... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL AGRICULTURAL export trade Thomas Kelsey Hardluck Entrepreneur by Daniel Preston 127-141 Akers William J 28 Allen County Memorial Hall Lima Ohio 17 American Pharmaceutical Association 42-84 American Railroad Freight Car From the Wood-Car Era to the Coming of Steel The by John H White Jr rev 201-203 And Gently He Shall Lead Them Robert Parris Moses and Civil Rights in Mississippi by Eric R Burner rev 198-199 Announcement Ohio Medical University 76 ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Organizations ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President A Shay engine built by the Lima Locomotive works in 1925 and used at the National Lime and Stone Company quarry until 1947 has been renovated by the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation It is to be placed on a concrete foundation on the society's property as a permanent exhibit Contracts have been awarded for construction of the Allen County Museum building to be located at ...
... JOHN BROWN IN OHIO JOHN BROWN IN OHIO An Interview with Charles S S Griffing edited by Louis FILLER Assistant Professor of American Civilization Antioch College John Brown's Ohio years merit continued study In view of the fact that a serious shadow has been cast over his intentions and activities in Kansas by a formidable historian1 it is evident that the Ohio period may be crucial in any ultimate evaluation of Brown's role and personality Mary Land's article John Brown's Ohio Environment in ...
... GENTILE AND SAINT AT KIRTLAND GENTILE AND SAINT AT KIRTLAND by WILLIS THORNTON The Mormon interlude at Kirtland Ohio was by no means the transplantation of an alien tree into an unaccustomed soil The ground at Kirtland was not only well prepared for the planting but was already sprouting luxuriant vegetation so closely akin to Mormonism that the simplest cross-pollination and grafting provided a native stand of Mormon timber Yet despite this apparently auspicious climate relations between the ...
... THE DIARY OF JOHN BEATTY JANUARY-JUNE 1884 THE DIARY OF JOHN BEATTY JANUARY-JUNE 1884 Part I edited by HARVEY S FORD Head Librarian Toledo Blade John Beatty the author of the diary which follows was the grandson of a Scotch-Irish immigrant who settled near Sandusky in 1815 His grandfather also named John Beatty was born in County Wexford Ireland on March 17 1774 At the age of eighteen he visited the United States and after some traveling about the country determined to settle in Norwich ...
... JAMES BACKUS CITIZEN OF MARIETTA 1788-1791 JAMES BACKUS CITIZEN OF MARIETTA 1788-1791 By JOSEPHINE E PHILLIPS There are about 150 Horses Sixty Cows amp Seven Yoak of Oxen here The Emigrants that pass down the river for Kentucky amp other parts of the Western Country are amazing We have a militia formed who assemble every Sunday amp are fined for not attending We have preaching or service read regularly once a week likewise a school Thus wrote James Backus1 from Marietta to his parents in ...
... Rutherford B Hayes Attorney at Law by WATT P MARCHMAN Rutherford Birchard Hayes began life without a father in Delaware Ohio on October 4 1822 a sickly child whose health was of deep concern to his mother His father Rutherford Hayes Jr formerly of Dummerston Vermont who had been a merchant of the firm of Noyes Mann and Hayes and who had brought his family to settle in Ohio in 1817 died suddenly on July 20 1822 before the birth of his son He left his widow with an estate consisting of a brick ...
... A STATION ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD A STATION ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD MRS FLORENCE BEDFORD WRIGHT OBERLIN The Anti-Slavery agitation of the nineteenth century called out the heroic qualities in many a quiet man in whom such attributes had never been suspected In no part of the country did the friends of the fugitive slave make more personal sacrifices than those residing in southwestern Ohio It was during this period that the name under-ground railroad was given to the manner by which ...
... A Survey of Publications A Survey of Publications In Ohio History and Archaeology August 1957 - July 1958 Compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT BUCKMASTER Henrietta Flight to Freedom The Story of the Underground Railroad New York Thomas Y Crowell Company 1958 217p For ages twelve and older JELLISON Charles A The Martyrdom of John Brown West Virginia History XVIII 1957 243-255 LOTTICK Kenneth V The Connecticut Reserve and the Civil War History of Education Journal VIII No 3 Spring ...
... JOHN BROWN JOHN BROWN ADDITIONAL NOTES BY C B GALBREATH JOHN BROWN'S FRIENDS IN WASHINGTON The following letter to John Brown Jr which so far as we know has never before been published states clearly whom the writer regarded as friends in Congress This letter is now of historic interest only Had it been published at the time it was written it would doubtless have created some commotion and have made trouble for some of the congressmen named The letter is here reproduced literally ROCHESTER N Y ...
... THE DUNMORE WAR THE DUNMORE WAR BY E O RANDALL Secretary Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society The American colonists had fought the French and Indian war1 with the expectation that they were to be in the event of success the beneficiaries of the result and be permitted to occupy the Ohio Valley as a fertile and valuable addition to their Atlantic coast lodgments But the war over and France vanquished the royal greed of Britain asserted itself and the London government most ...
... WAYNE'S PEACE WITH THE INDIANS OF THE OLD WAYNE'S PEACE WITH THE INDIANS OF THE OLD NORTHWEST 1795 by DWIGHT L SMITH Instructor in History Ohio State University Far from being the least of the many problems with which the United States had to contend at its beginning was the settling of difficulties between the Indians and whites on the frontier If the new nation were to grow in size as apparently it was doing the native Indians would have to be removed absorbed or extirpated either ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABOLTIONISTS amp the South 1831-1861 The by Stanley Harrold rev 195-196 Act to Organize and Discipline the Militia An 37 Adjutant General Ohio office of 26 28 37 African-American soldiers 34-35 149n 14 Agnew Margaret Mrs Harman Blennerhassett 137-138 Agriculture 80-81 Aides-de-Camp Ohio office of 26 29 Akron Beacon Journal 10-11 Alcoholic camphor 180 Alexander Charles C book rev 205207 Allen Howard W book rev 112-113 Allopathic medicine 177 Ambassadors and ...
... THE KIRTLAND PHASE OF MORMONISM THE KIRTLAND PHASE OF MORMONISM By W J MCNIFF Kirtland Ohio was but a stepping stone for the Mormons as they restlessly pushed on towards the setting sun Somewhere in the West they planned a city of Zion Their leader prophesied a land of milk and honey gleaming with alabaster towers where righteousness would reign in the hearts of man The Kirtland phase came as an interlude between the future Zion of Missouri and the scornful attitude of the New Yorker In 1 827 ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS SIMON KENTON PROF R W M'FARLAND SECTION I PRELIMINARY NOTE It may seem to many people that enough has already been written both of Boone and Kenton the first having been the most prominent early settler of Kentucky the second having been the scout who did probably more than any one else not excepting Boone himself to save the settlers from the tomahawk and scalping knife of the Indian By Boone's own account it appears that he John Finley ...
... MATTHEW OYOS MATTHEW OYOS The Mobilization of the Ohio Militia in the Civil War Fort Sumter's fall in April 1861 broke like a thunderclap over Ohio Overnight fervent patriotism replaced months of indecision regarding Southern secession When President Abraham Lincoln called for 75000 militia on April 15 thousands of enthusiastic Ohioans rushed forward Among this mass the state's militia played an important role in the first weeks of mobilization At the heights of state government officials ...
... AN UNKNOWN GRAVE AN UNKNOWN GRAVE JOHN JAMES PIATT The following poem with preface was read by Mr Piatt at the Annual Banquet of the Ohio Society S A R held at the Columbus Club on the evening of April 19 1904 On the title page of an interesting volume of family history recently published at Columbus I read two sentencesthe first from Edmund Burke Those who do not treasure up the memory of their ancestors do not deserve to be remembered by posterity The other is from the Bible Children's ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS EZRA MEEKER Ohio's Illustrious Pioneer BY C B GALBREATH In the Cincinnati Enquirer of October 10 1924 shortly after the historic aviation meeting at Dayton appeared the following editorial Many interesting features distinguished the great air race meeting at Dayton Ohio but we fancy none of the remarkable feats sights scenes or incidents was more genuinely inspiring or thrilling than the arrival at McCook Field of Ezra Meeker ...
... HARRISON-TARHE PEACE CONFERENCE HARRISON-TARHE PEACE CONFERENCE COL E L TAYLOR COLUMBUS On the 28th of June 1 90 4 the Columbus Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution did themselves and their organization great honor by placing in Martin Park in the western part of the City of Columbus a large bowlder of igneous origin bearing a very handsome designed tablet in commemoration of the important council or conference which General William Henry Harrison had with the chiefs of certain ...
... LUCAS SULLIVANT--HIS PERSONALITY AND LUCAS SULLIVANT--HIS PERSONALITY AND ADVENTURES BY MISS JANE D SULLIVANT Aside from court records and a few lingering oral traditions the principal source of information concerning the life and personality of Lucas Sullivant is to be found in the Family Memorial written and published for private distribution by his youngest son Mr Joseph Sullivant in 1873 Upon this source all subsequent histories of Franklinton and even of Columbus and Franklin County have ...