... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA TRUSTEE MEETING AT SPIEGEL GROVE On Thursday June 30th the Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society held a regular meeting at the residence of Colonel Webb C Hayes Spiegel Grove Fremont Ohio It was a most interesting and memorable occasion Colonel Hayes had invited the Trustees to be his guests the day named above and day before and on Wednesday noon the the 29th several of the Trustees upon their arrival at Bellevue enroute to Fremont were met ...
... 64 Ohio Arch 64 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications and of course there is a constant demand for new vessels Further along after traversing a portion of the Ohio river the same author writes The boats which float upon the Ohio river are various--from the ship of several hundred tons burden to the mere skiff Very few if any very large vessels however are now built at Pittsburgh and Marietta but the difficulties incident to getting them to the ocean have rendered such undertakings infrequent ...
... MARKING THE OLD ABOLITION HOLES MARKING THE OLD ABOLITION HOLES BY FELIX J KOCH CINCINNATI A quadroon girl in Sunday best strolled down the quiet little main street of Ripley in southern Ohio not long since and coming to the crest of the bluff whence the long descent begins to the river she rested her arms on an immaculately white monument set to the famous old abolitionists of Ripley-the place where Eliza crossed the ice in the story-and waved a handkerchief in signal to some dusky paramour ...
... edited by edited by DONALD J RATCLIFFE The Autobiography of Benjamin Tappan There are few more fascinating characters in the early history of Ohio than Benjamin Tappan A sharp and audacious man always pungent and always ready he was formidable in argument and few people who openly disagreed with him ever forgot his cutting sarcastic wit Besides tending to talk through his nose in a whining sing-song sort of style he was also slightly cross-eyed which gave him a somewhat malevolent look He made ...
... Historical News Historical News Virginius C Hall director of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio since 1945 died in Cincinnati on June 8 1957 after a brief illness Mr Hall a native of North Carolina and a graduate of Trinity College Duke University came to Cincinnati in 1923 where he engaged in the advertising business and later in stockbroking until 1934 In that year he joined the faculty of the Cincinnati Country Day School and then in 1942 became a master in the French ...
... edited by edited by ETHEL CONRAD Touring Ohio in 1811 The Journal of Charity Rotch Charity Rodman Rotch the author of this journal was born in Newport Rhode Island on October 31 17661 Her father was lost at sea when she was less than a month old leaving his widow with seven children to bring up Charity is said to have received her education entirely from her older brother At the age of twenty-three Charity Rodman married Thomas Rotch the youngest son of a Nantucket family prominent in the ...
... THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1864 THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1864 IN OHIO BY ELIZABETH F YAGER M A B A B S IN EDUCATION INTRODUCTION A brief resume of early Ohio politics serves to show that the state had been for the most part Democratic 30 far as national politics were concerned The Democrats who drew up the first constitution controlled the electoral vote until 1836 in 1836 and in 1840 William Henry Harrison carried the state and Henry Clay secured the electoral vote in 1844 Ohio went ...
... A CANOE JOURNEY FROM THE BIG BEAVER TO THE A CANOE JOURNEY FROM THE BIG BEAVER TO THE TUSCARAWAS IN 1773 A TRAVEL DIARY OF JOHN HECKEWAELDER Translated and edited by AUGUST C MAHR Professor of German Ohio State University By 1772 due to circumstances beyond their control the missionaries of the Moravian Church among the Indians in Pennsylvania had found it inevitable to abandon their two mission stations on the upper North Branch of the Susquehanna Friedenshiitten about one mile down the river ...
... A REVIEW-ESSAY A REVIEW-ESSAY Noble Fellow William Starling Sullivant By Andrew Denny Rodgers III Foreword by Dr Adolph E Waller New York G P Putnam's Sons 1940 xxii 361p Illustrations maps and appendix An Abstract by FRANK C CALDWELL This is a remarkable book centered about the accomplishments of a remarkable man He lived and worked in an almost frontier town hundreds of miles from the early eastern centers of science and before the days even of stage coach and federal mail communication He ...
... THE HARMAR EXPEDITION OF 1790 THE HARMAR EXPEDITION OF 179 0 By RANDOL PH G ADAMS At the last meeting of the American Historical Association December 1939 the chief of the General Staff of the United States Army made some very critical remarks about the teaching of military history in the United States He expressed the wish that teachers would tell and that text-books would relate the uncomplimentary and unvarnished truth about the ineptitude with which the United States has conducted its wars ...
... 138 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 138 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY the intriguing thing about Grant's career being that his fame rested largely on his military achievements though Grant himself was a man who neither liked war nor on the technical side at least knew very much about it Speaking in a pleasing staccato manner Patterson captivated his audience with his fund of seldom-heard stories the interesting sidelights he threw on well-known historic events and ...
... REV REV PAUL HENKEL'S JOURNAL1 HIS MISSIONARY JOURNEY TO THE STATE OF OHIO IN 1806 Translated from the German by Rev F E Cooper of Milwaukee Wis and edited by Clement L Martzolff Ohio University Athens Ohio NEW MARKET SHENANDOAH COUNTY VIRGINIA2 Monday July 7th To-day at 4 o'clock in the afternoon I started on my first journey as travelling preacher As the affairs of my household were in such shape that my wife could leave home for a time and as we had some reason to believe that her bodily ...
... A Survey of Publications A Survey of Publications In Ohio History and Archaeology August 1960 - July 1961 Compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE HENLEIN Paul C Early Cattle Ranges of the Ohio Valley Agricultural History XXXV 1961 150-154 The Jackson Cut-Off Northwest Ohio Quarterly XXXII 1960 187-191 A ditch in Wood County to drain the Black Swamp built in 1878 and 1879 RHOADES Rendell ed Some 'Memoranda of the Locust Season in Ohio 1855' Ohio Historical Quarterly LXX 1961 152-156 ...
... 238 Ohio Arch 238 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR INFANTRY 1st Regt O V I 1 2nd Regt O V I 2 3rd Regt 0 V I 2 4th Regt O V I 1 5th Regt O V 1 6th Regt O V I 2 7th Regt O V I 3 8th Regt 0 V I Missing 9th Battalion O V I 1 10th Regt O V I 2 ARTILLERY Bat A 1st L Arty 1 Bat C 1st L Arty 1 Bat G 1st L Arty 1 Bat H 1st L Arty 2 Troop H 1st O V C 1 Respectfully submitted W L CURRY Chairman Captain First Ohio Cavalry Civil War CHARLES HUGHES First Regiment U S C T Civil ...
... The Story of a Flag 417 The Story of a Flag 417 SKETCH OF GENERAL J WARREN KEIFER From Who's Who in America KEIFER J WARREN born in Bethel Township Clark County Ohio January 30 1835 the son of Joseph and Mary Smith Keifer educated at Antioch College married Eliza Stout of Springfield Ohio March 22 1860 In law practice at Springfield Ohio since January 12 1858 president of Lagonda National Bank since 1873 Major of the 3rd Ohio Infantry April 27 1861 Lieutenant-Colonel February 12 1862 Colonel ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XVII INDEX TO VOLUME XVII A Twenty-third annual meeting of O Adena 185 189 A amp I S 132 Description of 191 Washington's Tour of the Ohio Distinguished visitors to 191 and articles of The Mississippi Allread James I Address of 120 Company 431 Amos J O Sketch of Loramie village Atwater Caleb mention of 254 by 9 B ArchaeologyBacon David - Collection in 144 Cabin site of 289 Mound Builders and the Lost Tribes Death of 292 208 Discomfiture of 290 Some Ohio Investigations in 94 ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 221 manding why Rogers and his men had come thither without his permission and what was their errand Up to this time the shrewd and ambitious chieftain had been the firm ally of the French but when Rogers informed him that Canada had been surrendered to the English and that he was on his way to take possession of Detroit the calumet was smoked and harmony seemed established Then follow the details of the Pontiac conspiracy Pontiac the great Ottawa Chief may be ...
... FAILURE IN inner - direction by CARL M BECKER In David Riesman's brilliant study of social character types The Lonely Crowd the inner-directed man appears as a typical--indeed the dominant--characterological product of nineteenth-century American civilization1 His values implanted early in life by adult authority and then internalized by the self and supported by edifying print the innerdirected man was rigidly individuated and self-oriented measuring all of life by a personalized yardstick ...
... Index Index ABOLITION MOV'EMENT and aboAnderson William C trustee Wool litionists T Corwin unsympathetic and Cotton Manufacturing Company toward 8 and Corwin amendment 20 107 Adams Charles Francis 2 9 and the Andrews Israel Ward 340 341 Corwin amendment 17 18 19 20 Annual Report of the Society for Adams Charles Francis Jr 18 1960 247-253 Adams Henry quoted on secession Antioch College 227 285 ethics at crisis 2 10 17 19 24 26 220 philosophy of education at 235 Adams John Quincy 6 241-243 and ...
... Historical News Historical News THE SIXTH ANNUAL SUMMER Institute on Historical and Archival Management will be offered by Radcliffe College with the co-sponsorship of the department of history of Harvard University during the six weeks June 29 through August 7 1959 Lawrence W Towner editor of the William and Mary Quarterly and director of graduate studies at the College of William and Mary will direct the course The staff will consist of eighteen or more experts in the fields covered by the ...