... WILLIAM SANDERS SCARBOROUGH EARLY LIFE AND YEARS AT WILBERFORCE by FRANCIS P WEISENBURGER The most renowned Negroes in American history have generally been men of vigorous action who in various ways have given spirited leadership to their race and to their country Such persons include Frederick Douglass John M Langston Booker T Washington and William E B Du Bois Other less aggressive individuals such as Richard Theodore Greener1 the first Negro graduate of Harvard University and a lawyer of ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NEGRO LIFE AND HISTORY Columbus William F Savoy State Director The Columbus branch of the association observed the 23d annual celebration of Negro History Week during the second week in February Radio speakers were Dr James H Rodabaugh Mrs Julia Burrell Charles Allen Dr William Utterbeck Dr John Bennett Dr Allen Griffen Chester Gray and William F Savoy state director of the association Dr Rodabaugh and Mr Savoy ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 323 Reviews Notes and Comments 323 The question Are any of the Griffiths there yet Mr Gessner answered in the affirmative The General then humorously observes The town of Batavia must now be very much dried up with all the facilities the people have to get away I used to take much delight in visiting there and through Clermont And then he added with a touch of pathos But I have made my last visit In this connection the author makes some statements that will be news ...
... OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY 1835-1858 OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY 1835-1858 STILL FURTHER ASPECTS FIVE YEAR REVIEW OF THE WORK OF THE OHIO COMMITTEE ON MEDICAL HISTORY AND ARCHIVES BY ROBERT G PATERSON PH D Material presented in this issue of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly by the Ohio Committee on Medical History and Archives represents another chapter of five continuous years of effort on the part of a small group of men throughout the State in an attempt to mirror the significant ...
... THE ZOAR SOCIETY APPLICANTS THE ZOAR SOCIETY APPLICANTS FOR MEMBERSHIP By EDGAR B NIXON The Society of Separatists of Zoar Ohio was one of the more successful of the many cooperative communities which appeared in this country during the last century Zoar was founded by German peasants and artisans who emigrated from Wurtemburg in 1817 to escape the civil and ecclesiastical persecution to which they had been subjected as members of the Separatist faith The Separatists were dissentients from the ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL Abernethy Thomas P Western Lands and the American Revolution 153 Abolition movement 57-70 passim 179 Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times The Case of America by Thorstein Veblen 152 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 38 Adams George W Doctors in Blue 6970 Adams John 54n22 Adams Mary Ann 185-186 African-American Mosaic A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture The compiled and edited by ...
... EARLY CINCINNATI EARLY CINCINNATI JOSEPH WILBY CINCINNATI The following article was written by Mr Joseph Wilby and read before The Optimist Club Cincinnati March 1st 1902 Mr Wilby is at present the president of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio -EDITOR The first council meeting of the town of Cincinnati is said to have been held on the 5th of March 1 80 2 The present occasion lacks a few days of being the one hundredth anniversary of that date but affords a fitting opportunity ...
... 420 Ohio Arch 420 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications between Fort St Clair and Fort Jefferson the following is an authentic account of that affair Lieut Lowrie of the second and Ensign Boyd of the first and second sub legions with a command consisting of about ninety noncommissioned officers and privates having under their convoy twenty wagons loaded with grain and commissaries' stores were attacked between daylight and sunrise seven miles advanced of Fort St Clair on the morning of the ...
... MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO SATURDAY May 4 1929 1000 A M The meeting was called to order by Secretary C B Galbreath There were present B F Prince Arthur C Johnson Van A Snider Claude Meeker E F Wood Morten Carlisle W D McKinney George Florence Rev S R Martin Mrs Gertrude Ball Mrs Anna M Kevin Charles F Walker William G Pengelly Homer Charles Mrs Homer Charles J E Tritsch ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 661 Forty-First Annual Meeting 661 President Johnson then introduced Mr Walter D McKinney a life member of the Society who had previously presented the rare original painting of Simon Kenton and who had brought to the meeting a painting of Thomas Walker Cridland Mr McKinney came forward with the painting in its pioneer frame which he presented to the Society in the following interesting and informing address THOMAS WALKER CRIDLAND Two years ago it was my privilege to ...
... BOOK REVIEWS JAMES HALL SPOKESMAN OF THE NEW WEST By Randolph C Randall Columbus Ohio State University Press 1964 xvi371p illustrations bibliography and index 750 Randolph Randall's account of the life of James Hall 1793-1868 to whom Herman Melville acknowledged a literary debt in The Confidence-Man provides an interesting panorama of the larger life of the eastern and Ohio Valley frontier during the years of explosive change and growth that came between the War of 1812 and the War between the ...
... INDEX TO MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL INDEX TO MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY Adkins C L presentation of model of Crabbe C C author of bill providing Civil War steamboat by 521 for publication of Diaries and Letters Alexander Mrs T B 502 of Rutherford B Hayes 504 Archaeological collections and specimens Curry W L 503 report of committee presented to the Society 519-520 on Fort Laurens by 532-533 Bareis George F 503 presides at Darby Franklin H 534 meeting of ...
... TRIAL OF WILLIAM BEBB TRIAL OF WILLIAM BEBB BY C B GALBREATH For many years an interesting bit of literature has been going the rounds that has in many instances gained currency as a chapter in the history of the governors of Ohio Under the caption A Story of William Bebb it has found its way into the schools and the public and private libraries of the state Here it is without omission or addition If you should visit the State House in Columbusand look among the pictures of the governors of ...
... THE AARON BURR CONSPIRACY IN THE OHIO THE AARON BURR CONSPIRACY IN THE OHIO VALLEY MISS LESLIE HENSHAW CINCINNATI What the movement known as the Burr Conspiracy really was will probably never be accurately known It might have been one of three things first a filibustering expedition directed against Spain second a plan to revolutionize the West and join this section with Louisiana to form a new republic third a scheme to join the Western States and Louisiana with Spanish America to form an ...
... 258 Ohio Arch 258 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Bishop Memoirs of Rev David Rice and History of the Church in Kentucky 118-140 Hoffman The Story of a Country Church 36-59 8 McNemar The Kentucky Revival with a Brief Sketch of Shakerism 1808 73-105 Morrow History of Warren County Ohio 267-274 Otterbein Home Annual 9 Centennial History of the Sugar Creek United Presbyterian Church History of Greene County Ohio 10 The Articles of Faith Constitution and History of the Congregational ...
... AN OHIO ARMY OFFICER OF WORLD WAR I AN OHIO ARMY OFFICER OF WORLD WAR I MAJOR GENERAL JOSEPH T DICKMAN by SISTER MARY CLEMENT STUEVE CPPS The various political and economic upheavals which invariably follow major wars often tend to obscure the history of the men who were personally engaged in the conflicts And men who gave their entire life to a military career and who are necessarily absent from boyhood surroundings are sometimes quickly forgotten by their native localities Joseph Theodore ...
... THE OHIO BUCKEYE THE OHIO BUCKEYE In a pamphlet entitled Ohio Emblems and Monuments compiled by the editor of the QUARTERLY in 1906 i s an account of the Ohio Buckeye which is here reproduced in adapted form It is somewhat singular but true nevertheless that the average Ohioan is not able to point out with certainty the tree whose name is the soubriquet of his state In the popular descriptions fact and fancy science and oratory are so promiscuously blended that there is nothing remarkable in ...
... 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 ...
... MRS MRS TROLLOPE IN PORKOPOLIS by WILLIAM H HILDRETH Professor of English Ohio State University On January 1 1828 Frances Milton Trollope an English housewife with three of her children left the port of New Orleans bound north on the steamboat Belvidere She was going to Cincinnati to set herself up in business Left behind in England were her husband Thomas and their two older sons Thomas Trollope a failure at both law and farming sat in England and brooded over his ill luck dosed himself with ...
... COLUMBUS OHIO'S CAPITAL COLUMBUS OHIO'S CAPITAL BY ELMER EDWARD NOYES It has been stated by some authorities that Columbus was born a capital1 that Lucas Sullivant an early surveyor who laid out Franklinton in 1797 foresaw the future political possibilities of the district2 At the same time it is claimed by another authority that this was hardly possible since state lines had not yet been drawn at that early date3 In any case the seat of government was moved to Columbus in October 18164 and ...