... KIM M KIM M GRUENWALD Marietta's Example of a Settlement Pattern in the Ohio Country A Reinterpretation As historians of the Early Republic scholars of the Progressive era created a long-lasting influential school of interpretation for the decades following the American Revolution The Progressive school focused on the conflict between common men who favored local control and an elite which favored strong central authority-as they deemed it the forces of democracy versus the forces of ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA WILLIAM HENRY HUNTER William H Hunter Trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society died suddenly at his residence Chillicothe Ohio in the early morning of Wednesday June 19 1906 after an illness of only five days' duration Mr Hunter closed his earthly career as he had often expressed a desire to do in the very midst of his daily activities Never was he more energetic or enthusiastic in his life work On the ...
... The Shaker Community of Warren County The Shaker Community of Warren County 251 THE SHAKER COMMUNITY OF WARREN COUNTY ITS ORIGIN RISE PROGRESS AND DECLINE By J P MACLEAN PH D INTRODUCTION Located three miles west of Lebanon Ohio is the seat of the bishopric of the Shaker communities west of the Allegheny Mountains The tract of land possessed by them is irregular in its boundaries and embraces 4500 acres of as rich soil as may be found in the state Its location meets the approval of the most ...
... 396 EDWIN COPPOC EDWIN COPPOC BY C B GALBREATH Among many villages of our state that pursue the even tenor of their way so peacefully and quietly that they earn their way to honorable obscurity is Winona Columbiana County This name was chosen from Longfellow's Hiawatha for the citizens of this place find time to read enjoy what we dignify as literature and are in a very useful and unpretentious way cultured The church and the school are liberally patronized The moral standard of the ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY Vol II SEPTEMBER 1888 No 2 ISRAEL WARD ANDREWS DD LLD MEMORIAL ADDRESS BEFORE THE OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY DELIVERED AT MARIETTA JUNE 26 1888 BY WILLIAM P CUTLER A CHRISTIAN missionary was discussing the grand problem of immortality with a learned Chinese philosopher presenting to him the truth as revealed in God's word and believed by all Christians He was met with the declaration made with evident sincerity by the Chinaman ...
... J J J J AMPERE'S JOURNEY THROUGH OHIO A Translation from His Promenade en Amerique by MILDRED CREW Jean-Jacques Ampere 1800-1864 was born in the village of Polimieux near Lyons in the house where his father was born and where his grandfather had lived This grandfather was a merchant and also a justice of the peace who had remained at his post during his government's attempt to suppress the Jacobins and when the city of Lyons fell to the terrorists in 1793 was thrown into prison and eventually ...
... CHARLES DICKENS IN OHIO IN 1842 CHARLES DICKENS IN OHIO IN 1842 BY HEWSON L PEEKE In his work Charles Dickens in America by W Glyde Wilkins the author says Dickens' opinion of the American newspapers was fully expressed in one of his letters to Forster in which he wrote 'of course I can do nothing but in some shape or other it gets into the newspapers All manner of lies get there and occasionally a truth so twisted or distorted that it has as much resemblance to the real fact as Quilp's leg to ...
... SAMUEL FURMAN HUNT SAMUEL FURMAN HUNT CHARLES W HOFFMAN Under the dome of the church of St Paul in London lies its builder the great Christopher Wren on his tomb is the modest inscription Reader if you seek his monument look around The memory of Hunt will not be perpetuated like that of Wren in magnificent buildings beautiful in architecture and symmetrical in their proportions but it will endure for generations in that temple of respect and affection intangible yet real that he erected in the ...
... THE NAMING OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI THE NAMING OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI By EDGAR ERSKINE HUME Dr William Holland Wilmer the famous ophthalmologist of Johns Hopkins and president of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati tells of a traveling salesman in a Pullman smoking car who interrupted another passenger reading his paper What's that pale blue silk button you are wearing he asked The other told him that it was the rosette of the Society of the Cincinnati Fine replied he I'm from ...
... TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY May 31 1911 The twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Hunter Society Room Page Hall Ohio State University Columbus Ohio at two o'clock P M Wednesday May 31 1911 The following members were present Prof M R Andrews Marietta Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Mr A J Baughman Mansfield Mr H E Buck Delaware Mr C H ...
... BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTHWORKS OF BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTHWORKS OF OHIO PREPARED BY MRS CYRUS THOMAS FOR THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Continued from page 200 ANY observers in the State who have facts concerning the earthworks of Ohio in addition to those here stated will confer a favor upon the world by forwarding such information to Professor G F Wright Oberlin 0 the member of the Editorial Committee in charge of this department by whom the facts will be classified and published in a future ...
... THE BLACK HAND THE BLACK HAND JOHN D II M KINLEY The Licking river the Pataskala of the Indians as it draws near the eastern boundary of Licking county Ohio flows in a winding course for a distance of about two miles through a narrow and picturesque sandstone gorge known as the Licking Narrows High hills border upon both banks their rocky sides exposed in many places to a height of fifty to sixty feet almost continuously on the north bank and often rising out of the bed of the stream Just at ...
... CELEBRATION OF THE SURRENDER CELEBRATION OF THE SURRENDER OF GENERAL JOHN H MORGAN AN ACCOUNT BY MORGAN'S CAPTOR MAJOR GEORGE W RUE On September 2 1 1910 there was celebrated on the Crubaugh Farm South of Lisbon Columbiana county near the historic spot where the event occurred the 47th Anniversary of the Surrender of the Confederate Raider General Morgan Concerning the celebration the East Liverpool Tribune of September 22 1 91 O made the following comment Romance and intrigue combined to make ...
... REPORT OF THE FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY HELD IN THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING OF THE SOCIETY MARCH 29 1930 MORNING SESSION The Annual Meeting of the Society was called to order by Secretary C B Galbreath In the absence of the President of the Board of Trustees Mr Philip Hinkle moved that First VicePresident of the Board of Trustees Mr George F Bareis act as chairman of the meeting The motion was duly ...
... JOSEPH HOUGH AN EARLY MIAMI MERCHANT JOSEPH HOUGH AN EARLY MIAMI MERCHANT By R PIERCE BEAVER There were many forces which bound the Miami country to the South--the political dominance of men of southern birth family ties ecclesiastical relations the attitude towards the negro and above all commercial relations The last influenced all the other forces and brought with economic dependence on the South a common way of thinking with it especially in matters of economics and politics This ...
... CORNELIUS SEDAM AND HIS FRIENDS IN CORNELIUS SEDAM AND HIS FRIENDS IN WASHINGTON'S TIME1 BY MRS EMMA S BACKUS Cincinnati Ohio The old days were great because the men who moved in them had mighty qualities --THEODORE ROOSEVELT Grand old times with a grand old father This tribute to the times and the man was penned by a son of the subject of this sketch in 1885 when Matthew Sedam then residing at Terre Haute Indiana wrote reminiscently to his younger brother David at Cincinnati recalling early ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The History of the State of Ohio Edited by Carl Wittke Vol I The Foundations of Ohio By Beverley W Bond Jr Vol II The Frontier State 1803-1825 By William T Utter Vol III The Passing of the Frontier 1825-185 0 By Francis P Weisenburger Columbus The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1941-2 Vol I xx507p Illustrations and maps Vol II xiv454p Illustrations maps and tables Vol III xiv524p Illustrations and maps 2500 per set of 6 volumes For the early history ...
... OHIO HISTORY AND NATIONAL HISTORY OHIO HISTORY AND NATIONAL HISTORY OHIO HISTORY TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION At a meeting of the Ohio History Teachers' Association held in April 1915 a committee was appointed to consider the publication of one or more volumes pertaining to the history of the state This committee decided that it would be wise to make a beginning by collecting a series of extracts from the sources in such a way as to make clear the part the state has taken in important phases of the ...
... 142 Ohio Arch 142 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications LAST EDITORIAL The following from The Columbus Evening Dispatch of September 2 1 919 is believed to be the last editorial contribution from Mr Randall to that paper It may be considered his final word on a subject to which he had given much thought and on which he had frequently written WHO WERE THE MOUND BUILDERS The remarkable discoveries recently unearthed by the exploring department of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical ...
... 30 Ohio Arch 30 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications HOLMES COUNTY REBELLIONFORT FIZZLE J R VANCE I was born in a log cabin situated in Knox Township Holmes County Ohio almost three-quarters of a century ago and have lived here on the farm ever since My information in regard to the events I am about to narrate comes from various sources I heard my father and mother discuss events as they had happened As I grew older I began to ponder on these discussions and to ask questions Many times I ...