... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... NOTES NOTES Conhributors to T his Issue Jonathan Forman BA MD FACA is a Columbus physician who is also editor of the Ohio State Medical Journal Adolph E Waller PhD is an associate professor of botany at Ohio State University Philip D Jordan PhD is a professor of history at Miami University John F Cunningham PhD is the dean of the College of Agriculture Ohio State University Chester S Szubiski AB DDS is at present serving as a lieutenant in the United States Army William H Hildreth is an ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... PAINTED SKELETONS PAINTED SKELETONS BY WM C MILLS Curator Ohio State Archaeological Historical Society Very peculiar burials have been reported from the western part of Concord Township Ross County Ohio The burials were first brought to my notice by Mr A B Coover of Roxabell Ohio who removed several skeletons from a gravel pit in the western part of Concord Township and these were covered with red ocre One year later Mr Almer Hegler of Washington C H notified me that a number of skeletons ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue August C Mahr is a professor of German at Ohio State University Harlow Lindley is Secretary-Editor-Librarian of this Society Robert Price is an instructor in the Department of English at Ohio State University James H Rodabaugh is Research Associate of this Society Bertha E Josephson is Chief of Department of Documents and Editorial Associate of this Society 77 ...
... THE INDIAN MOUND MIAMISBURG OHIO THE INDIAN MOUND MIAMISBURG OHIO This mound is located on the upland about a mile southeast of town and is the largest of its kind in the world It was originally about eighty-five feet in height but was reduced to sixty-five feet by digging of exploring parties It measures about three hundred feet in diameter at the base In 1869 a number of citizens sunk a shaft from the top to two feet below its base So far as startling revelations are concerned the ...
... OUR ALIBI OUR ALIBI Because of the depression the Society's appropriations for printing were so severely cut that the issues of the Q UA R TER LY for the year 1933 have necessarily been irregular For a time it seemed that they would have to be abandoned but the Legislature finally came to the relief of the Society 459 ...
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