... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA PRELIMINARY ANNUAL MEETING On May 14 1912 the following circular was issued to the members of the Society According to the provisions of the Constitution of the Society the Annual Meeting of the Society should be held not later than the last day of May It is earnestly desired that the Annual Meeting this year be deferred until after the bids have been received and if possible the contracts made with the builders for the erection of the building for the Society at ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 323 Reviews Notes and Comments 323 The question Are any of the Griffiths there yet Mr Gessner answered in the affirmative The General then humorously observes The town of Batavia must now be very much dried up with all the facilities the people have to get away I used to take much delight in visiting there and through Clermont And then he added with a touch of pathos But I have made my last visit In this connection the author makes some statements that will be news ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XXXI INDEX TO VOLUME XXXI Abbott Julius D tells of the last visit tobacco pipes 513-522 bone impleof Grant to Clermont County 245 ments 522-523 chipped flint impleAbbott Louise her paper on The Grants ments 523-525 implements made of at Bethel 241-245 copper 525-528 ornaments of copper Adams Charles Francis Jr 83 his let529-555 bead necklaces 555-556 beads ter urging Carl Schurz to take part in of metal 556-557 objects made of Ohio political campaign of 1875 83-84 shell 557-559 ...
... JOHN CHAPMAN'S LINE OF DESCENT FROM JOHN CHAPMAN'S LINE OF DESCENT FROM EDWARD CHAPMAN OF IPSWICH Compiled by FLORENCE E WHEELER With an Introduction by ROBERT PRICE Who Was Johnny Appleseed--Introduction Even before the death of John Chapman in 1845 the Johnny Appleseed story growing out of the man's colorful life had begun to break away from the roots of fact and to flower purely as a popular myth In the years since the apocryphal addenda aided and abetted by much fiction poetry and ...
... 486 Ohio Arch 486 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications where they fell at the hands of the Indians This I think should be one of the first things to be done by the Commissioners The pioneer history of Ohio is filled with soul-stirring events and I know our posterity will read with grateful hearts the story of the builders of the great foundation on which now stands in high esteem in all lands of the world our great State of Ohio Good-night COLONEL WILLIAM LEONTES CURRY Colonel William ...
... FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT oF THE OHIO STATE ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR FEBRUARY 24 1898 TO FEBRUARY 1 1899 GEN R BRINKERHOFF President E O RANDALL Secretary COLUMBUS O JANUARY 1899 275 To His Excellency Asa S To His Excellency Asa S Bushnell Governor of Ohio I herewith have the honor to submit the fourteenth annual report of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society covering the year February 24 1898 to February 1 1899 With very ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 70 NUMBER 4 OCTOBER 19 61 From Free-Love to Catholicism Dr and Mrs Thomas L Nichols At Yellow Springs By PHILIP GLEASON AS THE SLAVERY controversy grew more intense in the mid1850's many of the reform movements which had preoccupied large numbers of Americans in the previous decade were submerged in the mainstream of the antislavery movement Yet currents of reform not connected with antislavery did persist and one of the most ...
... SIMON KENTON -- THOMAS W SIMON KENTON - - THOMAS W CRIDLAND PIONEERS BY WALTER D MCKINNEY Today it is my great privilege to place in the custody of this Society the framed portrait of a man This I might do in short form which would be forgotten at the conclusion of the ceremony but the subject of the portrait and the portrait itself -- and the maker of the frame and the frame itself -- are deserving of greater consideration by the society and myself The subject of the portrait is Simon Kenton ...
... KOSSUTH COMES TO CLEVELAND KOSSUTH COMES TO CLEVELAND by ANDOR M LEFFLER Pastor First Hungarian Lutheran Church Cleveland At Cleveland's University Circle stands the unpretentious statue of Louis Kossuth Hungarian patriot It is one of the many thousands of typical nineteenth-century creations found in public gardens in almost any city of the Old World Indeed this statue was shipped from Hungary and is the exact replica of the one standing in a public garden at Nagy Szalonta1 It was a gift to ...
... THE HAYES BEQUESTS THE HAYES BEQUESTS When future generations shall make their pilgrimages to the historic scenes of Fremont Ohio they will ask What means this beautiful park with its winding roads through a forest of gigantic trees and this artistic building of stone at its northern entrance with this commodious but simple brick mansion in the background and what is this magnificent collection of building in a spacious field outside approached by well-worn roads and pathways The answer will ...
... Bluff Ben Wade in Lawrence Kansas Bluff Ben Wade in Lawrence Kansas The Issue of Class Conflict By WILLIAM FRANK ZORNOW Most historians know of Theodore Roosevelt's famous speech at Osawatomie Kansas on August 31 1910 in which he outlined the policies later advocated during the campaign of 1912 but few have considered the equally important Lawrence speech of Senator Benjamin F Wade of Ohio on June 10 1867 The latter might have had considerable effect upon the outcome of the Johnson impeachment ...
... A Northern Businessman A Northern Businessman Opposes the Civil War EXCERPTS FROM THE LETTERS OF R G DUN edited by JAMES D NORRIS A number of rather prominent northern businessmen opposed the Civil War and the Lincoln administration for both sound business reasons and personal political commitments Robert Graham Dun's letters to his family and friends in Ohio during the Civil War present an excellent portrait of one such businessman Imbued with a deep-seated hostility toward both Lincoln and ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Detroit's First American Decade 1796-1805 By F Clever Bald University of Michigan Publications History and Political Science Vol XVI Ann Arbor Mich University of Michigan Press 1948 276p including bibliographical essay and index 450 This is far more than a study of a few neglected years in the early history of a great metropolis interesting only to the local pride school of history enthusiasts the zealous antiquarians and the patient genealogists Here is local history ...
... The Beef Cattle Industry in Ohio The Beef Cattle Industry in Ohio Prior to the Civil War By ROBERT LESLIE JONES I Introduction The beef cattle industry in Ohio prior to the Civil War could not be described as the one most important branch of agriculture in the state as a whole though it was significant almost everywhere and dominant in certain regions Neither was it to be regarded as unique in its methods for these were in principle at least borrowed from older parts of the country and were ...
... ROBERT A ROBERT A WHEELER Land and Community in Rural Nineteenth Century America Claridon Township 1810-1870 In 1812 Horace Taylor of Hartland Connecticut traveled to Ohio to buy and settle lands in the Western Reserve of Connecticut on the Trans-Appalachian frontier He chose a relatively new township in the heart of the Reserve later called Claridon in Geauga County There in the western portion he located his farm helped found the Congregational church and established one of the backbone ...
... MARK TWAIN'S HADLEYBURG MARK TWAIN'S HADLEYBURG by GUY A CARDWELL Professor of English Washington University St Louis Citizens of Oberlin Ohio have claimed for their town the distinction of being the original for Hadleyburg in Mark Twain's The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg The story reflects Twain's resentment they think at the unfavorable reception they accorded his readings in the First Congregational Church on February 11 1885 Mr Russel Nye examines and approves this Oberlin tradition in a ...
... REPORTS REPORTS THE BURIAL PLACE OF JOHN CHAPMAN JOHNNY APPLESEED Report of the Commission Appointed by the American Pomological Society to Investigate Its Location Much has been published and more said and written regarding the life and work of John Chapman Johnny Appleseed the pioneer collector and planter of apple seeds and the distributor of seedling apple trees in western New York and Pennsylvania and throughout the Ohio Valley northern Ohio and Indiana and southwestern Michigan While a ...
... 586 Ohio Arch 586 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications the show places of Ohio Its interest for botanists is well known and Professor Robert F Griggs has published a survey of this and a much larger region of which it is a part under the name of the Sugar Grove Region This pamphlet is a Biological Survey and is published by the Ohio State University Not least among the attractions of the region to which a much more distinctive name the Queer Creek Region might be given are the trees most ...
... INTRODUCTORY REMARKS INTRODUCTORY REMARKS By PHILIP C NASH LADIES AND GENTLEMEN It is my very great pleasure and honor to declare open the sessions of the Maumee Valley International Historical Convention It was 146 years ago that the Battle of Fallen Timbers was fought and all the events that we are commemorating in this Convention occurred more than a century ago There has been an orderly and gradual development of civilization in this neighborhood and in this country ever since those days ...
... SPEECH OF RICHARD DOUGLAS ESQ SPEECH OF RICHARD DOUGLAS ESQ OF CHILLICOTHE DELIVERED BEFORE THE WHIG CONVENTION HELD IN COLUMBUS FEBRUARY 22 AND 23 1836 Richard Douglas who describes himself in the letter herewith as in birth a Yankee in habit a Sailor in adoption a Buckeye in profession an Old CourtCircuitizer in occasional circumstance a Blovian in principal a Whig etc was born in New London Connecticut September 10th 1785 From early youth like many other New London boys he followed the sea ...