... CALEB ATWATER CALEB ATWATER CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF It is as Ohio's first historian that Caleb Atwater is best known But had he never written his History of Ohio his efforts to provide an educational system for the state and the record he made in Archaeology might in themselves be sufficient reason for placing his name in Ohio's Hall of Fame Caleb Atwater was a versatile peculiar eccentric and visionary individual From the world's material point of view his life might not be reckoned a success He ...
... MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING Columbus Ohio September 19 1923 FORENOON SESSION 9 A M Pursuant to a call issued September 8 1923 the Society met and was called to order by President Campbell The following members were present Hon James E Campbell Mr E F Wood Mr George F Bareis Professor B F Prince Mr Henry J Booth General J Warren Keifer Colonel Webb C Hayes ...
... JUDGE JAMES HALL JUDGE JAMES HALL A Literary Pioneer of the Middle West DAVIS L JAMES In the preparation of this sketch acknowledgment should be made of the writer's indebtedness to the Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley by our fellow member Dr W H Venable This volume published in 1891 is of the greatest importance and value to the student of early literary history and an indispensable book of reference It is a matter for much regret that it is out of print and only to be found ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 145 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 145 known Entrust the future to them Teach them ideals of service and of Christian citizenship They'll not fail us Throw them the lighted torches and these will grow brighter as they climb the heights to endless day Said our beloved poet The thoughts of youth are long long thoughts and Emerson So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man When duty whispers low 'Thou must' The youth replies 'I can' The second ...
... Centennial Celebration Centennial Celebration 11 The court house square was soon covered with stone and lumber for the present building but the corner stone was not laid until July 12th 1855 when the Hon Thomas Scott and myself had the honor of delivering addresses on the occasion from a point where the northeast pillar of the portico now stands Such was my personal connection with the building on whose frontage we have this day placed a tablet commemorating 'The site on which stood the first ...
... TERRY A TERRY A BARNHART James McBride Historian and Archaeologist of the Miami Valley James McBride of Hamilton Ohio was a man of many parts At various junctures of his busy life McBride's multifarious activities embraced merchandising architecture banking civil engineering and several avenues of public service As respectable as those attainments were however his most enduring contributions were made as an amateur historian and archaeologist McBride is a prime example of the antiquarian ...
... 224 Ohio Arch 224 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications in Civil War time for he says that soon a hundred thousand men were singing 'And his soul goes marching on' It was the singing of this song by thousands of the boys in blue that inspired Julia Ward Howe the wife of Samuel G Howe the financial supporter of John Brown to write The Battle Hymn of the Republic a poem that still has its appeal to those who have not come completely under the spell of the new literature The world seems to be ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE ORIGINAL MAN FROM OHIO Remarks recently made by the Editor of this Quarterly in introducing a gentleman on the occasion of a lecture on Ohio Archaeology before the William Morris Society of Columbus led to much comment both serious and humorous in the newspapers not only of this state but of papers in various parts of the country The Editor in his remarks was simply passing along some well ventilated possible conclusions resulting from the explorations and ...
... SECONDARY EDUCATION IN OHIO PREVIOUS TO SECONDARY EDUCATION IN OHIO PREVIOUS TO THE YEAR 1840 BY W W BOYD In the report of the United States Commissioner of Education for the year 1899 Rev A D Mayo shows Ohio's peculiar position in regard to education Each of the thirteen original colonies of our country nourished its own class of people differing from each other in creeds languages manners and original national ideals Kentucky and Tennessee were reproductions of Virginia and North Carolina ...
... A Rebuttal to Mrs A Rebuttal to Mrs Trollope Harriet Martineau in Cincinnati By WILLIAM R SEAT JR AMERICA WAS ACQUAINTED with Harriet Martineau before she arrived in this country When she landed at New York City in the fall of 1834 she was already a recognized author a writer of authority who was perhaps the most influential woman in England Her recently published Illustrations of Political Economy had demonstrated to Americans that sympathy with the democratic ideal and concern for the ...
... TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY June 9 1 90 6 The Twenty-first Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the lecture room of the V M C A Building Columbus at 1 30 P M June 9 19 06 The following members were present Rev J W Atwood Columbus Judge J H Anderson Columbus Prof M R Andrews Marietta Mr E H Archer Columbus Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Gen R ...
... THE PEASE MAP OF THE CONNECTICUT THE PEASE MAP OF THE CONNECTICUT WESTERN RESERVE by RUSSELL H ANDERSON The Connecticut Western Reserve in northeastern Ohio is of such special importance in the history of the Old Northwest that the early maps of the area are of particular value and interest The first printed map of the Reserve the Pease map of 1798 and its subsequent revision of 1807-8 as the Pease and Tappen map was published in such a way as to cause some confusion It is the purpose of this ...
... WHEN DID OHIO IN FACT BECOME A SOVEREIGN WHEN DID OHIO IN FACT BECOME A SOVEREIGN STATE OF THE UNION BY HON RUSH R SLOANE In considering this question it is necessary to advert to the fact that after the Declaration of Independence Connecticut set up a claim to the north part of Ohio above latitude 41 north and Virginia claimed Ohio below that line as being within the limits of her charter While these questions caused some discussion and negotiation they were amicably settled and on the 13th ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Frontier America The Story of the Westward Movement By Thomas D Clark New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1959 xi832p illustrations maps appendix bibliography tables and index 675 This is not an easy kind of book to write It is the history of a movement of population that affects every section of the country It covers frontier areas and periods with no exact terminal points and with no two alike It embraces political social economic military and diplomatic history and it ...
... The Shaker Community of Warren County The Shaker Community of Warren County 251 THE SHAKER COMMUNITY OF WARREN COUNTY ITS ORIGIN RISE PROGRESS AND DECLINE By J P MACLEAN PH D INTRODUCTION Located three miles west of Lebanon Ohio is the seat of the bishopric of the Shaker communities west of the Allegheny Mountains The tract of land possessed by them is irregular in its boundaries and embraces 4500 acres of as rich soil as may be found in the state Its location meets the approval of the most ...
... John Butler Tytus Inventor of the Continuous Steel Mill by GEORGE C CROUT and WILFRED D VORHIS The continuous rolling mill which produces an unending ribbon of steel to meet the needs of modern world-wide industrial societies was developed by an Ohioan John Butler Tytus While many men at the American Rolling Mill now the Armco Steel Corporation with home offices at Middletown helped in the development of this revolutionary process of steel production it was Tytus who never wavered in his ...
... Howells' Campaign Biography Howells' Campaign Biography Of Rutherford B Hayes A Series of Letters Edited by LEO P COYLE In 1860 William Dean Howells wrote the campaign Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin his first venture in the field of biography Sixteen years later his literary position assured Howells again projected a campaign biography This time the subject was Rutherford B Hayes who occupied the White House from 1877 to 18811 The second campaign book avowedly ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President The society has recently received two additions to its file of historical and genealogical materials the bill book of Hollister Bliss and Lytle a general store at Delphos from September 1850 to August 1854 and a five-volume compilation of Ohio gravestone inscriptions made by Charles Wagner of Columbus Mr Wagner's work contains thirty thousand inscriptions from grave markers in ...
... JOEL WRIGHT CITY PLANNER JOEL WRIGHT CITY PLANNER by ALFRED J WRIGHT Associate Professor of Geography Ohio State University The original plan for Columbus laid off by order of the General Assembly for the seat of Government for the State of Ohio was prepared by Joel Wright of Warren County This was in 1812 fifteen years after the founding of Franklinton whose sesquicentennial Columbus is celebrating in 1947 Events of this year cause us to turn attention to this Warren County citizen who was ...
... AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE JACKSON AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE JACKSON COUNTY IRON INDUSTRY A THESIS PRESENTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS BY VERNON DAVID K E ELER AB LLB INTRODUCTION The Cyclops here their heavy hammers deal Loud strokes and hissings of tormented steel Are heard around the boiling waters roar And smoky flames through fuming tunnels soar --Vergil In early Biblical times according to the fourth chapter of Genesis Tubal Cain born in the seventh generation of Adam was an ...