... HISTORICAL SOCIETY BUILDINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY BUILDINGS COMPILED BY THE EDITOR On the following pages are presented brief statements of what Illinois Wisconsin and Minnesota all younger states than Ohio have done for their historical societies Half-tone cuts of the New Hampshire and Ohio buildings are also shown Other states and a number of cities have erected buildings not less notable The Historical Society of Buffalo has a building of which any state might be proud The work of this ...
... Benjamin W Arnett of Xenia Charles C Walcutt of Columbus T Ewing Miller of Columbus Smith L Johnson of Columbus Joshua K Brown of Guernsey secretary Joseph P Smith History of the Republican Party in Ohio 2 vols Chicago 1898 I 492 The Diary of John Beatty 189 The Diary of John Beatty 189 Sunday June 15 1884 The day is one of the pleasantest of June days and June has the finest days of the whole year The rain of the days before and of last ...
... 490 Ohio Arch 490 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications DR JACOB ALBRIGHT SHAWAN Dr Jacob A Shawan for many years recognized as one who had attained high place among educators of Ohio died at his home near DeGraff Logan County Ohio May 4 1927 He was born in Wapakoneta June 15 1850 was reared on a farm educated in the public schools of Urbana Ohio and was graduated from Oberlin College in 1880 He received his M A degree from Oberlin College in 1883 and the honorary degree of Ph D from ...
... Benjamin F Tyler the Benjamin Franklin Smead the Benjamin F Smead of the Benjamin Franklin Smead in Benjamin Franklin Smead did not live to see this defeat but died at the age of forty in the summer of 1840 of brain fever73 Although ...
... Benjamin Gardiner Orris Parrish Lucas Sullivant and Leonard Cowles The faculty before Riddell's arrival consisted of T V Morrow Ichabod Jones and J R Paddock who had taught Latin in the academy and continued to do so in the college In the autumn of 1832 when Riddell arrived there were fifteen to twenty students The college building was two storied and of brick painted red It was ornamented by a cupola which protected the bell That bell was ...
... GEORGE WELLS KNIGHT GEORGE WELLS KNIGHT Dr George Wells Knight joined the Faculty of the Ohio State University in 1885 He served as teacher of History in that institution to within a short time of his death which occurred Wednesday morning February 10 1932 In this long and uninterrupted service his teaching and personality left an impression upon a large number of students who in their turn will transmit it in an ever widening circle of influence When he came to accept a position in the ...
... KENNETH E KENNETH E DAVISON President Hayes and the Reform of American Indian Policy The closing of the frontier by the white man's unbridled expansion into the transMississippi West during the post-Civil War years created the most critical period of Indian-white relations in American history No longer could the Indians simply retreat or be removed to lands farther west beyond the pale of white culture A majority of Uncle Sam's 300000 stepchildren lived directly in the path of two advancing ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS THE OHIO WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION LAW BY H R MENGERT FOREWORD Because the Ohio Workmen's Compensation Law has been looked upon as the very embodiment of what Col Theodore Roosevelt called social justice because it is being copied in other states of the Union because of the praise bestowed upon it by King Albert of Belgium who upon the occasion of his visit to Ohio pronounced it one of the greatest pieces of legislation upon the statute books ...
... Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 591 Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 591 torical Society at Nazareth are assured that every precaution will be taken to insure its safety Some day I hope every one of you can go to the old Church and sit in front of the old fireplace which we discovered was twelve feet long and six feet deep We will have candlesticks along the wall we will serve you on a Moravian service such as was used one hundred and fifty years ago when the Moravians held services there I know the ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR REMINISCENCES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN DR GEORGE T HARDING Dr George T Harding who is a Civil War veteran recently recalled a pleasant visit to Abraham Lincoln At the conclusion of his war service he and a few of his comrades called at the White House A colored attendant told them that the President was very busy but that if they would wait awhile they would have an ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments Reviews Notes and Comments 153 A PIONEER LETTER The letter here presented was written by Miss Rachel R Lockwood great aunt of George R Lockwood Editor of the Natio n al Republic published in Washington D C She emigrated from Sussex County Delaware to Preble County Ohio In 1845 she moved with other members of the family to Miami County Indiana where she became the wife of Jonathan Potterfield Dr Dingle to whom the letter was addressed was a member of the State Senate ...
... 656 Ohio Arch 656 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications tees to go forward with the completion of this building and it has been decided to ask the Legislature at its next session for an appropriation sufficient to carry out that policy That having been decided the next step in the project is to prepare a tentative plan upon which to base estimates in asking for the necessary appropriation General Orton having done such a remarkable piece of work for this organization as Chairman of the ...
... 74 OHIO HISTORY 74 OHIO HISTORY and midwestern conditions4 Moreover there survives an excellent combination of materials describing the topic in the state documents which outline the structure of public finance and inspection in the BOSC reports written by Byers which graphically portray conditions in the institutions and conflicts between local governments and the state authorities and in Albert Byers's own diaries and a brief but interesting file of letters sent to him in his official ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 119 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 119 A TENTATIVE POLICY FOR OHIO'S STATE MEMORIALS By ERWIN C ZEPP Because of the recent origin and unprecedented growth of the movement it is difficult if not impossible to devise a definite policy for the preservation development and maintenance of human history sites as contrasted to natural history areas It thus becomes evident that whatever suggestions may be offered here are necessarily tentative in their nature ...
... F M WHITAKER F M WHITAKER Ohio WCTU and the Prohibition Amendment Campaign of 1883 The Woman's Christian Temperance Union may be said to be a product of Ohio in at least two ways One its foundation is the only lasting result of a phenomenon of the winter and spring of 1873-1874 known as the Woman's Crusade which achieved its first success and national recognition in Ohio This movement in which bands of respectable ladies marched in groups upon saloons in various locations singing praying and ...
... Benjamin Stearns purchased 720 shares of Keystone Furnace stock in 1873 for 72000 including 6500 acres of land according to court house records at Jackson Ohio 70 Article in Jackson Standard February 1884 The Jackson County Iron Industry 197 The Jackson County Iron Industry 197 meeting was held in Greenfield on December 15 1874 and the new road planned The Jackson Standard carried the information in its issue of December 15 1874 that books ...
... MUSKINGUM RIVER IMPROVEMENT MUSKINGUM RIVER IMPROVEMENT THE McCONNELSVILLE LOCK-OLD AND NEW IRVEN TRAVIS The beginning of the improvement of the Muskingum dates back to 1827 when on January 17th the following resolution was passed by the General Assembly Resolved That the Board of Canal Commissioners deem it expedient and authorize an examination and survey of the Muskingum River from Marietta to a point most convenient for a connection with the Ohio Canal to ascertain the practicability of ...
... 338 Ohio Arch 338 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications General J Warren Keifer recently appointed Trustee of the Society and the only living Major General of the Civil War will favor the Society with some very interesting and unrecorded history in an address at this meeting A detailed program will be mailed to the members of the Society THE HAYES CENTENARY The tentative program for the Centenary celebration of the birth of Rutherford B Hayes 1822-1893 the nineteenth President of the United ...
... PROFESSOR EDWARD ORTON PROFESSOR EDWARD ORTON 1829-1899 A MEMORIAL ADDRESS BY WASHINGTON GLADDEN The genealogical history of The Orton Family in America a book of which Dr Edward Orton was the author begins with this paragraph The surname ORTON is neither a common nor an unusual one It is a name that could be heard without surprise in any community of English descent It occurs in the directories of many cities of the country and can probably be found in many towns of the United States that ...
... Benjamin Columbus Ohio World War insignia loan Mr Eli Gabriel Columbus Ohio Chinese opium outfit and pipe made by soldier of Civil war Mr Harry R McPherson Columbus Ohio Darke County record books Dr Harlow Lindley Columbus Ohio wooden butter mould Mr Homer Zimmerman Sugar Creek Ohio glass flask Miss Bertha Eisenbeis Columbus Ohio valentine of 1830 Mr J Russell Hayes Swarthmore Pa 1 70 Quaker books Robert M Miller Columbus Ohio gas mask The ...