... compiled by compiled by HELEN M THURSTON A Survey of Publications on the History and Archaeology of Ohio 1973 to 1974 ANTISLAVERY FILLER LOUIS Abolition and Social Justice in the Era of Reform New York Harper and Row 1972 367p THOMPSON J EARL JR Lyman Beecher's Long Road to Conservative Abolitionism Church History XLII 1973 89-109 President of Lane Seminary ARCHAEOLOGY Central State ArchaeologicalJournal Published by several archaeological societies Covers Illinois Missouri Indiana Arkansas ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 70 NUMBER 2 APR I L 1 961 Samuel Watts Davies and The Industrial Revolution in Cincinnati By HARRY R STEVENS IN AN AGE PREOCCUPIED with case studies it is refreshing to discover a man as distinctive and individual as Samuel Watts Davies Although he seems on first acquaintance to be merely a typical aggressive frontier business enterpriser the appearance of similarity is deceptive The resemblance exists but not because Davies ...
... THE DIVIDE THE DIVIDE The Water-Shed of Richland County Ohio BY A J BAUGHMAN The far-famed barn from the eaves of which the rain-falls flow from one side into Lake Erie and from the other to the Ohio river is situate near Five Corners in Springfield township seven miles west of Mansfield Richland County on the West Fourth street or Leesville road That this barn is not a myth but an actual reality can be verified by a visit to the locality The farm upon which the building stands is owned by C ...
... ULYSSES S ULYSSES S GRANT A CHARACTERIZATION SKETCH BY JOHN BEATTY There is more than a grain of truth underlying the notion that what the world calls greatness in men is the outgrowth of accident rather than of any exceptional physical moral or intellectual excellence Nobody certainly can win victories and gain martial renown who lives in a period of profound peace In civil life however it may be said that by change of scene or of occupation men can seek congenial or profitable employment and ...
... A STATION ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD A STATION ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD MRS FLORENCE BEDFORD WRIGHT OBERLIN The Anti-Slavery agitation of the nineteenth century called out the heroic qualities in many a quiet man in whom such attributes had never been suspected In no part of the country did the friends of the fugitive slave make more personal sacrifices than those residing in southwestern Ohio It was during this period that the name under-ground railroad was given to the manner by which ...
... CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF ULYSSES S GRANT BY C B GALBREATH CELEBRATION AT POINT PLEASANT CLERMONT COUNTY OHIO Of all citizens of the United States born in Ohio the most famous in his day and generation as Judge Hugh L Nichols has observed was General Ulysses S Grant That he still holds that high place among the distinguished sons that Ohio has given to the Republic and the world was attested by the outpouring of people to celebrate the ...
... COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS A ND EXHIBITS COLLECTIONS OF THE RUTHERFORD B HAYES STATE MEMORIAL ONE OF OHIO'S finest historical properties is the Rutherford B Hayes State Memorial located in Spiegel Grove the twentyfive-acre home estate of the nation's nineteenth president at Fremont Administered jointly by the Ohio Historical Society and the Rutherford B Hayes and Lucy Webb Hayes Foundation this public memorial includes the stately Victorian brick mansion of the president and his family the graves ...
... 286 Ohio Arch 286 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The program began at 2 o'clock Hon E O Randall presided and after a very brief preliminary address introduced Mrs Jones who read the following paper PRESENTATION SPEECH OF MRS HOWARD JONES One hundred and thirty-eight years ago this October momentous events were happening in this beautiful valley of the Scioto and history was being made in this fertile Pickaway plain-land East of us about seven miles at Camp Charlotte were about fifteen ...
... THE INDIAN THOROUGHFARES OF OHIO THE INDIAN THOROUGHFARES OF OHIO BY ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT History tells of two Ohios151the old and the new The old Ohio was that portion of the American Hinterland drained by the Ohio and Allegheny rivers which together formed la Belle Riviere of New France It included the territory between the Alleghenies the Mississippi and the great lakes save as we except the country of Illinois which early in history became a territory distinct by itself as the meadow ...
... JOHN F JOHN F SHINER The 1937 Steel Labor Dispute and the Ohio National Guard The spring and early summer of 1937 were troubled times in northeastern Ohio On May 25 in an effort to gain company recognition the Steel Workers Organization Committee SWOC of the newly created Congress of Industrial Organization CIO struck the plants of two of Ohio's major steel producers Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Both of these corporations had numerous mills in Trumbull Mahoning and Stark ...
... LARRY D LARRY D O'BRIEN The Ohio National Guard in the Coal Strike of 1932 You don't have to be drunk they said To get throwed in the can The only thing you needed be Was just a union man1 --Harlan County Blues This verse from the Harlan County Blues illustrates a recurrent theme in the history of the American labor movement in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries The resistance which unionization met in the mining industry was perhaps even more severe than in other industries and the ...
... THE BATTLESHIP OHIO THE BATTLESHIP OHIO The battleship Ohio was built for the United States navy by the Union Iron Works San Francisco under contract dated October 8 1898 at a cost of 2899000 It was launched May 18 1901 in the harbor of San Francisco and christened by Miss Helen Deshler who was designated for this honor by Governor George K Nash who was present on the occasion as was also William McKinley then President of the United States Great crowds were present at these ceremonies ...
... NORRIS F NORRIS F SCHNEIDER The National Road Main Street of America A way to the West-where was the best route George Washington pondered that question anew in September 1784 as he sat in a land agent's cabin near present-day Morgantown West Virginia Gathered about him were settlers from that near-wilderness area on the Cheat River who had come at his request to offer their opinions on the best route for a portage between the upper waters of the Potomac and a tributary of the Ohio River Land ...
... THE MILAN CANAL THE MILAN CANAL by C HAR LES E FROHMAN Few people today know that Milan Ohio was once a great shipping port and that its enterprise during the days when schooners sailed the Great Lakes resulted in the digging of a three-mile canal from Milan to a point in the Huron River where deep water and wide bends made passage safe The heyday of this undertaking came during the earliest days of the railroad and during that period when canals and politics made more than conversation The ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA BY BERTHA E JOSEPHSON The effort to catalog the manuscript collections in this department thoroughly according to the unit card method has proceeded slowly with the following collections now completed MANUSCRIPT CATALOG ABB TO CAMP 1 Abbott Mary--Scrapbook Mechanicsburg O--1889 Miscellaneous collection of short stories and poems from newspapers and magazines 1914--4 2 Abstractor's Records--Property Titles Columbus O-- 1840's to 1870's Will of Henry Patch etc ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XXVIII INDEX TO VOLUME XXVIII A Allen - Col commands KenAbbott David Ohio Presidential Electtucky infantry Ft Wayne 1812 or 1812 367 326 327 329 358 Indians kill spies Abolition in Kansas 192-205 of 359 Abolitionists 21 372 Allen County 376 Ackley J M Dr prominent CleveAllen E Rev 132 133 land physician 80 Allen John W Cleveland mayor 80 Adams American vessel 1812 355 Allen William Gov 100 Adams Ashel in War 1812 314 Almanac pioneer use of 267 HagersAdams Charles Francis 20 21 ...
... FLAT BOATING ON THE OHIO RIVER FLAT BOATING ON THE OHIO RIVER BY REV ISAAC F KING In the early settlement of Ohio the pack horse was first used on which to transport merchandise The American Indian left us no high-way for wheeled vehicles A wagon road is a thing he never made and if given to him he seldom used As soon as the white-faced Emigrant reached the Northwest territory he projected wagon roads to bring his goods and supplies from the East These roads were hard to make over the ...
... THE NAMING OF MARIETTA THE NAMING OF MARIETTA By JOSEPHINE E PHILLIPS Our city is called Mari-etta was the brief postscript by which General Samuel Holden Parsons informed his friend Manasseh Cutler of the important event1 On the following day in a letter to his wife he explained more fully Our city's name in honor of the Queen of France is composed of her two Christian names--Marie Antoiniette2 In the manuscript record book of the Ohio Company3 the announcement was made with flourishes and ...
... AN ABOLITION CENTER AN ABOLITION CENTER THOMAS J SHEPPARD In the spring of 1 80 2 two travelers met in the wilderness between Zanesville and Marietta Ohio Though they rode together by day and camped together by night each refrained from disclosing to the other the object of his journey That object was to purchase the section of land upon which later on grew up the village of Putnam now the Ninth Ward of the city of Zanesville The travelers were John McIntyre the founder of Zanesville and Dr ...
... CRAW FO RD COUNTY A Study of Midwestern Copperheadism by THOMAS H SMITH The Copperhead movement in the Middle West during the Civil War was not the simple case of pro-Southern sympathy and treason that the Republican propagandist charged but rather it was a complex of social economic and political antagonism to the Lincoln administration As diverse as its motives was the geographic heterogeneity of the movement no one specific locality or region held its nucleus Its strongest support however ...