... RUSSEL BIGELOW THE PIONEER PULPIT RUSSEL BIGELOW THE PIONEER PULPIT ORATOR BY N B C LOVE D D THE CAMP MEETING The rough homespun attire of primal days He wore as he proclaimed the Words of Truth And held spellbound the aged and the youth Leading them into heaven's brilliant rays His soul on fire his words fell with power Radiant as from the mind of God Alive as if blooming on Aaron's rod And as if ordained for this special hour Bright the summer day and vast the crowd And cool the sylvan shade ...
... NOTES ON THE PREVENTION OF COMMUNICABLE NOTES ON THE PREVENTION OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES IN COLUMBUS 1890-1945 by HERBERT M PLATTER MD In the fall of 1893 I opened an office for the general practice of medicine in Columbus and was elected secretary of the Columbus Academy of Medicine which position I held for more than six years Columbus Medical College had just merged with Starling Medical College but Ohio Medical University opened its doors and thus there were at that time two medical ...
... strike the earth and burn it up They say that their is agoing to be an earthquake at three oclock but three oclock is past and no earth quake I do not know what they will have next I believe I told you what my studys was I have grown so fleshy that you would hardly know me I am well and feel very contented I wish you would come to ohio I do not want you to think of comming to Ohio but to know it I had almost forgot to tell you to direct your ...
... HISTORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD HISTORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN MECHANICSBURG BY RALPH M WATTS Champion of those who groan beneath Oppression's iron hand In view of penury hate and death I see thee fearless stand Still bearing up thy lofty brow In the steadfast strength of truth In manhood sealing well the vow And promise of thy youth Go on for thou hast chosen well On in the strength of God Long as one human heart shall swell Beneath the tyrant's rod Speak in a suffering nation's ...
... 664 Ohio Arch 664 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications AFTERNOON SESSION AUDITORIUM OF THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING 130 O'CLOCK The addresses delivered at the afternoon session of the meeting were of an unusually high order Members of the Society and their friends came in large numbers to hear the two noted speakers on the program They soon filled the auditorium to the limit of its capacity and a number were turned away for lack of room The high anticipations of the audience were not ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR DEATH OF HONORABLE DANIEL J RYAN Early Friday morning June 15 1923 Daniel Joseph Ryan Vice President of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society breathed his last He had been in poor health for some time but the end came unexpectedly He passed without pain from the repose of sleep to the repose of death This announcement brings sadness to the members of ...
... ROBERT A ROBERT A WHEELER The Literature of the Western Reserve The northeastern portion of Ohio known variously as New Connecticut as the Western Reserve of Connecticut or simply as the Western Reserve has been viewed as a unique area by observers from the eighteenth century to the present The region's distinctiveness stems from its homogenous founding population of transplanted New Englanders whose firm hold determined its culture Writers often agreed these migrants implanted a set of values ...
... LLOYD SPONHOLTZ LLOYD SPONHOLTZ The Politics of Temperance in Ohio 1880-1912 The Price of an Ohio License What's the price of a license How much did you say The price of men's souls in the market today A license to sell to deform to destroy From the gray hairs of age to the innocent boy How much did you say How much is to pay How compare with your gold A license to poison a crime oft retoldFix a price on the years and the manhood of manWhat's the price did you say1 In 1913 the Anti-Saloon ...
... TRAVEL NOTES OF A MID-NINETEENTH TRAVEL NOTES OF A MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY FRENCHMAN By BERTHA RUTH LEAMAN Extended travel and a great variety of experience had left the curiosity of Jean Jacques Ampere a learned Frenchman of the mid-nineteenth century unsatisfied consequently in search of new information he came to America1 Landing in New York the French visitor traveled through the New England States went to Montreal and Quebec journeyed to Niagara Buffalo and Detroit and then proceeded to ...
... Fort St Fort St Clair 519 attack that Lieutenant Hale was killed and Madison was wounded The Indians were forced to retreat some distance where they then took a stand and in turn forced the militia back This zigzag method of fighting was carried on for some time until the Indians and all but six of the horses were lost sight of at about the place where Eaton is now located The exact number of Indians killed in this battle is not definitely known though two were left and are buried at the fort ...
... Carney Summer-Autumn 2002 pp 121-144 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved The Political Judge Justice John McLeans Pursuit of the Presidency By Thomas E Carney John McLean SC 3565 Ohio Historical Society Collections Introduction John McLean stands out as a singular figure in American legal history He was appointed to the United States Supreme Court by President Andrew Jackson in 1829 and served until his death in 1861 as ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue Roy F Nichols is Professor of History in the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Raymond F Fletcher is Business Manager of the Portsmouth Ohio Times Howard H Peckham is Director of the Indiana Historical Bureau and Secretary of the Indiana Historical Society Indianapolis William Alexander Mabry is Professor of History in Mount Union College Alliance Ohio Cathaline Alford Archer Mrs John Clark Archer of Hamden Conn interests herself in local and family ...
... EARL IRVIN WEST EARL IRVIN WEST Early Cincinnati's Unprecedented Spectacle When Isaac G Burnet Cincinnati's newly elected mayor called a meeting of the city's leading citizens for Tuesday night April 7 1829 to make arrangements for a debate between Robert Owen and Alexander Campbell this can be considered an official sanction for the extraordinary event that was being planned1 Robert Owen social reformer lecturer and founder of the then defunct communitarian colony at New Harmony Indiana had ...
... EARLY OHIO CAMP MEETINGS 1801-1816 EARLY OHIO CAMP MEETINGS 1801-1816 by CHARLES A JOHNSON Instructor in American History University of Maryland On Military Leave As soon as we came upon the ground Mechanicsburg Ohio I felt that God was with the meeting Give us a chimney that we may have fire it was done God was with us and souls were converted--BISHOP FRANCIS ASBURY1 In challenging the lawlessness and immorality of the frontier the western churches forged new religious weapons Among the most ...
... A CLASSIFICATION OF OHIO PLACE-NAMES A CLASSIFICATION OF OHIO PLACE-NAMES by WILLIAM COYLE Associate Professor of English Wittenberg College For the academic mind classification is an occupational disease But sifting data into logical categories is a harmless though pedestrian form of mental exercitation which may possess a certain value in suggesting new approaches to the data or in providing a framework for systematic examination and discussion Although the full story behind each Ohio ...
... MINUTES OF MINUTES OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Deshler-Wallick Hotel Columbus Ohio April 8 1949 The Ohio Academy of History met in Columbus April 8 1949 in connection with the Ohio College Association More than one hundred persons attended the several sessions The morning session at 10 AM was devoted to a panel discussion on the subject American Cultural History as a Field of Specialization in the College and the Graduate School Members of the panel were Lyon N Richardson chief librarian ...
... THE MEDICAL TRAINING OF MATTHEW SIMPSON THE MEDICAL TRAINING OF MATTHEW SIMPSON 1830-1833 by ROBERT D CLARK Assistant Dean College of Liberal Arts University of Oregon Among the sources which give some insight into the medical and general education of the early Ohio physician are the papers of Matthew Simpson Simpson after a brief period as a physician became in the middle of the nineteenth century a bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church and one of the most eloquent pulpit and platform ...
... WILLIAM CHAMBERS IN AMERICA 1853 WILLIAM CHAMBERS IN AMERICA 1853 by W H G ARMYTAGE University of Sheffield America through British eyes has thrown up an enormous amount of comment and historical writing since the times of Mrs Trollope and the waspish Captain Basil Hall The recent reissue of an anthology bearing that title1 affords an excuse for adding yet a few more pages to that subject by calling attention to a work which is very often ignored when the subject is being studied It is a ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL BUSINESS SESSION 1000 AM APRIL 24 1942 OHIO STATE MUSEUM The Fifty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society convened in the auditorium of the Museum at 1000 AM on April 24 1 942 Mr Arthur C Johnson President of the Society called the meeting to order President Johnson in his brief introductory remarks referred to the small attendance caused no doubt by the fact ...
... DOCUMENT DOCUMENT THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JAMES HALL WESTERN LITERARY PIONEER edited by DAVID DONALD Instructor in History Columbia University Collecting data for his projected Cyclopaedia of American Literature Evert A Duyckinck in 1855 addressed the most prominent living writers in the United States requesting pertinent biographical and bibliographical information One of the most interesting replies came from James Hall veteran Cincinnati editor and author Taking time from his duties as bank ...