... Samuel Galloway Samuel Galloway 263 SAMUEL GALLOWAY BY WASHINGTON GLADDEN DD LL D It is hardly necessary to ask where the Galloways came from Their name bewrayeth them The southwesternmost peninsula of Scotland jutting out into the Irish Channel and separated by only a few miles of water from County Antrim in Ireland was known as the Galloway district Burns's country of Ayr was just north of it Carlyle's country of Ecclefechen and Dumfries was just east of it and Wordsworth's country of ...
... NINTH ANNUAL REPORT NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Ohio State Archaeological and Historical SOCIETY TO THE GOVERNOR From February 19 1893 to February 19 1894 To th e HON WILLIAM MCKINLEY Governor of Ohio SIR-The eighth annual report of this Society was a resume of the work to that time chiefly along lines connected with the department of American Archaeology and History at the World's Fair Since the date of that report our labors have been principally directed toward completing in the best manner ...
... MORUS MULTICAULIS OR SILKWORMS MUST EAT MORUS MULTICAULIS OR SILKWORMS MUST EAT By ROBERT PRICE Acres of mulberry trees--multitudes of silkworms--mills booming--a corner on the world's silk market It would be a fantastic dream indeed for an Ohioan today a vision such as this of wealth to be derived from a monopoly on raw silk but in 1836 such hopes were stirring hundreds of people not only in Ohio but throughout the East and South By 1838 at least seven states Massachusetts Pennsylvania ...
... THE BALLAD OF 'JAMES BIRD THE BALLAD OF 'JAMES BIRD ITS AUTHORSHIP BY C B GALBREATH In a contribution entitled The Battle of Lake Erie in Ballad and History the writer of this article in 1911 related the story of James Bird and reproduced the old ballad commemorating his heroic service on board the Lawrence and his tragic death a year later for desertion on the Niagara In commenting on this quaint pathetic ballad it was assumed to have been written by a bard unlearned and unknown but not ...
... WHY IS OHIO CALLED THE BUCKEYE STATE WHY IS OHIO CALLED THE BUCKEYE STATE AN ADDRESS BY WILLIAM M FARRAR THE name Buckeye as applied to the State of Ohio is an accepted sobriquet so well recognized and so generally understood throughout the United States that its use requires no explanation although the origin of the term and its significance are not without question and therefore become proper subjects of consideration during this Centennial year The usual and most commonly accepted solution ...
... PICTURE OF A YOUNG COPPERHEAD by CARL M BECKER As he pursued his contentious course during the Civil War the great Copperhead Clement Laird Vallandigham drew around himself in Dayton Ohio a circle of political supporters and personal admirers Local politicians and newspaper editors followed in his wake and nameless men identified themselves as votaries of Val These supporters often embraced Copperheadism out of conviction but no doubt the strength and firmness of their faith were tinctured by ...
... TERRY A TERRY A BARNHART James McBride Historian and Archaeologist of the Miami Valley James McBride of Hamilton Ohio was a man of many parts At various junctures of his busy life McBride's multifarious activities embraced merchandising architecture banking civil engineering and several avenues of public service As respectable as those attainments were however his most enduring contributions were made as an amateur historian and archaeologist McBride is a prime example of the antiquarian ...
... THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE E 0 RANDALL In that striking and stirring century known as the sixteenth began the voyages of discovery and the expeditions for occupancy by the Anglo Saxon and the Gaul of the North American continent The French were led by Jacques Cartier who in 1534 entered the Gulf of St Lawrence Other chivalrous and adventurous Frenchmen followed with various experiences until 1608 when Samuel Champlain encamped upon the Heights of Quebec and established a ...
... SONG WRITERS OF OHIO SONG WRITERS OF OHIO C B GALBREATH If a man were permitted to make all the ballads he need not care who should make the laws of a nation--ANDREW FLETCHER No names are deathless save those of the world's singers - FRANCES E WILLARD If this ascription of power and immortality seems somewhat sweeping and a little too poetically generous the fact remains that music affecting as it does the emotional in man and touching all its keys exerts a distinct influence on individual and ...
... 124 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 124 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY pared a display of historic medical and surgical instruments and in the next room is an especially fine exhibit of the evolution of costumes All of these are worthy of your attention PRESIDENT JOHNSON Is there any further business to be brought before this meeting If not a motion for adjournment is in order A motion for adjournment was offered by Howard R Goodwin seconded by Edward S Thomas and ...
... MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETMINUTES OF THE THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO October 2 1924 FORENOON SESSION 9 A M The meeting was called to order by Secretary C B Galbreath On motion of W C Mills Hon James E Campbell was elected chairman of the meeting On motion of C B Galbreath Charles W Justice was elected secretary of the meeting There were present Hon James E Campbell W C Mills George F ...
... SECONDARY EDUCATION IN OHIO PREVIOUS TO SECONDARY EDUCATION IN OHIO PREVIOUS TO THE YEAR 1840 BY W W BOYD In the report of the United States Commissioner of Education for the year 1899 Rev A D Mayo shows Ohio's peculiar position in regard to education Each of the thirteen original colonies of our country nourished its own class of people differing from each other in creeds languages manners and original national ideals Kentucky and Tennessee were reproductions of Virginia and North Carolina ...
... INDEX TO MORAVIAN RECORDS INDEX TO MORAVIAN RECORDS VOL 2 A Black Art Known by Indian preachers 78 Abraham convert assists Zeisberger 36 78 43 53-55 57 59 67 71 73 74 76 78 Bonn John goes west with Zeisberger 43 53-55 57 59 67 71 73 74 76 78 79 81 98 100 102-103 8 returns 9 Achgohunt see Echgohund Bread expensive 95 Africa entered by the Moravians 3 Bread and butter served at lunch by Algiers entered by the Moravians 3 Indian 44 Allemewi Chief influenced 61 65 sends Brukker Moravian missionary ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 349 Reviews Notes and Comments 3 49 officers in the allied service There were also citations and high honors conferred upon him Ohioans will experience genuine pride in reading this interesting record of the World War service of one of her distinguished sons The Journal is supplemented by the official reports of General Dawes and the work as a whole deserves a place in every library with a department devoted to World War history We must add of course that these ...
... RICHARD PLANTAGANET LLEWELLYN BABER RICHARD PLANTAGANET LLEWELLYN BABER A SKETCH AND SOME OF HIS LETTERS DUANE MOWRY A few months since we received from Mr Duane Mowry of Milwaukee Wisconsin duplicates of some letters written by Mr R P L Baber formerly of Columbus Ohio to Judge James R Doolittle at one time United States Senator from Wisconsin With the view of publishing these letters Mr Mowry wrote the late E L Taylor for information concerning Mr Baber Mr Taylor's reply was also forwarded us ...
... The Rise and Decline of The Rise and Decline of The Cheese Industry In Lorain County By FRANK C VAN CLEEF THE SECTION OF OHIO NOW KNOWN AS LORAIN COUNTY was first settled about 1820 The ensuing three decades saw the southerly and westerly portion of the Western Reserve being cleared of forests and the land put into pastures and meadows The soil the topography and the climate proved to be quite ideally adapted to dairy farming And so this entire section in a period of thirty to forty years was ...
... Historical News Historical News Columbia University is preparing for publication a new and complete edition of the papers of Alexander Hamilton The editors wish to locate any letters to or from Hamilton and any other Hamilton documents that are in private hands Communications may be addressed to Harold C Syrett Executive Editor The Papers of Alexander Hamilton Columbia University New York 27 New York On the editorial board are John A Krout chairman Harold C Syrett executive editor Henry Steele ...
... Mr Mr Republican Turns SOCIALIST ROBERT A TAFT and Public Housing by RICHARD O DAVIES To the great majority of his contemporaries Senator Robert A Taft embodied the traditional values of self-help private enterprise and dislike for governmental welfare programs Most Americans believed that Taft had as his major purpose the root and branch eradication of all New Deal welfare and regulatory programs His adamant opposition to the proliferation of such governmental activities supposedly led to a ...
... OHIO'S DEEP ROOTS IN CONNECTICUT OHIO'S DEEP ROOTS IN CONNECTICUT By JOSEPHINE E PHILLIPS To Elijah Backus Esq one of his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the County of New London Comes Zebedee Wood one of the Granjurors of our Soverign Lord the King for the County of New London and Complains amp Gives Your Worshop to Understand that Gideon Baker of Norwich in Said County was on or about the Midle of August Last Guilty of Transgression of Law in Sd Norwich for that he the Sd Baker Did Breek ...
... OHIO BANKING INSTITUTIONS 1803 TO 1866 OHIO BANKING INSTITUTIONS 1803 TO 1866 BY A B COOVER A bank as we understand and use the word is simply a plan of organizing capital by which the full benefits of the latter are secured The separate means of individuals are united together and a large sum thus constituted is hired out at interest to those who need it This combination and the manner of its use may be compared to a dam across a valley and the accumulation in one body the water of separate ...