... 142 Ohio Arch 142 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications LAST EDITORIAL The following from The Columbus Evening Dispatch of September 2 1 919 is believed to be the last editorial contribution from Mr Randall to that paper It may be considered his final word on a subject to which he had given much thought and on which he had frequently written WHO WERE THE MOUND BUILDERS The remarkable discoveries recently unearthed by the exploring department of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical ...
... BOOK REVIEWS JAMES HALL SPOKESMAN OF THE NEW WEST By Randolph C Randall Columbus Ohio State University Press 1964 xvi371p illustrations bibliography and index 750 Randolph Randall's account of the life of James Hall 1793-1868 to whom Herman Melville acknowledged a literary debt in The Confidence-Man provides an interesting panorama of the larger life of the eastern and Ohio Valley frontier during the years of explosive change and growth that came between the War of 1812 and the War between the ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 103 RANDALL THE MAN BY DANIEL J RYAN Emilius O Randall had the inestimable advantage of being well-born Not by inheritance of the muniments of wealth or caste or rank but through the influences of forebears whose chief purposes in life and whose aspirations and achievements were within the sphere of the intellectual and spiritual They were Americans more than a century before Bunker Hill and were among the founders of New England of whom Longfellow ...
... MARK V MARK V KWASNY A Test for the Ohio National Guard The Cincinnati Riot of 1884 Riots have been a part of our history since the colonial days Crowds clashing with civil and military authorities violence in the streets and the deaths of citizens at the hands of law enforcement agencies-these are not unknown in the history of the United States The Cincinnati Riot March 28-30 1884 contained all of these elements For three days citizens police and soldiers of the Ohio National Guard ONG fought ...
... The Ohio Experience A Symposium The Ohio Experience A Symposium On Historic Sites Administered By the Ohio Historical Society THE FOLLOWING FIVE PAPERS were given by members of the staff of the Ohio Historical Society at the annual meeting of the North American Association of Historic Sites Public Officials held in Columbus October 7 1957 They deal with five different aspects of the Society's work with its historic properties acquisition development interpretation financing and administration ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Broken Circle By Carl G Doney New York Fleming H Revell Company 1943 187p Written as a memorial volume to a beloved son who when living had exerted a wide and beneficent influence on many people The Broken Circle tells the story of Paul H Doney minister and teacher who died at the early age of forty-one Its writing was a labor of love done by a sorrowing father who wished to present the faith which animated his son's life and the philosophy which underlay his ...
... FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHI FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHI STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO Wednesday October 6 1926 900 A M The meeting was called to order by Secretary C B Galbreath There were present B F Prince Arthur C Johnson C B Galbreath Mrs C B Galbreath Edward Orton Jr H R McPherson Mrs H R McPherson Mrs Howard Jones Mrs Anna M Keirn Dr J M Dunham E F Wood Dr F C Furniss Dr William C Mills Theodore A Wegener Joseph C Goodman B ...
... 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 ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments awards and retirements within the professional community of Ohio historians include John N Sobczak has replaced Von Hardesty as chairperson at Bluffton College for the 1978-79 academic year and Delbert Gratz is on sabbatical in Switzerland during 1979 at Antioch College Hanna Goldberg has been appointed Interim Executive Dean at the Yellow Springs campus and Irwin Abrams has been elected to the council of the Conference on ...
... HARRISON'S GREAT SPEECH HARRISON'S GREAT SPEECH At the Wonderful Log Cabin Campaign Meeting at Ft Meigs in 1840 Closely intertwined with the coming dedication of the Fort Meigs monument at Perrysburg is the history of a gathering which rivaled numerically the meeting which will take place there when the monument is dedicated in September The occasion was a speech by General Harrison in 1840 then a candidate for the presidency and 40000 persons assembled to hear his address When modes of travel ...
... The Scioto Company and its Purchase The Scioto Company and its Purchase 109 THE SCIOTO COMPANY AND ITS PURCHASE The history of the founding of Gallipolis now turning in its career into its second century is one of the most interesting and at the same time one of the saddest studies in American annals It is the story of a disappointing and impracticable scheme and were it not for the fact that the blood of its founders mingling with the American stock of their day and generation has given ...
... THE BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE IN BALLAD AND HISTORY THE BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE IN BALLAD AND HISTORY BY CHARLES B GALBREATH Perry's victory on Lake Erie stands out pre-eminent among the naval exploits of the War of 181 2 And this is true not only by virtue of the comparative importance of the battle and its results but because it combined in an unusual degree the elements of intrepidity patriotic fervor and personal valor that captivate the imagination live in legend and story and song and make up what ...
... ABRAHAM LINCOLN ABRAHAM LINCOLN AN ADDRESS BY CHARLES A JONES CHAIRMAN SATER I feel that we are all obliged to Professor Galbreath for making a little shift in the program here and in giving us a chance to walk about for a few minutes and to be present at the presentation and dedication of this beautiful gift that Mr Venable and his family have made to the Society A few years ago the managers of a very enterprising magazine in this country sent out a questionnaire to the high school students ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 289 Second Vice-president Judge Simeon Eben Baldwin New Haven Connecticut Secretary A Howard Clark Esq Smithsonian Institute Washington Corresponding Secretary Professor Charles H Haskins 15 Prescott Hall Cambridge Massachusetts Treasurer Clarence Winthrop Bowen Esq 130 Fulton St New York Chicago was chosen as the next place of meeting December 1904 The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was represented at the American Historical Association meeting by ...
... 268 OHIO ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 268 OHIO ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY with difficulty that we refrain from being surprised at ourselves And our culture dwarfs that of our fathers to insignificance We cannot be expected to judge values according to the standards of a culture which to us appears so naive so childlike so unintelligent and emotionally unstable But sometimes when our present world is a bit too much with me the strident voice of the news broadcaster comes ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 397 tive of the cereal native to the American Continent But one of the most interesting of the displays brought here by Mr Mills clearly proves that these mound builders a race very different from the Indian grew this corn before the Indian drove them South It had been a question said the Ohio man whether the mound builders were agriculturists Now see these charred remains of grain They were dug from an old village site adjacent to one of the principal Ohio mounds ...
... GENERAL SIMON PERKINS GENERAL SIMON PERKINS BY WALTER W SPOONER From advance proofs of the sixth volume of Randall and Ryan's History of Ohio By permission of the publishers the Century History Company New York Simon Perkins of Warren was one of the earliest and most influential promoters of settlement and progress in northeastern Ohio and a citizen of distinguished reputation and usefulness in varied activities and affairs A native of Connecticut he first came to Ohio in the summer of 1798 on ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA By BERTHA E JOSEPHSON Contrary to expectations the summer months brought an increase in the activities of this department Not only have the collateral duties of editing been unusually heavy what with the completion of the History of the State of Ohio series the issuing of another volume in the Ohio Historical Collection series and the compilation of a revised list of Publicatio n s in Print and For Sale --all these in addition to the routine editing of Museum ...
... EXPLORATIONS OF THE WESTENHAVER MOUND EXPLORATIONS OF THE WESTENHAVER MOUND BY WILLIAM C MILLS The Westenhaver Mound is located in Wayne township Pickaway county Ohio on the west bank of the Scioto river The land on which the mound is situated is owned by Mr and Mrs George E Roth and lies about six miles southwest of Circleville and three miles north of the village of Yellow Bud The site of the earthwork is a level plateau comprising the first bottom of the Scioto river which at this point is ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE AVERY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES A philosophical essayist on the study of history tritely remarks that a historian should be possessed of industry conscience and imagination Industry and patience to faithfully exhume the facts conscience to truthfully and impartially exploit them and imagination to vividly portray the scenes and events involved that the reader in his mind's eye may perceive them realistically reproduced Such is the ideal historian Such an one to ...