... 508 Ohio Arch 508 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications It will not be disturbed by wars and revolutions but it will tower sublime while monarchies totter and fall it will stand majestic immutable the American Republic Applause ADDRESS OF THEODORE E BURTON Following the address of Colonel Cole President Johnson said I wish I might possess some of this inspiring oratory of the last speaker in making these introductions However my limitations leave me only the power to say in simple way that ...
... 634 Ohio Arch 634 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The custodian reports that during the year twenty-two thousand visitors to the park have registered and he estimates that fully as many more did not register making at least forty-four thousand people who visited the park during the year This is the largest number of visitors in a single year in the history of the park This may be due in part to the improved road from Hillsboro to Peebles which passes by the park Signed W H COLE WM C ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Constitutional History of the United States 1826-1876 A More Perfect Union By Homer C Hockett New York Macmillan Company 1939 405p 300 The first volume of this series The Blessings of Liberty was reviewed in the QUARTERLY XLIX 1940 292-94 In it Professor Hockett discussed the colonial background the Revolutionary Period and the first third of a century under the new Constitution Here he treats of the slavery controversy but to minimize the boredom of readers who ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 105 the people as one might suppose it to have been in the days of the tenth century The author carries the credulity of his reader to the very limit For instance he fully describes the girls' and boys' schools at Lekin the name which he gives to the present site of Newark in the vicinity of which there still stand to-day vast and complete earth-works of those long lost tribes These people as General Beatty pictures them with a graphic pen reached a stage of ...
... HELEN M HELEN M THURSTON The 1802 Constitutional Convention and Status of the Negro What does the 1802 Ohio constitution say regarding freedom suffrage and citizen rights for negroes and mulattoes1 How were decisions made at the constitutional convention Who were the decision-makers Since even today confusion exists in historical studies on these questions it is hoped that answers in some degree can be obtained from a vote by vote study of the eight major motions concerning the negro that were ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Better Known as Johnny Appleseed By Mabel Leigh Hunt Philadelphia and New York J B Lippincott Co 1950 212p 250 History is a mixture of legend and fact And of the two legend is the more important For it is what people think happened or say happened not what actually did happen that becomes significant over a period of time Truly no matter how close to an historical fact the research scholar may come the mass of people do not pay heed to him They believe the fiction ...
... 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 ...
... THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF OHIO ITS RESOURCES by LOUIS LEONARD TUCKER PICTURE A VICTORIAN structure with dingily lighted rooms which are filled with antiquated display cases containing such items as Grandma Wiggins' dress of 1872 a piece from the keelboat that transported Ebenezer Smith our town's first settler a fire helmet worn by a volunteer who fought our town's greatest fire in 1867 Fill out this scene with two or three woman curators of octogenarian vintage who have an ...
... F M WHITAKER F M WHITAKER Ohio WCTU and the Prohibition Amendment Campaign of 1883 The Woman's Christian Temperance Union may be said to be a product of Ohio in at least two ways One its foundation is the only lasting result of a phenomenon of the winter and spring of 1873-1874 known as the Woman's Crusade which achieved its first success and national recognition in Ohio This movement in which bands of respectable ladies marched in groups upon saloons in various locations singing praying and ...
... GEORGE C GEORGE C CROUT Albert B Graham School Days of a Schoolmaster Albert B Graham was born March 13 1868 or as he expressed it in his own wry sense of humor came up between two stalks of corn on the last farm on Route 36 west of St Paris in Champaign County1 From as early as he could remember he had aspirations of being a schoolmaster When he first revealed his secret ambition his Scotch-Presbyterian father remarked What a thing for a lad to decide when there is a mortgage on the farm2 ...
... 538 Ohio Arch 538 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The Secretary Mr Galbreath closed the afternoon session with an account of the capture imprisonment and execution of Edwin Coppoc who was with John Brown at Harper's Ferry dwelling particularly on the plan of Cook and Coppoc to escape from jail at Charleston and the story of the coffin of Coppoc which is now in the museum of the Society This account in ampler form is found elsewhere in the present issue of the QUARTERLY ANNUAL MEETING ...
... Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 621 Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 621 Outlines of Psychology by Dr Henry G Williams now President of Wilmington College Wilmington Ohio One lot of school publications by R Heber Holbrook in the interest of the Lebanon School to-wit The Reunion The National Normal The Home and School The National Normal Exponent Also catalogues of the school for the years 1873-74 1875-76 1882-83 1883-84 and 1891-93 Among the noted graduates from this school were ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR THE MOUND BUILDERS A chorus of cordial appreciation greets the sumptuous volume entitled The Mound Builders by Henry Clyde Shetrone Director of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Promptly on its appearance from the press the following appreciative review appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer THE MOUND BUILDERS THE MOUND BUILDERS By Henry Clyde Shetrone D Appleton amp Co New York Ohio should be proud that it is ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS JOSHUA REED GIDDINGS A CHAMPION OF POLITICAL FREEDOM BY BYRON R LONG There never was a time perhaps when there was less need for furnishing material for readers than just now The worldwar has been productive of thot and action such as has enlisted thousands of good writers who are keeping record of incidents and are setting down impressions which are moving the souls of men as profoundly as any that human life has experienced The excuse for ...
... INDEX INDEX COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ACE of Roosevelt The 74 Ahlstrom Sydney E 66 Albacete MJ Architecture in Canton 87 with D'Arti and Reeves Ohio Quilts A Living Tradition 87 Alexander Charles C Here the Country Lies Nationalism and the Arts in Twentieth-Century America rev 135-37 American City 21 American Institute of Architects 7 29 Angel William D Jr book rev 121-22 Athony Wayne Trail 33 Anti-Saloon League of Cleveland 71 Annual Meeting Non-Partisan WCTU 1875 70 1889 72 Annual Report ...
... VICTOR B VICTOR B HOWARD The 1856 Election in Ohio Moral Issues in Politics In recent years a growing number of social scientists have taken the position that ethnic and cultural diversity of American society and not ideologies of platforms of the major parties have been the chief factors in determining American political alignments1 Samuel P Hays insists that party ideologies never reflect the major concern of the local electorate and on that level ethno-cultural issues are much more ...
... SAMUEL FURMAN HUNT SAMUEL FURMAN HUNT CHARLES W HOFFMAN Under the dome of the church of St Paul in London lies its builder the great Christopher Wren on his tomb is the modest inscription Reader if you seek his monument look around The memory of Hunt will not be perpetuated like that of Wren in magnificent buildings beautiful in architecture and symmetrical in their proportions but it will endure for generations in that temple of respect and affection intangible yet real that he erected in the ...
... OHIO IN AFRICA OHIO IN AFRICA By EDWARD WESLEY SHUNK The fortunes of the American Colonization Society and its auxiliaries in Ohio were at an extremely low ebb in the 1840's and the failure of the Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851 to aid the cause further depressed its members Yet an amazing spurt of activity in the 1850's almost turned the tables The appointment of a really competent agent David Christy added to the collections from Ohio until the yearly contributions averaged over 2000 ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President The meeting of the society in March was addressed by Rabbi Milton Schulman who spoke on The Clothing Industry in the Midwest 1850-1870 in April a former resident of Allen County James O Montague now of Milwaukee Wisconsin spoke on Seventy Years In and Out of Allen County The April issue of the Reporter included an article on Bicycling in Lima 1880-1894 by Ferne M Longsworth It ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Pony Wagon Town--Along U S 1890 By Ben Riker Indianapolis Bobbs-Merrill Co 1948 312p illustrations 350 This book is an account of the carriage-building trade in western Ohio in the last decade of the nineteenth century but by the author's own admission he has not been greatly interested in writing a social or economic document My concern has been chiefly to set down the facts of my father's achievements and the way in which he and his neighbors lived a number of very ...