... PRINTING IN GAMBIER OHIO 1829-1884 PRINTING IN GAMBIER OHIO 1829-1884 by WYMAN W PARKER University Librarian University of Cincinnati Printing in Gambier Ohio extended for a little more than fifty years during the mid-nineteenth century Its history forms a neat and fairly typical illustration of the work of the ecclesiastical press of that century Projected as early as 1823 by Philander Chase first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Ohio the press began in 1830 to issue the first Episcopal ...
... AN EDDY IN THE WESTERN FLOW OF AMERICAN AN EDDY IN THE WESTERN FLOW OF AMERICAN CULTURE The History of Printing and Publishing in Oxford Ohio 1827-1841 By JESSE H SHERA 103 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It is I am well aware not customary to append to a study as brief as this a lengthy list of acknowledgments Nevertheless there are in this instance certain major obligations the public recognition of which I am convinced is not an act of supererogation Accordingly I would express my ...
... THE OHIO FREE SOILERS AND PROBLEMS OF FACTIONALISM by FREDERICK J BLUE The history of the Free Soil party in Ohio from 1849 until it was dissolved in 1854 was one of incessant factional conflict One source of controversy was the question whether the party should form a coalition with one of the major parties or should continue as a separate party This controversy over the organization of the party was finally successfully resolved when Free Soil leaders helped form the new Republican party and ...
... COMMERCIAL VS COMMERCIAL VS SCIENTIFIC COLLECTING A PLEA FOR ART FOR ART'S SAKE WARREN K MOOREHEAD Curator of Archaeology Phillips Academy Andover Mass It occurs to me that so far as it could be accomplished without infringing upon the rights of individuals museum curators should combine against dealers in archeological specimens There seem to be two classes of these men and the one should not be confounded with the other Of recent years the dealers of archaeologic specimens have increased to ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 217 Reviews Notes and Comments 217 In 1844 he went to Palestine Illinois to spend his remaining days with his daughter Mrs Rachel L Kitchel Here he was highly honored by the citizens of the village On July 4 1845 he delivered his last public address Appearing in his continental uniform bowed with the infirmities of age his emotions almost overcame him as he contrasted the feeble beginnings of the Republic with the splendid destinies assured in the future In an ...
... THE GERMAN PIONEERS THE GERMAN PIONEERS ADDRESS BY BERNARD PETERS OF BROOKLYN N Y LADIES AND GEN TL EMEN By the committee who have had the arrangements for these centennial exercises in charge I have been requested to speak on this occasion of the German pioneers who settled in this county during the first half of the present century The Governor of Ohio who has just introduced me as a native of this city must stand corrected in this particular I am not a native of this city nor of this State ...
... BEVERLY WILSON PALMER BEVERLY WILSON PALMER From Small Minority to Great Cause Letters of Charles Sumner to Salmon P Chase Fifteen hitherto unpublished letters from Charles Sumner to Salmon P Chase trace the spread and politicization of the antislavery movement and document the close ties between Massachusetts and Ohio as that movement grew Strongly committed in the 1840s and 1850s to limiting the extension of slavery Chase and Sumner by 1861 hoped to preside over its extinction Sharing a New ...
... LAFAYETTE'S VISIT TO OHIO VALLEY STATES LAFAYETTE'S VISIT TO OHIO VALLEY STATES BY C B GALBREATH The fame of those who rose to eminence in the American Revolution is secure Time has not dimmed the luster of their achievements or our gratitude for their patriotic service The monument reared to them in the hearts of the American people has withstood the test of the critic the sneer of the cynic and the hammer of the iconoclast This is well If they have been idealized and idolized it is not to ...
... BODY SNATCHING IN OHIO DURING THE BODY SNATCHING IN OHIO DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY by LINDEN F EDWARDS Professor of Anatomy Ohio State University The history of the science of human anatomy is not merely a biographical record of the leading personalities or a compilation of the discoveries and achievements in that science it is also the story of a bitter struggle between a scientific spirit which demands human bodies for dissection and an antipathy of the public mind toward the practice of ...
... PHILIP A PHILIP A GRANT JR Congressional Campaigns of James M Cox 1908 and 1910 On September 16 1908 the Democrats of the Third Congressional District of Ohio held their biennial convention at Middletown and by acclamation nominated James M Cox of Dayton as their candidate for the House of Representatives Thus began the public career of the only Ohioan ever nominated for the presidency by the Democratic party The aggressive campaign waged by Cox for a seat in Congress inaugurated a twelve year ...
... NORMAN A NORMAN A GRAEBNER Thomas Corwin and the Sectional Crisis Thomas Corwin viewed the sectional crisis of 1860 with consternation but scarcely with surprise For a dozen years this conservative Ohio politician had warned Americans that the sectional struggle over slavery in the territories would one day propel the nation into a bloody civil war In his dramatic speech to the Senate of February 11 1847 he had predicted that the annexation of Mexican territory would unleash sectional forces ...
... SIEGE OF FORT MEIGS SIEGE OF FORT MEIG S The Cleveland Herald and Gazette of June 3 1840 printed an extract from a speech delivered by the brave Col John O'Fallon at the raising of the log-cabin in St Louis This was during the famous Log Cabin Campaign summer and fall of 1840 The speech reflecting the political and public sentiment of the time will be read with interestEDITOR Colonel O'Fallon-who it may be stated delivered his speech from the ramparts of a miniature Fort Meigs -was an aid of ...
... Montrie Winter-Spring 2002 pp 44-63 Copyright 2002 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 Agriculture Christian Stewardship and Aesthetics Ohio Farmers' Opposition to Coal Surface Mining in the 1940s By Chad Montrie In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries more than a few American farmers took up coal ...
... strike him Patty was another matter the central character in a little domestic affair of our little circle In oblique terms Hannah described what was obviously Patty's illegitimate pregnancy in 1806 and one year later according to a letter the household had grown in numbers I have Patty and her boy She behaves very well and seems quite happy But within another year's time Hannah became suspicious that Patty was pregnant again and that the same ...
... EARLY OHIO POSTAL ROUTES EARLY OHIO POSTAL ROUTES BY WILLIAM D OVERMAN Regular United States mail service followed closely upon the heels of organized government in the Northwest Territory The statesmen of that day were aware of the value of a contact with the new settlers in the West and the postmasters-general1 urged 1 Samuel Osgood 1789-91 and Timothy Pickering 1791-94 21 22 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 22 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY the extension of ...
... JOHN BROWN AT HARPER'S FERRY AND JOHN BROWN AT HARPER'S FERRY AND CHARLESTOWN A LECTURE BY S K DONOVAN This lecture by Colonel S K Donovan was delivered a number of times in Ohio but was never before printed The original manuscript is in the possession of his sister Miss Sallie Donovan of Delaware Ohio by whose permission it is now published Colonel Donovan once stated to the writer that he was the first newspaper correspondent to reach Harper's Ferry after the raid began When he arrived there ...
... DANIEL JOSEPH RYAN DANIEL JOSEPH RYAN BY C B GALBREATH As announced in the last isue of the QUARTERLY Honorable Daniel J Ryan long an active life member of this Society and the oldest in term of service on the Board of Trustees passed from our midst in the early morning of June 15 1923 It thus becomes our sad duty for the third time within a little more than three years to record the death of one of our fellow members who from almost the beginning of our Society was prominently identified in ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR HISTORICAL COMMISSION OF OHIO The following communication from Professor Carl Wittke Secretary of the Historical Commission of Ohio to members of the Historical Guild and others interested is self explanatory THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY April 12 1923 DEAR SIR-- In response to the call to the Historical Guild of the state for a conference in Columbus to discuss plans ...
... Report of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting 345 Report of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting 345 The bicentennial of the birth of George Washington was extensively celebrated within the past year An extended account of the pageant representing Washington's journey on the Ohio River in 1770 was published in the QUARTERLY for January 1933 The Ohio History Conference at a meeting here went on record in favor of the preparation of a check-list of newspapers Within the past year through the ...
... THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LA W in the Eastern Ohio Valley by LARRY GARA The fugitive slave law of 1850 was an essential part of the sectional compromise of that year1 As such it had ramifications that went far beyond the mere question of returning runaway bondsmen to their southern claimants At times the symbolic significance of the enactment overshadowed its real impact on the lives of those whom it touched Nevertheless there were some Americans of the 1850's who viewed the law as concerned ...