... THE MOUNDS OF FLORIDA AND THEIR BUILDERS THE MOUNDS OF FLORIDA AND THEIR BUILDERS REV J F RICHMOND Mr Richmond now resident of McConnelsville Ohio was born and educated in New York in which city he was for many years pastor of a prominent Methodist Episcopal Church He is the author of several books For twenty years he made his home in Florida where he improved the opportunity of giving thoughtful investigation to the so-called Indian Mounds and the various theories concerning the race that ...
... OHIO'S MONUMENT TO GENERAL ANTHONY OHIO'S MONUMENT TO GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE UNVEILED September 14 1929 is a date long to be remembered in the annals of Ohio and other states represented at the dedicatory ceremonies incident to the unveiling of a monument to Major General Anthony Wayne a hero of the Revolution and the border wars with the Indians in the valleys of the Miami and Maumee Rivers The sites of his major achievements in the post-Revolutionary period of his career-the battle of Fallen ...
... THE THE HERO OF THE SANDY VALLEY JAMES A GARFIELD'S KENTUCKY CAMPAIGN OF 1861-1862 by ALLAN PESKIN In the days when the Indians roamed at will through the mountains of Kentucky they instinctively dreaded this dark and bloody ground Later the white man came first a cautious trickle through the passes then a torrent of settlers with axes rifles and families They cleared the forest shot the game and planted their families in cabins and cities The Indians went away and left Kentucky to ...
... MRS MRS TROLLOPE IN PORKOPOLIS by WILLIAM H HILDRETH Professor of English Ohio State University On January 1 1828 Frances Milton Trollope an English housewife with three of her children left the port of New Orleans bound north on the steamboat Belvidere She was going to Cincinnati to set herself up in business Left behind in England were her husband Thomas and their two older sons Thomas Trollope a failure at both law and farming sat in England and brooded over his ill luck dosed himself with ...
... WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER Concluded from Volume I Page 375 The new literary comet thus announced was pathetic repetition still another Literary Journal and Monthly Review edited by L A Hine and referred to by him some years later as my first literary wreck It was published at Nashville Tennessee and conducted nominally by E Z C JudsonNed Buntline In those years of prosperity and constant pen-wielding Mr Gallagher's muse was liberal Then it was that the poet caring more ...
... THE USEFUL RESULTS OF HISTORICAL CONTROVERSY THE USEFUL RESULTS OF HISTORICAL CONTROVERSY An Illustration and Suggestion WILLIAM Z DAVIS LL D Judge Ohio Supreme Court The present controversy about the discovery of the North Pole suggests the thought that the truth of history is established by adverse criticism and thorough investigaton and that the truth cannot be hidden forever A striking illustration of this is found in the bibliography of the discussion over the question Who discovered the ...
... SKETCHES OF JOHN AND ANN SIMPSON DAVIS SKETCHES OF JOHN AND ANN SIMPSON DAVIS THEIR FORBEARS AND DESCENDANTS BY EVA SELLS JAEGER The History of every Family is a romance -- to those who search its pages a poem --Lamartine The history of the state of Pennsylvania from which came John and Ann Simpson Davis is unique in the manner of settlements made there as it offered an asylum for all mankind To this state came the Swedes who settled along the Delaware River the Dutch from Holland who in turn ...
... THE LONG MEMORY OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE by DONALD WALTER CURL Shortly after his inauguration in March 1889 President Benjamin Harrison sent to the Republican-controlled Senate a list of nominees for first class diplomatic appointments Among those named were Robert Todd Lincoln the former president's son to London Frederick D Grant another former president's son to Vienna Allen T Rice the publisher to St Petersburg Whitelaw Reid of the New York Tribune to Paris and Murat Halstead editor of ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR COPE MASTER NATURALIST The Life and Letters of Edward Drinker Cope with a Bibliography of His Writings Classified by Subject A Study of the Pioneer and Foundation Periods of Vertebrate Palaeontology in America By Henry Fairfield Osborn Senior Geologist U S Geological Survey Honorary Curator Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology American Museum of Natural History With the co-operation of Helen Ann Warren and others Illustrated ...
... 362 Ohio Arch 362 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ADDRESS OF ISAAC J COX The subject of Prof Cox's address was Ohio and Western Sectionalism Prof Cox is professor of American History in the University of Cincinnati He is president of the Mississippi Valley Historical Society and was formerly president of the Ohio Valley Historical Society It is a truism to state that natural forces determine the essential facts of history but at the same time we may assert that men of vision show the ...
... OHIO UNIVERSITY-THE HISTORIC COLLEGE OHIO UNIVERSITY-THE HISTORIC COLLEGE OF THE OLD NORTHWEST CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF Situated on the winding Hock-Hocking amid the picturesque hills of Southern Ohio is the little city which according to Theodore Roosevelt with queer poverty of imagination and fatuous absence of humor has been given the name of Athens Probably the strenuous ex-president would have considered it more appropriate to have named it Hog-Hollow or Buzzards' Glory or some such euphonious ...
... 396 EDWIN COPPOC EDWIN COPPOC BY C B GALBREATH Among many villages of our state that pursue the even tenor of their way so peacefully and quietly that they earn their way to honorable obscurity is Winona Columbiana County This name was chosen from Longfellow's Hiawatha for the citizens of this place find time to read enjoy what we dignify as literature and are in a very useful and unpretentious way cultured The church and the school are liberally patronized The moral standard of the ...
... Philip Bevan -- Minor Poet of Ohio 213 Philip Bevan -- Minor Poet of Ohio 213 Although Bevan's verse was modeled after the English school and so was representative of that period of imitation in poetry which possessed American poets at the opening of the nineteenth century his frank avowal of love for the new nation and his delight in the beauty of the frontier states are reason enough to mark him as one of the important members of the minor school Then too the reprinting of America will ...
... THE RISE OF HOMEOPATHY THE RISE OF HOMEOPATHY By LUCY STONE HERTZOG M D In the course of correspondence concerning this paper Dr Frederick Waite wrote me One of the questions is What was the previous relation of those who became homeopaths in the early era All the homeopathic histories stress the point that many of the homeopaths had previously been in regular medicine but he was unable to prove this true except of only a small minority Dr Waite also raised the question Whence come the ...
... GENERAL ROELIFF BRINKERHOFF GENERAL ROELIFF BRINKERHOFF 1828-1911 On Sunday June 4 19 11 at 930 in the evening at his beloved home in Mansfield Ohio the soul of General Roeliff Brinkerhoff took its peaceful flight to the eternal life beyond At the time of his demise General Brinkerhoff was President Emeritus Vol XX-23 353 354 Ohio Arch 354 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society of which he was active President from the year 1893 to the ...
... MARIUS ROBINSON A FORGOTTEN ABOLITIONIST MARIUS ROBINSON A FORGOTTEN ABOLITIONIST LEADER By RUSSEL B NYE Marius Racine Robinson one of the more important figures of the antislavery movement in Ohio has been more or less lost from public view Neither the Dictionary of American Biography the National Cyclopaedia of Biography nor any of the standard biographical dictionaries list his name yet in the rise of abolitionism in Ohio he played a great part as agent editor organizer and propagandist -- ...
... AFTERNOON SESSION AFTERNOON SESSION ADDRESS OF PROFESSOR CARL E GUTHE Chairman Sater called the meeting to order at 2 p m After a few well chosen remarks he introduced Prof Carl E Guthe University Museums of the University of Michigan who delivered an address which was heard with the closest attention entitled Outdoor Guiding in History and Prehistory Professor Guthe spoke as follows OUTDOOR GUIDING IN HISTORY AND PREHISTORY BY CARL E GUTHE The phrase outdoor guiding if considered in the ...
... 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 ...
... BOUNDARY AND JURISDICTIONAL PROBLEMS BOUNDARY AND JURISDICTIONAL PROBLEMS OF THE KENTUCKY-OHIO BORDER BY EUGENE O PORTER The Ohio River forms parts of the boundaries of five states and in so doing advances two problems first that of the actual boundary of each state on the river and second that of the jurisdictionwhich each state may exercise on the river In other words Virginia in her deed of cession of the Old Northwest to the Government of the Confederacy in 1784 and in her enabling act for ...
... SHULL'S ROAD SHULL'S ROAD The following letter addressed to the Editor by John William Scholl professor emeritus in the University of Michigan contains enough of historical data to warrant its publication as a matter of record ANN ARBOR MICHIGAN April 6 1946 Dear Sir I have before me a Road Map of Montgomery County Ohio made revised in 1936 by Victor C Smith then County Engineer which contains an especially interesting error Near the northeast corner of the county in Wayne Township there is a ...