... Dedication of the Hayes Memorial Dedication of the Hayes Memorial 4 31 very graciously doffed his hat in recognition of the honor thus paid him When it was suggested to him that these were the boys who would help him in Mexico in case the situation came to that he very earnestly and seemingly sadly remarked Yes yes I know but we hope and pray they will not be needed Immediately upon the arrival of Secretary Baker the real dedication of the Memorial the Grove and the Mansion was begun ...
... Book Reviews Summer-Autumn 2001 pp 83-84 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page NOTES AND QUERIES The Ohio Academy of History Fall Meeting will be held October 5 2001 at Kenyon College in Gambier For more information please contact Roy Wortman Department of History Kenyon College Gambier Ohio 43022 phone 740 ...
... PROGRAM PROGRAM INTRODUCTORY REMARKS HENRY A WILLIAMS President of the Club INVOCATION REV IRVING MAURER LEAD KINDLY LIGHT DOUBLE QUARTET Messrs Karl Hoenig John M Sheridan Ray R Smith Frank T Welling A M Calland Harold G Simpson W D McKinney and Wm A Vause RANDALL OUR PRESIDENT OSMAN C HOOPER Secretary of the Club RANDALL AND THE OHIO SUPREME COURT HON HUGH L NICHOLS Chief Justice Ohio Supreme Court RANDALL THE ARCHAEOLOGIST-HISTORIAN HON JAMES E CAMPBELL President Ohio Archaeological and ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA GEORGE BOHAN WRIGHT General George B Wright one of the oldest most widely known and highly esteemed citizens of Ohio died at the residence of his daughter Mrs Frank C Eaton Columbus Ohio on September 11 1903 General Wright's life was one save in his last years of incessant and intense activity and most successful achievement His parents were of the best New England stock and emigrated from Massachusetts to Ohio in 1808 Both his grandfathers were soldiers in the ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews First Generations Women in Colonial America By Carol Berkin New York Hill and Wang 1996 xiv 234p bibliographical essay index 2300 cloth 1200 paper In First Generations Carol Berkin has written a marvelous synthesis of the existing literature on women in the colonial era It will likely become a classroom standard Clearly the area of colonial women's history has been one in need of synthesis Imaginative and meticulous scholars have been creating histories out of the ...
... ADAM HURDUS AND THE SWEDENBORGIANS IN ADAM HURDUS AND THE SWEDENBORGIANS IN EARLY CINCINNATI By Ophia D Smith Many volumes have been written about the hardships and accomplishments of pioneer preachers in the Western Country Most of these however deal with men of orthodox faith The Swedenborgians equally self-sacrificing but unorthodox and misunderstood have received little attention because they were few in number Yet they were people of influence--they were readers and thinkers and doers In ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS THE GNADENHUETTEN CENTENNIAL SEPTEMBER 29 1798 One hundred years ago the Rev John Heckewelder moved into the First House which he and his helpers built on the east bank of the Muskingum Tuscarawas River where he founded Gnadenhuetten as a Moravian Church settlement of whites To commemorate the Centennial Anniversary of its founding Gnadenhuetten was visited by a concourse of seven thousand men women and children This estimate of the number ...
... Historical News Historical News The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies held in Washington DC January 26-27 featured a panel of twelve scholars discussing the relevance of eighteenth-century ideas in twentieth-century society Thinking Americans have been aroused from their complacency by the greatly increased contact with other nations and cultures many of which are in sharp conflict with our national interest values and way of life The startling ...
... Historical News Historical News THE OHIO-INDIANA AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION held its fall meeting at Kent State University on November 7 1959 Papers were read at the morning session on Clarence Darrow and the American Literary Tradition Abe C Ravitz of the department of English Hiram College Communal Societies on the American Frontier Hallock C Raup of the department of geography Kent State and Magazine Fiction Image or Mirage William Coyle of the department of English Wittenberg University ...
... 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 ...
... 126 Ohio Arch 126 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications VALUABLE DONATIONS OF MSS The museum and library of the Society have been greatly increased by donations from friends interested in the progress and enlargement of the institution It is but a matter of justice to note the contributions recently made by Prof J P MacLean one of the trustees who has been a very active member ever since he joined the Society At different times he has given books on various subjects besides quite a selection ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Frontier America The Story of the Westward Movement By Thomas D Clark New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1959 xi832p illustrations maps appendix bibliography tables and index 675 This is not an easy kind of book to write It is the history of a movement of population that affects every section of the country It covers frontier areas and periods with no exact terminal points and with no two alike It embraces political social economic military and diplomatic history and it ...
... AN ANCESTOR OF OHIO MEDICINE AN ANCESTOR OF OHIO MEDICINE FAIRFIELD MEDICAL SCHOOL 1812-1840 by HOWARD DITTRICK Over the scenic terrain of northern Pennsylvania along the Allegheny and Susquehanna rivers through picturesque Wyalusing and historic Azilium we turned northward toward the Mohawk Valley of central New York The purpose of our pilgrimage was to visit the historic village of Fairfield and so we proceeded through the Royal Grants along West Canada Creek as it came tumbling down from ...
... 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 ...
... REPORT OF ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF REPORT OF ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY HELD IN THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING OF THE SOCIETY MARCH 26 1 931 The Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met in annual meeting March 26 1931 at 2 o'clock p m in the trustees' room of the Museum and Library Building The following members were present Johnson Bareis Florence Orton Spetnagel Goodman and Hinkle ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Politics of Community Migration and Politics in Antebellum Ohio By Kenneth J Winkle New York Cambridge University Press 1988 xiii 239p notes tables bibliography index 3250 This interesting but ultimately unsatisfying book probes an apparent contradiction in the findings of modern political and social historians of the mid-nineteenth century Studies of electoral behavior in various constituencies in Ohio and elsewhere show an amazing stability in the proportion of ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 14 5 LAST CONTRIBUTED ARTICLE The following contribution was the last written by Mr Randall for publication It appeared in the issues of The Ohio Newspaper for November and December 1919 NEWSPAPERS READ BY THE OHIO PIONEERS Maxwell's Centinel of the Northwestern Territory its Contemporaries and Immediate Successors -Journals Now More Than a Century Old BY EMILIUS 0 RANDALL LL D Journalism led the van of literary culture in its advance into the ...
... MEDICAL SOCIETIES IN CLEVELAND FROM 1890 TO 1945 MEDICAL SOCIETIES IN CLEVELAND FROM 1890 TO 1945 by CLYDE L CUMMER MD Part I THE REVOLUTIONARY NINETIES Since 1810 when Dr David Long moved to Cleveland from Hebron New York and became Cleveland's first physician there was no decade in its medical history so fraught with change as that extending from 1893 to 1903 This development in medicine was but a part of the times Although preparing to celebrate its centennial in 1896 Cleveland as a city ...
... CAPTAIN THOMAS MORRIS ON THE MAUMEE CAPTAIN THOMAS MORRIS ON THE MAUMEE By HOWARD H PECKHAM In any historical celebration of the Maumee Valley Captain Thomas Morris may justly claim a brief mention He was the first British officer to ascend the Maumee River I say officer because it is possible that one or two Pennsylvania traders may have penetrated that far into Ohio in the 1740's or 1750's But Morris did something else too He has left us two accounts of his Maumee adventures--one a ...
... FRANK P FRANK P VAZZANO Harry Hopkins and Martin Davey Federal Relief and Ohio Politics During the Great Depression The Great Depression and its accompanying economic and social dislocations catapulted a number of personalities to a national prominence they would never have experienced in easier times They ranged from the eccentric to the demagogic and found ready audiences among Americans eager to grasp any alternative to the despair of the 1930s Foremost of the new prophets were Dr Francis ...