... GENERAL INDEX TO VOL GENERAL INDEX TO VOL XLVI Abington Virginia--Presbytery 218 Antioch College 12 Abolition Intelligencer and Missionary Anti-slavery Friends 300 Magazine 221 Apollo Exhibition 74 Abolition society219-257 Apostle to the Indies 82 Abolitionists Ohio 240 Presbyterian 247 Appalachian Mountains 224 Abraham Bible 247 Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American BiogAdams Alice D--Neglected Period of raphy 42 221 Anti-slavery in America 219 Arapaho Indians 85 Adams Henry--History of the ...
... LEE SOLTOW LEE SOLTOW Inequality Amidst Abundance Land Ownership in Early Nineteenth Century Ohio As the great trans-Appalachian West opened to settlement in the years after the founding of the Republic Americans saw in the virtually unlimited lands of the interior the promise of a prosperous citizenry and a healthy body politic Most believed that those rights declared self-evident in the ringing words of the Declaration of Independence must be firmly grounded in a social fabric characterized ...
... OBERLIN'S PART IN THE SLAVERY CONFLICT OBERLIN'S PART IN THE SLAVERY CONFLICT WILBUR GREELEY BURROUGHS A M OBERLIN OHIO Little did the Rev John J Shipherd pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Elyria Ohio realize that in the founding of Oberlin he was to change the destiny of a nation He originated the plan in 1832 In November of the same year with his associate Philo P Stewart formerly a missionary to the Cherokees in Mississippi and at this time living with Shipherd at Elyria he selected the ...
... DEDICATION OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DEDICATION OF THE OHIO STATE ARCH A EOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING MAY 30 1914 On the afternoon of Saturday May 30th Memorial Day following the annual meeting of the Society which was held in the morning the Society celebrated the dedication of the new building located on the campus 0 S U corner High Street and 15th Ave First President of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society The building facing the east ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima Mrs Harry B Longsworth Secretary The society recently acquired the record book of the Lima Recruiting Club for 1864 It contains bounty records for 1864 for Ottawa Township which then included the town of Lima James A MacDonell president of the society has donated a Webster wire recorder It will be used for recording talks and lectures and in interviewing older people who find it difficult to write their ...
... PIONEER DAYS IN CENTRAL OHIO PIONEER DAYS IN CENTRAL OHIO1 IT is pleasant my friends to realize the sentiment that not only peace has its triumphs as well as war but that domestic and home life hath its excitements and enjoyments as well as the political arena In this day of public strife-in the middle of a campaign in which the embattling squadrons of the several political parties of the day are arrayed against each other in the contest for civil power-we rest on our arms and come together as ...
... THE ORDINANCE OF JULY 13TH 1787 THE ORDINANCE OF JULY 13TH 1787 TH E intrinsic merits of that organic law which was enacted by the old Continental Congress on the 13th of July 1787 for the Government of the Territory Northwest of the river Ohio have been so fully discussed and are so well understood that any attempt in that direction would be little more than a repetition of views already familiar to an intelligent audience Its merits can now be measured by its fruits Results are its monument ...
... James R Garfield the making of a progressive by JACK M THOMPSON One of the leaders in the movement to bring Theodore Roosevelt back to the presidency in 1912 was a now rather obscure Ohioan named James R Garfield The second son of President James A Garfield he was Roosevelt's secretary of the interior from 1907 to 1909 and the Progressive candidate for governor of Ohio in 1914 A prominent figure on the Ohio and national scenes at the height of the progressive movement he found the ascent to ...
... A CLASSIFICATION OF OHIO PLACE-NAMES A CLASSIFICATION OF OHIO PLACE-NAMES by WILLIAM COYLE Associate Professor of English Wittenberg College For the academic mind classification is an occupational disease But sifting data into logical categories is a harmless though pedestrian form of mental exercitation which may possess a certain value in suggesting new approaches to the data or in providing a framework for systematic examination and discussion Although the full story behind each Ohio ...
... THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR FEBRUARY 17 1807 TO FEBRUARY 1 1898 GEN R BRINKERHOFF President E O RANDALL Secretary COLUMBUS O JANUARY 1898 407 To His Excellency Asa S To His Excellency Asa S Bushnell Governor of Ohio SIR-I have the honor to submit herewith the thirteenth annual report of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society covering the year from February 17 1897 to February 1 1898 This ...
... THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF ARTHUR THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF ARTHUR ST CLAIR By ALFRED B SEARS Arthur St Clair perhaps came naturally by his aristocratic attitudes for he was descendant of Norman-Scot nobility who were noted for their monarchical loyalty Born in Thurso Caithness County Scotland in 1734 the son of a younger son he inherited nothing but was able to enter Edinburgh University to prepare for the medical profession In 1756 he was indentured to a celebrated London doctor William ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE OHIO RIVER It was one of Pascal's thoughts that rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go Surely it is that primeval and pioneer man has followed the courses of great streams because along those channels have been found the lines of least resistance On the rivers and their banks therefore has history found its favorite haunts Dry up the currents of the Tigris the Euphrates the Danube the Tiber the Rhine the Seine and the Thames and you ...
... 232 Ohio Arch 232 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications PRESIDENT WILLIAM McKINLEY MAIN EVENTS IN HIS LIFE William McKinley was born at Niles Trumbull County Ohio and was descended from Scotch and Irish ancestry James and William McKinley the heads of the two branches of the McKinley family in this country one in the Southern the other in the Northern States came from the north of Ireland James was the father of David McKinley the great-grandfather of the late President James McKinley settled ...
... OHIO IN SHORT STORIES 1824-1839 OHIO IN SHORT STORIES 1824-1839 BY LUCILLE B EMCH In the Ohio Valley of the 1820 ' s and 1830's there occurred a stir of literary activity which for the time and character of the events was most unusual The perspective gained by the passing of more than a century adds to rather than detracts from the significance of the movement The publishing center of the West during the twenties and thirties was Cincinnati which with a population of 24831 in 1830 was by far ...
... GEORGE WELLS KNIGHT GEORGE WELLS KNIGHT Dr George Wells Knight joined the Faculty of the Ohio State University in 1885 He served as teacher of History in that institution to within a short time of his death which occurred Wednesday morning February 10 1932 In this long and uninterrupted service his teaching and personality left an impression upon a large number of students who in their turn will transmit it in an ever widening circle of influence When he came to accept a position in the ...
... MINUTES OF MINUTES OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Columbus Ohio April 3 1954 The Ohio Academy of History held its annual spring meeting at Columbus April 3 1954 Registration was followed at 10 A M by two concurrent sessions at the Ohio State Museum At one with Robert Hilliard of Ohio Northern University as chairman James H Rodabaugh of the Ohio Historical Society presented a paper on Opportunities for Writing and Research in Ohio History Comments were made by Randolph C Downes of the ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS THE GNADENHUETTEN CENTENNIAL SEPTEMBER 29 1798 One hundred years ago the Rev John Heckewelder moved into the First House which he and his helpers built on the east bank of the Muskingum Tuscarawas River where he founded Gnadenhuetten as a Moravian Church settlement of whites To commemorate the Centennial Anniversary of its founding Gnadenhuetten was visited by a concourse of seven thousand men women and children This estimate of the number ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The History of the State of Ohio Edited by Carl Wittke Vol I The Foundations of Ohio By Beverley W Bond Jr Vol II The Frontier State 1803-1825 By William T Utter Vol III The Passing of the Frontier 1825-185 0 By Francis P Weisenburger Columbus The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1941-2 Vol I xx507p Illustrations and maps Vol II xiv454p Illustrations maps and tables Vol III xiv524p Illustrations and maps 2500 per set of 6 volumes For the early history ...
... 282 OHIO ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 282 OHIO ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SKETCH OF THE SWISS MENNONITES OF ALLEN AND PUTNAM COUNTIES OHIO By DELBERT L GRATZ To write a precise history of any certain group of people one must know the individual history of each family which goes to make up the group This was especially true in the case of the Swiss Mennonites since their faith was chiefly a family religion and in no way a matter of cults and ...
... MORUS MULTICAULIS OR SILKWORMS MUST EAT MORUS MULTICAULIS OR SILKWORMS MUST EAT By ROBERT PRICE Acres of mulberry trees--multitudes of silkworms--mills booming--a corner on the world's silk market It would be a fantastic dream indeed for an Ohioan today a vision such as this of wealth to be derived from a monopoly on raw silk but in 1836 such hopes were stirring hundreds of people not only in Ohio but throughout the East and South By 1838 at least seven states Massachusetts Pennsylvania ...