... MARCUS A MARCUS A HANNA AND THEODORE E BURTON by WILBUR DEVEREUX JONES Instructor in History University of Georgia The tempestuous career of Marcus A Hanna during the triumphant days of the Republican party at the turn of the century is still the object of considerable interest to the historian While his importance is generally recognized possibly even exaggerated the available biographical material on Hanna is not very satisfactory partly because the accounts tend to be biased partly because ...
... URBAN RIVALRY URBAN RIVALRY AND INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS IN THE OLD NORTHWEST 1820-1860 by HARRY N SCHEIBER At the very beginning of settlement in the Old Northwest urban communities developed in response to the commercial needs of the surrounding country And almost as soon as they appeared there was urban rivalry that is competition among them for advantages that would promote their growth and enhance their attractiveness to emigrants and investors1 The earliest rivalries usually involved ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR DR THOMAS CORWIN MENDENHALL Dr Thomas Corwin Mendenhall died at his home in Ravenna Saturday March 22 He was a member of the first faculty of the Ohio State University and a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society A brief sketch of his life was published in the QUARTERLY of the Society for October 1921 He delivered the annual address at ...
... William D William D Gallagher Champion of Wester Literary Periodicals By JAM ES A TAGUE DURING THE 1830's a number of attempts were made in Ohio to create a successful literary journal one that would be devoted to subjects other than the predominant interests of the majority of the newspapers and magazines of the day The existing media for the most part published articles on religion politics and growth of the area and there were few local outlets for the aspiring author if he did not write on ...
... DONALD A DONALD A HUTSLAR Ohio Waterpowered Sawmills Introduction The reduction of large timber into useful sizes for woodworking is an ancient process beginning long before the written word Metal tools were not necessary Before the advent of metal axes in North America the Indians were accustomed to felling trees by alternately charring the trunk with fire and breaking away the burned surface-presumably with large stone axes Dugout canoes were also hollowed out in this fashion Splitting is ...
... THE DEATH AND FUNERAL OF PRESIDENT THE DEATH AND FUNERAL OF PRESIDENT WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON BY REV EDWARD S LEWIS One of the most notable campaigns for the presidency of the United States was that of 1840 in which Martin Van Buren and William Henry Harrison contended for that high office This was perhaps the most picturesque of the presidential campaigns The Democrats were strong and confident Harrison the Whig candidate was ridiculed by them as being only a western soldier living in a log ...
... PARTY POLITICS IN OHIO 1840-1850 PARTY POLITICS IN OHIO 1840-1850 BY EDGAR ALLAN HOLT B A M A PH D Continued from the January 1929 Quarterly CHAPTER V THE ELECTION OF 1848 IN OHIO The clash of sectional and personal interests in Ohio did not end with the pronouncements of the State conventions The bitter anti-southern wing of the Whig party encouraged by the lavish praise bestowed on Corwin by the Whig State Convention thought that he might after all become the leader of the Whigs of the ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The fourteenth annual Duquesne University History Forum will be held on October 27 28 and 29 1980 at the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Well established as one of the major professional meetings of its type having sessions in all fields of history the Forum is the largest annually held meeting in the northeastern United States Those interested in submitting proposals for papers andor complete sessions or who desire to serve as a moderator or ...
... JOHN L JOHN L NETHERS Driest of Drys Simeon D Fess The struggle was long and hard fought but the final victory was short-lived for the national prohibition movement in the United States Temporary success came with the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919 but the drys had to admit defeat with adoption of the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933 One contemporary historian has noted that the most importunate of all the crusades of this generation was that against Demon Rum1 Many persons and ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Scott Nearing An Intellectual Biography By John A Saltmarsh Philadelphia Temple University Press 1991 xii 337p illustrations notes manuscript sources bibliography index 3995 Loving and Leaving the Good Life By Helen Nearing Post Mills Vermont Chelsea Green Publishing Company 1992 197p illustrations selected bibliography 1995 Charlotte Perkins Gilman A Nonfiction Reader Edited by Larry Ceplair New York Columbia University Press 1991 xi 345p notes bibliography index ...
... THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1864 THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1864 IN OHIO BY ELIZABETH F YAGER M A B A B S IN EDUCATION INTRODUCTION A brief resume of early Ohio politics serves to show that the state had been for the most part Democratic 30 far as national politics were concerned The Democrats who drew up the first constitution controlled the electoral vote until 1836 in 1836 and in 1840 William Henry Harrison carried the state and Henry Clay secured the electoral vote in 1844 Ohio went ...
... 98 Ohio Arch 98 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications and employment in the State Library based only upon recognized qualification and efficient service Following this excellent address remarks were made by Hon E O Randall reporter of the Supreme Court of Ohio and Secretary of the State Archaeological and Historical Society Hon J H Newman former State Librarian Mr John J Pugh libbrarian of the Columbus Public Library Miss Olive Jones librarian of the Ohio State University Miss Julia W ...
... WILLIAM D WILLIAM D JENKINS Robert Bulkley Progressive Profile Twenty years ago American historians characterized progressivism as a political movement whose reform impulse was rooted in the status anxieties of its predominately middle-class membership Since then a generation of historians has effectively challenged the simplicity of that hypothesis and replaced it with the notion that progressivism was more diffuse in nature No longer viewed then as a movement cohesive in philosophy and ...
... ROBERT CUMMING SCHENCK FIRST CITIZEN AND ROBERT CUMMING SCHENCK FIRST CITIZEN AND STATESMAN OF THE MIAMI VALLEY by FRED B JOYNER Professor of History Miami University In 1937 in a radio address celebrating Founders Day of Miami University President A H Upham called attention to the fact that the university had sent two ambassadors to the Court of St James Whitelaw Reid was one Robert Cumming Schenck was the other The work of the former is well known The career of Schenck is less well known A ...
... PRINTING IN GAMBIER OHIO 1829-1884 PRINTING IN GAMBIER OHIO 1829-1884 by WYMAN W PARKER University Librarian University of Cincinnati Printing in Gambier Ohio extended for a little more than fifty years during the mid-nineteenth century Its history forms a neat and fairly typical illustration of the work of the ecclesiastical press of that century Projected as early as 1823 by Philander Chase first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Ohio the press began in 1830 to issue the first Episcopal ...
... 90 OHIO HISTORY 90 OHIO HISTORY Three books by Louis Filler have recently been re-published Horace Mann on the Crisis in Education and Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom Second Edition with New Preface both by the University Press of America and A Dictionary of American Social Change by the Robert E Krieger Publishing Company Other books of interest are Social Action Collections at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin A Guide issued by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Journey Through My Years An Autobiography By James M Cox Simon and Schuster New York 1946 xi 463p 450 When the youthful James M Cox left his job with the Cincinnati Enquirer to become the private secretary of a Congressman his initiation into public life had begun Cleveland was one of his first heroes and the debates of the Fifty-third Congress which he followed closely were his equivalent for a university course At 28 Cox acquired his first newspaper In Taft's ...
... DAVID A DAVID A GERBER Lynching and Law and Order Origin and Passage of the Ohio Anti-Lynching Law of 1896 Americans are increasingly discovering that the United States has had a relatively lawless and violent history and that the problem of violent social disorder has continually plagued the nation The truth of this assertion as well as its implication for a deeper understanding of the country's social processes have tended to elude liberal scholars bent on tracing the steady progress of ...
... PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL OHIO HISTORY PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE Including the Fifty-third Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History and the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Columbus Genealogical Society Held at Columbus April 6-8 1939 in Cooperation with Ohio State University the Ohio Committee on Medical History and Archives and Local Historical Societies throughout the State Columbus ...
... 26 26 THE RELIGION OF WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN by JACK J DETZLER Throughout his adult life William Tecumseh Sherman fought a battle with himself and his family that was far more personally intense and disturbing than any of his epic military campaigns this conflict was in a word a battle for his soul1 His religious faith and state of grace received frequent discussion within his family circle An incessant dialogue went on between this Godfearing but nonsectarian husband and his dedicated Roman ...