... Rutherford B Hayes and The Ohio State University by WALTER S HAYES JR It was bitterly cold the day former President Hayes arrived in Cleveland in January 1893 He had come from Columbus and was in search of someone to head the new manual training department for The Ohio State University Both as a member and as the president of the board of trustees he had been actively concerned with the establishment of a good manual training department for the institution Snow fell and was blown by a wind ...
... 260 Ohio Arch 260 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications believing that the people should be accommodated The well is not quite finished The number of people who visit the fort on the Sabbath day runs from 1500 to 2000 Even on last Sabbath dark and gloomy and rainy there were one hundred automobiles present perhaps with five hundred people Our Society must take care of them in the best possible way The present graveled road was built about twenty-five years ago when only poky horses drawing ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 221 Society Wednesday evening and a reception Thursday afternoon by President and Mrs Harper at their residence corner of Fifty-ninth street and Lexington avenue President Harper is an Ohio man and was formerly connected with Muskingum College at New Concord His wife is also a Buckeye and when a girl lived in Mansfield She is the daughter of the Rev David Paul who was the pastor of the Mansfield United Presbyterian Church from 1858 until 1864 when he resigned to ...
... THE RISE OF THE DENOMINATIONAL COLLEGE THE RISE OF THE DENOMINATIONAL COLLEGE BY RUSSELL M STOREY Of all the groups that had their part in the early educational life of the Ohio Valley none more completely ran the gamut of pioneer experiences than the founders and builders of the denominational colleges They were hewers of wood and drawers of water in their persons they combined the functions of builder janitor teacher business manager and president together with whatever other odds and ends ...
... MRS MRS TROLLOPE IN PORKOPOLIS by WILLIAM H HILDRETH Professor of English Ohio State University On January 1 1828 Frances Milton Trollope an English housewife with three of her children left the port of New Orleans bound north on the steamboat Belvidere She was going to Cincinnati to set herself up in business Left behind in England were her husband Thomas and their two older sons Thomas Trollope a failure at both law and farming sat in England and brooded over his ill luck dosed himself with ...
... Log Architecture 173 Log Architecture 173 Author's Comments The material presented in this text is a resume of six years of accumulating data on log architecture in Ohio It began as a photographic study of extant structures with no end in mind save the visual recording of an almost extinct form of construction While working on various research projects for The Ohio Historical Society this writer filed for future reference the numerous contemporary comments on log construction which gradually ...
... MARKING THE OLD ABOLITION HOLES MARKING THE OLD ABOLITION HOLES BY FELIX J KOCH CINCINNATI A quadroon girl in Sunday best strolled down the quiet little main street of Ripley in southern Ohio not long since and coming to the crest of the bluff whence the long descent begins to the river she rested her arms on an immaculately white monument set to the famous old abolitionists of Ripley-the place where Eliza crossed the ice in the story-and waved a handkerchief in signal to some dusky paramour ...
... MUSKINGUM RIVER PILOTS MUSKINGUM RIVER PILOTS THEIR DUTIES AND REQUIREMENTS BY IRVEN TRAVIS The first pilots to navigate the Muskingum river were men who handled floating crafts This was before the advent of steamboats and also before the improvement of the river by a series of locks and dams such as we now have kept up by the federal government In the handling of such crafts the pilot was guided very much by the draft of water by which at such places as island chutes and other ripples the ...
... arrayed the Republican members against the act It passed by a strict party vote and immediately became a party issue59 The discussion in the press in some instances became ridiculously strained All efforts of the Republicans centered on arousing the prejudices of the anti-Catholic and foreign elements Concerning the Grogan Act Harper's Weekly said A bill was introduced into the Ohio assembly by a Mr Grogan one plain object of which is stated ...
... 274 Ohio Arch 274 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON MOUND CITY PARK Mr A C Spetnagel Chairman of the Committee read the following report The Committee appointed to supervise the restoration of the Mound City Group of prehistoric earthworks and the construction of a state park from the tract on which they are located offers the following brief report Foreword For the benefit of those who may not be informed it may be stated that the Mound City group of ...
... FAVORABLE ACTION OF THE GENERAL ASFAVORABLE ACTION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON BUDGET OF THE SOCIETY The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is gradually coming into full recognition as one of the important educational agencies of the state Evidence of this fact is found in the recognition accorded it by the General Assembly of the state at its last regular session Its place among the institutions of the state was recognized when the trustees of the Ohio State University granted ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Ohio in the American Revolution A Conference to Commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the Ft Gower Resolves Edited by Thomas H Smith Volume I of The Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Conference Series Columbus The Ohio Historical Society 1976 34p illustrations 200 Though not one of the thirteen original colonies the Ohio country did play a role in the revolutionary events that the American people have been commemorating during the bicentennial During the decade ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Amphibians of Ohio Part I The Frogs and Toads Order Salientia By Charles F Walker Ohio State Museum Science Bulletin Vol I No 3 Columbus Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1946 109p 100 Teachers students naturalists and herpetologists will be glad to know that this much needed paper on the frogs and toads of Ohio has at last made its appearance Although the numbers of kinds of this Order of tailless amphibians Salientia native to Ohio are very limited ...
... THE ARCHAIC CULTURES AND THE ADENA PEOPLE THE ARCHAIC CULTURES AND THE ADENA PEOPLE by WILLIAM S WEBB Head Department of Anthropology University of Kentucky The Early Hunters Early man in America cannot boast a record of great antiquity There is no evidence to suggest his development from more primitive ancestors in very ancient times as is the case of man's record in the Old World Early man in America was a migrant coming to this continent from Siberia as a hunter of big game some time ...
... Rise and Decline of Private Rise and Decline of Private Academies in Albany Ohio by Ivan M Tribe The nineteenth century witnessed the establishment of numerous private educational institutions commonly known as academies These academies were especially widespread in states north of the Ohio River and could be found both in the cities and in rural villages1 One Ohio town which boasted a succession of these schools was Albany incorporated in 1842 a small farm village in southwestern Athens ...
... 28 Ohio Arch 28 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications master introduced Mrs Herbert Backus Vice-President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution RESPONSE OF MRS HERBERT BACKUS Mr Toastmaster Distinguished Guests and Friends A story was told me the other day of a farmer who took unto himself his second wife He brought her to the home of her predecessor After some time had elapsed she told him that she needed some new shoes that all her shoes were worn out He said Well Samantha ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 299 known as Campus Martius and shall hold the same and the property thereon subject to such use as the General Assembly may direct E J HOPPLE Speaker of the House of Representatives EARL D BLOOM President of the Senate Passed March 21 1917 Approved March 29 1917 JAMES M Cox G overnor Filed in office of Secretary of State April 2 1917 STEPHEN D PEET IN MEMORIAM It was in one of the early months of the year 1875 that Isaac Smucker of Newark and Stephen D Peet then ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 65 NUMBER 1 JANUARY 1956 From England to Ohio 1830-1832 The Journal of Thomas K Wharton Edited by JAMES H RODABAUGH This is the journal of an immigrant boy who came from his native England to the United States in 1830 and lived for nearly two years in Ohio It was transcribed by the author in 1854 and here and there recollections were added It is an interesting journal for several reasons It relates in detail the story of the ...
... The Ohio Canal Movement 1820-1825 The Ohio Canal Movement 1820-1825 By HARRY N SCHEIBER NO SINGLE ACT of the Ohio General Assembly prior to the Civil War had so profound an effect upon the state's economic development as did the bill of February 4 1825 by which construction of the state's canal system was first authorized On the eve of the bill's passage Alfred Kelley one of its eading exponents sought to explain to De Witt Clinton of New York the reasons why the Ohio legislature had agreed to ...
... John Bailhache John Bailhache A British Editor in Early Ohio By WILLIAM L FISK THE WESTERN PRESS was one of the chief formative inf l uences upon public opinion in early ninteenth-century Ohio Cut off by time and distance from eastern standards and eastern inhibitions it might apprise its readers of the imminent threat of British interests in the Old Northwest and at the same time vigorously promote regional or sectional interests or gleefully involve itself in internecine warfare with other ...