... 480 Ohio Arch 480 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications SOME ERRORS CORRECTED BY CHARLES E SLOCUM M D PH D DEFIANCE OHIO The following regarding several historic places in north western Ohio is submitted as a plea for greater care by writers and speakers that errors in historical data may lessen rather than increase FORT MIAMI THE STILL-EXISTING EARTHWORKS OF WHICH ARE WITHIN THE PRESENT LIMITS OF THE VILLAGE OF MAUMEE OHIO The pamphlet containing the Appeal of the Maumee Valley Monumental ...
... THE OHIO-MICHIGAN BOUNDARY DISPUTE THE OHIO-MICHIGAN BOUNDARY DISPUTE RE-EXAMINED By CARL WITTKE A hundred years ago the sovereign and independent state of Ohio and the Territory of Michigan mobilized their forces to settle a long-standing dispute over a slice of territory some seven miles wide at its western end and some eleven miles at its eastern end stretching across the State of Ohio from its western boundary to Lake Erie and comprising the valuable harbor at the mouth of the Maumee River ...
... AN OHIO DOCTOR IN THE EARLY NAVY AN OHIO DOCTOR IN THE EARLY NAVY by HOWARD D K RA MER Assistant Professor of History Western Reserve University Recently the journals of Lewis A Wolfley an Ohio doctor who served in the United States Navy from 1832 to 1844 were lent to the writer by a representative of Wolfley's descendants The manuscript material in the Wolfley Collection consists of the surgeon's journals on four cruises and his diary in Paris where he studied medicine under world-famous ...
... Ora et Labora Ora et Labora A German Methodist Utopia By CARL WITTKE IN ALL AGES men have toyed with plans for the regeneration of the race and a map of the world without utopias would be bleak and uninteresting indeed1 A new unsettled land like the United States was especially appealing to utopian dreamers and beginning with the colonial period scores of communitarian experiments flourished for longer or shorter periods in America Some were religious in origin and used a communist pattern as ...
... REFUGEES TO AND FROM CANADA AND THE REFUREFUGEES TO AND FROM CANADA AND THE REFUGEE TRACT BY EDWARD LIVINGSTON TAYLOR All that part of the City of Columbus which lies east of the Scioto River and between Fifth Avenue on the north and Steelton on the south a distance of four and one-half miles is on what is known in law and history as the Refugee Tract which was as we shall hereafter see set apart by the government for the benefit of Refugees from Canada and Nova Scotia This territory comprises ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XXXIV INDEX TO VOLUME XXXIV Adams John characterized 30-31 Pacific squadron present 208-209 213 Adams Rufus W Young Gentleman and Press notices 207-213 Lady's Explanatory Monitor 138-141 Scrapped 206-207 The Akron Centennial 522-547 Silver service 207 Akron Day 531-533 Sponsor presents loving cup 213 Balloon race 523-524 Sponsor receives flags 213 D A R Dedication of Tablet by 546 The battleship Ohio launched 1820 press Dedication of Tablet to Industrial notices 213-215 Leaders ...
... AN INDENTURE OF 1831 IN PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO AN INDENTURE OF 1831 IN PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO By FREDERICK C WAITE The procedure of apprenticeship in the crafts as a method of preparing for a vocation is of ancient origin It was firmly established in Europe when the American Colonies were settled and was prevalent in these colonies and in the United States until well into the nineteenth century Although the method is familiar to all that are acquainted with the history of the crafts comparatively ...
... THE BATTLESHIP OHIO THE BATTLESHIP OHIO The battleship Ohio was built for the United States navy by the Union Iron Works San Francisco under contract dated October 8 1898 at a cost of 2899000 It was launched May 18 1901 in the harbor of San Francisco and christened by Miss Helen Deshler who was designated for this honor by Governor George K Nash who was present on the occasion as was also William McKinley then President of the United States Great crowds were present at these ceremonies ...
... LINCOLN'S MINISTER TO MEXICO LINCOLN'S MINISTER TO MEXICO by J JEFFERY AUER Associate Professor of Speech Oberlin College Among the incongruities facing Abraham Lincoln in 1861 was the fact that his minister to Mexico would hold America's most important diplomatic post1 Although France and England the chief consumers of southern cotton were powerful nations possessed of great maritime strength in the event of a Union blockade of the South they could continue the cotton trade only through the ...
... 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 ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Best Intentions The Triumph and Failure of the Great Society Under Kennedy Johnson and Nixon By Irwin Unger New York Doubleday 1996 399p notes index 2795 Guns or Butter The Presidency of Lyndon Johnson By Irving Bernstein New York The Oxford University Press 1996 x 606p illustrations notes index 3500 Irwin Unger's The Best of Intentions and Irving Bernstein's Guns or Butter offer timely accounts of the Johnson years tracing the ideas programs and agencies that ...
... THOMAS WORTHINGTON THOMAS WORTHINGTON BY FRANK THEODORE COLE Secretary of The Old Northwest Genealogical Society About the middle of the seventeenth century two brothers of the ancient Lancashire family of Worthington1 arrived in Philadelphia bringing with them some fair amount of property After some time one of them went to New England and the other Robert with his son Robert a mere lad went to Maryland where he bought land in the neighborhood of Baltimore and established iron works which in ...
... FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHI FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHI STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO Wednesday October 6 1926 900 A M The meeting was called to order by Secretary C B Galbreath There were present B F Prince Arthur C Johnson C B Galbreath Mrs C B Galbreath Edward Orton Jr H R McPherson Mrs H R McPherson Mrs Howard Jones Mrs Anna M Keirn Dr J M Dunham E F Wood Dr F C Furniss Dr William C Mills Theodore A Wegener Joseph C Goodman B ...
... FIRST CATHOLIC CHURCH IN OHIO FIRST CATHOLIC CHURCH IN OHIO The question is often asked When did the Catholic Church first make a permanent settlement in Ohio We have diligently sought the desired information From Hon W B Archer member of the Senate of the 81st General Assembly we recently received the following communication which seems to settle the question of the first Ohio Catholic Church - EDITOR In compliance with your request I give a brief statement of what is known as the East Fork ...
... 420 Ohio Arch 420 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Birchard to Buckland Buckland to Hayes thence to Spiegel Grove where the following program and exercises were carried out by the Odd Fellows in dedication of their memorial window in the Hayes Memorial Library and Museum The Noble Grand G L Roach as chairman opened the exercises with prayer by W D Pearce Vice Grand of the lodge and he not being present the prayer was read by J E Courtney Chaplain of the lodge which is as follows ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Between Indian and White Worlds The Cultural Broker Edited by Margaret Connell Szasz Norman University of Oklahoma Press 1994 xii 386p illustrations maps notes bibliography index 4500 Frontier history has been redefined within the last fifteen years Between Indian and White Worlds The Cultural Broker is a reflection both of emerging interests and shifting perspectives within the field In 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner described the American frontier as the westward ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Better Known as Johnny Appleseed By Mabel Leigh Hunt Philadelphia and New York J B Lippincott Co 1950 212p 250 History is a mixture of legend and fact And of the two legend is the more important For it is what people think happened or say happened not what actually did happen that becomes significant over a period of time Truly no matter how close to an historical fact the research scholar may come the mass of people do not pay heed to him They believe the fiction ...
... THE LEATHER WOOD GOD THE LEATHER WOOD GOD FROM NARRATIVE TO NOVEL by HASKELL S SPRINGER In 1916 at the age of seventy-nine William Dean Howells published the last great novel of his long career Less than four years later he was dead In writing The Leatherwood God Howells was fulfilling a long-time intention to make use of his enthusiasm for the history of his native Ohio as well as -- in the way of an old man -- returning to the recollections of his boyhood1 His source for the basic story of ...
... THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE SETTLEMENT OF THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE SETTLEMENT OF THE WESTERN RESERVE 1796 - 1815 By HERMINA SUGAR The writer asked Can you tell me of some exceptional woman of the early time that I may mention her His eye sparkled more than usual as he replied All of them ma'am1 Introduction A true history of the Western Reserve is in a large measure the history of its women there were no famous women in its early history but it is rather the commonplace lives that were well and ...
... THE WRITING OF HISTORY IN OHIO 1935-1945 THE WRITING OF HISTORY IN OHIO 1935-1945 By FRANCIS P WEISENBURGER Ten years ago in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the organization of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society an endeavor was made by the present writer to summarize what had been accomplished in Ohio in the field of historical writing during that half century of the life of the Society 188519351 Now at the end of another decade it seems fitting to carry through the ...