... THE EARLY FRENCH SETTLEMENTS ON THE GREAT THE EARLY FRENCH SETTLEMENTS ON THE GREAT LAKES JOHN M BULKLEY The French emigrants scattered along the northwestern frontier previous to the year 176 0 were chiefly from the provinces of Picardy and Normandy in France Without aspiring to the aristocratic rank of the noblesse who had congregated in the region of Quebec and Montreal they were accustomed to reverence the authority which had before been exercised over them under the French monarchy in ...
... A HISTORY OF FLOOD CONTROL IN OHIO A HISTORY OF FLOOD CONTROL IN OHIO BY ARTHUR E MORGAN AND C A BOCK The great ice cap which covered northeastern North America during the Glacial period is estimated to have been about two miles thick in the region north-east of the Great Lakes The weight of this great mass caused it to creep gradually toward the ocean on the east and toward the south where the pressure was less In this relentless advance it ground off the hill tops and filled up the valleys ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY VOL II DECEMBER 1888 No 3 THE RIGHT OF DISCOVERY ONE of the most interesting subjects in the whole history of lawDr Francis Lieber Miscellaneous Writings II 26 THE great geographical discoveries of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries led to two series of remarkable changes in the relations of the principal nations of Western Europe First those nations were brought into direct contact with the natives of the newly discovered lands east and ...
... AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE JACKSON AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE JACKSON COUNTY IRON INDUSTRY A THESIS PRESENTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS BY VERNON DAVID K E ELER AB LLB INTRODUCTION The Cyclops here their heavy hammers deal Loud strokes and hissings of tormented steel Are heard around the boiling waters roar And smoky flames through fuming tunnels soar --Vergil In early Biblical times according to the fourth chapter of Genesis Tubal Cain born in the seventh generation of Adam was an ...
... AFTERNOON SESSION AFTERNOON SESSION ADDRESS OF PROFESSOR CARL E GUTHE Chairman Sater called the meeting to order at 2 p m After a few well chosen remarks he introduced Prof Carl E Guthe University Museums of the University of Michigan who delivered an address which was heard with the closest attention entitled Outdoor Guiding in History and Prehistory Professor Guthe spoke as follows OUTDOOR GUIDING IN HISTORY AND PREHISTORY BY CARL E GUTHE The phrase outdoor guiding if considered in the ...
... 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 ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE VANISHED BISHOPRIC-AN INTERESTING BIT OF OHIO HISTORY The Catholic Historical Review for July contains for people of Ohio a vastly interesting paper A Vanished Bishopric of Ohio dealing the rile French settlement at Scioto or Gallipolis on the Ohio River and the proposition to establish thereat a Catholic bishopric some time about the year 1789 the year that Bishop John Carroll was appointed to the See of Baltimore with jurisdiction over all the United States It ...
... 472 Ohio Arch 472 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications who had an opportunity to be present at the sessions or read the reports in the public press Colonel Galbraith was elected Department Commander at the first state convention of the American Legion held in Ohio He was elected National Commander on September 29th two years to the day after he performed the act of heroism which won for him the Distinguished Service Cross His citation for this honor reads For extraordinary heroism in action ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY VOL II MARCH 1889 No 4 SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF HISTORIC TRAVEL OVER NEW YORK NEW JERSEY VIRGINIA AND OHIO IN THE SEVEN YEARS FROM 1840-1847 Read at the fourth annual meeting of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society at Chillicothe February 1 1889 I propose this evening to give you some reminiscences of my travels in search of history over the four States of New York New Jersey Virginia and Ohio from 1840 to 1847 They will consist largely ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY VOL II MARCH 1889 No 4 SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF HISTORIC TRAVEL OVER NEW YORK NEW JERSEY VIRGINIA AND OHIO IN THE SEVEN YEARS FROM 1840-1847 Read at the fourth annual meeting of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society at Chillicothe February 1 1889 I propose this evening to give you some reminiscences of my travels in search of history over the four States of New York New Jersey Virginia and Ohio from 1840 to 1847 They will consist largely ...
... THE BEGINNINGS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE THE BEGINNINGS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY By THOMAS N HOOVER Rufus Putman never attended a university but fathered the first institution for higher learning in the Northwest Territory He seldom if ever went to school but contributed much to the cause of education His mother when Rufus was still a small boy inflicted upon him an undesirable domineering illiterate step-father who required the lad to work all day and denied him a ...
... Glimpses Into Cincinnati's Past THE GEST LETTERS 1834-1842 edited by CHARLES SCHULTZ Erasmus Gest was fourteen years old in November 1834 when he left home family and friends in Cincinnati to attend school first a manual training school in Dayton Ohio and then a Springfield Ohio high school of which Milo G Williams a Cincinnatian was successively and respectively general supervisor and principal1 After two years of study he obtained his first job that of a rod man on the Cincinnati and ...
... COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS EARLY OHIO PAINTERS THE PREWAR YEARS by DONALD R MacKENZIE HIGHER standards in painting characterized the pre-Civil War period of art in Ohio Improved transportation encouraged artists to travel and almost every painter visited New York frequently touring Boston and Philadelphia as well There they had the opportunity to see a limited number of imported European paintings and a variety of notable American works Most established painters who desired it were ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews First Lady The Life of Lucy Webb Hayes By Emily Apt Geer Kent The Kent State University Press 1984 ix 330p illustrations notes sources cited index 1995 The goal which Emily Apt Geer has set for herself in this book is to evaluate the true character of Lucy Webb Hayes Was she the intolerant Lemonade Lucy that her husband's political opponents labeled her or was she the saint-like creature her friends believed her to be The conclusion rests somewhere between these two ...
... BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM HENRY HOLMES BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM HENRY HOLMES ARTIST GEOLOGIST ARCHEOLOGIST AND ART GALLERY DIRECTOR 1846-19-- The subject of this sketch was born December 1 1846 in the home of his parents Joseph and Mary Heberling Holmes near the city of Cadiz Ohio the home farm being one of the subdivisions of the original grant to his grandfather in 1800 The house was on the Cadiz -- St Clairsville road four and one-half miles south of Cadiz As recorded in Colonel Holmes' ...
... I Whipped Six Texans A Civil War Letter of an Ohio Soldier edited by FRANK L KLEMENT James Pike a grandnephew of Zebulon M Pike the noted explorer was an unusual soldier in more ways than one He was the son of Sam Pike an outspoken critic of the Lincoln administration and a longtime editor of the Hillsboro Weekly Gazette the organ of Copperheadism in Highland County while the son performed heroically on the battlefields the father was accused of secessionist sympathies James Pike's prewar ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Cincinnati Observed Architecture and History By John Clubbe Columbus The Ohio State University Press 1992 xxvi 531p illustrations bibliography index At long last here is an engaging and informative portrait of Cincinnati's architecture history and cultural traditions Written by a native New Yorker and professor of English literature Cincinnati Observed wonderfully blends facts descriptions essays quotes and wit into the first comprehensive examination of its kind since ...
... THE INFANT SCHOOL THAT GREW UP THE INFANT SCHOOL THAT GREW UP By JOSEPHINE E PHILLIPS One hunded years ago the first child's garden was opened by Herr Friedrich Froebel in the little village of Blankenburg in Germany To Froebel belongs much credit for the development and spread of the kindergarten idea He saw that the education of a child should begin much earlier than the customary school age--six or seven years--and that play should be incorporated in that education He declared that the ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABOLITION Emigrant Aid Society of Montgomery County 16 Abolition issues 5-30 passim Administrative issues Ohio House of Representatives Partisanship in the Ohio House of Representatives 19001911 An Analysis of Roll-Call Voting by John M Wegner 146-170 Agriculture The Carmichael Case Animal Science At The Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station 1905-1921 by Chris Cumo 31-41 Ahlers John F 131n 19 Air Commerce Act 125 Airmail Act Kelly Law 126 127 Airmail False ...
... LEONARD ERICKSON LEONARD ERICKSON Politics and Repeal of Ohio's Black Laws 1837-1849 During the campaign of 1846 the Cincinnati Gazette reported that Democratic and Liberty men viewed the National Road 40th parallel as a Mason and Dixon line across Ohio as far as the Black Laws were concerned' That same year a related proposition that a person's attitude towards these laws varied according to how many Negroes he had as neighbors was voiced by a Whig Representative T R Stanley from Scioto and ...