... A Survey of Publications A Survey of Publications In Ohio History and Archaeology August 1956 - July 1957 Compiled by S WINIF RE D SMITH AGRICULTURE HENLEIN Paul C Journal of F and W Renick on an Exploring Tour to the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers in the Year 1819 Agricultural History XXX 1956 174-186 The Renicks were from Chillicothe Ohio HENLEIN Paul C Shifting Range-Feeder Patterns in the Ohio Valley Agricultural History XXXI 1957 1-12 WALLACE Henry A Corn and the Midwestern Farmer ...
... Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association 415 may be mentioned Hugh Henry Brackenridge the author of a satirical romance entitled Modern Chivalry in which he sarcastically depicts the political conditions of his time The Pittsburgh Gazette the first newspaper printed west of the Alleghany mountains contains in its early columns a number of contributions from the pen of this versatile son of Princeton who had been a classmate of James ...
... GREATNESS OF OHIO GREATNESS OF OHIO Address delivered at the Centennial Celebration of the Admission of Ohio into the Federal Union held under the Auspices of the Ohio Republican Association of Washington City May 23 1903 BY HON D K WATSON PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION One hundred years ago a portion of what was known as the Northwest Territory was admitted as a State into the Federal Union By an act of Congress the people of the future state were to give it a name Subsequently the name Ohio ...
... 76 Ohio Arch 76 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications on the west much pleased with the town of cincinnati think it is the greatest place for business I ever saw verry far surpasses Baltimore in my opinion for all kinds of business We visited the market house in the morning and where verry much surprised at seaing 500 waggons their loaded with all kinds of marketing but were told that it was not an uncomon thing to sea 700 waggons there of a morning The population of Cincinnati is said to be ...
... THE WESTERNIZATION OF NEW ENGLAND THE WESTERNIZATION OF NEW ENGLAND ALBERT BUSHNELL HART LL D Mr Hart is professor of American History at Harvard University the author of many standard and popular works on United States History In 1902 he was chosen editor-in-chief of the co-operative history of the United States projected under the auspices of the American Historical Association The article herewith published was the address deliverd by him at Marietta on the occasion of the erection of a ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA MEETING OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION In the historic and picturesque city of New Orleans on the days of Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday December 29 30 and 31 1903 was held the nineteenth annual meeting of the American Historical Association It proved to be an event of unusual interest and enjoyment The American Historical Association was organized at Saratoga New York September 10 1884 and now numbers some twenty-five hundred members comprising the leading ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR OLENTANGY RIVER The name Olentangy applied to an important tributary of the Scioto River has been a puzzler to the etymologists It is said to be of Indian origin but its root significance has never been determined The statement is made in the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society Publications Vol 6 page 93 that this name was legalized through the interest of Colonel Kilbourne We are told that in the year 1833 Colonel ...
... Bland Summer-Autumn 2003 pp 87-92 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2003 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved The State of Ohio as Seen by Traugott Bromme Translated by Richard L Bland The title page of Bromme's publication click to view larger image Introduction During the early part of the 1800s Europeans came to the United States in large numbers One such person was Traugott Bromme Bromme born near Leipzig in 1802 came to the United States in 1821 where he ...
... 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 ...
... 124 Ohio Arch 124 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications GAINING THE DUNMORE TREATY AFTER THE BATTLE OF POINT PLEASANT IN WHICH HE FOUGHT IN THE HAMPSHIRE COUNTY VIRGINIA REGIMENT CAPTAIN MICHAEL CRESAP WAS PRESENT HERE AND A SIGNER OF THE DUNMORE TREATY IN OCTOBER 1774 CAPTAIN MICHAEL CRESAP'S COMPANIONS IN ARMS EBENEZER ZANE GENERAL GEORGE ROGERS CLARKE COLONEL BENJAMIN WILSON BENJAMIN TOMLINSON AND OTHERS CORRECTED LOGAN'S MISTAKE IN ASSOCIATING CAPTAIN CRESAP WITH THE YELLOW CREEK AFFAIR ...
... VIRGINIA E VIRGINIA E and ROBERT W McCORMICK Episcopal Versus Methodist Religious Competition in Frontier Worthington One hundred hearty souls were spending their first winter in crude log homes in a wilderness clearing when James Kilbourn wrote Ohio Senator Thomas Worthington We have formed a regular Society for religious purposes amp have Divine Service performed every Sunday in public 1 It was not unusual for westward immigrants to be religious people or for several families of similar ...
... 34 Ohio Arch 34 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications LETTER FROM WILLIAM H STEVENSON President of the Western Pennsylvania Historical Society Among the letters received by the Chairman of the Fallen Timbers State Park Committee is the following PITTSBURGH PA September 10 1929 MR W J SHERMAN Ch ai rman Toledo Ohio DEAR SIR--I have your kind invitation to attend the dedication of a monument to General Anthony Wayne on the site of the battlefield of Fallen Timbers Saturday September 19th and ...
... 422 Ohio Arch 422 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications FOURTH SESSION At the Saturday morning meeting President Randall turned the program over to Prof F P Goodwin of Woodward High School Cincinnati who conducted the meeting in the interest of teachers of history After some preliminary remarks regarding the value of local history as illustrative of national movements and of methods designed to utilize it in this way Mr Goodwin introduced the chief speaker of the morning Prof Arthur W Dunn ...
... THE REV THE REV JOHN RANKIN EARLY ABOLITIONIST By PAUL R GRIM The Ancestry and Early Career of John Rankin The ancestors of the Rev John Rankin were Scotch-Irish Presbyterians whose lineage can be traced directly to Scotland during the religious persecutions of the seventeenth century1 His great-great-grandfather William Rankin was compelled to flee from Scotland during that period after his two brothers had been killed because of their religious belief He made his escape into Derry County ...
... THE NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH IN OHIO THE NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH IN OHIO FROM 1848 TO 1870 by OPHIA D S MI TH In his Teachers of the Nineteenth Century 1845 Parke Godwin said that the chief characteristic of the then present epoch was its tendency to unity in universality and that the men in whom this tendency was most fully expressed were Swedenborg Fourier and Goethe In these three persons was summed up the great movement toward unity in universality in religion science and art which comprised the ...
... MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY APRIL 4 1941 The Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met at noon Friday April 4 1941 in the Trustees Room of the Ohio State Museum President Johnson presided over the meeting attended by the following trustees Messrs Eagleson Fleischmann Florence Rightmire Spencer Spetnagel Wittke and Wolfe Director Shetrone ...
... edited by edited by MICHAEL SPEER Autobiography of Adam Lowry Rankin At a time when American historians are turning more toward quantitative techniques and psychological analyses of individuals the autobiography of Adam Lowry Rankin provides a refreshing first-person account from a man who partook of some of the most important activities of his day1 This work is an interesting commentary on nineteenth century America and provides insight into the motives activities and methods of those ...
... ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGE ON THE BEAUTIFUL RIVER ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGE ON THE BEAUTIFUL RIVER MADE IN 1749 UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MONSIEUR DE CELORON BY FATHER BONNECAMPS MONSIEUR It was not possible for me last year to give you an account of my voyage on the Beautiful River All the vessels had left Quebec when I reached it I could it is true have written you by way of New England but I had many things to say to you which prudence would not allow me to send through the hands of the English ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies AM ERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES Cincinnati Jacob R Marcus Director An archival expedition to the West Indies was made by the American Jewish Archives in July 1952 The research group was composed of Rabbi and Mrs Theodore S Levy of Huntington West Virginia Dr Ferdinand M Isserman of St Louis and Dr Jacob R Marcus director of the archives There were a number of Jewish settlements in the West Indies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY AUGUST 1963 -- JULY 1964 compiled by s WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE DURAND Loyal Jr The Major Milksheds of the Northeastern Quarter of the United States Economic Geography XL 1964 9-33 Ohio areas shown in twenty milksheds STOVER Stephen L Ohio's Sheep Year 1868 Agricultural History XXXVIII 1964 102-107 ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT McPHERSON James M The Fight Against the Gag Rule Joshua Leavitt and Antislavery Insurgency in the Whig Party 1839-1842 ...