... Benjamin Franklin showed his wisdom in leaving to posterity a carefully prepared record of his life which has become a classic in our language Other writers have been less classic and some of them less lenient The first biography of the subject of this sketch entitled The Public Life of Captain John Brown was written by James Redpath a man in hearty sympathy with Brown and so closely associated with him in Kansas that he may be classed among ...
... Benjamin Young's assigned Benjamin Lakin seemed almost Benjamin St James Fry April Benjamin Lakin a charter member of both the Western and Ohio conferences seemingly unconcerned with material rewards did nevertheless keep a strict record of the quarterage and book profits he received ...
... THE BREADTH OF VISION OF DR THE BREADTH OF VISION OF DR JOHN STRONG NEWBERRY By A E WALLER Ph D1 Attention has been directed to the interesting circumstance that many of our leaders in the natural sciences whose schooling ended before 1850 held degrees in medicine When it is asked how this happens to be the case the facts seem to show that only the colleges of medicine offered an approach in training and teaching to modern laboratory study Thus Asa Gray John Torrey George Engelmann to mention ...
... BenjaminBenjamin Martin's Benjamin Waterhouse one of the original professors of the Harvard Medical School in his last years compared Samuel Thomson with John Hunter Had John Hunter whom I knew well been born and bred where Samuel Thomson was he would have been just such another man and had Samuel Thomson been thrown into the same society ...
... OHIO'S UNSUNG PENITENTIARY RAILROAD OHIO'S UNSUNG PENITENTIARY RAILROAD by WALTER RUMSEY MARVIN Had James Thurber spent his youth in Columbus two generations before he did he would now be regaling us with anecdotes about a curious little railroad operation that enlivened the city for a few years By antiquarians and connoisseurs of the early iron horse it is sometimes whimsically hailed as the first railroad into Columbus a palm that more literal-minded scholars award to the Columbus and Xenia ...
... LOIS SCHARF LOIS SCHARF I Would Go Wherever Fortune Would Direct Hannah Huntington and the Frontier of the Western Reserve My mind is now in the situation you wish whenever you think a removal will be for our mutual happiness wrote Hannah Huntington to her husband in October 17981 Samuel Huntington was a young partner in the Connecticut Land Company formed in 1795 by fortynine prominent individuals to purchase settle and sell lands in the Western Reserve of Connecticut Unlike many of his ...
... ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR FEBRUARY 19 1895 TO FEBRUARY 18 1896 GEN R BRINKERHOFF President E O RANDALL Secretary COLUMBUS O JANUARY 1896 275 To His Excellency ASA S To His Excellency ASA S BUSHNELL Go v er n or of Ohio SIR I have the honor to submit herewith the eleventh annual report of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society covering the year from February 19 1895 to February 18 1896 This ...
... Benjamin Harrison Is it that Benjamin Gaines to the place He had also obtained a clerkship for another nephew and made his son his private secretary The press already annoyed with General Keifer from the previous congress seized upon these revelations with glee and roasted him unmercifully General Keifer seems to have been goaded to desperation At any rate on January 29 1884 he rose on the ...
... NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENCE NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENCE LETTERS TO THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE TOPEKA KANSAS July 14 1856 Do you know for what Mr J Speer Editor of The Kansas Tribune and a dozen or more others -- some of the best men in Kansas--have been compelled to flee from their families and homes and become exiles in a strange land If you do not the sub-joined letter will initiate you into the secret How the original letter was obtained I know not but I have seen it and the following is a verbatim et ...
... DEDICATION OF BRONZE TABLETS TO DEDICATION OF BRONZE TABLETS TO MAJOR JOHN MILLS AND TECUMSEH FRAZER E WILSON Early in the spring of 1927 the Greenville Historical Society through the services of the Piqua Granite Company transported to Greenville two large granite boulders to be used as historical markers The first was about four and one-half feet square and is shown in the illustration accompanying this article It was found along the Nashville Road about four miles west of Greenville and was ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Organizations ANTHONY WAYNE PARKWAY BOARD Columbus J Richard Lawwill Director In the past few months the Anthony Wayne Parkway Board has partic ipated in the dedication of several markers in the parkway district On June 21 a marker sponsored by the local businessmen's association and the Amer ican Legion post was dedicated at Fort Loramie Shelby County It describe the Miami and Erie Canal and the Greene Ville Treaty line which cross at that point J ...
... 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 ...
... THE COXEY MOVEMENT IN OHIO THE COXEY MOVEMENT IN OHIO BY OSMAN C HOOPER The Coxey movement of 1894 was a fantastic expression at a critical moment of the industrial unrest prevalent for a period centering about that date It was an Ohio product sprung from a Western seed Named for its Ohio patron Jacob S Coxey its real author and promoter was Carl Browne a lieutenant of Denis Kearney in the days of sand-lot politics The number of unemployed men was large and discontent was widespread so that ...
... Benjamin Oviatt Another Benjamin Franklin the local Benjamin Oviatt his great-grandfather served as a Minute Man enlisting from the town of Goshen Litchfield County Connecticut Patrick Grant Pemberton his great-grandfather served in the Connecticut Militia Mr Randall often referred with pride to the long and honorable service of his ...
... FOUR CYCLES A CENTENNIAL ODE FOUR CYCLES A CENTENNIAL ODE Prepared in commemoration of the centennial anniversary of Pickaway County The Poem is descriptive of Circleville the county seat MAY LOWE PRELUDE The grape vine and the sycamore Cast shadows long and deep On the surface of the river Near whose banks the thousands sleepMen of mystery who from silence Of the dim past settled here Wrought their mighty deeds of valor Left a record written clear Of their learning and their prowess In the ...
... 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 ...
... Benjamin Bissell declined to run the party then nominated Goodcil Buckingham who also withdrew3 At this point Allen wrote a letter to the Ashtabula Sentinel widely reprinted setting forth his antislavery and Maine Law convictions4 Correctly or not regular Democrats believed that Allen and the Free Democrats were working together5 Democrats had nothing to fear in the gubernatorial election but they were worried that a coalition of Whigs and ...
... Benjamin Strickland Benjamin Strickland Benjamin Strickland was a Benjamin Strickland Cleveland's First Dentist Bulletin of the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland December 1930 Jordan Philip D Some Bibliographical and Research Aids to American Medical History Ohio State Archaeological and ...
... MATTHIAS LOY MATTHIAS LOY Leader Of Ohio's Lutherans by C GEORGE FRY Among the names of the pioneers who labored to establish a strong Lutheran Church in Ohio that of Matthias Loy deserves a prominent place At the time of his death in 1915 he was regarded as one of the most distinguished theologians of the Lutheran faith in the United States1 and in his long and productive life he had been a Churchman of varied attainments and wide usefulness pastor professor editor author and church leader2 ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR VERILY THE WORLD DO MOVE Under this caption the Lancaster Daily Eagle of September 13 1927 publishes the following editorial In another portion of this paper we reproduce possibly for the twentieth time a resolution supposed to have been passed by a Lancaster School Board away back a hundred years ago in 1828 These records of the school board of that period are not obtainable and even though they were this resolution denying ...