... THE MILAN CANAL THE MILAN CANAL by C HAR LES E FROHMAN Few people today know that Milan Ohio was once a great shipping port and that its enterprise during the days when schooners sailed the Great Lakes resulted in the digging of a three-mile canal from Milan to a point in the Huron River where deep water and wide bends made passage safe The heyday of this undertaking came during the earliest days of the railroad and during that period when canals and politics made more than conversation The ...
... TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY May 23 1913 The twenty-eighth 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 2 o'clock P M Friday May 23 1913 The following members were present Mr E H Archer Columbus Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Mr T B Bowers Columbus Mr H E Buck Delaware Hon Albert ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR DEATH OF HONORABLE DANIEL J RYAN Early Friday morning June 15 1923 Daniel Joseph Ryan Vice President of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society breathed his last He had been in poor health for some time but the end came unexpectedly He passed without pain from the repose of sleep to the repose of death This announcement brings sadness to the members of ...
... Big Bottom and Its History Big Bottom and Its History 21 the rocky fortresses of the Appalachians Puritan and Cavalier looked down together upon the fair valley of the Ohio To them it was as the revelation to the prophet on Pisgah - the Promised Land They were permitted to enter But to hold it they fought with stubborn tenacity Every foot was contested But forward went this army across the prairies of Indiana and Illinois until the smoke curled from the settler's cabin on the banks of the ...
... POLITICO-ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS IN THE POLITICO-ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS IN THE WESTERN RESERVE'S EARLY SLAVERY CONTROVERSY By EDWARD C REILLEY With the advent of the Panic of 1837 the people of that northeastern section of Ohio known as the Western Reserve seemed for the first time to have suspected that the southern labor system was in some degree responsible for producing their economic woes This viewpoint was but slowly accepted and was not emphasized by its proponents until after the ...
... Negro Self-Improvement Negro Self-Improvement Efforts in Ante-Bellum Cincinnati 1836-1850 by Richard W Pih In recent years various historians particularly Leon F Litwack in his North of Slavery have focused on the speciousness of the North Star Legend of Yankee tolerance and benevolence toward the free Negro prior to the Civil War Numerous state studies on this subject have been made but work on the local urban level appears neglected Even though Carter G Woodson admirably pioneered an ...
... JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL IN MEMORIAM BY C B GALBREATH James Edwin Campbell is dead in his 81st year His sudden death is a great shock to this community and fills our hearts with profound sorrow He had just returned home from a testimonial dinner to former Federal Judge John E Sater When the dinner was over he chatted with old friends I'll live to be a hundred he remarked as he smiled and talked with them One hour later he was stricken His two daughters and his son Andrew O ...
... THE ROUSH FAMILY IN THE MAKING OF AMERICA THE ROUSH FAMILY IN THE MAKING OF AMERICA By LESTER LEROY ROUSH Introductory Remarks To present the history of so large a family in so small a compass and make the story interesting and attractive and useful to the large posterity of its common ancestors is a most difficult task Two questions the writer certainly must face are first what to choose from the large accumulation at hand and second how to present it The wider man's realistic knowledge of ...
... ROBERT WHITE McFARLAND ROBERT WHITE McFARLAND FRANK S BROOKS COLUMBUS If all the men who have been so fortunate as to have come under the benign influence of Professor McFarland were each to pay the tribute of laying one stone in his honor no towering modern structure would overlook the pile Such would be a fitting memorial for while indulgent toward many duller minds patiently helping to mould the characters of boys and men much of his incessant work has been among the stars Reluctantly I ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 125 WHIP-POOR-WILL Whip-poor-will to which reference is made in preceding pages of this issue was the youthful newspaper venture of two lads Wilson Lindsley Gill and Emilius Oviatt Randall aged respectively fourteen and fifteen years Fortunately a complete file of this paper is in the possession of Mrs E O Randall through whose courtesy we are able to present accurate information concerning it together with extracts and illustrations The paper ...
... 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 ...
... 492 Ohio Arch 492 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ZACHARIAH T SMITH The following article is the expression of respect to the memory of Z T Smith by J L Lewis and published in an Upper Sandusky newspaper Mr Smith was for many years a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and was potently interested in securing the proper legislation for the appropriation for the erection of a building for the Society's Museum and Library It has oft been said that 'Tis not ...
... 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 ...
... THE WORLD WAR MEMORIAL THE WORLD WAR MEMORIAL Soon after the close of the World War it was realized that the growth of the Museum and the Library of the Society had reached the limits of available space and that additional room would be needed not only for the exhibits that were coming in larger measure from the archaeological field of work but for newspaper files and for the trophies documents pamphlets books papers and manuscripts relating to the World War In the years 1919 and 1920 the need ...
... Benjamin Franklin from the humble station of a printer's boy to the first honors of his country Knowledge What took Sherman from his shoemaker's bench gave him a seat in Congress and there made his voice to be heard among the wisest and best of his compeers Knowledge What raised Simpson from the weaver's loom to a place among the first of mathematicians Knowledge No child could read this lesson without a determination to gain knowledge by ...
... Benjamin Waterhouse March 11 Benjamin Waterhouse Benjamin Tallmadge to James McHenry January 16 1812 in Bernard C Steiner The Life and Correspondence of James McHenry Secretary of War under Washington and Adams Cleveland 1907 573 55 Annals 12 cong 1 sess 1531 1543-1545 5 6 Ibid 12 cong 2 sess 75 81-82 97 907 919-920 57 Ibid 13 cong 1 sess ...
... 634 Ohio Arch 634 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications CUSTER THE MAN OF ACTION ADDRESS BY COLONEL RALPH D COLE Mr Chairman Fellow Citizens Ladies and Gentlemen The character of a man is determined by the reaction of his natural endowments to the spirit of the age in which he lives If he has the power to breast the blows of circumstance the courage to accept the challenge Delivered at New Rumley Harrison County Ohio on the 22nd day of June 1932 on the occasion of the dedication of a ...
... Benjamin W Arnett ed Benjamin Wade and John Sherman supported and voted for the amendment but made no public speeches for its adoption Peculiar Institution Collapse 191 Peculiar Institution Collapse 191 state which had not established a provisional government by December 1865 Congress refused to recognize these provisional governments but willingly accepted southern ratification of the ...
... FRUIT OF THE FRUIT OF THE RESTLESS SPIRIT OHIO'S CONFEDERATE GENERALS by CHARLES M CUMMINGS The restlessness and constant mobility of the American have impressed a legion of students before and since de Tocqueville1 and to these factors much has been attributed in the story of the nation's development Generally interpreters have turned their inquiries westward in the direction taken by the bulk of the emigrants Less attention has been given to an offshoot the strong North-to-South movement of ...
... THE JOURNAL OF A VERMONT MAN IN OHIO 1836-18421 THE JOURNAL OF A VERMONT MAN IN OHIO 1836-18421 edited by LEROY P G RA F Professor of History University of Tennessee In 1836 when he was thirty-one Oren Wiley left his family and friends in Saxtons River Vermont to accept employment in a tin shop in Ohio City Ohio a new settlement located along Lake Erie on the west side of the Cuyahoga River opposite Cleveland Three years later he moved to Dayton Ohio where he lived until his return to New ...