... THE WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY THE WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY By ELBERT J BENTON As the Western Reserve Historical Society has passed the three score and ten commonly allotted as the span of human life having recently celebrated its seventy-fifth birthday it would seem to have attained a respectable age The record however shows that there are twenty-two historical societies in the United States which were founded more than one hundred years ago One who is familiar with the ...
... WHEN DID OHIO IN FACT BECOME A SOVEREIGN WHEN DID OHIO IN FACT BECOME A SOVEREIGN STATE OF THE UNION BY HON RUSH R SLOANE In considering this question it is necessary to advert to the fact that after the Declaration of Independence Connecticut set up a claim to the north part of Ohio above latitude 41 north and Virginia claimed Ohio below that line as being within the limits of her charter While these questions caused some discussion and negotiation they were amicably settled and on the 13th ...
... TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR FEBRUARY 18 1896 TO FEBRUARY 1 1897 GEN R BRINKERHOFF President E 0 RANDALL Secretary COLUMBUS O JANUARY 1 897 291 292 To His Excellency Asa S To His Excellency Asa S Bushnell Governor of Ohio SIRI have the honor to submit herewith the twelfth annual report of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society covering the year from February 19 1896 to February 1 1897 This ...
... 280 Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly 28 0 Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly present war in such manner that the said lands be sold out or otherwise disposed of for the common benefit of all the states and that the money arising from the sale of those lands or the quit rents reserved thereon may be deemed and taken as part of the monies belonging to the United States and as such be appropriated by congress towards defraying the expences of the war and the payment of ...
... NEWS and NOTES ADLAI E STEVENSON United States ambassador to the United Nations has given his papers relating to his campaign for governor of Illinois in 1948 and the papers of his terms as governor 1949-53 to the Illinois State Historical Society Springfield In a statement accompanying his letter of gift Ambassador Stevenson said Feeling that the preservation of papers affecting our past is important for the future and because of my family's long residence in Illinois and close connection ...
... ECHOES OUT OF THE PAST ECHOES OUT OF THE PAST BY CAROLINE M ZIMMERMAN The museum of the Clark County Ohio Historical Society houses many objects worthy of song or story many objects around which cluster a wealth of romantic lore fit to inspire a modern saga of great worth and beauty Of all these objets d'art there is doubtless none that carries a greater feminine appeal than a quaint little piano more than a century old the first in fact to have been brought into the county There it stands ...
... THE ORIGIN OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN OHIO THE ORIGIN OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN OHIO BY WILLIAM MC ALPINE M A A certain very excellent history of education says that in Ohio public education was a victory of the New England element over the other parts of Ohio's population In the same work there are certain maps taken from Mathews' Expansion of New England Certain parts of the state where the New England population is supposed to have predominated are marked white The remainder is black The ...
... THE MIAMI PURCHASE OF JOHN CLEVES THE MIAMI PURCHASE OF JOHN CLEVES SYMMES BY R PIERCE BEAVER I INTRODUCTION The Miami Country1 includes about five thousand square miles in southwestern Ohio with a small adjoining portion of Indiana2 in the main the basins and valleys of the two Miami rivers extending more than a hundred miles inland from a fifty-mile base on the Ohio The region holds a most important place in the history of Ohio and the Northwest In the days before the settlement of Ohio it ...
... Leo Lesquereux Leo Lesquereux 279 LEO LESQUEREUX BY EDWARD ORTON The revocation of the Edict of Nantes inflicted an irreparable injury upon the French nation in depleting it of its middle class from which its industrial energy its science literature and art were mainly drawn but the Protestant neighbors of France gained correspondingly thereby England Holland Switzerland and the English colonies in North America were greatly enriched by this enforced emigration These Huguenot exiles brought ...
... MILL CREEK PARK MILL CREEK PARK AND THE SOURCE OF MILL CREEK BY CHARLES BURLEIGH GALBREATH When the earth took spherical and solid form it presented in the earliest ages whose records have been deciphered on the rocks a surface of land and water The continental areas were then limited and low Much of what now constitutes the dry land was under water In North America the land portions were chiefly north of the Great Lakes What is now the Mississippi valley was then covered by a great inland sea ...
... ADDRESS AT FORT MEIGS ADDRESS AT FORT MEIGS By W J CAMERON The best proof a nation can give that it is gro w ing up is a lively interest in its history From the records of what they have done a people can form an estimate of what they are and from that they may draw an augury of their future Not only does history recall the past it also explains the present This pilgrimage to scenes immortalized in early northwestern history arranged by the historical societies in Ohio Indiana Michigan and ...
... 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 ...
... COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS EARLY OHIO PAINTERS CINCINNATI 1830-1850 by DONALD R MacKENZIE WHEN AN 1840 editor of the New York Star wrote Cincinnati What is there in the atmosphere of Cincinnati that has so thoroughly awakened the arts of sculpture and painting he was expressing an outsider's appraisal of the Queen City The famous Mrs Trollope after three years in Cincinnati had come nearer the truth with her observation on the indigenous American artist With regard to the fine arts ...
... RICHARD THEODORE BOEHM RICHARD THEODORE BOEHM Tod B Galloway Buckeye Jongleur Composer of The Whiffenpoof Song How did the music for Yale's famous Whiffenpoof Song come to be composed by an Amherst College grad in Central Ohio And how did the Columbus tune come to be matched to a New Haven college verse thence grow to become a part of the common heritage of the world of American music The answers emerge from a varied skein starting with homesick British soldiers serving in Victoria's India ...
... PRESENTATION OF McGUFFEY READERS PRESENTATION OF McGUFFEY READERS On Tuesday evening February 15 1927 a meeting of unusual interest was held in the audience room of the Museum and Library Building on the Ohio State University Campus The program announced a joint session of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and the McGuffey Society of Columbus Ohio The purpose of the meeting is indicated in the following announcement The McGuffey Society of Columbus Ohio presents to the Ohio ...
... THE CHARCOAL IRON INDUSTRY OF THE THE CHARCOAL IRON INDUSTRY OF THE HANGING ROCK IRON DISTRICT--ITS INFLUENCE ON THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE OHIO VALLEY BY WILBUR STOUT INTRODUCTION The Hanging Rock Iron District as defined by the iron masters embraced the furnaces and furnace lands and also the adjacent properties over which iron ores limestones and charcoal were gathered It included parts of Carter Boyd and Greenup Counties Kentucky and parts of Lawrence Scioto Gallia Jackson Vinton and ...
... CHRIS CUMO CHRIS CUMO The Carmichael Case Animal Science At The Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station 1905-1921 The late nineteenth century was an important period in Ohio because agricultural education and science began to take shape then Farmers had welcomed the Morrill Act of 1862 and the Ohio legislature translated it into institutional form by creating The Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1870 which the Board of Trustees renamed The Ohio State University in 18781 Its creation ...
... THE REFORM MOVEMENT IN OHIO AT THE TURN THE REFORM MOVEMENT IN OHIO AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY By JAME S H RODABAUGH The end of the nineteenth century in a very real sense sounded the knell of the frontier or pioneer period of American development and opened the doors upon a new era in which industrialization and its concomitant social and economic reorganization and readjustments and political bewilderment were the dominant forces Frederick Jackson Turner opened his remarkably perceptive ...
... DANIEL HOSMER GARD DANIEL HOSMER GARD At the close of the American Revolution when the Great West was still an unknown vastness save from the tales brought out by leather and fur clothed traders or scouts fortune and fancy invited and beckoned the settlers of the Colonies to come and partake of its virgin fertility The Continental Congress which was without funds desiring to strike the popular chord pleasing to the ear of those who had fought and starved in this dismal battle for Freedom ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Saving the Waifs Reformers and Dependent Children 1890-1917 By LeRoy Ashby Philadelphia Temple University Press 1984 xiii 336p notes bibliographical notes index 3795 This fine book reflects the current interest in dependent children private philanthropy and public policy and shares the hypothesis of other recent works that since child welfare is somehow at the heart of Progressive reformism understanding the child savers is key to understanding Progressivism In these ...