... 586 Ohio Arch 586 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications the show places of Ohio Its interest for botanists is well known and Professor Robert F Griggs has published a survey of this and a much larger region of which it is a part under the name of the Sugar Grove Region This pamphlet is a Biological Survey and is published by the Ohio State University Not least among the attractions of the region to which a much more distinctive name the Queer Creek Region might be given are the trees most ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Pioneering in Agriculture One Hundred Years of American Farming and Farm Leadership By Thomas Clark Atkeson and Mary Meek Atkeson New York Orange Judd Publishing Co I nc 1937 22 2p 3 00 This is the autobiography of Thomas Clark Atkeson of whom it was said that no man in his generation has done more for the betterment of American agriculture Atkeson was born in a log house on the banks of the Great Kanawha River in Virginia now West Virginia in 1852 His English ...
... DR DR ALVA CURTIS IN COLUMBUS THE THOMSONIAN RECORDER AND COLUMBUS' FIRST MEDICAL SCHOOL By JONATHAN FORMAN M D In 1769 in the town of Astead New Hampshire was born one Samuel Thomson He lived and grew up as a farmer's son He became a keen observer of men and things He was particularly interested in all that he could learn about the healing art He was entirely self-taught and he learned from the Indians about him from the old women who were handy with the sick and from the medical books ...
... 574 Ohio Arch 574 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications terial down to this Library The task now seems so large that it seems to this committee unlikely that the consolidation can be effected before the summer of 1925 The intervening months will be used in preparing plans securing the appropriation doing the physical work and rearranging the Society's books and material all of which is preliminary to receiving the University's collection The situation with regard to Museum of Natural History ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 101 under discussion the tide was against the enactment on the ground that the Society did not merit the State's aid Mr Griffin hastily summoned the writer to the cloak-room of the House and asked a full explanation of the situation It was given Mr Griffin returned to the floor and in a most vigorous argument and enthusiastic plea changed the prevailing sentiment and carried the bill through He was the friend of the Society and deserves the kindliest thought and most ...
... SHULL'S ROAD SHULL'S ROAD The following letter addressed to the Editor by John William Scholl professor emeritus in the University of Michigan contains enough of historical data to warrant its publication as a matter of record ANN ARBOR MICHIGAN April 6 1946 Dear Sir I have before me a Road Map of Montgomery County Ohio made revised in 1936 by Victor C Smith then County Engineer which contains an especially interesting error Near the northeast corner of the county in Wayne Township there is a ...
... Mills Brown No 19 Of the Sylviad AP Heinrich To His Log House Boston March 14th 1826 Sheet music 5 These structures are well-defined in Eric Arthur and Dudley Witney The Barn Boston 1972 The Ohio Farmstead 223 The Ohio Farmstead 223 rather than general farming There is still a distinct difference between the rural architecture of the Connecticut Western Reserve and the MennoniteAmish settlements south of the boundary along Wayne and Stark ...
... 352 Ohio Arch 3 52 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications THOMAS MORRIS BY JAMES B SWING CINCINNATI 0 It is important that the memory of strong brave men who have been conspicuous in their day and influential for good should be kept green There is nothing more inspiring than the story of the life of an intellectual and moral hero There is a noble a great name in the history of Ohio that ought to be remembered and honored of all but that is well-nigh forgotten a name that perhaps most of our ...
... 222 Ohio Arch 222 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications sack Anthony Bleecker Samuel Bayard Peter G Stuyvesant and John Pintard met in the picture room of the old city hall in Wall Street to organize this society whose principal object should be to collect and protect materials relating to the natural civil and ecclesiastical history of the United States in general and the State of New York in particular The society was incorporated by an act of the legislature of February 9 1809 It is now ...
... Adena and the William T Sherman Birthplace His most recent major publication was a book entitled The Story of an Ohio Village a history of Granville issued in 1956 At the time of his death he was serving as chairman of the Ohio Historical Advisory Committee of the Governor's Committee for Commemorating the Sesquicentennial of the War of 1812 Dr Utter was the recipient in 1957 of an honorary life membership in the Ohio Historical Society THE ...
... 56 Ohio Arch 56 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications emphasized by the hundreds of Japanese lanterns strung along either bank and in sweeping festooons across the big Lake Erie bridge Near the bridge and extending across the river were seven of the largest boats in the river bearing huge electric transparencies upon which appeared six-foot letters spelling the name Croghan which was also seen in a set piece The hit of the evening was the reproduction of Fort Stephenson on the southern ...
... 1902 the people of Lebanon Warren county Ohio held appropriate exercises celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the settlement of that time honored town The exercises were held in the opera house Mr John E Smith acting as President There were many distinguished speakers present who made addresses Our space in this Quarterly will not permit of the extended report which we would like to make but on account of its literary excellence and ...
... Mills Senator Charles S Dana Prof A B Hulbert Marietta E O Randall Columbus A George Bullock Worcester Senator Charles S Dana of Marietta was introduced He said in part It is a privilege for me to stand by the threshold of the founder of Ohio and greet you of the East who revere the life and the deeds of Rufus Putnam Here among the hills of Massachusetts the name of Rutland seems the articulation of the empire of the great Northwest The mists ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 145 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 145 known Entrust the future to them Teach them ideals of service and of Christian citizenship They'll not fail us Throw them the lighted torches and these will grow brighter as they climb the heights to endless day Said our beloved poet The thoughts of youth are long long thoughts and Emerson So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man When duty whispers low 'Thou must' The youth replies 'I can' The second ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS THE GNADENHUETTEN CENTENNIAL SEPTEMBER 29 1798 One hundred years ago the Rev John Heckewelder moved into the First House which he and his helpers built on the east bank of the Muskingum Tuscarawas River where he founded Gnadenhuetten as a Moravian Church settlement of whites To commemorate the Centennial Anniversary of its founding Gnadenhuetten was visited by a concourse of seven thousand men women and children This estimate of the number ...
... PROCEEDINGS 287 PROCEEDINGS 287 MR STOUT To honor Mr Sater I think it would be very fitting that these resolutions become a part of the Minutes of our Society Will someone make a motion to that effect A motion was made by Mr Spetnagel and seconded by Mr Roof that these resolutions be made a part of the Minutes of the Society The motion was unanimously carried Mr Spetnagel chairman of the Nominating Committee then made the following report Speaking for your Nominating Committee I wish to ...
... 1902 It is herewith 1902Editor It has been said that Belgium is the battleground of Europe Ohio may then be called the Belgium of America It is the great battlefield of the United States For the Ohio Valley of which Ohio may be regarded as the center was the arena in the contest of centuries between the Latin and the Saxon races for the American stakes The French through their discoveries up ...
... 19023 As early as 1899 Bigelow had advocated direct legislation In the first years of the twentieth century he had served as secretary of a number of organizations dedicated to educating the public on initiative-referendum I-R and in 1906 he took a leave of absence from his Vine Street charge to stump the state for this reform Bigelow was joined in his effort by such reformers as Cleveland's mayor Tom Johnson and Frederic Howe another ...
... 632 Ohio Arch 632 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications DIVISION OF SEIP MOUND PARK Wages 560 Office Supplies 100 Printing 1300 Building Materials 4290 Taxes 958 Cash Advanced to H C Shetrone Director 38682 45890 DIVISION OF JAMES E CAMPBELL PARK Wages 30612 Landscaping 22942 Improvements 158253 211807 Cash advanced Geo Rogers Clark Memorial Commission 15111 For sundry purposes and later refunded 250926 For sundry purposes to be refunded 29132 295469 Transferred to Permanent Fund 42500 Cash ...