... 412 Ohio Arch 412 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications GOVERNOR WILLIS' ADDRESS Governor Willis spoke as follows Ladies and Gentlemen It is indeed a rare privilege to be present and take a part in these interesting exercises on a day set apart in honor of our patriotic dead to be invited to join in this commemoration of one whose private life was an inspiration and whose public service was a benediction On this historic ground you have today united in this splendid celebration which has its ...
... 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 ...
... ULYSSES S ULYSSES S GRANT A CHARACTERIZATION SKETCH BY JOHN BEATTY There is more than a grain of truth underlying the notion that what the world calls greatness in men is the outgrowth of accident rather than of any exceptional physical moral or intellectual excellence Nobody certainly can win victories and gain martial renown who lives in a period of profound peace In civil life however it may be said that by change of scene or of occupation men can seek congenial or profitable employment and ...
... 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 ...
... As the secession crisis in the Old Dominion approached its climax in May 1861 the Unionists of northwestern Virginia looked anxiously to the state of Ohio for deliverance from tyranny On May 26 1861 only three days after Virginia formally seceded from the Union Major General George B McClellan commander of the department of the Ohio launched his invasion to preserve western Virginia for the Union To his troops McClellan issued the first in a series of colorful if exaggerated manifestoes that ...
... edited by edited by MARVIN R ZAHNISER John W Bricker Reflects Upon the Fight for the Bricker Amendment John W Bricker long a prominent name in the politics of Ohio and the United States will forever be known to students of American history as the author of a proposed amendment to the Constitution1 Popularly called the Bricker Amendment this Senate Joint Resolution was first introduced on September 14 1951 as Senate Joint Resolution 102 Following extensive consultation Senate hearings and much ...
... LEE AND MARGARET SOLTOW LEE AND MARGARET SOLTOW A Settlement That Failed The French in Early Gallipolis an Enlightening Letter and an Explanation Settlement by the French in Gallipolis Ohio began in 1790 with great hope and optimism but ended in relative failure not more than a decade later By 1792 the 400 to 500 settlers had experienced disease famine harsh weather and assaults by Indians a more particular problem for them was their inability to obtain titles to the land on which they had ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 99 A daughter of Mr Nichols the anti-slavery man is yet living and gives in a letter to me interesting facts She says My father and mother became earnest anti-slavery advocates in 1841 and from that time until the war the colored people knew my parents as friends and our home was a refuge When old enough probably about the year '48 or '49 I became greatly interested in the black people who came quietly to our kitchen door after dark and left before daylight often we ...
... THE OLD NATIONAL ROAD-THE HISTORIC THE OLD NATIONAL ROAD-THE HISTORIC HIGHWAY OF AMERICA BY ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT I THE MIDDLE AGE The middle ages had their wars and agonies but also their intense delights Their gold was dashed with blood but ours is sprinkled with dust Their life was intermingled with white and purple ours is one seamless stuff of brown - RUSKIN A person can not live in the American central west and be acquaintance with the generation which greets the new century with feeble ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 70 NUMBER 1 J A N U A R Y 1961 The Corwin Amendment In the Secession Crisis By R ALTON LEE THE ELECTION of a Republican president in November 1860 on a platform opposed to further extension of slavery sparked the secession of South Carolina from the United States Between December 20 1860 and February 1 1861 the other six cotton states followed South Carolina out of the Union Never since the world began was there a more ...
... THE TRUTH ABOUT CINCINNATI'S FIRST LIBRARY THE TRUTH ABOUT CINCINNATI'S FIRST LIBRARY By DOROTHY V MARTIN This essay proposes to lay a ghost--not a very important one but in its day its brief day a ghost that aroused partisans and parties and involved men in high places It is the ghost of Cincinnati's first library We might doubt that it ever existed even as a mere proposition outside of legend except for three meager records which have managed to survive for more than a century Two of these ...
... 596 Ohio Arch 596 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications for regret nor yet a wrongful act although the methods employed were not always beyond reproach It was not in the scheme of things that such a vast and fertile country should remain the abode of a handful of savages -- perhaps never more than 50000 in number the advance of civilization demanded the change and the Indian gave way to civilization and today But he was an Ohioan just the same who lived loved fought and died on Ohio soil ...
... KOSSUTH COMES TO CLEVELAND KOSSUTH COMES TO CLEVELAND by ANDOR M LEFFLER Pastor First Hungarian Lutheran Church Cleveland At Cleveland's University Circle stands the unpretentious statue of Louis Kossuth Hungarian patriot It is one of the many thousands of typical nineteenth-century creations found in public gardens in almost any city of the Old World Indeed this statue was shipped from Hungary and is the exact replica of the one standing in a public garden at Nagy Szalonta1 It was a gift to ...
... array of professors and so alarmed the Trustees with their President and one professor that nothing ever came of the project Dr McMilan was succeeded by Rev Richard Campbell he by Rev Johnson Welsh In 1837 the Board appointed Dr Joseph Smith then pastor of a church in St Clairsville the paternal grandson of the Rev Joseph Smith one of the pioneers of Presbyterianism in Western Pennsylvania and the maternal grandson of Dr James Powers his ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Tree of Liberty By Elizabeth Page Farrar amp Rinehart Inc 1939 985p 300 On the best seller list since its publication in the spring this historic novel offers an unusual combination of entertainment and enlightenment The story is that of Matthew Howard and Jane Peyton the former a frontiersman from the Shenandoah Valley the latter the daughter of a tidewater planter In their married life is dramatized the bitter conflict of the two main traditions which underlie ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 283 and calls out 'Let them go' and the superb roan leaders that have been prancing waiting for the word dash off But after all Kirkersville attained to something more than local fame It was in the summer of 1865 just after the end of the Great Rebellion when I was stationed at Watertown arsenal near Boston Colonel Kingsbury our commanding officer was a classmate of General Sherman and when the latter came to Boston he hurried out to the arsenal to see his old cadet ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Delaware Culture Chronology By Vernon Kinietz Prehistory Research Series Vol III No 1 Indianapolis Indiana Historical Society 1946 143p In this study the author offers a significant report of the development of an extensive body of historical data concerning a single tribal culture and the application of a systematic use of that data in a field investigation of the surviving culture today The tribe investigated was the Delaware The problem studied was the process of ...
... THE BATTLESHIP OHIO THE BATTLESHIP OHIO The battleship Ohio was built for the United States navy by the Union Iron Works San Francisco under contract dated October 8 1898 at a cost of 2899000 It was launched May 18 1901 in the harbor of San Francisco and christened by Miss Helen Deshler who was designated for this honor by Governor George K Nash who was present on the occasion as was also William McKinley then President of the United States Great crowds were present at these ceremonies ...
... 104 Ohio Arch 104 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications OHIO HISTORY DAY AT THE LOGAN ELM A large and appreciative audience assembled in Logan Elm Park near the grand old tree which gives it its name to celebrate Ohio History Day on October 7 1923 The local papers gave generous space to this notable event The Union Herald prefaces an extended account as follows The celebration of History day at Logan Elm Park Sunday was attended by from 1500 to 1800 people from all over central Ohio and the ...
... Comments Notes and Reviews Comments N otes and Reviews 141 the contrary A shade of pathetic and almost tragic sadness was cast over the proceedings of the of the meeting by the fact that only a few short hours before the wires across the wide waters had flashed the news that General Roberts with the British troops had occupied Pretoria meaning that it was the beginning of the end for the plucky but all too rash Dutch descendants in the African republic and that England's star of empire was ...