... THE HAYES BEQUESTS THE HAYES BEQUESTS When future generations shall make their pilgrimages to the historic scenes of Fremont Ohio they will ask What means this beautiful park with its winding roads through a forest of gigantic trees and this artistic building of stone at its northern entrance with this commodious but simple brick mansion in the background and what is this magnificent collection of building in a spacious field outside approached by well-worn roads and pathways The answer will ...
... ESSAY AND COMMENT ESSAY AND COMMENT Historiography and WARREN G HARDING re The Shadow of Blooming Grove Warren G Harding in his Times by Francis Russell New York McGraw-Hill Company 1968 xvi691p index 1250 The image of Warren G Harding has been derived largely from pre1940 books by Samuel Hopkins Adams Frederick Lewis Allen Mark Sullivan and William Allen White To these life-and-times accounts must be added the memoirs of Nan Britton Harry Daugherty and Gaston B Means The picture presented was ...
... The OhioMichigan Boundary Line Dispute a The Ohio - Michigan Boundary Line Dispute 199 THE OHIO-MICHIGAN BOUNDARY LINE DISPUTE TOD B GALLOWAY Sing 0 Goddess Muse From whence arose so fierce a strife In the examination of the questions involved in the OhioMichigan boundary dispute I find myself very much in the position of the Justice of the Peace who after hearing the plaintiff's side of the case was ready to decide in his favor but upon the defendant having presented his argument he exclaimed ...
... AN INDENTURE OF 1831 IN PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO AN INDENTURE OF 1831 IN PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO By FREDERICK C WAITE The procedure of apprenticeship in the crafts as a method of preparing for a vocation is of ancient origin It was firmly established in Europe when the American Colonies were settled and was prevalent in these colonies and in the United States until well into the nineteenth century Although the method is familiar to all that are acquainted with the history of the crafts comparatively ...
... DUNCAN McARTHUR FIRST PHASE 1772-1812 DUNCAN McARTHUR FIRST PHASE 1 7721 812 By C H CRAMER After the Battle of Culloden in 1746 many of the supporters of the defeated Prince Charlie the Young Pretender found it advisable to migrate to the New World Among the emigres were some of the MacArthurs members of a clan as proud of their distinctive plaid and feather as any in Scotland One of their number settled in New York where a son Duncan was born in 1772 The mother died when the boy was three and ...
... JOSEPH TOSSO THE ARKANSAW TRAVELER JOSEPH TOSSO THE ARKANSAW TRAVELER by OPHIA D SMITH The man who made Arkansaw Traveler famous was not an ordinary country fiddler He was a courtly Italian gentleman a musical genius who might have become one of the great violinists of all time The melody as well as the story of the Arkansaw Traveler was attributed to Joseph Tosso over and over in the Cincinnati press during the sixty years he lived in that city He was renowned for his inimitable rendition of ...
... A PRINTER'S TROUBLES A PRINTER'S TROUBLES OXFORD OHIO DURING THE EIGHTEEN-THIRTIES By ALTA HARVEY HEISER At this time of celebrating the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Ordinance of 1787 which act of Congress was the official opening of the Northwest Territory much thought is being given to pioneer days The early settlers took life in general and their own existences in particular very seriously This is somewhat amusing unless considered with an understanding of the conditions ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR A REVIEW OF THE LIFE AND THE DIARY AND LETTERS OF RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD HAYES Robert Latham the editor of the Asheville N C Citizen in the issue of that paper for May 12 1929 publishes his review of the Life and the Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes Mr Latham is a well-known journalist of the Southland He began on the editorial staff of the Columbia S C State He was afterwards editor of the News and Courier ...
... COMMENTS NOTES AND REVIEWS COMMENTS NOTES AND REVIEWS JOHN SHERMAN--A CHARACTERIZATION One of the greatest of Ohio's sons as well as one of the most prominent and influential of our National characters has passed away in the person of John Sherman He belonged to a distinguished family America has produced families no less illustrious than those of old England or the Continental countries But America's families are eminent through the law of heredity and not the law of patent nobility The ...
... 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 ...
... 542 Ohio Arch 542 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications small colleges and that some of our best citizenship found its inspiration in these institutions All of these colleges have had men and women of more than usual rank and standing in our commonwealth and I am proud to recognize their contribution to Ohio citizenship They have not been very exclusive in this because they have always exported their best to other colleges We have present Professor Beverly W Bond Jr from the University of ...
... II II BRIEF HISTORY OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY BY T H E EDITOR The Pioneers of Territorial Ohio seem to have been conscious of the fact that they were making history Intimations of this are found in the addresses and letters of St Clair and his associates and on the printed pages of William Maxwell's Centinel of the NorthWestern Territory The first definite movement of an organization to collect the materials of this early history appears to have been consummated ...
... REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS BURIED REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS BURIED IN CLARK COUNTY OHIO BY A L SLAGER The attached roster of men who served on the side of the Colonists during the War of American Independence and who are buried in Clark County has been compiled from partial lists of names furnished by Colonel George I Gunckel Dayton Ohio president of the Ohio Society Sons of the American Revolution and a similar list taken from the records of the George Rogers Clark Chapter S A R of ...
... HIGH LIGHTS IN OHIO LITERATURE HIGH LIGHTS IN OHIO LITERATURE BY EMILIUS O RANDALL PhB Cornell LLB LLM O S U LLD Ohio An address delivered before the OHIO SOCIETY OF NEW YORK at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on the evening of November 12 1917 Matthew Arnold the apostle of sweetness and light in one of his delightful after-dinner speeches before the Royal Academy reminded his hearers that Fauriel the French literary historian tells of a company of Greeks settled somewhere in Southern Italy in the ...
... THE EARLY THEATER IN COLUMBUS OHIO THE EARLY THEATER IN COLUMBUS OHIO 1820-1840 by LUCILE CLIFTON Associate Professor of English Ball State Teachers College Muncie Indiana The citizens of Columbus Ohio which was founded one hundred and forty some years ago have attended plays for at least one hundred and thirty of those years and had a flourishing theater as early as the mid-1830's The first western theatrical circuits followed the natural trade routes down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers As ...
... 432 Ohio Arch 432 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications blood in his veins Senator Curtis of Kansas also points with pride to his Indian ancestry HISTORIC MEDALLIONS The Greenville Advocate of February 22 contains an extended article by Mr George A Katzenberger announcing the moving of the Second National Bank of Greenville to its new building on the 24th of that month The new home of the bank has appropriate medallions prints of which were distributed on post cards These are described in ...
... Editorialana Editoria l ana 101 self-deluded It became his monomania He was more Simplician than Charlatan though a curious mixture of both The Ohio legislature in 1850 enacted the Homestead Exemption Law-granting homestead of certain value or a certain amount of property exempt from the reach of creditors Allen it was claimed was instrumental in securing the passage of this law but that is only another of the Allen myths There is no evidence that he had anything to do with it Indeed he is not ...
... 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 ...
... 196 Ohio Arch 196 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 The following is an abstract of the discourse delivered to the Methodists of Gallipolis by the Rev David H Moore D D of Cincinnati Editor of the Western Christian Advocate THEME - PHILOSOPHY OF METHODIST SUCCESS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God hath led thee-Deut viii 2 It is worthy of note that the successful peopling of North America was providentially ...
... 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 ...