... 124 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 124 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY pared a display of historic medical and surgical instruments and in the next room is an especially fine exhibit of the evolution of costumes All of these are worthy of your attention PRESIDENT JOHNSON Is there any further business to be brought before this meeting If not a motion for adjournment is in order A motion for adjournment was offered by Howard R Goodwin seconded by Edward S Thomas and ...
... MOBBING THE SHAKERS OF UNION VILLAGE MOBBING THE SHAKERS OF UNION VILLAGE J P MACLEAN PH D It may be affirmed that of all the Christian sects of America not one is less aggressive or lives more within itself than that known as The Shakers or more properly speaking The Millennial Church It is true that in its early history it possessed a little missionary zeal but this was not of the offensive kind In common with all the sects it placed its own doctrines to the front proclaiming them to be the ...
... The Centennial of Perry's Victory The Centennial of Perry's Victory 63 an approximation of the same moral responsibility for nations in dealing with each other that both good form and law impose upon individuals dealing with each other in society It will always be a source of regret to me that when England and France were willing to enter into general and unlimited arbitration treaties with us and the treaties were signed they failed for lack of ratification by the Senate They would not have ...
... ERIC J ERIC J CARDINAL The Ohio Democracy and the Crisis of Disunion 1860-1861 One of the least understood political groups in American history has been the northern Democratic party during the Civil War Their contemporary Republican foes vilified them as traitors and subsequent historians have for the most part agreed with that verdict1 Political partisanship ideological conflicts and wartime passions account for the original animus it is less clear why scholars have tended to follow so ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABOLITION 37-56 Abortion in America The Origins and Evolution of National Policy by James C Mohr rev 218-220 Achenbaum W Andrew Old Age in the New Land The American Experience Since 1790 rev 427-429 Act of February 26 1816 poor house authorization 84 Adams John 133 Adams John Quincy 12 13 16 17 18 1920 22 23 24 26 29 46 Adams-Clay party 13 17 Addams Jane 62 Adelphic Society of Western Reserve College 201 204 206 Adkins vs Children's Hospital 190 ...
... A New Home--Who'll Follow A New Home--Who'll Follow Letters of a New England Emigrant Family in Ohio 1831-1842 By CHARLES L SANFORD A dominant characteristic of the fifty-year period following the American Revolution was the rise of national self-consciousness reflected by patriotic experiments in literature in fine arts in science and in other areas of culture Cultural nationalism was whetted by the War of 1812 and by the end of the period had made its way into foreign policy with the Monroe ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President The December issue of the Reporter contains an article on the early grain business in Allen County It also includes a letter from the president of the society announcing that the building fund of the society stood as of December 13 at 118000 and that 2000 was needed to meet the board's annual goal of 10000 for the fund This amount has been secured for the past three years ...
... Comments Notes and Reviews Comments Notes and Reviews 375 Mr Sherman was one of the first members of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and for some years took a personal interest in its proceedings For ten years past and at the time of his death he was one of the trustees JOHN BROWN-A REVIEW In American history there are few if any characters the story of whose life is so erratic dramatic or so tragic as that of John Brown As he spent his youth and many years of his manhood ...
... 648 Ohio Arch 648 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications It is planned to visit the industrial plants of Dayton and the wonderful flood-prevention work If Mr Wright accompanies the visitors on their tour it may be a profitable day for the Society -- we may secure the first successful airship of the Wright brothers This plane while not in Dayton has not been sent to England If the Society secures the airplane and the mastodon skeleton a place to exhibit them must be provided and the Society ...
... OHIO RAILROADS OHIO RAILROADS BY R S KAYLER STATE COMMISSIONER OF RAILROADS Ohio was among the first of the States to commence the building of railroads As early as 1832 when there were but two hundred and twenty-nine miles of railroad in operation in the United States a special charter was granted by the State of Ohio for the construction of a railroad to extend from Sandusky Huron County to Dayton Montgomery County a distance of one hundred and fifty-six miles The road was completed as far ...
... GOVERNOR EDWARD TIFFIN PIONEER DOCTOR GOVERNOR EDWARD TIFFIN PIONEER DOCTOR by LINDEN F EDWARDS PhD Professor of Anatomy Ohio State University From time to time throughout history there has appeared upon the scene of action an outstanding individual who because of his innate ability and of the richness of the opportunity at hand rose head and shoulders above the common herd Such a man was Edward Tiffin pioneer doctor lay preacher governor parliamentarian statesman His untiring and successful ...
... LYSLE E LYSLE E MEYER Radical Responses to Capitalism in Ohio Before 1913 By the time Ohio entered the last two decades of the nineteenth century various forms of radicalism had already emerged which challenged the basic tenets of the prevailing style of life A number of communitarian settlements had been established in the state beginning with the first Shaker experiments Union Village in 1805 and Shakertown in 1806 The Wurttemberg Separatists soon after founded the Zoar community in 1817 ...
... REPORT OF THE FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF REPORT OF THE FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Forenoon Session--10 A M In the absence of the president and first vice-president the fifty-first Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was called to order by its secretary Dr Harlow Lindley who asked for nominations for a chairman A motion was made by Oscar F Miller that Dr Carl Wittke act as chairman of the meeting This ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies DELAWARE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Delaware Wilbur Main President The society has been holding regular monthly meetings on the third Monday of each month At the meeting in February R B Powers gave a paper on genealogy Mrs John J Swickheimer spoke at the March meeting on the early history of Radnor Township In April the first number of a mimeographed bulletin was published for the purpose of publicizing the society by describing its aims and ...
... PRESENTATION OF McGUFFEY READERS PRESENTATION OF McGUFFEY READERS On Tuesday evening February 15 1927 a meeting of unusual interest was held in the audience room of the Museum and Library Building on the Ohio State University Campus The program announced a joint session of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and the McGuffey Society of Columbus Ohio The purpose of the meeting is indicated in the following announcement The McGuffey Society of Columbus Ohio presents to the Ohio ...
... 276 Ohio Arch 276 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications his pedantry King James little understood the hidden meaning of the sea-to-sea extension Under this charter of 1609 modified by that of 1612 Virginia held until the formation of the federal constitution in 1788 In reading of Mr Avery's work we are tempted to halt and linger at particularly important and interesting events The reader reluctantly leaves his story which we again commend to both the general reader and the close student Both ...
... CHARLES A CHARLES A PECKHAM The Ohio National Guard and Its Police Duties 1894 During the depression year of 1894 Ohio like other states experienced a number of severe labor disturbances caused by unemployed or striking workers the most serious being the coal miners strike during April May and June In addition to these disturbances there were severe fires in Springfield and Toledo and three times lynch mobs attempted to short cut the system of justice These crises made demands upon city and ...
... LOUIS W LOUIS W POTTS Manasseh Cutler Lobbyist On August 3 1787 the parson of the Congregational Church in Ipswich now Hamilton Massachusetts returned to his hamlet He calculated he had traversed 885 miles in his one-horse sulky in the past two months and considered it one of the most interesting and agreeable journies I ever made in my life It had in every view been prosperous but in many respects infinitely exceeded my expectations1 Somewhat the polymath he could cite among his feats the ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA EXHIBIT AT ST LOUIS Few exhibits in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St Louis attract more interest than that of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society excellently located in the Anthropological Building The Society is certainly to be congratulated upon the success of its exhibit and the commendations it has received from archaeological students and scholars who visit it and give it patient attention There is no presentation of the remains of the ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Mrs Harry B Longsworth Secretary and Editor The October and December issues of the Reporter Nos 33 and 34 are devoted to an article on the Faurot Opera House in Lima The story was prompted by the contemplated razing of the Faurot Block The Opera House constructed in 1881 at a cost of 22500000 was said to have been the finest between New York and Denver The Society opened the season's meetings on October 30 ...