... 508 Ohio Arch 508 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications It will not be disturbed by wars and revolutions but it will tower sublime while monarchies totter and fall it will stand majestic immutable the American Republic Applause ADDRESS OF THEODORE E BURTON Following the address of Colonel Cole President Johnson said I wish I might possess some of this inspiring oratory of the last speaker in making these introductions However my limitations leave me only the power to say in simple way that ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA GEORGE BOHAN WRIGHT General George B Wright one of the oldest most widely known and highly esteemed citizens of Ohio died at the residence of his daughter Mrs Frank C Eaton Columbus Ohio on September 11 1903 General Wright's life was one save in his last years of incessant and intense activity and most successful achievement His parents were of the best New England stock and emigrated from Massachusetts to Ohio in 1808 Both his grandfathers were soldiers in the ...
... MEMOIR OF ANTOINE LAFORGE MEMOIR OF ANTOINE LAFORGE A Gallipolis Manuscript 1790 Translated from the original French by Laurence J Kenny S J St Louis University The accompanying document is a copy of a manuscript heirloom that has been cherished for more than a century among the descendents of Pierre Antoine Laforge one of the early French settlers of Gallipolis It brought them into possession of the modest inheritance referred to at its close and it has given substance and vraisemblance to ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL Abernethy Thomas P Western Lands and the American Revolution 153 Abolition movement 57-70 passim 179 Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times The Case of America by Thorstein Veblen 152 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 38 Adams George W Doctors in Blue 6970 Adams John 54n22 Adams Mary Ann 185-186 African-American Mosaic A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture The compiled and edited by ...
... 10 Ohio Arch 10 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications paternalistic policy by the national government These potent matters extending to the very foundation of our national fabric are closely connected with the history of the navigation of the Ohio River and are to form topics for discussion during these sessions One hundred years have brought vast changes to this City It is doubtful to-day whether French workmen would have to be imported for shipyard laborers in this vicinity or whether it ...
... 352 Ohio Arch 352 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications a demand that would have overcome his indifference to display and publicity Three of his sons were prominent in their day Rev B F Morris the author of his life Jonathan D Morris who served two terms as congressman from Ohio Isaac N Morris who served two terms as congressman from Illinois and was appointed by President Grant commissioner for the Union Pacific Railway in 1869 If a daguerreotype or painting of the Senator is in the ...
... SONG WRITERS OF OHIO SONG WRITERS OF OHIO WILL LAMARTINE THOMPSON Author of Gathering Shells from the Seashore C B GALBREATH The world no longer takes things for granted The days of original research are upon us The strenuous quest for the eternal verities works results at once constructive and iconoclastic It reveals marvels and dissipates old illusions The method of the analyst is merciless-as frigid as justice as uncompromising as truth Woe to the tradition or the ideal that rests on sandy ...
... OHIO IN KNEE PANTS OHIO IN KNEE PANTS by VIRGINIUS C HALL Director Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio Mr Chairman Ladies and Gentlemen Here in Columbus on December 31 1831 there was formed the first historical society west of the mountains That Society the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio later removed to Cincinnati So in coming to Columbus as the representative of that Society I am coming back to the birthplace back to the old home town back to our raising It seemed to ...
... THE DEBT OF THE WEST TO WASHINGTON THE DEBT OF THE WEST TO WASHINGTON BY ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT To us of the central west the memory of Washington and his dearest ambitions must be precious beyond that of any other American whether statesman general or seer Under strange providential guidance the mind and heart of that first American was turned toward the territories lying between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi and it is to be doubted if any other portion of his country received so much of ...
... 554 Ohio Arch 554 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications the Hopewell Mounds during the explorations of Professor Moorehead in 1 89 1 It is the further plan of the Director to place on exhibition objects illustrating the various cultural peoples of prehistoric times in Ohio It is further anticipated that the south exhibition hall on the second floor will be devoted to collections illustrating the various types of artifacts used by prehistoric man in Ohio ACCESSIONS TO MUSEUM COLLECTIONS ...
... DR DR JOHN MILTON BIGELOW 1804-1878 AN EARLY OHIO PHYSICIAN--BOTANIST By A E WALLER Meeting the name Bigelow in botanical publication the reader is sometimes confused The name of John M Bigelow the subject of this paper is close to John Bigelow a journalist and newspaper correspondent of New York City of the same period and also to a Dr Henry Jacob Bigelow interested in anesthetics of whom this paper will make no further mention as well as to Dr Jacob Bigelow of Massachusetts Dr Jacob Bigelow1 ...
... 56 Ohio Arch 56 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications These swarming hordes of careless unclean illy housed and frequently immoral people make the conservation of the health of the children a moral question with which religionists as well as humanitarians must deal Let us not forget that while we are doing something for the children they are doing a great deal for us Those who freely give out love and service and sacrifice get much that is of inestimable value in return The reflex action ...
... THE OHIO FREE SOILERS AND PROBLEMS OF FACTIONALISM by FREDERICK J BLUE The history of the Free Soil party in Ohio from 1849 until it was dissolved in 1854 was one of incessant factional conflict One source of controversy was the question whether the party should form a coalition with one of the major parties or should continue as a separate party This controversy over the organization of the party was finally successfully resolved when Free Soil leaders helped form the new Republican party and ...
... Historical News Historical News THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATIO N for State and Local History has established an annual prize and a grant-in-aid program to encourage the publication of sound interpretive localized history A prize of one thousand dollars will be awarded each year for the book-length manuscript in localized history which in the opinion of the research and publications committee makes the most distinguished contribution to American or Canadian historiography The grants-in-aid which are ...
... STATE SOVEREIGNTY IN OHIO STATE SOVEREIGNTY IN OHIO BY JEAN DICK CHEETHAM The doctrine of state sovereignty was the natural outgrowth of conditions which existed in the American colonies1 in the Articles of Confederation the doctrine assumed definite form each state was to retain its sovereignty freedom and independence and this was the element of weakness that undermined the Confederation it hindered the acceptance of the Constitution by the States and delayed their union it was made the ...
... MINUTES MINUTES OF THE SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE Ohio State Archaeological and Historical SOCIETY Held at Columbus Ohio February 24 and 25 1892 The Seventh Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society opened at the Board of Trade on the evening of the 24th inst with an address by Hon Benjamin Butterworth Secretary of the Columbian Exposition There was a fair sized audience Admittance was by invitation Among the prominent people present were Governor Wm McKinley ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President The society has recently acquired a Kodagraph film reader a gift from the president James A MacDonell Several old Lima newspapers have been microfilmed up to 1912 Current papers have been filmed since January 1 1947 During recent months the society has been engaged in a campaign to collect unpaid pledges for the proposed 175000 museum A large percentage of the necessary funds ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Pioneering in Agriculture One Hundred Years of American Farming and Farm Leadership By Thomas Clark Atkeson and Mary Meek Atkeson New York Orange Judd Publishing Co I nc 1937 22 2p 3 00 This is the autobiography of Thomas Clark Atkeson of whom it was said that no man in his generation has done more for the betterment of American agriculture Atkeson was born in a log house on the banks of the Great Kanawha River in Virginia now West Virginia in 1852 His English ...
... Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 621 Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 621 Outlines of Psychology by Dr Henry G Williams now President of Wilmington College Wilmington Ohio One lot of school publications by R Heber Holbrook in the interest of the Lebanon School to-wit The Reunion The National Normal The Home and School The National Normal Exponent Also catalogues of the school for the years 1873-74 1875-76 1882-83 1883-84 and 1891-93 Among the noted graduates from this school were ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS HISTORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ORAGNIZATION IN THE NORTHWEST 1824-184 0 BY HOMER J WEBSTER PH D Department of History University of Pittsburgh NOTE In the preparation of this work the writer has received very helpful suggestions from Professor Frederic L Paxson of the University of Wisconsin while in every part of the work he has received invaluable assistance from his wife-Edith Francisco Webster To both of these he desires to express here ...