... 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 ...
... 470 Ohio Arch 470 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications fortunate in view and it was through his suggestion and influence that increased provisions were made for the insane that the graded system was introduced into the penitentiary and that many other prison reforms were instituted Among the most important acts of this humanitarian statesman was the founding of the Reform School for Girls at Delaware To him more than any one man in Ohio can be credited the promotion and success of the ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE DRAPER MANUSCRIPTS In this QUARTERLY we publish the first of a number of articles we shall from time to time reproduce from the collection of the famous Draper manuscripts in the possession of the Wisconsin Historical Society located at Madison Wisconsin A large portion of these manuscripts there preserved pertain to the early history of Ohio The past summer 1910 it was the privilege of the Editor of the QUARTERLY to visit Madison and through the courtesy of Dr ...
... TERRY A TERRY A BARNHART In Search of the Mound Builders The State Archaeological Association of Ohio 1875-1885 If the State Archaeological Association of Ohio is at all remembered today it is as the forerunner of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society That organization emerged from the wreckage of the earlier state archaeological association on March the 12th and 13th 1885 and has been known as the Ohio Historical Society since 1954 The significance of Ohio's first state ...
... DIALECT DISTRIBUTION AND SETTLEMENT PATTERNS DIALECT DISTRIBUTION AND SETTLEMENT PATTERNS IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION by ALVA L DAVIS Assistant Professor of English Western Reserve University The study of dialect distribution in the eastern United States and in the secondary settlement areas of the Great Lakes Region has now reached a point where it is possible to show some interesting correlations between the linguistic features and the settlement patterns of these regions It is simple perhaps ...
... THE ORIGIN OF THE CLEVELAND CLINIC THE ORIGIN OF THE CLEVELAND CLINIC by HOWARD DITTRICK MD Editorial Director the Cleveland Clinic Cleveland At the request of Dr Jonathan Forman I have prepared an historical resume of the origin of the Cleveland Clinic beginning with the time when the founders began to work together professionally and ending with the opening of the institution which they created Much will be said about a figure that drew the first founders together and after that events will ...
... THE ANTI-GALLOWS MOVEMENT IN OHIO THE ANTI-GALLOWS MOVEMENT IN OHIO By ALBERT POST The criminal codes of colonial America were based on those of England but in the New World where the social structure and traditions were less binding these codes were modified by reducing the number of capital crimes In England during the eighteenth century over two hundred felonies were capital while in the North American colonies the average number was about twelve With the publication in 1764 of the Essay on ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Colonel Dick Thompson the Persistent Whig By Charles Roll Indiana Historical Collections XXX Indianapolis Indiana Historical Bureau 1948 xvi 315p illustrations and index 250 Richard Wigginton Thompson the grand old man of Indiana politics was 22 years of age when he migrated to Bedford Indiana from his birthplace in Culpeper County Virginia where he was born June 9 1809 In Bedford he taught school briefly worked in a store studied law in his spare time founded with ...
... Suggestions for a Plan of County Suggestions for a Plan of County Organization Charles Dick Lays the Groundwork for the Campaign of 1896 Edited by THOMAS E FELT CAMPAIGN textbooks for the party faithful have been used to inspire electoral success for close to a hundred years in this country and were the document published below just another one of this familiar species it would deserve no particular notice But this is a campaign textbook with a difference Where its more conventional brothers ...
... LOGAN TECUMSEH THE SHAWANO INDIANS LOGAN TECUMSEH THE SHAWANO INDIANS BY WARREN K MOOREHEAD Mr Chairman Ladies and Gentlemen I esteem it both an honor and a privilege to appear before you and speak briefly upon the lives of two great characters Logan and Tecumseh and also tell you a little concerning the Shawano Indians commonly called the Shawnees whose villages were in this part of our State We are assembled on a very historic spot historic not merely because the cabin of the earliest ...
... HELEN M HELEN M THURSTON The 1802 Constitutional Convention and Status of the Negro What does the 1802 Ohio constitution say regarding freedom suffrage and citizen rights for negroes and mulattoes1 How were decisions made at the constitutional convention Who were the decision-makers Since even today confusion exists in historical studies on these questions it is hoped that answers in some degree can be obtained from a vote by vote study of the eight major motions concerning the negro that were ...
... DENTISTRY AND DENTAL EDUCATION DENTISTRY AND DENTAL EDUCATION By EDWARD C MILLS D D S F A C D To obtain a true concept of dentistry and dental education during the period under consideration it is necessary to present a general summary of previous conditions and of the qualifications activities and contributions of some of the pioneers in dentistry which ultimately developed into the present system of dental education The course of empire has ever been westward--and this truism may apply in ...
... MINUTES OF MINUTES OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Deshler-Wallick Hotel Columbus Ohio April 9 1948 The Ohio Academy of History met in Columbus April 9 1948 in connection with the Ohio College Association The morning session opened at 10 A M with Clayton S Ellsworth of the College of Wooster presiding Two papers were given The Name of the Holy Roman Empire by Richard G Salomon of Kenyon College and The Good Neighbor Policy by Arvid T Johnson of the University of Toledo Forty members attended ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XVI INDEX TO VOLUME XVI A Atwater Caleb 451 Avery's History of United States 508 Aborigine Use of term 407 Axes Copper 154 155 157 158 Aborigines See Indians Aztecs 425 The 421 Confederacy of 431 Addresses Dodge Samuel D 18 Fairbanks Chas W 27 Harris Andrew L 30 Meek Basil 35 Bailey Anne Sargent Family connecMoore J P Groghan Celebration tion of 344 at 52 Heroism of 345 Randall E 0 31 Life of 341 Allen County Welsh churches in 223 Ball's Battle 47 48 Welsh settlements in 222 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... Minutes of the Meeting of the Minutes of the Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History Columbus March 26 1960 THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY held its twenty-seventh annual meeting at the Ohio State Museum on Saturday March 26 1960 Two concurrent sessions were held in the morning and two in the afternoon John Hall Stewart of Western Reserve University acted as chairman of the modern European history section at which James M Laux of the University of Cincinnati delivered a paper on De Gaulle in Power ...
... BREAD AND DOCTRINE AT OBERLIN BREAD AND DOCTRINE AT OBERLIN By ROBERT SAMUEL FLETCHER Reform is manifold and yet it is one declared President Asa Mahan of the Oberlin Collegiate Institute in an address before the American Physiological Society in Boston in 1839 The true Christian reformer he said was a universal reformer seeking the correction of all evils No man could consistently be a temperance advocate and not an opponent of slavery nor an enemy of war and not a sponsor of moral reform He ...
... EARLY NEWSPAPERS OF CINCINNATI EARLY NEWSPAPERS OF CINCINNATI BY V C STUMP The first newspaper was printed in Cincinnati November 9 17931 At that time Cincinnati was a small village in the wilderness Only the hardier pioneers had dared to face the hardships and to cross the Alleghany Mountains in spite of the menace of the British and Indians on the North Among these few was one William Maxwell an editor from New Jersey who set up a little printing office in a log cabin which stood on the ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 123 that ordinance and especially the non-slavery clause was not the work of Nathan Dane of Massachusetts but of Thomas Jefferson of Virginia It is not our purpose to enter into this discussion which has been the theme of many a writer Our impression is that Mr Jefferson has not been duly accredited with the share due his ordinance as a basis for the one of 1787 Jefferson must says Curtis M Geer in his volume on the Louisiana Purchase be credited with the effort of ...