... Dedication of the Hayes Memorial Dedication of the Hayes Memorial 425 instructed in the orderly management of public business All are on their best behavior a fraternal friendship is cultivated virtuous and temperate habits are encouraged and the best of our social instincts are called into play The festive organizations convivial clubs and the like are not safe places of resort for all natures No man can be worse for the associations of Odd Fellowship and their kindred organizations Most men ...
... FUGITIVE SLAVE CASES IN OHIO PRIOR TO 1850 FUGITIVE SLAVE CASES IN OHIO PRIOR TO 1850 By LEO ALILUNAS Background of the Fugitive Slave Question Before the subject of fugitive slave cases in Ohio prior to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 can be developed it is necessary to consider a few aspects of the antislavery movement in Ohio A number of questions arise What was the antislavery sentiment of the people of Ohio before 1850 What was the legislative policy of the State legislature ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 415 1838 President Van Buren appointed Mr Lucas governor of the Territory of Iowa In this position he exhibited great capabilities in the organization of the territory into the state The election of William H Harrison as Whig President in 1840 caused Mr Lucas' removal from the office of Iowa governor when he returned to Ohio and was nominated by the people of his home district for membership in United States Congress In the election he was unsuccessful He then sold ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Lincoln the President Springfield to Gettysburg By J G Randall New York Dodd Mead amp Company 19 45 2 v 750 Although biographies of Abraham Lincoln have been written in great profusion this work based on documentary sources and a reevaluation of previously published materials offers what might be termed a revisionist point of view or more properly a restoration of historical truth The author conceiving his purpose as both biography and history has employed the ...
... array of facts and figures concerning industry and commerce on Lake Superior She describes thoroughly the fishing industry with methods of catching and marketing the whitefish herring and trout for which the lake is noted the lumber business the geological background for the huge ore deposits the locks at Sault Ste Marie and the development of the grain and ore shipping industry The final portion of Lake Superior deals with the folklore crafts ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 633 Forty-First Annual Meeting 633 President Johnson stated that the reports of the Committees on the various Parks should be given great attention On last Sunday he attended the Ohio History Day celebration at Logan Elm Park and was absolutely amazed by the number -- literally thousands -- in attendance The celebration lasted practically all afternoon and great interest was displayed by those present The American people are turning to outdoor life -- picnics camping ...
... ROBERT A ROBERT A TRENNERT JR William Medill's War with the Indian Traders 1847 William Medill's tenure as Commissioner of Indian Affairs in the Polk administration came at the critical time of continental expansion which resulted in forceful removal of the Indian from lands desired by white settlers Soon after he took office Medill attempted to make some basic reforms in policy governing relations with the Indians One of the most controversial aspects of his reforming activities as ...
... CAPTAIN T W RATHBONE'S BRIEF DIARY OF IMPRISONMENT JULY 1 - NOVEMBER 21 1864 edited by LOUIS BARTLETT Thomas W Rathbone of Amelia Ohio was thirty-nine years old and a captain in an Ohio National Guard regiment on one hundred days' service when he was taken prisoner after a skirmish near North River Mills West Virginia on July 3 1864 Two months later while a patient in the Roper Hospital at Charleston South Carolina he began writing the diary which appears in the following pages To make it a ...
... EXECUTIVE MANSION EXECUTIVE MANSION Here is presented a cut of the attractive and substantial building that was erected by C H Lindenberg at 1234 East Broad street in 1904 and occupied by him from April 1905 until the title of the property passed to the state in 1919 It is a commodious mansion of about thirty rooms appropriately furnished After the property was acquired by the state the interior of the building was remodeled and an additional adjacent tract of land purchased for eighteen ...
... arrayed against him at the ballot box and organizing in secret societies to destroy his administration and aid the enemies of the Republic With threatening clouds on every hand growing darker with each passing day with foes exulting in his discomfiture with faltering friends advising that the promised emancipation proclamation be postponed Abraham Lincoln moved onward in his course with conscience uncompromised and courage sublime to the ...
... SUMNER -- BROOKS -- BURLINGAME SUMNER -- BROOKS -- BURLINGAME --or-- THE LAST OF THE GREAT CHALLENGES BY JAMES E CAMPBELL The purpose of this paper is to throw light upon one of the most famous of the many thrilling episodes which preceded the Civil War -- thereby reversing some accepted history to mark the finish of the long congressional quarrel between Massachusetts and South Carolina and incidentally to note the collapse of the Duello When the thirty-fourth Congress met on the third day of ...
... WILLIAM EVES MOORE WILLIAM EVES MOORE 1823-1899 William Eves Moore D D LL D was born in Strasburg Pa April 1st 1 823 His parents Jacob Moore M D University of Pennsylvania 1818 and Sarah Faris Moore came of Scotch-Irish ancestors who after the siege of Derry migrated to the northern part of Newcastle county Delaware and for generations held office in the same Presbyterian church and owned the original farm land given by grant of Wm Penn Returning from Strasburg to Delaware Dr Moore's father ...
... UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF DR UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF DR DANIEL DRAKE By ALICE MCGUFFEY RUGGLES In the winter of 1847-48 Dr Daniel Drake then professor at the Louisville Medical Institute dashed off late at night after strenuous days of teaching and research the Reminiscential Letters to His Children published in 1879 in the Ohio Valley Historical Series under the title Pioneer Life in Kentucky This little book is the most vivid first-hand account of a pioneer boyhood in that region ever written ...
... 128 Ohio Arch 128 Ohio Arch and His Society Pub li cations the citizens of all the states and the republics to the south of us may spend many pleasant hours and may find rest and comfort It is my duty to turn our building over to the Pan-American and in doing so I express the sincere hope that your exposition may have the great success which always should accompany efforts so earnest so able and so magnificent and wonderful in results as are those made by the officials of the exposition and ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR VERILY THE WORLD DO MOVE Under this caption the Lancaster Daily Eagle of September 13 1927 publishes the following editorial In another portion of this paper we reproduce possibly for the twentieth time a resolution supposed to have been passed by a Lancaster School Board away back a hundred years ago in 1828 These records of the school board of that period are not obtainable and even though they were this resolution denying ...
... THE CENTENNIAL OF MIAMI UNIVERSITY THE CENTENNIAL OF MIAMI UNIVERSITY A H UPHAM PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH MIAMI UNIVERSITY The third week of June was marked by a highly significant and somewhat unusual occasion down in the southwest corner of Ohio Miami University old mother Miami was celebrating the completion of her first centenary of corporate existence and he r children unto the third and f o u r t h generation came from the corners of the earth bringing t r i b u t e of congratulation a n d g ...
... PIONEER SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL MASTERS PIONEER SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL MASTERS BY D C SHILLING One of the most striking facts found in a study of the history of the Ohio Valley is the early appearance of the log schoolhouse When the primitive conditions of the country together with the everpresent danger from Indian attacks are taken into consideration one is forced to conclude that only a sincere and abiding faith in the efficacy of popular education prompted the pioneers to make the sacrifices ...
... 392 Ohio Arch 392 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications and honor is not deserving of praise The historical data are heavily conclusively against Burr Burr was a man with the inordinate ambition of Bonaparte and equally unscrupulous cold blooded and selfish There was no sacrifice of friends or country or honor or truth or morality he would not make for self-gratification and self-glorification Burr was a born intriguer and was associated with Lee and Gates in their schemes against Washington ...
... STONE GRAVES IN BROWN COUNTY OHIO STONE GRAVES IN BROWN COUNTY OHIO BY GERARD FOWKE On both sides of the Ohio river from Manchester Ohio to Dover Kentucky a distance of twenty-five miles were formerly many stone graves or cairns A few stood at varying intervals for some miles below Dover and as far up the river as Huntington West Virginia and some remain along North Fork of Licking river in Mason county Kentucky They were most abundant from Manchester to Ripley on the Ohio side of the river ...
... 40 Ohio Arch 40 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ring a man's relationship to the God who made him and the home over which he presides has a political significance You might as well talk of removing politics from business as to talk of asking the sun to stop shining as long as a human being votes upon the election of a man who will vote for a law there is always politics and there always should be politics Instead of there being too much politics in this country there is too little ...