... Editorialana Editorialana 2 53 'Your house is going up on Tuesday If Wadsworth can't raise it Norton will We will meet at Norton Center for a game of base-ball prepared with wagons and horses if warned by one o'clock that we will be wanted Then when we come every Wadsworth man must stand back and see Norton men put up the frame' The same messenger then slyly told the leading men of the whisky party the plan being to bring all Wadsworth to see Norton's triumph The day came Being myself the ...
... RAILROAD DISCUSSION NOT FORBIDDEN RAILROAD DISCUSSION NOT FORBIDDEN BY LANCASTER SCHOOL BOARD FACTS AND FICTION RELATING TO A WELL WORN STORY On September 13 1927 appeared a news article of considerable length in the Lancaster Daily Eagle relative to the story that is semi-occasionally the subject of inquiries addressed to the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society We are under obligation to Judge Van A Snider of Lancaster Ohio for the clipping from which we quote liberally The news ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Journey Through My Years An Autobiography By James M Cox Simon and Schuster New York 1946 xi 463p 450 When the youthful James M Cox left his job with the Cincinnati Enquirer to become the private secretary of a Congressman his initiation into public life had begun Cleveland was one of his first heroes and the debates of the Fifty-third Congress which he followed closely were his equivalent for a university course At 28 Cox acquired his first newspaper In Taft's ...
... COUNTY AND LOCAL HISTORICAL MATERIAL COUNTY AND LOCAL HISTORICAL MATERIAL IN THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY LIBRARY Compiled by CLARENCE L WEAVER and HELEN M MILLS PREFACE A great many requests come daily for information on the history of localities in the State In 1936 the first edition of this list was compiled and published with the title County Historical Material in the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Library as a convenient guide to this material ...
... PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL OHIO HISTORY PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE Including the Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History and the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Columbus Genealogical Society Held at Columbus April 4-6 194 0 in Cooperation with Ohio State University the Committee on Archives and Medical History of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and Local ...
... Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 625 Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 625 Front Inscription To General Anthony Wayne who organized the 'Legion of the United States' by order of President Washington and defeated Chief Little Turtle's Warriors here at Fallen Timbers August 20 1794 This victory led to the Treaty of Greenville August 3 1795 which opened much of the present State of Ohio to white settlers Left Inscription In memory of the white settlers massacred 17831794 Back ...
... Samuel A Samuel A Hudson's Panorama Of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers By JOSEPH EARL ARRINGTON John Banvard and John Rowson Smith were the pioneers in applying the panoramic art form of enlarged and continuous views to the western river system1 Samuel A Hudson followed close behind them with his panorama of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers the first to picture the majestic Ohio He had earlier created such a panorama of the Hudson River2 and later was to make one of the Gold Regions in ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 489 the Conference probably could not have been held last year Miss Cornelius as secretary invited the Executive Committee to meet late in June at her home in northern Wisconsin and under the generous hospitality of herself and her family the program for the Conference was drafted The letters asking for active and associate memberships were also drawn up there and on the train which brought the committee back to Chicago Now the campaign was on and the work and the ...
... A HALF CENTURY OF THE WRITING OF HISTORY A HALF CENTURY OF THE WRITING OF HISTORY IN OHIO By FRANCIS P WEISENBURGER Slightly more than a century ago Mrs Frances Trollope returned to her home in England after two years of residence in Cincinnati Thereupon she published her Domestic Manners of the Americansl a somewhat ironical commentary upon life in the United States Thus she became one of the earliest representatives of a ubiquitous tribe of Europeans that from time to time has contrasted the ...
... N N GORDON THOMAS The Millerite Movement in Ohio A most spectacular and dramatic nineteenth century religious movement in America developed from the preaching of William Miller This was the culmination of the pronouncement that Christ's Second Coming would occur in October 1844 Preaching in a forceful manner and with convincing sincerity Prophet Miller delivered hundreds of lectures in years 1831 to 1844 His message was one of emotion and terror It was often sensationalized as well as ...
... ROBERT W ROBERT W McCORMICK A Union Army Medical Inspector Norton Townshend Over 350000 Union soldiers lost their lives in the Civil War but only one-third of these deaths were combat related The remaining 225000 soldier deaths resulted from six million cases of illness from disease and accidents As shocking as these figures are they represent a marked improvement over the Mexican War where seven men died of disease for every man killed by the enemy Before the fighting began the Medical ...
... THOMAS SMITH GRIMKE THOMAS SMITH GRIMKE BY C B GALBREATH Beautiful in winter when the earth is robed in white beautiful in the springtime when the grass comes creeping everywhere when buds open and the robin and the bluebird are heard among the trees beautiful in the summer twilight when the foliage is dense and green when the katydid in the tree top in staccato song answers to the chirp of the cricket below when the well-kept mounds are decked with flowers sweet prophecies of the resurrection ...
... THE MEDICAL JOURNALS OF THE PERIOD 1835-1858 THE MEDICAL JOURNALS OF THE PERIOD 1835-1858 By JONATHAN FORMAN M D The period which we are describing today was one in which the American public was very critical of the medical profession To the general charges of fraud and futility was added that of hearsay In order to save the physician's fee family medical books were frequently bought and sold Patent medicines were coming in at a pace parallel to the growth of newspapers in which they could be ...
... 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 ...
... BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT by JOHN SCHLEBECKER Hiram College One of the things with which the reader of early American history is most impressed is the remarkable courage and wisdom of the American soldier The Europeans it seems just did not understand the ins and outs of forest fighting Only the American seemed to know that effective fighting on the frontier was by necessity done from behind trees History books are full of pictures of minute men shooting redcoats but they do not have ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORTS Due to the fact that the annual meetings of the various Ohio educational conferences usually held the first week in April and the meetings of the Columbus Genealogical Society and the Committee on Medical History and Archives were not held this year the annual History Conference was cancelled for 1943 and arrangements were made only for the annual business meeting of the Society scheduled ...
... THE RELATION OF THE GLACIAL PERIOD TO THE RELATION OF THE GLACIAL PERIOD TO ARCHAEOLOGY IN OHIO As yet no implements have been found in Ohio which can certainly be ascribed to the glacial age The hope that we may yet discover pre-glacial instruments in Ohio as we have discovered pre-glacial wood is however a sufficient justification of this paper if it shall succeed first in making clear the relation of the glacial period to archaeological discoveries in other portions of the world and if in ...
... strike out the House rule providing that all petitions and memorials relating to slavery or the disabilities of negroes be received without debate and laid upon the table without being read or printed Rufus P Spalding D favored the amendment on the ground that the right of petition was a constitutional right which should not be abridged The House rule was abolished finally by the unanimous vote of the Whigs and by a large number of the ...
... 292 Ohio Arch 292 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications at the proper time took action in adopting memorial resolutions on the death of Dr Thompson but has had no formal meeting since the death of Mr Galbreath The resolutions adopted by the Board of Trustees are at hand Mr Secretary will you read them DR LINDLEY It seems fitting that the resolution passed at the time of the regular meeting of the Board of Trustees on January 23 1934 should be read before the members at the Annual Meeting ...
... MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Friday April 5 1946 The Ohio Academy of History held its annual meeting in connection with the Ohio College Association at the DeshlerWallick Hotel April 5 1946 Fifty-three persons attended the luncheon meeting and heard Professor Foster Rhea Dulles speak on Russian-American Relations His talk was followed by a report on the work of the Ohio War History Commission by its director Dr James H ...