... TRAILING ADAM'S ANCESTORS TRAILING ADAM'S ANCESTORS BY HENRY C SHETRONE Lest the above title may not be readily intelligible to the reader it may be explained that this paper has to do solely with the origin and antiquity of the human race It goes without saying that humans through the ages have concerned themselves with queries as to the genesis significance and destiny of their kind It is equally true that every race and every people from the lowest savagery to highest civilization have ...
... edited by edited by DONALD A HUTSLAR Crossroads The Xenia Tornado A Retrospective View It is possible to factually document the cataclysmic tornado which cut a path through southwestern Ohio on the third of April 1974 Pictures can show the destruction words convey the impressions of the participants There will be many publications of this nature What is difficult perhaps impossible to impart is the break in historic continuity such an event will produce particularly in a community such as ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY Vol II SEPTEMBER 1888 No 2 ISRAEL WARD ANDREWS DD LLD MEMORIAL ADDRESS BEFORE THE OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY DELIVERED AT MARIETTA JUNE 26 1888 BY WILLIAM P CUTLER A CHRISTIAN missionary was discussing the grand problem of immortality with a learned Chinese philosopher presenting to him the truth as revealed in God's word and believed by all Christians He was met with the declaration made with evident sincerity by the Chinaman ...
... GENERAL BENJAMIN RUSH COWEN GENERAL BENJAMIN RUSH COWEN W H MACKOY ATTORNEY-AT-LAW CINCINNATI The death of General Benjamin Rush Cowen January 29 190 8 at his home in Cincinnati removed one who during the eventful and critical period beginning with the nomination of General Fremont for the Presidency in 1856 and ending with the inauguration of President Hayes in 1877 was a prominent actor in the affairs of his party his state and the United States and whose public services entitle him to high ...
... JUDGE JAMES HALL JUDGE JAMES HALL A Literary Pioneer of the Middle West DAVIS L JAMES In the preparation of this sketch acknowledgment should be made of the writer's indebtedness to the Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley by our fellow member Dr W H Venable This volume published in 1891 is of the greatest importance and value to the student of early literary history and an indispensable book of reference It is a matter for much regret that it is out of print and only to be found ...
... TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY June 9 1 90 6 The Twenty-first Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the lecture room of the V M C A Building Columbus at 1 30 P M June 9 19 06 The following members were present Rev J W Atwood Columbus Judge J H Anderson Columbus Prof M R Andrews Marietta Mr E H Archer Columbus Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Gen R ...
... JARED POTTER KIRTLAND M JARED POTTER KIRTLAND MD THE SAGE OF ROCKPORT NOVEMBER 10 1793--DECEMBER 18 1877 By GEORGE M CURTIS M D A portly old gentleman with a robust commanding physique was Dr Jared Potter Kirtland of the eighteen seventies So massive was his rotund frame that to the unutterable delight of wide-eyed visiting youngsters he would sit and read in those preEdisonian days with a candle propped upon his powerful chest His home at East Rockport Ohio was surrounded by exotic shrubs and ...
... OHIO'S FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW OHIO'S FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW BY C B GALBREATH Recently the writer received a request for information on Ohio's Fugitive Slave Law Our school histories make clear what the national Fugitive Slave Law was but they rarely give any account of the measures adopted and enacted by certain northern states designed to accomplish the same purpose some years before the enactment included in the Compromise of 1850 which aroused a storm of opposition throughout the North It is the ...
... A Survey Of Publications A Survey Of Publications In Ohio History Archaeology And Natural History August 1954-July 1955 Co m piled by S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE BRANDT George A Jr A Survey of the Development of Dairying and the Dairy Industry in the Toledo Milkshed Area Northwest Ohio Quarterly XXVII 1955-56 8-27 BROMFIELD Louis From My Experience The Pleasures and Miseries of Life on a Farm New York Harper amp Brothers 1955 355p Personal experiences on Malabar Farm in Ohio and ...
... SUMNER -- BROOKS -- BURLINGAME SUMNER -- BROOKS -- BURLINGAME --or-- THE LAST OF THE GREAT CHALLENGES BY JAMES E CAMPBELL The purpose of this paper is to throw light upon one of the most famous of the many thrilling episodes which preceded the Civil War -- thereby reversing some accepted history to mark the finish of the long congressional quarrel between Massachusetts and South Carolina and incidentally to note the collapse of the Duello When the thirty-fourth Congress met on the third day of ...
... CLEVELAND'S JOHNSON AT HOME CLEVELAND'S JOHNSON AT HOME by EUGENE C MURDOCK In an earlier article published in this Quarterly the present author made an attempt to summarize the accomplishments of Cleveland's Tom L Johnson and to point out his contributions to the growth and development of the lake city1 As mayor of Cleveland from 1901 to 1910 Johnson established and maintained high administrative standards while pushing through a broad program of municipal reform He attracted wide attention ...
... 226 Ohio Arch 226 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications JANUARIUS ALOYSIUS MACGAHAN Eulogy by William A Taylor Many years ago when a boy attending Dist No 6 school in Harrison township I was deeply but not then favorably impressed by this sentence in Kirkham's Grammar The evil that men do lives after them the good is often interred with their bones which I was called on to parse analyse and expatiate on generally by my teacher Philander H Binckley student philosopher literary writer and ...
... BENTLEY'S LAKE BENTLEY'S LAKE A J BAUGHMAN MANSFIELD Secretary of the Richland County Historical Society The Bentley Lake seven miles east of Mansfield was created in 1846 and had a peculiar origin In 1821 Jonas Ballyet entered the northwest quarter of section 15 Mifflin township Richland county and near the center of this tract there was a circular marsh of eight or ten acres surrounded by a rim of elevations of gentle slope giving a bowl-like appearance in the place At the east side or end ...
... THE HAYDN SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI THE HAYDN SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI 1819-1824 BY HARRY R STEVENS When Theodore Thomas the famous German orchestra conductor came to Cincinnati in 1869 he found the finest musical center of inland America The community he discovered here had a long and rich musical background Twenty years of German musical activity had been preceded by more than half a century of native growth Near the beginning of this development was the Haydn Society one of the earliest musical ...
... Historical News Historical News THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE MORMON CHURCH has microfilmed all military records of the division of soldiers' claims of the Ohio adjutant general's office The microfilmed records include grave registration data on Ohio veterans of all wars in which Ohioans participated rosters of Ohio soldiers in these wars and indexes to the rosters original hand-written muster rolls of the Ohio units in the Civil War records of payment to Squirrel Hunters rosters of Ohio ...
... 520 Ohio Arch 520 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications but they love it more because they have seen its crimson colors reproduced in the blood of America We love this country but they love it more because they have seen the sacrifices which have made it what it is and while we hope that we will have peace we are going to claim our right and recognize our right under any circumstance at any time to protect our homes our loved ones our country and our flag to maintain American institutions ...
... WILLIAM SANDERS SCARBOROUGH SCHOLARSHIP THE NEGRO RELIGION AND POLITICS by FRANCIS P WEISENBURGER During the years in which William Sanders Scarborough was professor and then president at Wilberforce University his scholarly activities in the field of linguistics his work and writings in the field of race relations his contributions in the areas of religious journalism and church organization and his varied public services were significant Each of these demands some consideration As was ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA SAMUEL S RICKLY Samuel Strasser Rickly died at his residence at 347 East Broad street Columbus Ohio on the evening of November 22d 1905 Mr Rickly was one of the founders of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and from the date of its organization was one of its most influential and valuable members It is due his memory at this time to recall and place on record the inestimable service which he has rendered the society On the evening of February 12 ...
... COMMERCIAL VS COMMERCIAL VS SCIENTIFIC COLLECTING A PLEA FOR ART FOR ART'S SAKE WARREN K MOOREHEAD Curator of Archaeology Phillips Academy Andover Mass It occurs to me that so far as it could be accomplished without infringing upon the rights of individuals museum curators should combine against dealers in archeological specimens There seem to be two classes of these men and the one should not be confounded with the other Of recent years the dealers of archaeologic specimens have increased to ...
... JAY D JAY D GREEN Nothing to Advertise Except God Christian Radio and the Creation of an Evangelical Subculture in Northeast Ohio 1958-1972 How I praise God for friends like you exclaimed an excited Elise Marshall in a 1961 letter There have been times in my life when I felt very lonely Now I have many friends who love my precious Lord the same as I do and I have sweet fellowship with each one of you even though I may never see you1 Testimonials like this were frequent in the 1960s among an ...