... COMMENTS NOTES AND REVIEWS COMMENTS NOTES AND REVIEWS OTHER STATE SOCIETIES During the month of August last the Editor of the Quarterly enjoyed a tour of visitation to many of the State Historical Societies of the Eastern and Middle states A stop of two or three days was made at Washington D C where arrangements were perfected with the Publication Department securing for our Library all government documents pertinent to the purposes and work of our Society We were greatly delighted with ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION Washington D C Carl Bode Chairman Steering Committee The sponsoring committee of the association held its first meeting at the Library of Congress on March 22 1951 and adopted a constitution for the association The organization has as its aim the encouragement of the study of American civilization by improving communications across those disciplines which deal with phases of American civilization and by fostering ...
... FINANCING OHIO'S PRE-CIVIL WAR RAILROADS FINANCING OHIO'S PRE-CIVIL WAR RAILROADS by EUGENE 0 PORTER Associate Professor of History College of Mines and Metallurgy University of Texas The financial history of early railroads in the United States is nowhere better illustrated than in the history of railroad building in Ohio The lack of trained engineers and the consequent indefiniteness of plans the insufficiency of the original capitalization the use of state county and municipal credit and ...
... THE MORGAN RAID IN OHIO THE MORGAN RAID IN OHIO R W MCFARLAND In the article under the above heading published in the January number there are several errors which ought not to pass unnoticed The paragraph to which reference is made is as follows viz The Ohio Raid practically ended at Buffington Island although Morgan himself was not captured there but with a small portion of his men escaped and fled to Lake Erie being captured at New Lisbon in Columbiana county Ohio within one day's ride of ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 261 plained Indeed the annotations themselves have a value second only to the text which they explain They constitute a compendium of information that evidences the faithfulness and enthusiasm with which Mr Connelley has performed his work We cite only one instance especially interesting to Ohio readers It is Mr Connelley's note on the meaning of the word Ohio He says Ohio is derived from the Iroquois The original is variously spoken in the different dialects In ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 111 living authorities He informed me at that time that he had been trying to induce Professor Wright to visit Wadsworth for that purpose Every one who is acquainted with Capt T D Wolbach knows that it is utterly impossible for him to deceive Habit makes character and his word alone is worth most men's bond WERE THE MOUNDS USED FOR DWELLINGS As a sample of the various curious theories advanced by different writers concerning the purposes of the mounds we give the ...
... REMINISCENCES OF AN OHIO VOLUNTEER REMINISCENCES OF AN OHIO VOLUNTEER By PHILIP D JORDAN and CHARLES M THOMAS Introduction When Fort Sumter felt the crash of Confederate guns on April 12 1861 a nation knew that an irresistible conflict had at last reached a climax Chattering telegraph keys took the drama of Charleston harbor through the North in frantic haste In the village of Oxford Ohio students of Miami University were gathering for chapel services President John W Hall himself from the ...
... SIMEON PORTER OHIO ARCHITECT by ERIC JOHANNESEN Of the many carpenters and master builders who gave the Western Reserve villages in northern Ohio their characteristic look of colonial New England in the first decades of the nineteenth century only a handful are known today Similarly the architects of the great era of urban growth in the United States during the two decades before the Civil War are largely anonymous Yet a few known builders belonged to both periods and spanned the transition ...
... 370 Ohio Arch 370 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications MILITARY DAY The third day was Military day and no other county has better right to commemorate the memory of the soldier than Jefferson whether he be of the Revolutionary war of the Second War for Independence the Mexican war or the War Between the States Jefferson county furnished thousands of the bravest men in the Federal army during the War Between the States It is not necessary to mention their names - the mere mention of this ...
... JOSEPH RAY1 JOSEPH RAY1 By JERRY DENNIS Joseph Ray was born in Ohio County Virginia now Ohio County West Virginia on November 25 1807 His ancestry was of English origin and can be traced back to John Ray the naturalist William Ray his father was born in Ireland in 1782 and had settled with his parents near West Liberty Virginia in 1789 On February 25 1807 William married Margaret Graham a native of Westchester County Pennsylvania They were among the early pioneers of the Upper Ohio Valley The ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS THE SHANDON CENTENNIAL ALBERT SHAW NEW YORK On August 26 and 27 1903 there was held at Shandon Butler County Ohio a centennial celebration of the Congregational Church and community of that place The order of exercises embraced addresses by the Reverend M P Jones Pastor of the Church Mrs M P Jones Mr Stephen R Williams Mr Minter C Morris Mr Stanley M Roland Mr Michael Jones Miss Edna Manuel Dr W O Thompson Mr Murat Halstead and Dr Albert ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President The meeting of the society on May 5 was addressed by John H Davison on the subject How We Came To Be Where We Are a review of the conquest of the Ohio Country Recent issues of the Reporter have carried a record of soldiers of the War of 1812 buried in Allen County Persons having additional information on such soldiers are requested to communicate with the society so as to make ...
... THE PLACE OF THE OHIO VALLEY THE PLACE OF THE OHIO VALLEY IN AMERICAN HISTORY FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER Professor of History University of Wisconsin Mr Turner until the fall of 1910 was professor of American History in the University of Wisconsin He is now professor of Western American History at Harvard University and the past year 1910 was president of the American Historical Association He delivered the address herewith published at the meeting of the Ohio Valley Historical Association held ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 109 Marietta could not have been surpassed The place and time of the next annual meeting was left in the hands of the Executive Committee The proceedings in full of the meetings above including addresses etc will be published either in a later number of The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Quarterly or in a separate publication by the same Society PALEOLITHIC MAN IN THE WESTERN RESERVE The following article was written by P P Cherry and published in ...
... The Centennial of Jefferson County The Centennial of Jefferson County 329 EDWIN M STANTON Tuesday being designated as Stanton day the public mind was centered on the building in which E M Stanton was born Here the great war secretary lawyer and jurist was born December 19 1814 It is a two-story brick set back from Market street between Fifth and Sixth with a small enclosed yard between the house and the sidewalk In after years a three-story business house was built in front of the old house ...
... PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO In two volumes Illustrated by about 500 engravings contrasting the Ohio of 1846 with 1886-88 from drawings by the author in 1846 and photographs taken in 1886 1887 and 1888 of cities and chief towns public buildings historic localities monuments curiosities antiquities portraits maps etc By HENRY HOWE author of Historical Collections of Virginia and other works Columbus Henry Howe amp Son 1889 The following ...
... AN INDENTURE OF 1831 IN PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO AN INDENTURE OF 1831 IN PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO By FREDERICK C WAITE The procedure of apprenticeship in the crafts as a method of preparing for a vocation is of ancient origin It was firmly established in Europe when the American Colonies were settled and was prevalent in these colonies and in the United States until well into the nineteenth century Although the method is familiar to all that are acquainted with the history of the crafts comparatively ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies BRECKSVILLE EARLY SETTLERS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Brecksville Ernest M Green President Present officers of the society are Ernest M Green president Alice Green Lewis vice president and Mrs Minnie Bartlett Jones historian secretary and treasurer Trustees are Betty Teter Barrett Susie McCreery Birdsall Benjamin P Forbes Raymond J Thayer Raymond B Perry and Harriet A Wright CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Springfield Orton G Rust President The ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 419 his trustees that he would not serve unless they would pledge themselves to raise an endowment fund They decided to start at once The financial committee which will have charge of raising the fund consists of L P Baldwin D Z Norton and W S Hayden Its power to name other members is unlimited Until the endowment fund is raised the museum will be supported as for the past two years in part on its guarantee fund and in part from the proceeds of a lecture course The ...
... THE OHIO-MICHIGAN BOUNDARY DISPUTE THE OHIO-MICHIGAN BOUNDARY DISPUTE RE-EXAMINED By CARL WITTKE A hundred years ago the sovereign and independent state of Ohio and the Territory of Michigan mobilized their forces to settle a long-standing dispute over a slice of territory some seven miles wide at its western end and some eleven miles at its eastern end stretching across the State of Ohio from its western boundary to Lake Erie and comprising the valuable harbor at the mouth of the Maumee River ...