... Civil War Letters of Darwin Cody Civil War Letters of Darwin Cody Edited by STANLEY P WASSON CLEVELAND TOOK ITS RECRUITING SERIOUSLY in August 1862 after Lincoln had issued his second call for 300000 men Ohio's quota was 74000 Each county was to provide its portion of soldiers before September 1 when Governor David Tod was to draft the remainder To encourage recruiting stores closed early during August local bounties were offered Regiments seeking to fill their rosters advertised in newspapers ...
... AMERICAN ABORIGINES AND THEIR SOCIAL AMERICAN ABORIGINES AND THEIR SOCIAL CUSTOMS REV J A EASTON PH D Mr Easton was a native Ohioan born at Sinking Springs Highland County August 9 1852 His father and grandfather like himself were ministers in the Methodist Episcopal Church Eugene Easton his son the distinguished American newspaper correspondent in the Boer War is the present owner of Fort Hill Highland County which is crowned by one of the most interesting and best preserved prehistoric ...
... THE KNOWLEDGE OF COAL AND IRON IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF COAL AND IRON IN OHIO BEFORE 1835 BY PAUL WAKELEE STODDARD Today Ohio is one of the great coal-producing centers of the world a position which it has maintained for close on to a century The real starting-point of the development of the mineral resources of the state was the First Geological Survey which took place in the third decade of the nineteenth century and which has been considered in a previous article But what knowledge of the vast ...
... 518 Ohio Arch 518 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Following Mr Burton's address President Johnson said We may well hope that a million radio listeners scattered from lakes to gulf and from coast to coast have been sitting at their instruments listening to these lessons of truth and magnetism We are greatly indebted to Mr Burton for the message which he has brought us I am sure you will all join in a vote of thanks to him for coming to Columbus and appearing before this assembly Mr ...
... WINFIELD SCOTT'S VISIT TO COLUMBUS WINFIELD SCOT T' S VISIT TO COLUMBUS BY GEN H B CARRINGTON U S A General Henry Beebee Carrington is one of the very few su viving generals of the Civil War He has led a distinguished ar eventful life Born in Wallingford Conn March 2 1824 he is now the age of eighty-six hale and hearty a writer of clearness and precisio and a speaker forceful and entertaining He graduated at Yale 1845 and in November 1848 arrived in Columbus to there take up his pe manent ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR DR THOMAS CORWIN MENDENHALL Dr Thomas Corwin Mendenhall died at his home in Ravenna Saturday March 22 He was a member of the first faculty of the Ohio State University and a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society A brief sketch of his life was published in the QUARTERLY of the Society for October 1921 He delivered the annual address at ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Illinois Census Returns 1 80 -1818 Edited by Margaret Cross Norton Illinois State Historical Library Collections XXIV Statistical Series II Springfield Illinois Illinois State Historical Library 1935 32 9p Illinois Cens u s Ret urn s 1820 Edited by Margaret Cross Norton Illinois State Historical Library Collections XXVI Statistical Series III Springfield Illinois Illinois State Historical Library I934 466p The first volume of the Statistical Series Illinois Election ...
... edited by edited by ROBERT W HATTON Just a Little Bit of the Civil War As Seen by W J Smith Company M 2nd 0 V Cavalry-- Part I These are the memoirs of Private William James Smith Company M Second Ohio Volunteer Cavalry Smith the second of eight children in the family of Randall and Nancy Lyons Smith was born in a log cabin near Galion Ohio on October 25 1844 When he was two years old his family moved to Iberia Morrow County Ohio where his father worked in the Shunk Brothers Cooper Shop ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSS E LL ABOLITIONISM Theodore Dwight Weld's Anti-Slavery Mission in Ohio by Vernon L Volpe 5-18 Abolitionist Actuarv Atheist Elizur Wright and the Reform Impulse by Lawrence B Goodheart rev 168-170 Abzug Robert Passionate Liberator Theodore Dwight Weld and the Dilemma of Reform 6 8 9 Adjutant General's General Order Number 12 1916 45-46 Adjutant General ONG office of 40-56 Agriculture Butter and Egg Business Implications From the Records of a Nineteenth-Century ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR A REVIEW OF THE LIFE AND THE DIARY AND LETTERS OF RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD HAYES Robert Latham the editor of the Asheville N C Citizen in the issue of that paper for May 12 1929 publishes his review of the Life and the Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes Mr Latham is a well-known journalist of the Southland He began on the editorial staff of the Columbia S C State He was afterwards editor of the News and Courier ...
... 530 Ohio Arch 530 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications accompanied him on all his travels and he died the father of grown-up children He is described as a wisp of a man lank red-haired with a reddish mustache His hobby was a large peach orchard which his busy life gave him little time to enjoy Not only was he a great correspondent but he was a voluminous writer of books Here is a list said to be approximately complete Carpenter's Geographical Readers -- Asia 1897 North America 1898 South ...
... 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 ...
... CANNON CANNON THROUGH THE FOREST Novels of the Land Battles of the War of 1812 in the Old Northwest by C HARRISON ORIANS On June 18 1812 the Congress of the United States declared war on Great Britain This action was the climax of a half-decade of irritations and controversy The continental conflict in which Britain was engaged aggravated and inflamed the smoldering enmity which existed The declaration marked the victory of the war party in the twelfth congress elected in 1810 The war with ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XXVIII No 2 APRIL 1919 TEMPERANCE AND CHURCH-BUILDING IN PIONEER DAYS ON THE WESTERN RESERVE By JUSTUS NEWTON BROWN OBERLIN OHIO In the fall of 1826 my mother's father Rev Joseph Edwards removed from Manlius New York where he had been pastor of the Presbyterian church to Greenfield Huron County Ohio The next year he preached the first sermon ever preached by an ordained minister in the township of Ripley in the same county to a congregation consisting of seven ...
... RECOLLECTIONS OF NEWARK RECOLLECTIONS OF NEWARK ISAAC SMUCKER Mr Isaac Smucker was born in the Shenandoah Valley Virginia in 1807 and became a citizen of Newark Ohio in 1825 as he relates in the article herewith published He early became an influential and distinguished personage in his community In 1837-8 he was a member of the Ohio Legislature and might have held other offices of greater prominence but he preferred the less conspicuous life and the opportunity it gave to indulge in his ...
... GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME XLIX GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME XLIX Abbot Capt 275 history 105 nationalism 133 education Acoustic sound 355 185-90 mobilization for war 249-61 reAdams Alice Dana cited 160-1 sources 252 culture 261 Swiss 281 Adams C F cited 50 284 286 cholera 378 383 frontier 404 Adams John 408 life 405 See also British America Adams John Quincy 44 50 52-3 56 Central America and South America 163 304 American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Adams Dr R E W 342-3 Society 162 Adams Co 0 19 232 ...
... COLONEL JOHN O'BANNON COLONEL JOHN O'BANNON NELSON W EVANS It is and has been utterly impossible to fix with absolute certainty the date or place of the birth of Colonel John O'Bannon It was not later than the year 1756 and may have been several years previous The place as near as can be determined was called Neville Virginia John Presley and Morgan Neville prominent officers in the Revolutionary War were her kinsmen and likely brothers We are not certain as to her father's name From the best ...
... 224 Ohio Arch 224 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications in Civil War time for he says that soon a hundred thousand men were singing 'And his soul goes marching on' It was the singing of this song by thousands of the boys in blue that inspired Julia Ward Howe the wife of Samuel G Howe the financial supporter of John Brown to write The Battle Hymn of the Republic a poem that still has its appeal to those who have not come completely under the spell of the new literature The world seems to be ...
... The Centennial of Jefferson County The Centennial of Jefferson County 329 EDWIN M STANTON Tuesday being designated as Stanton day the public mind was centered on the building in which E M Stanton was born Here the great war secretary lawyer and jurist was born December 19 1814 It is a two-story brick set back from Market street between Fifth and Sixth with a small enclosed yard between the house and the sidewalk In after years a three-story business house was built in front of the old house ...
... 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 ...