... 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 ...
... Samuel Finley Vinton Samuel Finley Vinton 231 SAMUEL FINLEY VINTON BY MADELENE VINTON DAHLGREN It was peculiarly characteristic of the patriotic unselfishness that was the dominating principle of the public career of Samuel F Vinton that he never paused while laboring with unremitting zeal for his country to prepare any journal or written notes of any kind that might assist the biographer to give the story of his own life Unaided therefore by that light which he himself could best have thrown ...
... Potts Summer-Autumn 2002 pp 101-120 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Visions of America 17871501788 The Ohio of Reverend Manasseh Cutler By Louis W Potts Manasseh Cutler SC 2324 Ohio Historical Society Collections During the winter of 1786 the Congregational minister at Ipswich Hamlet later Hamilton took time from tending his flock of seventy or so congregants to jot his secular musings to Jeremy Belknap a fellow ...
... CHARLES BURLEIGH GALBREATH CHARLES BURLEIGH GALBREATH BY HENRY C SHETRONE Charles Burleigh Galbreath--1858-1934 A simple statement this of itself but on second thought it becomes much more than a mere epitaph For a human life to span three-quarters of a century is sufficiently unusual but when the life of a Charles Burleigh Galbreath parallels the most remarkable threequarter century period the world has known the result is epochal Time of itself like an unheard sound in the wilderness means ...
... The Ohio Experience A Symposium The Ohio Experience A Symposium On Historic Sites Administered By the Ohio Historical Society THE FOLLOWING FIVE PAPERS were given by members of the staff of the Ohio Historical Society at the annual meeting of the North American Association of Historic Sites Public Officials held in Columbus October 7 1957 They deal with five different aspects of the Society's work with its historic properties acquisition development interpretation financing and administration ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 3 31 Mrs Tuttle is a writer of great merit being a lady of unusual culture and scholarship Her husband was the late Prof Herbert Tuttle the distinguished historical writer and lecturer at Cornell University With her husband Mrs Tuttle spent some years abroad and became proficient as a linguist and an artist She not only writes in a delightful manner but wields the artist's brush both in portraiture and landscape with equal talent and charm That she is deeply ...
... 156 Ohio Arch 15 6 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications his countenance betokened a sensual rather than an intellectual quality of character he had not inherited the Napoleon cast of face he was Beauharnais not Bonaparte the forehead was broad the nose prominent suggesting a certain German type the eyes small grayish-blue in color rather expressionless as one biographer said 'if they were windows of his soul their blinds were constantly drawn' his hair was iron-gray his natural 'make-up' ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 64 NUMBER 1 JANUARY 1955 The Correspondence of George A Myers and James Ford Rhodes 1910-1923 Edited by JOHN A GA RR ATY In the eighteen eighties when James Ford Rhodes was still a Cleveland ironmaster he was in the habit of being shaved and having his formidable Picadilly Weepers trimmed by a young Negro barber named George A Myers Later after Rhodes had retired from business to take up his distinguished career as a historian ...
... 64 Ohio Arch 64 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications Vo L 4 BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN OHIO AND VIRGINIA INTRODUCTORY Previous to 1783 Virginia never laid any claim to the Ohio River--or in fact to any territory west of the Alleghenies because this region was originally a part of the vast district claimed by the French and known as Louisiana The Mississippi River was discovered by French missionaries and was subsequently explored to its mouth by LaSalle who according to the customs of the nations ...
... MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO SATURDAY May 4 1929 1000 A M The meeting was called to order by Secretary C B Galbreath There were present B F Prince Arthur C Johnson Van A Snider Claude Meeker E F Wood Morten Carlisle W D McKinney George Florence Rev S R Martin Mrs Gertrude Ball Mrs Anna M Kevin Charles F Walker William G Pengelly Homer Charles Mrs Homer Charles J E Tritsch ...
... BUCKEYE ARGONAUTS BUCKEYE ARGONAUTS by ROBERT THOMAS Social Studies Instructor Pleasant Township High School Marion County Ohio On January 24 1848 James Wilson Marshall discovered flakes of gold in the tailrace of a sawmill he and John Sutter were erecting about fifty miles northeast of Sutter's Fort in Upper California As news of Marshall's discovery spread along the Pacific coast and then to all sections of the nation thousands of Americans rushed by land and by sea to the new E1 Dorado in ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Taft Story By William S White New York Harper amp Brothers 1954 x282p illustrations and index 350 Within certain limits William S White a very able New York Times Washington correspondent has produced a useful study of the late Senator Taft It should be added quickly however that the limits are indeed limited The book does not pretend to be a biography in fact it is without documentation woefully out of balance and loosely put together Still there emerges a ...
... KOSSUTH BEFORE OHIO LEGISLATURE KOSSUTH BEFORE OHIO LEGISLATURE Copy of an address delivered before the General Assembly of Ohio February 6 1852 by Louis Kossuth the Hungarian Patriot His appearance before the Assembly was by invitation and after its delivery a Committee was appointed to wait upon him and procure the manuscript of the address This was secured with the autograph of Kossuth and is now preserved in the State Library This publication is made from the original manuscript-E O R MR ...
... Some Memoranda of the Locust Some Memoranda of the Locust Season in Ohio 1855 Edited by RENDELL RHOADES THE FIRST CHATTEL I ever remember buying at a public sale was a bushel of books This was in August 1931 at the John L West farm about three miles north of Hillsboro in Highland County Ohio The lot consisted of such choice items as a history of the modern world up to 1828 a volume of funereal poetry a running account of Greek mythology and an old-fashioned bound copybook containing a few ...
... 34 Ohio Arch 34 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications LETTER FROM WILLIAM H STEVENSON President of the Western Pennsylvania Historical Society Among the letters received by the Chairman of the Fallen Timbers State Park Committee is the following PITTSBURGH PA September 10 1929 MR W J SHERMAN Ch ai rman Toledo Ohio DEAR SIR--I have your kind invitation to attend the dedication of a monument to General Anthony Wayne on the site of the battlefield of Fallen Timbers Saturday September 19th and ...
... GENERAL INDEX TO VOL GENERAL INDEX TO VOL XLIV A E F--166th Infantry 365 American history 328 333 A L A 357 American Land Board 439 Adams Andrew 172 American liberty 315 Adams George 308 American Library Association see A L Adams James 449 A Adams John opposed Society of CincinAmerican medicine 451 nati 84 American Museum of Natural History 282 Adams John Quincy opposed Society of American Nation 350 Cincinnati 84 American people 312 318 Adams S 449 American Political Leaders 350 Adams Samuel ...
... The Croghan Celebration The Croghan Celebration 31 liberty that we are enjoying to-day and I wish to say that upon this spot this historic spot that the tide turned in favor of the American nation in the war of 1812-13 How unfortunate you are to have within your corporate limits the most historic spot in the United States of America I never stood upon this ground upon this battlefield until today My mind turns back to my youthful days when I read of the bravery of Croghan and his 160 men and I ...
... CHARACTER SKETCH OF GENERAL ULYSSES S CHARACTER SKETCH OF GENERAL ULYSSES S GRANT BY JUDGE HUGH L NICHOLS Chairman of the U S Grant Memorial Centenary Association My earlier life was spent at New Richmond Clermont County Ohio on the banks of the Ohio River five miles west of Point Pleasant where Ohio's greatest son first saw the light of day As a youth I was greatly interestd in General Grant always having regarded him - and it would seem rightlyas Ohio's most famous citizen and since he was ...
... ARNOLD SHANKMAN ARNOLD SHANKMAN Soldier Votes and Clement L Vallandigham in the 1863 Ohio Gubernatorial Election The Ohio gubernatorial election of 1863 was a hotly contested election with overtones extending to the national level The nation was engaged in a bitter civil war which showed no signs of terminating and many citizens of the Buckeye State were rapidly tiring of the conflict A large number of Ohio Democrats were dissatisfied with the Lincoln administration's handling of the war and ...
... GENERAL INDEX TO VOL GENERAL INDEX TO VOL XLVI Abington Virginia--Presbytery 218 Antioch College 12 Abolition Intelligencer and Missionary Anti-slavery Friends 300 Magazine 221 Apollo Exhibition 74 Abolition society219-257 Apostle to the Indies 82 Abolitionists Ohio 240 Presbyterian 247 Appalachian Mountains 224 Abraham Bible 247 Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American BiogAdams Alice D--Neglected Period of raphy 42 221 Anti-slavery in America 219 Arapaho Indians 85 Adams Henry--History of the ...