... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS List of Documents Concerning the Negotiation of Ratified Indian Treaties 1801-1869 Compiled by John H Martin Special List No 6 Washington National Archives 1949 iii 175p appendix One of the most ambitious archival endeavors in progress today is being conducted by the United States through its National Archives The methods of record keeping employed are efficiently designed to make possible a maximum use by scholars and government officials To obviate the necessity of ...
... THE BALLAD OF 'JAMES BIRD THE BALLAD OF 'JAMES BIRD ITS AUTHORSHIP BY C B GALBREATH In a contribution entitled The Battle of Lake Erie in Ballad and History the writer of this article in 1911 related the story of James Bird and reproduced the old ballad commemorating his heroic service on board the Lawrence and his tragic death a year later for desertion on the Niagara In commenting on this quaint pathetic ballad it was assumed to have been written by a bard unlearned and unknown but not ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Long Meadows By Minnie Hite Moody New York Macmillan Co 194 1 657p 3 00 Genealogy as genealogy makes mighty dry reading to any but members of the family treated history may be but often is not written with suppressed excitement but when both genealogy and history are molded in the form of fiction by the hand of an artist then we get a masterpiece transcending both genealogy and history That is the result Mrs Minnie Hite Moody has achieved in Long Meadows which is the ...
... AN EXAMPLE OF POLITICAL ORATORY IN AN EXAMPLE OF POLITICAL ORATORY IN 1855 BY MRS ARTHUR G BEACH Mr Albert Beveridge has painted a vivid picture of the decade 1850-1860 as a background to his study of Abraham Lincoln There have been preserved at Marietta Ohio a border town some letters and papers written during those years by a student at Marietta College Search through them brought to light an account of one of the stump speeches of Mr Henry A Wise of Virginia which furnishes evidence that ...
... edited by edited by FRANK R LEVSTIK Life Among the Lowly An Early View of an Ohio Poor House The care of the poor in Ohio during the early nineteenth century was largely based on English legislation of the sixteenth seventeenth and eighteenth centuries In 1795 statutes of the Northwest Territory provided a means whereby the poor could be employed through a system of annual farming-out to the lowest bidder The farmers were thus authorized to keep the poor at moderate labor For the next two ...
... REPORT OF THE FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY HELD IN THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING OF THE SOCIETY MARCH 29 1930 MORNING SESSION The Annual Meeting of the Society was called to order by Secretary C B Galbreath In the absence of the President of the Board of Trustees Mr Philip Hinkle moved that First VicePresident of the Board of Trustees Mr George F Bareis act as chairman of the meeting The motion was duly ...
... Ohio Quakers and the Mississippi Freedmen -- A Field to Labor by Thomas H Smith During the American Civil War the Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends Orthodox was one of several religious sects that found use of warfare to maintain national unity repugnant The Friends however were not callous to the many sacrifices their neighbors had made and they did not remain idle during time of national crisis Instead of responding to the nation's martial needs this small group applied its ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 64 NUMBER 1 JANUARY 1955 The Correspondence of George A Myers and James Ford Rhodes 1910-1923 Edited by JOHN A GA RR ATY In the eighteen eighties when James Ford Rhodes was still a Cleveland ironmaster he was in the habit of being shaved and having his formidable Picadilly Weepers trimmed by a young Negro barber named George A Myers Later after Rhodes had retired from business to take up his distinguished career as a historian ...
... OHIO DAY AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE OHIO DAY AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION On October 6 1 90 4 the Buckeyes from all parts of the United States celebrated Ohio Day upon the grounds of the Exposition St Louis Missouri The exercises were held in the afternoon and evening in the beautiful Ohio Building The Ohio Commission appointed by Governor Nash under authority of an act passed by the 75th General Assembly consisted of Hon William F Burdell President Columbus life member of the Ohio ...
... 110 THE ORDINANCE OF 1787 ITS ORIGIN AND THE ORDINANCE OF 1787 ITS ORIGIN AND AUTHORSHIP BY C B GALBREATH The timely adoption and beneficent influence of this great charter of American liberty have been frequently the theme of the orator the statesman and the historian It is a little remarkable that the authorship of this important state paper has been the subject of discussion for more than a century and that it has engaged the attention of some of the eminent men of our Nation It is ...
... PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL OHIO HISTORY PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE Including the Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History and the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Columbus Genealogical Society Held at Columbus April 4-6 194 0 in Cooperation with Ohio State University the Committee on Archives and Medical History of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and Local ...
... THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOC I ETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO September 25 1918 The meeting was called to order by President G Frederick Wright There were present G Frederick Wright George F Bareis W H Cole B F Prince W L Curry E F Wood Mrs Howard Jones J S Roof J E Campbell H F Burket D J Ryan A M Schlesinger J M Henderson William Walker E O Randall D H Gard W C Mills H C Shetrone L P Schaus J ...
... A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF MOUND OPENING A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF MOUND OPENING Done During the Months of July and August 1888 by Warren K Moorehead and Clinton Cowen IT occurred to me a number of times last year to spend the summer in opening mounds I had done considerable of this work in several counties of our State but had never spent more than one continuous week in the field When the Cincinnati Centennial Exposition opened in July and I was free from my duties having been actively engaged in ...
... 106 Ohio Arch 106 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications FRANK L PACKARD The announcement of the sudden death of Frank L Packard on Friday morning October 26 brought sadness to a wide circle of friends in Ohio and other states In Columbus where he was personally known as almost no other citizen the expressions of regret were general and sincere The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society of which he had been a trustee since he was appointed by Governor Davis October 15 1921 was ...
... WILLIAM CORTENUS SCHENCK PIONEER AND WILLIAM CORTENUS SCHENCK PIONEER AND STATESMAN OF OHIO By FRED B JOYNER It is the purpose of this sketch to resurrect from oblivion a pioneer and statesman of early Ohio William Cortenus Schenck For some time I have been studying the life of Robert Cumming Schenck the illustrious son of this early pioneer Through a study of the Schenck papers now in my possession through the courtesy of Mrs J Sprigg McMahon of New York City I have become convinced that the ...
... The OhioMichigan Boundary Line Dispute a The Ohio - Michigan Boundary Line Dispute 199 THE OHIO-MICHIGAN BOUNDARY LINE DISPUTE TOD B GALLOWAY Sing 0 Goddess Muse From whence arose so fierce a strife In the examination of the questions involved in the OhioMichigan boundary dispute I find myself very much in the position of the Justice of the Peace who after hearing the plaintiff's side of the case was ready to decide in his favor but upon the defendant having presented his argument he exclaimed ...
... Leo Lesquereux Leo Lesquereux 279 LEO LESQUEREUX BY EDWARD ORTON The revocation of the Edict of Nantes inflicted an irreparable injury upon the French nation in depleting it of its middle class from which its industrial energy its science literature and art were mainly drawn but the Protestant neighbors of France gained correspondingly thereby England Holland Switzerland and the English colonies in North America were greatly enriched by this enforced emigration These Huguenot exiles brought ...
... 180 Ohio Arch 180 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications dience wherein were many of our martyred President's intimate friends the full significance of the rendition of his loved hymn The orator of the day was the Hon Judson Harmon of Cincinnati whose address is herewith given ADDRESS OF JUDSON HARMON There are no States at whose celebrations Ohio is not a fitting guest From those older than herself came the men and women who opened her soil to the sunshine and replaced the shifting wigwams ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES Cincinnati Jacob R Marcus Director Two important manuscript collections the Jacob H Schiff Papers and the Felix M Warburg Papers have been acquired recently by the archives In addition to numerous other documents and manuscript collections the minute and record books of thirty-one Jewish congregations were added during 1951 to bring the total to over five hundred volumes the largest collection of this type extant ...
... HIGH LIGHTS IN OHIO LITERATURE HIGH LIGHTS IN OHIO LITERATURE BY EMILIUS O RANDALL PhB Cornell LLB LLM O S U LLD Ohio An address delivered before the OHIO SOCIETY OF NEW YORK at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on the evening of November 12 1917 Matthew Arnold the apostle of sweetness and light in one of his delightful after-dinner speeches before the Royal Academy reminded his hearers that Fauriel the French literary historian tells of a company of Greeks settled somewhere in Southern Italy in the ...