... Comments Notes and Reviews Comments Notes and Reviews 139 heartedness Many incidents occurred during his stay to evidence the gentleness of his nature and the breadth of his sympathy with the unfortunate and the oppressed THE BOERS IN OHIO On Monday evening June 12 but a few days after the departure of Admiral Dewey the city for a few hours was the host as Mr Dooley would say inofficially of two other distinguished guests namely Messrs Wessells and Fischer Boer representatives of the Transvaal ...
... CORRESPONDENCE OF GUY M CORRESPONDENCE OF GUY M BRYAN AND RUTHERFORD B HAYES ADDITIONAL LETTERS edited by ROBERT C COTNER and WATT P MARCHMAN A number of years ago Ernest William Winkler who was then reference librarian and curator of Texas books at the University of Texas and an associate editor of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly began the publication in that periodical of all available correspondence exchanged between the Honorable Guy M Bryan of Texas and President Rutherford B Hayes ...
... Dedication of Ohio's World War Memorial 501 Dedication of Ohio's World War Memorial 501 It is particularly appropriate that the address of welcome with which the program proper is to begin should be delivered by His Excellency the Governor of Ohio that staunch friend of the Society neighbor and fellow-citizen Vic Donahey May I present the Governor of Ohio The audience rose and extended a very cordial greeting to Governor Donahey When the applause concluded he spoke as follows Mr Chairman ...
... LAND GRANTS FOR EDUCATION IN THE OHIO LAND GRANTS FOR EDUCATION IN THE OHIO VALLEY STATES BY CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF In the discussion of the subject at hand I find I am con fronted with three very positive limitations First because the story of land grants for education is one that even the most investigating historian can find but little new general material upon which to write Second the program committee has wisely limited the time in which the subject may be presented However laudable this ...
... 228 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 228 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY in Europe and we are becoming politically alive in every direction that there exists as never before the possibility of cultivating such a higher form of political science and history This new political science will not aim primarily at dictating political decisions but prepare the ground for such decisions it will reveal and illuminate combinations in the realm of politics and history which ...
... The Ohio-Columbus Centennial The Ohio-Columbus Centennial 447 to their homes without a serious accident There was abundant entertainment for all and there was no extortion anywhere Every feature of the celebration over which the commission had control was absolutely free yet when the books were closed every expense had been provided for The great Sunday afternoon meeting at the park seemed to indicate that the tumult and the shouting had not driven out of mind the more serious considerations ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY THE OHIO VALLEY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Fifth Annual Meeting Pittsburgh Pa October 30-November 1 1911 THE NEW ORLEANS CENTENNIAL Robert Fulton who had profited by the experiments and experiences of John Fitch and James Rumsey a score or more years before made a successful trial with the steamboat Clermont on the Hudson River in 1807 The success of the Clermont on the New York river inspired her owners Fulton Livingston and Roosevelt with the ...
... AN OHIO ARMY OFFICER OF WORLD WAR I AN OHIO ARMY OFFICER OF WORLD WAR I MAJOR GENERAL JOSEPH T DICKMAN by SISTER MARY CLEMENT STUEVE CPPS The various political and economic upheavals which invariably follow major wars often tend to obscure the history of the men who were personally engaged in the conflicts And men who gave their entire life to a military career and who are necessarily absent from boyhood surroundings are sometimes quickly forgotten by their native localities Joseph Theodore ...
... Brilliant Thoughts and Important Truths A Speech of Frederick Douglass ed it ed by LARRY G ARA In the spring of 1852 Frederick Douglass visited Cincinnati to attend an antislavery convention Douglass a former slave had already gained national renown as a writer editor and speaker1 While in Cincinnati Douglass frequently spoke and also took the occasion to carry his message to another town in the area Harveysburg in Warren County Ohio where he addressed a church congregation In his speech2 ...
... THE OHIO BOUNDARY OR THE ERIE WAR THE OHIO BOUNDARY OR THE ERIE WAR1 WHEN the great Ordinance of 1787 was passed by Congress it was agreed by all the States present that six of the articles known as the articles of compact should not be repealed except by the joint consent of Congress and the States concerned The fifth of these irrevocable articles provided that not less than three nor more than five States should be formed out of the region of country known as the Northwest Territory In case ...
... Dedication of the Hayes Memorial Dedication of the Hayes Memorial 475 THE MEMORIAL BUILDING The Memorial Building a beautiful structure of classic architecture stands among the great trees to the north of the Hayes Residence facing the entrance from Hayes Avenue It is of light grey Ohio sandstone from the Amherst quarries and of ample proportions Broad steps between bronze pedestals bearing ornamental lights lead up to the pillared portico and great bronze doors Upon entering the building the ...
... SKETCHES OF JOHN AND ANN SIMPSON DAVIS SKETCHES OF JOHN AND ANN SIMPSON DAVIS THEIR FORBEARS AND DESCENDANTS BY EVA SELLS JAEGER The History of every Family is a romance -- to those who search its pages a poem --Lamartine The history of the state of Pennsylvania from which came John and Ann Simpson Davis is unique in the manner of settlements made there as it offered an asylum for all mankind To this state came the Swedes who settled along the Delaware River the Dutch from Holland who in turn ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Men of Good Hope A Story of American Progressives By Daniel Aaron New York Oxford University Press 1951 xiv321p 400 Men of Good Hope is a sympathetic but considered analysis of the social philosophies of nine men whom the author believes have shaped or expressed progressive thought in America Emerson Theodore Parker Henry George Edward Bellamy Henry Demarest Lloyd William Dean Howells and Thorstein Veblen-precursors and prophetic agitators-and Theodore Roosevelt and ...
... 634 Ohio Arch 634 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications During the year there has been a large number of visitors at the Park The custodian reports more than twenty-five thousand While many of these doubtless have been the usual Sunday and holiday visitors they have been orderly while at the Park and let us hope have carried away with them some wholesome impressions of the significance of the Great Serpent Effigy Signed W H COLE Chairman of Committee REPORT OF SPIEGEL GROVE COMMITTEE A E ...
... NEWS and NOTES ADLAI E STEVENSON United States ambassador to the United Nations has given his papers relating to his campaign for governor of Illinois in 1948 and the papers of his terms as governor 1949-53 to the Illinois State Historical Society Springfield In a statement accompanying his letter of gift Ambassador Stevenson said Feeling that the preservation of papers affecting our past is important for the future and because of my family's long residence in Illinois and close connection ...
... 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 ...
... A CENTURY OF STATEHOOD A CENTURY OF STATEHOOD ADDRESS BY GEORGE K NASH On the evening of Saturday December 27 1902-the members of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce participated in their Annual Christmas Dinner It was an elaborate banquet held in the spacious hall of the Chamber of Commerce Many distinguished speakers were present among them being Major-General Henry C Corbin Major-General Samuel B M Young Major-General Adna R Chaffee Hon John G Milburn of Buffalo One of the speakers of the ...
... HIGH LIGHTS IN OHIO LITERATURE HIGH LIGHTS IN OHIO LITERATURE BY EMILIUS O RANDALL PhB Cornell LLB LLM O S U LLD Ohio An address delivered before the OHIO SOCIETY OF NEW YORK at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on the evening of November 12 1917 Matthew Arnold the apostle of sweetness and light in one of his delightful after-dinner speeches before the Royal Academy reminded his hearers that Fauriel the French literary historian tells of a company of Greeks settled somewhere in Southern Italy in the ...
... EXPLORATION OF THE WRIGHT GROUP OF EXPLORATION OF THE WRIGHT GROUP OF PRE-HISTORIC EARTHWORKS BY H C SHETRONE CURATOR OF ARCHAEOLOGY The Wright Group of Earth-works is located in Perry Township IFran-kli County Ohic one mile northeast of the vill ag e of Dubl in The three uni l s composing the group --a rectangular and two circular enclosures - lie mostly upon the land of Samuel M Wright whose name in recognition of examination privileges and personal assistance accorded by him is hereby given ...
... SECONDARY EDUCATION IN OHIO PREVIOUS TO SECONDARY EDUCATION IN OHIO PREVIOUS TO THE YEAR 1840 BY W W BOYD In the report of the United States Commissioner of Education for the year 1899 Rev A D Mayo shows Ohio's peculiar position in regard to education Each of the thirteen original colonies of our country nourished its own class of people differing from each other in creeds languages manners and original national ideals Kentucky and Tennessee were reproductions of Virginia and North Carolina ...