... GENERAL INDEX TO VOL GENERAL INDEX TO VOL XLIV A E F--166th Infantry 365 American history 328 333 A L A 357 American Land Board 439 Adams Andrew 172 American liberty 315 Adams George 308 American Library Association see A L Adams James 449 A Adams John opposed Society of CincinAmerican medicine 451 nati 84 American Museum of Natural History 282 Adams John Quincy opposed Society of American Nation 350 Cincinnati 84 American people 312 318 Adams S 449 American Political Leaders 350 Adams Samuel ...
... RAE WAHL ROHFELD RAE WAHL ROHFELD Newton D Baker and the Adult Education Movement In 1921 Newton D Baker returned from his cabinet position to practice law in Cleveland Ohio his adopted hometown He had completed the mammoth job of organizing the nation to fight a war and then of dismantling the bulk of the war machine when the fighting was over Before going to Washington as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of War Baker had been a progressive Cleveland politician serving as city solicitor during Tom ...
... WILLIAM E WILLIAM E GIENAPP Salmon P Chase Nativism and the Formation of the Republican Party in Ohio Accounts of the formation of the Republican party traditionally emphasize the political upheaval of 1854 In this year the party first took shape in Michigan and Wisconsin and in several other states fusion anti-Nebraska coalitions which are often viewed as protoRepublican organizations contested the fall elections1 Certainly the momentous political events of that year unleashed forces that ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Indiana History A Book of Readings Compiled and edited by Ralph D Gray Bloomington Indiana University Press 1995 xiv 442p index 3995 cloth 2295 paper None of the states of the Old Northwest has more persistently embodied the Midwestern middle-class ideal of small towns and commercial agriculture than Indiana Unlike Ohio Illinois Michigan or Wisconsin Indiana did not develop a huge industrial center No Chicago Cleveland Milwaukee Detroit or Cincinnati emerged in the ...
... THE SEMI-COLON CLUB THE SEMI-COLON CLUB OF CINCINNATI by LOUIS L TUCKER Among the holdings of the Cincinnati Historical Society1 is a box of manuscripts containing 126 documents and a single volume of a shortlived magazine titled The Semi-Colon which consists of three numbers2 These two source materials represent the sole remains of the Semi-Colon Club a literary society that flourished in Cincinnati during the 1830's and 1840's 3 The activities of this club constitute a significant chapter in ...
... NEWS and NOTES TH R OUGH the efforts of a group of Columbus citizens organized as the Kelley House Committee Inc and the Franklin County Historical Society the famous Alfred Kelley mansion located at 282 East Broad Street has been carefully dismantled and removed to Franklin Park where it is to be reconstructed and restored At Franklin Park the stonework of each wall has been laid out on the ground in the same position it had vertically Each of the three thousand stone blocks in the structure ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 66 NUMBER 4 OCTOBER 1957 Ohio's Germans 1840-1875 By CARL WITTKE The great period of German immigration is long since past and the Germans have been diluted and absorbed along with other nationality groups into a composite Americanism A century ago German immigrants in number and quality constituted one of the most important elements in the American population Most of them were plain people peasants laborers or craftsmen ...
... JEFFREY P JEFFREY P BROWN Chillicothe's Elite Leadership in a Frontier Community The Northwest Territory was dominated by its small urban communities even though most settlers were farmers The towns became crucial regional centers for business politics and cultural affairs They served as headquarters for wealthy and powerful merchants provided a base for lawyer-politicians and often contained the homes of prominent rural landowners A few of the Northwest's towns eventually grew into great ...
... In Memoriam Summer-Autumn 2002 pp 198-199 PDF of In Memoriam CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Frank L Byrne A Gifted Civil War Historian By Leonne M Hudson Frank L Byrne was born on May 12 1928 in Hackensack New Jersey At the time of his death on April 21 2002 he was Professor Emeritus of History at Kent State University After graduating from Trenton State College in 1950 he attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison where he ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION Washington D C Carl Bode Chairman Steering Committee The sponsoring committee of the association held its first meeting at the Library of Congress on March 22 1951 and adopted a constitution for the association The organization has as its aim the encouragement of the study of American civilization by improving communications across those disciplines which deal with phases of American civilization and by fostering ...
... FREDERICK J FREDERICK J BLUE Salmon P Chase First Historian of the Old Northwest The name of Salmon Portland Chase rarely comes to mind when early historians of the Old Northwest are recalled Yet in 1833 as a struggling young attorney of twenty-five he produced a succinct account of Ohio's history which served as a valuable guide for several decades Not surprisingly the young writer's study reflected his own social standing and political ideology as well as contemporary attitudes In recounting ...
... THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY HISTORY OF A DECADE 1932-1942 BY HAROLD E D AV I S Attending the annual meetings of the Ohio College Association in the late twenties the author noted that his fellow historians were rarely present even in the meetings of the Social Science Section After attending the Ohio History Conference arranged by Dr Harlow Lindley in the spring of 1931 he was convinced of the desirability of some organization however informal which would bring ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 65 NUMBER 4 OCTOBER 1956 Carl Schurz and Rutherford B Hayes By CARL WITTKE The German Revolution of 1848 ended in the emigration of large numbers of political refugees to the United States Among them were men of substance social standing and education young intellectual radicals fresh from the universities and older more reserved agitators for reform whose dreams of a united republican Germany were shattered by the military ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Connected Thoughts A Reinterpretation of the Reorganization of Antioch College in the 1920's By Stephen R Herr Lanham Maryland University Press of America 1997 xii 282 p tables endnotes bibliographic essay index In the long history of Antioch College two presidents have been revered Horace Mann for his liberal educational policies in the 1850s which introduced females and minorities and Arthur E Morgan for his work-study concept in the 1920s The work-study co-op program ...
... THE WYANDOT'S BRIDE THE WYANDO T' S BRIDE N B C LOVE D D The poem The Wyandot's Bride written by Rev L B Gurley about seventy years ago is an epic of over two hundred lines It is in blank verse It describes The Sandusky River rolling outward into the Lake 'Mid leafy groves and prairies bright with flowers On this River the Wyandots A remnant of an ancient nation dwelt Which in its waning glory Was proud of its old name 'Wyandot' When the poem was written many old chieftains lived To tell of ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Little Cities of Black Diamonds Urban Development in the Hocking Coal Region 1870-1900 By Ivan M Tribe Athens Athens County Historical Society and Museum 1988 vii 130p tables notes index and Sprinkled with Coal Dust Life and Work in the Hocking Coal Region 1870-1900 By Ivan M Tribe Athens Athens County Historical Society and Museum 1989 viii 168p tables notes index Tribe's two books constitute a history of the Hocking Valley coal mining towns in the corners of Perry ...
... COLONEL JAMES KILBOURNE COLONEL JAMES KILBOURNE BY C B GALBREATH Colonel James Kilbourne one of the founders of Bucyrus was a prominent pioneer of Ohio He was born at New Britain Connecticut October 19 1770 He was descended from an ancient Scottish family but his ancestors for many years had lived in England before emigrating to America His father who was a farmer encouraged his son to make his home with Mr Griswold the father of Bishop Griswold of the Protestant Episcopal Church in order that ...
... Historical News Historical News A Service Center for Teachers of History has recently been established by the American Historical Association It is located at 400 A Street SE Washington 3 DC Dr George Barr Carson Jr is the director The service center was created for the purpose of providing scholarly leadership in meeting the problems of history teachers The center offers direct assistance to teachers and to schools in strengthening history courses and increasing the effectiveness of teachers ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Museums Association OMA a nonprofit statewide organization of nature centers zoos art science history and natural history museums has located its headquarters at the Ohio Historical Center in Columbus Ohio Although separate from the Ohio Historical Society the OMA provides workshops conferences annual meetings and a monthly newsletter to OHS and other organizations throughout the state in an effort to provide educational opportunities for staff ...
... KRISTE LINDENMEYER KRISTE LINDENMEYER Saving Mothers and Babies The Sheppard-Towner Act in Ohio 1921-1929 In 1985 the year for which the latest statistics are available 106 American babies died for every 1000 live births in the United States This is a dramatic improvement over the country's 1921 infant mortality rate of 76 per 1000 but as in 1921 the United States' rate continues to compare poorly with many other industrialized countries In 1921 the United States rate ranked seventeenth out of ...