... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR THOMAS BARTLEY ACTING GOVERNOR AND JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO Singular though it may seem the biographies of Judge Bartley that have appeared from time to time in Ohio publications are without exception incomplete Beyond the record of the fact that he served a short time as governor to fill out the unexpired term of Wilson Shannon who had been appointed ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA HISTORY OF THE MAUMEE RIVER BASIN There has just appeared from the press of Bowen amp Slocum Indianapolis and Toledo a History of the Maumee River Basin from the earliest account to its organization into counties The author is Dr Charles Elihu Slocum a life member of the Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society he has contributed many interesting and valuable articles to its Quarterly and for many years has been an indefatigable and enthusiastic student of ...
... ROBERT F ROBERT F HOROWITZ Land to the Freedmen A Vision of Reconstruction The Reconstruction Acts of March 1867 were much closer to the ideas of the moderate and conservative elements of the Republican party than to the views of the radicals Influential Republicans such as George Julian Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner had originally hoped for a more thorough reconstruction policy which they were never able to obtain In fact the phrase Radical Reconstruction is in part unjustified since ...
... CATHERINE M CATHERINE M ROKICKY Lydia Finney and Evangelical Womanhood In May of 1835 Lydia Andrews Finney bade farewell to her husband as he headed for his first look at Oberlin College in Oberlin Ohio Mrs Finney and their three children would stay in Cleveland with her parents until the Reverend Charles Grandison Finney settled himself as the professor of theology in Oberlin1 Separation between the couple was far from a new experience because of the position of the Reverend Finney as the ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS EZRA MEEKER Ohio's Illustrious Pioneer BY C B GALBREATH In the Cincinnati Enquirer of October 10 1924 shortly after the historic aviation meeting at Dayton appeared the following editorial Many interesting features distinguished the great air race meeting at Dayton Ohio but we fancy none of the remarkable feats sights scenes or incidents was more genuinely inspiring or thrilling than the arrival at McCook Field of Ezra Meeker ...
... compiled by compiled by CHARLES A ISETTS A Survey of Publications on the History of Ohio 1974 to 1976 ANTISLAVERY Cardinal Eric J Antislavery Sentiment and Political Transformation in the 1850's Portage County Ohio Old Northwest 1 1975 223-238 Harrold Stanley C Jr Forging an Antislavery Instrument Gamaliel Bailey and the Foundation of the Ohio Liberty Party Old Northwest 2 1976 371-387 Ludwig Charles Levi Coffin and the Underground Railroad Scottdale Pennsylvania Herald Press 1975 184p Lupold ...
... PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO In two volumes Illustrated by about 500 engravings contrasting the Ohio of 1846 with 1886-88 from drawings by the author in 1846 and photographs taken in 1886 1887 and 1888 of cities and chief towns public buildings historic localities monuments curiosities antiquities portraits maps etc By HENRY HOWE author of Historical Collections of Virginia and other works Columbus Henry Howe amp Son 1889 The following ...
... AN EDDY IN THE WESTERN FLOW OF AMERICAN AN EDDY IN THE WESTERN FLOW OF AMERICAN CULTURE The History of Printing and Publishing in Oxford Ohio 1827-1841 By JESSE H SHERA 103 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It is I am well aware not customary to append to a study as brief as this a lengthy list of acknowledgments Nevertheless there are in this instance certain major obligations the public recognition of which I am convinced is not an act of supererogation Accordingly I would express my ...
... THE OLD NATIONAL ROAD-THE HISTORIC THE OLD NATIONAL ROAD-THE HISTORIC HIGHWAY OF AMERICA BY ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT I THE MIDDLE AGE The middle ages had their wars and agonies but also their intense delights Their gold was dashed with blood but ours is sprinkled with dust Their life was intermingled with white and purple ours is one seamless stuff of brown - RUSKIN A person can not live in the American central west and be acquaintance with the generation which greets the new century with feeble ...
... FAVORABLE ACTION OF THE GENERAL ASFAVORABLE ACTION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON BUDGET OF THE SOCIETY The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is gradually coming into full recognition as one of the important educational agencies of the state Evidence of this fact is found in the recognition accorded it by the General Assembly of the state at its last regular session Its place among the institutions of the state was recognized when the trustees of the Ohio State University granted ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Organizations CRESTLINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY Crestline Ernest G Hesser President The guest speaker for the April 28 meeting was Edward S Thomas curator of natural history of the Ohio Historical Society He spoke on the subject Outdoor Ohio in Natural Color and illustrated the talk with his own colored slides of landscapes birds wild flowers insects and other wild life The society ...
... THE ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART THE ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART BY MARY MCMULLIN JONES In 1925 the Exeter Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Hampshire published a small book entitled The Order of Military Merit the Honor Badge of the Continental Army In this book is given all that is known about the oldest decoration for valor in existence except the Cross of St George of Russia This brief sketch was compiled with great difficulty as the Book of Merit provided for in General ...
... THREE ANTI-SLAVERY NEWSPAPERS THREE ANTI-SLAVERY NEWSPAPERS Published in Ohio Prior to 1823 BY ANNETTA C WALSH The names of three editors of newspapers published in Ohio during the first quarter of the nineteenth century are closely associated with the growth of the abolition movement in the United States The names of these editors are Charles Osborn Elisha Bates and Benjamin Lundy and to two of them at least Osborn1 and Lundy2 is attributed the honor of having been the originator of the ...
... Lewis D Lewis D Campbell and the Know-Nothing Party in Ohio b y WILLIAM E VAN HORNE The period of the late 1840's and early 1850's was one of confusion in the The period of the late 1840's and early 1850's was one of confusion in the ranks of the two old established parties a situation which resulted in large part from the controversy over the status of slavery in the territories acquired by the United States during the decade 1840-1850 Even the Free Soil party formed on the basis of ...
... HARRY N HARRY N SCHEIBER Alfred Kelley and the Ohio Business Elite 1822-1859 In a rare moment of freedom from the pressures of his work as an Ohio canal commissioner and legislator Alfred Kelley wrote to his wife in Cleveland from his rooms at Columbus in January 1825 I think it is not altogether vanity which induces me to say that my services and advice have been important in settling the plan of operations and the details of the canal system which have produced so great unanimity in the ...
... THE BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE IN BALLAD AND HISTORY THE BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE IN BALLAD AND HISTORY BY CHARLES B GALBREATH Perry's victory on Lake Erie stands out pre-eminent among the naval exploits of the War of 181 2 And this is true not only by virtue of the comparative importance of the battle and its results but because it combined in an unusual degree the elements of intrepidity patriotic fervor and personal valor that captivate the imagination live in legend and story and song and make up what ...
... THE WYANDOT CHIEF LEATHER LIPS THE WYANDOT CHIEF LEATHER LIPS HIS TRIAL AND EXECUTION BY WM L CURRY Away back in the thirties of the 19th century a literary magazine of high order called The Hesperian of the West was published in Columbus Ohio In fact it is the only literary periodical that ever was published in the Capital City of Ohio In the publication of this magazine William D Gallagher and Otway Curry both men of high literary attainments were associated together as editors Poems from ...
... TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY July 26 1912 The adjourned session of the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Hunter Society Room Page Hall Ohio State University Columbus Ohio at two o'clock P M Friday July 26 1912 in accordance with the action taken at the preliminary meeting held May 25 191 2 as recorded herein a nte p 328 The following ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 533 Reviews Notes and Comments 533 Indian dialects and is a man of high character and gentlemanly attainments At the conclusion of the exercises a remarkable demonstration occurred The vast crowd charmed by the address and manly bearing of Buffalo Child Long Lance surged forward eager to grasp him by the hand The timbers under the speaker's stand began to snap The Chief and those about him however succeeded in getting to the ground and the threatened collapse of the ...
... BOUNDARY AND JURISDICTIONAL PROBLEMS BOUNDARY AND JURISDICTIONAL PROBLEMS OF THE KENTUCKY-OHIO BORDER BY EUGENE O PORTER The Ohio River forms parts of the boundaries of five states and in so doing advances two problems first that of the actual boundary of each state on the river and second that of the jurisdictionwhich each state may exercise on the river In other words Virginia in her deed of cession of the Old Northwest to the Government of the Confederacy in 1784 and in her enabling act for ...