... THE PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF THE PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF GENERAL CHAUNCEY EGGLESTON INTRODUCTION BY FRANK EGLESTON ROBBINS University of M ich ig an General Chauncey Eggleston one of the first settlers of Aurora Ohio was a descendant of the first settler of this name Begat or Bigot Eggleston who came to Dorchester Massachusetts in 1630 and was a first settler of Windsor Connecticut in 1635 Here he died September 1 1674 His youngest son Benjamin 2 born December 18 1653 married Hannah Osborn ...
... THE STRUGGLE FOR STATEHOOD IN OHIO THE STRUGGLE FOR STATEHOOD IN OHIO BY RUHL JACOB BARTLETT M A The admission of Ohio as a state into the Union marked the end of a long and bitter political contest both within and without the Northwest Territory It was that age old conflict between the forces that are progressive and those that are conservative for it must be remembered that the closing years of the 19th century marked a period of rapid political transition in American history The colonists ...
... POLITICAL INFLUENCE OF OHIO PIONEERS POLITICAL INFLUENCE OF OHIO PIONEERS GEORGE M GADSBY In present day politics we find the principle of like father like son a very potent one Or as a ward chairman of this city recently remarked when speaking of the politics of a candidate an apple never falls very far from the tree If now this system of paternal or traditional politics is noticeable in recent generations it is fair to presume that a trace may be found running back to the time of the ...
... BRIAN P BRIAN P BIRCH A British View of the Ohio Backwoods The Letters of James Martin 1821-1836 Although the British formed a sizeable minority of the early farm settlers in Ohio very little is known about them1 A few accounts exist of particular British notably Welsh and Scots colonies but with no language barrier to separate them from the broad tide of American settlers moving across the Appalachians in the early nineteenth century the British were largely absorbed into that stream and left ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XX No 1 JANUARY 1911 JEFFERSON'S ORDINANCE OF 1784 Frequent inquiries have come to the Editor of the Quarterly concerning the nature of Jefferson's Ordinance of 1784 for the organization of the Northwest Territory and its bearing upon the later Ordinance of 1787 In reply to such inquiries we submit the following As early as the fall of 1776 and at various times later up to the final peace agreement of 1783 Congress by resolution pledged bounty lands to those ...
... THE LATE PREHISTORIC CULTURES OF THE THE LATE PREHISTORIC CULTURES OF THE OHIO VALLEY by JAMES B GRIFFIN Director Museum of Anthropology University of Michigan After the decline of the Hopewell culture there can be recognized a period of unknown length during which relatively little cultural progress was made Actually this was a period of decline in quite a number of the ceremonial aspects of Indian life as it is revealed by materials placed with the dead and by the type and amount of time ...
... GENERAL INDEX TO VOL GENERAL INDEX TO VOL XLVI Abington Virginia--Presbytery 218 Antioch College 12 Abolition Intelligencer and Missionary Anti-slavery Friends 300 Magazine 221 Apollo Exhibition 74 Abolition society219-257 Apostle to the Indies 82 Abolitionists Ohio 240 Presbyterian 247 Appalachian Mountains 224 Abraham Bible 247 Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American BiogAdams Alice D--Neglected Period of raphy 42 221 Anti-slavery in America 219 Arapaho Indians 85 Adams Henry--History of the ...
... EARL IRVIN WEST EARL IRVIN WEST Early Cincinnati's Unprecedented Spectacle When Isaac G Burnet Cincinnati's newly elected mayor called a meeting of the city's leading citizens for Tuesday night April 7 1829 to make arrangements for a debate between Robert Owen and Alexander Campbell this can be considered an official sanction for the extraordinary event that was being planned1 Robert Owen social reformer lecturer and founder of the then defunct communitarian colony at New Harmony Indiana had ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 99 George H Pepper Am Museum Nat History New York Harlan I Smith Am Museum Nat History New York Cecilie Seler Berlin Germany Hjalmar Stolpe Stockholm Sweden Luis A Herrera Uruguay Marshall H Saville New York Adelaf Breton London England C T Hartman Stockholm Sweden At the station before departure Mr Saville made a neat little speech in behalf of the guests thanking their hosts for the pleasure and profit of the day and three cheers were given by each party in behalf ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABOLITIONISTS 122-132 Abolition's Axe Beriah Green Oneida Institute and the Black Freedom Struggle by Milton C Sernett rev 87-88 Above and Beyond A History of the Medal of Honorfrom the Civil War to Vietnam edited by Gordon Hardy bk note 170-171 Accounting reform Chapters in Ohio Progressivism The Cincinnati and Dayton Bureaus of Municipal Research and Accounting Reform by Richard K Fleischman and R Penny Marquette 133-144 Adams Captain John C 44 Adams ...
... WINTHROP SARGENT WINTHROP SARGENT BY B H PERSHING PROFESSOR WITTENBERG COLLEGE The fate which history metes out to various men is not always the same Some are recognized by the age in which they live as men of eminence and worth who have rendered a real service to their generation This prominence they retain even at the hands of the most critical of historians Others are spoken of for some years as illustrious among men but when the day comes that they must pass the test of the historical ...
... Report of the Forty-sixth Annual Meeting 567 Report of the Forty-sixth Annual Meeting 567 During the past year two colleges have observed Centennial occasions--Hiram and Denison University--and Oberlin College and Wooster College are now preparing for historical celebrations this year It is quite noticeable the way communities over the state are waking up to the opportunities offered by Centennial occasions and to the value of the Pageantry as a means of portraying history and building ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR OHIO HISTORY IN THE SCHOOLS History and Geography of Ohio by William M Gregory Head of the Geography Department Cleveland School of Education and William B Guitteau Director of Schools Toledo Ohio Ginn and Company Publishers New York and Columbus 1922 It is to be regretted that in the educational system of our State there is no legal mandate to teach Ohio history ...
... 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 ...
... SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL XLIV For Index of Authors see Contents Abstract of the Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society April 23 1935 374 Address at the Unveiling of the Galbreath Memorial Plaque by Harold G Simpson 391-392 Afternoon Session of the Forty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 374-392 Annual Report of the Secretary of the Ohio State ...
... DANIEL JOSEPH RYAN DANIEL JOSEPH RYAN BY C B GALBREATH As announced in the last isue of the QUARTERLY Honorable Daniel J Ryan long an active life member of this Society and the oldest in term of service on the Board of Trustees passed from our midst in the early morning of June 15 1923 It thus becomes our sad duty for the third time within a little more than three years to record the death of one of our fellow members who from almost the beginning of our Society was prominently identified in ...
... THE DEBT OF THE WEST TO WASHINGTON THE DEBT OF THE WEST TO WASHINGTON BY ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT To us of the central west the memory of Washington and his dearest ambitions must be precious beyond that of any other American whether statesman general or seer Under strange providential guidance the mind and heart of that first American was turned toward the territories lying between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi and it is to be doubted if any other portion of his country received so much of ...
... SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO VALLEY SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO VALLEY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Marietta Ohio November 27 and 28 1908 On Friday and Saturday November 27 and 28 1908 the Ohio Valley Historical Association held its second annual meeting at Marietta Ohio the first annual meeting was held a year previous in Cincinnati the proceedings of which meeting were briefly reported in the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY for January 1909 The complete proceedings of ...
... OHIO'S RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS AND THE WAR OHIO'S RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS AND THE WAR MARTHA L EDWARDS 'LAKE ERIE COLLEGE What have the churches of Ohio had to do with the war The answer to this question must of necessity await investigation since the source material upon which final judgments are to be based cannot now be assembled There is however evidence already at hand in the collections of the Historical Commission of Ohio which permits a tentative sketch of what the churches of the ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Educating for Democracy A Symposium Yellow Springs The Antioch Press 1937 148p Antioch College is responsible for the publication of this interesting symposium on one of the most pertinent and many faceted problems facing educational leaders of today what is the function of education in a democratic state Believing that a discussion of some of the issues involved in such a question would be of value and wishing to honor its first president Horace Mann Antioch College ...