... 634 Ohio Arch 634 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications During the year there has been a large number of visitors at the Park The custodian reports more than twenty-five thousand While many of these doubtless have been the usual Sunday and holiday visitors they have been orderly while at the Park and let us hope have carried away with them some wholesome impressions of the significance of the Great Serpent Effigy Signed W H COLE Chairman of Committee REPORT OF SPIEGEL GROVE COMMITTEE A E ...
... edited by edited by PAUL C BOWERS JR GOODWIN F BERQUIST JR James Kilbourne New Light on his Story James Kilbourne played an important if not widely known role in the settlement and development of Ohio Born in Farmington Connecticut in 1770 Kilbourne became a prosperous merchant and land owner as well as a lay reader and clergyman in the Protestant Episcopal Church He was a man of stature in both the business and spiritual affairs of central Connecticut by the turn of the century In 1800 ...
... THE CENTENNIAL ODE THE CENTENNIAL ODE BY J M HARDING Columbia's pride Ohio grand and fair Where wealth and beauty are beyond compare Where labor truth and knowledge have control Thy name is peer upon the honor roll Ohio first-born of the great Northwest Nursed to thy statehood at the Nation's breast And taught wisdom of the Ordinance RuleNo slav'ry chain but e'er the public school Ohio name for what is good and grand With pride we hail thee as our native land With jealous pride we sing our ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 415 1838 President Van Buren appointed Mr Lucas governor of the Territory of Iowa In this position he exhibited great capabilities in the organization of the territory into the state The election of William H Harrison as Whig President in 1840 caused Mr Lucas' removal from the office of Iowa governor when he returned to Ohio and was nominated by the people of his home district for membership in United States Congress In the election he was unsuccessful He then sold ...
... A Survey of Publications A Survey of Publications In Ohio History and Archaeology August 1960 - July 1961 Compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE HENLEIN Paul C Early Cattle Ranges of the Ohio Valley Agricultural History XXXV 1961 150-154 The Jackson Cut-Off Northwest Ohio Quarterly XXXII 1960 187-191 A ditch in Wood County to drain the Black Swamp built in 1878 and 1879 RHOADES Rendell ed Some 'Memoranda of the Locust Season in Ohio 1855' Ohio Historical Quarterly LXX 1961 152-156 ...
... FORT HILL INDIAN CEMETERY FORT HILL INDIAN CEMETERY BY FELIX J KOCH Antiquarians and others interested in the lost races of this continent have been delighted recently at the news of the discovery of still another Indian burial ground on Ft Hill at the mouth of the Big Miami River in the very southwest corner of Ohio Workmen building a road through the territory found arrow-heads and other Indian implements such as to indicate the proximity of a pre-historic cemetery and proceeding with care ...
... SALMON P SALMON P CHASE AND THE ELECTION OF 1860 BY DONNAL V SMITH CHAPTER I CHASE IN THE CAMPAIGN OF 1 86 0 I shall ever strive to be first wherever I may be let what success will attend the effort So wrote Salmon P Chase in 1830 then a young attorney practicing with the famous Wirt firm in Washington1 Shortly after he moved to Cincinnati the Queen City of the West there to begin a life of political activity which in a few short years took him through the various changes of the old Whig party ...
... edited by edited by JAMES B MURPHY A Confederate Soldier's View of Johnson's Island Prison William Henry Asbury Speer of Yadkin County joined the Confederate TwentyEighth North Carolina Volunteers as captain of its First Company when the regiment was organized at Highpoint on September 21 1861 After training and post duty at Wilmington Speer and the regiment moved to New Bern and then on to Gordonsville and Rapidan Station Virginia Ordered to join Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley the ...
... WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER Concluded from Volume I Page 375 The new literary comet thus announced was pathetic repetition still another Literary Journal and Monthly Review edited by L A Hine and referred to by him some years later as my first literary wreck It was published at Nashville Tennessee and conducted nominally by E Z C JudsonNed Buntline In those years of prosperity and constant pen-wielding Mr Gallagher's muse was liberal Then it was that the poet caring more ...
... THE LEBANON CENTENNIAL THE LEBANON CENTENNIAL ORATION OF WILLIAM H VENABLE NOTE--On Thursday September 25 1902 the people of Lebanon Warren county Ohio held appropriate exercises celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the settlement of that time honored town The exercises were held in the opera house Mr John E Smith acting as President There were many distinguished speakers present who made addresses Our space in this Quarterly will not permit of the extended report which we would like ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Ohio in Homespun and Calico By I T Frary Richmond Virginia Garrett and Massie 1 942 1 48 p 200 This is a saga of common people says the author of Ohio in Homespun and Calico in presenting his latest literary product to the reader I T Frary does not sing of arms and the hero but of the sturdy pioneering Ohioans who bore the burden of building a commonwealth and of whom as a bearer of their tradition he is justly proud I like those simple people who were mine a few ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Guide to the Material in The National Archives Washington D C Government Printing Office 194 0 303p Paper 40 cloth 70 The first general guide to the materials in The National Archives made its appearance in 1938 as an Appendix to the Third Annual Report of the Archivist of the United States The present work is the successor to that initial guide and constitutes a key to some 320000 linear feet of records or those accessioned up to December 31 1939 It must be kept in ...
... GENERAL ROELIFF BRINKERHOFF GENERAL ROELIFF BRINKERHOFF 1828-1911 On Sunday June 4 19 11 at 930 in the evening at his beloved home in Mansfield Ohio the soul of General Roeliff Brinkerhoff took its peaceful flight to the eternal life beyond At the time of his demise General Brinkerhoff was President Emeritus Vol XX-23 353 354 Ohio Arch 354 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society of which he was active President from the year 1893 to the ...
... THE MANUFACTURE AND USE OF ABORIGINAL THE MANUFACTURE AND USE OF ABORIGINAL STONE IMPLEMENTS PROBABLY no other equal area in the Union has furnished so great a number and variety of the so-called Indian Relics as has been found within the southern half of Ohio and the adjacent portions of Kentucky and West Virginia Although few persons have made any particular study of them curiosity in regard to them is active among all classes and the successful collector often finds life made a burden by ...
... MINUTES OF THE FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETMINUTES OF THE FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO SATURDAY OCTOBER 8 1927 FORENOON SESSION 1000 A M The meeting was called to order by Secretary C B Galbreath There were present Dr B F Prince Arthur C Johnson Dr W O Thompson Gen Edward Orton Jr George F Bareis Dr Frank C Furniss C B Galbreath Mrs C B Galbreath Mrs Orson D Dryer Edwin F Wood Joseph C Goodman Fred J ...
... NORRIS F NORRIS F SCHNEIDER The National Road Main Street of America A way to the West-where was the best route George Washington pondered that question anew in September 1784 as he sat in a land agent's cabin near present-day Morgantown West Virginia Gathered about him were settlers from that near-wilderness area on the Cheat River who had come at his request to offer their opinions on the best route for a portage between the upper waters of the Potomac and a tributary of the Ohio River Land ...
... AN OHIO DOCTOR IN THE EARLY NAVY AN OHIO DOCTOR IN THE EARLY NAVY by HOWARD D K RA MER Assistant Professor of History Western Reserve University Recently the journals of Lewis A Wolfley an Ohio doctor who served in the United States Navy from 1832 to 1844 were lent to the writer by a representative of Wolfley's descendants The manuscript material in the Wolfley Collection consists of the surgeon's journals on four cruises and his diary in Paris where he studied medicine under world-famous ...
... Popular Education on the Western Reserve Popular Education on the Western Reserve 35 THE HISTORY OF POPULAR EDUCATION ON THE WESTERN RESERVE AN ADDRESS DELIVERED IN THE SERIES OF EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCES HELD IN ASSOCIATION HALL CLEVELAND SEPTEMBER 7 AND 8 1896 B A HINSDALE PH D LL D PROFESSOR OF THE SCIENCE AND THE ART OF TEACHING IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN It is peculiarly appropriate that the programme of the Centennial Commemoration of the founding of the City of Cleveland and of the ...
... 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 ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE DRAPER MANUSCRIPTS In this QUARTERLY we publish the first of a number of articles we shall from time to time reproduce from the collection of the famous Draper manuscripts in the possession of the Wisconsin Historical Society located at Madison Wisconsin A large portion of these manuscripts there preserved pertain to the early history of Ohio The past summer 1910 it was the privilege of the Editor of the QUARTERLY to visit Madison and through the courtesy of Dr ...