... OSCAR WILDE IN CLEVELAND OSCAR WILDE IN CLEVELAND by FRANCIS X ROELLINGER JR Assistant Professor of English Oberlin College A Clevelander in search of amusement during the week of February 12 1882 could rejoice at the number and variety if not the excellence of his opportunities At the Euclid Avenue Opera House Mr John McCullough the eminent tragedian fresh from a brilliant season in London was presenting a repertoire that included Othello and Richard III At the Academy of Music Buffalo Bill ...
... DR DR JOHN MILTON BIGELOW 1804-1878 AN EARLY OHIO PHYSICIAN--BOTANIST By A E WALLER Meeting the name Bigelow in botanical publication the reader is sometimes confused The name of John M Bigelow the subject of this paper is close to John Bigelow a journalist and newspaper correspondent of New York City of the same period and also to a Dr Henry Jacob Bigelow interested in anesthetics of whom this paper will make no further mention as well as to Dr Jacob Bigelow of Massachusetts Dr Jacob Bigelow1 ...
... MARTIN BAUM MARTIN BAUM By GEORGE A KATZENBERGER The nucleus of the material hereinafter collected is taken from an article1 by the eminent German-American historian Henry A Ratterman who from 1868 to 1887 published Der Deutsche Pionier in Cincinnati The historian will note that of all the great nations of western Europe during the centuries immediately following the discovery of America Germany alone took no official part in the colonization of the newly discovered hemisphere This was ...
... 166 Ohio Arch 166 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications to live before he has had a chance for self-realization Why cut off a man's opportunities in his youth Why rob him of the holy right to live and to make the best of himself There are doubtless moments of exhiliration and glory in the dangers of battle but these are as nothing when balanced against the wholesale slaughter of men Herein then lies the secret of our anti-war spirit Not that we would not fight if necessary No people is more ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA MEETING OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION In the historic and picturesque city of New Orleans on the days of Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday December 29 30 and 31 1903 was held the nineteenth annual meeting of the American Historical Association It proved to be an event of unusual interest and enjoyment The American Historical Association was organized at Saratoga New York September 10 1884 and now numbers some twenty-five hundred members comprising the leading ...
... THE BALLAD OF 'JAMES BIRD THE BALLAD OF 'JAMES BIRD ITS AUTHORSHIP BY C B GALBREATH In a contribution entitled The Battle of Lake Erie in Ballad and History the writer of this article in 1911 related the story of James Bird and reproduced the old ballad commemorating his heroic service on board the Lawrence and his tragic death a year later for desertion on the Niagara In commenting on this quaint pathetic ballad it was assumed to have been written by a bard unlearned and unknown but not ...
... ADDRESS OF HENRY M ADDRESS OF HENRY M STORRS D D DELIVERED SUNDAY AFTERNOON APRIL EIGHTH Isaiah 35 1 The wilderness shall be glad for them THE pioneers and founders have done their work and gone They have left us material and tools We are to enter into their labors and carry forward their work I make no apology for naming as our subject that nation which they founded as it was and is and shall be THE AMERICAN PEOPLE A SOURCE OF BLESSING Your flint dry and hard is found to have its molecular ...
... Leo Lesquereux Leo Lesquereux 279 LEO LESQUEREUX BY EDWARD ORTON The revocation of the Edict of Nantes inflicted an irreparable injury upon the French nation in depleting it of its middle class from which its industrial energy its science literature and art were mainly drawn but the Protestant neighbors of France gained correspondingly thereby England Holland Switzerland and the English colonies in North America were greatly enriched by this enforced emigration These Huguenot exiles brought ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 99 A daughter of Mr Nichols the anti-slavery man is yet living and gives in a letter to me interesting facts She says My father and mother became earnest anti-slavery advocates in 1841 and from that time until the war the colored people knew my parents as friends and our home was a refuge When old enough probably about the year '48 or '49 I became greatly interested in the black people who came quietly to our kitchen door after dark and left before daylight often we ...
... HERE IS LA FAYETTE HERE IS LA FAYETTE BY JOHN ME RRILL WEED La Fayette we are here said General Pershing as he stood beside the tomb in Picpus Cemetery one historic day in 1917 It was a dramatic incident It shows that Pershing had a quality that would scarcely have been suspected in a doughty warrior a flair for capturing the popular imagination of two nations It is not a legend it is too recent for that Moreover we have a statement from the General's headquarters staff attesting the words ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Pioneering in Agriculture One Hundred Years of American Farming and Farm Leadership By Thomas Clark Atkeson and Mary Meek Atkeson New York Orange Judd Publishing Co I nc 1937 22 2p 3 00 This is the autobiography of Thomas Clark Atkeson of whom it was said that no man in his generation has done more for the betterment of American agriculture Atkeson was born in a log house on the banks of the Great Kanawha River in Virginia now West Virginia in 1852 His English ...
... FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN AND BALDWIN-WALLACE FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN AND BALDWIN-WALLACE COLLEGE by F A NORWOOD Associate Professor of History Baldwin-Wallace College Without German Pietism John Wesley would not have had a warming of the heart He would have remained a devoted strict churchman somewhat bigoted fulfilling his ecclesiastical duties unflinchingly but he would never have gained access to the hearts of the multitudes he would not have kindled a fire that enlightened and warmed the hearts and ...
... COMMENTS NOTES AND REVIEWS COMMENTS NOTES AND REVIEWS THWING'S SKETCH OF OHIO In Pearson's Monthly for February is the first of a series of articles which that magazine proposes to publish on The Story of the States This first article very fittingly is devoted to Ohio It is from the pen of Charles F Thwing D D LL D President of the Western Reserve University at Cleveland Ohio It is a very entertaining and informing monograph on our native state In a condensed form Mr Thwing gives the leading ...
... THE DEATH AND FUNERAL OF PRESIDENT THE DEATH AND FUNERAL OF PRESIDENT WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON BY REV EDWARD S LEWIS One of the most notable campaigns for the presidency of the United States was that of 1840 in which Martin Van Buren and William Henry Harrison contended for that high office This was perhaps the most picturesque of the presidential campaigns The Democrats were strong and confident Harrison the Whig candidate was ridiculed by them as being only a western soldier living in a log ...
... Big Bottom and Its History Big Bottom and Its History 17 ADDRESS OF C L MARTZOLFF It is said that a minister's text is but a peg upon which to hang his sermon If I were a minister the peg upon which I would hang this speech would be found among the jewels of the wonderful mines of King Solomon - The Book of Proverbs Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set Man has ever been a monument builder When the Israelites fought with the hosts of Amalek when the hands of Moses were ...
... 48 OHIO HISTORY 48 OHIO HISTORY THE WHISKEY WAR AT PADDY'S RUN EXCERPTS FROM A DIARY OF ALBERT SHAW edited by LLOYD J GRAYBAR In 1874 Albert Shaw later the distinguished editor of the American Review of Reviews and friend of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson was in his seventeenth year An intelligent youth able to observe events with some discernment he kept a diary of his life in the southwestern Ohio village of New London better known as Paddy's Run1 Renamed Shandon in 1893 ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR OLENTANGY RIVER The name Olentangy applied to an important tributary of the Scioto River has been a puzzler to the etymologists It is said to be of Indian origin but its root significance has never been determined The statement is made in the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society Publications Vol 6 page 93 that this name was legalized through the interest of Colonel Kilbourne We are told that in the year 1833 Colonel ...
... SONG WRITERS OF OHIO SONG WRITERS OF OHIO ALEXANDER COFFMAN ROSS AUTHOR OF TIPPECANOE AND TYLER TOO I am a Buckeye from the Buckeye State This was the proud declaration of the author of Tippecanoe and Tyler too as he faced a large and enthusiastic audience in New York City just before he gave to fame that political campaign song-the most effective ever sung in the history of the Republic Alexander Coffman Ross first opened his eyes to the light in Zanesville O May 31 1812 His father Elijah ...
... A CHAPTER IN EARLY DENTAL HISTORY A CHAPTER IN EARLY DENTAL HISTORY UNVEILING OF MEMORIAL TABLET AT BAINBRIDGE OHIO On Monday afternoon November 30 1925 a tablet was unveiled in Bainbridge Ohio in memory of Doctors Chapin A Harris and James Taylor pioneer advocates of professional dentistry and founders of the first two dental schools in the United States and the world The inscription on this tablet sets forth so clearly and fully its purpose that there is little need of elaboration in this ...
... Pre-Civil War Sentiment Pre-Civil War Sentiment from Belmont County Correspondence of Hugh Anderson edited by John Kent Folmar Historians search continuously for primary documents which may expand the portrait of the past A basic source of this quest is contemporary letters particularly if they are written by literate observers during a time of local or national stress The Hugh Anderson letters are of this noteworthy quality1 Born in Ireland in 1782 Anderson immigrated to the United States in ...