... SIEGE OF FORT MEIGS SIEGE OF FORT MEIG S The Cleveland Herald and Gazette of June 3 1840 printed an extract from a speech delivered by the brave Col John O'Fallon at the raising of the log-cabin in St Louis This was during the famous Log Cabin Campaign summer and fall of 1840 The speech reflecting the political and public sentiment of the time will be read with interestEDITOR Colonel O'Fallon-who it may be stated delivered his speech from the ramparts of a miniature Fort Meigs -was an aid of ...
... THE HUMILIATION OF HENRY WARD BEECHER IN THE HUMILIATION OF HENRY WARD BEECHER IN THE WEST by DAVID MEAD Assistant Professor of English Michigan State College In the columns of Ohio's newspapers of nearly a century ago lies the dramatic account of Henry Ward Beecher's rejection as a lecturer by the indignant citizens of the West a story which has not been revealed by the biographers of the great Eastern divine Not that Beecher was the first celebrity to be humiliated by Ohio's lecture public ...
... 326 Ohio Arch 326 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications main and spacious entrance to the campus of the Ohio State University A structure imposing and attractive in architectural form it is therefore the first of the many handsome buildings that dot and adorn the college grounds to greet the view not only of the visitors to the university but to all those who pass by on the chief thoroughfare of the capital city Certainly the trustees of the Ohio State University were generous when they ...
... Ohio Researches into Archaeology Ohio Researches into Archaeology 151 incidentally in correcting a number of errors with regard to the ancient monuments of Ohio due to the superficial nature of the examinations and measurements made by different writers and the errors deliberate or otherwise in their descriptions The book is a most valuable contribution to archaeology and the state society is to be congratulated upon its enterprise in securing its preparation and publication OHIO RESEARCHES ...
... EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY June 5 1903 The eighteenth annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the rooms of the Society Page Hall Ohio State University Columbus Ohio at 230 p m June 5 1903 The following members were present Judge J H Anderson Columbus Mr G F Bareis Canal Winchester Gen R Brinkerhoff Mansfield Mr A B Coover Roxabell Col J W Harper Cincinnati Mr ...
... 28 Ohio Arch 28 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications master introduced Mrs Herbert Backus Vice-President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution RESPONSE OF MRS HERBERT BACKUS Mr Toastmaster Distinguished Guests and Friends A story was told me the other day of a farmer who took unto himself his second wife He brought her to the home of her predecessor After some time had elapsed she told him that she needed some new shoes that all her shoes were worn out He said Well Samantha ...
... INDEX INDEX COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ACE of Roosevelt The 74 Ahlstrom Sydney E 66 Albacete MJ Architecture in Canton 87 with D'Arti and Reeves Ohio Quilts A Living Tradition 87 Alexander Charles C Here the Country Lies Nationalism and the Arts in Twentieth-Century America rev 135-37 American City 21 American Institute of Architects 7 29 Angel William D Jr book rev 121-22 Athony Wayne Trail 33 Anti-Saloon League of Cleveland 71 Annual Meeting Non-Partisan WCTU 1875 70 1889 72 Annual Report ...
... THE RELATION OF THE GLACIAL PERIOD TO THE RELATION OF THE GLACIAL PERIOD TO ARCHAEOLOGY IN OHIO As yet no implements have been found in Ohio which can certainly be ascribed to the glacial age The hope that we may yet discover pre-glacial instruments in Ohio as we have discovered pre-glacial wood is however a sufficient justification of this paper if it shall succeed first in making clear the relation of the glacial period to archaeological discoveries in other portions of the world and if in ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 219 they have been exterminated by war disease and failure of accustomed food supply consequented upon the advent of the whites The simple and primitive existence and the peculiar characteristics of these children of the forest are entertainingly depicted This chapter is followed by a valuable and full appendix of statistics concerning the Indians-treaties of the United States with the tribes the cost to the government in the case of these aboriginal wards the ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Broken Circle By Carl G Doney New York Fleming H Revell Company 1943 187p Written as a memorial volume to a beloved son who when living had exerted a wide and beneficent influence on many people The Broken Circle tells the story of Paul H Doney minister and teacher who died at the early age of forty-one Its writing was a labor of love done by a sorrowing father who wished to present the faith which animated his son's life and the philosophy which underlay his ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE AVERY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES A philosophical essayist on the study of history tritely remarks that a historian should be possessed of industry conscience and imagination Industry and patience to faithfully exhume the facts conscience to truthfully and impartially exploit them and imagination to vividly portray the scenes and events involved that the reader in his mind's eye may perceive them realistically reproduced Such is the ideal historian Such an one to ...
... Romance Rides the Circuit Romance Rides the Circuit By PAUL H BOASE Romantic love--unpredictable capricious and mercurial at its best--survived precariously for the mounted Methodist parson on the American frontier His salary when paid provided scarcely a living wage for one person limiting his bride's prospective dowry to little more than a horse saddle bags and blanket His ecclesiastical superior often cast an unfriendly even malignant eye toward his romantic endeavors His parish often ...
... 428 Ohio Arch 428 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications wigwam dared to be raised upon its soil on account of danger of some enemy A little later the Algonquin as well as the Iroquois returned to this country in small tribes and grew but there was another enemy rising up against them the English and the French particularly the English For about twenty years they struggled for the occupation of this territory and the English finally succeeded but the Indian was determined to hold it and ...
... edited by edited by PAUL C BOWERS JR GOODWIN F BERQUIST JR James Kilbourne New Light on his Story James Kilbourne played an important if not widely known role in the settlement and development of Ohio Born in Farmington Connecticut in 1770 Kilbourne became a prosperous merchant and land owner as well as a lay reader and clergyman in the Protestant Episcopal Church He was a man of stature in both the business and spiritual affairs of central Connecticut by the turn of the century In 1800 ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA EXHIBIT AT ST LOUIS Few exhibits in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St Louis attract more interest than that of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society excellently located in the Anthropological Building The Society is certainly to be congratulated upon the success of its exhibit and the commendations it has received from archaeological students and scholars who visit it and give it patient attention There is no presentation of the remains of the ...
... MARTIN BAUM MARTIN BAUM By GEORGE A KATZENBERGER The nucleus of the material hereinafter collected is taken from an article1 by the eminent German-American historian Henry A Ratterman who from 1868 to 1887 published Der Deutsche Pionier in Cincinnati The historian will note that of all the great nations of western Europe during the centuries immediately following the discovery of America Germany alone took no official part in the colonization of the newly discovered hemisphere This was ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Guide to the Manuscript Collections in the Library of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society By Elizabeth C Biggert Columbus Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1953 x-153p index Paper 150 cloth 250 The social economic and political history of Ohio is well represented in the manuscript collections of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Library which totals approximately 1500000 separate pieces This library is the repository ...
... TRAVEL NOTES OF A MID-NINETEENTH TRAVEL NOTES OF A MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY FRENCHMAN By BERTHA RUTH LEAMAN Extended travel and a great variety of experience had left the curiosity of Jean Jacques Ampere a learned Frenchman of the mid-nineteenth century unsatisfied consequently in search of new information he came to America1 Landing in New York the French visitor traveled through the New England States went to Montreal and Quebec journeyed to Niagara Buffalo and Detroit and then proceeded to ...
... 22 Ohio Arch 22 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications A centennial means a hundred years and does seem a long stretch of time and rather strangely I have heard accounts given by Major Croghan at only second hand for it happened that in 1845-6 when my father the late General Thomas J Wood U S A who graduated from West Point in 1845 was serving on the staff of General Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War Major Croghan at that time Colonel and Inspector General was also on the staff of General ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR VERILY THE WORLD DO MOVE Under this caption the Lancaster Daily Eagle of September 13 1927 publishes the following editorial In another portion of this paper we reproduce possibly for the twentieth time a resolution supposed to have been passed by a Lancaster School Board away back a hundred years ago in 1828 These records of the school board of that period are not obtainable and even though they were this resolution denying ...