... FLAT BOATING ON THE OHIO RIVER FLAT BOATING ON THE OHIO RIVER BY REV ISAAC F KING In the early settlement of Ohio the pack horse was first used on which to transport merchandise The American Indian left us no high-way for wheeled vehicles A wagon road is a thing he never made and if given to him he seldom used As soon as the white-faced Emigrant reached the Northwest territory he projected wagon roads to bring his goods and supplies from the East These roads were hard to make over the ...
... THE BEGINNINGS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE THE BEGINNINGS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY By THOMAS N HOOVER Rufus Putman never attended a university but fathered the first institution for higher learning in the Northwest Territory He seldom if ever went to school but contributed much to the cause of education His mother when Rufus was still a small boy inflicted upon him an undesirable domineering illiterate step-father who required the lad to work all day and denied him a ...
... 318 Ohio Arch 318 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications STANTON DAY Tuesday morning at ten o'clock the exercises of the day opened at the opera house with Capt John F Oliver master of ceremonies There was a fair audience of school children and others who had gathered to hear Dr W H Venable's address on Ohio Men and Ohio Ideas After an invocation by Rev E W Cowling rector of St Stephen's parish and lately from the mother state of Virginia the home of Jefferson Mr D W Matlack principal of ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE AMERICANISTS AT FORT ANCIENT The International Congress of Americanists made up of delegates from the leading states of Europe and nearly all of the Countries of the Americas held their biennial meeting in New York City beginning October 22 1902 At this meeting many addresses were made and papers were read by distinguished scholars pertaining to the Archaeology of North and South America The full proceedings of this meeting with the addresses will be published in ...
... RECOLLECTIONS OF NEWARK RECOLLECTIONS OF NEWARK ISAAC SMUCKER Mr Isaac Smucker was born in the Shenandoah Valley Virginia in 1807 and became a citizen of Newark Ohio in 1825 as he relates in the article herewith published He early became an influential and distinguished personage in his community In 1837-8 he was a member of the Ohio Legislature and might have held other offices of greater prominence but he preferred the less conspicuous life and the opportunity it gave to indulge in his ...
... FINNEY'S FIGHT AGAINST THE MASONS FINNEY'S FIGHT AGAINST THE MASONS by CHARLES C COLE JR Assistant Dean Columbia College Columbia University Mention antimasonry and the historian and scholar think immediately of the famous Morgan affair of 1826 The story of the abduction of William Morgan a bricklayer of Batavia New York after he had published a book revealing the secrets of Freemasonry is a familiar one in American history The resultant wave of ill-feeling against Masons which culminated in ...
... ADDRESS OF JUDGE JOSEPH COX ADDRESS OF JUDGE JOSEPH COX THE BUILDING OF T HE STATE THE first settlement in this State at Marietta and organization of the Northwest Territory under the Ordinance of 1787 were the most notable events in the history of our country and deserve to rank among the greatest of the civilized world The Territory having been wrested from the domination of foreign nations by the combined strength of the American Colonies after the eight years' struggle of the Revolutionary ...
... THE CHINESE QUESTION 145 THE CHINESE QUESTION 145 Exchange warned Hayes that if he failed to veto the bill the interests of the trade and commerce of the United States with the Chinese Empire will be greatly imperilled45 In New York the Chamber of Commerce condemned the bill as exposing the merchant in his dealings to the consequences of public dishonor and finally as presenting the hasty action of our Congressional Body in sorry contrast with the more cautious and dignified wisdom of the ...
... THE CHINESE QUESTION 145 THE CHINESE QUESTION 145 Exchange warned Hayes that if he failed to veto the bill the interests of the trade and commerce of the United States with the Chinese Empire will be greatly imperilled45 In New York the Chamber of Commerce condemned the bill as exposing the merchant in his dealings to the consequences of public dishonor and finally as presenting the hasty action of our Congressional Body in sorry contrast with the more cautious and dignified wisdom of the ...
... MARIAN J MARIAN J MORTON Temperance Benevolence and the City The Cleveland Non-Partisan Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1874-1900 Here they come now fifty redoubtable and respectable women prayer books in one hand and umbrellas in the others for it looks like rain on this March morning of 1874 in Cleveland Ohio They are striding vigorously down Euclid Avenue headed for the several saloons on Public Square which they intend to close down with their hymns and fervent prayers They are the ...
... THE CLEAN CONSCIENCE OF A DIRTY SWEEP THE CLEAN CONSCIENCE OF A DIRTY SWEEP McGUFFEY'S LITTLE CHIMNEY SWEEP AND ANOTHER by GEORGE L PHILLIPS Assistant Professor of English San Diego State College When by good fortune I come upon a story about a little chimney sweeper one of Lamb's tender novices blooming through their first nigritude the maternal washings not quite effaced from the cheek going sturdily about his business of cleaning soot out of foul chimneys my heart misses a few beats as I ...
... RAILROAD DISCUSSION NOT FORBIDDEN RAILROAD DISCUSSION NOT FORBIDDEN BY LANCASTER SCHOOL BOARD FACTS AND FICTION RELATING TO A WELL WORN STORY On September 13 1927 appeared a news article of considerable length in the Lancaster Daily Eagle relative to the story that is semi-occasionally the subject of inquiries addressed to the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society We are under obligation to Judge Van A Snider of Lancaster Ohio for the clipping from which we quote liberally The news ...
... OHIO IN McGUFFEY'S TIME OHIO IN McGUFFEY'S TIME By GEORGE W RIGHTMIRE Indians--Wayne's Treaty 1795 The Ohio of McGuffey's time was very new it began in 1788 at Marietta and the next year at Cincinnati but little progress was possible until Territorial issues were settled with the Indians--not only the Indians but the British who held many posts long after the Treaty of 1783 in violation thereof and exerted a strong influence over the northwest country After suffering two severe defeats from ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Three Virginia Frontiers By Thomas P Abernethy University La Louisiana State University Press 194 0 96p 150 In recent years various historical writers including Louis Hacker Benjamin F Wright Jr Murray Kane and Fred A Shannon have challenged or minimized the importance of Frederick Jackson Turner's famous interpretation of the democratizing influence of the frontier upon American life and institutions Professor Abernethy's short volume is an additional contribution to ...
... MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETMINUTES OF THE THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO October 2 1924 FORENOON SESSION 9 A M The meeting was called to order by Secretary C B Galbreath On motion of W C Mills Hon James E Campbell was elected chairman of the meeting On motion of C B Galbreath Charles W Justice was elected secretary of the meeting There were present Hon James E Campbell W C Mills George F ...
... 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 ...
... COUNCIL ROCK COUNCIL ROCK C C SHERWOOD Council Rock is located on a farm owned by Mr E M Sherwood five miles south-east of McConnelsville county seat of Morgan county on the east side of the Muskingum river The visible portion of the rock is twenty feet in length and ten feet in height The rock itself is one of the most prominent among many in its immediate vicinity and from its location one obtains a fine view of the valley and river in the foreground It projects out of the base of the ...
... NINETEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE NINETEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY JUNE 3 1904 The Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Achaeological and Historical Society was held in Page Hall Ohio State University Columbus Ohio at 2 30 P M June 3 1 90 4 The following members were present Judge J H Anderson Columbus Prof M R Andrews Marietta Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Gen R Brinkerhoff Mansfield Hon M D Follett Marietta Hon M S ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS American Political Parties Their Natural History By Wilfred E Binkley New York Alfred A Knopf 19 43 389p 375 This book presents a keen and careful analysis of American political parties from the development of Federalism to the Republican prospects in 1944 It is not a history of politics and elections Indeed one finds not very much about national conventions events of campaigns Congressional debates and White House preand post-election politics The red-fire the horse ...
... GENERAL KEIFER HONORED GENERAL KEIFER HONORED BY C B GALBREATH General Joseph Warren Keifer Ohio's grand old man celebrated the ninetieth anniversary of his birth on January 31 of this year On that day he received congratulations from men eminent in many walks of life The House of Representatives at Washington paused in its deliberations in honor of his services Tributes were spoken by Representatives Charles Brand of Urbana Ohio Martin B Madden of Illinois Chairman of the House Appropriations ...