... DENNIS K DENNIS K BOMAN Conduct and Revolt in the Twenty-fifth Ohio Battery An Insider's Account On August 10 1861 in the town of Canfield Ohio twenty-eight year old Robert T McMahan enlisted as a private in the Second Ohio Volunteer Cavalry1 On September 3 the date of his muster he began a journal in which he noted the experiences and impressions of his service in the United States military2 McMahan first served as a cavalryman and then as a gunner for the Twenty-fifth Ohio Light Artillery ...
... AN ABOLITION CENTER AN ABOLITION CENTER THOMAS J SHEPPARD In the spring of 1 80 2 two travelers met in the wilderness between Zanesville and Marietta Ohio Though they rode together by day and camped together by night each refrained from disclosing to the other the object of his journey That object was to purchase the section of land upon which later on grew up the village of Putnam now the Ninth Ward of the city of Zanesville The travelers were John McIntyre the founder of Zanesville and Dr ...
... PRE-HISTORIC EARTHWORKS OF RICHLAND PRE-HISTORIC EARTHWORKS OF RICHLAND COUNTY BY A J BAUGHMAN Secretary Richland County Historical Society Here stand mounds erected by a race Unknown in history or in poets' songs In our own county we see evidences of a pre-historic people whose origin and fate are unknown We know of them only by the monuments they reared in the form of earth-works and as these principally are mounds we call the people who made them Mound Builders The term is not a ...
... THE RISE OF HOMEOPATHY THE RISE OF HOMEOPATHY By LUCY STONE HERTZOG M D In the course of correspondence concerning this paper Dr Frederick Waite wrote me One of the questions is What was the previous relation of those who became homeopaths in the early era All the homeopathic histories stress the point that many of the homeopaths had previously been in regular medicine but he was unable to prove this true except of only a small minority Dr Waite also raised the question Whence come the ...
... BEVERLY WILSON PALMER BEVERLY WILSON PALMER Towards a National Antislavery Party The Giddings-Sumner Alliance Shortly after meeting Joshua Reed Giddings in 1846 Charles Sumner in a 30 December 1846 article in the Boston Courier praised the Ohio Congressman for his opposition to the Mexican War Emphasizing Giddings's roots in New England Sumner wrote New England may be happy that her voice was heard at so early a stage of this important discussion and in a manner calculated to influence it so ...
... OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY 1835-1858 OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY 1835-1858 FURTHER ASPECTS CONTRIBUTION OF OHIO PHYSICIANS TO THE MEXICAN WAR By LEON GOLDMAN MD One of the wars least interesting to and least popular with the people of the United States was of course the Mexican War of 1846 Yet this war should be of some interest to the physician for it was at this time that in spite of great difficulties definite advances were made by medical officers in the army Their conduct in the field went far to ...
... INDEX TO FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING INDEX TO FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING Auditor Report of 537-538 Good Dr H L 526 Bachert W H 526 Greenman Emerson F 527 Basket Maker Prehistoric presented to Headley J E 524 Society 526 unveiled 567-569 Heer Fred J 521 538 Beaton Ralph 526 Hine James S 527 Bond Beverley W Jr The Old NorthHooper Osman C 519 west to Eastern Eyes 542-555 Houston Mrs William 518 Brown William A 519 Howells William D 518 Bush F W 519 Japan Gifts from 526 Business Agent Office of ...
... REPORT OF THE FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING REPORT OF THE FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY HELD APRIL 1 -2 1938 Business Session 10 00 A M Friday April 1 Ohio State Museum Meeting called to order by Mr Arthur C Johnson Sr president MR JOHNSO N This is the Annual Business Meeting of the Society and the small attendance this morning might be regarded as disappointing excepting for the fact that it indicates to me that the Society must be pretty ...
... 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 DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY In the Ohio Centennial at Columbus September 4 to October 19 1888 THIS department was organized to embody a distinctive feature in the Ohio Centennial i e to exhibit in one place articles illustrative of the growth made in Ohio's history To do this properly it was decided to group all articles into classes regardless of ownership each class typical of a distinct idea This made a collective exhibit and hence all ...
... TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY FEBRUARY 26 1908 The twenty-third annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the parlors of the Y M C A building Columbus Ohio at 10 A M Wednesday February 26 1908 The following members were present Prof Martin R Andrews Marietta Gen R Brinkerhoff Mansfield Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Hon J H Beal Scio Dr D H Gard Columbus ...
... A CHECK-LIST OF OXFORD IMPRINTS 1827-1841 A CHECK-LIST OF OXFORD IMPRINTS 1827-1841 Periodicals The Literary Focus a monthly periodical edited and published by the Erodelphian and Union Literary Societies of the Miami University Stilus optimus et praestantissimus dicendi effector ac magister Oxford Ohio printed at the Societies' Press J D Smith pr 1827-28 Vol I June 1827-May 1828 12 issues June-November 1827 published by J B Camron pr Hamilton Ohio December 1827-May 1828 published by the ...
... THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCH A EOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO Sept 28 1 917 The meeting was called to order by President G Frederick Wright There were present G Frederick Wright Frank Tallmadge E O Randall L P Schaus W H Cole W O Thompson F E Wilson J M Dunham W C Moore W C Mills T D Hills Rev B R Long J F Roof H C Hockett Rev William McDermott E F Wood H E Buck C W Justice F W Treadway George F ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Organizations ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President A Shay engine built by the Lima Locomotive works in 1925 and used at the National Lime and Stone Company quarry until 1947 has been renovated by the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation It is to be placed on a concrete foundation on the society's property as a permanent exhibit Contracts have been awarded for construction of the Allen County Museum building to be located at ...
... HON HON DAVID TOD BIOGRAPHY AND PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS BY GEORGE B WRIGHT Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime And departing leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time Footprints that perhaps another Sailing o'er life's solemn main A forlorn and shipwrecked brother Seeing shall take heart again - Longfellow PART I BIOGRAPHY OF DAVID TOD David Tod second of the Civil War Governors of Ohio was born at Youngstown Trumbull now Mahoning County Ohio on the 22nd of ...
... HORACE MANN AND ANTIOCH COLLEGE HORACE MANN AND ANTIOCH COLLEGE GEORGE ALLEN HUBBELL PH D Mr Hubbell is a member of the Faculty of Berea College Kentucky and was formerly a professor at Antioch College of which Mr Horace Mann was president -EDITOR Ohio is the favorite daughter of the Eastern States The cannon of the Revolution had scarcely cooled when the Ordinance of 1787 was adopted and sturdy men began to look over the borders of Virginia Pennsylvania New York Connecticut and Massachusetts ...
... THE MANUFACTURE AND USE OF ABORIGINAL THE MANUFACTURE AND USE OF ABORIGINAL STONE IMPLEMENTS PROBABLY no other equal area in the Union has furnished so great a number and variety of the so-called Indian Relics as has been found within the southern half of Ohio and the adjacent portions of Kentucky and West Virginia Although few persons have made any particular study of them curiosity in regard to them is active among all classes and the successful collector often finds life made a burden by ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 64 NUMBER 2 APRIL 1955 The Correspondence of George A Myers and James Ford Rhodes 1910-1923 - II Edited by JOHN A GARRATY RHODES TO MYERS Boston January 7 1913 Dear George I do not wonder that you were irritated in not getting an earlier answer to yours of Oct 15 last but I have been very busy since my return from Seal Harbor without however accomplishing very much1 In the first place I have had some unsatisfactory investments ...
... BOOK BOOK REVIEWS THREE YEARS IN CHILE BY MRS GEORGE G MERWIN Edited with an introduction by C Harvey Gardiner Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press 1966 xviii102p 450 Not widely recognized for what it really is an interesting early Ohio book has been published as the fourth in a valuable series of Latin American Travel reprints The book is presented as a New York publication of Follett Foster amp Company in 1863 and the editor neither mentions the fact that it first came out two years ...
... STANTON -THE PATRIOT STANTON -THE PATRIOT ANDREW CARNEGIE At Gambier Ohio April 26 1906 there occurred an event deserving of more than a passing notice It was the occasion of the presentation to Kenyon College by Colonel John J McCook of New York one of the Ohio Family of the famous fighting McCooks of an oil portrait of Edwin M Stanton who was a student at Kenyon The painting was from the brush of the distinguished artist Charles P Filson Steubenville Ohio At the same time formal announcement ...