... JOHN LEWIS ROTH JOHN LEWIS ROTH The First White Child Born in the Moravian Mission at Gnadenhutten1 By HARLOW LINDLEY The Ohio Society Daughters of the American Colonists at least must be given credit for arousing a group of Ohio's citizens from an unusual state of disinterestedness to one of profound interest and concern as to who was the first white child born in Ohio and some of these seem to have gone out of their way to misinterpret what it is all about I hold in my hand a clipping ...
... LINCOLN IN OHIO LINCOLN IN OHIO BY JOHN H CRAMER I The Cincinnati Speech of September 1859 Did Dayton Hear It First The words which Abraham Lincoln spoke in Cincinnati upon the seventeenth of September 1859 are well known to careful students of his addresses and writings They were the words of one of the most important speeches which the famous Illinoisan made upon his brief but important excursion into Ohio The address was given in answer to a previous speech made by the then more noted ...
... BENTLEY'S LAKE BENTLEY'S LAKE A J BAUGHMAN MANSFIELD Secretary of the Richland County Historical Society The Bentley Lake seven miles east of Mansfield was created in 1846 and had a peculiar origin In 1821 Jonas Ballyet entered the northwest quarter of section 15 Mifflin township Richland county and near the center of this tract there was a circular marsh of eight or ten acres surrounded by a rim of elevations of gentle slope giving a bowl-like appearance in the place At the east side or end ...
... R R DOUGLAS HURT Ohio Agriculture Since World War II The atomic bombs which exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 not only ended the Second World War but they also marked the beginning of a new age Thereafter life was never quite the same as it had been prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor Indeed fundamental change spurred by wartime industrialization and economic need characterized American life after the war The history of Ohio agriculture since World War II is the story of ...
... REPORT OF THE FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY HELD IN THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING OF THE SOCIETY MARCH 26 1931 The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met in annual meeting March 26 1931 at 10 o'clock a m in the auditorium of the Museum and Library Building On motion of the Secretary Mr Arthur C Johnson President of the Society was chosen President of the meeting The minutes of the previous ...
... SQUAW TRAIL SQUAW TRAIL BY GEORGE NELSON HINDS John and Elizabeth Hinds and their three sons had emigrated from the Fen country in England to the New World on board a slave ship arriving in 1808 Traveling in an oilskin-covered wagon drawn by their oxen Thomas and Jeremiah they encamped at a point about thirty miles from Albany New York on the Squaw Trail This trail variously labeled the Iroquois trail King Philip's road and described as a tote road and a trace was known to the Indians as Squaw ...
... J J DAVID GRIFFIN Historians and the Sixth Article of The Ordinance of 1787 Writing in the North American Review in 1876 William F Poole concluded that in the whole range of topics in our national history there is none which has been more obscure or the subject of more conflicting and erroneous statements than the Ordinance of 1787 When one makes even cursory examination of a small sample of the literature that has dealt with the Ordinance he is very likely to conclude that the statement must ...
... THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS The committee found that limitations of time made it necessary to rely on questionnaires in compiling a bibliography of the historical writings of Ohioans during the year 1949 Members of the Ohio Academy of History staff members of departments of history in the state's colleges and universities and officials of local historical societies were asked to list their writings In relying on the use of the ...
... ANDREW McILROY ANDREW McILROY No Interest No Time No Money Civil Defense in Cleveland in the Cold War In recent years historians have shown that fear of the atomic bomb pervaded all aspects of American life in the early cold war era Paul Boyer argued that the ever-present reality of the bomb was so great that it was built into the very structure of our minds giving shape and meaning to all our perceptions Magazines such as Life Time and Newsweek offered evidence through a wealth of articles ...
... 236 Ohio Arch 236 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications GENEALOGY OF WILLIAM McKINLEY BY REV A STAPLETON The following genealogical sketch of President McKinley was prepared by the Rev A Stapleton of Carlisle Pa We give it as it was originally published in the New York Sun-EDITOR It should be a matter of regret to all true historians that the campaign histories of President McKinley were erroneous in several important genealogical details The data herein given may be relied on as correct as ...
... INDEX INDEX COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ACE of Roosevelt The 74 Ahlstrom Sydney E 66 Albacete MJ Architecture in Canton 87 with D'Arti and Reeves Ohio Quilts A Living Tradition 87 Alexander Charles C Here the Country Lies Nationalism and the Arts in Twentieth-Century America rev 135-37 American City 21 American Institute of Architects 7 29 Angel William D Jr book rev 121-22 Athony Wayne Trail 33 Anti-Saloon League of Cleveland 71 Annual Meeting Non-Partisan WCTU 1875 70 1889 72 Annual Report ...
... Index Index Saunders Richard Erie Railroad 7 Scale and Scope The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism by Alfred D Chandler Jr rev 61-63 Scarlet Woman of Wall Street The See Erie Lackawanna Railway Company Scharff Virginia Taking the Wheel Women and the Coming of the Motor Age rev 64-66 Schob David E Schob book rev 147-148 Scioto Company The 117 Scioto River 119 120 Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks One Hundred Years of Preservation and Resource Management California History by Lary M ...
... EARLY NEWSPAPERS OF CINCINNATI EARLY NEWSPAPERS OF CINCINNATI BY V C STUMP The first newspaper was printed in Cincinnati November 9 17931 At that time Cincinnati was a small village in the wilderness Only the hardier pioneers had dared to face the hardships and to cross the Alleghany Mountains in spite of the menace of the British and Indians on the North Among these few was one William Maxwell an editor from New Jersey who set up a little printing office in a log cabin which stood on the ...
... REMARKS OF REV REMARKS OF REV B W ARNETT DD MR CHAIRMAN LADIES AND GENTLEMEN There are times in the history and in the life of individuals when language fails to express the throbbings and longings as well as the aspirations of the heart and I find myself sir this evening without words to express my sentiments to you and to this intelligent audience the representatives of this great Commonwealth of ours But your call to me to say a word1 was a command which I could not disobey without feeling ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA BY BERTHA E JOSEPHSON Among collections suitable for investigation and research by graduate students in history economics and American literature are the following from the manuscript vaults of the Department of Documents in the Library of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Jay Cooke Collection--37 boxes plus I carton--pertaining to western land investments of Cooke his Gibralter Island period and the bankruptcy period None of this material ...
... TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY June 9 1 90 6 The Twenty-first Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the lecture room of the V M C A Building Columbus at 1 30 P M June 9 19 06 The following members were present Rev J W Atwood Columbus Judge J H Anderson Columbus Prof M R Andrews Marietta Mr E H Archer Columbus Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Gen R ...
... J J F MACLEAR Lyman Beecher in Britain The triumphant British tours of Harriet Beecher Stowe in the 1850s and Henry Ward Beecher in the 1860s have long claimed the attention of students of American literature and Civil War diplomacy Yet despite the interest of intellectual and church historians in Lyman Beecher the patriarch of the family no attention has been paid to his earlier stay in Britain in the summer of 18461 It is true that Beecher was then seventy-one years old his impact on ...
... JAMES W JAMES W GEARY Clement L Vallandigham Views the Charleston Convention The Democratic National Convention which opened at Charleston South Carolina on April 23 1860 provided the setting for one of the most significant turning points in American history The delegates who gathered at this southern city to select a presidential candidate and a platform failed in both efforts Radical southerners refused even to consider a program of popular sovereignty as defined by Stephen A Douglas the ...
... DAVID ZEISBERGER DAVID ZEISBERGER REV JOHN GREENFIELD Memorial delivered Sunday Nov 15 1908 in Nazareth Pa That ye be not slothful but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promisesHebrews 612 Our congregation celebrates today a threefold festival We commemorate first of all the powerful experience made by our Fathers November 13 1741 that Jesus Christ is the Chief Shepherd and Head of the Church We celebrate in the second place our annual congregation festival for it ...
... BOOK REVIEWS THE LIBERTY LINE THE LEGEND OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD By Larry Gara Lexington University of Kentucky Press 1961 xi201p index 500 Although the underground railroad was a reality much of the material relating to it belongs in the realm of folklore rather than history Most legends have many versions and the story of the underground railroad is no exception Few people can provide details when asked about the institution Specific information is usually crowded out by vague ...