... 614 Ohio Arch 614 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications HISTORY OF AKRON A Centennial History of Akron 1825-1925 published under the auspices of the General Committee of the City's First Centennial Celebration July 19-23 1925 and the editorial direction of the Historical Committee Oscar E Olin LL D Mr J M Ada E Allen and Edwin W Brouse Managing Editor James A Braden This book presents the remarkable progress of the city of Akron from its humble beginning one hundred years ago to the present ...
... 378 Ohio Arch 378 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications friend and ardent admirer of and deep sympathizer with John Brown He wrote her a letter the night before his execution expressing his appreciation of her long friendship and his perfect resignation to his fate Well do we remember though at that time but a child of eight how on the morning of December 2 after the breakfast meal that mother at the morning invocation broke forth in a fervent prayer that Divine Providence would sustain John ...
... DAVID TOD AND THE GUBERNATORIAL CAMPAIGN DAVID TOD AND THE GUBERNATORIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1844 by DELMER J TRESTER Historian Wright Air Development Center The sound of twenty-six cannon shots rolled across Columbus on the morning of January 8 1844 noisily signaling the beginning of a lively day in the capital At 9 o'clock the Columbus Guards met the Dayton Artillery east of the Scioto river just as the most splendidly beautiful brass piece of the Dayton Artillery sent forth several rounds In half ...
... JOHN SMITH FIRST SENATOR FROM OHIO AND HIS JOHN SMITH FIRST SENATOR FROM OHIO AND HIS CONNECTIONS WITH AARON BURR By M Avis PITCHER John Smith United States Senator from Ohio 1803-1808 was a Virginian by birth and education1 Because of the double misfortune of name and locality there is apt to be considerable uncertainty as to the early career of this gentleman in relation to all the other John Smiths of Virginia2 In 1790 Smith was definitely located on the Forks of the Cheat River Monongalia ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 70 NUMBER 4 OCTOBER 19 61 From Free-Love to Catholicism Dr and Mrs Thomas L Nichols At Yellow Springs By PHILIP GLEASON AS THE SLAVERY controversy grew more intense in the mid1850's many of the reform movements which had preoccupied large numbers of Americans in the previous decade were submerged in the mainstream of the antislavery movement Yet currents of reform not connected with antislavery did persist and one of the most ...
... MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO September 9 1922 MORNING SESSION The meeting was called to order by Treasurer Wood who moved that President James E Campbell act as Chairman of the meeting The motion was duly seconded and carried The following members were present Hon James E Campbell Prof B F Prince General J Warren Keifer George F Bareis Edward Orton Jr Henry J ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Politics of Community Migration and Politics in Antebellum Ohio By Kenneth J Winkle New York Cambridge University Press 1988 xiii 239p notes tables bibliography index 3250 This interesting but ultimately unsatisfying book probes an apparent contradiction in the findings of modern political and social historians of the mid-nineteenth century Studies of electoral behavior in various constituencies in Ohio and elsewhere show an amazing stability in the proportion of ...
... JOSEPH RAY1 JOSEPH RAY1 By JERRY DENNIS Joseph Ray was born in Ohio County Virginia now Ohio County West Virginia on November 25 1807 His ancestry was of English origin and can be traced back to John Ray the naturalist William Ray his father was born in Ireland in 1782 and had settled with his parents near West Liberty Virginia in 1789 On February 25 1807 William married Margaret Graham a native of Westchester County Pennsylvania They were among the early pioneers of the Upper Ohio Valley The ...
... THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY HISTORY OF A DECADE 1932-1942 BY HAROLD E D AV I S Attending the annual meetings of the Ohio College Association in the late twenties the author noted that his fellow historians were rarely present even in the meetings of the Social Science Section After attending the Ohio History Conference arranged by Dr Harlow Lindley in the spring of 1931 he was convinced of the desirability of some organization however informal which would bring ...
... ROBERT F ROBERT F HOROWITZ James M Ashley and the Presidential Election of 1856 When the name James M Ashley of Toledo Ohio is mentioned one usually thinks of the vindictive impeacher of President Andrew Johnson but Ashley's contributions to the history of mid-nineteenth century America transcend this one event This becomes evident from studying his activities in connection with the 1856 presidential election Ashley played a prominent part in establishing the machinery for a national ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Men of Good Hope A Story of American Progressives By Daniel Aaron New York Oxford University Press 1951 xiv321p 400 Men of Good Hope is a sympathetic but considered analysis of the social philosophies of nine men whom the author believes have shaped or expressed progressive thought in America Emerson Theodore Parker Henry George Edward Bellamy Henry Demarest Lloyd William Dean Howells and Thorstein Veblen-precursors and prophetic agitators-and Theodore Roosevelt and ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE DRAPER MANUSCRIPTS In this QUARTERLY we publish the first of a number of articles we shall from time to time reproduce from the collection of the famous Draper manuscripts in the possession of the Wisconsin Historical Society located at Madison Wisconsin A large portion of these manuscripts there preserved pertain to the early history of Ohio The past summer 1910 it was the privilege of the Editor of the QUARTERLY to visit Madison and through the courtesy of Dr ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS In Winter We Flourish By Anna Shannon McAllister New York Longmans Green and Co 1939 398p 350 Outstanding in the civic and charitable enterprises of early Cincinnati was Sarah Worthington King Peter of whom Anna Shannon McAllister has written in her new book In Winter We Flourish Daughter of Thomas and Eleanor Swearingen Worthington the former at one time governor of Ohio Sarah was from childhood accustomed to the assumption of leadership Following what was for that ...
... DANIEL PRESTON DANIEL PRESTON Thomas Kelsey Hardluck Entrepreneur In the years following the close of the War of 1812 a wave of economic speculation swept through the West The Treaty of Ghent which ended the war offered nothing in concrete terms beyond a much desired peace But if the United States had not won the war against the powerful British Americans could at least revel in the knowledge that they had not lost it either They quickly forgot the many near-disasters that the nation ...
... Ben Wade and the Negro Ben Wade and the Negro By HANS L TREFOUSSE IT HAS LONG BEEN A MATTER OF DISPUTE whether the radical Republicans of one hundred years ago were really sincere in their professions of friendship for the Negro Were they merely interested in economic gains for their followers and political preferment for themselves making use of the Negro question simply to hide their true objectives or were they genuinely concerned with uplifting the downtrodden race This question of ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Men of the Western Waters The Taking of Americas First West 17811794 By Dale Van Every Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 1956 x244p maps illustrations appendices bibliography and index 400 This volume will be of great interest both to that portion of the general public which enjoys reading history and also to the student who pursues history as a vocation It is based upon a wide reading of the best works of scholars in the field and makes no pretense of having delved ...
... THE MEDICAL TRAINING OF MATTHEW SIMPSON THE MEDICAL TRAINING OF MATTHEW SIMPSON 1830-1833 by ROBERT D CLARK Assistant Dean College of Liberal Arts University of Oregon Among the sources which give some insight into the medical and general education of the early Ohio physician are the papers of Matthew Simpson Simpson after a brief period as a physician became in the middle of the nineteenth century a bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church and one of the most eloquent pulpit and platform ...
... James R Garfield the making of a progressive by JACK M THOMPSON One of the leaders in the movement to bring Theodore Roosevelt back to the presidency in 1912 was a now rather obscure Ohioan named James R Garfield The second son of President James A Garfield he was Roosevelt's secretary of the interior from 1907 to 1909 and the Progressive candidate for governor of Ohio in 1914 A prominent figure on the Ohio and national scenes at the height of the progressive movement he found the ascent to ...
... a 482 UNVEILING OF TABLET AT CAMPUS MARTIUS UNVEILING OF TABLET AT CAMPUS MARTIUS A number of interesting functions attended the unveiling of the tablet on the Campus Martius House September 28 1921 as the most historical spot in the state The exercises were conducted under the auspices of the Daughters of the American Revolution who selected this spot and presented the tablet On the evening of September 27 Mr Edward MacTaggart threw open his stately old home The Anchorage to the members of ...
... 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 ...