... OLD BROWN OLD BROWN Old Lion tangled in the net Baffled and spent and wounded sore Bound thou who ne'er knew bonds before A captive but a lion yet Death kills not In a later time 0 slow but all-accomplishing Thy shouted name abroad shall ring Wherever right makes war sublime When in the perfect scheme of God It shall not be a crime for deeds To quicken liberating creeds And men shall rise wherre slaves have trod Then he the fearless future Man Shall wash the blot and stain away We fix upon thy ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... Centennial Tribute to Ohio Centennial Tribute to Ohio 181 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 badge forever CENTENNIAL TRIBUTE TO OHIO BY JOHN HOPLEY Hail fair O HIO from the great Northwest The first established free state and the best Where bounteous Nature spread with lavish hand A fertile soil throughout this favored land And filled the tree-crowned hills with varied stores Of inexhaustible ...
... 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 ROBERT D W CONNOR is archivist for the United States Government at Washington D C FRANCIS PHELPS WEISENBURGER is assistant professor of American history in Ohio State University JOHN F CARLISLE is an attorney in Columbus WILLIAM D OVERMAN is curator of history in the Ohio State Museum CLARENCE E CARTER is a member of the History Department of Miami University on leave of absence as editor of Territorial Papers Department of State Washington D C WILLIAM E ...
... 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 ...
... The Story of a Flag 417 The Story of a Flag 417 SKETCH OF GENERAL J WARREN KEIFER From Who's Who in America KEIFER J WARREN born in Bethel Township Clark County Ohio January 30 1835 the son of Joseph and Mary Smith Keifer educated at Antioch College married Eliza Stout of Springfield Ohio March 22 1860 In law practice at Springfield Ohio since January 12 1858 president of Lagonda National Bank since 1873 Major of the 3rd Ohio Infantry April 27 1861 Lieutenant-Colonel February 12 1862 Colonel ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XVIII No l JANUARY 1909 SERPENT MOUND TOWER It will be recalled that the Seventy-Seventh General Assembly 1908 in the appropriations for the Society made provision by a special appropriation of 500 for the erection of a tower at Serpent Mound At the meeting of the Executive Committee held July 16 1908 the matter of making a contract and supervising the erection of this tower was placed in charge of a special committee consisting of Treasurer Wood and Secretary ...
... LOWRY F LOWRY F SATER Lowry F Sater was born and passed his boyhood days on a Miami Valley farm in Crosby Township Hamilton County Ohio After teaching school for five years and spending one year at Marietta College he entered Ohio State University from which he graduated in Arts and Law respectively in 1895 and 1897 360 Lowry F Lowry F Sater 361 Immediately upon his admission to the Bar he entered the office of his uncle John E Sater with whom he was associated in the practice until 1907 ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue WELLINGTON G FORDYCE is instructor in history at Euclid Central High School Cleveland ALICE McGUFFEY MORRILL RUGGLES granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton McGuffey graduate of University of Cincinnati and Radcliffe College is interested in the social history of the Middle West a writer of prose and verse JOHN I KOLEHMAINEN Ph D in history Western Reserve University is at present educational director of the Cooperative Trading Company a producer-consumer ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue H A DE WEERD is in the Department of History and Government at Denison University Granville Ohio and is editor of the Journal of the American Military Institute JAMES M MILLER is in the Department of English at Waynesburg College Waynesburg Pennsylvania PHILIP D JORDAN is in the Department of History at Miami University Oxford Ohio HAROLD J GRIMM is in the Department of History at Ohio State University Columbus DELBERT L GRATZ is attending Bluffton ...
... NOTES NOTES Adolph E Waller is Associate Professor and Curator of the Botanic Garden Department of Botany Ohio State University Howard Dittrick is Editorial Director of the Cleveland Clinic Cleveland Ohio Philip D Jordan is a Professor of History at Miami University Edward S Thomas is Curator of Natural History of this Society Bertha E Josephson is Head of the Department of Documents and Editorial Associate of the Society Frank C Caldwell is Emeritus Professor Department of Electrical ...
... 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 ...