... SHAKER MEDICINES SHAKER MEDICINES by HARRY D PIERCY MD When I began the study of this aspect of Shaker industry I was soon impressed with the large volume of material available As I read I became more and more interested because I found here the reflection of the therapeutic means and methods used to heal the sick in the remote past In the famous Papyrus Ebers dating about 1552 Bc are found the names of many herbs and mineral products that have been used by physicians from that early day down ...
... THOMAS SMITH GRIMKE THOMAS SMITH GRIMKE BY C B GALBREATH Beautiful in winter when the earth is robed in white beautiful in the springtime when the grass comes creeping everywhere when buds open and the robin and the bluebird are heard among the trees beautiful in the summer twilight when the foliage is dense and green when the katydid in the tree top in staccato song answers to the chirp of the cricket below when the well-kept mounds are decked with flowers sweet prophecies of the resurrection ...
... The Ohio Experience A Symposium The Ohio Experience A Symposium On Historic Sites Administered By the Ohio Historical Society THE FOLLOWING FIVE PAPERS were given by members of the staff of the Ohio Historical Society at the annual meeting of the North American Association of Historic Sites Public Officials held in Columbus October 7 1957 They deal with five different aspects of the Society's work with its historic properties acquisition development interpretation financing and administration ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima Mrs Harry B Longsworth Secretary The society recently acquired the record book of the Lima Recruiting Club for 1864 It contains bounty records for 1864 for Ottawa Township which then included the town of Lima James A MacDonell president of the society has donated a Webster wire recorder It will be used for recording talks and lectures and in interviewing older people who find it difficult to write their ...
... FRUIT OF THE FRUIT OF THE RESTLESS SPIRIT OHIO'S CONFEDERATE GENERALS by CHARLES M CUMMINGS The restlessness and constant mobility of the American have impressed a legion of students before and since de Tocqueville1 and to these factors much has been attributed in the story of the nation's development Generally interpreters have turned their inquiries westward in the direction taken by the bulk of the emigrants Less attention has been given to an offshoot the strong North-to-South movement of ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 109 Marietta could not have been surpassed The place and time of the next annual meeting was left in the hands of the Executive Committee The proceedings in full of the meetings above including addresses etc will be published either in a later number of The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Quarterly or in a separate publication by the same Society PALEOLITHIC MAN IN THE WESTERN RESERVE The following article was written by P P Cherry and published in ...
... GIRTY'S ISLAND GIRTY'S ISLAND BY N B C LOVE DESHLER O Girty's Island in the Maumee River a hundred years ago was the headquarters of the Indians and was the home for a time of Simon Girty Rich in verdant foliage of varied green And many kindred growth of stately trees Plants flowers and vines with nectar for bees Blended in a quivering summer sheen And around the waters ebbying tide Bending low long boughs with vines interlace And reflect in the liquid mirror's face Scintillating like moving ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 99 ican Revolution and of the Benjamin Franklin the local chapter He served as an officer in both organizations and spoke upon many occasions on patriotic subjects at their meetings and banquets Col W L Curry a charter member of the State Society a Past President and for many years State Registrar and an active executive of the Society will speak RANDALL SON OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BY COL W L CURRY Emilius Oviatt Randall to whom we pay tribute ...
... 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 ...
... 476 Ohio Arch 476 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The Functions of Museums and the Question of Special Exhibitions by Frederic A Lucas American Museum of Natural History The Museum Point of View in Botany by E L Morris Brooklyn Institute Museum A Celestial Sphere-An Appartus Installed to Promote Interest in Astronomy by Dr W W Atwood Chicago Academy of Sciences The Educational Work of a Natural History Museum by W W Atwood Chicago Academy of Sciences The Deutaches Museum at Munich by ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY THE OHIO VALLEY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Fifth Annual Meeting Pittsburgh Pa October 30-November 1 1911 THE NEW ORLEANS CENTENNIAL Robert Fulton who had profited by the experiments and experiences of John Fitch and James Rumsey a score or more years before made a successful trial with the steamboat Clermont on the Hudson River in 1807 The success of the Clermont on the New York river inspired her owners Fulton Livingston and Roosevelt with the ...
... THE REPORT OF THE FORTY-EIGHTH THE REPORT OF THE FORTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY The forty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was called to order by President Arthur C Johnson Sr on April 24 1934 with sixty members present MR JO H NSON This is a business meeting of the Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society I promise not to keep you long this morning because I know ...
... DARWIN H DARWIN H STAPLETON Abraham Flexner Rockefeller Philanthropy and the Western Reserve School of Medicine In September 1914 the president of Western Reserve University in Cleveland Charles F Thwing addressed a friendly letter to an important ally of the university's medical school I am glad to say to you that your Western Reserve Medical School is opening tomorrow in excellent form The students seem to be overflowing We have a little larger first-year class than we ought to receive We ...
... The Civil War had been fought out and peace had returned to the land when a group of churchmen and reformers led by the Rev Charles G Finney of Oberlin who had long served as president of Oberlin College turned to make war on secret societies and the Masonic order in particular The crusade mildly agitated a part of the country for some years but lacking as it did the frenzy hysteria and political potency of the anti-Masonic movement of the 1820's and 1830's it eventually fell of its own ...
... THE FEURT MOUNDS AND VILLAGE SITE THE FEURT MOUNDS AND VILLAGE SITE BY WILLIAM C MILLS The Feurt Mounds and Village Site are situated about five miles north of the city of Portsmouth on the east side of the Scioto river in Clay township Scioto county Ohio The land upon which this group of mounds and the village site is located is a part of the estate of Mr William C Feurt which consists of more than 400 acres of rich bottom lands and sloping hillsides and is considered one of the most ...
... Dedication of the Hayes Memorial Dedication of the Hayes Memorial 425 instructed in the orderly management of public business All are on their best behavior a fraternal friendship is cultivated virtuous and temperate habits are encouraged and the best of our social instincts are called into play The festive organizations convivial clubs and the like are not safe places of resort for all natures No man can be worse for the associations of Odd Fellowship and their kindred organizations Most men ...
... OHIO'S BIRTH STRUGGLE OHIO'S BIRTH STRUGGLE BY WM T M'CLINTOCK CHILLICOTHE O The story of the controversy between General Arthur St Clair the Governor of the Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio and the young Jeffersonian Republicans of that Territory in 1799-1803 which resulted in the birth of a new state to the Federal Union There is no part of the history of the U S Territory northwest of the Ohio River more interesting than the story of the controversy between its ...
... GENERAL ROELIFF BRINKERHOFF GENERAL ROELIFF BRINKERHOFF 1828-1911 On Sunday June 4 19 11 at 930 in the evening at his beloved home in Mansfield Ohio the soul of General Roeliff Brinkerhoff took its peaceful flight to the eternal life beyond At the time of his demise General Brinkerhoff was President Emeritus Vol XX-23 353 354 Ohio Arch 354 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society of which he was active President from the year 1893 to the ...
... CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF ULYSSES S GRANT BY C B GALBREATH CELEBRATION AT POINT PLEASANT CLERMONT COUNTY OHIO Of all citizens of the United States born in Ohio the most famous in his day and generation as Judge Hugh L Nichols has observed was General Ulysses S Grant That he still holds that high place among the distinguished sons that Ohio has given to the Republic and the world was attested by the outpouring of people to celebrate the ...
... THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME OF THE TOWN OF THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME OF THE TOWN OF WORTHINGTON BY HELEN M DUDLEY The lovely village of Worthington Ohio is a charming bit of old New England set down in the heart of Ohio's Scioto country near the pleasant slopes of the Olentangy Its atmosphere having been preserved intact by the careful protection of the many original features attesting its exceptional history and by the adaptation of new things to the old it has the distinction of being one of the ...