... Historical News Historical News THE INLAND RIVERS LIBRARY o f the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County has acquired during the past year two large collections of photographs of boats and other river subjects One collection was the gift of Captain Frederick Way Jr and the other is composed of prints of negatives in the Howard National Steamboat Museum The library acquired also by gift a collection from the Greene Line which includes photographs log books account books menus and ...
... DENTISTRY IN THE WESTERN RESERVE DENTISTRY IN THE WESTERN RESERVE BY CHESTER STANLEY SZUBISKI The territory of the Western Reserve was a strip of the Connecticut Reserve located south of Lake Erie north of the forty-first parallel and extended one hundred and twenty miles westward from the pennsylvania line This was a session of western lands to the federal government made by Connecticut in 1786 In 1792 half a million acres at the western end of the Connecticut R eserve was granted to those ...
... ORATION OF HON ORATION OF HON GEORGE F HOAR THERE are doubtless many persons in this audience who have gathered here as to their Father's house They salute their Mother on her birthday with the prayer and the confident hope that the life which now completes its first century may be immortal as liberty If we were here only to do honor to Marietta-to celebrate the planting of this famous town coeval with the Republic seated by the beautiful river her annals crowded with memories of illustrious ...
... 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 ...
... CALEB ATWATER VERSATILE PIONEER CALEB ATWATER VERSATILE PIONEER A RE-APPRAISAL By HENRY C SHETRONE BACK EAST Educator minister lawyer and antiquarian advocate of internal improvements co-founder of Ohio's school system Ohio's first historian intellectual and social pioneer of the Middle West Such was Caleb Atwater of Massachusetts New York--and Ohio Without an understanding of the times in which Caleb Atwater lived particularly of his years in the East before coming to Ohio one might well ...
... 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 ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE ADOPTION OF OHIO'S FIRST CONSTITUTION The Centennial of the adoption of the Constitution of Ohio was celebrated at Chillicothe Saturday November 29 1 902 by the unveiling of a tablet marking the site of the first state house of Ohio which is the site of the present court house The weather was very inclement snow and rain interfering with the ceremonies to the extent at least that the audience was small and the ...
... TWENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE TWENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY JUNE 2 1905 The Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the lecture room of the Y M C A Building Columbus Ohio at 230 P M June 2d 1905 The following members were present Rev J W Atwood Columbus Judge J H Anderson Columbus Prof M R Andrews Marietta Mr E H Archer Columbus General R Brinkerhoff Mansfield Mr George F Bareis ...
... MARIAN J MARIAN J MORTON Temperance Benevolence and the City The Cleveland Non-Partisan Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1874-1900 Here they come now fifty redoubtable and respectable women prayer books in one hand and umbrellas in the others for it looks like rain on this March morning of 1874 in Cleveland Ohio They are striding vigorously down Euclid Avenue headed for the several saloons on Public Square which they intend to close down with their hymns and fervent prayers They are the ...
... JOHN SMITH FIRST SENATOR FROM OHIO AND HIS JOHN SMITH FIRST SENATOR FROM OHIO AND HIS CONNECTIONS WITH AARON BURR By M Avis PITCHER John Smith United States Senator from Ohio 1803-1808 was a Virginian by birth and education1 Because of the double misfortune of name and locality there is apt to be considerable uncertainty as to the early career of this gentleman in relation to all the other John Smiths of Virginia2 In 1790 Smith was definitely located on the Forks of the Cheat River Monongalia ...
... EARLY STEAMBOAT TRAVEL ON THE OHIO RIVER EARLY STEAMBOAT TRAVEL ON THE OHIO RIVER BY LESLIE S HENSHAW CINCINNATI OHIO October 1911 marks a centennial of considerable importance to the Western country for it was in that month in 1811 that the first steamboat on Western waters passed down the Ohio River The boat a side-wheeler1 was built at Pittsburgh under the direction of Nicholas J Roosevelt of New York an agent of Fulton the inventor and Livingston the financial aid and was called the New ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS And Then the Storm By Sister M Monica New York Longm ans Green amp Co 1937 231 p 250 Few foreigners have been privileged to study Spain from so many and widely different viewpoints as the author of And Then the Storm and little escaped her discerning and compassionate eyes Chaperoned by the two charming sisters of Don Juan de Cardenas the then Spanish ambassador at Washington Sister Monica had intimate contact with the old aristocracy and found the Spanish women kind ...
... 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 ...
... Miss Newcomb and the Talking Machine Miss Newcomb and the Talking Machine Edited by ROBERT M WARNER ON THE MORNING OF MAY 25 1878 the girls of the female seminary at Painesville Ohio interrupted their normal school routine to bark mew crow and tell Mother Goose rhymes to a most unusual auditor--a strange looking machine which listened patiently to all their confidences and then performed the amazing feat of repeating them all back again to the intrigued listeners For the first time in their ...
... Other Books of Interest Other Books of Interest Teachers for the Prairie The University of Illinois and the Schools 1868-1945 By HENRY C JOHNSON JR and ERWIN V JOHANNINGMEIER Urbana University of Illinois Press 1972 xx 508p bibliography and index 1500 Conception A History of the First Century of the Conception Colony 1858-1958 A History of the First Century of Conception Abbey 1873-1973 A History of New Engelberg College Conception College and the Immaculate Conception Seminary 1886-1971 By ...
... DENTAL EDUCATION IN OHIO DENTAL EDUCATION IN OHIO 1838-1858 By EDWARD C MI LLS DDS With the unprecedented tide of immigration to Ohio during the early decades of the nineteenth century came the physician as a necessary adjunct to the widely scattered communities for the preservation of health and the consequent prosperity of those sturdy pioneers His praises have been largely unsung because in addition to his administrations to the medical needs of the community his attention was necessarily ...
... THE STORY OF THE MAUMEE VALLEY INTERNATHE STORY OF THE MAUMEE VALLEY INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL CONVENTION By M M QUAIFE Several years ago Mr George Macdonald of Windsor Ont and the present writer attended the joint historical conference of the New York and Ontario historical societies held at Niagara Falls N Y and Niagara Falls Ont The conference was a great success and we came home imbued with the desire to bring about a similar gathering in Detroit and vicinity of the historical societies and ...
... compiled by compiled by PATRICIA B GATHERUM Checklist of Major Research-in-Progress and Completed Masters and Doctors Degrees on Topics Relating to Ohio REFERENCE WORKS DITTBRENNER CURTIS H and GERALD G NEWBORG Guide to Researching Ohio County and Municipal Government Records Archives specialists Ohio Hist Soc F ULLER SARA S Guide to Research Materials on Ohio Black H istory Mss specialist Ohio Hist Soc GATHERUM PATRICIA B Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations on Ohio History Reference ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Organizations AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES Cincinnati Jacob R Marcus Director The Ohio Sesquicentennial Judaica Exhibit prepared by the archives is available for loan to institutions synagogues societies and schools in Ohio and neighboring states The exhibit comprises thirty items photographs portraits and photostats of documents relating to the history of the Jews in Ohio A list of the items and information regarding the loan of the materials may be ...
... 634 Ohio Arch 634 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The custodian reports that during the year twenty-two thousand visitors to the park have registered and he estimates that fully as many more did not register making at least forty-four thousand people who visited the park during the year This is the largest number of visitors in a single year in the history of the park This may be due in part to the improved road from Hillsboro to Peebles which passes by the park Signed W H COLE WM C ...