... AN ABOLITION CENTER AN ABOLITION CENTER THOMAS J SHEPPARD In the spring of 1 80 2 two travelers met in the wilderness between Zanesville and Marietta Ohio Though they rode together by day and camped together by night each refrained from disclosing to the other the object of his journey That object was to purchase the section of land upon which later on grew up the village of Putnam now the Ninth Ward of the city of Zanesville The travelers were John McIntyre the founder of Zanesville and Dr ...
... 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 ...
... JOSEPH VANCE AND HIS TIMES JOSEPH VANCE AND HIS TIMES BY BENJAMIN F PRINCE Professor of History and Political Science Wittenberg College Springfield Ohio The men who made Ohio for its first fifty years were persons of remarkable character and quality Four or five states gave choice selections for the settlement of that region They proved themselves good and true for the work they had to do and brought honor and success to the interests committed to their care Connecticut Pennsylvania Maryland ...
... CAROLYN M CAROLYN M MORRIS Black Elected Officials in Ohio 1978 Characteristics and Perceptions Over the past few years Black political involvement has become a major focus of organized activities in Black communities Much of this involvement has been manifested in local elections involving Black candidates for public office The results of these elections have established beyond a shadow of a doubt that Black voters have the resources and the emotional commitment required to elect Black ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA SAMUEL S RICKLY Samuel Strasser Rickly died at his residence at 347 East Broad street Columbus Ohio on the evening of November 22d 1905 Mr Rickly was one of the founders of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and from the date of its organization was one of its most influential and valuable members It is due his memory at this time to recall and place on record the inestimable service which he has rendered the society On the evening of February 12 ...
... George Armstrong Custer 651 George Armstrong Custer 651 GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER BY GOVERNOR GEORGE WHITE On December 5th 1839 the people of New Rumley were extending their neighborly congratulations upon the birth of a boy Today after the lapse of nearly a hundred years the people of Ohio are extending to the village of New Rumley their congratulations upon the same event and the nation honors Ohio as the birthplace of George Armstrong Custer a national hero In the unveiling of this splendid ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews American Business and Foreign Policy 1920-1933 By JOAN HOFF WILSON Lexington University Press of Kentucky 1971 xvii 339p notes bibliography and index 1250 Since 1929 the preoccupation of historians with the role and ideology of business in American life has been intense Studies of the Gilded Age such as those by Matthew Josephson and Charles Beard looked upon businessmen as robber barons in domestic affairs During the isolationist decade capitalists became those ...
... THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD S S KNABENSHUE TOLEDO The Underground Railroad was not under the ground nor was it a railway but there was a fitness in the name which caused its general use to express one of the most remarkable phases of the long struggle against slavery and the Slave Power The term was a popular mode of referring to the various ways in which fugitive slaves from the South were assisted in escaping to the North and especially to Canada It was often humorously ...
... 442 Ohio Arch 442 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications General Braddock did not live to realize all the evil consequences which his defeat brought upon the frontiers The road which he had opened from the Potomac to within seven miles of Fort Duquesne became again an Indian warpath In the three years following this battle it was used by a few small parties of French and many bands of Indians as an open road to the Potomac whence they ravaged the English settlements in Virginia Maryland and ...
... A Visit to the Ohio State Prison in 1837 A Visit to the Ohio State Prison in 1837 Edited by MERTON L DILLON ONE OF THE MANY SOCIAL PROBLEMS that demanded solution in the early nineteenth century was how best to deal with convicted criminals The answer provided by the system inaugurated in 1823 at the state prison at Auburn New York enjoyed great vogue among penal reformers and set the fashion in American prison administration for the next half century The Auburn system required the isolation ...
... 56 Ohio Arch 56 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications emphasized by the hundreds of Japanese lanterns strung along either bank and in sweeping festooons across the big Lake Erie bridge Near the bridge and extending across the river were seven of the largest boats in the river bearing huge electric transparencies upon which appeared six-foot letters spelling the name Croghan which was also seen in a set piece The hit of the evening was the reproduction of Fort Stephenson on the southern ...
... ANTI-SLAYERY MOVEMENT IN COLUMBIANA ANTI-SLAYERY MOVEMENT IN COLUMBIANA COUNTY BY C B GALBREATH A study of the early anti-slavery movement in Ohio at this late day occasions many surprises It seems that the first participants came from the South a number arriving before the state was admitted into the Union The famous Ordinance of 1787 prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territory The states carved out of it were thus from the beginning dedicated to freedom While the Ordinance contained a ...
... TERRY A TERRY A BARNHART In Search of the Mound Builders The State Archaeological Association of Ohio 1875-1885 If the State Archaeological Association of Ohio is at all remembered today it is as the forerunner of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society That organization emerged from the wreckage of the earlier state archaeological association on March the 12th and 13th 1885 and has been known as the Ohio Historical Society since 1954 The significance of Ohio's first state ...
... Charles Burleigh Galbreath 129 Charles Burleigh Galbreath 129 where strivings end where peace is perpetual and where mortals on their way to a better estate find a fitting abode for the night in this many-chambered mansion of rest Hither have come the representatives of every walk of life Among them are those once eminent in the affairs of the city the state and the Republic Of these it were superfluous to speak Their deeds have been recorded Their place in local history at least is secure To ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 70 NUMBER 2 APR I L 1 961 Samuel Watts Davies and The Industrial Revolution in Cincinnati By HARRY R STEVENS IN AN AGE PREOCCUPIED with case studies it is refreshing to discover a man as distinctive and individual as Samuel Watts Davies Although he seems on first acquaintance to be merely a typical aggressive frontier business enterpriser the appearance of similarity is deceptive The resemblance exists but not because Davies ...
... A CHAPTER IN EARLY DENTAL HISTORY A CHAPTER IN EARLY DENTAL HISTORY UNVEILING OF MEMORIAL TABLET AT BAINBRIDGE OHIO On Monday afternoon November 30 1925 a tablet was unveiled in Bainbridge Ohio in memory of Doctors Chapin A Harris and James Taylor pioneer advocates of professional dentistry and founders of the first two dental schools in the United States and the world The inscription on this tablet sets forth so clearly and fully its purpose that there is little need of elaboration in this ...
... edited by edited by MICHAEL SPEER Autobiography of Adam Lowry Rankin At a time when American historians are turning more toward quantitative techniques and psychological analyses of individuals the autobiography of Adam Lowry Rankin provides a refreshing first-person account from a man who partook of some of the most important activities of his day1 This work is an interesting commentary on nineteenth century America and provides insight into the motives activities and methods of those ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XXVI No 2 APRIL 1917 FORT LAURENS PURCHASED It will be recalled that the autumn winter and spring of 1777-8 was the period of the low ebb of the cause of the Colonial Revolutionists In the late spring of 1778 while Washington was just emerging from Valley Forge George Rogers Clark entered upon the daring expedition to save the Northwest to the Colonies The British-Canadian authorities were planning not only to circumvent Clark but to carry the war into Africa by ...
... MARTIN BAUM MARTIN BAUM By GEORGE A KATZENBERGER The nucleus of the material hereinafter collected is taken from an article1 by the eminent German-American historian Henry A Ratterman who from 1868 to 1887 published Der Deutsche Pionier in Cincinnati The historian will note that of all the great nations of western Europe during the centuries immediately following the discovery of America Germany alone took no official part in the colonization of the newly discovered hemisphere This was ...
... A Rebuttal to Mrs A Rebuttal to Mrs Trollope Harriet Martineau in Cincinnati By WILLIAM R SEAT JR AMERICA WAS ACQUAINTED with Harriet Martineau before she arrived in this country When she landed at New York City in the fall of 1834 she was already a recognized author a writer of authority who was perhaps the most influential woman in England Her recently published Illustrations of Political Economy had demonstrated to Americans that sympathy with the democratic ideal and concern for the ...