... Book Notes Book Notes State Maps on File Midwest Illinois Indiana Iowa Michigan Minnesota Missouri Ohio Wisconsin New York Facts on File Publications 1984 maps index and Illustrated Dictionary of Place Names United States and Canada Edited by Kelsie B Harder New York Facts on File Publications 1985 reprint xiv 631p illustrations bibliography State Maps on File is one of a seven-volume series of state maps compiled by the publishers and specifically geared to the needs of teachers students and ...
... 532 Ohio Arch 532 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications Ulysses S Grant born April 27 1822 at Point Pleasant Clermont Co Nominated from Illinois at Chicago May 20 1868 Inaugurated March 4 1869 Renominated Philadelphia June 5 1872 Inauguarted March 4 1873 Died at Mount Gregor N Y July 23 1885 Buried Riverside Park New York August 8 1885 Rutherford B Hayes born October 4 1822 Delaware Delaware Co Nominated at Cincinnati June 14 1876 Inaugurated March 5 1877 Died Fremont Ohio January 17 1893 ...
... JOSEPH E JOSEPH E WEINLAND REBUILDER OF SCHOENBRUNN BY ROBERT M WILKIN Our meeting tonight is occasioned by the departure of our president from our community and his resignation as president of this Association and chairman of the Schoenbrunn Committee The purpose of the meeting is to take account of his services and express our gratitude for what he has done and what he has been We meet as historians and retrospection is the business of historians Historians look back through the years put ...
... The Scioto Company and its Purchase The Scioto Company and its Purchase 109 THE SCIOTO COMPANY AND ITS PURCHASE The history of the founding of Gallipolis now turning in its career into its second century is one of the most interesting and at the same time one of the saddest studies in American annals It is the story of a disappointing and impracticable scheme and were it not for the fact that the blood of its founders mingling with the American stock of their day and generation has given ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Lakewood The First Hundred Years By Jim and Susan Borchert Norfolk The Donning Company 1989 192p illustrations maps bibliography index This thoroughly researched and well-written centennial history chronicles the dramatic changes both physical and cultural which transformed East Rockport from vineyards and orchards to suburb and eventually Cleveland satellite city Abundantly illustrated Borchert's book is neatly organized into fourteen chapters that alternate between ...
... Dedication of Ohio's World War Memorial 473 Dedication of Ohio's World War Memorial 473 tions in manuscripts newspaper files and local history being especially notable ADDRESS OF CHARLES T GREVE At the conclusion of Mr Cathcart's address which was liberally applauded Professor Siebert introduced Mr Charles T Greve Secretary of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio and well-known author who spoke as follows Mr Chairman and Our Hosts The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Joe L Dubbert 43 Professor of History at Muskingum College died September 27 1983 after a valiant fight against cancer Born in Laurens Iowa Dr Dubbert pursued a fascination for rural American culture at Parsons College BA 1962 and the University of Minnesota PhD 1967 He joined the history department of Muskingum College in 1967 and has been credited with re-animating the study of American history at that institution Noted for his fairness his common sense ...
... James R Garfield the making of a progressive by JACK M THOMPSON One of the leaders in the movement to bring Theodore Roosevelt back to the presidency in 1912 was a now rather obscure Ohioan named James R Garfield The second son of President James A Garfield he was Roosevelt's secretary of the interior from 1907 to 1909 and the Progressive candidate for governor of Ohio in 1914 A prominent figure on the Ohio and national scenes at the height of the progressive movement he found the ascent to ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews A Signal Victory The Lake Erie Campaign 1812-1813 By David Curtis Skaggs and Gerald T Althoff Annapolis Maryland Naval Institute Press 1997 x 244p illustrations notes appendix glossary glossary of nautical terms bibliographic essay index 3495 The battle of Lake Erie in which an American naval squadron annihilated its British counterpart on 10 September 1813 was one of two defining engagements of the War of 1812 in the Old Northwest The British-Indian capture of ...
... FUGITIVE SLAVE CASES IN OHIO PRIOR TO 1850 FUGITIVE SLAVE CASES IN OHIO PRIOR TO 1850 By LEO ALILUNAS Background of the Fugitive Slave Question Before the subject of fugitive slave cases in Ohio prior to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 can be developed it is necessary to consider a few aspects of the antislavery movement in Ohio A number of questions arise What was the antislavery sentiment of the people of Ohio before 1850 What was the legislative policy of the State legislature ...
... KENNETH W KENNETH W ROSE John D Rockefeller's Philanthropy and Problems in Fundraising at Cleveland's Floating Bethel Mission and the Home for Aged Colored People In discussing attempts to organize charity and philanthropy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries historians have devoted much attention to the institutions being organized-to the charity organization societies to philanthropic clearing houses or to the new foundations created by such wealthy public-spirited citizens ...
... Ohio Agriculture in History Ohio Agriculture in History By ROBERT LESLIE JONES The history of agriculture in Ohio is on the surface a subject prosaic enough Indeed only once and that long ago did it ever possess anything of the implausibly romantic Timothy Flint tells us that the New England settlers who came in the beginning to the lands of the Ohio Company were attracted not only by the unparalleled fertility of the soil but according to the wags of the day by springs of brandy and flax that ...
... ROBERT WHITE McFARLAND ROBERT WHITE McFARLAND FRANK S BROOKS COLUMBUS If all the men who have been so fortunate as to have come under the benign influence of Professor McFarland were each to pay the tribute of laying one stone in his honor no towering modern structure would overlook the pile Such would be a fitting memorial for while indulgent toward many duller minds patiently helping to mould the characters of boys and men much of his incessant work has been among the stars Reluctantly I ...
... 16 Ohio Arch 16 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications bers of which had charge of the final interment The children scattered flowers in the grave a salute was fired taps were sounded and the honored dust of the gallant George Croghan was consigned to its final resting place on the spot and in the sacred soil he had so bravely and loyally defended ninety-three years before The grave was covered with a large block of Quincy granite bearing this inscription George Croghan Major 17th U S ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments Reviews Notes and Comments 46 5 This quotation is a gem and the reader will thank the author for including it A wrong impression is left on page 288 by the statement that the senate finally voted 'yea' unanimously on this bill Seven senators at one time voted against it including Senator Brown from Ohio who opposed it in a speech While the author uses the correct spelling of the name of Lafayette she makes a mistake in the spelling of another name that occurs very ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Museums Association OMA a nonprofit statewide organization of nature centers zoos art science history and natural history museums has located its headquarters at the Ohio Historical Center in Columbus Ohio Although separate from the Ohio Historical Society the OMA provides workshops conferences annual meetings and a monthly newsletter to OHS and other organizations throughout the state in an effort to provide educational opportunities for staff ...
... THE DIARY OF JOHN BEATTY JANUARY-JUNE 1884 THE DIARY OF JOHN BEATTY JANUARY-JUNE 1884 Part IV edited by HARVEY S FORD Head Librarian Toledo Blade Sunday May 11 1884 Went to hear Dr Gladden this morning He preached from the text Lord I believe help thou my unbelief It was the posture of the man's mind which interested the preacher It was that of one trying to believe and anxious to have all impediments to full belief cleared away Not that of one who exclaims obstinately I do not believe ...
... FUNERAL OF ADAM WILLIS WAGNALLS FUNERAL OF ADAM WILLIS WAGNALLS September 24 1843 Adam Willis Wagnalls first opened his eyes to the light in the village of Lithopolis Fairfield County Ohio On Wednesday evening September 3 1924 at the close of a life rich in good works and meritorious achievements Adam Willis Wagnalls closed his eyes for the last time on earthly scenes at Doremi Manor Northport Long Island New York the home of his daughter Mrs Mabel Wagnalls Jones Lithopolis the little village ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY JULY 1945 -- JULY 1946 Compile d by J AM ES H RODABAUGH an d S W INIFRED SMITH ANTI-SLAVERY LANDON Fred Over Lake Erie to Freedom in Northwest Ohio Q u arterly XVII 1945 1 32-8 QUARLES Benjamin Sources of Abolitionist Income in Mississippi Valley Historical Review XXXII 1945 63-76 ARTS AND CRAFTS ANDERSON Irma Pilling Ohio Coverlets in Antiques XLIX 1946 56-7 Cleveland Print Club in Hobbies LI No ...
... MILDRED COVEY FRY MILDRED COVEY FRY Women on the Ohio Frontier The Marietta Area It is difficult for the present-day American woman living in a modern suburb to comprehend the physical rigors the loneliness and the mental anguish suffered by those pioneer women who left comfortable New England homes journeyed eight hundred miles to the wooded savage Northwest Territory and then settled in crude log cabins or houses A better understanding of that period in history can be gained by learning ...