... CONSTITUTION OF CONSTITUTION OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY1 ARTICLE I Name and Location Section 1 This Society which is organized as a corporation not for profit under the laws of the State of Ohio shall pursuant to its Articles of Incorporation be known as The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and shall have its offices at Columbus Ohio where its principal business shall be transacted ARTICLE II Purposes Section 1 The purposes of this Society as set ...
... 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 ...
... JOHN BROWN JOHN BROWN RY C B GALBREATH INTRODUCTION John Brown's body lies moldering in the grave But his soul goes marching on So sang the Twelfth Massachusetts Regiment as it marched south to put down the rebellion and so have sung other regiments and men who never belonged to any military organization in almost every part of the North and West since the outbreak of the Civil War It is remarkable how old John Brown holds his place in the history and literature of his country His name and ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments and awards within the professional community of Ohio historians include Edmund J Danziger of Bowling Green State University has been promoted to Chairman of the Department of History Gary R Hess of Bowling Green State University has been appointed Acting Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve David C Skaggs of Bowling Green State University will take a leave of absence to attend the ...
... edited by edited by ROBERT W HATTON Just a Little Bit of the Civil War As Seen by W J Smith Company M 2nd 0 V Cavalry-- Part I These are the memoirs of Private William James Smith Company M Second Ohio Volunteer Cavalry Smith the second of eight children in the family of Randall and Nancy Lyons Smith was born in a log cabin near Galion Ohio on October 25 1844 When he was two years old his family moved to Iberia Morrow County Ohio where his father worked in the Shunk Brothers Cooper Shop ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies BRECKSVILLE EARLY SETTLERS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Brecksville Mrs Walter S Lister Secretary The society is working on a project to restore the first schoolhouse in Brecksville BUTLER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Hamilton A S Anderson President New officers elected in November are A S Anderson president William E Lakeman vice president Fred Hammerle treasurer and Mrs Henry Kessling secretary pro tem This society was incorporated during the past ...
... THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OF 1875 IN OHIO THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OF 1875 IN OHIO BY FORREST WILLIAM CLONTS M A SIGNIFICANCE OF CAMPAIGN As a purely state contest the political campaign of 1875 in Ohio was of more than ordinary significance It was unusually long intensely conducted bitterly fought and the conclusion might be interpreted to have decided at least one very important question for the people of the entire country Widespread attention served to arouse the citizens of Ohio to the meaning ...
... MARION CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION MARION CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION BY J WILBUR JACOBY OUTLINE OF HISTORY OF MARION COUNTY In this centenary year for the city of Marion it is not inappropriate to preface this article with a brief outline of the history of Marion County Marion County was named after the famous Revolutionary General Francis Marion and attached to Delaware County by act of February 20 1820 For more than twenty-five years thereafter the southern limit of the county was the Greenville ...
... REPORT OF FIELD WORK REPORT OF FIELD WORK CARRIED ON IN THE MUSKINGUM SCIOTO AND OHIO VALLEYS DURING THE SEASON OF 1896 BY WARREN KING MOOREHEAD IN CHARGE OF EXPLORATIONS PREFACE It is interesting to note that as general archaeology progresses in the United States men are more inclined to confine their observations to special or limited areas A generation ago before the Government the Museums of our various cities and the Scientific and Historical Societies undertook large explorations it was ...
... VERNON L VERNON L VOLPE Theodore Dwight Weld's Antislavery Mission in Ohio Since the pioneering work of Gilbert H Barnes and Dwight L Dumond Theodore Dwight Weld has been a favorite subject of study for historians interested in the religious roots of the antislavery movement Son of a Connecticut Congregational minister Weld was finally converted to evangelical reform in 1826 by the great New York evangelist Charles Grandison Finney whose controversial new measures provoked so much debate among ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 587 Reviews Notes and Comments 587 industry of its people has erected into a state which though only thirty-fifth in area has become among its sisters of the Union fourth in population and in wealth exceeded only by New York Pennsylvania and Illinois This text-book is a credit not only to the authors but to the publishers as well By its attractive illustrations its appropriate maps and its illuminating graphics they have produced a work that will make its study ...
... Rutherford B Hayes Attorney at Law by WATT P MARCHMAN Rutherford Birchard Hayes began life without a father in Delaware Ohio on October 4 1822 a sickly child whose health was of deep concern to his mother His father Rutherford Hayes Jr formerly of Dummerston Vermont who had been a merchant of the firm of Noyes Mann and Hayes and who had brought his family to settle in Ohio in 1817 died suddenly on July 20 1822 before the birth of his son He left his widow with an estate consisting of a brick ...
... 116 Ohio Arch 116 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones May it not be thus with Arthur St Clair but rather may this monument long stand as a fitting tribute of respect to his memory May the broken granite boulders typify the strength and rugged virtues of that stalwart patriot and his faithful followers and may this bronze tablet fittingly recall the advancement of the western frontier to this place Mr President ...
... 44 Ohio Arch 44 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 4 THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN OHIO PROF WILBUR H SIEBERT A M It is a rare reform movement that begins with a concensus of opinion in favor of the reform among the thinking men of the day We have nevertheless such a movement to consider in this paper It is strange indeed but nevertheless true that at first there was general agreement North and South that slavery was expensive wicked cruel detrimental to a developing statehood ...
... OHIO'S UNSUNG PENITENTIARY RAILROAD OHIO'S UNSUNG PENITENTIARY RAILROAD by WALTER RUMSEY MARVIN Had James Thurber spent his youth in Columbus two generations before he did he would now be regaling us with anecdotes about a curious little railroad operation that enlivened the city for a few years By antiquarians and connoisseurs of the early iron horse it is sometimes whimsically hailed as the first railroad into Columbus a palm that more literal-minded scholars award to the Columbus and Xenia ...
... STANTON -THE PATRIOT STANTON -THE PATRIOT ANDREW CARNEGIE At Gambier Ohio April 26 1906 there occurred an event deserving of more than a passing notice It was the occasion of the presentation to Kenyon College by Colonel John J McCook of New York one of the Ohio Family of the famous fighting McCooks of an oil portrait of Edwin M Stanton who was a student at Kenyon The painting was from the brush of the distinguished artist Charles P Filson Steubenville Ohio At the same time formal announcement ...
... PARTY POLITICS IN OHIO 1840-1850 PARTY POLITICS IN OHIO 1840-1850 BY EDGAR ALLAN HOLT B A M A PH D Continued from July 1928 QUARTERLY CHAPTER III NATIONAL ISSUES IN OHIO POLITICS 1840-1845 The Whigs were surprised by the completeness of their victory in the national election of 1840 Their first impulse was to interpret the result as a verdict for reform but they deferred developing a positive program for reasons of political strategy In Ohio the Nationalist Whigs were in complete control There ...
... THE EARLY FRENCH SETTLEMENTS ON THE GREAT THE EARLY FRENCH SETTLEMENTS ON THE GREAT LAKES JOHN M BULKLEY The French emigrants scattered along the northwestern frontier previous to the year 176 0 were chiefly from the provinces of Picardy and Normandy in France Without aspiring to the aristocratic rank of the noblesse who had congregated in the region of Quebec and Montreal they were accustomed to reverence the authority which had before been exercised over them under the French monarchy 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 ...
... ANCIENT WORK NEAR OXFORD OHIO ANCIENT WORK NEAR OXFORD OHIO In the first volume of Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge Mr McBride gives a cut and description of this work1 But both plat and description vary so widely from the facts that it seems desirable to bring the case up again Mr MacLean in his Mound Builders reproduces the figure and copies the chief points of the general statement They differ as to the locality McBride being entirely right but McLean putting it in the wrong township ...