... ANDREW R ANDREW R L CAYTON The Failure of Michael Baldwin A Case Study in the Origins of MiddleClass Culture on the TransAppalachian Frontier In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it became fashionable to publish massive volumes detailing the histories of individual Midwestern counties Very often these books were the products of the cooperative efforts of several county residents who employed a topical rather than a chronological approach to their subject With the obvious goal ...
... ANDREW R ANDREW RL CAYTON The State of Ohio's Early History A Review Essay The Ohio Frontier Crucible of the Old Northwest 1720-1830 By R Douglas Hurt Bloomington Indiana University Press 1996 xv 418p illustrations bibliographic essay index 3500 It is axiomatic that each generation creates its own version of the past As much as historians value objectivity most of them see it is a noble but unattainable goal Historians always have and always will interpret the past through the prism of the ...
... edited by edited by JOHN B GABEL Medical Education in the 1890s An Ohio Woman's Memories The material presented here is drawn from the unpublished papers of a long-time Columbus physician the late Ida May Wilson Written in 1941 when she was in her seventy-seventh year this excerpt records Dr Wilson's memories of her medical education during the years 1894-1896 at the Ohio Medical University1 Her description of the primitive training provided as late as the 1890s by an accredited medical school ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 117 tion from his voice--he needed no pen--the subject-matter being wide and comprehensive He gave us the benefit of his thought and wit upon such topics as The Boston Tea Party Washington in the West Our First Inhabitants The Original Ohio Land Company etc etc but the crowning favor was bestowed just one year ago on Washington's birthday when his subject was Americanization at Home and Abroad We marveled as we sat enthralled by his eloquence how ...
... Rev Rev L B Gurley D D 21 REV L B GURLEY D D Pioneer Poet and Preacher BY N B C LOVE D D Rev L B Gurley was born in Norwich Conn He lived there seven and a half years and learned his A B C's in the school house where Lydia Sigourney the poetess conned her earliest lessons His father was a silversmith and a Methodist local preacher He worked in his fathear's shop and on the farm until he entered the ministry During this time he had the advantages of winter schools and a comprehensive library of ...
... 418 Ohio Arch 418 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications exercises of the day were presided over by Mr Emil Schlup retiring president of the Pioneer Association The election of the officers for the ensuing year resulted in the selection of Mr Amos Nye as president and of the re-election of Mr Mark Karr as secretary An interesting program of music and speeches was successfully carried out Music was furnished by the Adrian Cornet Band composed of E K Ewing Eugene Ewing Fred Ewing Thomas Reardan ...
... GENERAL INDEX TO VOL GENERAL INDEX TO VOL XLVII Abbott Wilbur C--The Influence of American Historical Review 243 291 292 Graduate Instruction on Historical Writ293 ing 243 244 American Imprints 232 234 Aberdeen Lord Gordon George HamilInventory of 238 ton 20 21 American Institute of Instruction 18 Abolition Movement 37 323 324 325 327 American Library Association 255 Academie de Medicine Paris 158 American Literature 254 Academie des Sciences129 132 American Moral Reform Society 1 Adams John ...
... THE NINTH OHIO VOLUNTEERS THE NINTH OHIO VOLUNTEERS A PAGE FROM THE CIVIL WAR RECORD OF THE OHIO GERMAN TURNERS OF OHIO BY CARL WITTKE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY The contributions of the German Turner organizations to American cultural history are among the most important of the many results of the extensive German immigration of the nineteenth century That Ohio had received its full share of these new additions to the American population was evident from the numerous social ...
... MAUCK BRAMMER MAUCK BRAMMER Winthrop B Smith Creator of the Eclectic Educational Series William Holmes McGuffey 1800-1873 is generally credited with the phenomenal spread of moral eclecticism throughout the United States during the middle third of the nineteenth century Much of the credit should go however to his canny publisher Winthrop B Smith who was the first to recognize the evocative magic of the word eclectic as an advertising device He also wrested complete ownership of the McGuffey ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 3 29 and that the meeting could then adjourn to such time or in such way that it could be reconvened for the further business of the Annual Meeting After some discussion of this matter a resolution was offered that when the present meeting concludes such business as is necessary for its present consideration and is prepared to recess that it recess to a second session which is to be called at such date and place as shall be determined by the present President and ...
... WINTHROP SARGENT VII WINTHROP SARGENT VII By the death of Winthrop Sargent VII of Haverford Pennsylvania on March 29 1932 this Society sustained the loss of a generous friend and life member It was chiefly through his aid that the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society came into the possession of the valuable historical papers of Winthrop Sargent Secretary of the Northwest Territory from its organization until 1798 In the year 1904 the writer learned that a relative of his who was a ...
... AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HARDING PAPERS by DONALD E PITZER April 25 1964 marked the beginning of an opportunity for a new perspective in telling the story of the life and times of Warren G Harding On that date The Ohio Historical Society opened to the public a collection of Harding papers which it had received in the preceding six months from the Harding Memorial Association at Marion Ohio1 Material never before available for scholarly research thus began to shed a clearer light upon Harding and ...
... PATRICIA A PATRICIA A CARTER Housing the Women Who Toiled Planned Residences for Single Women Cincinnati 1860-1960 The Lawrence Home stands as a barrier to sickness and evil she opens her doors and invites the young unprotected girl to come in and make her home here-not that she may be rescued as a brand from the burning but that she may not even get near enough to the fire to be scorched She does not consider herself nor is she considered a charity inmate Her independence and self-respect are ...
... PREHISTORIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN OHIO PREHISTORIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN OHIO BY MARY HUBBELL OSBURN The prehistoric era of the Indians in North America is an episode in the chronology of man in which Ohio and other portions of the Mississippi Valley play an important role It is in these regions that some of the finest examples of Indian cultures of that period are found Among the many thousands of other art objects found in the Ohio area the remnants of prehistoric musical instruments are ...
... AMERICA'S FIRST WOMAN MAYOR AMERICA'S FIRST WOMAN MAYOR BY ALFRED HEWETSON MITCHELL A native of Ohio who became America's first woman mayor has been honored at Argonia Kansas by a plaque which was erected through the efforts of Kansas club women and dedicated on November 10 1933 Kansas believes in flowers for the living so this plaque was unveiled in the presence of Mrs Susanna M Salter the Ohio-born woman who had made history at the age of twenty-seven when she was elected mayor of Argonia in ...
... STEPHEN M STEPHEN M MILLETT Charles E Ruthenberg The Development of an American Communist 1909-1927 The Communist Party of America was the product of native radicalism and a foreign ideology that inflamed extremists world wide after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 in Russia In the United States many Socialists who had resisted American involvement in the First World War on moral and ideological grounds later saw the Bolshevik experiment as man's only hope for international peace class ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Ohio in the Twentieth Century 1 900 -1938 Planned and compiled by Harlow Lindley The History of the State of Ohio Edited by Carl Wittke Vol VI Columbus The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1942 xiv 563p Illustrations and maps 2500 per set of 6 vols Ohio in the Twentieth Century final volume in the six volume History of the State of Ohio is the fourth in the series to be published Previously presented have been Bond's Foundations of Ohio Utter's ...
... DOUGLAS V DOUGLAS V SHAW Interurbans in the Automobile Age The Case of the Toledo Port Clinton and Lakeside From the first decade of the twentieth century until the early 1930s electric interurban railways connected almost all Ohio towns and villages of more than 5000 population With its numerous cities and market towns within reasonable proximity of one another prosperous agriculture and generally favorable topography everywhere but in the southeast Ohio provided ideal territory for ...
... Historical News Historical News THE LOYOLA UNIVERSITY HISTORY DEPARTMENT has established an annual national master's essay competition open in the academic year 1959-60 The first William P Lyons Master's Essay Award will be made for the best essay submitted by July 15 1960 in manuscript form from those which have merited MA degrees from American universities during 1959-60 The award will recognize work that is exemplary in style and method based solidly on original sources and interpretatively ...
... THE OHIO FREE SOILERS AND PROBLEMS OF FACTIONALISM by FREDERICK J BLUE The history of the Free Soil party in Ohio from 1849 until it was dissolved in 1854 was one of incessant factional conflict One source of controversy was the question whether the party should form a coalition with one of the major parties or should continue as a separate party This controversy over the organization of the party was finally successfully resolved when Free Soil leaders helped form the new Republican party and ...