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"NEWS AND NOTES" Volume 71, Number 3, October, 1962, pp. 262-266.
... NEWS and NOTES SEVERAL LANDMARKS in American history which are of importance to Ohio historiography and which were published many years ago have been reprinted in a series called American Classics in Political Economic and Literary History being issued by Frederick Ungar Publishing Co Inc of New York They are My Autobiography by S S McClure The Acquisition of Political Social and Industrial Rights of Man in America by John Bach McMaster The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier by Ralph ...

"Printing in Gambier, Ohio, 1829-1884," by Wyman W. Parker. Volume 62, Number 1, January, 1953, pp. 55-66.
... 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 ...

"REVIEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS," Volume 38, Number 3, July, 1929, pp. 502-511.
... 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 ...

"Caleb Atwater: Versatile Pioneer," Volume 54, Number 2, April-June, 1945, pp. 79-88.
... CALEB ATWATER VERSATILE PIONEER CALEB ATWATER VERSATILE PIONEER A RE-APPRAISAL By HENRY C SHETRONE BACK EAST Educator minister lawyer and antiquarian advocate of internal improvements co-founder of Ohio's school system Ohio's first historian intellectual and social pioneer of the Middle West Such was Caleb Atwater of Massachusetts New York--and Ohio Without an understanding of the times in which Caleb Atwater lived particularly of his years in the East before coming to Ohio one might well ...

"James Backus: Citizen of Marietta, 1788-1791," Volume 45, Number 2, April, 1936, pp. 161-172.
... JAMES BACKUS CITIZEN OF MARIETTA 1788-1791 JAMES BACKUS CITIZEN OF MARIETTA 1788-1791 By JOSEPHINE E PHILLIPS There are about 150 Horses Sixty Cows amp Seven Yoak of Oxen here The Emigrants that pass down the river for Kentucky amp other parts of the Western Country are amazing We have a militia formed who assemble every Sunday amp are fined for not attending We have preaching or service read regularly once a week likewise a school Thus wrote James Backus1 from Marietta to his parents in ...

"Thomas Worthington, Pioneer Business Man of the Old Northwest," by Alfred B. Sears. Volume 58, Number 1, January, 1949, pp. 69-79.
... THOMAS WORTHINGTON PIONEER BUSINESS MAN OF THOMAS WORTHINGTON PIONEER BUSINESS MAN OF THE OLD NORTHWEST1 by ALFRED B SEARS Professor of History University of Oklahoma Thomas Worthington was born in the Shenandoah Valley near the site of the present town of Charles Town West Virginia in 1773 He was the grandson of the Quaker immigrant John Worthington Gentleman who came to America in 1714 and after some sixteen years residence near Philadelphia settled on a three-thousand-acre farm in Berkeley ...

Volume 87, Number 4, Autumn, 1978, pp. 485-499.
... Index Index ABOLITIONISM The Southern Strategy of the Liberty Party by Stanley C Harrold Jr 21-36 books on rev 97-99 Academic freedom The 1951 Speaker's Rule at Ohio State by Steven P Gietschier 294-309 Action journal of the Ohio Farmer-Labor party 427 Adrian Michigan temperance crusade in 399 Aeschbacher WD book rev 463 Affairs of State Public Life in Nineteenth Century America by Morton Keller rev 102 Afro-American and the Second World War The by Neil A Wynn rev 111 Age of Urban Reform New ...

Volume 53, Number 1, January-March, 1944, pp. 64-81.
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Crigler Mounds Sites Be 20 and Be 27 and the Hartman Mound Site Be 32 Boone County Kentucky By William S Webb With Chapter on Physical Anthropology By Charles E Snow University of Kentucky Reports in Anthropology and Archaeology Vol V no 6 Lexington University of Kentucky 1943 74p 20 figs 10 tables This new report on the Adena Complex in Kentucky is the sixth in a series of eight bulletins describing mound explorations of an important prehistoric Indian culture ...

"Fowke's Book Reviewed," Volume 11, Number 1, July, 1902, pp. 143-148.
... Fowke's Book Reviewed Fowke's Book Reviewed 143 which seem to be very real and very correct This should also be the case with the person who studies the earthworks of Ohio He should be so familiar with ancient Society as to make the monuments speak and interpret the works and relics so that they will be suggestive of the people who used them A negative criticism does not serve any good purpose Every writer should rise to a plane higher than the ordinary observer and should put into the works ...

Volume 106, , Summer-Autumn, 1997, pp. 223-241.
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABOLITION Emigrant Aid Society of Montgomery County 16 Abolition issues 5-30 passim Administrative issues Ohio House of Representatives Partisanship in the Ohio House of Representatives 19001911 An Analysis of Roll-Call Voting by John M Wegner 146-170 Agriculture The Carmichael Case Animal Science At The Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station 1905-1921 by Chris Cumo 31-41 Ahlers John F 131n 19 Air Commerce Act 125 Airmail Act Kelly Law 126 127 Airmail False ...

Volume 65, Number 2, April, 1956, pp. 195-220.
... Book Reviews Book Reviews William Oxley Thompson Evangel of Education By James E Pollard Columbus Ohio State University 1955 xi303p chronology bibliographical notes and index 500 William Oxley Thompson's term as president of Ohio State University was longer than that of his four predecessors combined and longer than that of his two successors During his twenty-six years he brought the university from obscurity to a position of respect in Ohio and the educational world His place in the annals ...

"Ohio Farmstead: Farm Buildings as Cultural Artifacts, The," by Donald A. Hutslar. Volume 90, Number 3, Summer, 1981, pp. 221-237.
... DONALD A DONALD A HUTSLAR The Ohio Farmstead Farm Buildings as Cultural Artifacts Ohio's rural landscape though dwindling constitutes a significant area of the state some 17 million acres largely in the central and western counties1 However Ohio's agrarian past is still evident in the urban centers where an occasional farm building remains on-site often adapted to some commercial use such as a dairy store or carry-out-an ignominious end at best The barn in particular has become a romantic ...

"The Autobiography of James Hall, Western Literary Pioneer," edited by David Donald. Volume 56, Number 3, July, 1947, pp. 295-304.
... DOCUMENT DOCUMENT THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JAMES HALL WESTERN LITERARY PIONEER edited by DAVID DONALD Instructor in History Columbia University Collecting data for his projected Cyclopaedia of American Literature Evert A Duyckinck in 1855 addressed the most prominent living writers in the United States requesting pertinent biographical and bibliographical information One of the most interesting replies came from James Hall veteran Cincinnati editor and author Taking time from his duties as bank ...

"The Firelands Grant," by Clarence D. Laylin. Volume 10, Number 4, April, 1902, pp. 435-451.
... The Firelands Grant The Firelands Grant 435 THE FIRELANDS GRANT BY CLARENCE D LAYLIN This article is the outgrowth of a paper read before the Political Science Club of Ohio State University The discussion which followed the reading of the paper among members of that club led to further investigation the result of which is the article as here produced-EDITOR In treating of the settlement of new countries the general and proper method is to recite the history of its pioneer days Without the ...

"History of Serpent Mound," Volume 15, Number 2, April, 1906, pp. 285-286.
... Editorialania Editorialania 285 mortal enemies Five of their chief Werowances came aboard us and crossed the bay in their barge The picture of the greatest of them is signified in the mappe The calfe of whose leg was three-quarters of a yard about and all of the rest of his limbs so answerable to that proportion that he seemed the goodliest man we ever beheld His hayre the one side was long the other close shore with a ridge over his crown like a cockes comb His arrows were five quarters long ...

"Simon Kenton-Thomas W. Cridland, Pioneers," by Walter D. McKinney. Volume 34, Number 1, January, 1925, pp. 117-131.
... SIMON KENTON -- THOMAS W SIMON KENTON - - THOMAS W CRIDLAND PIONEERS BY WALTER D MCKINNEY Today it is my great privilege to place in the custody of this Society the framed portrait of a man This I might do in short form which would be forgotten at the conclusion of the ceremony but the subject of the portrait and the portrait itself -- and the maker of the frame and the frame itself -- are deserving of greater consideration by the society and myself The subject of the portrait is Simon Kenton ...

Volume 75, Number 1, Winter, 1965, pp. 55-66.
... BOOK R EVIEWS THE MAKING OF URBAN AMERICA A HISTORY OF CITY PLANNING IN THE UNITED STATES By John W Reps Princeton N J Princeton University Press 1965 xv574p illustrations maps bibliography and index 2500 This massively documented beautifully illustrated book is a masterful historical survey of a long-neglected subject John Reps professor of city and regional planning at Cornell University has successfully traced from European antecedents through colonial and nineteenth-century experiments the ...

"The Report of the Forty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society," Volume 41, Number 3, July, 1932, pp. 536-622.
... THE REPORT OF THE FORTY-SIXTH ANTHE REPORT OF THE FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MORNING SESSION The annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society convened at 10 o'clock am Tuesday April 26 1932 in the auditorium of the Museum and Library building of the Society There were present Dr W O Thompson Mr O K Reams Mr Lowry Sater Miss Jeannette Shields Mrs C B Galbreath Mr J W Johnson Mr Dudley T Fisher Sr Dr Harlow Lindley ...

"Senator Robert L. Owen at the Logan Elm," Volume 32, Number 2, April, 1923, pp. 431-432.
... Reviews Notes and Comments 431 Reviews Notes and Comments 431 SENATOR ROBERT L OWEN AT THE LOGAN ELM Mr E L Spetnagel a life member of our Society writes an interesting letter to Mr Tiffin J Gilmore thanking him for a circular containing a cut of the Logan Elm and the text of the speech of Chief Logan that made the tree famous He speaks of a family reunion last June and the enjoyment of two brothers and other members of his family in making a visit to this grand old tree Continuing Mr ...

"Hon. David Tod. Biography and Personal Recollections," Volume 8, Number 2, October, 1899, pp. 107-131.
... HON HON DAVID TOD BIOGRAPHY AND PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS BY GEORGE B WRIGHT Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime And departing leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time Footprints that perhaps another Sailing o'er life's solemn main A forlorn and shipwrecked brother Seeing shall take heart again - Longfellow PART I BIOGRAPHY OF DAVID TOD David Tod second of the Civil War Governors of Ohio was born at Youngstown Trumbull now Mahoning County Ohio on the 22nd of ...