... Editorialana Editorialana 551 Academy of Sciences and a contributor to the organ of that body During his years of study and field explorations Mr Brown assembled a large collection of Geological and Archaeological specimens A few years before his death he presented to the Bellbrook High School where as a youth he had been a pupil his Geological collection and a few years previously gave his Archaeological collection to the Museum of the O S A and H Society On May 23 1861 in St Barnabas Church ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS HISTORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ORAGNIZATION IN THE NORTHWEST 1824-184 0 BY HOMER J WEBSTER PH D Department of History University of Pittsburgh NOTE In the preparation of this work the writer has received very helpful suggestions from Professor Frederic L Paxson of the University of Wisconsin while in every part of the work he has received invaluable assistance from his wife-Edith Francisco Webster To both of these he desires to express here ...
... Mills of the Library Mills THE LIBRARY Helen M Mills of the Reference Department Mr Weaver of the Cataloging Department Mr Mink of the Newspaper Department and Miss Josephson of the Department of Documents embracing historical manuscripts maps broadsides and public archives have filed detailed reports with the Librarian for permanent record ...
... THE AKRON CENTENNIAL THE AKRON CENTENNIAL JUL Y 1 8 19 20 21 22 23 1925 BY EDWIN W BROUSE The plans for the Centennial found their first public expression in the appointment of an executive committee of seven men and women by Mayor D C Rybolt The Mayor was selected chairman of this committee This Committee spent much time in constructive work both in formulating plans and in digesting the multifarious suggestions which were offered to them As a result of this preliminary work two additional ...
... 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 ...
... Mills who patiently through long years of lean financial support set the standards and prepared the way for the larger achievement of today One of the objects of this campaign is to increase the membership of the Society This is of first importance Ways and means should be found to attain this end This campaign is not a begging or even an insistent solicitation It is a frank presentation of an opportunity Assuredly there is no presumption in ...
... Mills Buck Bareis Hegler Mills FORT ANCIENT Prince Mills SERPENT MOUND Cole Mills Bareis Prince The Mills 582 Ohio Arch 582 Mills Marietta Robert W Manly Chillicothe Lee R ...
... SPIEGEL GROVE SPIEGEL GROVE THE HOME OF RUTHERFORD B HAYES LUCY ELLIOT KEELER Memorials take many forms and the gift to the State of Ohio for the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society of that portion of Spiegel Grove the beautiful homestead of President Hayes through which runs for a half mile the old Harrison Trail of the War of 1812 is one of the most interesting commendable and generous gifts of recent years The deed from Colonel Webb C Hayes to the State of Ohio for the Harrison Trail ...
... UNVEILING OF TABLET AT FORT GOWER UNVEILING OF TABLET AT FORT GOWER Appropriate and interesting exercises marked the unveiling of a tablet by the Ohio Daughters of the American Revolution on the site of old Fort Gower at Hockingport Athens County Ohio The exercises preliminary to the dedication were held in the city of Athens Friday evening November 9 The formal dedication and unveiling of the tablet occurred on the day following at Hockingport The granite monument bears two tablets one ...
... 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 ...
... JOHN SHERMAN JOHN SHERMAN GEORGE U HARN Mr Harn is a native Ohioan having been born at Wooster where he was trained in the printing and journalistic profession When a mere lad he became the Columbus correspondent for the Cincinnati TimesChronicle now the Times-Star Later he became one of the owners of the Mansfield Herald with the business and editorial control of which he was connected for many years Under President McKinley Mr Harn was agent of the United States Internal Revenue Commission ...
... 1902 Dunmore raised an army of some three thousand Virginia soldiers This force was divided into two divisions fifteen hundred of the contingent were placed under General Andrew Lewis and following down the Kanawha reached Point Pleasant October 6th where four days later the battle was fought in which Cornstalk the head of the Shawnee Confederacy with over a thousand Indian braves was defeated and driven back across the Ohio Lewis then in ...
... 1902 Archaeology in its 1902 The article here produced first appeared in the Springfield Republican of Springfield Mass -E O R The barbarous archaeology of North America has been receiving great attention of late years especially in Ohio where its more important monuments are and now Gerard Fowke backed by the Ohio Archaeological Society whose president is Gen Brinkerhoff of Mansfield and ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 581 Reviews Notes and Comments 581 the entire list of the regiment before finding the name of the soldier whose record is sought If the name of his regiment is not given the quest is almost hopeless In such cases it is a great saving of time to write at once to the War Department at Washington for the record This will not be necessary in searching for the record of a World War veteran Any person having access to this World War Roster can readily without assistance ...
... 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 ...
...1902 was also a student of Dr John Harris at Bainbridge He located in Cincinnati where he remained until 1854 when he moved to New York City He was a pioneer in Porcelain Dental Art 298 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 298 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY We called again on the chairman who said to us Gentlemen you may go home I will see that the Bill passes It was passed without any objection Laws of Ohio 43rd General ...
... GENERAL JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE-- GENERAL JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE-- The Canadian Governor Who Attempted to Make Ohio a Part of Canada Annual Paper by JAMES A GREEN Historian of the Club American visitors to Canada are always struck with the beauty and charm of Lake Simcoe which is situated fifty miles north of Toronto in the midst of one of the most fertile regions of Ontario It is a lovely lake blue as Como Joined to it by a short and narrow strait is Lake Couchicing equally lovely In the city park of ...
... edited by edited by ALVIN EUSTIS On the Road in 1835 A Journey of the Reverend James McElroy The following letters of Rev James McElroy are addressed to the minister's wife in Delaware Ohio and describe a journey from that town to Lexington Kentucky in 1835 The Episcopalian clergyman had taken a leave of absence from the parish of St Peter's in Delaware in order to serve for a time as agent for the American Bible Society1 James McElroy was born in Ireland in 1805 and studied there for the ...
... 98 Ohio Arch 98 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications STORY OF THE FIRELANDS The following interesting account of the Firelands is taken from the West Liberty Banner Unnumbered native Ohioans not to speak of hundreds of thousands of residents of the state from foreign lands and other states of the union must have wondered why a fertile and productive tract in northern Ohio a district which in no way hints of the ravages of fire should be called the Firelands Among all the vicissitudes of ...