... THE CINCINNATI TABLET AN INTERPRETATION THE CINCINNATI TABLET AN INTERPRETATION By CHARLES C WILLOUGHBY The Great Horned Serpent of our American tribes was usually considered a god of waters lakes and streams His anger was manifested through storms thunder and lightning Forked lightning was the darting of his tongue The Algonquians of the Great Lakes believed that a monster serpent Gitche-Kenebig dwelt in these waters who unless appeased with offerings raised a tempest or broke the ice beneath ...
... IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDY OF ARCHAEOLOGY IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDY OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN OHIO IN no State of the Union are there more objects of archaeological interest than in Ohio and never before were we so well prepared to study them successfully as at the present time Pre-eminently is it the case with such objects as our earthworks that they need to be studied by comparison with other such works the world over Their treasures of knowledge cannot be rendered by themselves nor even with all the ...
... Comments Notes and Reviews Comments Notes and Reviews 375 Mr Sherman was one of the first members of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and for some years took a personal interest in its proceedings For ten years past and at the time of his death he was one of the trustees JOHN BROWN-A REVIEW In American history there are few if any characters the story of whose life is so erratic dramatic or so tragic as that of John Brown As he spent his youth and many years of his manhood ...
... 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 ...
... THE WESTERNIZATION OF NEW ENGLAND THE WESTERNIZATION OF NEW ENGLAND ALBERT BUSHNELL HART LL D Mr Hart is professor of American History at Harvard University the author of many standard and popular works on United States History In 1902 he was chosen editor-in-chief of the co-operative history of the United States projected under the auspices of the American Historical Association The article herewith published was the address deliverd by him at Marietta on the occasion of the erection of a ...
... edited by edited by ROBERT PRICE The Road to Boston 1860 Travel Correspondence of William Dean Howells Young William Dean Howells' travel letters written for two Ohio newspapers during the summer of 1860 and collected here for the first time record the weeks immediately preceding one of the most oft-retold incidents in the story of American letters The time was the first week of August the place Boston's famed Parker House James Russell Lowell editor of the Atlantic Monthly was hosting a ...
... MARK TWAIN IN OBERLIN MARK TWAIN IN OBERLIN By RUSSEL B NYE On the night of February II 1885 the Union Library Association of Oberlin Ohio presented readings by Samuel L Clemens and George W Cable as the third number of its annual lecture series The Twain-Cable lecture took place in the First Congregational Church of Oberlin where Clemens according to a program of the entertainment now in the Oberlin College Library gave as his part of the evening readings of King Sollermun The Tragic Tale of ...
... EARL IRVIN WEST EARL IRVIN WEST Early Cincinnati's Unprecedented Spectacle When Isaac G Burnet Cincinnati's newly elected mayor called a meeting of the city's leading citizens for Tuesday night April 7 1829 to make arrangements for a debate between Robert Owen and Alexander Campbell this can be considered an official sanction for the extraordinary event that was being planned1 Robert Owen social reformer lecturer and founder of the then defunct communitarian colony at New Harmony Indiana had ...
... Ohio Valley Hist Ohio Valley Hist Ass'n Fifth Annual Meeting 79 main opponents Clark to President Reed August 4 1781 post p Marshall advised the people to pay no attention to the drafts ordered for Clark and offered protection to those who refused He had told Clark that while he could do nothing for the expedition as an official that as a private person he would give every assistance within his power Penna Archives 1781-1783 p 318 71 See post p 72 See post p 73 See post p 74 Mich Pioneer and ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Irish in America By Carl Wittke Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press 1956 xi319p list of works cited in the text and index 500 Dean Wittke's notable contributions to an objective understanding of the role of the immigrant in United States history have stimulated many to look forward eagerly to the publication of the present volume This has been especially the case because writers both of Scotch-Irish and of Catholic Irish antecedents have often been less ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS MONUMENT ON THE SITE OF FORT WASHINGTON CEREMONIES AT THE UNVEILING OF MONUMENT 1789-1808 The monument erected in Third street between Broadway and Ludlow street in Cincinnati to mark the site of Fort Washington was unveiled on June 14 It was erected by a committee representing patriotic societies in Ohio as follows Mayflower Descendants-Mrs Frank J Jones Mr Herbert Jenney Mr W H Doane Colonial Dames of America-Mrs M Morris White Miss Anna K ...
... THE EXECUTION OF JOHN BROWN THE EXECUTION OF JOHN BROWN BY MURAT HALSTEAD The execution of John Brown was on the second of December 1859 the scene in a field a furlong south of Charlestown seven miles from Harper's Ferry The sensation caused by the John Brown raid was something wonderful The excitement of the whole country was out of all proportion to the material incidents The shock was because the feeling of the people that the slavery question had reached an acute stage and demanded ...
... THE OHIO ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION OF 1836 THE OHIO ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION OF 1836 By ROBERT PRICE The Rev Jacob Little pastor of the Granville Presbyterian church for over thirty-nine years beginning in 1827 once recorded1 that during the year 1834 the village of Granville was beset by seven distinct evils namely 1 embarrassing financial conditions 2 a killing frost on May 15 3 a serious drought following the frost 4 a torrential rain at midnight of July 1 followed by a great flood 5 an ...
... 128 Ohio Arch 128 Ohio Arch and His Society Pub li cations the citizens of all the states and the republics to the south of us may spend many pleasant hours and may find rest and comfort It is my duty to turn our building over to the Pan-American and in doing so I express the sincere hope that your exposition may have the great success which always should accompany efforts so earnest so able and so magnificent and wonderful in results as are those made by the officials of the exposition and ...
... FURTHER NOTES ON GRANVILLE'S ANTIFURTHER NOTES ON GRANVILLE'S ANTIABOLITION DISTURBANCES OF 1836 By ROBERT PRICE The American Colonization Society may have had as its chief objective the return of American Negroes to their native Africa but it also afforded a ready means of organized opposition for the enemies of abolition Anyhow such was the case in Granville Ohio during the years 1835-36 when the fires of anti-slavery controversy were burning brightly in that particular neighborhood No doubt ...
... THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO December 15 1920 930 A M Pursuant to a call issued December 10 1920 the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met in annual session at the Museum and Library Building The meeting was called to order by President Campbell The following members were present G Frederick Wright Daniel J Ryan Waldo C Moore W O Thompson E F Wood J ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 103 RANDALL THE MAN BY DANIEL J RYAN Emilius O Randall had the inestimable advantage of being well-born Not by inheritance of the muniments of wealth or caste or rank but through the influences of forebears whose chief purposes in life and whose aspirations and achievements were within the sphere of the intellectual and spiritual They were Americans more than a century before Bunker Hill and were among the founders of New England of whom Longfellow ...
... JOHN BROWN JOHN BROWN ADDITIONAL NOTES BY C B GALBREATH JOHN BROWN'S FRIENDS IN WASHINGTON The following letter to John Brown Jr which so far as we know has never before been published states clearly whom the writer regarded as friends in Congress This letter is now of historic interest only Had it been published at the time it was written it would doubtless have created some commotion and have made trouble for some of the congressmen named The letter is here reproduced literally ROCHESTER N Y ...
... COLONEL JOHN MURRAY COLONEL JOHN MURRAY DAVID E PHILLIPS The readers of the Archaeological and Historical Quarterly can hardly fail to be interested in any matter intimately associated with the very beginnings of our Great Commonwealth The famous old mansion in Rutland Mass now owned by The Rufus Putnam Memorial Association and called The Cradle of Ohio has become one of the Shrines of American Patriotism and few have had so romantic an origin and history It was built about the year 176 0 and ...
... 652 Ohio Arch and Hist 652 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ber of the Committee from Dayton accompanied by a representative group of Dayton citizens who piloted us to Miami Mound where a short stop was made thence into Dayton where dinner was served and a short meeting held At Dayton we visited the Conservancy Works the Wright Aviation Field and other points of interest This closed our activities for the day There is no question that both of these trips were highly enjoyable and ...