... MARIAN J MARIAN J MORTON Go and Sin No More Maternity Homes in Cleveland 1869-1936 In 1869 the Woman's Christian Association of Cleveland founded the Retreat the first of the city's maternity homes and refuges for women who had lost the glory of their womanhood1 Its founders sought to emulate Christ's injunction to Mary Magdalen Woman sin no more thy faith hath saved thee2 As its name suggests the Retreat was a shelter a refuge in which the fallen woman both victim and sinner could be saved ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Taft Story By William S White New York Harper amp Brothers 1954 x282p illustrations and index 350 Within certain limits William S White a very able New York Times Washington correspondent has produced a useful study of the late Senator Taft It should be added quickly however that the limits are indeed limited The book does not pretend to be a biography in fact it is without documentation woefully out of balance and loosely put together Still there emerges a ...
... COUNTY AND LOCAL HISTORICAL MATERIAL COUNTY AND LOCAL HISTORICAL MATERIAL IN THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY LIBRARY Compiled by CLARENCE L WEAVER and HELEN M MILLS PREFACE A great many requests come daily for information on the history of localities in the State In 1936 the first edition of this list was compiled and published with the title County Historical Material in the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Library as a convenient guide to this material ...
... JEFFREY P JEFFREY P BROWN Chillicothe's Elite Leadership in a Frontier Community The Northwest Territory was dominated by its small urban communities even though most settlers were farmers The towns became crucial regional centers for business politics and cultural affairs They served as headquarters for wealthy and powerful merchants provided a base for lawyer-politicians and often contained the homes of prominent rural landowners A few of the Northwest's towns eventually grew into great ...
... The Rise and Decline of The Rise and Decline of The Cheese Industry In Lorain County By FRANK C VAN CLEEF THE SECTION OF OHIO NOW KNOWN AS LORAIN COUNTY was first settled about 1820 The ensuing three decades saw the southerly and westerly portion of the Western Reserve being cleared of forests and the land put into pastures and meadows The soil the topography and the climate proved to be quite ideally adapted to dairy farming And so this entire section in a period of thirty to forty years was ...
... DIARY OF IMPRISONMENT 51 DIARY OF IMPRISONMENT 51 Saturday 29 Very cold night--heavy frost No ax to be had My mess tried to make an apology for last nights treatment but I told them that I had been with my friend--out upon such selfishness Such is the action of a large portion of the prisoners Cannot send letters through without a CS stamp on them Wrote yesterday to wife but am waiting to get a stamp Lt Thos Hare gave me a stamp and I put the letter in the box Slept with Lt Anderson 3rd Iowa ...
... EARLY OHIO MEDICINE A MUSEUM DISPLAY EARLY OHIO MEDICINE A MUSEUM DISPLAY By EDWARD S T HO MAS As a compliment to the medical history section of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society the Museum of the Society arranged a special exhibit featuring early days of Ohio medicine which attracted a great deal of attention not only on the part of medical practitioners pharmacists and students but also the general public Emphasis was placed on medical practice prior to 1860 but some ...
... THE BREADTH OF VISION OF DR THE BREADTH OF VISION OF DR JOHN STRONG NEWBERRY By A E WALLER Ph D1 Attention has been directed to the interesting circumstance that many of our leaders in the natural sciences whose schooling ended before 1850 held degrees in medicine When it is asked how this happens to be the case the facts seem to show that only the colleges of medicine offered an approach in training and teaching to modern laboratory study Thus Asa Gray John Torrey George Engelmann to mention ...
... VIRGINIA R VIRGINIA R BOYNTON Contested Terrain The Struggle Over Gender Norms for Black Working-Class Women in Cleveland's Phillis Wheatley Association 1920-1950 When Adrien Jean Smith came to live at the Phillis Wheatley Association PWA of Cleveland Ohio in 1947 the young unemployed black woman was hired as a domestic servant by the home for black working women Although her work satisfied her employers for a time Smith's off-hours behavior constantly irritated and concerned the black ...
... BOOK BOOK REVIEWS THREE YEARS IN CHILE BY MRS GEORGE G MERWIN Edited with an introduction by C Harvey Gardiner Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press 1966 xviii102p 450 Not widely recognized for what it really is an interesting early Ohio book has been published as the fourth in a valuable series of Latin American Travel reprints The book is presented as a New York publication of Follett Foster amp Company in 1863 and the editor neither mentions the fact that it first came out two years ...
... Executive Mansion Executive Mansion 271 such recommendation into effect had been taken or attempted by the general assembly On February 16 1917 a resolution was adopted authorizing the appointment of a committee to investigate the cost of purchasing a residence already erected and also the cost of purchasing a site and causing a proper residence to be erected thereon in Columbus to be used as a home for future governors of the state 107 0 L 7 60 On March 30 1917 the governor approved an act ...
... Francisca Bauer the Sister of the Woods Francisca Bauer the Sister of the Woods By EDMUND L BINSFELD OLD THEODORE WILLIAMS of Norwalk Ohio liked to reminisce and when the Rev Frederick Rupert pastor at St Paul's Roman Catholic parish there was preparing what he called an outline history of the Catholic churches in that area Williams told the priest about the early days Among other things Williams said that when he was a boy of eight he saw at sunset one September evening in 1828 two ...
... THOMAS JEFFERSON'S VIEWS ON SLAVERY THOMAS JEFFERSON'S VIEWS ON SLAVERY BY C B GALBREATII To one who has read the works of Thomas Jefferson it would seem that there should be no question in regard to his views of slavery Because such question has been raised reiterated and made a matter of public record and because his attitude has been thus questioned by many prominent in the early history of Ohio it may not be out of place to review here the testimony offered in regard to the real views that ...
... 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 ...
... THE MICHIGAN-INDIANA-OHIO MUSEUMS THE MICHIGAN-INDIANA-OHIO MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION Edited by HARLOW LINDLEY In the autumn of 1927 at the invitation of Mr George R Fox of the Chamberlain Memorial Museum of Three Oaks Michigan a small group of museum workers from Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan met in Three Oaks for a conference and round table discussion Mr Charles E Brown chief of the Wisconsin Historical Museum at Madison was in attendance and led some of the discussions At the close of ...
... WHISTLE-STOPPING Through Ohio by RICHARD O DAVIES Ohio played an important role in returning Harry S Truman to the White House in 1948 Prior to the election he had been foredoomed to defeat by all reputable political seers Ohio was seen as being safely within the Republican fold and was supposedly prepared to take part in a nationwide Republican blitz Elmo Roper for example quit taking samples of voter preference as early as September 9 with the comment that only a political convulsion could ...
... 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 ...
... DONALD A DONALD A HUTSLAR Ohio Waterpowered Sawmills Introduction The reduction of large timber into useful sizes for woodworking is an ancient process beginning long before the written word Metal tools were not necessary Before the advent of metal axes in North America the Indians were accustomed to felling trees by alternately charring the trunk with fire and breaking away the burned surface-presumably with large stone axes Dugout canoes were also hollowed out in this fashion Splitting is ...
... COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS the RUFUS PUTNAM HOUSE at the Campus Martius Museum by DANIEL R PORTER THE RUFUS PUTNAM house at the Campus Martius Museum State Memorial is the most outstanding architectural combination of New England tradition and frontier necessity preserved in Ohio today The house exemplifies as well the military and domestic challenges which faced the pioneers who established Marietta the first authorized United States settlement in the Old Northwest It was natural that New ...
... SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL XLVI PAGE For Index of Authors see Contents PAGE Abstract of the Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Held April 20 1937 290-292 Annual Report of the Secretary of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society April 21 1936--April 20 1937 271-278 ARCHAEOLOGY Greenman Emerson F Two Prehistoric Villages near Cleveland Ohio 305-366 ART--ANECDOTES FACETIAE ...