... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries A number of professional meetings of interest to Ohio History readers will be held this coming autumn The Ohio Historical Society will host the 1979 annual meeting of the National Historic Communal Societies Association at Zoar on October 18-20 1979 California State College and Washington and Jefferson College will co-host the forty-eighth annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical Association on Friday and Saturday October 12-13 1979 suggestions for ...
... Dedication of the Hayes Memorial Dedication of the Hayes Memorial 4 39 ask each and every one of you to register here on this consecrated spot a solemn vow to preserve this nation forever and forever to the American - peaceably if we can forcibly if we must but for America America forever and forever Mr Charles R Williams of Princeton biographer of Rutherford Birchard Hayes then delivered the following address ADDRESS OF CHARLES R WILLIAMS We are met today to signalize the formal dedication of ...
... 656 Ohio Arch 656 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications tees to go forward with the completion of this building and it has been decided to ask the Legislature at its next session for an appropriation sufficient to carry out that policy That having been decided the next step in the project is to prepare a tentative plan upon which to base estimates in asking for the necessary appropriation General Orton having done such a remarkable piece of work for this organization as Chairman of the ...
... CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF ULYSSES S GRANT BY C B GALBREATH CELEBRATION AT POINT PLEASANT CLERMONT COUNTY OHIO Of all citizens of the United States born in Ohio the most famous in his day and generation as Judge Hugh L Nichols has observed was General Ulysses S Grant That he still holds that high place among the distinguished sons that Ohio has given to the Republic and the world was attested by the outpouring of people to celebrate the ...
... LOUIS WEEKS LOUIS WEEKS John P Parker Black Abolitionist Entrepreneur 1827-1900 As historians attempt to set the record straight--to recite for Americans the involvement of black people in all aspects of our national life--they will since the recovery of his Autobiography now be able to include more on the contributions of yet another outstanding Negro John P Parker of Ripley Ohio1 To be sure a few students of American history have already mentioned Parker Henry E Baker of the United States ...
... 624 Ohio Arch 624 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications are the World War trophies from the government flags and documents of the 332nd infantry World War relics loaned by Captain John L Hamilton a dress made of glass for Maxine Elliott in 1901 World War relics loaned by Mr G R Weaver Columbus Ohio World War relics presented by Reverend Arthur H Limouze Columbus Ohio an Egyptian mummy presented by Dr J Morton Howell United States Minister and Envoy Extraordinary to Cairo Egypt The ...
... THE WEST IN AMERICAN HISTORY THE WEST IN AMERICAN HISTORY JOHN LEE WEBSTER President Nebraska Historical Society History is to a nation what the faculty of memory is to individuals the basis of all our experience and by means of experience the source of all improvement History knows all things contains all things teaches all things not in winged words which strike the ear without impressing the mind but in great and striking actions The spirit of the world itself is but a great and unending ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA A CHAPTER OF CORRECTIONS R W MCFARLAND History is never free from imperfections Particularly is this true of the collected and collated records and data of pioneer periods--the beginnings of history This is most natural as the memoranda are furnished by different authorities who discern the events recorded from various points of view or who are not accurate in their method of statement The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society endeavors to gather and ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 249 where we shall regard him with worshipful admiration and reverence Though decorated with all the honors a nation-a world-could bestow there shines through all the man-the noble spotless man There is no incident in history to our mind like that journey from Washington to Canton of the funeral train The catafalque upon which rested the body of the illustrious dead occupied the center of a spacious car-the sides of which were glass It was brilliantly lighted at night ...
... THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY AN ADDRESS BY BISHOP BENJAMIN WILLIAM ARNETT D D WEDNESDAY EVENING OCT 11 1899 AT MUSIC HALL CHICAGO We have been called together by the authorities of the Autumnal Festival Celebration First we are to give thanks for the achievements of the present century for the triumph of mind over matter as well as the success that has attended the labors of our workmen the harvest of our farmers and the dividends that have accrued to our financiers It is ...
... THIS MONUMENT IS OLDER THAN THE GREAT THIS MONUMENT IS OLDER THAN THE GREAT PYRAMIDS BY FELIX J KOCH If you want to set your wits to work over something to which there may be an infinity of answers -each based on facts as logical as the next and yet each trying to solve a problem of utmost importance to the historian and the scientist and of interest to intelligent persons the world over just try to figure out how old the little mound in the accompanying picture may be This mound or tumulus is ...
... MINUTES OF THE FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETMINUTES OF THE FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO SATURDAY OCTOBER 8 1927 FORENOON SESSION 1000 A M The meeting was called to order by Secretary C B Galbreath There were present Dr B F Prince Arthur C Johnson Dr W O Thompson Gen Edward Orton Jr George F Bareis Dr Frank C Furniss C B Galbreath Mrs C B Galbreath Mrs Orson D Dryer Edwin F Wood Joseph C Goodman Fred J ...
... FURTHER NOTES ON GRANVILLE'S ANTIFURTHER NOTES ON GRANVILLE'S ANTIABOLITION DISTURBANCES OF 1836 By ROBERT PRICE The American Colonization Society may have had as its chief objective the return of American Negroes to their native Africa but it also afforded a ready means of organized opposition for the enemies of abolition Anyhow such was the case in Granville Ohio during the years 1835-36 when the fires of anti-slavery controversy were burning brightly in that particular neighborhood No doubt ...
... THE OPENING SCENES OF THE REBELLION THE OPENING SCENES OF THE REBELLION BY COLONEL S K DONAVIN In the spring of 1861 I was a reporter and traveling correspondent on the Daily Exchange newspaper of the City of Baltimore When the telegraph announced that Mr Lincoln had reached Pittsburg en route for Washington City to be inaugurated President of the United States I left Baltimore by the Northern Central Railway for the purpose of meeting him and noting the incidents of his journey When I reached ...
... PRESIDENT HAYES'S GRADUATION SPEECHES PRESIDENT HAYES'S GRADUATION SPEECHES by WYMAN W PARKER Rutherford B Hayes upon graduation from Kenyon College in 1842 gave the valedictory for his class He also presented an oration as did his eight classmates As Hayes came into prominence a legend grew about the superior qualities of his talks that commencement This reputation was increased rather than diminished by the local newspaper report of the proceedings that day the only available public evidence ...
... JOHN BROWN'S OHIO ENVIRONMENT JOHN BROWN'S OHIO ENVIRONMENT by MARY LAND Graduate Student Western Reserve University The stormy years John Brown spent in Kansas and the insurrection at Harper's Ferry have all but obscured the 38 years of his life spent in northern Ohio In 1805 when he was five years old he was brought from Connecticut to Hudson Ohio a small town near Akron He continued to live in the vicinity of Akron except for a decade in Pennsylvania two years in Springfield Massachusetts ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR THE CAPTURE OF OLD VINCENNES This is the title of a timely and most interesting volume edited by Dr Milo M Quaife Managing Editor of the Mississippi Valley Historical Review It includes the original narratives of George Rogers Clark the leader of the American expedition and Sir Henry Hamilton Lieutenant Governor of Detroit The special occasion for the appearance of ...
... THE COONSKIN LIBRARY THE COONSKIN LIBRARY BY SARAH J CUTLER MARIETTA Among the hills of southern Ohio in that portion now included in the county of Athens the sound of the woodman's axe broke oftentimes the forest quiet during the winter of 1797-98 A vigorous pioneer was making a clearing upon a few acres of ground and building a log cabin to which to bring his family For miles around the unbroken forest stretched away Huge sycamores traced the courses of the streams while beech oak maple ...
... 164 OHIO HISTORY 164 OHIO HISTORY A key maneuver in Hayes's attempt to implement his Southern policy was the appointment of Frederick Douglass as Marshal of the District of Columbia--a move which seems to have reconciled both white and black to the Hayes administration82 Hayes himself chose to look upon the appointment of Douglass as symbolic of an intention to upgrade the Negro in the eyes of the nation83 Douglass caused quite a stir after a bare month in office when he made a speech in ...
... THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MIAMI COUNTRY THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MIAMI COUNTRY FRANK P GOODWIN Professor American History Woodward High School Cincinnati O The Treaty of Greenville by a lasting peace with the Indians in so far as the eastern part of the Northwest Territory was concerned removed that influence which for six years had prevented the development of the colony planted in the Miami Country and for the first time since the beginning of the movement started in 1788 was it possible to ...