... GEORGE FREDERICK WRIGHT GEORGE FREDERICK WRIGHT IN MEMORIAM In the fullness of years and bearing the honors of a life devoted to science and the service of his fellow men Doctor George Frederick Wright President Emeritus of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society passed to his final reward April 20 1921 While he had been failing in strength for a few months past he was able to continue his work almost to the day of his death and was cheerfully looking forward to a return to health ...
... Bigelow Winter-Spring 2001 pp 48-82 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page and footnoted according to the original print version If a sentence appears to be incomplete scroll down to continue with the next page The 1848 Diary of Daniel Kent By Cherilyn A Walley Tucked away in the special collections of Brigham Young University are fourteen legal-sized photocopies of diary pages identified only as Manuscript 1090 These few pages ...
... DUNCAN McARTHUR THE MILITARY PHASE DUNCAN McARTHUR THE MILITARY PHASE By C H CRAMER Duncan McArthur had won his military spurs before the War of 1812 broke out and had been commissioned a general in the State Militia In the spring of 1812 with war looming on the horizon Congress authorized the President to organize a number of volunteers who were to be ready to march on short notice The Ohio quota was 1200 men1 McArthur ordered his militia division to assemble and used his forensic powers in ...
... NATIONAL OLD TRAILS ROAD IN OHIO NATIONAL OLD TRAILS ROAD IN OHIO The Old Trails Chapter Daughters of the American Colonists Columbus Ohio unveiled a bronze tablet on the West Broad Street bridge in Columbus on October 5 1927 Mrs W C Moore Regent of the Chapter presided and Mayor James J Thomas made introductory remarks Mrs Lewis C Laylin of Columbus State Historian of the Daughters of American Colonists gave a short history of the road in Ohio and Mrs Frank C Martin State Regent unveiled the ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS PUBLIC PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES LYNDON B JOHNSON Two Volumes Washington DC Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Service General Services Administration 1968 Vol 1 January 1 to June 30 1967 lix 670p A-78p index 875 Vol II July 1 to December 31 1967 liii p671-1228 A-78p index 800 In 1957 acting on a recommendation of the National Historical Publications Commission the Office of the Federal Register began work on a uniform ...
... EXECUTIVE MANSION EXECUTIVE MANSION Here is presented a cut of the attractive and substantial building that was erected by C H Lindenberg at 1234 East Broad street in 1904 and occupied by him from April 1905 until the title of the property passed to the state in 1919 It is a commodious mansion of about thirty rooms appropriately furnished After the property was acquired by the state the interior of the building was remodeled and an additional adjacent tract of land purchased for eighteen ...
... PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL OHIO HISTORY PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE Including the Fifty-third Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History and the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Columbus Genealogical Society Held at Columbus April 6-8 1939 in Cooperation with Ohio State University the Ohio Committee on Medical History and Archives and Local Historical Societies throughout the State Columbus ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President The society has recently received two additions to its file of historical and genealogical materials the bill book of Hollister Bliss and Lytle a general store at Delphos from September 1850 to August 1854 and a five-volume compilation of Ohio gravestone inscriptions made by Charles Wagner of Columbus Mr Wagner's work contains thirty thousand inscriptions from grave markers in ...
... THE LEATHER WOOD GOD THE LEATHER WOOD GOD FROM NARRATIVE TO NOVEL by HASKELL S SPRINGER In 1916 at the age of seventy-nine William Dean Howells published the last great novel of his long career Less than four years later he was dead In writing The Leatherwood God Howells was fulfilling a long-time intention to make use of his enthusiasm for the history of his native Ohio as well as -- in the way of an old man -- returning to the recollections of his boyhood1 His source for the basic story of ...
... MARY DEAN VINCENT MOUND MARY DEAN VINCENT MOUND A B COOVER Mr Coover is a Life Member of The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and has assisted Prof W C Mills in many of the archaeological explorations made by the Society Mr Coover acted as Curator of the Museum of the Society during the absence of Prof Mills while in charge of the Society's exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition It was during this time that Mr Coover made the explorations herein described - EDITOR Under directions ...
... TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY May 31 1911 The twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Hunter Society Room Page Hall Ohio State University Columbus Ohio at two o'clock P M Wednesday May 31 1911 The following members were present Prof M R Andrews Marietta Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Mr A J Baughman Mansfield Mr H E Buck Delaware Mr C H ...
... THE SECRET SIX THE SECRET SIX AN INQUIRY INTO THE BASIC MATERIA MEDICA OF THE THOMSONIAN SYSTEM OF BOTANIC MEDICINE By PHILIP D JORDAN PHD Perhaps no single man of medicine exerted a greater popular influence during the hectic days of scientific thought in the nineteenth century than did Dr Samuel Thomson Although the intimate details of his professional career did not always coincide with the stories which Thomson himself told1 the general biographical facts are rather well established The ...
... THE DEDICATION OF THE HAYES MEMORIAL THE DEDICAT I ON OF THE HAYES MEMORIAL AT SPIEGEL GROVE FREMONT OHIO TUESDAY MAY 30 1916 Memorials of our greatest statesmen have taken many forms and had their rise through various agencies Mount Vernon the home of Washington was rescued from oblivion by a private association whose rules and fees still control its view by the public Lincoln's modest home in Springfield Ill and The Hermitage the home of Jackson in Nashville Tenn are now in charge of local ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Amphibians of Ohio Part I The Frogs and Toads Order Salientia By Charles F Walker Ohio State Museum Science Bulletin Vol I No 3 Columbus Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1946 109p 100 Teachers students naturalists and herpetologists will be glad to know that this much needed paper on the frogs and toads of Ohio has at last made its appearance Although the numbers of kinds of this Order of tailless amphibians Salientia native to Ohio are very limited ...
... HISTORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD HISTORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN MECHANICSBURG BY RALPH M WATTS Champion of those who groan beneath Oppression's iron hand In view of penury hate and death I see thee fearless stand Still bearing up thy lofty brow In the steadfast strength of truth In manhood sealing well the vow And promise of thy youth Go on for thou hast chosen well On in the strength of God Long as one human heart shall swell Beneath the tyrant's rod Speak in a suffering nation's ...
... PROCEEDINGS 375 PROCEEDINGS 375 Mr Sherman a musical program of three numbers was given by Mr Franklin Price of Circleville He sang Until by Sanderson Lift Thine Eyes by Logan and To Horse to Horse by Stephens Following the musical program Mr John F Carlisle gave the following address appropriate to the occasion his subject being The Society--a Half Century of Progress There are doubtless persons in this audience who have gathered here as to their father's house They salute their Society on ...
... 434 EXPLORATIONS OF THE CAMPBELL ISLAND VILEXPLORATIONS OF THE CAMPBELL ISLAND VILLAGE SITE AND THE HINE MOUND AND VILLAGE SITE BY H C SHETRONE Curator of Archaeology TRANSMITTAL OF REPORT JUNE 11 1923 PROFESSOR WILLIAM C MILLS Director Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Museum MY DEAR PROFESSOR MILLS I have the honor to submit for your approval a condensed report of the examination of the Campbell Island Village Site and Hine Mound and Village Site located near Hamilton Butler County ...
... 420 Ohio Arch 420 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Birchard to Buckland Buckland to Hayes thence to Spiegel Grove where the following program and exercises were carried out by the Odd Fellows in dedication of their memorial window in the Hayes Memorial Library and Museum The Noble Grand G L Roach as chairman opened the exercises with prayer by W D Pearce Vice Grand of the lodge and he not being present the prayer was read by J E Courtney Chaplain of the lodge which is as follows ...
... THE CENTENARY CELEBRATION OF THE BIRTH THE CENTENARY CELEBRATION OF THE BIRTH OF RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD HAYES AT SPIEGEL GROVE FREMONT OHIO BY LUCY ELLIOT KEELER Of which I was a great part is the classic motto which for almost twenty centuries hero after hero has proudly taken to himself President Hayes would smilingly have passed it by Perhaps no other phrase exists however which so effectively describes the pervasion of his personality through all the commemorative events and the scene in ...
... A CONFEDERATE PRISONER AT CAMP CHASE A CONFEDERATE PRISONER AT CAMP CHASE Letters and A Diary of Private James W Anderson by GEORGE C OSBORN Associate Professor of the Social Sciences University of Florida Since this article is drawn almost wholly from the diary and letters of Private James W Anderson perhaps a brief sketch of this Confederate soldier's early life will not be amiss James Anderson was born on a farm in McNary County Tennessee in 1835 He secured what little formal education he ...