... UNVEILING OF THE CRESAP TABLET UNVEILING OF THE CRESAP TABLET LOGAN ELM PARK-OCTOBER 1916 On Saturday October 21 1916 an interesting ceremony was held at Logan Elm Park under the auspices of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society The program arranged by Mr Frank Tallmadge comprised the erection of a flag staff and the unfurling of the stars and stripes the dedication of a log cabin not a modern imitation but a well preserved relic of the real thing a left over of the pioneer days ...
... 34 Ohio Arch 34 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications LETTER FROM WILLIAM H STEVENSON President of the Western Pennsylvania Historical Society Among the letters received by the Chairman of the Fallen Timbers State Park Committee is the following PITTSBURGH PA September 10 1929 MR W J SHERMAN Ch ai rman Toledo Ohio DEAR SIR--I have your kind invitation to attend the dedication of a monument to General Anthony Wayne on the site of the battlefield of Fallen Timbers Saturday September 19th and ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Organizations CRESTLINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY Crestline Ernest G Hesser President The guest speaker for the April 28 meeting was Edward S Thomas curator of natural history of the Ohio Historical Society He spoke on the subject Outdoor Ohio in Natural Color and illustrated the talk with his own colored slides of landscapes birds wild flowers insects and other wild life The society plans a historical pilgrimage to Schoenbrunn and also a ...
... NAVIGATION ON THE MUSKINGUM NAVIGATION ON THE MUSKINGUM IRVEN TRAVIS MCCONNELSVILLE Mr Irven Travis the writer of this article was born near Roxbury Windsor Township Morgan County August 17 1849 His father John Travis lived in McConnelsville where he was employed in building flat-boats in the summer and taking them to New Orleans in the winter Mr Irven Travis became a pilot on the river boats at the age of twenty serving in that capacity on the steamers Carrie Brooks Perry Smith Oella Gen H F ...
... 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 ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 64 NUMBER 4 OCTOBER 1955 The Correspondence of George A Myers and James Ford Rhodes 1910-1923-IV Edited by JOHN A GARRATY RHODES TO MYERS Boston May 22 1920 Dear George I have yr two valued favors of Apr 30 and May 12 the latter enclosing two editorials from the P D which I have read with great interest Senator Lodge is a very able man The contest has been between him and the President The President has had a stroke of ...
... PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT OF THE OHIO STATE PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVISED MAY 1 1936 By HARLOW LINDLEY Adams Jacob Private in Company F 21st O V V I Diary Introduction by H M Povenmire 1929 99p 025 Anderson James H Colonel William Crawford 34p 25 Anderson James H Life and Letters of Judge T J Anderson and Wife 535p 150 Written and compiled during the Civil War Contains much valuable source material on local Ohio history Backus Emma S ...
... 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 ...
... compiled by compiled by HELEN M THURSTON A Survey of Publications on the History and Archaeology of Ohio 1971 to 1972 ARCHAEOLOGY Central States Archaeological Journal 1971 published by several archaeological societies CERAM C W The First American A Story of North American Archaeology New York Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc 1971 357p Ohio archaeology MILLER JEFFERSON J II and LYLE M STONE Eighteenth-Century Cer a mics fr om Fort Michilimackinac A Study in Historical Archaeology Washington DC ...
... FREDERICK J FREDERICK J BLUE Friends of Freedom Lincoln Chase and Wartime Racial Policy Historians have long differed over what motivated Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation They have also disagreed over what place the President believed blacks should occupy after emancipation In failing to reach a consensus on what led Lincoln to the most important decision of his administration they have debated over what factors and persons may have influenced him1 Among those individuals ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN IN THE OHIO VALLEY PREVIOUS TO 1840 BY JANE SHERZER The section of country investigated in this paper under the name of The Ohio Valley includes Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia Southern Ohio Indiana and Illinois and Kentucky and Tennessee In West Virginia in Southern Indiana and Illinois there were no schools for the higher education of women up to 184 0 It is true early in 1840 in Indiana there were two ...
... THE CLEVELAND WORLD WAR MACHINE THE CLEVELAND WORLD WAR MACHINE BY ELBERT J BENTON The Great War found America without a war organization One phenomenon of the war of the United States with Germany was the response of the people in the crisis The war was interpreted as a people's war and the people made it their own It was a veritable uprising of the American people in the defense of the high moral cause which their President had marked out for them and the result was one of the most ...
... RICHARD PLANTAGANET LLEWELLYN BABER RICHARD PLANTAGANET LLEWELLYN BABER A SKETCH AND SOME OF HIS LETTERS DUANE MOWRY A few months since we received from Mr Duane Mowry of Milwaukee Wisconsin duplicates of some letters written by Mr R P L Baber formerly of Columbus Ohio to Judge James R Doolittle at one time United States Senator from Wisconsin With the view of publishing these letters Mr Mowry wrote the late E L Taylor for information concerning Mr Baber Mr Taylor's reply was also forwarded us ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY JULY 1945 -- JULY 1946 Compile d by J AM ES H RODABAUGH an d S W INIFRED SMITH ANTI-SLAVERY LANDON Fred Over Lake Erie to Freedom in Northwest Ohio Q u arterly XVII 1945 1 32-8 QUARLES Benjamin Sources of Abolitionist Income in Mississippi Valley Historical Review XXXII 1945 63-76 ARTS AND CRAFTS ANDERSON Irma Pilling Ohio Coverlets in Antiques XLIX 1946 56-7 Cleveland Print Club in Hobbies LI No ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLIANCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Alliance Mrs Fred Donaldson President The Alliance Historical Society is cooperating with other groups in the observance of the centennial of Alliance this summer A series of events is planned culminating in those of the week of August 26 - September 2 1950 Copies of old pictures of Alliance are being made by the society which is also publishing a centennial history of the city AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES Cincinnati ...
... TRIAL OF WILLIAM BEBB TRIAL OF WILLIAM BEBB BY C B GALBREATH For many years an interesting bit of literature has been going the rounds that has in many instances gained currency as a chapter in the history of the governors of Ohio Under the caption A Story of William Bebb it has found its way into the schools and the public and private libraries of the state Here it is without omission or addition If you should visit the State House in Columbusand look among the pictures of the governors of ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Orton G Rust President Mr Arthur Altick the former curator of the society who died recently has been succeeded by William F Lohnes The position of secretary which Mr Altick also held has not yet been filled The society has published some reminiscences of early pioneers as the first volume of a series entitled Yesteryear in Clark County The reminiscences are of the period 1810 to 1860 They cover a variety of ...
... 24 Ohio Arch 24 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications their loss was far heavier than that suffered by Wayne's soldiers Following the Battle of Fallen Timbers many Indians fled to Detroit the British headquarters and General Wayne departed for Fort Defiance He did not live long to enjoy the honor of his victory dying two years later One of General Wayne's last acts was to receive from the British Fort Miami which they formally surrendered in 1796 in pursuance to a treaty negotiated by Chief ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments and awards within the professional community of Ohio historians include Arnold Snyder PhD candidate at McMaster University has joined Bluffton College as an assistant professor of history and philosophy Gary A Hunt formerly of Boston University replaced Richard W Ryan as Department Head of the Ohio University Library's Archives and Special Collections Department as of July 1 1979 David E Kyvig Associate Professor at the ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Howells amp Italy By James L Woodress Jr Durham N C Duke Uni versity Press 1952 xiv223p frontispiece portrait bibliography and index 350 Of late years there appears to be a trend toward a strong revival of interest in the life and writings of William Dean Howells an Ohio boy whose first years were rooted in journalistic experience on various Ohio newspapers including his father's and particularly with the Ohio State Journal in Columbus In this first book-length study ...