... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 66 NUMBER 1 J ANUARY 1957 Faith vs Economics The Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad 1845-1883 By JOHN E PIXTON JR In the 1850's Cincinnati was Queen of the American West and eastern railroad builders pressed eagerly toward the prize of her commerce1 And even before the rails reaching westward from New York Philadelphia and Baltimore breached the Appalachian barrier Ohio promoters were building lines to connect with them By 1857 ...
... Rutherford B Hayes and The Ohio State University by WALTER S HAYES JR It was bitterly cold the day former President Hayes arrived in Cleveland in January 1893 He had come from Columbus and was in search of someone to head the new manual training department for The Ohio State University Both as a member and as the president of the board of trustees he had been actively concerned with the establishment of a good manual training department for the institution Snow fell and was blown by a wind ...
... 276 Ohio Arch 276 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications his pedantry King James little understood the hidden meaning of the sea-to-sea extension Under this charter of 1609 modified by that of 1612 Virginia held until the formation of the federal constitution in 1788 In reading of Mr Avery's work we are tempted to halt and linger at particularly important and interesting events The reader reluctantly leaves his story which we again commend to both the general reader and the close student Both ...
... THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY CALL FOR ANNUAL MEETING COLUMBUS October 1 1921 The annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society will be held in the Museum and Library Building of the Society Wednesday October 12 1 921 The forenoon session which opens at half past nine o'clock will be devoted entirely to the reading of reports and other matters of routine business It ...
... BUCKEYE ARGONAUTS BUCKEYE ARGONAUTS by ROBERT THOMAS Social Studies Instructor Pleasant Township High School Marion County Ohio On January 24 1848 James Wilson Marshall discovered flakes of gold in the tailrace of a sawmill he and John Sutter were erecting about fifty miles northeast of Sutter's Fort in Upper California As news of Marshall's discovery spread along the Pacific coast and then to all sections of the nation thousands of Americans rushed by land and by sea to the new E1 Dorado in ...
... BOOK REVIEWS HAYES OF THE TWENTY-THIRD THE CIVIL WAR VOLUNTEER OFFICER By T Harry Williams New York Alfred A Knopf 1965 xviii324vip illustrations maps and index 595 I have a subjective judgment on this book and I may as well make it now as later the first two chapters I liked very much the other fourteen I found tedious In Chapter I The Golden Years Williams deals in a general way with the background of Rutherford B Hayes and offers some very shrewd insights on his Civil War career Chapter II ...
... THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETT SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO Nov 27 1916 The meeting was called to order by First Vice President George F Bareis There were present Messrs George F Bareis E O Randall F W Treadway W C Mills H E Buck D H Gard H C Shetrone Frank Tallmadge F D Hills W H Cole Edgar Butler A M Schlesinger E C Derby Leonard Marker J M Dunham Almer Hegler D J Ryan James E Campbell Webb C ...
... INDEX TO MATERIALS FOR THE STUDY OF INDEX TO MATERIALS FOR THE STUDY OF OHIO HISTORY Compiled by WILLIAM D OVERMAN Introduction In 1918 the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society published a Bulletin of Source Material for the Study of American History as found in the Publications of the Society covering Volumes 1-26 inclusive Because of a growing interest in state and local history and in the enlarged educational program of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and ...
... MOBBING THE SHAKERS OF UNION VILLAGE MOBBING THE SHAKERS OF UNION VILLAGE J P MACLEAN PH D It may be affirmed that of all the Christian sects of America not one is less aggressive or lives more within itself than that known as The Shakers or more properly speaking The Millennial Church It is true that in its early history it possessed a little missionary zeal but this was not of the offensive kind In common with all the sects it placed its own doctrines to the front proclaiming them to be the ...
... JAMES M JAMES M MORRIS No Haymarketfor Cincinnati As the news spread from Chicago of the events of May 4 1886 a new word came to be emblazoned into the hearts and minds of the American people That wordconnoting fear revolution anarchism and terror-was Haymarket Every man reading the newspapers or talking with his friends and neighbors of the events of that day could not but be aware of the fact that the anarchists who had wormed their way into the bloodstream of American life had finally let ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 70 NUMBER 3 JULY 1961 The British Indian Department and The Abortive Treaty of Lower Sandusky 1793 By REGINALD HORSMAN IN THE EARLY FALL of 1792 a general council of the Indian nations of the Old Northwest was held at the junction of the Maumee and the Auglaize rivers in what is now northwestern Ohio The Indians who gathered there were jubilant for their attempts to resist the American advance into the Old Northwest had met ...
... A LETTER OF RUFUS PUTNAM'S TO NEHEMIAH A LETTER OF RUFUS PUTNAM'S TO NEHEMIAH HUBBARD ESQUIRE A NON-RESIDENT PROPRIETOR OF MARIETTA OHIO Contributed by FRANK ANKENBRAND JR This letter written by Rufus Putnam1 the founder of the city of Marietta Ohio gives but an inkling of the many petty annoyances that beset a man of vision Here are all the little irksome things the exasperating delays and hindrances the mosquito bites of adversity such as irritated the men who hewed from the vast American ...
... WASHINGTON'S TOUR TO THE OHIO AND ARTICLES WASHINGTON'S TOUR TO THE OHIO AND ARTICLES OF THE MISSISSIPPI COMPANY Introduction and Notes by Archer Butler Hulbert Author of Washington and the West Historic Highways Etc It is always interesting to recall that the earliest accurate account of the Ohio Valley is from the pen of Washington This account is found in two manuscripts now preserved in the Library of Congress one of which is entitled Remarks amp Occurrs in October when November came it is ...
... ABRAHAM LINCOLN ABRAHAM LINCOLN AN ADDRESS BY CHARLES A JONES CHAIRMAN SATER I feel that we are all obliged to Professor Galbreath for making a little shift in the program here and in giving us a chance to walk about for a few minutes and to be present at the presentation and dedication of this beautiful gift that Mr Venable and his family have made to the Society A few years ago the managers of a very enterprising magazine in this country sent out a questionnaire to the high school students ...
... THE BALLAD OF 'JAMES BIRD THE BALLAD OF 'JAMES BIRD ITS AUTHORSHIP BY C B GALBREATH In a contribution entitled The Battle of Lake Erie in Ballad and History the writer of this article in 1911 related the story of James Bird and reproduced the old ballad commemorating his heroic service on board the Lawrence and his tragic death a year later for desertion on the Niagara In commenting on this quaint pathetic ballad it was assumed to have been written by a bard unlearned and unknown but not ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies BRECKSVILLE EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION Mrs Bertha C Fosnocht President The Association is cooperating with the Brecksville Board of Library Trustees in making a canvass of community sentiment regarding housing facilities for the town library a historical museum and other community activities An invitation was extended to about 24 organizations to send representatives to a meeting called for that purpose Friday evening September 1 9 DAYTON ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS A Handbook to Aid in the Study of State amp Local History A Comprehensive Reference Book of Special Interest to Teachers in Ohio Schools Compiled by George F Jenny Columbus Ohio Sesquicentennial Commission 1953 124p 050 A Handbook to Aid in the Study of State amp Local History is at once the most comprehensive and the most challenging publication of its nature that has come to our desk Inspirational seems a misnomer for a work of this sort but it is just that Surely ...
... THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE OHIO CANALS THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE OHIO CANALS GEORGE WHITE DIAL LOCKLAND OHIO The observant passenger on the Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton railway between Cincinnati and Troy Ohio will catch short glimpses of a broad ditch filled with sluggish water Winding its way through the beautiful Miami and Maumee valleys it follows the railroad for miles now on this side of the tracks now on that ofttimes close beside the river hidden by the foliage of the willows and the ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 467 stimulation of his firm assurance that all is well here below and all will be better in the world beyond His life was above reproach his career an inspiration None knew him but to love him none named him but to praise No organization with which he was connected seemed to give him greater pleasure than the Archaeological and Historical Society Its field of investigation its province of collecting and preserving the records of the past and its work of storing the ...
... CARL W CARL W ALBRECHT Book Notes The Papers of Henry Bouquet Volume 5 September 1 1760-October 31 1761 Edited by Louis M Waddell John L Tottenham and Donald H Kent Harrisburg The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission 1984 xxx 875p illustrations bibliography chronology index Henry Bouquet born in Switzerland in 1719 passed his early military training and experience in the service of several European states In 1756 he was recruited to serve as a lieutenant colonel in the Royal American ...