... settlement of the slavery question there were no more struggles worthy of full political commitment He did not think that any political or party revolution could unsettle the fact that all men in his country were to have equal civil and political rights23 It was his view that the administration of Grant has been faithful on the great question of the rights of the colored people24 So frequently did the theme of equal rights appear in the ...
... settlement 148 number pubMontagnes Indians 379 lished in Ohio prior to 1825 153 colMontreal return of expedition to 413 lection of 489 490 Moore Waldo C on committee on Fort English Ancient 512 Nation 56 69 Morgan Captain J T presentation of New Republic 67 69 specimens by 508 Belgian Morrison William welcomes and enterLa Libre Belgique 59 tains Lafayette at Kaskaskia 176 177 German
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 64 NUMBER 4 OCTOBER 1955 The Correspondence of George A Myers and James Ford Rhodes 1910-1923-IV Edited by JOHN A GARRATY RHODES TO MYERS Boston May 22 1920 Dear George I have yr two valued favors of Apr 30 and May 12 the latter enclosing two editorials from the P D which I have read with great interest Senator Lodge is a ...
... settlements on terms they believed advantageous S J Broadwell a trustee admitted settling with Ludlow after satisfying himself that all that could be had from the latter could not be procurable otherwise From the charges and answers outlined above it seems that the trustees were really guilty of mismanagement especially in their governing of the New York office The second of the two suits against the assignees was that of Spinning and Brown vs ...
... THE HAYDN SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI THE HAYDN SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI 1819-1824 BY HARRY R STEVENS When Theodore Thomas the famous German orchestra conductor came to Cincinnati in 1869 he found the finest musical center of inland America The community he discovered here had a long and rich musical background Twenty years of German musical activity had been preceded by more than half a century of native growth Near the beginning of this development was the Haydn Society one of the earliest musical ...
... settlement of disputes over property and the administration of public revenue depend upon them But as historical sources the importance of local archives is adequately appreciated except by students of history It is true that local archives have been used by searchers after biographical and genealogical information but within recent years a new conception of local history has developed and a wider kind of research is in progress which is ...
... WILLIAM SANDERS SCARBOROUGH EARLY LIFE AND YEARS AT WILBERFORCE by FRANCIS P WEISENBURGER The most renowned Negroes in American history have generally been men of vigorous action who in various ways have given spirited leadership to their race and to their country Such persons include Frederick Douglass John M Langston Booker T Washington and William E B Du Bois Other less aggressive individuals such as Richard Theodore Greener1 the first Negro graduate of Harvard University and a lawyer of ...
... An Ohioan's Letter from the California GOLD Fields in 1850 The discovery of gold at Sutter's mill in California's lower Sacramento Valley in 1848 precipitated one of the most massive and spontaneous westward migrations in American history Responding to the avalanche of propaganda emanating from the California gold fields and spurred on by numerous exaggerated newspaper and magazine accounts of the alleged untapped and unlimited yellow ...
... settlement so when the settlement therefore at the settlement which Mrs Trollope had expected to find It contained thirteen churches a theatre a public hospital a water system one city-owned and two privately owned public libraries a medical college a city college an endowed public grammar school three female seminaries an art school nine ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 563 Reviews Notes and Comments 563 serted that it was his nephew Richard M Johnson who later became vice president of the United States It seems that no record exists emanating from Richard M Johnson in which he personally either asserts or denies the credit but there does exist a positive statement from Cave Johnson that he did not kill Tecumseh In the Draper Mss under File No 9J168 Cave Johnson makes this statement Strange as it may seem I never fired a gun at an ...
... GERALD S GERALD S GREENBERG Literary Bequests in Early Ohio Wills Introduction It is not surprising that besides the family Bible few books or libraries are mentioned in early Ohio wills for life on the frontier demanded that one devote full attention to life's essentials For most this meant the acquisition of a piece of land and the construction of a home It is such proprietary bequests ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 99 ican Revolution and of the Benjamin Franklin the local chapter He served as an officer in both organizations and spoke upon many occasions on patriotic subjects at their meetings and banquets Col W L Curry a charter member of the State Society a Past President and for many years State Registrar and an active executive of the Society will speak RANDALL SON OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BY COL W L CURRY Emilius Oviatt Randall to whom we pay tribute ...
... settlement of a humble class of emigrants who look to the immediate acquisition of property Leaving he passed to New York where he stayed at the Astor House to which he was enthusiastically converted An American hotel is not a house he concluded it is a whole town With its minute and specialized services it was a triumph of organization for mass living But what he did not like was the insanitary condition of the town The mire was ankle deep 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 ...
... northwest and one to the east northwest was of peculiar construction and made by the walls overlapping each other forming a passageway or hall about 3 feet in width and 7 feet in length The passageway was covered with fine sand varying in thickness from two inches to one-half inch and so firmly packed as to have the appearance of coarse sand-stone The floor of this section of the mound was ...
... DANIEL DRAKE AND THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE IN DANIEL DRAKE AND THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE IN THE OHIO VALLEY1 By DAVID A TUCKER JR Biographical Sketch This is the story of a man of whom few of you have heard Such is fame For Daniel Drake was in his day the greatest physician of the West the founder of sound medical education in the Ohio Valley and one of the most unique and picturesque figures in ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Illinois Census Returns 1 80 -1818 Edited by Margaret Cross Norton Illinois State Historical Library Collections XXIV Statistical Series II Springfield Illinois Illinois State Historical Library 1935 32 9p Illinois Cens u s Ret urn s 1820 Edited by Margaret Cross Norton Illinois State Historical Library Collections XXVI Statistical Series III Springfield Illinois Illinois State Historical Library I934 466p The first volume of the Statistical Series Illinois Election ...
... AFTERNOON SESSION AFTERNOON SESSION ADDRESS OF PROFESSOR CARL E GUTHE Chairman Sater called the meeting to order at 2 p m After a few well chosen remarks he introduced Prof Carl E Guthe University Museums of the University of Michigan who delivered an address which was heard with the closest attention entitled Outdoor Guiding in History and Prehistory Professor Guthe spoke as follows OUTDOOR GUIDING IN HISTORY AND PREHISTORY BY CARL E GUTHE The phrase outdoor guiding if considered in the ...
... INDEX INDEX Agricultural progress in Ohio before 1825 255 334 1831-37 355 1838-42 397-8 414 1852 440 1857 469 Assessed valuation of property in Ohio 439 520 Banks chartered in Ohio before 1815 257 260 261-3 under Bonus Law of 1815 273 275 277 1829 344 1831 359 1832 362 1833 with capital of a million 364 1834 367 Bank Commissioners of
... settlement on July 1729 The settlement on June 11 McKinley settlement voted to accept it though under protest40 In spite of the size and scale of the campaign no deaths or serious injuries directly resulted to the strikers from actions of the National Guard41 The Guard itself suffered two deaths one from cerebral hemorrhage and the other ...