... GENERAL MASON AND HIS LETTER ON RAILROADS GENERAL MASON AND HIS LETTER ON RAILROADS B F PRINCE Almost every community of considerable size and age has furnished one or more characters who have been prominent for a life and acts that were for the good of that special locality and often for the state or nation at large One who stood in this threefold relation was Hon Samson Mason of Springfield Ohio Mr Mason was born in the state of New York in 1793 He attended the public schools of the day ...
... The Black Hand The Black Hand 449 doubtless be a matter of regret to everyone that the railroad has recently changed the name of the station and the brakeman no longer calls out Black Hand but Toboso It is to be hoped that commercial as well as historic interest will induce the new electric line to perpetuate the name of Black Hand In a beautiful introduction to her legend among other things Mrs Gebhart says The Indian legend pertaining to this relic of a prehistoric race was told me by ...
... The Ohio Canal Movement 1820-1825 The Ohio Canal Movement 1820-1825 By HARRY N SCHEIBER NO SINGLE ACT of the Ohio General Assembly prior to the Civil War had so profound an effect upon the state's economic development as did the bill of February 4 1825 by which construction of the state's canal system was first authorized On the eve of the bill's passage Alfred Kelley one of its eading exponents sought to explain to De Witt Clinton of New York the reasons why the Ohio legislature had agreed to ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Jonathan Stealey an adjunct assistant professor of art at The University of Findlay has been named to the Bicentennial Planning Committee of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation Inc The Foundation based in Washington DC encompasses a wide spectrum of government officials historians and enthusiasts dedicated to preserving national interest in the historical worth of the nation's best-documented exploration of the American west Commissioned by ...
... THE CHARCOAL IRON INDUSTRY OF THE THE CHARCOAL IRON INDUSTRY OF THE HANGING ROCK IRON DISTRICT--ITS INFLUENCE ON THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE OHIO VALLEY BY WILBUR STOUT INTRODUCTION The Hanging Rock Iron District as defined by the iron masters embraced the furnaces and furnace lands and also the adjacent properties over which iron ores limestones and charcoal were gathered It included parts of Carter Boyd and Greenup Counties Kentucky and parts of Lawrence Scioto Gallia Jackson Vinton and ...
... GEOGRAPHIC INFLUENCES IN THE HISTORY OF GEOGRAPHIC INFLUENCES IN THE HISTORY OF MILAN OHIO BY CHARLES G SHATZER Professor of Geology Wittenberg College Springfield Ohio Any one who seeks to glean the facts of the local history of northwestern Ohio for the period of the '40's and '50's from conversation with the men whose experience reaches into that period will hear repeated frequently the name Milan If interest prompts the question Where and what was Milan he will be told in terms of marked ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Miracle at Kittyhawk The Letters of Wilbur and Orville Wright Edited by Fred C Kelly New York Farrar Straus and Young 1951 ix482p frontispiece illustrations and index 600 The publisher of this volume of letters has chosen to call Wilbur and Orville Wright two of the greatest and most fabulous figures of modern times Those who have been closest to the lives and the work of these men will probably approve that characterization for history can identify few notable ...
... DIARY OF JACOB ADAMS PRIVATE IN COMDIARY OF JACOB ADAMS PRIVATE IN COMPANY F 21st O V V I FOREWORD This diary presented is from the pen of Jacob Adams a private in Co F 21st O V V I and covers the period of his service in the American Civil War of 1861-1865 The account was compiled in 1924 from letters written home and from a diary kept day by day during most of the time of service The intention of the author was to preserve for his children an account of his services Knowing the value placed ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews A Bibliography of Ohio Archeology By James L Murphy Ann Arbor University Microfilms International 1977 xi 488 p index 2375 This is the second comprehensive bibliography of Ohio archaeology The earlier compilation by Richard G Morgan and James H Rodabaugh was published by the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society in 1947 and contained 1351 entries This larger volume has 3138 entries and reflects both the striking growth of publications in the intervening ...
... 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 ...
... Warren King Moorehead Warren King Moorehead And His Papers By JOHN W WEATHERFORD The enduring love of Warren King Moorehead 1866-1939 may be summed up in one word Indians When not busied with their ancient remains he was struggling with the manifold problems they face in this century Penobscot and Pueblo alike shared his attention When through the generosity of Ludwig King Moorehead and Singleton Peabody Moorehead the Ohio Historical Society acquired his papers it was principally because he ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 145 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 145 known Entrust the future to them Teach them ideals of service and of Christian citizenship They'll not fail us Throw them the lighted torches and these will grow brighter as they climb the heights to endless day Said our beloved poet The thoughts of youth are long long thoughts and Emerson So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man When duty whispers low 'Thou must' The youth replies 'I can' The second ...
... FREDERICK J FREDERICK J BLUE Friends of Freedom Lincoln Chase and Wartime Racial Policy Historians have long differed over what motivated Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation They have also disagreed over what place the President believed blacks should occupy after emancipation In failing to reach a consensus on what led Lincoln to the most important decision of his administration they have debated over what factors and persons may have influenced him1 Among those individuals ...
... OBERLIN AND CO-EDUCATION OBERLIN AND CO-EDUCATION By ROBERT S FLETCHER Early Oberlin is best understood as the experimental college of its day For the most part the colleges of the middle third of the nineteenth century sternly resisted the assaults of innovation A monastic unworldliness and timelessness characterized the great majority they stood barrenly and stubbornly isolated amidst the pounding surf of romantic reformism Even newly-established institutions of the always-innovating West ...
... A CLASSIFICATION OF OHIO PLACE-NAMES A CLASSIFICATION OF OHIO PLACE-NAMES by WILLIAM COYLE Associate Professor of English Wittenberg College For the academic mind classification is an occupational disease But sifting data into logical categories is a harmless though pedestrian form of mental exercitation which may possess a certain value in suggesting new approaches to the data or in providing a framework for systematic examination and discussion Although the full story behind each Ohio ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABOLITIONIST movement 8 23 85-100 Adult education Newton D Baker and the Adult Education Movement by Rae Wahl Rohfeld 119-32 AEF See American Expeditionary Force University Albrecht Carl W book rev 157-58 Alexander Charles C book rev 64-65 Alexander Roberta Sue North Carolina Faces the Freedmen Race Relations During Presidential Reconstruction 1865-67 134 Alice Hamilton A Life in Letters by Barbara Sicherman rev 57-58 Allen Florence Ellinwood First Lady of ...
... Edited by Edited by DARYL E JONES JAMES H PICKERING A Young Woman in the Midwest The Journal of Mary Sears 1859-1860 Born in Greenwich Massachusetts on March 31 1838 and trained as a music teacher Mary E Sears was twenty years old in the winter of 1859 when she began keeping a journal of her daily thoughts and activities while emigrating West to join family members in Ohio and Illinois During the following two years she recorded a multitude of experiences which span both distance and social ...
... STONE GRAVES IN BROWN COUNTY OHIO STONE GRAVES IN BROWN COUNTY OHIO BY GERARD FOWKE On both sides of the Ohio river from Manchester Ohio to Dover Kentucky a distance of twenty-five miles were formerly many stone graves or cairns A few stood at varying intervals for some miles below Dover and as far up the river as Huntington West Virginia and some remain along North Fork of Licking river in Mason county Kentucky They were most abundant from Manchester to Ripley on the Ohio side of the river ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Papers of Ulysses S Grant Volume V April 1-August 31 1862 Edited by JOHN Y SIM ON Carbondale Southern Illinois Press 1973 xxv 458 p introduction chronology maps illustrations calendar index 15 Like its predecessors Volume V of the Grant Papers is skillfully edited and artfully produced by John Y Simon and his editorial team The packaging is increasingly essential since Grant's correspondence is thin and given to silences on issues which intrigued his ...
... SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL XLVI PAGE For Index of Authors see Contents PAGE Abstract of the Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Held April 20 1937 290-292 Annual Report of the Secretary of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society April 21 1936--April 20 1937 271-278 ARCHAEOLOGY Greenman Emerson F Two Prehistoric Villages near Cleveland Ohio 305-366 ART--ANECDOTES FACETIAE ...