... WASHINGTON AND OHIO WASHINGTON AND OHIO E O RANDALL LL M The many-sidedness of Washington presents an unfailing field of study in his character and career His varied accomplishments in each of which he was facile prince ps again and again quicken our interest in and increase our admiration for the foremost figure in American annals So glorious was he in the pomp and circumstance of the War of Independence and so wise and potent was he in the arena of our national awakening that we are apt to ...
... SOME OHIO ASPECTS OF MILITARY NURSING 1861-1945 SOME OHIO ASPECTS OF MILITARY NURSING 1861-1945 by MARY JANE RODABAUGH Managing Editor Ohio Nurses Review The history of modern nursing in the United States has its beginnings in the Civil War At the outbreak of the Civil War there was no group of trained nurses in the United States but after the first battles the demand for nursing service became imperative Secretary of War Cameron appointed Dorothea Lynde Dix-already well known for her work as ...
... FRANK L FRANK L KLEMENT Ohio and the Dedication of the Soldiers' Cemetery at Gettysburg Ohioans had more than a passing interest in the dedication of the Soldiers' Cemetery at Gettysburg on November 19 1863 A decisive three-day battle fought in the surrounding countryside on July 1-3 1863 had claimed the lives of many of the state's soldiers some of whom were hurriedly buried in shallow graves or merely covered with spadefuls of dirt where they had fallen No other governor not even ...
... Ohio's Monument to General Anthony Wayne 19 Ohio's Monument to General Anthony Wayne 19 of governing the world So long as force may be invoked in behalf of injustice and wrong so long must force be ready to meet and crush force when thus employed as Washington said We must keep ourselves in a reasonable posture of defense Applause After more than one hundred and fifty years of nationality the sword of Washington and Wayne was never drawn except in defense of American rights or human rights and ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail By Ezra Meeker in collaboration with Howard R Driggs Professor of Education in English University of Utah Yonkers-on-Hudson New York World Book Co 1925 Pp X 225 This is one of the books of the Pioneer Life Series published by the World Book Company Yonkers-onHudson New York It is extensively and appropriately illustrated by ...
... SANDY AND BEAVER CANAL1 SANDY AND BEAVER CANAL1 B y W H VAN FOSSAN As a part of the Ohio system of canals the Sandy and Beaver was a branch from Bolivar Tuscarawas County to Smiths Ferry on the Ohio River forty miles below Pittsburgh Bolivar was its junction point with the Ohio and Erie Canal which extended from Cleveland to Portsmouth Its promoters were planning a more direct route to join Ohio and Lake Erie with the Pennsylvania canals between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh The practicability ...
... FORT MIAMIS THE INTERNATIONAL BACKGROUND FORT MIAMIS THE INTERNATIONAL BACKGROUND by RICHARD C KNOPF Historian Anthony Wayne Parkway Board The Paris peace treaty of 1783 which officially ended the war between the kingdom of Great Britain and her rebellious American colonies and which established what were supposedly internationally recognized boundary lines between British Canada and the newly independent American states was considered at the very beginning by the British as but a tenuous ...
... THE McGUFFEY SOCIETY AT THE LOGAN ELM THE McGUFFEY SOCIETY AT THE LOGAN ELM The McGuffey Society of Columbus was organized to perpetuate the memory of Dr William H McGuffey He was one of Ohio's greatest educators but his place in history and in the affections of thousands is fixed by his famous series of Readers familiar to the present and last two generations The officers of this Society conceived the original and unique idea of a gathering of its members and guests beneath the shadowing ...
... 40 Ohio Arch 40 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 MAJOR JOHN BURNHAM AND HIS COMPANY Mr Barlow had written Colonel Duer early in December 1789 that huts must be built on land opposite the mouth of the Great Kanawha to accommodate at least one hundred persons The cost of these huts was to be paid by the agent of the immigrants upon their arrival In March 1790 General Rufus Putnam as agent for the Trustees for the Scioto Associates employed John Burnham of Essex Massachusetts to ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY AUGUST 1953-JULY 1954 compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE KAATZ Martin R The Settlement of the Black Swamp of Northwestern Ohio Pioneer Days Northwest Ohio Quarterly XXV 1953 134-156 KAATZ Martin R The Settlement of the Black Swamp of Northwestern Ohio Later Days Northwest Ohio Quarterly XXV 1953 201-217 LIPP Frederick J The Home Place Being 150 Years of Ohio Farming Inside ...
... 294 Ohio Arch 294 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The Captain has given his native town and state wide and honorable publicity His book is a lively modest straightforward statement of his services in the World War as full of thrills as his daring exploits It is written in attractive form and excellent spirit and deserves a place in every American library-especially those of Ohio Captain Rickenbacker's native state In this connection it may be proper to say a number of Captain ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS OHIO'S MONUMENT TO GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE UNVEILED ADDRESS OF HONORABLE JAMES W GOOD SECRETARY OF WAR IN HOTEL COMMODORE OLIVER HAZARD PERRY TOLEDO OHIO SEPTEMBER 14 1929 In introducing the Secretary of War Toastmaster Mr Grove Patterson spoke as follows Now ladies and gentlemen I am sure that I speak for the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society under the auspices of which this monument was constructed and these exercises ...
... MINUTES MINUTES Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society HELD IN COLUMBUS MARCH 6 AND 7 189 0 The Society convened in the hall of the House of Representatives at 730 p m and was called to order by the President F C Sessions Esq The usual annual address of the President was omitted as the reports of the committees and officers would cover all essential points Dr Edmund Cone Brush of Zanesville was introduced and read an address upon The Pioneer Physicians of the Muskingum Valley The address is ...
... 366 Ohio Arch 366 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications memory of heroic deeds and he urged each citizen to appreciate the value of such a gift and let it be an inspiration to learn more of the history of the county and this locality The singing of the Star Spangled Banner concluded the exercises at the site of Ball's battlefield The children who participated in the program were little Misses Gertrude Hafford Betsy Bell Brown Jessie and Alice Childs Mary Elizabeth Truesdall Jane Phillips and ...
... 338 Ohio Arch 338 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications General J Warren Keifer recently appointed Trustee of the Society and the only living Major General of the Civil War will favor the Society with some very interesting and unrecorded history in an address at this meeting A detailed program will be mailed to the members of the Society THE HAYES CENTENARY The tentative program for the Centenary celebration of the birth of Rutherford B Hayes 1822-1893 the nineteenth President of the United ...
... The Croghan Celebration The Croghan Celebration 73 three tremendous cheers The day was a glorious one for the cause of freedom This of course foreshadows the civil war Who used Old Betsy last asks the Journal of January 23 1857 It has been standing in the street for several weeks now Captain Parrish should see to this old servant In a long article on the celebration of August 2 1 860 the Journal says At 6 o'clock Captain Parrish brought out 'Old Betsy' and fired a salute of thirteen rounds ...
... THE NAMING OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI THE NAMING OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI By EDGAR ERSKINE HUME Dr William Holland Wilmer the famous ophthalmologist of Johns Hopkins and president of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati tells of a traveling salesman in a Pullman smoking car who interrupted another passenger reading his paper What's that pale blue silk button you are wearing he asked The other told him that it was the rosette of the Society of the Cincinnati Fine replied he I'm from ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA By BERTHA E JOSEPHSON During the past months researchers and scholars have made considerable use of the manuscripts maps and state archives under the custody of this department Not only have the various departments of State individuals and legal firms availed themselves of reference service by telephone letter or personal visit but there have been a succession of out-of-city and out-of-state visitors who spent extended periods examining collections here Among ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 633 Forty-First Annual Meeting 633 President Johnson stated that the reports of the Committees on the various Parks should be given great attention On last Sunday he attended the Ohio History Day celebration at Logan Elm Park and was absolutely amazed by the number -- literally thousands -- in attendance The celebration lasted practically all afternoon and great interest was displayed by those present The American people are turning to outdoor life -- picnics camping ...
... 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 ...