... THE DIARY OF JOHN BEATTY JANUARY-JUNE 1884 THE DIARY OF JOHN BEATTY JANUARY-JUNE 1884 Part IV edited by HARVEY S FORD Head Librarian Toledo Blade Sunday May 11 1884 Went to hear Dr Gladden this morning He preached from the text Lord I believe help thou my unbelief It was the posture of the man's mind which interested the preacher It was that of one trying to believe and anxious to have all impediments to full belief cleared away Not that of one who exclaims obstinately I do not believe ...
... THE COFFIN OF EDWIN COPPOCK THE COFFIN OF EDWIN COPPOCK BY THOMAS C MENDENHALL There has recently been added to the collection of John Brown relics in the museum of The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society another concerning which I have been requested to tell the following story On the morning of the tenth of April 1865 I left my room which was over the Farmers' National Bank on Main Street Salem Ohio intending to proceed to the High School in which I was a teacher But I did not ...
... 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 ...
... Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association 399 we need most in this great work of rescue and preservation Mr President Ladies and Gentlemen are more Lyman C Drapers-men who with knapsack on their backs are not only willing but anxious to go on foot if need be many miles to the left and to the right to secure a journal a diary a memorandum an autograph letter that shall be preserved and become a priceless document to those who are to come ...
... 124 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 124 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY pared a display of historic medical and surgical instruments and in the next room is an especially fine exhibit of the evolution of costumes All of these are worthy of your attention PRESIDENT JOHNSON Is there any further business to be brought before this meeting If not a motion for adjournment is in order A motion for adjournment was offered by Howard R Goodwin seconded by Edward S Thomas and ...
... REPORT OF ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF REPORT OF ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY HELD IN THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING OF THE SOCIETY MARCH 26 1 931 The Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met in annual meeting March 26 1931 at 2 o'clock p m in the trustees' room of the Museum and Library Building The following members were present Johnson Bareis Florence Orton Spetnagel Goodman and Hinkle ...
... BODY SNATCHING IN OHIO DURING THE BODY SNATCHING IN OHIO DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY by LINDEN F EDWARDS Professor of Anatomy Ohio State University The history of the science of human anatomy is not merely a biographical record of the leading personalities or a compilation of the discoveries and achievements in that science it is also the story of a bitter struggle between a scientific spirit which demands human bodies for dissection and an antipathy of the public mind toward the practice of ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY NANCY SUMMERS ACCINELLI Robert D on Harding 113 Colonial Frontiersman Explorer and Adams and Jefferson A Revolutionary Indian Agent rev 138-39 Dialogue by Merrill D Peterson 136 Bain George W book rev 204-05 Adams Charles Francis 242-44 246 Bancroft Thomas Chief Inspector of Adams John Quincy 157 165-66 167n Mines 17 Agricultural Adjustment Administration Barefoot Preacher The comp by Mrs 272 N E Lamb and revised by J F BurAgricultural and Mechanical College The nett ...
... NORRIS F NORRIS F SCHNEIDER The National Road Main Street of America A way to the West-where was the best route George Washington pondered that question anew in September 1784 as he sat in a land agent's cabin near present-day Morgantown West Virginia Gathered about him were settlers from that near-wilderness area on the Cheat River who had come at his request to offer their opinions on the best route for a portage between the upper waters of the Potomac and a tributary of the Ohio River Land ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS James Wickes Taylor A Choice Nook of Memory The Diary of a Cincinnati Law Clerk 1842-1844 Edited by James Taylor Dunn Columbus Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1950 xi 85p Paper 150 James Wickes Taylor lawyer author journalist librarian consular officer was an interesting figure in the early history of Ohio Minnesota and the Canadian Northwest For fourteen years Taylor lived in Ohio then he moved to Minnesota where he resided a similar length of time ...
... THREE ANTI-SLAVERY NEWSPAPERS THREE ANTI-SLAVERY NEWSPAPERS Published in Ohio Prior to 1823 BY ANNETTA C WALSH The names of three editors of newspapers published in Ohio during the first quarter of the nineteenth century are closely associated with the growth of the abolition movement in the United States The names of these editors are Charles Osborn Elisha Bates and Benjamin Lundy and to two of them at least Osborn1 and Lundy2 is attributed the honor of having been the originator of the ...
... THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTHE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN A CHANGING WORLD By JAMES H RODABAUGH These are critical times when every institution must look well within itself and ask Are we necessary Is our purpose worthy Do we contribute to the welfare of a people at war Have we fulfilled our social obligations Are our plans for the future well considered and in step with social transformations Reduced to its simplest terms the purpose of the Ohio State ...
... MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY APRIL 4 1941 The Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met at noon Friday April 4 1941 in the Trustees Room of the Ohio State Museum President Johnson presided over the meeting attended by the following trustees Messrs Eagleson Fleischmann Florence Rightmire Spencer Spetnagel Wittke and Wolfe Director Shetrone ...
... COLONEL JAMES KILBOURNE COLONEL JAMES KILBOURNE BY C B GALBREATH Colonel James Kilbourne one of the founders of Bucyrus was a prominent pioneer of Ohio He was born at New Britain Connecticut October 19 1770 He was descended from an ancient Scottish family but his ancestors for many years had lived in England before emigrating to America His father who was a farmer encouraged his son to make his home with Mr Griswold the father of Bishop Griswold of the Protestant Episcopal Church in order that ...
... Bigelow Winter-Spring 2001 pp 5-25 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page and footnoted according to the original print version If a sentence appears to be incomplete scroll down to continue with the next page Columbus's Pioneer Doctor John M Edmiston The Fabric of His Life and Death By Ann Clymer Bigelow My Poor Father was a man of fine fealing but the Cold hand of death Laid him low from the journal of Evan Edmiston1 Dozens of ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Howells amp Italy By James L Woodress Jr Durham N C Duke Uni versity Press 1952 xiv223p frontispiece portrait bibliography and index 350 Of late years there appears to be a trend toward a strong revival of interest in the life and writings of William Dean Howells an Ohio boy whose first years were rooted in journalistic experience on various Ohio newspapers including his father's and particularly with the Ohio State Journal in Columbus In this first book-length study ...
... THE ORDINANCE OF 1787 THE ORDINANCE OF 1787 SOME INVESTIGATIONS AS TO THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE FAMOUS SIXTH ARTICLE COL W E GILMORE CHILLICOTHE Senator Roberts of Pennsylvania in the great debate over the bill for the admission of Missouri to the Union in 1820 characterized the Ordinance of 1787 as that immortal Ordinance which with its elder sister the Declaration of American Independence will shed eternal and inextinguishable lustre over the annals of our country Daniel Webster in a speech upon ...
... 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 ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS A Handbook to Aid in the Study of State amp Local History A Comprehensive Reference Book of Special Interest to Teachers in Ohio Schools Compiled by George F Jenny Columbus Ohio Sesquicentennial Commission 1953 124p 050 A Handbook to Aid in the Study of State amp Local History is at once the most comprehensive and the most challenging publication of its nature that has come to our desk Inspirational seems a misnomer for a work of this sort but it is just that Surely ...
... Popular Education on the Western Reserve Popular Education on the Western Reserve 35 THE HISTORY OF POPULAR EDUCATION ON THE WESTERN RESERVE AN ADDRESS DELIVERED IN THE SERIES OF EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCES HELD IN ASSOCIATION HALL CLEVELAND SEPTEMBER 7 AND 8 1896 B A HINSDALE PH D LL D PROFESSOR OF THE SCIENCE AND THE ART OF TEACHING IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN It is peculiarly appropriate that the programme of the Centennial Commemoration of the founding of the City of Cleveland and of the ...