... THE OHIO CANALS PUBLIC ENTERPRISE THE OHIO CANALS PUBLIC ENTERPRISE ON THE FRONTIER By CHESTER E FINN On July 4 1825 the little town of Newark Ohio celebrated the grandest and most glorious fourth of its history The notables of the State and of other States were congregated there and a momentous event in the history of Ohio was about to take place After suitable celebrations in the town the group adjourned to Licking Summit escorted by brilliantly uniformed troops of militia and followed by ...
... Fowke's Book Reviewed Fowke's Book Reviewed 143 which seem to be very real and very correct This should also be the case with the person who studies the earthworks of Ohio He should be so familiar with ancient Society as to make the monuments speak and interpret the works and relics so that they will be suggestive of the people who used them A negative criticism does not serve any good purpose Every writer should rise to a plane higher than the ordinary observer and should put into the works ...
... THOMAS WORTHINGTON PIONEER BUSINESS MAN OF THOMAS WORTHINGTON PIONEER BUSINESS MAN OF THE OLD NORTHWEST1 by ALFRED B SEARS Professor of History University of Oklahoma Thomas Worthington was born in the Shenandoah Valley near the site of the present town of Charles Town West Virginia in 1773 He was the grandson of the Quaker immigrant John Worthington Gentleman who came to America in 1714 and after some sixteen years residence near Philadelphia settled on a three-thousand-acre farm in Berkeley ...
... MOBBING THE SHAKERS OF UNION VILLAGE MOBBING THE SHAKERS OF UNION VILLAGE J P MACLEAN PH D It may be affirmed that of all the Christian sects of America not one is less aggressive or lives more within itself than that known as The Shakers or more properly speaking The Millennial Church It is true that in its early history it possessed a little missionary zeal but this was not of the offensive kind In common with all the sects it placed its own doctrines to the front proclaiming them to be the ...
... edited by edited by JOHN B GABEL Medical Education in the 1890s An Ohio Woman's Memories The material presented here is drawn from the unpublished papers of a long-time Columbus physician the late Ida May Wilson Written in 1941 when she was in her seventy-seventh year this excerpt records Dr Wilson's memories of her medical education during the years 1894-1896 at the Ohio Medical University1 Her description of the primitive training provided as late as the 1890s by an accredited medical school ...
... HENRY L HENRY L TAYLOR On Slavery's Fringe City-Building and Black Community Development in Cincinnati 1800-1850 Scholars of the antebellum black urban experience have ignored the issue of the relationship between the city-building process and the development of the black community Most studies of the antebellum black experience published since Leon Litwack's North of Slavery have instead focused on legal aspects of racial discrimination the relationship between race and politics the ...
... OHIO VALLEY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OHIO VALLEY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION NINTH ANNUAL MEETING The ninth annual meeting of the Ohio Valley Historical Association was held in Columbus Ohio Oct 2 1 and 22 1 915 in the beautiful new building of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society The general topic for papers and discussions was the Early Religious Development in the Ohio Valley The first meeting was a joint session of the Historical Association and the Ohio History Teachers' ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 503 My friends as mayor of the city and as a representative of her citizens I accept for the city as a mark to the memory of the heroes who moved by a spirit of patriotism made it possible that we might live in our now pleasant homes This unpretentious mark of our love and gratitude to them will last longer than the granite shaft that will some day be erected to their memory by our citizens The Historical Society of our little city deserves the gratitude of our hearts ...
... OSCAR WILDE IN CLEVELAND OSCAR WILDE IN CLEVELAND by FRANCIS X ROELLINGER JR Assistant Professor of English Oberlin College A Clevelander in search of amusement during the week of February 12 1882 could rejoice at the number and variety if not the excellence of his opportunities At the Euclid Avenue Opera House Mr John McCullough the eminent tragedian fresh from a brilliant season in London was presenting a repertoire that included Othello and Richard III At the Academy of Music Buffalo Bill ...
... BUILDING A COMMERCIAL SYSTEM BUILDING A COMMERCIAL SYSTEM FRANK P GOODWIN It is the purpose of this paper to trace the commercial development of the Miami Country1 from the date of settlement to the beginning of the steamboat era in 1817 It is presented as a representative study of commercial growth under economic conditions that were colonial in character The history of the locality has been used to illustrate principles of early commercial development common to the Ohio Valley Within that ...
... edited by edited by ALVIN EUSTIS On the Road in 1835 A Journey of the Reverend James McElroy The following letters of Rev James McElroy are addressed to the minister's wife in Delaware Ohio and describe a journey from that town to Lexington Kentucky in 1835 The Episcopalian clergyman had taken a leave of absence from the parish of St Peter's in Delaware in order to serve for a time as agent for the American Bible Society1 James McElroy was born in Ireland in 1805 and studied there for the ...
... CONSTRUCTION OF THE WABASH AND ERIE CANAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE WABASH AND ERIE CANAL By LEE NEWCOMER Perhaps the most important event in the early history of northwestern Ohio was the opening in 1843 of the Wabash and Erie Canal from Toledo to Lafayette Indiana During the brief period between that date and the coming of the railroads this canal was responsible for opening up a large and important agricultural area Immigrants from the East poured into the Maumee Valley farms were cleared and ...
... JOHNSON'S ISLAND JOHNSON'S ISLAND BY HEWSON L PEEKE This island lies three miles north of Sandusky in the bay It is nearly a mile long half a mile wide and contains about three hundred acres rising gradually in the center to a height of fifty feet It was originally covered with heavy timber and was a favorite resort of the Indians who came there to fish feast and torture their captives Its first owner was E W Bull and it was originally called Bull's Island until 1852 when it was called ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA LAND BILL ALLEN We have been asked for the facts concerning Land Bill Allen The facts are sparse and soon stated The fiction is ample and almost unprecedented The myths and popularly accepted beliefs concerning Allen's career were sufficient to place him in the distinguished category of Homer William Tell and the Man in the Iron Mask The curious individual known as Land Bill Allen was George Wheaton Allen He was born in Windham Conn May 17 1809 and died at Columbus ...
... Recent Addresses of James Edwin Campbell 53 Recent Addresses of James Edwin Campbell 53 neath rest those whom we call The Dead but they are not dead And dare ye call that dying The dignity sublime Which gains a furlough from the grave and then reports to time Doth the earth give up the daisies to a little sun and rain And keep at their roots the heroes while weary ages wane Sling up thy trumpet Israel Sweet bugler of our God For nothing waits thy summons beneath this broken sod The deadest of ...
... THE BALLAD OF 'JAMES BIRD THE BALLAD OF 'JAMES BIRD ITS AUTHORSHIP BY C B GALBREATH In a contribution entitled The Battle of Lake Erie in Ballad and History the writer of this article in 1911 related the story of James Bird and reproduced the old ballad commemorating his heroic service on board the Lawrence and his tragic death a year later for desertion on the Niagara In commenting on this quaint pathetic ballad it was assumed to have been written by a bard unlearned and unknown but not ...
... A Backwoods Utopia A Backwoods Utopia The Berea Community of 1836-1837 By DAVID LINDSEY In April 1836 three remarkable men--a farmer-turned-circuit rider a farmer-turned-evangelist and a teacher-turned-farmer--met on the banks of the Rocky River in northeastern Ohio Each man had come a devious route to that spot James Gilruth born of Scotch immigrant parents in western Virginia in 1793 fought briefly in the War of 1812 before taking up a farm in Ohio's Scioto River valley Undergoing a deep ...
... Ethan Allen Brown Ethan Allen Brown And Ohio's Canal System By JOHN S STILL The most important stimulus to Ohio's economy in the first half of the nineteenth century was the construction of a canal system and the individual most responsible for this accomplishment was Ethan Allen Brown Yeoman service it is true was rendered by Alfred Kelley Micajah Williams and others but from the years when his was a voice in the wilderness until the canals were actually in use Brown stood at the forefront ...
... MEMOIR OF ANTOINE LAFORGE MEMOIR OF ANTOINE LAFORGE A Gallipolis Manuscript 1790 Translated from the original French by Laurence J Kenny S J St Louis University The accompanying document is a copy of a manuscript heirloom that has been cherished for more than a century among the descendents of Pierre Antoine Laforge one of the early French settlers of Gallipolis It brought them into possession of the modest inheritance referred to at its close and it has given substance and vraisemblance to ...
... 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 ...