... Bigelow Winter-Spring 2001 pp 5-25 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page and footnoted according to the original print version If a sentence appears to be incomplete scroll down to continue with the next page Columbus's Pioneer Doctor John M Edmiston The Fabric of His Life and Death By Ann Clymer Bigelow My Poor Father was a man of fine fealing but the Cold hand of death Laid him low from the journal of Evan Edmiston1 Dozens of ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLIANCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Alliance Mrs Fred Donaldson President The Alliance Historical Society is cooperating with other groups in the observance of the centennial of Alliance this summer A series of events is planned culminating in those of the week of August 26 - September 2 1950 Copies of old pictures of Alliance are being made by the society which is also publishing a centennial history of the city AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES Cincinnati ...
... DANIEL PRESTON DANIEL PRESTON Thomas Kelsey Hardluck Entrepreneur In the years following the close of the War of 1812 a wave of economic speculation swept through the West The Treaty of Ghent which ended the war offered nothing in concrete terms beyond a much desired peace But if the United States had not won the war against the powerful British Americans could at least revel in the knowledge that they had not lost it either They quickly forgot the many near-disasters that the nation ...
... JEPTHA H JEPTHA H WADE AND THE CLEVELAND AND CINCINNATI TELEGRAPH COMPANY by RUSSELL H ANDERSON Director Western Reserve Historical Society Jeptha H Wade was the organizer moving spirit and principal owner of the Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company and the story of his activities in building and operating its line leads into his career in the nation-wide telegraph field especially as a principal in the Western Union Telegraph Company It was with this Ohio line that Wade capitalizing ...
... REV REV PAUL HENKEL'S JOURNAL1 HIS MISSIONARY JOURNEY TO THE STATE OF OHIO IN 1806 Translated from the German by Rev F E Cooper of Milwaukee Wis and edited by Clement L Martzolff Ohio University Athens Ohio NEW MARKET SHENANDOAH COUNTY VIRGINIA2 Monday July 7th To-day at 4 o'clock in the afternoon I started on my first journey as travelling preacher As the affairs of my household were in such shape that my wife could leave home for a time and as we had some reason to believe that her bodily ...
... LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH IN OHIO DURING LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH IN OHIO DURING THE PERIOD 1835-1858 By ROBERT G PATERSON Ph D Early pioneers in the settlement of Ohio brought with them the ideas methods and practices which prevailed among the colonists on the Atlantic Seaboard This was true especially in their struggles with epidemic diseases Today it is difficult for us to recreate the stark fear with which our forefathers awaited an approaching epidemic Scarcely a winter went by without a ...
... DARNELL'S LEAP FOR LIFE DARNELL'S LEAP FOR LIFE It will be recollected by students of history that in the year 1778 during the Revolution Daniel Boone with twenty-seven others was taken prisoner in Kentucky and brought to Old Town or Old Chillicothe as the Shawanese called it Through the influence of Hamilton the British Governor Boone with ten of his party was taken to Detroit while the remaining seventeen prisoners were left with their savage captors Among the latter number was a man whose ...
... 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 PRESERVATION OF DOCUMENTS THE PRESERVATION OF DOCUMENTS ONE of the earlier issues of the QUARTERLY contained timely suggestions regarding the preservation of old documents letters and memoranda relating to our early history There has also been no little discussion on this question elsewhere notably in the American Historical Association The result has been to awaken an interest in such articles and a search in old trunks in garrets and in other such receptacles incident to our American ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Organizations ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President The society now has about 134000 in cash and a quantity of bricks on hand for its proposed museum building The estimated cost of the structure is 150000 The society would like to lay the cornerstone in Ohio's sesquicentennial year but definite plans have not been made ALLIANCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Alliance Mrs Fred R Donaldson President A marker has been placed by the society ...
... edited by edited by ROBERT W HATTON Just a Little Bit of the Civil War As Seen by W J Smith Company M 2nd 0 V Cavalry Conclusion This is the second of two articles based upon the Civil War memoirs of Private William James Smith Company M Second Ohio Volunteer Cavalry In the first article which appeared in the Summer issue of Ohio History Smith provides some information about his pre-war life and enlistment at the age of seventeen in the Dennison Guards prior to transferring to the 2nd OVC on ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 399 Society The article is most complete and satisfactory written with the customary scholarly accuracy characteristic of Professor Knight Judge James H Anderson the President of The Old Northwest Genealogical Society has an interesting and of course sympathetic article upon his son James Thomas Anderson Lieutenant U S A who died in Colorado Springs March 13 1904 and was buried on the 17th of March at Marion Ohio There is also an article by the late William Trimble ...
... Ora et Labora Ora et Labora A German Methodist Utopia By CARL WITTKE IN ALL AGES men have toyed with plans for the regeneration of the race and a map of the world without utopias would be bleak and uninteresting indeed1 A new unsettled land like the United States was especially appealing to utopian dreamers and beginning with the colonial period scores of communitarian experiments flourished for longer or shorter periods in America Some were religious in origin and used a communist pattern as ...
... PROCEEDINGS 215 PROCEEDINGS 215 tory section under the supervision of the State Historical Society It is not intended to limit the activities and interests of the conference to Ohio history alone but rather to develop an annual Ohio History Conference devoted to all phases of history in which the membership might be interested The president called for a report of the Nominating Committee for trustees The chairman of the committee reported that the committee recommended the re-appointment of Dr ...
... 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 ...
... ANCIENT WORKS AT MARIETTA OHIO ANCIENT WORKS AT MARIETTA OHIO BY J P MACLEAN PH D The ancient earthworks at Marietta Ohio have received much attention and have been written about more than any of the prehistoric remains of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys These structures were great and ranked high in importance although not so extensive and complicated as certain other remains which have been fully considered At the time of the opening of the great West the Ohio river was the main artery that ...
... a 482 UNVEILING OF TABLET AT CAMPUS MARTIUS UNVEILING OF TABLET AT CAMPUS MARTIUS A number of interesting functions attended the unveiling of the tablet on the Campus Martius House September 28 1921 as the most historical spot in the state The exercises were conducted under the auspices of the Daughters of the American Revolution who selected this spot and presented the tablet On the evening of September 27 Mr Edward MacTaggart threw open his stately old home The Anchorage to the members of ...
... SUNSET COX OHIO'S CHAMPION OF COMPROMISE IN SUNSET COX OHIO'S CHAMPION OF COMPROMISE IN THE SECESSION CRISIS OF 1860-1861 by DAVID LINDSEY Associate Professor of History Baldwin-Wallace College Among the political leaders of the blundering generation of 1860-61 no one deplored the tragic drift of events toward armed conflict more than Samuel Sullivan Cox of Ohio Son of a pioneer printer from New Jersey Cox had been born and reared in Zanesville and schooled at Ohio University and Brown ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLIANCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Alliance Dorothy S Donaldson President Six scrapbooks on the Alliance Centennial of 1950 compiled by members of the society have been completed and turned over to the Alliance Chamber of Commerce the Alliance Review the Carnegie Library Mount Union College Library and the Alliance Historical Society The project of placing bronze markers at historic sites is being continued The society holds its meetings three ...
... 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 ...