... ROBERT E ROBERT E SMITH The Clash of Leadership at the Grand Reserve The Wyandot Subagency and the Methodist Mission 1820-1824 The War of 1812 ended in 1815 with the Indian tribes of the Old Northwest divided and demoralized Officials of the United States government soon attempted to stabilize relations between the federal government and its native American inhabitants in Ohio where numerous treaties were negotiated between United States commissioners and chiefs representing the Ohio tribes ...
... Civil War Letters of Darwin Cody Civil War Letters of Darwin Cody Edited by STANLEY P WASSON CLEVELAND TOOK ITS RECRUITING SERIOUSLY in August 1862 after Lincoln had issued his second call for 300000 men Ohio's quota was 74000 Each county was to provide its portion of soldiers before September 1 when Governor David Tod was to draft the remainder To encourage recruiting stores closed early during August local bounties were offered Regiments seeking to fill their rosters advertised in newspapers ...
... ELIZABETH AND KENNETH FONES-WOLF ELIZABETH AND KENNETH FONES-WOLF The War at Mingo Junction The Autonomous Workman and the Decline of the Knights of Labor In early February 1887 workers at the Laughlin and Junction steel plant in Mingo Junction Ohio walked out protesting a violation of traditional work rules Members of both the Knights of Labor KOL and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers AAISW the men applied to each for assistance While the Amalgamated quickly recognized the ...
... THE GERMAN PIONEERS THE GERMAN PIONEERS ADDRESS BY BERNARD PETERS OF BROOKLYN N Y LADIES AND GEN TL EMEN By the committee who have had the arrangements for these centennial exercises in charge I have been requested to speak on this occasion of the German pioneers who settled in this county during the first half of the present century The Governor of Ohio who has just introduced me as a native of this city must stand corrected in this particular I am not a native of this city nor of this State ...
... THE MOBBING OF THE CRISIS THE MOBBING OF THE CRISIS by EUGENE H ROSEBOOM Professor of History Ohio State University On the night of March 5 1863 in the midst of the Civil War the capital city of Ohio was the scene of a species of violence that had more than local significance The office of Samuel Medary's Crisis a weekly newspaper that had won both national acclaim and condemnation for its opposition to the war was wrecked by a crowd of armed men Some writers have attributed the act to ...
... THE COFFIN OF EDWIN COPPOCK THE COFFIN OF EDWIN COPPOCK BY THOMAS C MENDENHALL There has recently been added to the collection of John Brown relics in the museum of The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society another concerning which I have been requested to tell the following story On the morning of the tenth of April 1865 I left my room which was over the Farmers' National Bank on Main Street Salem Ohio intending to proceed to the High School in which I was a teacher But I did not ...
... DOCUMENTS DOCUMENTS AN UNSUCCESSFUL NEGOTIATION FOR REMOVAL OF THE WYANDOT INDIANS FROM OHIO 1834 edited by DWIGHT L SMITH Instructor in History Ohio State University It did not take long for the frontiersman and his government to realize the impossibility of his pushing westward into new lands for purposes of hunting trapping and settling without reckoning with the Indian who inhabited the lands in which he desired to hunt trap and settle According to the white man's concepts of ownership and ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS ON THE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF OHIO 1965-1967 RELIGION WEIS James The Problem of Language Transition Among Lutherans in Ohio 18361858 Concordia Historical Institution Quarterly XXXIX 1966 5-19 Concerns the conflict over the use of the German and English languages in Lutheran services and seminaries WELSH Edward Burgett Origins of Ohio Presbyterianism Journal of Presbyterian History XLIII March 1965 16-27 SOCIAL HISTORY BORGWALD Charles W and Milton N Gallup Memories ...
... SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL XLVII For Index of Authors see Contents ABILITY DISTRIBUTION OF Stevens H R A Study of Notable Ohioans 159-167 Abstract of the Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society April 1 1938 215-217 Advancing the Ohio Frontier by Frazer Ells Wilson--Book review by J O M 188-191 American Frontier by Elisabeth Peck--Book review by Lois R Hiestand 374 AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS--FOREIGN ...
... 596 Ohio Arch 596 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications for regret nor yet a wrongful act although the methods employed were not always beyond reproach It was not in the scheme of things that such a vast and fertile country should remain the abode of a handful of savages -- perhaps never more than 50000 in number the advance of civilization demanded the change and the Indian gave way to civilization and today But he was an Ohioan just the same who lived loved fought and died on Ohio soil ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Best Intentions The Triumph and Failure of the Great Society Under Kennedy Johnson and Nixon By Irwin Unger New York Doubleday 1996 399p notes index 2795 Guns or Butter The Presidency of Lyndon Johnson By Irving Bernstein New York The Oxford University Press 1996 x 606p illustrations notes index 3500 Irwin Unger's The Best of Intentions and Irving Bernstein's Guns or Butter offer timely accounts of the Johnson years tracing the ideas programs and agencies that ...
... 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 ...
... CLAUDE MEEKER CLAUDE MEEKER 1861-1929 IN MEMORIAM Addresses Delivered at a Special Meeting of the Kit-Kat Club of Columbus Ohio December 2 1930 Interesting remarks were also made on this occasion by Mr Osman C Hooper who brought a message from Professor French and with it a copy of Mr Meeker's book-plate which Professor French had made for him Mr Arthur C Johnson Sr spoke of Mr Meeker's never failing interest in newspaper work and stated that he had prepared a number of articles the last year ...
... SUMMARY OF THE MANUSCRIPT RECOLLECTIONS SUMMARY OF THE MANUSCRIPT RECOLLECTIONS OF MILO G WILLIAMS 1804-1880 By FLORENCE MURDOCH Interesting glimpses of early Cincinnati are to be found in the manuscript recollections by Milo G Williams written in 1877-79 They show not only some historical background to his activities in educational scientific and religious circles of the city of more than a century ago but also note the changes which occurred during his lifetime and are illuminated by his ...
... LETTER OF HON LETTER OF HON GEORGE B LORING READ AT THE C ELE BRATION BY R R DAWES WASHINGTON D C April 5 1888 SIR I have been requested by His Excellency Gov ernor Ames of Massachusetts to represent that Commonwealth at the Centennial Celebration of the first settlement of the Northwest Territory under the Ordinance of 1787 at Marietta Ohio I regret exceedingly that at a late hour I am compelled to deny myself the pleasure of being present on the occasion I feel it to be my duty however to ...
... 106 Ohio Arch 106 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications historical library building at Pittsburgh though delivered for the promotion of a purely local enterprise are so replete with information and suggestion pertinent to historical libraries in general that we take pleasure in producing them in full WHAT AN HISTORICAL LIBRARY BUILDING SHOULD DO FOR PITTSBURGH BY REUBEN GOLD THWAITE S LL D Superintendent of the Wisconsin Historical Society and Lecturer in American History in the University ...
... BRIAN M BRIAN M LINN Pretty Scaly Times The Ohio National Guard and the Railroad Strike of 1877 The employment of the Ohio National Guard at Newark during the railroad strike of 1877 represents an effective use of military force during a potentially explosive labor dispute In contrast to West Virginia Maryland Pennsylvania Illinois Missouri and Indiana the state authorities of Ohio did not have to call on federal troops to enforce civil authority During the strike relations between the militia ...
... Comments Notes and Reviews Comments Notes and Reviews 531 dead A chart was shown delineating the bundled bones of Indians at the surface of the ground at Mille Lacs with mounds of earth built over them James W Lynd historian of the Sioux nation was quoted showing that the Dakota people were at Mille Laces at a very ancient period in fact so long ago that no tradition remained to show where they came from or how long they had been there No trace of two distinct classes of stone implements and ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA HISTORY OF JEROME TOWNSHIP UNION COUNTY OHIO In this interesting addition to the local history of Ohio the author Colonel W L Curry has preserved the facts and traditions in the life of a typical American community He has given to the third generation from the pioneer a thrilling account of Indian warfare and interesting stories of that period of settlement The record will be invaluable to the historian of the future It presents with vivid detail the life trials and ...
... BIRTHPLACE OF JOHN BROUGH BIRTHPLACE OF JOHN BROUGH The following article is reprinted with slight corrections from a Marietta paper published some years ago-E 0 R The wrecking a few years ago of the old jail just opposite the Court House at Marietta brought to mind several historic facts of no mean importance This building was a little more than fifty years old having been erected in 1848 on the site of the pioneer Court House which was the first Hall of Justice in the Northwest Territory The ...