... Big Bottom and Its History Big Bottom and Its History 3 3 ADDRESS OF TOD B GALLOWAY If I were to ask you what I should talk about I suppose you would answer me as the small boy did in Sunday School one day when a man got up and said Now children what shall I talk about and the bright boy said about one minute I am somewhat like an old Scotch preacher I once heard of A man went to church one day and he noticed that the preacher was crying a great deal during the delivery of his sermon Finally ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Missie An Historical Biography of Annie Oakley By Annie Fern Swartwout Blanchester Ohio 1947 298p illustrations Cloth 350 This little volume written by a niece of Annie Oakley has all the thrills but none of the fiction of the paper-back success stories which for many years have fascinated the American reading public The author against a background of local environment traces the life and activities of America's most famous markswoman Annie Oakley Phoebe Ann Moses the ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 261 plained Indeed the annotations themselves have a value second only to the text which they explain They constitute a compendium of information that evidences the faithfulness and enthusiasm with which Mr Connelley has performed his work We cite only one instance especially interesting to Ohio readers It is Mr Connelley's note on the meaning of the word Ohio He says Ohio is derived from the Iroquois The original is variously spoken in the different dialects In ...
... JOHN CHAPMAN'S LINE OF DESCENT FROM JOHN CHAPMAN'S LINE OF DESCENT FROM EDWARD CHAPMAN OF IPSWICH Compiled by FLORENCE E WHEELER With an Introduction by ROBERT PRICE Who Was Johnny Appleseed--Introduction Even before the death of John Chapman in 1845 the Johnny Appleseed story growing out of the man's colorful life had begun to break away from the roots of fact and to flower purely as a popular myth In the years since the apocryphal addenda aided and abetted by much fiction poetry and ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABOLTIONISTS amp the South 1831-1861 The by Stanley Harrold rev 195-196 Act to Organize and Discipline the Militia An 37 Adjutant General Ohio office of 26 28 37 African-American soldiers 34-35 149n 14 Agnew Margaret Mrs Harman Blennerhassett 137-138 Agriculture 80-81 Aides-de-Camp Ohio office of 26 29 Akron Beacon Journal 10-11 Alcoholic camphor 180 Alexander Charles C book rev 205207 Allen Howard W book rev 112-113 Allopathic medicine 177 Ambassadors and ...
... EARLY DAYS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON EARLY DAYS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON EXCERPTS FROM THE CHRONICLES OF NAZARETH edited by GEORGE R U PPEL SM The Chronicles of Nazareth is a manuscript history of the first thirty years of the present University of Dayton It was written by Brother John A Brueck in the latter years of the nineteenth century as an informal record of the Society of Mary in America and of the school for boys begun at Dayton in 1850 The Nazareth in his title comes from the ...
... Franklinton-An Historical Address Franklinton -A n Historical Address 59 FRANKLINTON--AN HISTORICAL ADDRESS By GENERAL JOHN BEATTY A few rods from where we are assembled to-day the waters of the Olentangy unite with those of the Scioto and together flow down to the Ohio thence to the Mississippi and so onward to a gulf of the Atlantic ocean Southwardly from the place where the two streams meet there was at the time to which we propose to refer a broad handsome stretch of valley land where good ...
... THE MAP OF HAMILTON COUNTY THE MAP OF HAMILTON COUNTY BY JAMES A GREEN Dr Nevin M Fenneman of the University of Cincinnati and I took a canoe trip last summer for the purpose of accurately mapping an unknown Canadian Lake This was Lake Ogoki with a shore line of seventy-five miles Of course Dr Fenneman did the actual mapping but I shared in the reflected glory of the achievement This map was sent to Ottawa and we duly received the thanks of the Canadian Government So we have added to the sum ...
... THE FIRST STEAMBOAT ON THE OHIO THE FIRST STEAMBOAT ON THE OHIO NELSON W EVANS How many of the intelligent reading people of the state know when the first steamboat plowed the waters of the Ohio Where was it built its dimensions and cut the name of the owner and of the boat and the particulars of its first voyage To Nicholas J Roosevelt belongs the honor of first building a steamboat and with it navigating the Ohio But before telling the story it would be well to observe the condition of ...
... GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME L GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME L Aberdeen O 118 American Periodical Literature Index Abolitionists 262 to Early 316 Aboriginal Man 141-4 American Philosophical Society336 Ackley Horace 340 American Public Health Association Adams Co250 365 382 Adams John 58 American Republicans 20 Adams John Quincy 21 American Revolution 4 17 25 31 33 Adams Randolph G12 47 99 36 37 44 60 66 71 72 74 85 86 87 Adams Samuel 186 88 244 274 Adena Mounds 203 American State Papers 317 Adena Plain ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY AUGUST 1946--JULY 1947 Compiled by JAMES H RODABAUGH and S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE ALEY Howard C First Hundred Years the Centennial History of the Mahoning County Agricultural Society Youngstown Ohio the Author 1946 113p BEACH F H The First 100 Years for the Ohio Horticultural Society in Ohio Farmer CXCIX No 6 March 15 1947 22-23 BROMFIELD Louis The Farm New York Harper Brothers c1946 382p ...
... GENERAL INDEX TO VOL GENERAL INDEX TO VOL XLVIII Abarca y Bolea Pedro Pablo287 American Catholic Historical Society of Abbot Nehemiah 26 Philadelphia Records 284 Abbot Samuel 26 American Dental Convention248 253 255 Abbot Thomas 22 American Federation of Labor175 Abbot Abbott family of160 American Historical Association 99 108 Abbott Charles S257 153 163 Annual Reports 110 Pacific Abbott Louise 112 Coast Branch 153 Aberdeen Ohio 182 American Historical Review 154 159 160 Abingdon Press 269 163 ...
... CALEB ATWATER CALEB ATWATER CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF It is as Ohio's first historian that Caleb Atwater is best known But had he never written his History of Ohio his efforts to provide an educational system for the state and the record he made in Archaeology might in themselves be sufficient reason for placing his name in Ohio's Hall of Fame Caleb Atwater was a versatile peculiar eccentric and visionary individual From the world's material point of view his life might not be reckoned a success He ...
... UNVEILING OF THE SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL TABLET UNVEILING OF THE SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL TABLET ON THE HAYES MEMORIAL BUILDING AT SPIEGEL GROVE BY LUCY ELLIOT KEELER The Ninety-eighth Anniversary of the birth of Rutherford B Hayes Nineteenth President of the United States 1877-1881 and at the time of his death January 17 1893 the honored president of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was celebrated with ceremonies of unusual interest on October 4 192 0 at Spiegel Grove Fremont Ohio ...
... ANCIENT WORK NEAR OXFORD OHIO ANCIENT WORK NEAR OXFORD OHIO In the first volume of Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge Mr McBride gives a cut and description of this work1 But both plat and description vary so widely from the facts that it seems desirable to bring the case up again Mr MacLean in his Mound Builders reproduces the figure and copies the chief points of the general statement They differ as to the locality McBride being entirely right but McLean putting it in the wrong township ...
... 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 ...
... Winthrop Sargent 237 Winthrop Sargent 237 WINTHROP SARGENT'S DIARY WHILE WITH GENERAL ARTHUR ST CLAIR'S EXPEDITION AGAINST THE INDIANS Much has been written of the ill-fated expedition of Arthur St Clair against the Indians in 1791 While serving as Governor of the Northwest Territory he was appointed Major General in the United States army on March 4 of that year An expedition against the Indians was assembled and organized at Fort Wash ington Considerable difficulty was experienced in fitting ...
... Laying Corner Stone of the Society's Building Laying Corner Stone of the Society's Building 427 that shall be carried on in this building and outside of the buildding and that it will in the years to come add very greatly to the distinction of our commonwealth I congratulate the people of Ohio I congratulate the University I congratulate the State upon this happy hour and the prospect of this building MR RANDALL Prof B F Prince of Wittenberg University Springfield Ohio and one of our most ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 67 NUMBER 1 JANUARY 1958 Woodrow Wilson's First Romance By GEORGE C OSBORN MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN about Abraham Lincoln's romance with Ann Rutledge Although Ann first aroused Lincoln's romantic emotions very few facts are known about this love affair Indeed nearly all that has been written about Ann and Abe's romance is conjecture Although most Americans have heard of Lincoln's first romance not many realize that Woodrow ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews A Signal Victory The Lake Erie Campaign 1812-1813 By David Curtis Skaggs and Gerald T Althoff Annapolis Maryland Naval Institute Press 1997 x 244p illustrations notes appendix glossary glossary of nautical terms bibliographic essay index 3495 The battle of Lake Erie in which an American naval squadron annihilated its British counterpart on 10 September 1813 was one of two defining engagements of the War of 1812 in the Old Northwest The British-Indian capture of ...