... REFUGEES TO AND FROM CANADA AND THE REFUREFUGEES TO AND FROM CANADA AND THE REFUGEE TRACT BY EDWARD LIVINGSTON TAYLOR All that part of the City of Columbus which lies east of the Scioto River and between Fifth Avenue on the north and Steelton on the south a distance of four and one-half miles is on what is known in law and history as the Refugee Tract which was as we shall hereafter see set apart by the government for the benefit of Refugees from Canada and Nova Scotia This territory comprises ...
... GENERAL JOSHUA WOODROW SILL GENERAL JOSHUA WOODROW SILL BY ALBERT DOUGLAS FOREWORD With some sixty years intervening since the Civil War and with the generation of men and women to whom it was a fearful reality almost all gone from earth it cannot be hoped that many who knew him personally will read this slight memoir of one of Ohio's great and best soldiers of that war But to these few and especially to those who have urged me to use the letters and memoranda in my hands for the preparation ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Men of Good Hope A Story of American Progressives By Daniel Aaron New York Oxford University Press 1951 xiv321p 400 Men of Good Hope is a sympathetic but considered analysis of the social philosophies of nine men whom the author believes have shaped or expressed progressive thought in America Emerson Theodore Parker Henry George Edward Bellamy Henry Demarest Lloyd William Dean Howells and Thorstein Veblen-precursors and prophetic agitators-and Theodore Roosevelt and ...
... PYRAMIDS AND BURIED CITIES IN THE LAND PYRAMIDS AND BURIED CITIES IN THE LAND OF THE MONTEZUMAS1 BURIED deep in the wildernesses of Mexico and Central America innumerable ruined cities await in silence the coming of the explorer-deserted temples and crumbling pyramids builded so-far back in the twilight of time that not a tradition remains of their founders In Yucatan alone no less than sixty-seven prehistoric cities have been discovered despite the fact that this wildest territory of Mexico ...
... Specimens of Ante-Bellum Specimens of Ante-Bellum Buckeye Humor By GEORGE K UM MER Native American humor that is humor which by reason of its subject matter and technique possesses an emphatic native quality1 flourished vigorously in the backwoods of the United States for several decades before the Civil War Produced by the folk and recorded by rural doctors lawyers preachers and journalists it portrayed the comedy of character and background as seen in various parts of the country From it ...
... Rutherford B Hayes Attorney at Law by WATT P MARCHMAN Rutherford Birchard Hayes began life without a father in Delaware Ohio on October 4 1822 a sickly child whose health was of deep concern to his mother His father Rutherford Hayes Jr formerly of Dummerston Vermont who had been a merchant of the firm of Noyes Mann and Hayes and who had brought his family to settle in Ohio in 1817 died suddenly on July 20 1822 before the birth of his son He left his widow with an estate consisting of a brick ...
... The Early Judiciary of Ohio The Early Judiciary of Ohio 141 THE EARLY JUDICIARY EARLY LAWS AND BAR OF OHIO A proper study of the early judicial system and early laws of our State carries us to a period when as a part of the great Northwest Territory we were under control of the Federal Government On the 13th day of July 1787 the Congress of the United States passed the ordinance for The Government of the Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio Relative to the judiciary the ...
... HARRISON'S GREAT SPEECH HARRISON'S GREAT SPEECH At the Wonderful Log Cabin Campaign Meeting at Ft Meigs in 1840 Closely intertwined with the coming dedication of the Fort Meigs monument at Perrysburg is the history of a gathering which rivaled numerically the meeting which will take place there when the monument is dedicated in September The occasion was a speech by General Harrison in 1840 then a candidate for the presidency and 40000 persons assembled to hear his address When modes of travel ...
... THE CENTENARY CELEBRATION OF THE BIRTH THE CENTENARY CELEBRATION OF THE BIRTH OF RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD HAYES AT SPIEGEL GROVE FREMONT OHIO BY LUCY ELLIOT KEELER Of which I was a great part is the classic motto which for almost twenty centuries hero after hero has proudly taken to himself President Hayes would smilingly have passed it by Perhaps no other phrase exists however which so effectively describes the pervasion of his personality through all the commemorative events and the scene in ...
... JOHN JAMES PIATT REPRESENTATIVE FIGURE JOHN JAMES PIATT REPRESENTATIVE FIGURE OF A MOMENTOUS PERIOD By CLARE DOWLER Biographical and Critical Study The development of Ohio from 1830 to I880 was spectacular It characterized in a fashion the development of the whole nation In this typical region it would be hard to find a more representative man than John James Piatt His life span began as Ohio was emerging out of the wilderness as Johnny Appleseed's trees were bearing abundantly and as the ...
... Ohio Valley Hist Ohio Valley Hist Ass'n Fifth Annual Meeting 35 nized the cheering by standing upon his automobile and waving his hat Grant street Fifth avenue and Wood street were lined with thousands The moment the automobile bearing the President appeared in Water street it was the signal for the beginning of one of the greatest ovations ever extended a nation's chief executive in this day Every boat tooted whistles as did locomotives and factories The spectators cheered People on the ...
... THE RELATION OF THE GLACIAL PERIOD TO THE RELATION OF THE GLACIAL PERIOD TO ARCHAEOLOGY IN OHIO As yet no implements have been found in Ohio which can certainly be ascribed to the glacial age The hope that we may yet discover pre-glacial instruments in Ohio as we have discovered pre-glacial wood is however a sufficient justification of this paper if it shall succeed first in making clear the relation of the glacial period to archaeological discoveries in other portions of the world and if in ...
... 142 Ohio Arch 142 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications LAST EDITORIAL The following from The Columbus Evening Dispatch of September 2 1 919 is believed to be the last editorial contribution from Mr Randall to that paper It may be considered his final word on a subject to which he had given much thought and on which he had frequently written WHO WERE THE MOUND BUILDERS The remarkable discoveries recently unearthed by the exploring department of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical ...
... School and Other Days 1859 School and Other Days 1859 Selections from the Diaries of Robert and Sylvester Bishop Edited by JOHN WEATHERFORD ROBERT WAS ELEVEN and Sylvester nine when they began their diaries in the Christmas season of 1858 They kept them with fair regularity during 1859 except for summer vacation Their father Robert Hamilton Bishop II encouraged journals among those of his twelve children who were the right age Professor of Latin at Miami University and son of its first ...
... LETTERS OF SENATOR H LETTERS OF SENATOR H B PAYNE OF OHIO CONTRIBUTED BY DUANE MOWRY MILWAUKEE WIS The original of the following letters are in the possession of the contributor They treat of interesting political events interesting particularly to residents of the Buckeye state and to students of the history of the Middle West They would seem to have something more than passing significance because of the prominence of the author of them and of the public men and public measures considered It ...
... ADDRESSES BEFORE THE OHIO STATE ADDRESSES BEFORE THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY The public meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the House of Representatives Columbus Ohio at eight o'clock p m March 3 1898 General Brinkerhoff presiding ADDRESS OF GENERAL BRINKERHOFF LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-Before introducing the speakers of the evening it is proper for me as chairman perhaps to say a few words in regard to the origin and purpose of the Ohio State ...
... THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE EARTH THE three stages of geographical knowledge are these 1 The observation of facts 2 The deduction of a theory of the earth from these facts 3 The adjustment of facts discovered later to this theory The early difficulties in the way of establishing a true theory of the earth were 1 Men's limited knowledge of the earth 2 Their lack of scientific discipline and habit 3 The misleading character of geographical appearances It ...
... ORIGIN AND SIGNIFICANCE OF PENNSYLVANIA ORIGIN AND SIGNIFICANCE OF PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH BARN SYMBOLS By AUGUST C MAHR On a great number of Pennsylvania Dutch barns there are geometrical ornaments painted on the outside walls ornaments which as a rule show some sort of star within a circular disk Figs 1 2 8 10b They occur most frequently in Berks and the neighboring counties less frequently in other parts of Pennsylvania and locally even in Ohio and other states of the Union where Pennsylvania ...
... Public Opinion and the Chinese Question 1876-1879 by GARY PENNANEN Diplomatic problems are not considered to have been of much consequence during the presidency of Rutherford B Hayes While not many preWorld War I judgments concerning the history of the period have escaped revisionism an assessment of Hayes's diplomacy made by Charles R Williams in 1914 has withstood the test of time Few subjects of large importance in the foreign relations of the Government demanded action or attention during ...
... THE PLACE OF THE OHIO VALLEY THE PLACE OF THE OHIO VALLEY IN AMERICAN HISTORY FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER Professor of History University of Wisconsin Mr Turner until the fall of 1910 was professor of American History in the University of Wisconsin He is now professor of Western American History at Harvard University and the past year 1910 was president of the American Historical Association He delivered the address herewith published at the meeting of the Ohio Valley Historical Association held ...