... OHIO OHIO and the PANAMA CANAL by CHARLES D AMERINGER Uncle Sam digging under the influence of the Sons of Ohio at the right place So ran a toast proposed at the twenty-second annual banquet of the Cincinnati Commercial Club at the Queen City Club on November 13 1902 The reference was to the role Ohioans had played in the decision of the United States to construct an interoceanic canal in Panama and the man who offered the toast was in a position to know whereof he spoke He was Philippe ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR OLENTANGY RIVER The name Olentangy applied to an important tributary of the Scioto River has been a puzzler to the etymologists It is said to be of Indian origin but its root significance has never been determined The statement is made in the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society Publications Vol 6 page 93 that this name was legalized through the interest of Colonel Kilbourne We are told that in the year 1833 Colonel ...
... ANTI-SLAYERY MOVEMENT IN COLUMBIANA ANTI-SLAYERY MOVEMENT IN COLUMBIANA COUNTY BY C B GALBREATH A study of the early anti-slavery movement in Ohio at this late day occasions many surprises It seems that the first participants came from the South a number arriving before the state was admitted into the Union The famous Ordinance of 1787 prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territory The states carved out of it were thus from the beginning dedicated to freedom While the Ordinance contained a ...
... JOHN JAY JANNEY AND HIS RECOLLECTIONS OF THOMAS CORWIN edited by JAMES H HITCHMAN It is a fortunate occurrence when the unpublished recollections of an able recorder like John Janney are preserved His comments on Thomas Corwin afford an exceptional contemporary view of Ohio courts lawyers and politics in the 1830's and 40's and vivid personal reminiscences about the former governor's ability to influence people1 Corwin's political career spanned the years from 1818 to 1865 the era of sectional ...
... THE COONSKIN LIBRARY THE COONSKIN LIBRARY BY SARAH J CUTLER MARIETTA Among the hills of southern Ohio in that portion now included in the county of Athens the sound of the woodman's axe broke oftentimes the forest quiet during the winter of 1797-98 A vigorous pioneer was making a clearing upon a few acres of ground and building a log cabin to which to bring his family For miles around the unbroken forest stretched away Huge sycamores traced the courses of the streams while beech oak maple ...
... JOURNAL OF CYRUS P JOURNAL OF CYRUS P BRADLEY INTRODUCTORY NOTE BY GEORGE H TWISS A history in the co m mon acceptation of the term means a relation of facts and important dates a chronological record of battles sieges revolutions coronations and rebellions while no account is generally looked for of the moral and mental condition of the people whose action form the s u bject of the work and an account would doubtless if introduced be thought irrelevant out of place This is not as it should be ...
... 48 OHIO HISTORY 48 OHIO HISTORY THE WHISKEY WAR AT PADDY'S RUN EXCERPTS FROM A DIARY OF ALBERT SHAW edited by LLOYD J GRAYBAR In 1874 Albert Shaw later the distinguished editor of the American Review of Reviews and friend of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson was in his seventeenth year An intelligent youth able to observe events with some discernment he kept a diary of his life in the southwestern Ohio village of New London better known as Paddy's Run1 Renamed Shandon in 1893 ...
... 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 FAIRPORT HARBOR VILLAGE SITE THE FAIRPORT HARBOR VILLAGE SITE BY RICHARD G MORGAN AND H HOLMES ELLIS PREFACE The Indian village site described in this report was explored by the Department of Archaeology of the Ohio State Museum in cooperation with the Harding High School of Fairport Harbor Ohio The existence of the site was brought to the attention of the Museum by Mr Elijah H Brown principal of the high school Through the efforts of Mr Brown permission was secured to excavate the site ...
... Brief Biography of William Henry Holmes 511 Brief Biography of William Henry Holmes 511 younger son William Heberling Holmes having a wife and three daughters is in business in Detroit BEAR HUNT IN YELLOWSTONE PARK -- 1872 BY W H HOLMES I had a curious little bear hunt experience in the Gallatin Range when I was with the first Hayden expedition We started out to climb one of the mountains one party going in one direction and the other with the outfit in another direction As we went along we ...
... WINTHROP SARGENT WINTHROP SARGENT BY CHARLES SPRAGUE SARGENT Winthrop Sargent IV Harvard A M 1771 b Gloucester May 1 1753 d on a steamer near New Orleans La January 3 1820 m Rebecca daughter of Colonel Benjamin Tupper1 by whom he had a child who died in infancy m second Natchez Mississippi October 24 1798 Mary widow of Daniel Williams and daughter of James McIntosh2 and Eunice Hawley b Stratford Connecticut January 20 1764 d Philadelphia January 9 1844 After leaving Cambridge Mr Sargent ...
... 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 ...
... MILL CREEK PARK MILL CREEK PARK AND THE SOURCE OF MILL CREEK BY CHARLES BURLEIGH GALBREATH When the earth took spherical and solid form it presented in the earliest ages whose records have been deciphered on the rocks a surface of land and water The continental areas were then limited and low Much of what now constitutes the dry land was under water In North America the land portions were chiefly north of the Great Lakes What is now the Mississippi valley was then covered by a great inland sea ...
... J J F MACLEAR Lyman Beecher in Britain The triumphant British tours of Harriet Beecher Stowe in the 1850s and Henry Ward Beecher in the 1860s have long claimed the attention of students of American literature and Civil War diplomacy Yet despite the interest of intellectual and church historians in Lyman Beecher the patriarch of the family no attention has been paid to his earlier stay in Britain in the summer of 18461 It is true that Beecher was then seventy-one years old his impact on ...
... Report of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting 353 Report of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting 353 and expectancy the action of the Legislature and the administration on the forthcoming permanent budget REGISTRAR'S REPORT During the past year a number of accessions have been made to museum collections as per attached list In each case the proper acknowledgment has been made and the various items catalogued placed on exhibition or stored as seemed advisable As Staff Artist I take pleasure in ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR CONFERENCE OF PARK SUPERINTENDENTS The first annual conference of superintendents of parks under the custody of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Museum and Library building August 7 and 8 1929 The work of the conference is set forth in the following PROGRAM FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF PARK SUPERINTENDENTS Ohio State Museum August 7 and 8 1929 WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AUGUST 7 I 5 Introduction and ...
... The Firelands Grant The Firelands Grant 435 THE FIRELANDS GRANT BY CLARENCE D LAYLIN This article is the outgrowth of a paper read before the Political Science Club of Ohio State University The discussion which followed the reading of the paper among members of that club led to further investigation the result of which is the article as here produced-EDITOR In treating of the settlement of new countries the general and proper method is to recite the history of its pioneer days Without the ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Society of American Archivists SAA will hold its 1994 annual meeting at the Westin Hotel in Indianapolis Indiana September 6 through September 11 The general theme will be The Archival Core Defining the Profession in the Information Age For more information about the meeting contact either Bruce L Johnson Director of the Library at the Indiana Historical Society at 317 232-1879 or Eric Pumroy Head of Special Collections and Archives at Indiana ...
... JAMES GALLOWAY SR JAMES GALLOWAY SR In the January issue of the Q UARTERLY in the contribution entitled Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried in Clark County Ohio there is on pages 95-96 a sketch of James Galloway Sr which contains a number of errors These are due evidently for the most part to errors in previous sketches in county histories and to a confusion of the name of James Galloway Sr with other Galloways by the name of James The following sketch is by Dr W A Galloway of Xenia and is ...
... OHIO SURVEYS FROM THE AIR OHIO SURVEYS FROM THE AIR By ALFRED J WRIGHT Many Ohioans have been interested in studying the evolutionary aspects of today's landscapes Very likely many more will think along these lines during the year marked as it is by the sesquicentennial celebration of the founding of Ohio There have recently come into the possession of the State Archaeological and Historical Society some air photographs of one aspect of this evolutionary thought Through the good offices of the ...