... JOHN SHERMAN JOHN SHERMAN GEORGE U HARN Mr Harn is a native Ohioan having been born at Wooster where he was trained in the printing and journalistic profession When a mere lad he became the Columbus correspondent for the Cincinnati TimesChronicle now the Times-Star Later he became one of the owners of the Mansfield Herald with the business and editorial control of which he was connected for many years Under President McKinley Mr Harn was agent of the United States Internal Revenue Commission ...
... MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING Columbus Ohio September 19 1923 FORENOON SESSION 9 A M Pursuant to a call issued September 8 1923 the Society met and was called to order by President Campbell The following members were present Hon James E Campbell Mr E F Wood Mr George F Bareis Professor B F Prince Mr Henry J Booth General J Warren Keifer Colonel Webb C Hayes ...
... CHASE AND THE ELECTION OF 1860 CHASE AND THE ELECTION OF 1860 BY DONNAL V SMITH Continued from July QUARTERLY CHAPTER IV THE CHASE BOOM On New Year's Day 1864 the New York World lamented that the dawn of the last year of the most mournfully memorable presidential term in the annals of the Nation should still find the country rent asunder by civil convulsions It gave no hint of support for the President and his Cabinet they would have to be enlightened by the unmistakable voice of the people ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY SEPTEMBER 1887 SALMON P CHASE THE careful study of a grand and successful life like that of Chief Justice Chase cannot fail to be interesting whether viewed with regard to the position reached by one who from a farmer's boy in moderate circumstances came to be United States Senator twice Governor of Ohio Secretary of the Treasury and finally Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States or whether it be considered with regard to the ...
... THE OHIO G THE OHIO G A R AND POLITICS FROM 1866 TO 1900 By EDWARD NOYES The Grand Army of the Republic was founded in Illinois by Dr B F Stephenson in early April 1866 and its First National Encampment was held in Indianapolis in November of the same year under the direction of the founder At the first meeting eleven departments were represented two years later when the Second National Encampment was convened in Philadelphia evidence of growth of the organization was noted in the fact that ...
... NICOTIANA NICOTIANA AN ETHNOLOGIC HISTORIC AND LITERARY NOVELTY1 BY HENRY CLYDE SHETRONE The complete story of man his institutions activities and habits cannot be compiled solely from documentary evidence Man's physical origin and the spinning of the threads which were to determine the pattern of his behavior antedate by ages his realization of the importance of intentional records Such purposeful records moreover constituting what is popularly known as history supply only the latter chapters ...
... IMMIGRANT INSTITUTIONS IN CLEVELAND IMMIGRANT INSTITUTIONS IN CLEVELAND By WELLINGTON G FORDYCE The immigrant's church has been the strongest single force in preserving his racial solidarity Like the Pilgrim fathers the immigrants brought with them their Bibles hymn books clergy and churches These churches were strongly attached to the homeland depending upon it for literature and clergy Political and social antagonisms have been aroused among native Americans and the immigrant's religious ...
... LEONARD SCHLUP LEONARD SCHLUP The Sage of Athens Charles H Grosvenor and Presidential Politics in Ohio in 1908 Now largely forgotten by Ohioans Charles H Grosvenor 1833-1917 was an important political figure in Ohio during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries An Athens lawyer and veteran of the Civil War Grosvenor entered state politics in 1873 upon his election to the Ohio House of Representatives where he served as speaker from 1876 to 1878 He reached the pinnacle of his ...
... THE HAYES MEMORIAL THE HAYES MEMORIAL FREMENT OHIO The Memorial building a beautiful structure of classic architecture built of gray Ohio sandstone is located among the great trees north of the Hayes residence facing Hayes Avenue Broad steps lead up to the bronze doors of the pillared portico On entering the great square hall or atrium flanked with eight massive columns one passes under the flags of the countries which claimed ownership of this region from the discovery of America until the ...
... Twenty Years at Hiram House by JUDITH A T RO LANDER Toward the end of the nineteenth century the settlement movement reached the United States Hull House the most outstanding and second oldest settlement was established in Chicago in 1889 The first social settlement in Cleveland to actually do settlement work as such was Hiram House founded in 18961 Today however Hiram House has been largely forgotten partly because George Bellamy the founder and director throughout its existence published ...
... A Toledo Trade Union and A Toledo Trade Union and The Arizona Constitution of 1910 By PAUL G HUBBARD THE PERSISTENT DEMAND FOR REFORM in American government was running strong in 1911 On the local level many cities were experimenting with the commission form of government which was supposed to eliminate some of the weaknesses of the mayor-council system and to thwart the bosses Following the lead of South Dakota in 1898 several states adopted the initiative and referendum to afford the people ...
... 246 Ohio Arch 246 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Mississippi Their bones are heaped in trenches where the leaden hail fell thickest and bleach unfound in prison pens where ghastly famine stalked The turbulent waves of the Atlantic and the tepid waters of the Gulf flow over the iron ships in which they are forever coffined They are the Unknown Dead -peace to their ashes These war-wasted flags are their most glorious memorial-these flags that are While for their precious honor red for ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Society of American Archivists SAA will hold its 1994 annual meeting at the Westin Hotel in Indianapolis Indiana September 6 through September 11 The general theme will be The Archival Core Defining the Profession in the Information Age For more information about the meeting contact either Bruce L Johnson Director of the Library at the Indiana Historical Society at 317 232-1879 or Eric Pumroy Head of Special Collections and Archives at Indiana ...
... SERVICES OF THE OHIO COMPANY IN DEFENDSERVICES OF THE OHIO COMPANY IN DEFENDING THE UNITED STATES FRONTIER FROM INVASION WHEN General Putnam undertook the superintending of the Ohio Company and landed with his organized force of pioneers at Marietta on April 7th 1788 he assumed a more important and difficult task than that of opening a wilderness for cultivation and providing houses and homes for settlers On his way out from Massachusetts he stopped over in New York and made himself thoroughly ...
... FINNEY'S FIGHT AGAINST THE MASONS FINNEY'S FIGHT AGAINST THE MASONS by CHARLES C COLE JR Assistant Dean Columbia College Columbia University Mention antimasonry and the historian and scholar think immediately of the famous Morgan affair of 1826 The story of the abduction of William Morgan a bricklayer of Batavia New York after he had published a book revealing the secrets of Freemasonry is a familiar one in American history The resultant wave of ill-feeling against Masons which culminated in ...
... REPORTS REPORTS THE BURIAL PLACE OF JOHN CHAPMAN JOHNNY APPLESEED Report of the Commission Appointed by the American Pomological Society to Investigate Its Location Much has been published and more said and written regarding the life and work of John Chapman Johnny Appleseed the pioneer collector and planter of apple seeds and the distributor of seedling apple trees in western New York and Pennsylvania and throughout the Ohio Valley northern Ohio and Indiana and southwestern Michigan While a ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Jonathan Stealey an adjunct assistant professor of art at The University of Findlay has been named to the Bicentennial Planning Committee of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation Inc The Foundation based in Washington DC encompasses a wide spectrum of government officials historians and enthusiasts dedicated to preserving national interest in the historical worth of the nation's best-documented exploration of the American west Commissioned by ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Alexandra Gripenberg's A Half Year in the New World Miscellaneous Sketches of Travel in the United States 1 888 Translated and edited by Ernest J Moyne Newark University of Delaware Press 1954 xv225p frontispiece and index This volume recounts the observations of Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg distinguished Finnish journalist author feminist and temperance advocate during a six months' visit to the United States in 1888 The baroness came to America as a delegate to an ...
... OHIO THE GATEWAY OF THE WEST OHIO THE GATEWAY OF THE WEST BY CARRIE B ZIMMERMAN The story of Ohio the Gateway of the West reveals in its rapid development its swift evolution from a primeval wilderness to one of the most highly cultivated industrial and agricultural centers in the world what can be accomplished when given extraordinary geographic conditions combined with rare qualities of human character With a northern shore-line of more than two hundred miles stretching along Lake Erie and ...
... JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL IN MEMORIAM BY C B GALBREATH James Edwin Campbell is dead in his 81st year His sudden death is a great shock to this community and fills our hearts with profound sorrow He had just returned home from a testimonial dinner to former Federal Judge John E Sater When the dinner was over he chatted with old friends I'll live to be a hundred he remarked as he smiled and talked with them One hour later he was stricken His two daughters and his son Andrew O ...