... COLUMBUS OHIO'S CAPITAL COLUMBUS OHIO'S CAPITAL BY ELMER EDWARD NOYES It has been stated by some authorities that Columbus was born a capital1 that Lucas Sullivant an early surveyor who laid out Franklinton in 1797 foresaw the future political possibilities of the district2 At the same time it is claimed by another authority that this was hardly possible since state lines had not yet been drawn at that early date3 In any case the seat of government was moved to Columbus in October 18164 and ...
... ESSAY AND COMMENT 213 ESSAY AND COMMENT 213 sued however when the ruling class was so divided and inept or so committed to the use of sporadic unsuccessful force that it was unable to respond creatively to the challenges in time to produce peaceful reform The new youth class if indeed it can be defined as such presents a challenge to society to put into practice the best of its social political and religious ideals Nevertheless the youth class itself faces formidable tests Youth always has ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... School and Other Days 1859 School and Other Days 1859 Selections from the Diaries of Robert and Sylvester Bishop Edited by JOHN WEATHERFORD ROBERT WAS ELEVEN and Sylvester nine when they began their diaries in the Christmas season of 1858 They kept them with fair regularity during 1859 except for summer vacation Their father Robert Hamilton Bishop II encouraged journals among those of his twelve children who were the right age Professor of Latin at Miami University and son of its first ...
... THOMAS BUCHANAN READ AND THE CIVIL WAR THOMAS BUCHANAN READ AND THE CIVIL WAR The Story of Sheridan's Ride by HARVEY S FORD Head Librarian TOLEDO BLADE The phenomenal popularity of Sheridan's Ride lasted a long time Few poems have taken such a hold on the American people nor have there been many so well liked It is true that its popularity today is not what it once was and Sheridan's Ride does not appear as often as it used to in the textbooks for high school literature courses No longer is it ...
... GENERAL MASON AND HIS LETTER ON RAILROADS GENERAL MASON AND HIS LETTER ON RAILROADS B F PRINCE Almost every community of considerable size and age has furnished one or more characters who have been prominent for a life and acts that were for the good of that special locality and often for the state or nation at large One who stood in this threefold relation was Hon Samson Mason of Springfield Ohio Mr Mason was born in the state of New York in 1793 He attended the public schools of the day ...
... 508 Ohio Arch 508 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications It will not be disturbed by wars and revolutions but it will tower sublime while monarchies totter and fall it will stand majestic immutable the American Republic Applause ADDRESS OF THEODORE E BURTON Following the address of Colonel Cole President Johnson said I wish I might possess some of this inspiring oratory of the last speaker in making these introductions However my limitations leave me only the power to say in simple way that ...
... GEORGE C GEORGE C CROUT Albert B Graham School Days of a Schoolmaster Albert B Graham was born March 13 1868 or as he expressed it in his own wry sense of humor came up between two stalks of corn on the last farm on Route 36 west of St Paris in Champaign County1 From as early as he could remember he had aspirations of being a schoolmaster When he first revealed his secret ambition his Scotch-Presbyterian father remarked What a thing for a lad to decide when there is a mortgage on the farm2 ...
... AMY HILL SHEVITZ AMY HILL SHEVITZ Bull Moose Rabbi Judaism and Progressivism in the Life of a Reform Rabbi When he spoke Mrs R told me it was just like the voice of God This is how one of his congregants described Rabbi Isador Philo almost fifty years after his death His successor in the pulpit of Reform temple Rodef Sholom in Youngstown Ohio eulogized Philo in 1948 with similar words He was blessed with a rich resonant voice and a keen analytical mindhis entire dignified physical appearance ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN IN THE OHIO VALLEY PREVIOUS TO 1840 BY JANE SHERZER The section of country investigated in this paper under the name of The Ohio Valley includes Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia Southern Ohio Indiana and Illinois and Kentucky and Tennessee In West Virginia in Southern Indiana and Illinois there were no schools for the higher education of women up to 184 0 It is true early in 1840 in Indiana there were two ...
... BYRON D BYRON D FRUEHLING AND ROBERT H SMITH Subterranean Hideaways of the Underground Railroad in Ohio An Architectural Archaeological and Historical Critique of Local Traditions During the decade that preceded the Civil War the underground railroad became increasingly active in Ohio and elsewhere in the north1 Although underground originally may have had much the same figurative connotation that it has today in expressions such as underground newspaper it was almost inevitable that the term ...
... LUCY E LUCY E KEELER Death came to Miss Lucy E Keeler at the Memorial Hospital in Fremont on Tuesday morning March 11 1930 She had been ill since October and had sought relief in a number of hospitals but finally returned to Frement where she gradually grew weaker until her death Funeral services were conducted in the Presbyterian Church of Fremont on the following Thursday Some years before her death a newspaper friend had requested that she prepare a brief sketch of her life and activities ...
... JOHN GRAY WASHINGTON'S LAST SOLDIER JOHN GRAY WASHINGTON'S LAST SOLDIER BORN NEAR MT VERNON VA JANUARY 6TH 1764 DIED NEAR HIRAMSBURG O MARCH 29TH 1868 BY PRIVATE DALZELL Read at the Marietta Centennial Celebration One by one the severed links have started Bonds that bound us to the sacred past One by one our patriot sires departed Time hath brought us to behold the last Last of all who won our early glory Lonely traveler of the weary way Poor unknown unnamed in song or story In his western ...
... SAMUEL LEWIS PROGRESSIVE EDUCATOR IN THE SAMUEL LEWIS PROGRESSIVE EDUCATOR IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF OHIO BY ALSTON ELLIS It has been said that great men have the shortest biographies By this rule Methusaleh while the oldest was also one of the greatest men that ever lived for in Genesis it is said that all the day of Methusaleh were nine hundred and sixty-nine years and then came the inevitable-he died This is the whole story save that he was the father of numerous sons and daughters and ...
... THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETT SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO Nov 27 1916 The meeting was called to order by First Vice President George F Bareis There were present Messrs George F Bareis E O Randall F W Treadway W C Mills H E Buck D H Gard H C Shetrone Frank Tallmadge F D Hills W H Cole Edgar Butler A M Schlesinger E C Derby Leonard Marker J M Dunham Almer Hegler D J Ryan James E Campbell Webb C ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Hero in America By Dixon Wecter New York Charles Scribner's Sons 194 1 530p 350 Here is something entirely new in literature--or as near brand new as is possible in these days of multiple coverage of all fields It is a brilliant book at times a bit too brilliant with apt quotations dragged in occasionally when the dazzled reader might prefer perhaps to take things a little easier Professor Wecter of the Department of English at the University of California has set ...
... Big Bottom and Its History Big Bottom and Its History 29 we consider that but for this custom and the preservation of these monuments and tablets much that we now recognize and accept as historic truths would have been lost to us and all future generations it is matter of earnest congratulation upon our part that this monument which we are met here to-day to dedicate has been donated to and has been formally accepted by the Archaeological and Historical Society of Ohio For we feel and know ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XXIX INDEX TO VOLUME XXIX Abenakis See Abinakis Auditors report of 495-503 Abinakis 336 440 Avolachy 186 188 Adams Gilbert C presentation of archaeological specimens by 507 Backus Elijah 147 Advocate and Tribune 153 Bailey Abby extracts from journal of Akron Germania attitude on peace negorelative to visit of Lafayette to Cintiations following the World War 52 cinnati 260-263 53 54 61 66 69 73 75 76 78 Baker Newton D at Spiegel Grove Park Alexander T B telegram from 544-545 328 ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR ANNIVERSARY OF VISIT OF LAFAYETTE TO OHIO CELEBRATED IN CINCINNATI One great city in the United States at least appropriately celebrated the centenary of Lafayette's visit to America The city of Cincinnati under the leadership of Mrs Lowell F Hobart Ohio Regent of the D A R Mrs Charles A Meyers Regent of the Cincinnati chapter of this organization Mrs Thomas Kite ...