... Report of the Forty-sixth Annual Meeting 567 Report of the Forty-sixth Annual Meeting 567 During the past year two colleges have observed Centennial occasions--Hiram and Denison University--and Oberlin College and Wooster College are now preparing for historical celebrations this year It is quite noticeable the way communities over the state are waking up to the opportunities offered by Centennial occasions and to the value of the Pageantry as a means of portraying history and building ...
... VERNON L VERNON L VOLPE Benjamin Wade's Strange Defeat Benjamin Wade is known to countless thousands of undergraduates as Bluff Ben a grim outspoken advocate of equal justice for freed Southern slaves The memorable but not completely flattering portrait of Wade found in most college textbooks sometimes obscures the prominent part the Ohio Senator played in national politics during the great crisis of the Civil War and Reconstruction A leading radical Republican he chaired the powerful Joint ...
... Johnny Appleseed Johnny Appleseed 305 buried near what is now the city of Fort Wayne To the end he was true to his mission of planting nurseries and sowing the seeds of medicinal herbs To the pioneers of Ohio he was an unselfish benefactor and we are here today to aid in transmitting to coming generations our grateful memory of his deeds HISTORICAL SKETCH The historical sketch of Johnny Appleseed was prepared and presented by Mr A J Baughman a recognized authority in the early history of ...
... EARLY DAYS IN OHIO EARLY DAYS IN OHIO FROM LETTERS AND DIARIES OF DR I A LAPHAM Increase Allen Lapham at the time of his death regarded as the most distinguished scholar of his state Wisconsin was for many years a citizen and state official of Ohio He was born in Palmyra N Y in 1811 and while as a boy laborer working on the construction of the Erie Canal became interested in the study of nature and her various phases The subsequent results of his studies were embodied in fortyfive different ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 489 the Conference probably could not have been held last year Miss Cornelius as secretary invited the Executive Committee to meet late in June at her home in northern Wisconsin and under the generous hospitality of herself and her family the program for the Conference was drafted The letters asking for active and associate memberships were also drawn up there and on the train which brought the committee back to Chicago Now the campaign was on and the work and the ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XXIV No 4 OCTOBER 1915 RECENTLY APPOINTED TRUSTEES WI L LIAM H COLE recently appointed trustee of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is a resident of Sabina and by education and taste brings to the office special qualifications for the discharge of its duties He was born in Hillsboro Highland County Ohio July 29 1840 Upon completing a course of study in the public schools of his native town he was elected principal of the Walnut Street school ...
... CONSUL WILSHIRE BUTTERFIELD-HISTORIAN CONSUL WILSHIRE BUTTERFIELD-HISTORIAN BY W H HUNTER Consul Wilshire Butterfield the famous Historian was born near the village of Colosse Oswego County New York July 28 1824 He was of Knickerbocker stock his father's people coming to America in 1634 His parents Amroy Butterfield and Mary Lamb Butterfield immigrated from Brattleboro Vermont to the State of New York Consul Wilshire Butterfield died at his home in South Omaha Nebraska onMonday September 25 ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 471 July sixth was known as Military Day A large section of the state militia under the command of Brigadier General William V McMaken paraded the streets of the city headed by the Eighth Regiment Band and the Marietta Guards Governor Herrick and his military staff reviewed the movements of the troops This was followed by a gathering at the fair grounds where speeches were made by Col W R Warnock Governor Myron T Herrick and Senator C W Dick In the evening there was ...
... Suggestions for a Plan of County Suggestions for a Plan of County Organization Charles Dick Lays the Groundwork for the Campaign of 1896 Edited by THOMAS E FELT CAMPAIGN textbooks for the party faithful have been used to inspire electoral success for close to a hundred years in this country and were the document published below just another one of this familiar species it would deserve no particular notice But this is a campaign textbook with a difference Where its more conventional brothers ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR VERILY THE WORLD DO MOVE Under this caption the Lancaster Daily Eagle of September 13 1927 publishes the following editorial In another portion of this paper we reproduce possibly for the twentieth time a resolution supposed to have been passed by a Lancaster School Board away back a hundred years ago in 1828 These records of the school board of that period are not obtainable and even though they were this resolution denying ...
... 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 ...
... TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY May 31 1911 The twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Hunter Society Room Page Hall Ohio State University Columbus Ohio at two o'clock P M Wednesday May 31 1911 The following members were present Prof M R Andrews Marietta Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Mr A J Baughman Mansfield Mr H E Buck Delaware Mr C H ...
... SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO VALLEY SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO VALLEY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Marietta Ohio November 27 and 28 1908 On Friday and Saturday November 27 and 28 1908 the Ohio Valley Historical Association held its second annual meeting at Marietta Ohio the first annual meeting was held a year previous in Cincinnati the proceedings of which meeting were briefly reported in the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY for January 1909 The complete proceedings of ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Organizations AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES Cincinnati Jacob R Marcus Director Herbert Bronstein has been appointed assistant to the director His appointment became effective in June In celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the arrival of the first Jews in America the archives has published a special large tercentenary issue of the American Jewish Archives a second part to which will appear in January 1955 In the next few weeks the first of a ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY AUGUST 1964 - JULY 1965 compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT Antislavery Movement Began in 1817 Ohio Genealogical Society Report V No 3 June 1965 2 On Jefferson County and the free-labor store at Mount Pleasant BAUER Katherine S Abolition and the Purdys Summit County Historical Society Bulletin XVIII No 6 June 1965 2 A family living at North Springfield ARCHAEOLOGY Artifacts from Collection of Tom Hall Ohio Archaeologist XV ...
... THE INDIAN VILLAGE OF CUSH-OG-WENK THE INDIAN VILLAGE OF CUSH-OG-WENK BY THOMAS H JOHNSON COSHOCTON The generations who were active participants in the events which constitute the early history of Ohio having passed away it seems to me the imperative duty of those now living whose early life overlapped the survivors of the active participants in the stirring events of that earlier period to place on record any recollections they may have of the stories told by those old survivors tending to ...
... 146 Ohio Arch 146 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications COLONEL THOMAS CRESAP BY MRS MARY LOUISE CRESAP STEVENSON To write the history of Colonel Thomas Cresap is to write the Colonial History of Maryland and Virginia and more or less of Ohio To recount the story of these colonies is to tell the story of the Revolution The rehearsal of that noble struggle would involve much of the history of the great powers of Europe and you might conclude we were like Tennyson's brook and would 'go on ...
... 44 Ohio Arch 44 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications SOME INTERESTING PARTICULARS BY THE OHIO STATE JOURNAL REPORTER In a communication of considerable length entitled The Holmes County Rebellion--Interesting Particulars a correspondent of the Ohio State Journal reported to that paper a news story which it published under the date of June 22 1863 It contains the names of a number of participants in the uprising and reads in part as follows CAMP NEAR WOLF CREEK WALLACE EXPEDITION June 18 ...
... The Early Judiciary of Ohio The Early Judiciary of Ohio 141 THE EARLY JUDICIARY EARLY LAWS AND BAR OF OHIO A proper study of the early judicial system and early laws of our State carries us to a period when as a part of the great Northwest Territory we were under control of the Federal Government On the 13th day of July 1787 the Congress of the United States passed the ordinance for The Government of the Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio Relative to the judiciary the ...
... BIRTHPLACE OF LITTLE TURTLE BIRTHPLACE OF LITTLE TURTLE CALVIN YOUNG GREENVILLE The village where Little Turtle was born in 1752 was located on the north tributary of the Eel River twenty miles northwest of Ft Wayne Indiana in Whitney County This north tributary is known today as the Blue River Branch near its junction at Blue Lake to which it furnished an outlet only a short distance away It stood on the west side of the river on a high sandy point of land surrounded on three sides by a great ...