... BARBARA GROSECLOSE BARBARA GROSECLOSE Itinerant Painting In Ohio Origins and Implications Among the most intriguing features of Ohio's art history is the role of itinerant painting in the development of the region's arthow and why itinerant painting occurred what implications the itinerant experience had for the career of the individual artist and in what manner Ohio itinerant painting might have contributed to or be related to the growth of mainstream American painting Itinerant painting is ...
... A BRAND FROM THE CRITICS' FIRE OR A WORD FOR A BRAND FROM THE CRITICS' FIRE OR A WORD FOR WHITLOCK by WINTHROP TILLEY Associate Professor of English University of Connecticut Now in midcentury when so much badly needed revaluation of America's literary product is going forward seems an appropriate time to speak a word for Brand Whitlock The new Literary History of the United States by Spiller and others mentions Whitlock only as a single-taxer a humanitarian and an early realist and adds that ...
... LYSLE E LYSLE E MEYER Radical Responses to Capitalism in Ohio Before 1913 By the time Ohio entered the last two decades of the nineteenth century various forms of radicalism had already emerged which challenged the basic tenets of the prevailing style of life A number of communitarian settlements had been established in the state beginning with the first Shaker experiments Union Village in 1805 and Shakertown in 1806 The Wurttemberg Separatists soon after founded the Zoar community in 1817 ...
... THE DIARY OF JOHN BEATTY JANUARY-JUNE 1884 THE DIARY OF JOHN BEATTY JANUARY-JUNE 1884 Part I edited by HARVEY S FORD Head Librarian Toledo Blade John Beatty the author of the diary which follows was the grandson of a Scotch-Irish immigrant who settled near Sandusky in 1815 His grandfather also named John Beatty was born in County Wexford Ireland on March 17 1774 At the age of eighteen he visited the United States and after some traveling about the country determined to settle in Norwich ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Mrs Harry B Longsworth Secretary The society is making a drive for the collection of old family records Bible records diaries account books journals and correspondence ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NEGRO LIFE AND HIISTORY William F Savoy State Director The general program is to collect and preserve the valuable documents of the Negro's history to form intercultural study groups for the proper intergrated study ...
... ROBERT M ROBERT M MENNEL The Family System of Common Farmers The Early Years of Ohio's Reform Farm 1858-1884 In late January 1858 the Hocking Cottage the first family building of the Ohio Reform Farm was pronounced perfectly dry and ready for occupancy Soon thereafter Acting Commissioner Superintendent Charles Reemelin escorted the first inmates nine of the better disposed boys from the Cincinnati House of Refuge to the Lancaster institution1 The school proposed to reform juvenile delinquents ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Rise of Warren Gamaliel Harding 18651920 By RANDOLPH C DOWNES Columbus Ohio State University Press 1970 x 734p notes bibliography and index 1750 At long last the historiography of Warren Gamaliel Harding has reached the point where two thorough and scholarly books have appeared The statement refers to The Rise of Warren Gamaliel Harding 1865-1920 by Randolph C Downes and The Harding Era Warren G Harding and His Administration by Robert K Murray The road to this ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA BY BERTHA E JOSEPHSON Among collections suitable for investigation and research by graduate students in history economics and American literature are the following from the manuscript vaults of the Department of Documents in the Library of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Jay Cooke Collection--37 boxes plus I carton--pertaining to western land investments of Cooke his Gibralter Island period and the bankruptcy period None of this material ...
... COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS THE WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY by MEREDITH B COLKET JR IN THE DAY S before the Civil War when Cleveland was emerging as a city a group of dedicated young men banded together to form an organization known as the Ark The members were from founding families and had a deep interest in cultural matters Their activities are memorialized in a famous oil painting by Julius Gollman dated 1858 Although the group has since passed out of existence its members inspired the ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS James Wickes Taylor A Choice Nook of Memory The Diary of a Cincinnati Law Clerk 1842-1844 Edited by James Taylor Dunn Columbus Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1950 xi 85p Paper 150 James Wickes Taylor lawyer author journalist librarian consular officer was an interesting figure in the early history of Ohio Minnesota and the Canadian Northwest For fourteen years Taylor lived in Ohio then he moved to Minnesota where he resided a similar length of time ...
... 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 ...
... Communications Communications To the Editor Marc Raphael has used his experience as an interviewer for the Columbus Jewish History Project to write a short analysis of the opportunities and difficulties surrounding oral history in an ethnic community Autumn 1977 Much of what Professor Raphael writes is solid and well-reasoned In certain technical areas however he stated as fact what is at best opinion or presented information which is less than accurate Raphael's most significant contribution ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR ANNIVERSARY OF VISIT OF LAFAYETTE TO OHIO CELEBRATED IN CINCINNATI One great city in the United States at least appropriately celebrated the centenary of Lafayette's visit to America The city of Cincinnati under the leadership of Mrs Lowell F Hobart Ohio Regent of the D A R Mrs Charles A Meyers Regent of the Cincinnati chapter of this organization Mrs Thomas Kite ...
... 542 Ohio Arch 542 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Mr Simpson has had three able assistants physically strong and industrious who have done much of the heavy work involved in moving the newspaper files and keeping them in order with no expense to the Society except that in furnishing to each of these workers one meal a day He has gotten along harmoniously and pleasantly with these assistants and from this source has succeeded in getting a service that would have cost the Society ...
... Minutes of the Meeting of the Minutes of the Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History Columbus April 4 1959 TH E O H IO ACADEMY OF HISTORY held its twenty-sixth annual meeting at the Ohio State Museum on Saturday April 4 1959 Three concurrent morning sessions were devoted to a variety of topics Alfred D Low of Youngstown University as chairman of the section on modern European history introduced David C Riede of the University of Akron and Grover C Platt of Bowling Green State University who ...
... REPORT OF THE FORTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING REPORT OF THE FORTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Forenoon Session--10 A M The forty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was called to order by President Arthur C Johnson Sr on April 23 1935 in the Auditorium of the Museum Eighty-eight members were in attendance MR JOHNSON The minutes of the last Annual Meeting are voluminous and they were published in the QUARTERLY ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries This issue of Ohio History marks the completion of the editor's first volumeyear and provides the occasion for a brief report on his tenure and a glimpse into the future The journal has undergone a major revitalization during the past three years and the editor's chief task has always been to continue this process We have increased the number of articles and documents carried per issue enlarged the reviews section and tried to give greater weight to those ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY Since the annual meeting of the society held on June 5 1903 the proceedings of which were published in volume twelve pp 187-218 the meetings of the trustees have been as follows that of the executive committee held June 30 1903 in the rooms of the society Page Hall Ohio State University After the determination of the compensation to be accorded the different salaried officers of the society the standing committees for the year were agreed ...
... Remarks of J Remarks of J V Jones 175 REMARKS OF J V JONES ESQ LADIES AND GENTLEMENIt would hardly be proper for me to say fellow-citizens for the reason of having been absent from your county for nearly fifty-eight years During that time many changes have been wrought in the city of Gallipolis and Gallia county Eighty-one years ago a young married couple might have been seen slowly wending their way on horseback down the slopes of the Blue Ridge and foot-hills of the Allegheny Mountains of ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA PRELIMINARY ANNUAL MEETING On May 14 1912 the following circular was issued to the members of the Society According to the provisions of the Constitution of the Society the Annual Meeting of the Society should be held not later than the last day of May It is earnestly desired that the Annual Meeting this year be deferred until after the bids have been received and if possible the contracts made with the builders for the erection of the building for the Society at ...