... EMERSON AND OHIO EMERSON AND OHIO A New Emerson Letter1 by N C DAVIS Graduate Assistant in English Ohio State University The following excerpt is from the editorial columns of the Cleveland Herald for March 2 1852 RALPH W EMERSON Writes from Concord Feb 26th to one of our citizens who had written to him when recently in Buffalo to come here and lecture Your letter I found on my road but it offered me fruit which I could not eat however fair All my days were promised for the Lyceums along the ...
... Historical News Historical News A number of cities are taking steps to preserve protect and in some cases reconstruct historical areas the American Society of Planning Officials has reported Such programs the society suggests are to the benefit of the cities because they stimulate tourist trade and save certain areas from declining into slums Charleston South Carolina has established by law a zone known as the old and historic Charleston district which comprises the area in which there is the ...
... Charles Burleigh Galbreath 129 Charles Burleigh Galbreath 129 where strivings end where peace is perpetual and where mortals on their way to a better estate find a fitting abode for the night in this many-chambered mansion of rest Hither have come the representatives of every walk of life Among them are those once eminent in the affairs of the city the state and the Republic Of these it were superfluous to speak Their deeds have been recorded Their place in local history at least is secure To ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Old Favorites from the McGuffey Readers Ed by Harvey C Minnich With Illustrations from the McGuffey Readers New York American Book Company 1936 482p 350 William Holmes McGuffey and His Readers By Harvey C Minnich With Photographs and Old Drawings New York American Book Company 1936 203p 225 The set boxed 500 One hundred years ago the first McGuffey Readers made their appearance in Cincinnati Ohio They found immediate popularity in the West In the course of a few years ...
... As the secession crisis in the Old Dominion approached its climax in May 1861 the Unionists of northwestern Virginia looked anxiously to the state of Ohio for deliverance from tyranny On May 26 1861 only three days after Virginia formally seceded from the Union Major General George B McClellan commander of the department of the Ohio launched his invasion to preserve western Virginia for the Union To his troops McClellan issued the first in a series of colorful if exaggerated manifestoes that ...
... JAMES GALLOWAY SR JAMES GALLOWAY SR In the January issue of the Q UARTERLY in the contribution entitled Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried in Clark County Ohio there is on pages 95-96 a sketch of James Galloway Sr which contains a number of errors These are due evidently for the most part to errors in previous sketches in county histories and to a confusion of the name of James Galloway Sr with other Galloways by the name of James The following sketch is by Dr W A Galloway of Xenia and is ...
... ANCIENT WORKS AT MARIETTA OHIO ANCIENT WORKS AT MARIETTA OHIO BY J P MACLEAN PH D The ancient earthworks at Marietta Ohio have received much attention and have been written about more than any of the prehistoric remains of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys These structures were great and ranked high in importance although not so extensive and complicated as certain other remains which have been fully considered At the time of the opening of the great West the Ohio river was the main artery that ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY VOL II MARCH 1889 No 4 SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF HISTORIC TRAVEL OVER NEW YORK NEW JERSEY VIRGINIA AND OHIO IN THE SEVEN YEARS FROM 1840-1847 Read at the fourth annual meeting of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society at Chillicothe February 1 1889 I propose this evening to give you some reminiscences of my travels in search of history over the four States of New York New Jersey Virginia and Ohio from 1840 to 1847 They will consist largely ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY VOL II MARCH 1889 No 4 SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF HISTORIC TRAVEL OVER NEW YORK NEW JERSEY VIRGINIA AND OHIO IN THE SEVEN YEARS FROM 1840-1847 Read at the fourth annual meeting of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society at Chillicothe February 1 1889 I propose this evening to give you some reminiscences of my travels in search of history over the four States of New York New Jersey Virginia and Ohio from 1840 to 1847 They will consist largely ...
... JOHN BROWN JOHN BROWN ADDITIONAL NOTES BY C B GALBREATH JOHN BROWN'S FRIENDS IN WASHINGTON The following letter to John Brown Jr which so far as we know has never before been published states clearly whom the writer regarded as friends in Congress This letter is now of historic interest only Had it been published at the time it was written it would doubtless have created some commotion and have made trouble for some of the congressmen named The letter is here reproduced literally ROCHESTER N Y ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Under the Flag of the Nation Diaries and Letters of a Yankee Volunteer in the Civil War Edited by Otto F Bond Columbus Ohio State University Press for the Ohio Historical Society 1961 308p illustrations and appendices 500 In view of the tidal wave of Civil War publications now threatening the reading public and the historical profession many readers may recoil at the prospect of fresh printings of soldiers' diaries from either side of the conflict This book published ...
... THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF OHIO ITS RESOURCES by LOUIS LEONARD TUCKER PICTURE A VICTORIAN structure with dingily lighted rooms which are filled with antiquated display cases containing such items as Grandma Wiggins' dress of 1872 a piece from the keelboat that transported Ebenezer Smith our town's first settler a fire helmet worn by a volunteer who fought our town's greatest fire in 1867 Fill out this scene with two or three woman curators of octogenarian vintage who have an ...
... THE EXECUTION OF JOHN BROWN THE EXECUTION OF JOHN BROWN BY MURAT HALSTEAD The execution of John Brown was on the second of December 1859 the scene in a field a furlong south of Charlestown seven miles from Harper's Ferry The sensation caused by the John Brown raid was something wonderful The excitement of the whole country was out of all proportion to the material incidents The shock was because the feeling of the people that the slavery question had reached an acute stage and demanded ...
... THE MEDICAL JOURNALS OF THE PERIOD 1835-1858 THE MEDICAL JOURNALS OF THE PERIOD 1835-1858 By JONATHAN FORMAN M D The period which we are describing today was one in which the American public was very critical of the medical profession To the general charges of fraud and futility was added that of hearsay In order to save the physician's fee family medical books were frequently bought and sold Patent medicines were coming in at a pace parallel to the growth of newspapers in which they could be ...
... Slavery and the Ohio Circuit Rider Slavery and the Ohio Circuit Rider By PAUL H BOASE There can be no doubt about John Wesley's hatred of slavery Both the trade and practice were condemned as the execrable sum of all villainies and if ranked in order of precedence few if any sins surpassed the buying and selling the bodies and souls of men women and children with the intention to enslave them Wesley's early followers were good disciples equally energetic in their efforts to stamp out the evil ...
... NORRIS F NORRIS F SCHNEIDER The National Road Main Street of America A way to the West-where was the best route George Washington pondered that question anew in September 1784 as he sat in a land agent's cabin near present-day Morgantown West Virginia Gathered about him were settlers from that near-wilderness area on the Cheat River who had come at his request to offer their opinions on the best route for a portage between the upper waters of the Potomac and a tributary of the Ohio River Land ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Ohio Pottery and Glass Marks and Manufacturers By Lois Lehner Des Moines Iowa Wallace-Homestead Books 1978 113p illustrations notes bibliography A useful updating of John Ramsay's 1947 check list of Ohio potteries with additional material on Ohio glass manufacturers this work contains brief company histories arranged alphabetically by town or city and accompanied by reproductions of known ware marks The bibliography indicates an uneven utilization of available material ...
... SIGNIFICANCE OF MEMORIALS SIGNIFICANCE OF MEMORIALS BY DR W O THOMPSON Mr Chairman and Fellow Citizens The Guests At the outset let me express the appreciation in which we all join of the patriotic generosity on the part of the General Assembly of the state of Ohio in making an appropriation for the erection of the statue which today we dedicate I may also express our appreciation of the presence on this occasion of His Excellency the Honorable A V Donahey Governor of Ohio of former Governor ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Nursing in Ohio A History By James H Rodabaugh and Mary Jane Rodabaugh Columbus The Ohio State Nurses' Association 1951 xiv 2 73p illustrations appendices source notes and index 400 Ohio for many years has shown unusual interest in the history of medicine Stimulated by the eager enthusiasm of Dr Jonathan Forman a group of researchers has met annually for more than a decade to add immeasurably to the knowledge of nineteenth-century science in the Middle West A steadily ...
... Dedication of Ohio's World War Memorial 463 Dedication of Ohio's World War Memorial 463 Finally a State Museum of History here in Ohio must take advantage of its exceptional opportunity to cooperate with the regional historical museums in the commonwealth After all your purposes are a common one namely to preserve and to teach the history of Ohio--your task is general theirs is particular The ideal State Museum which I have tried to picture should be applied to all the local museums A system ...