... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue Chester E Finn is a graduate of Yale University and is now studying at the Harvard Law School Cambridge Massachusetts Mrs Winifred Lovering Holman is a genealogist located at 205 Follen Rd Lexington Massachusetts William D Hoyt Jr is in charge of the newspaper collection at the Alderman Library University of Virginia Reprints Reprints of any paper published in the OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY may be obtained by the contributor ...
... 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 ...
... THE RICHLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY THE RICHLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Richland County Historical Society was organized in 1898 and has accomplished much during the five years of its exisitence A public meeting is held in June of each year The first annual meeting was held in June 1899 and was addressed by local speakers The meeting of June 1900 was addressed by the Hon Rush R Sloane president of the Firelands Historical Society and others At this meeting the late Hon John Sherman ...
... 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 ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 103 Reviews Notes and Comments 103 Resolutions adopted by THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION at its Annual Meeting held at Columbus Ohio December 27-29 1923 WHEREAS there has been in progress for several years an agitation conducted by certain newspapers patriotic societies fraternal orders and others against a number of school textbooks in history and in favor of official censorship and WHEREAS this propaganda has met with sufficient success to bring about not only ...
... BOOK NOTES BOOK NOTES Any book mentioned in this department can be obtained through the Pub lisher of the QUARTERLY AMERICAN STATE CONSTITUTIONS A Study of their Growth By Henry Hitchcock LL D New York and London G P Putnam's Sons 1887 This little volume is No XXXVII of Questions of the Day It is an interesting study of certain currents of political thought in the United States as seen in State Constitutions and was originally delivered as an address before the New York State Bar Association ...
... EDITORIAL EDITORIAL At the October 1934 meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society a recommendation was made that a Board of Editors be appointed to cooperate with the editor in determining the character and quality of material to be published in the QUARTERLY It was suggested that the members of this Board be chosen pretty widely from the historical activities of the State making it a capable and representative body At the same meeting the editor ...
... 216 Ohio Arch 216 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications REV PURLEY A BAKER On March 30 Rev P A Baker died at his home in Westerville Ohio He was born in Jackson County Ohio April 10 1858 He was prominently identified with the work of the Anti-saloon League almost from its beginning This organization like many other movements began in Ohio in 1893 and extended to every state of the Union Its founder was Rev Howard H Russell who is still living in Westerville Rev P A Baker was in charge of the ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR SILVER SERVICE OF THE BATTLESHIP OHIO Through the prompt and effective aid of Senator Frank B Willis and the cordial co-operation of Governor A V Donahey there have been transferred from the Navy Department of the United States to the custody of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society the silver service of the Battleship Ohio the loving cup presented by Miss Helen Deshler who christened the battleship and the ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue CLARENCE LAHR WEAVER is cataloguer and editorial assistant and Miss HELEN MILLS is reference librarian for the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society JAMES T WEED is sufficiently identified in his Reminiscences JOSEPHINE E PHILLIPS wife of Professor Thomas D Phillips of Marietta College is interested in historical research and writing ROBERT PRICE of Alexandria Ohio was formerly an assistant in the Department of English at the Ohio State ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue DR CARL WITTKE is head of the Department of History Ohio State University WELLINGTON G FORDYCE instructor in history at Euclid Central High School Cleveland received his master's degree from Ohio State University His article is a part of a larger study of immigrant groups EDGAR B NIXON a descendant of one of the members of the Zoar community is a member of the staff of the Editorial Division of the Department of State Washington D C EDWIN ADAMS DAVIS is ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue EMERSON F GREENMAN former curator of archaeology of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is now at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor Reprints Reprints of any paper published in the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY may be obtained by the contributor Estimate of the cost will be furnished on request and the request should be made to the editor before the issue containing the article is to be published Publications For a ...
... 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 ...
... 82 Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly 82 Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly and profit historical students in all parts of the United States but that through its pages a stimulus can be given to the further and more systematic study of Western archaeology and history by those best situated for carrying on such work -students old and young residing in the West GEO W KNIGHT NOTICE-It is but just to the Editorial Committee to state that the papers that have hitherto been read ...
... TIMOTHY FLINT AND JAMES FLINT TIMOTHY FLINT AND JAMES FLINT By WILLIAM H HILDRETH There exists in Volume II of the admirable History of the State of Ohio a confusion between the American Timothy Flint and the Scotchman James Flint The following list gives seven places where the work of James Flint has been attributed to Timothy Flint p 123 line 27 p 124 footnote 6 p 171 footnote 46 p 176 footnote 5 p 207 line 23 p 398 line 4 p 402 line 23 Timothy Flint author editor missionary and traveller ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 163 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 163 five years ago Charles K Bolton librarian of the Boston Athenaeum in an address on Genealogy and History before the American Historical Association assembled in Boston 1912 showed how as he said the vicissitudes of families conceal the very sources of political and economic history He urged accordingly that genealogists in their researches concern themselves not merely with the names births marriages and deaths of ...