... Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 631 Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 631 MUSEUM COMMITTEE 1 The Committee desires to extend SPECIAL invitations to certain cities and communities to visit the Museum on certain week days or Sunday afternoons 2 The Committee suggests that the Library retain the use of the south rooms of the main building for the present and suggests that the present Board of Directors' Room and Director Mills' Office Rooms be set aside and fitted up for special ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XVI INDEX TO VOLUME XVI A Atwater Caleb 451 Avery's History of United States 508 Aborigine Use of term 407 Axes Copper 154 155 157 158 Aborigines See Indians Aztecs 425 The 421 Confederacy of 431 Addresses Dodge Samuel D 18 Fairbanks Chas W 27 Harris Andrew L 30 Meek Basil 35 Bailey Anne Sargent Family connecMoore J P Groghan Celebration tion of 344 at 52 Heroism of 345 Randall E 0 31 Life of 341 Allen County Welsh churches in 223 Ball's Battle 47 48 Welsh settlements in 222 ...
... THE QUAKERS THEIR MIGRATION TO THE THE QUAKERS THEIR MIGRATION TO THE UPPER OHIO THEIR CUSTOMS AND DISCIPLINE BY H E SMITH MARIETTA OHIO George Fox was the Father of the Quaker Meeting sometimes called Friends' Meeting He tells us that Truth sprang up first to us to be a people to the Lord in Leicestershire England in 1644 He describes how the movement first spread to the neighboring counties then by 1654 over England Scotland and Ireland in 1655 many went beyond the seas and in 1656 Truth ...
... 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 ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA By Bertha E Josephson During the first two months of the current year the Department of Documents has been devoting as much time as possible to an inventory and organization of numerous heterogenous and individual items Because these materials do not belong to any definite collections they have hitherto been neglected yet many of them are of considerable importance and value They are now being sorted and a card catalogue with name and subject crossreferences ...
... LARRY D LARRY D O'BRIEN The Ohio National Guard in the Coal Strike of 1932 You don't have to be drunk they said To get throwed in the can The only thing you needed be Was just a union man1 --Harlan County Blues This verse from the Harlan County Blues illustrates a recurrent theme in the history of the American labor movement in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries The resistance which unionization met in the mining industry was perhaps even more severe than in other industries and the ...
... GREATNESS OF OHIO GREATNESS OF OHIO Address delivered at the Centennial Celebration of the Admission of Ohio into the Federal Union held under the Auspices of the Ohio Republican Association of Washington City May 23 1903 BY HON D K WATSON PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION One hundred years ago a portion of what was known as the Northwest Territory was admitted as a State into the Federal Union By an act of Congress the people of the future state were to give it a name Subsequently the name Ohio ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA By BERTHA E JOSEPHSON During recent months the Department of Documents which includes under its jurisdiction state archives manuscripts maps posters photostats and broadsides has catalogued and arranged in a vertical file about one hundred small and pamphlet-folder maps Some of the more important of these are ANDREWS REPORT FOR 1854 MAPS ACCOMPANYING THE ISRAEL D One showing railroads in U S in operation and progress in the fifties two of the St Lawrence ...
... MARION CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION MARION CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION BY J WILBUR JACOBY OUTLINE OF HISTORY OF MARION COUNTY In this centenary year for the city of Marion it is not inappropriate to preface this article with a brief outline of the history of Marion County Marion County was named after the famous Revolutionary General Francis Marion and attached to Delaware County by act of February 20 1820 For more than twenty-five years thereafter the southern limit of the county was the Greenville ...
... DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL BUILDING DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL BUILDING OVER THE GRANT COTTAGE AT STATE FAIR GROUNDS The Grant Memorial Building enclosing the Grant cottage at the State Fair Grounds was dedicated September 3 1896 This ceremony had been planned for the forenoon of that day but a heavy rain made it necessary to postpone the program until the afternoon when fair weather greeted the large crowd assembled estimated at over four thousand people The program included addresses by Governor ...
... JOURNAL OF CYRUS P JOURNAL OF CYRUS P BRADLEY INTRODUCTORY NOTE BY GEORGE H TWISS A history in the co m mon acceptation of the term means a relation of facts and important dates a chronological record of battles sieges revolutions coronations and rebellions while no account is generally looked for of the moral and mental condition of the people whose action form the s u bject of the work and an account would doubtless if introduced be thought irrelevant out of place This is not as it should be ...
... Captain Brown Outfits the Mount Vernon Blues For the Toledo War by PAUL L MASSA The Mount Vernon Blues a militia rifle company was organized in 1835 when Ohio mobilized its military forces in preparation for possible hostilities with Michigan This dispute between the state of Ohio and the territory of Michigan over the location of their common boundary line is known as the Toledo War In Mount Vernon Ohio General William Bevans a former Knox County sheriff authorized Benjamin L Brown to ...
... A WILSONIAN PARADOX A WILSONIAN PARADOX by PHILLIP R SHRIVER Historians are often prone to conjecture What might have happened if-- Perhaps no other event in the history of the United States has been the subject of as much hindsight speculation as this nation's refusal to join the League of Nations after the conclusion of the first World War Not a few historians have suggested that World War II was in large degree made inevitable when the United States declined to assume the role of world ...
... SELECT LIST OF MATERIALS ON OHIO HISTORY IN SELECT LIST OF MATERIALS ON OHIO HISTORY IN SERIAL PUBLICATIONS Compiled by WILLIAM D OVERMAN This list is the outgrowth of an Index to Materials for the Study of Ohio History which comprised an index topically arranged of the leading articles in the OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Vols I-XLIII The present list not only affords an index to articles in the QUARTERLY Vols I-XLIX but also selected articles on Ohio history in ...
... THE ECONOMIC PROGRESS OF OHIO THE ECONOMIC PROGRESS OF OHIO INTRODUCTORY NOTE In the preparation of this paper certain government statistics particularly the Report of the Census for 1800 1810 1820 and 1830 and the Report on Manufactures in the United States 1832 have proved especially valuable Useful too have been the contemporary state histories particularly Caleb Atwater's History of Ohio Cincinnati 1838 and the Farmers' Centennial History of Ohio published at Columbus in 1903 by the State ...
... A CLEVELAND DRUG STORE OF 1835 A CLEVELAND DRUG STORE OF 1835 by HOWARD DITTRICK MD Editorial Director the Cleveland Clinic Cleveland This presentation outlines many activities of an early Cleveland druggist with some mention of contemporary patrons and customs The information is based upon a manuscript volume which was presented recently to the Howard Dittrick Museum of Historical Medicine in the Cleveland Medical Library Written in long hand the book deals with drugs medicine and a number of ...
... ROBERT L ROBERT L DAUGHERTY Book Notes The Overland Journal of Amos Piatt Josselyn Zanesville Ohio to the Sacramento Valley April 1849 to September 11 1849 Edited by J William Barrett II Baltimore Gateway Press 1978 129 p illustrations appendices bibliography index The principal value of this brief work is that Josselyn was one of the few forty-niners to record his experiences As told through his journals and letters Josselyn's description of his three-year affliction with gold fever recounts ...
... THE CENTENNIAL ODE THE CENTENNIAL ODE BY J M HARDING Columbia's pride Ohio grand and fair Where wealth and beauty are beyond compare Where labor truth and knowledge have control Thy name is peer upon the honor roll Ohio first-born of the great Northwest Nursed to thy statehood at the Nation's breast And taught wisdom of the Ordinance RuleNo slav'ry chain but e'er the public school Ohio name for what is good and grand With pride we hail thee as our native land With jealous pride we sing our ...
... THE MOUND BUILDER AND THE INDIAN THE MOUND BUILDER AND THE INDIAN ACCORDING TO THE BOOK OF MORMON BY C W CLARK Official of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints In relating the story of Prehistoric America as outlined in the Book of Mormon it is the purpose of the writer to avoid religious issues and controversies as far as possible and to present simply the statements and portray the record in a way that will bring out only such parts as will be of interest to student of ...
... Comments Notes and Reviews Comments Notes and Reviews 375 Mr Sherman was one of the first members of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and for some years took a personal interest in its proceedings For ten years past and at the time of his death he was one of the trustees JOHN BROWN-A REVIEW In American history there are few if any characters the story of whose life is so erratic dramatic or so tragic as that of John Brown As he spent his youth and many years of his manhood ...