... The Civil War had been fought out and peace had returned to the land when a group of churchmen and reformers led by the Rev Charles G Finney of Oberlin who had long served as president of Oberlin College turned to make war on secret societies and the Masonic order in particular The crusade mildly agitated a part of the country for some years but lacking as it did the frenzy hysteria and political potency of the anti-Masonic movement of the 1820's and 1830's it eventually fell of its own ...
... THE AKRON CENTENNIAL THE AKRON CENTENNIAL JUL Y 1 8 19 20 21 22 23 1925 BY EDWIN W BROUSE The plans for the Centennial found their first public expression in the appointment of an executive committee of seven men and women by Mayor D C Rybolt The Mayor was selected chairman of this committee This Committee spent much time in constructive work both in formulating plans and in digesting the multifarious suggestions which were offered to them As a result of this preliminary work two additional ...
... UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF DR UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF DR DANIEL DRAKE By ALICE MCGUFFEY RUGGLES In the winter of 1847-48 Dr Daniel Drake then professor at the Louisville Medical Institute dashed off late at night after strenuous days of teaching and research the Reminiscential Letters to His Children published in 1879 in the Ohio Valley Historical Series under the title Pioneer Life in Kentucky This little book is the most vivid first-hand account of a pioneer boyhood in that region ever written ...
... DR DR JOHN MILTON BIGELOW 1804-1878 AN EARLY OHIO PHYSICIAN--BOTANIST By A E WALLER Meeting the name Bigelow in botanical publication the reader is sometimes confused The name of John M Bigelow the subject of this paper is close to John Bigelow a journalist and newspaper correspondent of New York City of the same period and also to a Dr Henry Jacob Bigelow interested in anesthetics of whom this paper will make no further mention as well as to Dr Jacob Bigelow of Massachusetts Dr Jacob Bigelow1 ...
... BUCKEYE ARGONAUTS BUCKEYE ARGONAUTS by ROBERT THOMAS Social Studies Instructor Pleasant Township High School Marion County Ohio On January 24 1848 James Wilson Marshall discovered flakes of gold in the tailrace of a sawmill he and John Sutter were erecting about fifty miles northeast of Sutter's Fort in Upper California As news of Marshall's discovery spread along the Pacific coast and then to all sections of the nation thousands of Americans rushed by land and by sea to the new E1 Dorado in ...
... 178 Ohio Arch 178 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications MEMORY OF ZEISBERGER A poetical tribute by John Milburn Harding New Philadelphia Ohio November 17 1 90 8 AT ZEISBERGER'S GRAVE One hundred years after he died There are tombs of the high there are graves of the low There are sepulchers sacred in story But the grave hollowed here just a century ago Has a halo of unselfish glory 'Mid the scenes of thy triumphs and direst defeat Near the spring rich in savage tradition Here you gave up the ...
... THE OHIO-MICHIGAN BOUNDARY DISPUTE THE OHIO-MICHIGAN BOUNDARY DISPUTE RE-EXAMINED By CARL WITTKE A hundred years ago the sovereign and independent state of Ohio and the Territory of Michigan mobilized their forces to settle a long-standing dispute over a slice of territory some seven miles wide at its western end and some eleven miles at its eastern end stretching across the State of Ohio from its western boundary to Lake Erie and comprising the valuable harbor at the mouth of the Maumee River ...
... 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 ...
... THE INFLUENCE OF NEW ENGLAND IN DETHE INFLUENCE OF NEW ENGLAND IN DENOMINATIONAL COLLEGES IN THE NORTHWEST 1830-1860 BY E KIDD LOCKARD By the third decade of the nineteenth century New England had come to regard the Northwest as a boundless meadow spiritually whitening for harvest The West itself cognizant of its latent possibilities in secular as well as in ecclesiastical affairs felt the increasing necessity for college-bred churchmen1 The need rose to such proportions that both parties felt ...
... WHY IS OHIO CALLED THE BUCKEYE STATE WHY IS OHIO CALLED THE BUCKEYE STATE AN ADDRESS BY WILLIAM M FARRAR THE name Buckeye as applied to the State of Ohio is an accepted sobriquet so well recognized and so generally understood throughout the United States that its use requires no explanation although the origin of the term and its significance are not without question and therefore become proper subjects of consideration during this Centennial year The usual and most commonly accepted solution ...
... 265 265 Book Reviews The Loyalist Americans A Focus on Greater New York Edited by Robert A East and Jacob Judd Tarrytown Sleepy Hollow Restorations 1975 xiv 176p illustrations notes appendix index 1200 Few aspects of life during the colonial era have failed to be singled out and judged in terms of their importance to the American Revolution yet important phases of that event remain inadequately explored Although the subject of several recent investigations Loyalism is a case in point For this ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Fall Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be October 13-14 1989 at Ohio University The Missouri Valley History Conference sponsored by the University of Nebraska at Omaha's History Department will be held March 8-10 1990 Those interested in further information concerning the conference should contact Jerold Simmons Program Coordinator MVHC Department of History University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha Nebraska 68182 The Pennsylvania Historical and ...
... GALLIPOLIS AS TRAVELERS SAW IT 1792-1811 GALLIPOLIS AS TRAVELERS SAW IT 1792-1811 By JOHN FRANCIS MCDERMOTT On the fourth of June 1790 Major John Burnham then at Marietta was instructed by General Rufus Putnam to proceed with the people engaged in the service of the trustees of the Scioto proprietors to a place on the Ohio next Chickamaga creek which will be shown to you by Col Meigs where you will begin operations The letter of instructions specified that the object is to erect four block ...
... The French Settlement and Settlers of Gallipolis The French Settlement and Settlers of Galli p olis 45 THE FRENCH SETTLEMENT AND SETTLERS OF GALLIPOLIS Preceding addresses and other papers have given the story of the Scioto Company under whose auspices the French settlers came to America I shall not attempt to repeat any part of this history but begin my narrative with the sailing of the first party of emigrants to their new homes in the unknown West which had been described to them in such ...
... THE ORIGIN OF THE GIDDINGS RESOLUTIONS THE ORIGIN OF THE GIDDINGS RESOLUTIONS By W SHERMAN SAVAGE The British Government abolished slavery in its West Indies possessions as early as 1833 The nearness of the slave states of the American Union to those islands made this a question of great concern and caused much confusion in the diplomatic relations of the two countries When ships from the Southern States with slaves on board were driven by stress of weather into these ports the slaves claimed ...
... The Centennial of Perry's Victory The Centennial of Perry's Victory 63 an approximation of the same moral responsibility for nations in dealing with each other that both good form and law impose upon individuals dealing with each other in society It will always be a source of regret to me that when England and France were willing to enter into general and unlimited arbitration treaties with us and the treaties were signed they failed for lack of ratification by the Senate They would not have ...
... CANNON CANNON THROUGH THE FOREST Novels of the Land Battles of the War of 1812 in the Old Northwest by C HARRISON ORIANS On June 18 1812 the Congress of the United States declared war on Great Britain This action was the climax of a half-decade of irritations and controversy The continental conflict in which Britain was engaged aggravated and inflamed the smoldering enmity which existed The declaration marked the victory of the war party in the twelfth congress elected in 1810 The war with ...
... DENTISTRY IN THE WESTERN RESERVE DENTISTRY IN THE WESTERN RESERVE BY CHESTER STANLEY SZUBISKI The territory of the Western Reserve was a strip of the Connecticut Reserve located south of Lake Erie north of the forty-first parallel and extended one hundred and twenty miles westward from the pennsylvania line This was a session of western lands to the federal government made by Connecticut in 1786 In 1792 half a million acres at the western end of the Connecticut R eserve was granted to those ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR DR THOMAS CORWIN MENDENHALL Dr Thomas Corwin Mendenhall died at his home in Ravenna Saturday March 22 He was a member of the first faculty of the Ohio State University and a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society A brief sketch of his life was published in the QUARTERLY of the Society for October 1921 He delivered the annual address at ...
... JOHN JAMES PIATT REPRESENTATIVE FIGURE JOHN JAMES PIATT REPRESENTATIVE FIGURE OF A MOMENTOUS PERIOD By CLARE DOWLER Biographical and Critical Study The development of Ohio from 1830 to I880 was spectacular It characterized in a fashion the development of the whole nation In this typical region it would be hard to find a more representative man than John James Piatt His life span began as Ohio was emerging out of the wilderness as Johnny Appleseed's trees were bearing abundantly and as the ...