... THE STRATEGIC BACKGROUND OF THE THE STRATEGIC BACKGROUND OF THE NORTHERN SOLOMONS CAMPAIGN by JOHN MILLER Assistant Chief Pacific Unit Historical Division Department of the Army Behind nearly every military operation of the second World War lay months of careful planning In the South Pacific for example the preparations for the seizure of New Georgia a battle in which Ohio's 37th Division distinguished itself occupied the planning staffs of several army and navy headquarters for six months The ...
... DOCUMENT DOCUMENT THE SPRUCE RUN EARTHWORKS A FORGOTTEN ADENA SITE IN DELAWARE COUNTY OHIO by JAMES B GRIFFIN Director Museum of Anthropology University of Michigan The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society has published many papers on Ohio archaeology for the purpose of preserving the history of the State's first inhabitants This short paper is a contribution to that end It should perhaps be a joint paper since the writer of the excavation report was one of Ohio's early historians ...
... Francisca Bauer the Sister of the Woods Francisca Bauer the Sister of the Woods By EDMUND L BINSFELD OLD THEODORE WILLIAMS of Norwalk Ohio liked to reminisce and when the Rev Frederick Rupert pastor at St Paul's Roman Catholic parish there was preparing what he called an outline history of the Catholic churches in that area Williams told the priest about the early days Among other things Williams said that when he was a boy of eight he saw at sunset one September evening in 1828 two ...
... OHIO IN AFRICA OHIO IN AFRICA By EDWARD WESLEY SHUNK The fortunes of the American Colonization Society and its auxiliaries in Ohio were at an extremely low ebb in the 1840's and the failure of the Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851 to aid the cause further depressed its members Yet an amazing spurt of activity in the 1850's almost turned the tables The appointment of a really competent agent David Christy added to the collections from Ohio until the yearly contributions averaged over 2000 ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR DR THOMAS CORWIN MENDENHALL Dr Thomas Corwin Mendenhall died at his home in Ravenna Saturday March 22 He was a member of the first faculty of the Ohio State University and a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society A brief sketch of his life was published in the QUARTERLY of the Society for October 1921 He delivered the annual address at ...
... EARLY DAYS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON EARLY DAYS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON EXCERPTS FROM THE CHRONICLES OF NAZARETH edited by GEORGE R U PPEL SM The Chronicles of Nazareth is a manuscript history of the first thirty years of the present University of Dayton It was written by Brother John A Brueck in the latter years of the nineteenth century as an informal record of the Society of Mary in America and of the school for boys begun at Dayton in 1850 The Nazareth in his title comes from the ...
... COLUMBUS OHIO'S CAPITAL COLUMBUS OHIO'S CAPITAL BY ELMER EDWARD NOYES It has been stated by some authorities that Columbus was born a capital1 that Lucas Sullivant an early surveyor who laid out Franklinton in 1797 foresaw the future political possibilities of the district2 At the same time it is claimed by another authority that this was hardly possible since state lines had not yet been drawn at that early date3 In any case the seat of government was moved to Columbus in October 18164 and ...
... PROCEEDINGS 287 PROCEEDINGS 287 MR STOUT To honor Mr Sater I think it would be very fitting that these resolutions become a part of the Minutes of our Society Will someone make a motion to that effect A motion was made by Mr Spetnagel and seconded by Mr Roof that these resolutions be made a part of the Minutes of the Society The motion was unanimously carried Mr Spetnagel chairman of the Nominating Committee then made the following report Speaking for your Nominating Committee I wish to ...
... CARL W CARL W ALBRECHT Book Notes The Papers of Henry Bouquet Volume 5 September 1 1760-October 31 1761 Edited by Louis M Waddell John L Tottenham and Donald H Kent Harrisburg The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission 1984 xxx 875p illustrations bibliography chronology index Henry Bouquet born in Switzerland in 1719 passed his early military training and experience in the service of several European states In 1756 he was recruited to serve as a lieutenant colonel in the Royal American ...
... RAREY THE HORSE'S MASTER AND FRIEND RAREY THE HORSE'S MASTER AND FRIEND BY SARA LOWE BROWN It is one of the honors of Franklin county Ohio that early in the second quarter of the Nineteenth century it produced in the person of John Solomon Rarey a man who bore to all the world the message that in kindness there is power Ralph Waldo Emerson said of him that he had turned a new leaf in civilization while William Lloyd Garrison testified to his fitness to teach the world a great and everywhere ...
... Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association 16 1 commemorated in our own beautiful memorial building holding his library and numerous family relics while his remains with those of his wife lie beneath the family monument on the beautiful knoll in Spiegel Grove which is approached only by traversing the original Harrison trail of the war of 1812 As coworkers in this field of historic investigation we welcome you to our capital and lay open ...
... Arrayed against them were the loyal Unionists typified by Ezra Overturf Nathaniel Hull his son Arne and the younger Neal boys Will Neal represented conscientious objectors Union defeats on the battlefield strengthened the peacewithout-victory movement Then the tide turned with victories of the Union forces at Shiloh Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain These names become for the reader more than mere names on a list of battles or dots on a ...
... Rutherford B Hayes Attorney at Law by WATT P MARCHMAN Rutherford Birchard Hayes began life without a father in Delaware Ohio on October 4 1822 a sickly child whose health was of deep concern to his mother His father Rutherford Hayes Jr formerly of Dummerston Vermont who had been a merchant of the firm of Noyes Mann and Hayes and who had brought his family to settle in Ohio in 1817 died suddenly on July 20 1822 before the birth of his son He left his widow with an estate consisting of a brick ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XXXI INDEX TO VOLUME XXXI Abbott Julius D tells of the last visit tobacco pipes 513-522 bone impleof Grant to Clermont County 245 ments 522-523 chipped flint impleAbbott Louise her paper on The Grants ments 523-525 implements made of at Bethel 241-245 copper 525-528 ornaments of copper Adams Charles Francis Jr 83 his let529-555 bead necklaces 555-556 beads ter urging Carl Schurz to take part in of metal 556-557 objects made of Ohio political campaign of 1875 83-84 shell 557-559 ...
... ROBERT F ROBERT F HOROWITZ Land to the Freedmen A Vision of Reconstruction The Reconstruction Acts of March 1867 were much closer to the ideas of the moderate and conservative elements of the Republican party than to the views of the radicals Influential Republicans such as George Julian Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner had originally hoped for a more thorough reconstruction policy which they were never able to obtain In fact the phrase Radical Reconstruction is in part unjustified since ...
... 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 ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Detroit's First American Decade 1796-1805 By F Clever Bald University of Michigan Publications History and Political Science Vol XVI Ann Arbor Mich University of Michigan Press 1948 276p including bibliographical essay and index 450 This is far more than a study of a few neglected years in the early history of a great metropolis interesting only to the local pride school of history enthusiasts the zealous antiquarians and the patient genealogists Here is local history ...
... Report of the Forty-eighth Annual Meeting 307 Report of the Forty-eighth Annual Meeting 307 SOME EXPERIENCES IN MAKING A STATE HISTORICAL SURVEY By W D OVERMAN The Historical Survey now in progress in Pennsylvania was started in December 1933 and is under the direction of the State Archivist The survey was carried on as a state CWA project until March 29 1934 and since that time has been continued with a greatly reduced quota of workers as a project under the FERA At its inception the director ...
... THE CASE OF THE CASE OF Sara Lucy Bagby A LATE GESTURE by JOHN E VACHA Four southern states had seceded when John Goshorn and his son William S Goshorn set out from Wheeling Virginia for Cleveland Ohio in January of 1861 for the purpose of reclaiming Sara Lucy Bagby an escaped slave who had found temporary refuge doing domestic work in Cleveland Even though the nation was in the midst of its climactic crisis over the slavery issue the Goshorns planned to invoke the invidious Fugitive Slave law ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 261 and statistics the value of which cannot be too highly estimated The author has gathered and assorted material from which history may be written Mr Bareis has neglected no subject deserving of note He has chapters on the school literary entertainments roads and railroads coaches and mail lines churches graveyards etc The book is not crowded and its value depreciated as is the case with most books of its kind by having biographical sketches of anybody and everybody ...