... REMINISCENCES OF A SURVEYOR1 REMINISCENCES OF A SURVEYOR1 By JAMES T WEED In November 1888 I was elected county surveyor of Gallia County Ohio and on the first Monday of January 1889 I assumed the duties of the office In the forty-five years since then I have done a great deal of surveying of land and city lots and highways and a little in mines Most of this work has been in Gallia County though I have practiced a little in the adjoining counties of Jackson and Vinton in nearby West Virginia ...
... BookReviews Summer-Autumn 2003 pp 93-112 PDF of Book Reveiws CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2003 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved and Book Notes Alphabetical List of Titles All for the Regiment The Army of the Ohio 1861-1865 By Gerald J Prokopowicz Reviewed by Brian D McKnight Architecture in the United States By W Barksdale Maynard Reviewed by Richard Francaviglia Birchbark Canoes of the Fur Trade Volumes I and II By Timothy J Kent Reviewed by David A Simmons A Brilliant ...
... A FAMILIAR TALK ABOUT MONARCHISTS A FAMILIAR TALK ABOUT MONARCHISTS AND JACOBINS AN ADDRESS BY WILLIAM HENRY SMITH WHEN I received an invitation to address the Historical Society here to-night the suggestion was made by a member of your committee that I take the life and public services of John Brough for my theme Born within the limits of your city the son of one of the pioneer fathers it were fitting that he should be remembered on an occasion of such historical interest It was gratifying to ...
... RICHARD J RICHARD J CHEROK No Harmony in Kendal The Rise And Fall of an Owenite Community 18251829 In a widely publicized discourse in the Hall of Representatives at the United States Capitol Robert Owen announced to an 1825 audience which included the nation's president president-elect and congress that the implementation of his new social system would bring about a virtual state of millennium within the nation and ultimately the world By establishing his plans at New Harmony Indiana he told ...
... OLD OHIO RIVER STEAMBOAT DAYS OLD OHIO RIVER STEAMBOAT DAYS MEMORIES OF UPPER OHIO RIVER ACTIVITIES BETWEEN 1860 AN D 1890 BY W G SIBLEY A great river is a powerful influence over the lives of all who dwell on its banks just as lofty hills or mountains seen day after day finally come to have meaning in a man's life as does any other striking natural environment When a river is intimately associated with the affairs of a small community its whole population becomes conscious of it So it was ...
... THE EVANGELIST AS THEOLOGICAL DISPUTANT THE EVANGELIST AS THEOLOGICAL DISPUTANT CHARLES GRANDISON FINNEY AND SOME OTHERS by CHARLES C COLE JR Assistant Dean Columbia College Columbia University Interpreting the word of God defining dogma and disputing against heretical views have been primary tasks of religious leaders for many centuries A glance at the countless succession of theological battles from Augustine's condemnation of Pelagius through Wycliffe Hus Luther and Savonarola suggests that ...
... THE MIAMI PURCHASE OF JOHN CLEVES THE MIAMI PURCHASE OF JOHN CLEVES SYMMES BY R PIERCE BEAVER I INTRODUCTION The Miami Country1 includes about five thousand square miles in southwestern Ohio with a small adjoining portion of Indiana2 in the main the basins and valleys of the two Miami rivers extending more than a hundred miles inland from a fifty-mile base on the Ohio The region holds a most important place in the history of Ohio and the Northwest In the days before the settlement of Ohio it ...
... Samuel A Samuel A Hudson's Panorama Of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers By JOSEPH EARL ARRINGTON John Banvard and John Rowson Smith were the pioneers in applying the panoramic art form of enlarged and continuous views to the western river system1 Samuel A Hudson followed close behind them with his panorama of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers the first to picture the majestic Ohio He had earlier created such a panorama of the Hudson River2 and later was to make one of the Gold Regions in ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Howells and the Age of Realism By Everett Carter Philadelphia and New York J B Lippincott Company 1954 307p index 500 Mr Carter's scholarly study of William Dean Howells and his fellow realists is a sound valuable chapter in our literary and social history It is not a definitive biography such as Leon Edel's Henry James or Dixon Wecter's Sam Clemens of Hannibal but an intellectual portrait of Howells drawn by careful analysis and interpretation Mr Carter ...
... GENERAL SIMON PERKINS GENERAL SIMON PERKINS BY WALTER W SPOONER From advance proofs of the sixth volume of Randall and Ryan's History of Ohio By permission of the publishers the Century History Company New York Simon Perkins of Warren was one of the earliest and most influential promoters of settlement and progress in northeastern Ohio and a citizen of distinguished reputation and usefulness in varied activities and affairs A native of Connecticut he first came to Ohio in the summer of 1798 on ...
... THE BELLVILLE GOLD REGION THE BELLVILLE GOLD REGION A J BAUGHMAN Some Mansfield men who have had mining experiences in the West and in the Klondike recently visited the gold region north of Bellville Ohio and although the visits were made more out of curiosity than from business motives curiosity has been aroused as to whether prospecting will be resumed and some who are not familiar with the history of the locality ask Has gold ever been found in that region Yes it has been found there ...
... Centennial Celebration Centennial Celebration 11 The court house square was soon covered with stone and lumber for the present building but the corner stone was not laid until July 12th 1855 when the Hon Thomas Scott and myself had the honor of delivering addresses on the occasion from a point where the northeast pillar of the portico now stands Such was my personal connection with the building on whose frontage we have this day placed a tablet commemorating 'The site on which stood the first ...
... 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 ...
... LANGSTROTH THE BEE MAN OF OXFORD LANGSTROTH THE BEE MAN OF OXFORD by OPHIA D SMITH A revolution in beekeeping began on a summer day in 1838 when Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth saw a large glass globe filled with honey on the parlor table of a friend He was so fascinated by the beautiful sight that he went with his friend to visit his bees in an attic chamber In a moment all the intense curiosity of his childhood and boyhood seemed to burst into full flame When he went home that evening he took ...
... MAJOR CALEB STARK IN OHIO MAJOR CALEB STARK IN OHIO GEORGE H TWISS A biography of Governor Lucas and the outlining of an important and fiercely contested case through the Courts of Ohio in the form of a petition to the legislature by the plaintiff Major Caleb Stark appears in this issue of the Quarterly They appear in conjunction since they both came from the same source and are unquestionably of the same authorship The unique character and vigorous ability the distinguished and valuable ...
... AN UNRECORDED INCIDENT OF MORGAN'S RAID AN UNRECORDED INCIDENT OF MORGAN'S RAID BY WM MARION MILLER Many pages have been written concerning the exploits of the famous Confederate raider General John Morgan and the details of his famous expedition into Ohio and his subsequent capture have been ably discussed in this journal1 There exists however a vast amount of oral material--some of it legendary and apocryphal in character even to the extent of bordering on folklore Now and then one finds a ...
... GEORGE C GEORGE C CROUT Albert B Graham School Days of a Schoolmaster Albert B Graham was born March 13 1868 or as he expressed it in his own wry sense of humor came up between two stalks of corn on the last farm on Route 36 west of St Paris in Champaign County1 From as early as he could remember he had aspirations of being a schoolmaster When he first revealed his secret ambition his Scotch-Presbyterian father remarked What a thing for a lad to decide when there is a mortgage on the farm2 ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA RICHLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY The ninth annual meeting of the Richland County Historical Society was held in Mansfield Wednesday June 26 1907 Preliminary to the business session a procession was formed in front of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial building and marched to the court house lawn where a short patriotic service was held at the Block-house from the flag staff of which a beautiful flag floated gracefully in the breeze The meeting was called to order ...
... THOMAS BUCHANAN READ AND THE CIVIL WAR THOMAS BUCHANAN READ AND THE CIVIL WAR The Story of Sheridan's Ride by HARVEY S FORD Head Librarian TOLEDO BLADE The phenomenal popularity of Sheridan's Ride lasted a long time Few poems have taken such a hold on the American people nor have there been many so well liked It is true that its popularity today is not what it once was and Sheridan's Ride does not appear as often as it used to in the textbooks for high school literature courses No longer is it ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABOLTIONISTS amp the South 1831-1861 The by Stanley Harrold rev 195-196 Act to Organize and Discipline the Militia An 37 Adjutant General Ohio office of 26 28 37 African-American soldiers 34-35 149n 14 Agnew Margaret Mrs Harman Blennerhassett 137-138 Agriculture 80-81 Aides-de-Camp Ohio office of 26 29 Akron Beacon Journal 10-11 Alcoholic camphor 180 Alexander Charles C book rev 205207 Allen Howard W book rev 112-113 Allopathic medicine 177 Ambassadors and ...