... NAVIGATION ON THE MUSKINGUM NAVIGATION ON THE MUSKINGUM IRVEN TRAVIS MCCONNELSVILLE Mr Irven Travis the writer of this article was born near Roxbury Windsor Township Morgan County August 17 1849 His father John Travis lived in McConnelsville where he was employed in building flat-boats in the summer and taking them to New Orleans in the winter Mr Irven Travis became a pilot on the river boats at the age of twenty serving in that capacity on the steamers Carrie Brooks Perry Smith Oella Gen H F ...
... ADDRESS OF REV ADDRESS OF REV EDWARD EVERETT HALE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE ILLINOIS COUNTY FELLOW-CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES I certainly shall detain you but a very few minutes I am speaking only because I am commissioned by the Governor of Massachusetts We think our State has spoken very well here to-day already Massachusetts sends her hearty congratulations to you and as Dr Loring says Massachusetts does not forget her children her grandchildren and the children of her grandchildren ...
... PHILIP BEVAN--MINOR POET OF OHIO PHILIP BEVAN--MINOR POET OF OHIO BY PHILIP B JORDAN That portion of the history of the United States known as the Middle Period spanning the years 18121850 is remarkable among other things for the conception and development of an intense pride in the nation itself and in the cultivation of a spirit of nationalism which preserved its intensity until well past the Civil War period Politically this pride and affection for country expressed itself in the ...
... F M WHITAKER F M WHITAKER Ohio WCTU and the Prohibition Amendment Campaign of 1883 The Woman's Christian Temperance Union may be said to be a product of Ohio in at least two ways One its foundation is the only lasting result of a phenomenon of the winter and spring of 1873-1874 known as the Woman's Crusade which achieved its first success and national recognition in Ohio This movement in which bands of respectable ladies marched in groups upon saloons in various locations singing praying and ...
... Journal of Cyrus P Journal of Cyrus P Bradley 211 'Society to him Is blithe society who fills the air With gladness and involuntary song' Of his evenings at home he also quotes lines from Wadsworth strangely and beautifully coincident with his own experience of the howling wind outside But let him range round he does not harm We build up the fire we're snug and warm Untouch'd by his breath see the candle shines bright And burns with a clear and steady light Books have we to read hush that ...
... AN EARLY AMERICAN CRUSADER AN EARLY AMERICAN CRUSADER NORTON STRANGE TOWNSHEND1 By JOH N F CUNNINGHAM Writing to G Sprague corresponding secretary of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture in 1854--just ninety years ago--a young physician of Lorain County Ohio said I send you facts and observations relating to agricultural education also a brief notice of an attempt to establish an agricultural college in Ohio We will not stop to demonstrate but will take it for granted that agricultural ...
... J J F MACLEAR Lyman Beecher in Britain The triumphant British tours of Harriet Beecher Stowe in the 1850s and Henry Ward Beecher in the 1860s have long claimed the attention of students of American literature and Civil War diplomacy Yet despite the interest of intellectual and church historians in Lyman Beecher the patriarch of the family no attention has been paid to his earlier stay in Britain in the summer of 18461 It is true that Beecher was then seventy-one years old his impact on ...
... PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL OHIO HISTORY PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE Including the Fifty-third Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History and the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Columbus Genealogical Society Held at Columbus April 6-8 1939 in Cooperation with Ohio State University the Ohio Committee on Medical History and Archives and Local Historical Societies throughout the State Columbus ...
... The Century and Its Lessons The Century and Its Lessons 27 of the distinguished gentlemen whom we have assembled here to greet This city of ours has in time sent forth her sons and daughters who with willing hands and strong hearts have engaged in founding other cities and States thus following the noble example set by their ancestors Many of these sons and daughters have returned in response to invitations cordially extended and I desire to say to them as well as the strangers within our ...
... 132 Ohio Arch 132 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications Mrs Bishop sang again Her glorious voice was heard first in Handel's I Know That My Redeemer Liveth and then in Comin' Thro' the Rye THESE ARE MY JEWELS Hon Emmett Thompkins Congressman-elect from the 12th Ohio District Columbus delivered an address replete with most interesting historical and statistical information Out of the days devoted to the exposition of the arts and the products of the two Americas this one is dedicated to Ohio ...
... The Ohio Experience A Symposium The Ohio Experience A Symposium On Historic Sites Administered By the Ohio Historical Society THE FOLLOWING FIVE PAPERS were given by members of the staff of the Ohio Historical Society at the annual meeting of the North American Association of Historic Sites Public Officials held in Columbus October 7 1957 They deal with five different aspects of the Society's work with its historic properties acquisition development interpretation financing and administration ...
... THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF OHIO By LEE SHEPARD In the space of a short sketch it is impossible to write a comprehensive history of this 113-year-old society When it is realized that the first effort to form a historical society in Ohio was made in 1822 only 27 years after the signing of the Treaty of Greenville one can only wonder at the temerity of the scattered residents whose ambitions at that time were doomed to failure Ohio was ...
... MICHAEL SPEER MICHAEL SPEER The Little Steel Strike Conflict for Control Historically strikes in the American iron and steel industry have been bloody affairs The 1892 Homestead strike and the 1919 steel strike stand as outstanding examples of industry's militant refusal to share the power of decision-making with labor representatives for steel management such strikes provided what amounted to an opportunity for crushing an incipient union movement By the mid-1930's however the conflict ...
... VALLANDIGHAM AS AN EXILE IN CANADA 1863-1864 by FRANK L KLEMENT While Clement L Vallandigham lived in Canada for nearly a year during the Civil War as an exile from the United States his path crossed those of a number of men well-known in Canadian history Thomas D'Arcy McGee emerging as a critic of the Canadian government befriended and defended the exile Charles J Brydges superintendent of the Grand Trunk Railroad gave a dinner in Vallandigham's honor and presented him with a pass on his ...
... Twenty-second Annual Meeting Twenty-second Annual Meeting 255 above named gentlemen as Trustees The Secretary cast the ballot as instructed and the five men designated were declared elected as Trustees of the Society to serve for the ensuing three years ending at the Annual Meeting in 1910 Mr Wood in making the report of the Nominating Committee stated that the committee further desired to recommend that General R Brinkerhoff be elected by the Society President Emeritus for life Such action he ...
... SONG WRITERS OF OHIO SONG WRITERS OF OHIO TWO SONGS INSPIRED IN OHIO BY C B GALBREATH While much has been said and written of the achievements of Ohio's men the public has not fully appreciated perhaps the extent of the influence of the gifted women of the state This is due doubtless to the fact that this influence is often exerted in ways somewhat obscure and indirect A gifted woman of course is a creature of physical and intellectual beauty endued with the power to lift man to the heights of ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Alexandra Gripenberg's A Half Year in the New World Miscellaneous Sketches of Travel in the United States 1 888 Translated and edited by Ernest J Moyne Newark University of Delaware Press 1954 xv225p frontispiece and index This volume recounts the observations of Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg distinguished Finnish journalist author feminist and temperance advocate during a six months' visit to the United States in 1888 The baroness came to America as a delegate to an ...
... DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL BUILDING DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL BUILDING OVER THE GRANT COTTAGE AT STATE FAIR GROUNDS The Grant Memorial Building enclosing the Grant cottage at the State Fair Grounds was dedicated September 3 1896 This ceremony had been planned for the forenoon of that day but a heavy rain made it necessary to postpone the program until the afternoon when fair weather greeted the large crowd assembled estimated at over four thousand people The program included addresses by Governor ...
... THE PEASE MAP OF THE CONNECTICUT THE PEASE MAP OF THE CONNECTICUT WESTERN RESERVE by RUSSELL H ANDERSON The Connecticut Western Reserve in northeastern Ohio is of such special importance in the history of the Old Northwest that the early maps of the area are of particular value and interest The first printed map of the Reserve the Pease map of 1798 and its subsequent revision of 1807-8 as the Pease and Tappen map was published in such a way as to cause some confusion It is the purpose of this ...
... THE ROUSH FAMILY IN THE MAKING OF AMERICA THE ROUSH FAMILY IN THE MAKING OF AMERICA By LESTER LEROY ROUSH Introductory Remarks To present the history of so large a family in so small a compass and make the story interesting and attractive and useful to the large posterity of its common ancestors is a most difficult task Two questions the writer certainly must face are first what to choose from the large accumulation at hand and second how to present it The wider man's realistic knowledge of ...