... Unveiling of Fort Recovery Monument Unveiling of Fort Recovery Monument 435 we see emblazoned daring and unselfish deeds of heroes who have scaled the walls of duty and gained the parapets of the City beyond And too what a lesson it conveys Its white teaches purity of purpose its red typifies the blood which has been so freely shed in its defense and its blue with its constellations reminds us of fidelity fidelity to our God fidelity to ourselves fidelity to The Star Spangled Banner Oh long ...
... The Pioneer Poet Lawyer The Pioneer Poet Lawyer 3 05 THE PIONEER POET LAWYER BY N B C LOVE D D A volume lies before me the property of the Way Library Perrysburg Ohio It is called THE FOREST RANGERS It is a tale of the northwest wilderness of 1794 Wayne's March and battles are a prominent feature with possible incidents connected therewith both of fact and fiction The author was Andrew Coffinberry Wright and Leg were the publishers Columbus Ohio 1842 I do not know how large the edition or the ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS THE INDIAN TRIBES OF OHIO -HISTORICALLY CONSIDERED A PRELIMINARY PAPER BY WARREN KING MOOREHEAD MEMBER OF THE VICTORIA INSTITUTE PREFACE In looking through a large number of historical and ethnological books recently I was impressed by the fact that we have no single work devoted exclusively to Ohio Indians and that the student of the tribes of the Ohio Valley in historic times must peruse numerous volumes and pamphlets in order to gain a ...
... MARK PITCAVAGE MARK PITCAVAGE Burthened in Defence of our Rights Opposition to Military Service in Ohio During the War of 1812 The War of 1812 has long been famous as a war to which substantial opposition existed in the United States The nearness of the Congressional vote over the declaration of war the refusal of several New England states to provide militia for the invasion of Canada and the Hartford Convention in 1814 are all notable examples of the degree to which the nation divided over ...
... TARHE THE WYANDOT CHIEF TARHE THE WYANDOT CHIEF AND THE HARRISON-TARHE PEACE CONFERENCE LR CHAS E SLOCUM DEFIANCE It is the desire of this writing to add somewhat to the mention of Tarhe the Wyandot Aborigine1 Chief and to the mention of the character of the Aborigines that appeared in the last number of the QUARTERLY although this addition shows their character different from that there mentioned Tarhe grew to adult life in very troublous times He was reared to savagery and to inebriety like ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 64 NUMBER 3 JULY 1955 The Correspondence of George A Myers and James Ford Rhodes 1910-1923-III Edited by JOHN A GARRA TY MYERS TO RHODES Cleveland March 16 1917 My Dear Mr Rhodes I was awful glad to receive your favor of the 5th1 It is indeed a source of much pleasure to receive a letter from you and its very considerate for you to write me as you do I know that you are a very busy man and the demands upon you from a social ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies BRECKSVILLE EARLY SETTLERS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Brecksville Ernest Green President Harold E Wallin of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History has been appointed curator of the museum maintained by the association in the Squire Rich house The secretary Mrs Walter S Lister reports that the society sponsored this year a contest for the junior class of the local high school for one-act plays on early Brecksville CLAR K COUNTY HISTORICAL ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Refugees of Revolution The German Forty-Eighters in America By Carl Wittke Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press 1952 x385p index 600 At any time Carl Wittke's Refugees of Revolution would at once take its place as an important contribution to our knowledge of the national history But its appearance now is especially timely both because the centennial of the Revolutions of 1848 has been recently observed and because the United States has again received many ...
... Historical News Historical News THE WISCONSIN HISTORY FOUNDATION has been awarded a 45000 research and publication grant from Lilly Endowment Inc of Indianapolis Indiana in support of a three-year program on the history of the American Midwest About one-third of the grant will be used for grants-in-aid to post-doctoral scholars doing research on midwest history between the Civil War and World War I and the balance will be used for publication of the results of these studies as well as of ...
... 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 ...
... Comments Notes and Reviews Comments Notes and Reviews 139 heartedness Many incidents occurred during his stay to evidence the gentleness of his nature and the breadth of his sympathy with the unfortunate and the oppressed THE BOERS IN OHIO On Monday evening June 12 but a few days after the departure of Admiral Dewey the city for a few hours was the host as Mr Dooley would say inofficially of two other distinguished guests namely Messrs Wessells and Fischer Boer representatives of the Transvaal ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments and awards within the professional community of Ohio historians include Dr Allan Peskin of Cleveland State University has been promoted to Professor Peter Rutkoff of Kenyon College has received an NEH Fellowship Department Chairman for more than 30 years Dr Robert E Bader of Mount Union College has retired at the end of the 1980-81 academic year Professor Richard Doyle of Mount Union College spent Spring 1981 on sabbatical to ...
... compiled by compiled by CHARLES A ISETTS A Survey of Publications on the History of Ohio 1974 to 1976 ANTISLAVERY Cardinal Eric J Antislavery Sentiment and Political Transformation in the 1850's Portage County Ohio Old Northwest 1 1975 223-238 Harrold Stanley C Jr Forging an Antislavery Instrument Gamaliel Bailey and the Foundation of the Ohio Liberty Party Old Northwest 2 1976 371-387 Ludwig Charles Levi Coffin and the Underground Railroad Scottdale Pennsylvania Herald Press 1975 184p Lupold ...
... 578 Ohio 578 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications stead it is now believed they are the remains of sacred places half temples where the dead were prepared for burial which was by cremation Inside this enclosure were divisions corresponding in a way to the family burying lot and in these the ashes and the trinkets of the dead were deposited When these were full the enclosure was filled up and the mound thus erected became a sort of monument not to one person or one family but to the dead of ...
... Putting Aircraft to Work The First Air Freight by ROGER E BILSTEIN Orville and Katherine went to Simms to see Mr Phil o Parmelee sic start to Columbus with several bolts of silk in an aeroplane He flew there in 61 minutes and delivered the goods From BISHOP MILTON WRIGHT'S Diary November 7 1910 NOTES ON PAGE 277 248 OHIO HISTORY 248 OHIO HISTORY Milton Wright a bishop of the United Brethren in Christ church in Dayton Ohio maintained a keen interest in the activities of his lively family ...
... DR DR JOHN MILTON BIGELOW 1804-1878 AN EARLY OHIO PHYSICIAN--BOTANIST By A E WALLER Meeting the name Bigelow in botanical publication the reader is sometimes confused The name of John M Bigelow the subject of this paper is close to John Bigelow a journalist and newspaper correspondent of New York City of the same period and also to a Dr Henry Jacob Bigelow interested in anesthetics of whom this paper will make no further mention as well as to Dr Jacob Bigelow of Massachusetts Dr Jacob Bigelow1 ...
... A Survey of Publications A Survey of Publications In Ohio History and Archaeology August 1956 - July 1957 Compiled by S WINIF RE D SMITH AGRICULTURE HENLEIN Paul C Journal of F and W Renick on an Exploring Tour to the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers in the Year 1819 Agricultural History XXX 1956 174-186 The Renicks were from Chillicothe Ohio HENLEIN Paul C Shifting Range-Feeder Patterns in the Ohio Valley Agricultural History XXXI 1957 1-12 WALLACE Henry A Corn and the Midwestern Farmer ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Nursing in Ohio A History By James H Rodabaugh and Mary Jane Rodabaugh Columbus The Ohio State Nurses' Association 1951 xiv 2 73p illustrations appendices source notes and index 400 Ohio for many years has shown unusual interest in the history of medicine Stimulated by the eager enthusiasm of Dr Jonathan Forman a group of researchers has met annually for more than a decade to add immeasurably to the knowledge of nineteenth-century science in the Middle West A steadily ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Letters of Delegates to Congress 1774-1789 Volume 25 March 1 1788-July 25 1789 with Supplement 1774-87 Edited by Paul H Smith and Ronald M Gephart Washington DC Library of Congress 1998 xxx 843p editorial method and apparatus acknowledgments chronology of Congress list of delegates illustrations appendix notes index 5600 It is a great thing to finish a great work And the Letters of Delegates to Congress series is a great work one of the greatest editorial projects of ...
... edited by edited by HENRY J YEAGER Nouvelles du Scioto The Story of a Fraud The original settlement of what is now southern Ohio at the end of the eighteenth century was marred by scandalous treatment of the French immigrants by the promoters of the Scioto Land Company Through its agency in Paris the company using misleading information sold land to Frenchmen eager to settle in America The Parisians suffered considerable physical hardship on their voyage to say nothing of the mental anguish in ...