... ANDREW R ANDREW R L CAYTON A Quiet Independence The Western Vision of the Ohio Company Speculative schemes and idealistic visions merged in postRevolutionary America to produce many new towns in the rapidly expanding Northwest Territory A group of New England veterans of the American Revolution organized as the Ohio Company of Associates established the first such community on April 7 1788 at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers some 200 miles downstream from Pittsburgh They called ...
... 476 Ohio Arch 476 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The Functions of Museums and the Question of Special Exhibitions by Frederic A Lucas American Museum of Natural History The Museum Point of View in Botany by E L Morris Brooklyn Institute Museum A Celestial Sphere-An Appartus Installed to Promote Interest in Astronomy by Dr W W Atwood Chicago Academy of Sciences The Educational Work of a Natural History Museum by W W Atwood Chicago Academy of Sciences The Deutaches Museum at Munich by ...
... THE FIRST REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNTHE FIRST REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA BY EX-JUDGE DAVID DAVIS Mr William M Pettit in the Archaeological and Historical Quarterly of July 1931 has written an able article setting forth that Rev John Wheelwright of Boston and later of Exeter Massachusetts was the first man to form a Republican Government in America The records and history of the Colonies by many authors attribute that honor to Rev Roger Williams Rev Wheelwright came to the Colonies ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Best Intentions The Triumph and Failure of the Great Society Under Kennedy Johnson and Nixon By Irwin Unger New York Doubleday 1996 399p notes index 2795 Guns or Butter The Presidency of Lyndon Johnson By Irving Bernstein New York The Oxford University Press 1996 x 606p illustrations notes index 3500 Irwin Unger's The Best of Intentions and Irving Bernstein's Guns or Butter offer timely accounts of the Johnson years tracing the ideas programs and agencies that ...
... THE OHIO CANALS PUBLIC ENTERPRISE THE OHIO CANALS PUBLIC ENTERPRISE ON THE FRONTIER By CHESTER E FINN On July 4 1825 the little town of Newark Ohio celebrated the grandest and most glorious fourth of its history The notables of the State and of other States were congregated there and a momentous event in the history of Ohio was about to take place After suitable celebrations in the town the group adjourned to Licking Summit escorted by brilliantly uniformed troops of militia and followed by ...
... GENERAL BENJAMIN RUSH COWEN GENERAL BENJAMIN RUSH COWEN W H MACKOY ATTORNEY-AT-LAW CINCINNATI The death of General Benjamin Rush Cowen January 29 190 8 at his home in Cincinnati removed one who during the eventful and critical period beginning with the nomination of General Fremont for the Presidency in 1856 and ending with the inauguration of President Hayes in 1877 was a prominent actor in the affairs of his party his state and the United States and whose public services entitle him to high ...
... CHARLES WILLING BYRD CHARLES WILLING BYRD BY W H BURTNER JR The second secretary and acting governor of the Northwest Territory the first United States judge for Ohio district has had almost nothing printed of his life and endeavors Not ten lines can be found in the histories of Ohio His bones now lie forgotten in a little township cemetery back of the new school house at Sinking Springs Highland County Ohio He was born at Westover Charles County Virginia July 26 1770 He came to Kentucky in ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Long Meadows By Minnie Hite Moody New York Macmillan Co 194 1 657p 3 00 Genealogy as genealogy makes mighty dry reading to any but members of the family treated history may be but often is not written with suppressed excitement but when both genealogy and history are molded in the form of fiction by the hand of an artist then we get a masterpiece transcending both genealogy and history That is the result Mrs Minnie Hite Moody has achieved in Long Meadows which is the ...
... JOHN J JOHN J GRABOWSKI From Progressive to Patrician George Bellamy and Hiram House Social Settlement 1896-1914 The institution most closely associated with the birth and early development of turn of the century Progressivism was the social settlement house which best symbolized the movement's drive for reform and order in urban America As aptly described by Allen Davis the settlement houses were spearheads for reform whose partisans were among the first to recognize and attack problems of ...
... 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 ...
... COMMODORE ABRAHAM WHIPPLE COMMODORE ABRAHAM WHIPPLE A PAPER BY HIS GREAT-GRANDSON DAVID FISHER MR PRESIDENT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN - From the printed circular I hold in my hand I read the seventh of April 1888 is a day in which the immediate descendants of the first settlers of Marietta principally have an interest As a descendant of Commodore Whipple it is with emotions of reverence pleasure and pride that I am permitted to be present at the Centennial Celebration of Marietta and pay respect to ...
... Science and Democracy Science and Democracy A History of the Cincinnati Observatory 1842-1872 by Stephen Goldfarb The Spy Glass out on the hill Is now enti re ly finished Th e distance t w ixt u s and th e moon Is s ensibly diminished When Mitchel looks it comes near He sees th e h ills and tr ees Which most conclusively doth prove That 'tis no t made of cheese --Cincinnati Enquirer 18451 The Cincinnati Observatory housing an eleven-and-one-half-inch refractor telescope was opened for viewing ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Middle Innings A Documentary History of Baseball 1900-1948 Compiled and edited by Dean A Sullivan Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 1998 xviii 238p illustrations bibliography index Baseball if no longer reigning as the national pastime still occupies a secure place in America's collective psyche Evidence of this nostalgic affection is deeply rooted in the game's vast statistical lore it's colorful phraseology and an odd sometimes zany cast of characters Figures such as ...
... ADDRESS OF JOSEPH F ADDRESS OF JOSEPH F TUTTLE DD PRESIDENT CHAPIN represents Wisconsin and the Congregational Church He brings a commission from Governor Rusk I don't know whom I represent One of the chief elements of success in Manasseh Cutler as a negotiator was not mentioned yesterday in the very beautiful and exhaustive discussion which was given by the gentleman who made the address He was spoken of as a brave man as a man of learning a man of courtesy but I think that one great element ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Abolitionists amp the South 1831-1861 By Stanley Harrold Lexington The University of Kentucky Press 1995 x 245p illustrations notes bibliography index 2995 Did the struggle to end slavery cause the Civil War Twentieth-century theories of the war from Charles Beard's economic interpretation to the currently fashionable cultural split between North and South have relegated abolitionist radicals to the sidelines as a causative factor in the war and by implication ...
... THE LIBRARY OF AN EARLY OHIO FARMER THE LIBRARY OF AN EARLY OHIO FARMER by ROBERT H IRRMANN Assistant Professor of History and Government Denison University Though not among the founding fathers of Blendon Township in Franklin County Gideon W Hart is noted by William Martin one of the county's early historians as among those who subsequently settled there after the initial waves of migration in 1806 and 1808 Born in Hartford Connecticut on July 16 1785 Hart first came to Franklin County in ...
... SAMUEL J SAMUEL J TAMBURRO Frances Jennings Casement and the Equal Rights Association of Painesville Ohio The Fight for Women's Suffrage 1883-1889 The history of the national struggle for women's suffrage is well chronicled1 While the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 is generally accepted as the starting point of the campaign for women's voting rights women's civil and political rights advanced slowly Although several states granted women the right to vote in municipal and school elections only ...
... 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 ...
... ADDRESSES OF SUNDAY EVENING APRIL ADDRESSES OF SUNDAY EVENING APRIL EIGHTH ADDRESS OF REV A L CHAPIN DD MY CHRISTIAN FRIENDS AND FELLOW CITIZENS -My connection with this celebration is so peculiar that I shall crave a moment simply to explain it This occasion has been looked forward to by many of your people and not by the people of Marietta or the people of Ohio alone Many months ago Dr Andrews whom I chanced to meet spoke to me of the occasion to come in the course of a couple of years It ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Solon Robinson Pioneer and Agriculturist Selected Writings Edited by Herbert Anthony Kellar Indiana Historical Collections XXI Indianapolis Indiana Historical Bureau 1936 Vol I 582p 200 Solon Robinson 1803-1880 inaugurated his adult career by founding a town and serving as an auctioneer in southern Indiana Subsequently as a pioneer in northern Indiana he formed a Squatters' Union ran a country store sold real estate engaged actively in politics established a ...