... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABOLITIONISTS 122-132 Abolition's Axe Beriah Green Oneida Institute and the Black Freedom Struggle by Milton C Sernett rev 87-88 Above and Beyond A History of the Medal of Honorfrom the Civil War to Vietnam edited by Gordon Hardy bk note 170-171 Accounting reform Chapters in Ohio Progressivism The Cincinnati and Dayton Bureaus of Municipal Research and Accounting Reform by Richard K Fleischman and R Penny Marquette 133-144 Adams Captain John C 44 Adams ...
... OHIO IN SHORT STORIES 1824-1839 OHIO IN SHORT STORIES 1824-1839 BY LUCILLE B EMCH In the Ohio Valley of the 1820 ' s and 1830's there occurred a stir of literary activity which for the time and character of the events was most unusual The perspective gained by the passing of more than a century adds to rather than detracts from the significance of the movement The publishing center of the West during the twenties and thirties was Cincinnati which with a population of 24831 in 1830 was by far ...
... ORATION OF HON ORATION OF HON GEORGE F HOAR THERE are doubtless many persons in this audience who have gathered here as to their Father's house They salute their Mother on her birthday with the prayer and the confident hope that the life which now completes its first century may be immortal as liberty If we were here only to do honor to Marietta-to celebrate the planting of this famous town coeval with the Republic seated by the beautiful river her annals crowded with memories of illustrious ...
... JAY D JAY D GREEN Nothing to Advertise Except God Christian Radio and the Creation of an Evangelical Subculture in Northeast Ohio 1958-1972 How I praise God for friends like you exclaimed an excited Elise Marshall in a 1961 letter There have been times in my life when I felt very lonely Now I have many friends who love my precious Lord the same as I do and I have sweet fellowship with each one of you even though I may never see you1 Testimonials like this were frequent in the 1960s among an ...
... 538 Ohio Arch 538 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The Secretary Mr Galbreath closed the afternoon session with an account of the capture imprisonment and execution of Edwin Coppoc who was with John Brown at Harper's Ferry dwelling particularly on the plan of Cook and Coppoc to escape from jail at Charleston and the story of the coffin of Coppoc which is now in the museum of the Society This account in ampler form is found elsewhere in the present issue of the QUARTERLY ANNUAL MEETING ...
... Old Fort Sandoski and the De Lery Portage Old Fort Sandoski and the De Lery Portage 37 1 Indians which eventually led to his dismissal from the service His distinguished engineer Montresor was left to rebuild the fort which however was only partially accomplished There is not much more recorded concerning the portage of old Fort Sandoski until the War of 1812 when after the victory of Commodore Perry on September 10 1813 General Harrison with his entire army moved down from his headquarters at ...
... A Granville Cooper's Experience A Granville Cooper's Experience With Barter in the 1820's By PETER FOX SMITH I N 1805 A COMPANY OF NEW ENGLANDERS from Granville Massachusetts journeyed over the mountains to the west crossed the Ohio River and settled near the center of the infant state of Ohio Today Granville Ohio which is populated by some two thousand villagers and fourteen hundred students of Denison University still retains some characteristics of her eastern heritage One of the oldest ...
... 362 Ohio Arch 362 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 4 A DESCRIPTION OF FORT ANCIENT WARREN KING MOOREHEAD The members of the Society and also the readers of THE ARCHAEOLOGIST have a special interest in the earthworks and enclosures of the Mississippi Valley The former are proud to be possessers and preservers in company with the State of Ohio of the most extensive prehistoric fortification of the United States The latter as students of antiquities are interested in facts obtained ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE OHIO RIVER It was one of Pascal's thoughts that rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go Surely it is that primeval and pioneer man has followed the courses of great streams because along those channels have been found the lines of least resistance On the rivers and their banks therefore has history found its favorite haunts Dry up the currents of the Tigris the Euphrates the Danube the Tiber the Rhine the Seine and the Thames and you ...
... TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MARCH 2 1909 The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Hunter Law Society Room Page Hall Ohio State University Columbus Ohio at two p m March 2 1909 The following members were present Prof Martin R Andrews Marietta Mr E H Archer Columbus Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Mr A J Baughman Mansfield Mr Martin B ...
... COMMENCEMENT ON THE OHIO CANAL COMMENCEMENT ON THE OHIO CANAL AT THE LICKING SUMMIT This great work was commenced on Monday the 4th inst under circumstances the most favorable and auspicious On the day previous all the roads leading to the point selected for the celebration were crowded with people on foot on horseback and in every description of vehicle hastening to witness the scene Almost every house within a distance of five miles was occupied but on the evening of that day by far the ...
... Seemingly within moments after the nomination of Abraham Lincoln on Seemingly within moments after the nomination of Abraham Lincoln on May 18 1860 a representative of the Columbus publishing firm of Follett Foster and Company from the Tremont House in Chicago telegraphed the president-to-be in Springfield saying In connection with your debates with Douglas we have announced your biography Please designate your pleasure if any as to who the writer shall be The same day the Chicago Journal's ...
... Remarks of J Remarks of J V Jones 175 REMARKS OF J V JONES ESQ LADIES AND GENTLEMENIt would hardly be proper for me to say fellow-citizens for the reason of having been absent from your county for nearly fifty-eight years During that time many changes have been wrought in the city of Gallipolis and Gallia county Eighty-one years ago a young married couple might have been seen slowly wending their way on horseback down the slopes of the Blue Ridge and foot-hills of the Allegheny Mountains of ...
... The Shaker Community of Warren County The Shaker Community of Warren County 251 THE SHAKER COMMUNITY OF WARREN COUNTY ITS ORIGIN RISE PROGRESS AND DECLINE By J P MACLEAN PH D INTRODUCTION Located three miles west of Lebanon Ohio is the seat of the bishopric of the Shaker communities west of the Allegheny Mountains The tract of land possessed by them is irregular in its boundaries and embraces 4500 acres of as rich soil as may be found in the state Its location meets the approval of the most ...
... edited by edited by ROBERT PRICE The Road to Boston 1860 Travel Correspondence of William Dean Howells Young William Dean Howells' travel letters written for two Ohio newspapers during the summer of 1860 and collected here for the first time record the weeks immediately preceding one of the most oft-retold incidents in the story of American letters The time was the first week of August the place Boston's famed Parker House James Russell Lowell editor of the Atlantic Monthly was hosting a ...
... THE CENTENARY OF SANDUSKY COUNTY THE CENTENARY O F SANDUSKY COUNTY BY BASIL MEEK Read at the centennial celebration of Sandusky county August 2 1920 Sandusky county has a wonderfully interesting history but only a few of the more important facts will be attempted to be given by me on this occasion of its centenary of years The time allotted will necessarily preclude the mention of many of the romantic incidents in its aboriginal and early civil and military history Reference to these is hereby ...
... RIVALRY BETWEEN EARLY OHIO AND KENTUCKY RIVALRY BETWEEN EARLY OHIO AND KENTUCKY SETTLERS The following article by a well-known historical writer recently appeared in one of the daily prints It throws an interesting side-light upon the early settlements on the Ohio-EDITOR The very first road that was laid out by engineers to lead to Cincinnati was referred to in the following advertisement in an issue of the Kentucky Gazette published at Lexington and edited by John Bradford dated September 6 ...
... Potts Summer-Autumn 2002 pp 101-120 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Visions of America 17871501788 The Ohio of Reverend Manasseh Cutler By Louis W Potts Manasseh Cutler SC 2324 Ohio Historical Society Collections During the winter of 1786 the Congregational minister at Ipswich Hamlet later Hamilton took time from tending his flock of seventy or so congregants to jot his secular musings to Jeremy Belknap a fellow ...
... INDEX TO THE MINUTES OF THE FORTY-FIRST INDEX TO THE MINUTES OF THE FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY AND THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Archaeological and Historical Society gifts to Museum 623-624 list of acholds Annual Meeting 607 urges cessions 624-629 the Seip Mound completion of Building 607-608 need 630 American Anthropological Assofor expansion of Building 656-658 ciation Central section at the MuArchives Committee on appointed 608 seum 630 re-elected 668 Donahue ...
... 218 Ohio Arch 218 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Kintz mandolin orchestra of Somerset an organization composed of Little Folks The afternoon session at city hall was addressed by Col W A Taylor and Dr P A Gordon and musical numbers were contributed by Mrs Frank Randolph and Mrs Emma B Bowman A recitation by Mrs Bess Comly-Cary was also greatly enjoyed THE BANQUET One of the most enjoyable and brilliant events of the week was the banquet at the Armory Monday evening given in honor of ...