... THE NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH IN OHIO THE NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH IN OHIO FROM 1848 TO 1870 by OPHIA D S MI TH In his Teachers of the Nineteenth Century 1845 Parke Godwin said that the chief characteristic of the then present epoch was its tendency to unity in universality and that the men in whom this tendency was most fully expressed were Swedenborg Fourier and Goethe In these three persons was summed up the great movement toward unity in universality in religion science and art which comprised the ...
... 318 Ohio Arch 318 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications STANTON DAY Tuesday morning at ten o'clock the exercises of the day opened at the opera house with Capt John F Oliver master of ceremonies There was a fair audience of school children and others who had gathered to hear Dr W H Venable's address on Ohio Men and Ohio Ideas After an invocation by Rev E W Cowling rector of St Stephen's parish and lately from the mother state of Virginia the home of Jefferson Mr D W Matlack principal of ...
... The OhioMichigan Boundary Line Dispute a The Ohio - Michigan Boundary Line Dispute 199 THE OHIO-MICHIGAN BOUNDARY LINE DISPUTE TOD B GALLOWAY Sing 0 Goddess Muse From whence arose so fierce a strife In the examination of the questions involved in the OhioMichigan boundary dispute I find myself very much in the position of the Justice of the Peace who after hearing the plaintiff's side of the case was ready to decide in his favor but upon the defendant having presented his argument he exclaimed ...
... edited by edited by FRANK R LEVSTIK Life Among the Lowly An Early View of an Ohio Poor House The care of the poor in Ohio during the early nineteenth century was largely based on English legislation of the sixteenth seventeenth and eighteenth centuries In 1795 statutes of the Northwest Territory provided a means whereby the poor could be employed through a system of annual farming-out to the lowest bidder The farmers were thus authorized to keep the poor at moderate labor For the next two ...
... OHIO OHIO and the PANAMA CANAL by CHARLES D AMERINGER Uncle Sam digging under the influence of the Sons of Ohio at the right place So ran a toast proposed at the twenty-second annual banquet of the Cincinnati Commercial Club at the Queen City Club on November 13 1902 The reference was to the role Ohioans had played in the decision of the United States to construct an interoceanic canal in Panama and the man who offered the toast was in a position to know whereof he spoke He was Philippe ...
... THE ANCESTRY OF THE OHIOAN THE ANCESTRY OF THE OHIOAN A M COURTENAY D D The following is a portion of an address delivered in Zanesville by Rev Courtenay who for many years has been an enthusiastic student of Ohio history upon which subject he has delivered many admirable addresses He has written frequently in prose and in verse for current reviews magazines and journals He wrote for and read at the Ohio Centennial Celebration the poem entitled The Ohio Century-EDITOR At a recent notable ...
... The Short Life of Manhattan Ohio The Short Life of Manhattan Ohio By JOHN W WEATHERFORD Lured on by the geographical promise of the Maumee Valley and by the venturesome spirit of the times speculators in the middle 1830's scattered a brood of infant towns along the Maumee River there to compete for their lives If the founders and inhabitants of these rival towns--Port Lawrence Vistula Oregon Maumee Perrysburg Marengo and Manhattan--agreed on anything it was on the future greatness of the ...
... Unveiling of Fort Recovery Monument Unveiling of Fort Recovery Monument 427 whose loss was unusually great but also to the British who stood as sponsors to the movements of the tribesmen for the British were not only redoubling their assistance to the tribes supplying them with arms and munitions but were in their own behalf taking bold measures of offensive warfare For it was at this time April 1794 that under the orders of Governor Simcoe three British companies commanded by Colonel Richard ...
... THE DIARY OF JOHN BEATTY JANUARY-JUNE 1884 THE DIARY OF JOHN BEATTY JANUARY-JUNE 1884 Part III edited by HARVEY S FORD Head Librarian Toledo Blade Wednesday March 26 1884 The newspaper correspondents have for the last month been urging me to give them an interview on the political situation What they mean by an interview is a carefully prepared dialogue between the correspondent who asks the questions or is represented as asking them and the interviewed person so called who writes both ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 217 Reviews Notes and Comments 217 A LATE ESTIMATE OF JOHN BROWN The time will never come perhaps when there will not be conflicting opinions in regard to John Brown and his mission It is remarkable however how well without any special advocate his character stands the test of time In spite of the critical portions of the biography written by Oswald Garrison Villard and the severe attack occupying an entire volume by Hill Peebles Wilson written for a consideration ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Anthony Wayne Trouble Shooter of the American Revolution By Harry Emerson Wildes New York Harcourt Brace and Co 1941 514 p Illus and maps 375 This volume is a biography written by one who knows intimately the Pennsylvania background of the famous Revolutionary hero The author was born in the neighboring state of Delaware holds a degree from the University of Pennsylvania and has served as literary editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger He moreover has lived for many ...
... PREHISTORIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN OHIO PREHISTORIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN OHIO BY MARY HUBBELL OSBURN The prehistoric era of the Indians in North America is an episode in the chronology of man in which Ohio and other portions of the Mississippi Valley play an important role It is in these regions that some of the finest examples of Indian cultures of that period are found Among the many thousands of other art objects found in the Ohio area the remnants of prehistoric musical instruments are ...
... ARNOLD HENRY DOHRMAN ARNOLD HENRY DOHRMAN BY A J MORRISON TOLEDO The following extracts1 will explain themselves and will serve to throw light upon the circumstances of the grant by the Old Congress to Arnold Henry Dohrman of a township in the southeastern part of Tuscarawas County 1780 I Report of Committee of Foreign Affairs June 21 1780 to whom was referred a letter of 23rd May from Mr P Henry late governor of Virginia to-wit Arnold Henry Dohrman hath expended large sums of money in ...
... A REVIEW-ESSAY A REVIEW-ESSAY Noble Fellow William Starling Sullivant By Andrew Denny Rodgers III Foreword by Dr Adolph E Waller New York G P Putnam's Sons 1940 xxii 361p Illustrations maps and appendix An Abstract by FRANK C CALDWELL This is a remarkable book centered about the accomplishments of a remarkable man He lived and worked in an almost frontier town hundreds of miles from the early eastern centers of science and before the days even of stage coach and federal mail communication He ...
... 342 Ohio Arch 342 Ohio Arc h and Hist Society Publications Detroit This latter officer was cowardly in character and incompetent in fitness The scenes are transferred to the Maumee Harrison builds Fort Meigs and the two sieges follow in both of which Tecumseh and Procter are the leading commanders The siege of Fort Stephenson August 1 was the highwater mark of Tecumseh's daring and generalship No incident in American history surpasses it for thrilling action and surprising results George ...
... THIRTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE THIRTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRELIMINARY SESSION SOCIETY BLDG COLUMBUS OHIO May 21 1915 The meeting was called to order by the President Prof G Frederick Wright There were present Messrs G Frederick Wright George F Bareis L P Schaus W H Cote H E Buck C H Gallup Webb C Hayes J E Campbell W H Scott H C Hockett E F Wood E 0 Randall W R Walker D H Gard I F King W L Curry W C Mills H C Shetrone and R C ...
... FRANK L FRANK L KLEMENT Ohio and the Dedication of the Soldiers' Cemetery at Gettysburg Ohioans had more than a passing interest in the dedication of the Soldiers' Cemetery at Gettysburg on November 19 1863 A decisive three-day battle fought in the surrounding countryside on July 1-3 1863 had claimed the lives of many of the state's soldiers some of whom were hurriedly buried in shallow graves or merely covered with spadefuls of dirt where they had fallen No other governor not even ...
... JOHN BROWN IN OHIO JOHN BROWN IN OHIO An Interview with Charles S S Griffing edited by Louis FILLER Assistant Professor of American Civilization Antioch College John Brown's Ohio years merit continued study In view of the fact that a serious shadow has been cast over his intentions and activities in Kansas by a formidable historian1 it is evident that the Ohio period may be crucial in any ultimate evaluation of Brown's role and personality Mary Land's article John Brown's Ohio Environment in ...
... FOWKE'S BOOK AGAIN FOWKE'S BOOK AGAIN The following review of Mr Fowke's volume appears in the Nation of December 25 1902 As it is the policy of the Nation to expose defects wherever they exist and to speak well only of that which deserves high praise its general approval of Mr Fowke's work is something upon which he is to be congratulatedE 0 R Archaeological History of Ohio The Mound Builders and Later Indians By Gerard Fowke Published by the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society ...
... APPENDIX APPENDIX REPORT OF THE CELEBRATION OF THE CENTENNIAL OF THE ERECTION OF JEFFERSON COUNTY AND FOUNDING OF STEUBENVILLE THE CENTENNIAL OF JEFFERSON COUNTY The centennial of the formation of Jefferson county and founding of Steubenville was celebrated in the city of Steubenville Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday August 24 25 and 26 which was participated in by a large number of people mainly former residents who returned to their old home for the occasion The celebration noted a century ...