... THE REPORT OF THE FORTY-EIGHTH THE REPORT OF THE FORTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY The forty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was called to order by President Arthur C Johnson Sr on April 24 1934 with sixty members present MR JO H NSON This is a business meeting of the Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society I promise not to keep you long this morning because I know ...
... compiled by compiled by DAVID R LARSON Checklist of Major Research-in-Progress Relating to Ohio REFERENCE WORKS BELL OLIVER History of Ohio seventh grade school text Research Associate Educational Research Council DITTBRENNER CURTIS H Guide to County and Municipal Government Records in Ohio Archives Specialist Ohio Hist Society DOOLEN RICHARD M THOMAS H SMITH and HARRY R STEVENS Readings and Sources in Ohio History Hist profs Ohio Univ LARSON DAVID R Reference Guide to Researching Ohio History ...
... Unveiling of Fort Recovery Monument Unveiling of Fort Recovery Monument 435 we see emblazoned daring and unselfish deeds of heroes who have scaled the walls of duty and gained the parapets of the City beyond And too what a lesson it conveys Its white teaches purity of purpose its red typifies the blood which has been so freely shed in its defense and its blue with its constellations reminds us of fidelity fidelity to our God fidelity to ourselves fidelity to The Star Spangled Banner Oh long ...
... HON HON DAVID TOD BIOGRAPHY AND PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS BY GEORGE B WRIGHT Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime And departing leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time Footprints that perhaps another Sailing o'er life's solemn main A forlorn and shipwrecked brother Seeing shall take heart again - Longfellow PART I BIOGRAPHY OF DAVID TOD David Tod second of the Civil War Governors of Ohio was born at Youngstown Trumbull now Mahoning County Ohio on the 22nd of ...
... 420 Ohio Arch 420 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications between Fort St Clair and Fort Jefferson the following is an authentic account of that affair Lieut Lowrie of the second and Ensign Boyd of the first and second sub legions with a command consisting of about ninety noncommissioned officers and privates having under their convoy twenty wagons loaded with grain and commissaries' stores were attacked between daylight and sunrise seven miles advanced of Fort St Clair on the morning of the ...
... THE MOUND BUILDERS OF CINCINNATI THE MOUND BUILDERS OF CINCINNATI MARIE PAULA DICKORE' A M History's tales have inspired the great artist to his magnificent pictures the bard to lofty epics the composer to stirring national hymns Her illustrious name calls forth a brilliant array nation follows upon nation--Assyrian and Egyptian Greek and Roman Celt and Gaul Teuton and AngloSaxon We hear of primitive peoples and the highest civilizations of the rise and the fall of nations History has set her ...
... BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT by JOHN SCHLEBECKER Hiram College One of the things with which the reader of early American history is most impressed is the remarkable courage and wisdom of the American soldier The Europeans it seems just did not understand the ins and outs of forest fighting Only the American seemed to know that effective fighting on the frontier was by necessity done from behind trees History books are full of pictures of minute men shooting redcoats but they do not have ...
... THE ORIGIN OF THE CLEVELAND CLINIC THE ORIGIN OF THE CLEVELAND CLINIC by HOWARD DITTRICK MD Editorial Director the Cleveland Clinic Cleveland At the request of Dr Jonathan Forman I have prepared an historical resume of the origin of the Cleveland Clinic beginning with the time when the founders began to work together professionally and ending with the opening of the institution which they created Much will be said about a figure that drew the first founders together and after that events will ...
... ROBERT CUMMING SCHENCK FIRST CITIZEN AND ROBERT CUMMING SCHENCK FIRST CITIZEN AND STATESMAN OF THE MIAMI VALLEY by FRED B JOYNER Professor of History Miami University In 1937 in a radio address celebrating Founders Day of Miami University President A H Upham called attention to the fact that the university had sent two ambassadors to the Court of St James Whitelaw Reid was one Robert Cumming Schenck was the other The work of the former is well known The career of Schenck is less well known A ...
... THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCH A EOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO Sept 28 1 917 The meeting was called to order by President G Frederick Wright There were present G Frederick Wright Frank Tallmadge E O Randall L P Schaus W H Cole W O Thompson F E Wilson J M Dunham W C Moore W C Mills T D Hills Rev B R Long J F Roof H C Hockett Rev William McDermott E F Wood H E Buck C W Justice F W Treadway George F ...
... SERVICES OF THE OHIO COMPANY IN DEFENDSERVICES OF THE OHIO COMPANY IN DEFENDING THE UNITED STATES FRONTIER FROM INVASION WHEN General Putnam undertook the superintending of the Ohio Company and landed with his organized force of pioneers at Marietta on April 7th 1788 he assumed a more important and difficult task than that of opening a wilderness for cultivation and providing houses and homes for settlers On his way out from Massachusetts he stopped over in New York and made himself thoroughly ...
... 676 Ohio Arch 676 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications tiers of imperishable renown such as our Millikans Eliots Burbanks Fords Shapleys and Grenfells have given the world Professor Hulbert was generously applauded at the conclusion of his address Dr Thompson then introduced the second speaker of the afternoon Dr G Clyde Fisher Curator of Visual Instruction in the American Museum of Natural History New York City Dr Fisher is a native Ohioan whose scholarly attainments and enviable record ...
... 104 Ohio Arch 104 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications New England and all the colonies Her uniqueness historically speaking lies in the fact that hers was the first soil settled by the United States New England was peopled by the Puritans and others from Old England New York by Dutch and English Pennsylvania by Quakers and Germans and Scotch-Irish Virginia again by the English but quite different from those of Massachusetts and Connecticut Maryland by still another element and so on Of the ...
... Historical News Historical News THE INLAND RIVERS LIBRARY o f the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County has acquired during the past year two large collections of photographs of boats and other river subjects One collection was the gift of Captain Frederick Way Jr and the other is composed of prints of negatives in the Howard National Steamboat Museum The library acquired also by gift a collection from the Greene Line which includes photographs log books account books menus and ...
... A CLASSIFICATION OF OHIO PLACE-NAMES A CLASSIFICATION OF OHIO PLACE-NAMES by WILLIAM COYLE Associate Professor of English Wittenberg College For the academic mind classification is an occupational disease But sifting data into logical categories is a harmless though pedestrian form of mental exercitation which may possess a certain value in suggesting new approaches to the data or in providing a framework for systematic examination and discussion Although the full story behind each Ohio ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Jonathan Stealey an adjunct assistant professor of art at The University of Findlay has been named to the Bicentennial Planning Committee of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation Inc The Foundation based in Washington DC encompasses a wide spectrum of government officials historians and enthusiasts dedicated to preserving national interest in the historical worth of the nation's best-documented exploration of the American west Commissioned by ...
... THE STUDY OF HISTORY--A HINDRANCE OR A HELP THE STUDY OF HISTORY--A HINDRANCE OR A HELP IN THE PERFECTING OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION By K C LEEBRICK This statement was made by Nicholas Murray Butler at the 184th Commencement of Columbia University June 1 1938 Ideas and principles as well as kings can abdicate There are many disturbing signs--and not in Europe or in Asia alone--that Democracy is moving in no small measure unconsciously toward abdication The long and steady progress of ...
... EDWIN M EDWIN M STANTON AT KENYON by WYMAN W PARKER Librarian Kenyon College Stanton the secretary of war in Lincoln's cabinet is still a controversial figure Stanton the youthful school boy is even more elusive but recently-located early letters written in college and in the years directly afterwards have cast more light upon the picture The letters give an impression slightly at variance with the published reminiscences of his contemporaries but such were tempered by time and the fact that ...
... Public Opinion and the Chinese Question 1876-1879 by GARY PENNANEN Diplomatic problems are not considered to have been of much consequence during the presidency of Rutherford B Hayes While not many preWorld War I judgments concerning the history of the period have escaped revisionism an assessment of Hayes's diplomacy made by Charles R Williams in 1914 has withstood the test of time Few subjects of large importance in the foreign relations of the Government demanded action or attention during ...
... OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY--PRE-CIVIL WAR OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY--PRE-CIVIL WAR PERIOD THE FIRST YEAR OF THE SECOND EPIDEMIC OF ASIATIC CHOLERA IN COLUMBUS OHIO--1849 By JONATHAN FORMAN Cholera because of its sudden appearance its high mortality and the frightfulness of its dead has always been a dramatic character in the history of the human race Some years ago the writer told the story of the first cholera epidemic in Columbus that of 18331 This was the great epidemic surpassing any pestilence that ...