... SALMON PORTLAND CHASE SALMON PORTLAND CHASE UNDERGRADUATE AND PEDAGOGUE BY ARTHUR MEIER SCHLESINGER OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Salmon Portland Chase was a significant member of that group of political radicals who plunged the nation into civil convulsions by their accession to governmental power in the late '5o's Much has been written of Chase the anti-slavery lawyer the organizer of the Liberty party the war financier the chief justice but of Chase the youth the college student the school teacher ...
... SALMON PORTLAND CHASE SALMON PORTLAND CHASE UNDERGRADUATE AND PEDAGOGUE BY ARTHUR MEIER SCHLESINGER OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Salmon Portland Chase was a significant member of that group of political radicals who plunged the nation into civil convulsions by their accession to governmental power in the late '5o's Much has been written of Chase the anti-slavery lawyer the organizer of the Liberty party the war financier the chief justice but of Chase the youth the college student the school teacher ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 293 reliable history only can be produced This book is especially interesting at this time owing to the revival of interest in the achievements of George Rogers Clark in the Northwest Territory and the voyages of research and exploration by William Clark a younger brother of George Rogers who with Meriwether Lewis led the expedition across the continent from 1803 to 1806 by which the extent and resources of the Louisiana Purchase were first made known to the American ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Abolitionists amp the South 1831-1861 By Stanley Harrold Lexington The University of Kentucky Press 1995 x 245p illustrations notes bibliography index 2995 Did the struggle to end slavery cause the Civil War Twentieth-century theories of the war from Charles Beard's economic interpretation to the currently fashionable cultural split between North and South have relegated abolitionist radicals to the sidelines as a causative factor in the war and by implication ...
... B O O K R E V I E W S HAYES THE DIARY OF A PRESIDENT 1875-1881 COVERING THE DISPUTED ELECTION THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION AND THE BEGINNING OF CIVIL SERVICE Edited by T Harry Williams New York David McKay Company 1964 xliv329p introduction chronology dramatis personae and index 650 I approached the assignment to review this book not only with interest but also with some concern As a member of the staff of the Rutherford B Hayes Library and Museum some years ago I had become acquainted with the ...
... 374 Ohio Arch 374 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Upon whose bosom snow has lain Who intimately lives with rain Poems are made by fools like me But only God can make a tree' After the formal reading of Logan's Speech by John R Horst from McGuffey's Fourth Reader edition of 1853 informal addresses were made by J W Johnson of Circleville editor of the Democrat and Watchman Professor C C Miller of Lancaster and Mrs Orson D Dryer of Shepard Ohio Mrs Dryer's contribution to the day's ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 68 NUMBER 1 JANUA R Y 1 959 Friedrich Hassaurek Cincinnati's Leading Forty-Eighter By CARL WITTKE THE ABORTIVE GERMAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1848 and 1849 led to an exodus of political refugees from Europe to the United States which was unique in the history of American immigration Among the German immigrants who crossed the Atlantic in the 1850's in quest of greater economic opportunities and political liberty there were a significant ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Crigler Mounds Sites Be 20 and Be 27 and the Hartman Mound Site Be 32 Boone County Kentucky By William S Webb With Chapter on Physical Anthropology By Charles E Snow University of Kentucky Reports in Anthropology and Archaeology Vol V no 6 Lexington University of Kentucky 1943 74p 20 figs 10 tables This new report on the Adena Complex in Kentucky is the sixth in a series of eight bulletins describing mound explorations of an important prehistoric Indian culture ...
... ROGER D ROGER D BRIDGES John Sherman and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson In Irving Brant's recent study of the impeachment process by the United States Congress he characterized the Radical Republican attempt to remove Andrew Johnson from the presidency in 1868 as the most insidious assault on constitutional government in the nation's history It was Brant charged carried on in direct violation of the limitations deliberately placed in the Constitution to prevent such a happening If it had ...
... THOMAS WORTHINGTON PIONEER BUSINESS MAN OF THOMAS WORTHINGTON PIONEER BUSINESS MAN OF THE OLD NORTHWEST1 by ALFRED B SEARS Professor of History University of Oklahoma Thomas Worthington was born in the Shenandoah Valley near the site of the present town of Charles Town West Virginia in 1773 He was the grandson of the Quaker immigrant John Worthington Gentleman who came to America in 1714 and after some sixteen years residence near Philadelphia settled on a three-thousand-acre farm in Berkeley ...
... 268 OHIO ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 268 OHIO ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY with difficulty that we refrain from being surprised at ourselves And our culture dwarfs that of our fathers to insignificance We cannot be expected to judge values according to the standards of a culture which to us appears so naive so childlike so unintelligent and emotionally unstable But sometimes when our present world is a bit too much with me the strident voice of the news broadcaster comes ...
... GEORGE FREDERICK WRIGHT GEORGE FREDERICK WRIGHT IN MEMORIAM In the fullness of years and bearing the honors of a life devoted to science and the service of his fellow men Doctor George Frederick Wright President Emeritus of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society passed to his final reward April 20 1921 While he had been failing in strength for a few months past he was able to continue his work almost to the day of his death and was cheerfully looking forward to a return to health ...
... APPENDIX APPENDIX REPORT OF THE CELEBRATION OF THE CENTENNIAL OF THE ERECTION OF JEFFERSON COUNTY AND FOUNDING OF STEUBENVILLE THE CENTENNIAL OF JEFFERSON COUNTY The centennial of the formation of Jefferson county and founding of Steubenville was celebrated in the city of Steubenville Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday August 24 25 and 26 which was participated in by a large number of people mainly former residents who returned to their old home for the occasion The celebration noted a century ...
... 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 ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XXVII INDEX TO VOLUME XXVII EXPLANATORY NOTE With the exception of a few pages Volume Twenty-six is made up of two articles History of Educational Legislation in Ohio by Prof Miller and The Indians in Ohio by H C Shetrone These articles are so foreign to each other that few of the subjects treated are identical hence an index covering both would possess no special advantage Besides these articles are of such value in themselves that there will be undoubtedly a demand for their ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XIV INDEX TO VOLUME XIV A NArticles - Concluded Robert White McFarland 170 Aborigine use of word 474 Song Writers of Ohio 62 180 291 Adams J Q Cincinnati in 464 428 Agassiz Louis 83 Tarhe the Crane 132 American Historical Association 219 Tarhe the Wyandot Chief 313 Account of 219 The campaigns of the Revolution in Society at 94 Ohio Valley 39 Andrews M R Big Bottom at 467 The conquest of the Indian 139 Antioch College - The Indian Mound Miamisburg Building of 17 Ohio 496 Code ...
... Editorialana Editoria l ana 101 self-deluded It became his monomania He was more Simplician than Charlatan though a curious mixture of both The Ohio legislature in 1850 enacted the Homestead Exemption Law-granting homestead of certain value or a certain amount of property exempt from the reach of creditors Allen it was claimed was instrumental in securing the passage of this law but that is only another of the Allen myths There is no evidence that he had anything to do with it Indeed he is not ...
... Ohio in Early History and During the Revolution Ohio in Early History and During the Revolution 395 OHIO IN EARLY HISTORY AND DURING THE REVOLUTION BY E 0 RANDALL PH B L L M Secretary Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society President Ohio Society Sons of the American Revolution No territory in the new world at least perhaps not in the old presents so much of interest at once to the archaeologist and the historian as the inland portion of America now and for a century designated as the ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent retirements within the professional community include Ruth Helmuth Case Western Reserve University Archivist William D Aeschbacher teacher and administrator at the University of Cincinnati and Lenore R O'Boyle and Leon C Soule of Cleveland State University The 1986 Northern Great Plains History Conference will be held September 25-27 For details contact Jack M Lauber University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Department of History Eau Claire Wisconsin 54701 ...
... The French Settlement and Settlers of Gallipolis The French Settlement and Settlers of Galli p olis 45 THE FRENCH SETTLEMENT AND SETTLERS OF GALLIPOLIS Preceding addresses and other papers have given the story of the Scioto Company under whose auspices the French settlers came to America I shall not attempt to repeat any part of this history but begin my narrative with the sailing of the first party of emigrants to their new homes in the unknown West which had been described to them in such ...