... LESLIE J LESLIE J STEGH A Paradox of Prohibition Election of Robert J Bulkley as Senator from Ohio 1930 Hail Hallowed Ohio Rich and beautiful state Rivers and roads and railways And queenly cities and great Fertile fields and factories Happy homes and healthM-O-T-H-E-R of Prohibition And a s-o-b-e-r Commonwealth1 The issue of prohibition of the liquor traffic was one that had kept Ohio in turmoil prior to the enactment of state prohibition and the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the ...
... THE DIARY OF JOHN BEATTY JANUARY-JUNE 1884 THE DIARY OF JOHN BEATTY JANUARY-JUNE 1884 Part IV edited by HARVEY S FORD Head Librarian Toledo Blade Sunday May 11 1884 Went to hear Dr Gladden this morning He preached from the text Lord I believe help thou my unbelief It was the posture of the man's mind which interested the preacher It was that of one trying to believe and anxious to have all impediments to full belief cleared away Not that of one who exclaims obstinately I do not believe ...
... OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY 1835-1858 OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY 1835-1858 FURTHER ASPECTS CONTRIBUTION OF OHIO PHYSICIANS TO THE MEXICAN WAR By LEON GOLDMAN MD One of the wars least interesting to and least popular with the people of the United States was of course the Mexican War of 1846 Yet this war should be of some interest to the physician for it was at this time that in spite of great difficulties definite advances were made by medical officers in the army Their conduct in the field went far to ...
... 302 Ohio Arch 302 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications THE FIRST COURT IN OHIO From the American Pioneer The first court held northwest of the river Ohio under the forms of civil jurisprudence was opened at Campus Martius Marietta September 2d 1788 It will be remembered that on the preceding 7th of April General Rufus Putnam with forty-seven men had landed and commenced the first permanent settlement in what is now the state of Ohio General Harmar with his regulars occupied Fort Harmar ...
... PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT OF THE OHIO STATE PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVISED MAY 1 1936 By HARLOW LINDLEY Adams Jacob Private in Company F 21st O V V I Diary Introduction by H M Povenmire 1929 99p 025 Anderson James H Colonel William Crawford 34p 25 Anderson James H Life and Letters of Judge T J Anderson and Wife 535p 150 Written and compiled during the Civil War Contains much valuable source ...
... THOMAS CORWIN AND THE CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN THOMAS CORWIN AND THE CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN REACTION 1858-1861 by DARYL PENDERGRAFT Assistant Professor of History Iowa State Teachers College By the year 1858 it had become apparent to many of the leaders of the young Republican party that the party's future success required a stronger appeal to the conservative elements of the North The taint of radicalism that was attached to the new party was plainly frightening many of the property-owning ...
... W W SHERMAN JACKSON The Collapse of the Peculiar Institution Through Military and Legal Action Before May 1861 the right of slavery to exist as an institution in the states and territories was an axiom of American constitutional law This resulted in part from the highly controversial Dred Scott decision of 1857 Speaking for a divided court Chief Justice Roger B Taney ruled that Scott an African slave could not sue in a federal court to obtain his freedom on grounds that Blacks were not ...
... MARIUS ROBINSON A FORGOTTEN ABOLITIONIST MARIUS ROBINSON A FORGOTTEN ABOLITIONIST LEADER By RUSSEL B NYE Marius Racine Robinson one of the more important figures of the antislavery movement in Ohio has been more or less lost from public view Neither the Dictionary of American Biography the National Cyclopaedia of Biography nor any of the standard biographical dictionaries list his name yet in the rise of abolitionism in Ohio he played a great part as agent editor organizer and propagandist -- ...
... THE FAILURE OF THE OHIO LIFE INSURANCE THE FAILURE OF THE OHIO LIFE INSURANCE AND TRUST COMPANY 1857 by MORTIMER SPIEGELMAN Most writers on the economic history of the United States refer to the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company as the institution whose failure precipitated the panic of 1857 The failure is usually attributed to depreciated railroad investments and the losses stated in amounts as high as 7000000 dollars1 A search into the history of this institution that played a leading ...
... JOSEPH E JOSEPH E WEINLAND REBUILDER OF SCHOENBRUNN BY ROBERT M WILKIN Our meeting tonight is occasioned by the departure of our president from our community and his resignation as president of this Association and chairman of the Schoenbrunn Committee The purpose of the meeting is to take account of his services and express our gratitude for what he has done and what he has been We meet as historians and retrospection is the business of historians Historians look back through the years put ...
... 54 Ohio Arch 54 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications tion dissolved but Nelson agreed with Wayne Grier and Curtis in the opinion that an attachment should issue since there was no power in Congress to interfere with the judgment of the court under pretense of power to legalize the structure or by making it a post road Justice McLean dissented feeling that the principle involved was of the deepest interest to the growing commerce of the West which might be obstructed by bridges across the ...
... A Survey of Publications A Survey of Publications In Ohio History and Archaeology August 1958 -- July 1959 Compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE HENLEIN Paul C Cattle Kingdom in the Ohio Valley 1783-1860 Lexington University of Kentucky Press 1959 198p ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT KUHNS Frederick Irving The American Home Missionary Society in Relation to the Antislavery Controversy in the Old Northwest Billings Montana published by the author 1959 53p ARCHAEOLOGY ALLMAN John C An Interesting ...
... REPORT OF THE FORTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING REPORT OF THE FORTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Forenoon Session--10 A M The forty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was called to order by President Arthur C Johnson Sr on April 23 1935 in the Auditorium of the Museum Eighty-eight members were in attendance MR JOHNSON The minutes of the last Annual Meeting are voluminous and they were published in the QUARTERLY ...
... NAVIGATION ON THE MUSKINGUM NAVIGATION ON THE MUSKINGUM IRVEN TRAVIS MCCONNELSVILLE Mr Irven Travis the writer of this article was born near Roxbury Windsor Township Morgan County August 17 1849 His father John Travis lived in McConnelsville where he was employed in building flat-boats in the summer and taking them to New Orleans in the winter Mr Irven Travis became a pilot on the river boats at the age of twenty serving in that capacity on the steamers Carrie Brooks Perry Smith Oella Gen H F ...
... 412 Ohio Arch 412 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications GOVERNOR WILLIS' ADDRESS Governor Willis spoke as follows Ladies and Gentlemen It is indeed a rare privilege to be present and take a part in these interesting exercises on a day set apart in honor of our patriotic dead to be invited to join in this commemoration of one whose private life was an inspiration and whose public service was a benediction On this historic ground you have today united in this splendid celebration which has its ...
... 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 ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY AUGUST 1952-JULY 1953 Compiled b y S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE MICK J R 4-H Club Golden Anniversary Marking the First Half Century of Boys' and Girls' Club Work in Ohio Being a History of the Movement in Williams County To Make the Best Better N p n d 16p POWER Richard Lyle Settlers on Corn Belt Soil Indiana Magazine of History XLIX 1953 161-172 RICKARD Anne M The University and ...
... WASHINGTON'S TOUR TO THE OHIO AND ARTICLES WASHINGTON'S TOUR TO THE OHIO AND ARTICLES OF THE MISSISSIPPI COMPANY Introduction and Notes by Archer Butler Hulbert Author of Washington and the West Historic Highways Etc It is always interesting to recall that the earliest accurate account of the Ohio Valley is from the pen of Washington This account is found in two manuscripts now preserved in the Library of Congress one of which is entitled Remarks amp Occurrs in October when November came it is ...
... PAUL C PAUL C BOWERS JR GOODWIN F BERQUIST JR Worthington Ohio James Kilbourn's Episcopal Haven on the Western Frontier One of the most significant developments to occur in this country in the aftermath of the American Revolution was the settlement of the old Northwest Territory beyond the Ohio River Families from the Atlantic states streamed west in ever-increasing droves establishing countless new communities in the region now occupied by the states of Ohio Michigan Indiana and Illinois ...
... PHILIP A PHILIP A GRANT JR Congressional Campaigns of James M Cox 1908 and 1910 On September 16 1908 the Democrats of the Third Congressional District of Ohio held their biennial convention at Middletown and by acclamation nominated James M Cox of Dayton as their candidate for the House of Representatives Thus began the public career of the only Ohioan ever nominated for the presidency by the Democratic party The aggressive campaign waged by Cox for a seat in Congress inaugurated a twelve year ...