in Six Volumes Volumes I II III and VI are now available Volume V is in press and Volume IV is expected this year The price of the complete set is 2500 and orders should be sent direct to the Secretary Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Ohio State Museum Columbus Ohio Because of the limited edition sets will not be ...
... EDITORIAL NOTE EDITORIAL NOTE It seems appropriate to make the April issue of the QUARTERLY a Memorial to the late Charles Burleigh Galbreath who for fourteen years was its editor The April issue of Museu m Echoes was devoted largely to him It contained a brief sketch of his life written by the editor copies of the editorials appearing in the Columbus daily newspapers following his death and three poems written by local friends which were originally published in the A Verse for Today column of ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue HARRY R STEVENS who is also the author of Ohio Bridge 1939 and Six Twenty Margaretta Hunt and the Baker-Hunt Foundation 1942 is at present with our fighting forces somewhere in the Pacific area His home is in Cincinnati Ohio ROBERT L JONES is instructor in history at Marietta College EDWARD C REILLEY is assistant professor of history at John Carroll University Cleveland Ohio MABEL WATKINS MRS W C MAYER the granddaughter of the Ohio Hundred Day man Wallace ...
... 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 ...
... 36 OHIO HISTORY 36 OHIO HISTORY WINE BARON'S CASTLE Marblehead Peninsula Lake Erie Low thunderheads like distant nebulous hills Hovering on the horizon and the lake In silvered calm reflective eye of summer Casting on earth and sky a spell of vast And brooding quiet -- almost as if time Were an unchanging landscape and its motions With those of wind and weather all suspended That was the afternoon we found the house Known to us only by vague history And local legend then an echoing shell Of ...
... 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 ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue Henry C Shetrone is director of this Society Lee Shepard is a member of the board of curators trustees of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio Elbert J Benton is director and secretary of the Western Reserve Historical Society Albert Post is an analyst with the Foreign Economic Administration in Washington D C Miss Florence Murdoch who lives in Cincinnati Ohio is the grand-niece of Milo G Williams Robert Leslie Jones is a professor of history ...
... 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 ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue LESTER LEROY ROUSH is a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Worthington Ohio author of History of the Roush Family in America Strasburg Virginia 1929 HENRY CLYDE SHETRONE is director of the Ohio State Museum CHARLES C WILLOUGHBY well-known anthropologist and museum director is now director emeritus Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard University ROBERT PRICE of Alexandria Ohio was formerly an assistant in the Department of English ...
... 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 ...
... THE HISTORY OF THE STATE OF OHIO Edited by CARL WITTKE and Published under the Auspices of the OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY in Six Volumes Volume I is now available and Volumes II and III are in press Volumes IV V and VI are expected in 1941 The price of the complete set is 2500 and orders should be sent direct to the Secretary Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Ohio State Museum Columbus Ohio Because of the limited edition sets will not be broken Volume I The ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Transylvania Colony By William Lester Stewart Spencer Indiana Samuel R Guard amp Co 1935 288p 300 Professor W L Stewart has made an exhaustive study of the sources by using the Draper Manuscripts the Haldimand Papers the American State Papers the Swain Manuscripts the Colonial Records of North Carolina newspapers etc He points out in an informative preface that the Transylvania company among the several that were formulated for the exploitation of the land lying ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue PAUL R GRIM has been research assistant in the Bureau of Educational Research in Ohio State University for two years and is principal-elect of the Junior High Training School of the Western Washington College of Education at Bellingham Washington B H PERSHING is dean of men and professor of history at Wittenberg College JAMES H RODABAUGH author of Robert Hamilton Bishop is a graduate of Miami University and has recently completed his degree of Doctor of ...
... THE HISTORY OF THE STATE OF OHIO THE HISTORY OF THE STATE OF OHIO Edited by Carl Wittke and Published under the Auspices of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society in Six Volumes This history is now completed The price of the entire set is 2500 and orders should be sent direct to the Secretary Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Ohio State Museum Columbus Ohio Because of the limited editions sets will not be broken Volume I The Foundations of Ohio by Professor ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to this Issue E Kidd Lockard resides in Buckhannon West Virginia Helen P Dorn is librarian at the Newark Ohio Senior High School Edwin Harrison Cady of Andover Ohio is now with the armed forces in Italy Alfred H Mitchell newspaperman is a former member of the Ohio Northwest Territory Celebration Commission 82 ...
... HOWARD CARTER HOWARD CARTER Howard Carter famous Egyptologist was born at Swaffham Norfolk England in 1873 Because of his delicate health he received his education under private instructors He went to Egypt in 1890 In 1892 he assisted Professor Flinders Petrie in explorations He was a draftsman on the Egyptian Exploration Fund archaeological survey staff 1893-1899 He was engaged in explorations in the Valley of the Kings at Thebes Egypt from 1907-1923 Early in December 1922 under the patronage ...
... 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 ...