... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue CHARLES C WILLOUGHBY anthropologist is director emeritus of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard University HAROLD E DAVIS is professor of history at Hiram College WAYNE JORDAN journalist is a graduate of Marietta College residing in New York City ALMON R WRIGHT is a member of the staff of the Division of Classification National Archives Washington D C FRED B JOYNER is a member of the history faculty of Miami University Lois HIESTAN D ...
... NOTES NOTES Preston Slosson is professor of history at the University of Michigan Mrs Raymond C Mary H Osburn of Columbus Ohio is the author of Twentieth Century Music in Volume VI of the History of the State of Ohio William D Overman is director of the Library and Archives of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Akron Ohio Alfred G Wright is associate professor of geography Ohio State University Bertha E Josephson is head of the Department of Documents and editorial associate of this Society ...
... 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 ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 5 61 their enthusiasm in and loyalty to the order to which they belong We do not give the proceedings in full as they will be published in book form by the Columbus Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution HARWOOD R POOL Mr Harwood R Pool a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society died in New York December 30 1903 He was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Pool and was born in Elyria Ohio October 22 1860 He went to New York in 1868 ...
... 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 ...
... OHIO CANALS OHIO CANALS WORK ON THEM INAUGURATED IN 1825 The year 1825 was a memorable one in the history of Ohio On May 19 General Lafayette crossed the river in his tour through what were then called the western states and stepped on the Ohio shore at Cincinnati in the midst of patriotic demonstrations unparalleled in the history of the state For a time he was the guest of this city then the metropolis of the West after which he proceeded up the river to Wheeling making short stops at ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue The late EDWARD WESLEY SHUNK originally prepared Ohio in Africa as a chapter of a thesis entitled The Negro Colonization Movement in Ohio prior to the Civil War which was presented for the degree of Master of Arts at the Ohio State University August 1941 ROY E BOWERS a retired Congregational minister who lives at Lakewood Ohio serves in the capacity of general consultant in pastoral theology and religious education Miss BERTHA R LEAMAN is head of the ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 125 WILLIAM TRIMBLE McCLINTICK Hon William Trimble McClintick a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society a cultivated gentleman and one of the most distinguished citizens of Ohio died at his residence Chillicothe on October 28 1903 at the unusual age of eightyfour Mr McClintick was a man far above the average in ability and intellectual achievement His long life spanned almost the first century of Ohio's statehood history and he had the ...
... THE CHARCOAL IRON INDUSTRY OF THE THE CHARCOAL IRON INDUSTRY OF THE HANGING ROCK IRON DISTRICT--ITS INFLUENCE ON THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE OHIO VALLEY BY WILBUR STOUT INTRODUCTION The Hanging Rock Iron District as defined by the iron masters embraced the furnaces and furnace lands and also the adjacent properties over which iron ores limestones and charcoal were gathered It included parts of Carter Boyd and Greenup Counties Kentucky and parts of Lawrence Scioto Gallia Jackson Vinton and ...
... 228 OHIO HISTORY 228 OHIO HISTORY LAKE ERIE Deep shallow becalmed turbulent Restless undulant constantly nascent Shingled by feathers and aerated spray Its mobile surface rarely quiescent Glacier-born and glacier-scoured Time-clock of steady terrestrial action Unfolding to eager sensate ears Nature's story in constant redaction Symbol of restless liquidity Nursery of storms and tumultuous roaring Playground of sail and fin and man Magnet of wing's resistant soaring By day its dome uplifted ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 551 Reviews Notes and Comments 551 house and the first church established in the Ohio Country When this property is improved it is to be transferred to the custody of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society A bill introduced by Honorable Thomas L Calvert of Clark County appropriates 10000 for the purpose of aiding in paying the cost of constructing a monument to General George Rogers Clark and to commemorate the battle of Piqua and birthplace of Tecumseh ...
... In Memoriam In Memoriam The Ohio Historical Society and Ohio History were saddened by the recent death of James H Rodabaugh following a lengthy illness Professor Rodabaugh's professional services to the Ohio Historical Society included that of research associate and editor 1944-1951 and division head 1951-1963 Additionally he was the editor of the Ohio Historical Quarterly 1946-1963 and was on the editorial advisory board of Ohio History from 1977 to the time of his passing In April 1985 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... Preface Preface With the publication of Volume 96 Ohio History marks its 100th year of publication The oldest ongoing program of the Ohio Historical Society the journal was during the early decades of the Society's existence synonymous with the institution Early issues contained the scholarly articles documents and book notes which constitute our present fare as well as papers and proceedings of Society meetings and lists of notable collection acquisitions Issued quarterly 1887-1981 Volumes ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... EDITOR'S NOTE EDITOR'S NOTE The saga of Ohio is replete with factors of strong sentimental appeal and compelling human interest The pioneer triumphant over innumerable obstacles the soldier clothed with the mantle of patriotism and heroism the political leader emotional in his oratorical pleas and the reformer with panaceas for the ills or supposed ills of society-- these have all been fruitful and fascinating themes in the hands of the historian And well they might be since Ohio has such a ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...