... THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF OHIO By LEE SHEPARD In the space of a short sketch it is impossible to write a comprehensive history of this 113-year-old society When it is realized that the first effort to form a historical society in Ohio was made in 1822 only 27 years after the signing of the Treaty of Greenville one can only wonder at the temerity of the scattered residents whose ambitions at that time were doomed to failure Ohio was ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Society of American Archivists SAA will hold its 1994 annual meeting at the Westin Hotel in Indianapolis Indiana September 6 through September 11 The general theme will be The Archival Core Defining the Profession in the Information Age For more information about the meeting contact either Bruce L Johnson Director of the Library at the Indiana Historical Society at 317 232-1879 or Eric Pumroy Head of Special Collections and Archives at Indiana ...
... SECONDARY EDUCATION IN OHIO PREVIOUS TO SECONDARY EDUCATION IN OHIO PREVIOUS TO THE YEAR 1840 BY W W BOYD In the report of the United States Commissioner of Education for the year 1899 Rev A D Mayo shows Ohio's peculiar position in regard to education Each of the thirteen original colonies of our country nourished its own class of people differing from each other in creeds languages manners and original national ideals Kentucky and Tennessee were reproductions of Virginia and North Carolina ...
... 150 OHIO HISTORY 150 OHIO HISTORY NEWS and NOTES AN EARLY PHOTOGRAPH o f the Ohio State Capitol has been received through the kindness of Dr Wilcomb E Washburn curator of the division of political history of the Smithsonian Institution Washington DC The glass negative was acquired recently by the Smithsonian from the archives of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad It is shown on the opposite page The picture was probably taken in the early 1870's The Columbus City Hall completed in 1872 is shown ...
... Scharlott Winter-Spring 2004 pp 4-17 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2004 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Communication Technology Transforms the Marketplace The Effect of the Telegraph Telephone and Ticker on the Cincinnati Merchants' Exchange By Bradford W Scharlott O n the night of August 20 1847 the tireless telegraph promoter Henry O'Reilly installed a Morse telegraph instrument in a small room above the meeting hall of the Cincinnati Merchants' ...
... KATHLEEN M KATHLEEN M DILLON Painters and Patrons The Fine Arts in Cincinnati 1820-1860 In short we should foster western genius encourage western writers patronize western publishers augment the number of western readers and create a western heart1 -Daniel Drake 1833 Dr Daniel Drake a Cincinnati physician and public benefactor made his plea for a distinctly western culture at a gathering of Ohio and Kentucky teachers in 1833 If the arts received public support Drake believed Cincinnati and ...
... BOOK BOOK REVIEWS THE MARIETTA AND CINCINNATI RAILROAD 1845-1883 A CASE STUDY IN AMERICAN RAILROAD ECONOMICS By John Pixton The Pennsylvania State University Studies No 17 University Park The Pennsylvania State University Press 1966 94p map appendices and bibliographical essay 100 When spread out in detail on the pages of history the difficulties which faced the builders of Ohio's early railroads seem completely overwhelming First place among the difficulties probably goes to inexperience The ...
... ROBERT M ROBERT M MENNEL AND STEVEN SPACKMAN Origins of Welfare in the States Albert G Byers and the Ohio Board of State Charities For the past fifteen years government programs to aid poor and dependent people have been attacked by both liberals and conservatives In the 1960s a coalition of academics and social workers formed the welfare rights movement to criticize the inadequacy of New Deal and Great Society programs and to propose various strategies to bring about a guaranteed national ...
... B O O K R E V I E W S PROGRESSIVISM IN OHIO 1897-1917 By Hoyt Landon Warner Columbus Ohio State University Press for the Ohio Historical Society 1964 xiii 556p bibliography and index 1000 In 1914 Ohio cities under-represented in the state legislature by design and careful calculation were under the control and sway of what Newton D Baker called the rustic garland that makes a member from Pike County our sovereign A half century later Ohio cities in 1964 are still under-represented--but ...
... 528 Ohio Arch 528 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications FRANK GEORGE CARPENTER Frank George Carpenter well known correspondent traveler and author was born at Mansfield Ohio May 8 1855 He was the son of George F and Jennette L Carpenter He was graduated from the University of Wooster Ohio in 1877 with the degree of A B Later he received the degrees of A M and Litt D He married Joanna D Condict of Mansfield Ohio January 10 1883 Mr Carpenter began newspaper work as legislative correspondent of ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 99 A daughter of Mr Nichols the anti-slavery man is yet living and gives in a letter to me interesting facts She says My father and mother became earnest anti-slavery advocates in 1841 and from that time until the war the colored people knew my parents as friends and our home was a refuge When old enough probably about the year '48 or '49 I became greatly interested in the black people who came quietly to our kitchen door after dark and left before daylight often we ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR DEATH OF GRANDSON OF JOHN BROWN On March 21 1927 Charles P Brown son of Jason Brown and grandson of John Brown of Osawatomie and Harper's Ferry fame died at his home in Akron at the age of seventy-three He was the second son of Jason Brown His older brother Austin went with Jason and John Brown Jr to Kansas before John Brown Sr left for the West Austin died on the ...
... OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY 1835-1858 OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY 1835-1858 STILL FURTHER ASPECTS FIVE YEAR REVIEW OF THE WORK OF THE OHIO COMMITTEE ON MEDICAL HISTORY AND ARCHIVES BY ROBERT G PATERSON PH D Material presented in this issue of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly by the Ohio Committee on Medical History and Archives represents another chapter of five continuous years of effort on the part of a small group of men throughout the State in an attempt to mirror the significant ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent appointments and retirements within the professional community of Ohio historians include the following at the Ohio State University Alan D Beyerchen appointed to associate professor Robert J Donia to assistant professor and Joseph H Lynch has assumed new duties as Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Andreas Dorpalen who retired this year received the Distinguished Service Award of the Ohio Academy of History in April At the ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Alexandra Gripenberg's A Half Year in the New World Miscellaneous Sketches of Travel in the United States 1 888 Translated and edited by Ernest J Moyne Newark University of Delaware Press 1954 xv225p frontispiece and index This volume recounts the observations of Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg distinguished Finnish journalist author feminist and temperance advocate during a six months' visit to the United States in 1888 The baroness came to America as a delegate to an ...
... FRANK L FRANK L KLEMENT Ohio and the Dedication of the Soldiers' Cemetery at Gettysburg Ohioans had more than a passing interest in the dedication of the Soldiers' Cemetery at Gettysburg on November 19 1863 A decisive three-day battle fought in the surrounding countryside on July 1-3 1863 had claimed the lives of many of the state's soldiers some of whom were hurriedly buried in shallow graves or merely covered with spadefuls of dirt where they had fallen No other governor not even ...
... Dedication of the Hayes Memorial Dedication of the Hayes Memorial 425 instructed in the orderly management of public business All are on their best behavior a fraternal friendship is cultivated virtuous and temperate habits are encouraged and the best of our social instincts are called into play The festive organizations convivial clubs and the like are not safe places of resort for all natures No man can be worse for the associations of Odd Fellowship and their kindred organizations Most men ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Baseball The Early Years By Harold Seymour New York Oxford University Press 1960 viii373p illustrations bibliographical note and index 750 The author of this important volume started as a bat boy with the Brooklyn Dodgers earned a PhD in history at Cornell and now is an associate professor in a New York college He knows and loves his baseball and he knows his American history and so he has given us what is without question the best book on the subject In the present ...
... JUDGE JAMES HALL JUDGE JAMES HALL A Literary Pioneer of the Middle West DAVIS L JAMES In the preparation of this sketch acknowledgment should be made of the writer's indebtedness to the Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley by our fellow member Dr W H Venable This volume published in 1891 is of the greatest importance and value to the student of early literary history and an indispensable book of reference It is a matter for much regret that it is out of print and only to be found ...
... BACKGROUND AND YOUTH OF THE SEVENTH OHIO BACKGROUND AND YOUTH OF THE SEVENTH OHIO PRESIDENT1 BY RAY BAKER HARRIS News still traveled slowly in the 1860's Although the telegraph was by that time in use between principal cities news to a large degree continued to be transmitted by stagecoach by trains such as they were by boats and by human carriers However belated its appearance in print the news in the public press during the week of October 30 1865 was of considerable historic importance In ...