... WILLIAM SANDERS SCARBOROUGH SCHOLARSHIP THE NEGRO RELIGION AND POLITICS by FRANCIS P WEISENBURGER During the years in which William Sanders Scarborough was professor and then president at Wilberforce University his scholarly activities in the field of linguistics his work and writings in the field of race relations his contributions in the areas of religious journalism and church organization and his varied public services were significant Each of these demands some consideration As was ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS OHIO IN THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTIONS BY CHARLES A JONES Since the organization of the Republican party in 1854 there have been nineteen national conventions of the party Only two of these have been held within the borders of Ohio but in their proceedings taken as a whole no other state has even approximately played the prominent part that has been given to sons of the Buckeye State The nineteen volumes which officially record ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 64 NUMBER 4 OCTOBER 1955 The Correspondence of George A Myers and James Ford Rhodes 1910-1923-IV Edited by JOHN A GARRATY RHODES TO MYERS Boston May 22 1920 Dear George I have yr two valued favors of Apr 30 and May 12 the latter enclosing two editorials from the P D which I have read with great interest Senator Lodge is a very able man The contest has been between him and the President The President has had a stroke of ...
... THE BREADTH OF VISION OF DR THE BREADTH OF VISION OF DR JOHN STRONG NEWBERRY By A E WALLER Ph D1 Attention has been directed to the interesting circumstance that many of our leaders in the natural sciences whose schooling ended before 1850 held degrees in medicine When it is asked how this happens to be the case the facts seem to show that only the colleges of medicine offered an approach in training and teaching to modern laboratory study Thus Asa Gray John Torrey George Engelmann to mention ...
... SONG WRITERS OF OHIO SONG WRITERS OF OHIO ALEXANDER COFFMAN ROSS AUTHOR OF TIPPECANOE AND TYLER TOO I am a Buckeye from the Buckeye State This was the proud declaration of the author of Tippecanoe and Tyler too as he faced a large and enthusiastic audience in New York City just before he gave to fame that political campaign song-the most effective ever sung in the history of the Republic Alexander Coffman Ross first opened his eyes to the light in Zanesville O May 31 1812 His father Elijah ...
... ULYSSES A ULYSSES A PLYLEY BY FRANK WARNER M D COLUMBUS OHIO On the 19th of May 1930 Ulysses A Plyley died at the age of 85 years He was born in the house in which he died This house is located on Plyley's Ridge a few miles west of Chillicothe Ohio on the pike leading to Greenfield He was the last child to occupy this old homestead of his father William Plyley who had lived there through his entire married life and had raised eight children The eldest child Clinton was born there June 20 1827 ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 289 Second Vice-president Judge Simeon Eben Baldwin New Haven Connecticut Secretary A Howard Clark Esq Smithsonian Institute Washington Corresponding Secretary Professor Charles H Haskins 15 Prescott Hall Cambridge Massachusetts Treasurer Clarence Winthrop Bowen Esq 130 Fulton St New York Chicago was chosen as the next place of meeting December 1904 The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was represented at the American Historical Association meeting by ...
... INDEX TO MINUTES OF THE LEGISLATURE TERRITORY INDEX TO MINUTES OF THE LEGISLATURE TERRITORY OFTHE UNITED STATES NORTHWEST OF THE OHIO Actions law for limitation of 47 Debts law for determining under forty Aliens law proposed for naturalization shillings for recovery of small debts of 29 34-35 law directing the order of payAnimals trespassing of law relative to ment of 42 of deceased persons law adopted 42 regulating order of payment of 48 Attachment law proposed 29 Deeds law proposed relative ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XXVL No 3 JUNE 1917 COLONEL JOHN W HARPER IN MEMORIAM In the death of John W Harper The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society lost a Trustee and loyal member of long standing conspicuous for his fidelity and support of historical and archaeological research He materially aided in the progress of the Society Colonel Harper was born February 11 1830 in Indianapolis the son of an old English family distinguished for its patriotism and loyalty to this ...
... 260 Ohio Arch 260 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications believing that the people should be accommodated The well is not quite finished The number of people who visit the fort on the Sabbath day runs from 1500 to 2000 Even on last Sabbath dark and gloomy and rainy there were one hundred automobiles present perhaps with five hundred people Our Society must take care of them in the best possible way The present graveled road was built about twenty-five years ago when only poky horses drawing ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... McCormick Summer-Autumn 2001 pp 136-152 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page with footnotes according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page An Entrepreneurial Enterprise and the Financial Crisis of 1819 The Worthington Manufacturing Company By Virginia and Robert W McCormick James Kilbourn Photo Courtesy the Worthington Hisorical Society The Worthington ...
... The Story of a Flag 417 The Story of a Flag 417 SKETCH OF GENERAL J WARREN KEIFER From Who's Who in America KEIFER J WARREN born in Bethel Township Clark County Ohio January 30 1835 the son of Joseph and Mary Smith Keifer educated at Antioch College married Eliza Stout of Springfield Ohio March 22 1860 In law practice at Springfield Ohio since January 12 1858 president of Lagonda National Bank since 1873 Major of the 3rd Ohio Infantry April 27 1861 Lieutenant-Colonel February 12 1862 Colonel ...
... OHIO IN McGUFFEY'S TIME OHIO IN McGUFFEY'S TIME By GEORGE W RIGHTMIRE Indians--Wayne's Treaty 1795 The Ohio of McGuffey's time was very new it began in 1788 at Marietta and the next year at Cincinnati but little progress was possible until Territorial issues were settled with the Indians--not only the Indians but the British who held many posts long after the Treaty of 1783 in violation thereof and exerted a strong influence over the northwest country After suffering two severe defeats from ...
... Historical News Historical News The University of Chicago and the University of Virginia are sponsoring the publication of a new and complete edition of the papers of James Madison The editors will appreciate information about the location of letters by or to James Madison or his wife especially letters in private possession or among uncalendared manuscripts in the collections of public or private institutions Information should be addressed to The Papers of James Madison 1126 East 59th Street ...
... WHERE DID ELIZA CROSS THE OHIO WHERE DID ELIZA CROSS THE OHIO BY FELIX J KOCH Obviously each side in the controversy has good grounds upon which to rest its claim Cincinnati and Ripley both claim the site With the one--it cannot be denied that a fugitive slave woman did cross the stream on the ice at the very heart of the city's water-front At the other - the place was a village at the time when Mrs Stowe wrote her book as it states and there lived a man who made a point of helping run-away ...
... 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 ...
... A VANISHING RACE A VANISHING RACE MRS JENNIE C MORTON Frankfort Ky Read by the author before the Ohio Valley Historical Association at their meeting with the Kentucky State Historical Society in the New Capitol October 16th 1909 Whether we call the Indian North American or South American we know the Indian race historically as a peculiar and distinctly marked people-disappearing gradually into oblivion An authentic history of the race has not been written but the traditions concerning it ...