... Editorialana Editorialana 393 following device A shield in form a circle On it in the foreground on the right a sheaf of wheat on the left a bundle of seventeen arrows both standing erect in the background and rising above the sheaf and arrows a mountain range over which shall appear a rising sun SEC 2 The great seal of the state shall be two and one-half inches in diameter on which shall be engraved the device as described in the preceding section and it shall be surrounded with these words ...
... ECONOMIC BASIS OF OHIO POLITICS 1820-1840 ECONOMIC BASIS OF OHIO POLITICS 1820-1840 By HAROLD E DAVIS The Geographic Basis Ohio was destined by her geographic characteristics to be the scene of conflicting economic interests and hence of conflicting political interests The land has in some respects a natural unity but in many respects that unity is lacking By far the greater part of the area of the state lies in the valley of the Ohio River so that geographically economically and politically ...
... 462 Ohio Arch 462 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications will stand as the testimonial of a grateful people to the life and services of a truly beloved man To this building and the beautiful grove surrounding it will come generations of American citizens our children grandchildren and their descendants and draw an inspiration to a life of unselfishness and honor as they become more and more familiar with the life and character of Rutherford Birchard Hayes that crowned and glorious life ...
... THE OHIO G THE OHIO G A R AND POLITICS FROM 1866 TO 1900 By EDWARD NOYES The Grand Army of the Republic was founded in Illinois by Dr B F Stephenson in early April 1866 and its First National Encampment was held in Indianapolis in November of the same year under the direction of the founder At the first meeting eleven departments were represented two years later when the Second National Encampment was convened in Philadelphia evidence of growth of the organization was noted in the fact that ...
... MARILYN VAN VOORHIS WENDLER MARILYN VAN VOORHIS WENDLER Doctors and Diseases on the Ohio Frontier Nineteenth century Ohio historian Samuel Hildreth observed that As a class no order of men have done more to promote the good of mankind and develop the resources and natural history of our country than the physicians Hildreth likely referred to professional contributions in the field of natural science yet doctors also played an integral part in bringing civilization to the frontier Whether drawn ...
... THE INFANT SCHOOL THAT GREW UP THE INFANT SCHOOL THAT GREW UP By JOSEPHINE E PHILLIPS One hunded years ago the first child's garden was opened by Herr Friedrich Froebel in the little village of Blankenburg in Germany To Froebel belongs much credit for the development and spread of the kindergarten idea He saw that the education of a child should begin much earlier than the customary school age--six or seven years--and that play should be incorporated in that education He declared that the ...
... COLONEL JOHN MURRAY COLONEL JOHN MURRAY DAVID E PHILLIPS The readers of the Archaeological and Historical Quarterly can hardly fail to be interested in any matter intimately associated with the very beginnings of our Great Commonwealth The famous old mansion in Rutland Mass now owned by The Rufus Putnam Memorial Association and called The Cradle of Ohio has become one of the Shrines of American Patriotism and few have had so romantic an origin and history It was built about the year 176 0 and ...
... HIGH LIGHTS IN OHIO LITERATURE HIGH LIGHTS IN OHIO LITERATURE BY EMILIUS O RANDALL PhB Cornell LLB LLM O S U LLD Ohio An address delivered before the OHIO SOCIETY OF NEW YORK at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on the evening of November 12 1917 Matthew Arnold the apostle of sweetness and light in one of his delightful after-dinner speeches before the Royal Academy reminded his hearers that Fauriel the French literary historian tells of a company of Greeks settled somewhere in Southern Italy in the ...
... Report of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting 353 Report of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting 353 and expectancy the action of the Legislature and the administration on the forthcoming permanent budget REGISTRAR'S REPORT During the past year a number of accessions have been made to museum collections as per attached list In each case the proper acknowledgment has been made and the various items catalogued placed on exhibition or stored as seemed advisable As Staff Artist I take pleasure in ...
... Index Index Saunders Richard Erie Railroad 7 Scale and Scope The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism by Alfred D Chandler Jr rev 61-63 Scarlet Woman of Wall Street The See Erie Lackawanna Railway Company Scharff Virginia Taking the Wheel Women and the Coming of the Motor Age rev 64-66 Schob David E Schob book rev 147-148 Scioto Company The 117 Scioto River 119 120 Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks One Hundred Years of Preservation and Resource Management California History by Lary M ...
... F M WHITAKER F M WHITAKER Ohio WCTU and the Prohibition Amendment Campaign of 1883 The Woman's Christian Temperance Union may be said to be a product of Ohio in at least two ways One its foundation is the only lasting result of a phenomenon of the winter and spring of 1873-1874 known as the Woman's Crusade which achieved its first success and national recognition in Ohio This movement in which bands of respectable ladies marched in groups upon saloons in various locations singing praying and ...
... THE WORTHINGTON MEDICAL COLLEGE THE WORTHINGTON MEDICAL COLLEGE By JONATHAN FORMAN M D Those of you who drove in to this meeting may have noted as you approached Columbus the remnants of our pioneer days which still set forth clearly the identity of our original settlers Those of you who came from the west or southwest along highways 3 40 or 42 should have been impressed with the large farms with the original masters' houses set way back from the road reminiscent of Virginia from where came ...
... REPORT OF THE FORTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING REPORT OF THE FORTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Forenoon Session--10 A M The forty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was called to order by President Arthur C Johnson Sr on April 23 1935 in the Auditorium of the Museum Eighty-eight members were in attendance MR JOHNSON The minutes of the last Annual Meeting are voluminous and they were published in the QUARTERLY ...
... KENNETH E KENNETH E DAVISON President Hayes and the Reform of American Indian Policy The closing of the frontier by the white man's unbridled expansion into the transMississippi West during the post-Civil War years created the most critical period of Indian-white relations in American history No longer could the Indians simply retreat or be removed to lands farther west beyond the pale of white culture A majority of Uncle Sam's 300000 stepchildren lived directly in the path of two advancing ...
... CONTRASTS IN 150 YEARS OF PUBLISHING CONTRASTS IN 150 YEARS OF PUBLISHING IN OHIO BY CHARLES M THOMAS Nathaniel Willis the publisher of the Scioto Gazette found it necessary to cut the size of his paper to half a sheet in the latter part of the year 1 8 02 He explained the reason for this by the following paragraph which is found in his issue for November 13 By reason of the Menongehalia river not having been navigable for some time past we have been disappointed in receiving a supply of paper ...
... 550 Ohio Arch 550 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications THOMAS J BROWN Thomas J Brown a life member of this Society died at his home in Waynesville Warren county Ohio early on Wednesday morning April 2nd 1913 He was born near the village of Bellbrook Greene county Ohio August 16th 1833 thus at the time of his death being but a few months under eighty years of age Mr Brown's entire life was spent in the immediate vicinity of the place of his birth and the home of his boyhood Thomas J Brown ...
... THE MIAMI CANAL THE MIAMI CANAL BY JOHN J GEORGE JR Much of the politics and planning of the early decades of the nineteenth century centered around internal improvements a topic made possible and popular by the expansion of the West This expansion and development the tidewater political leader recognized the representative of the frontier capitalized it Fruitless appeals for aid were made to a central government whose executive laboring under strict construction denied the constitutionality ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments and awards within the professional community of Ohio historians include Arnold Snyder PhD candidate at McMaster University has joined Bluffton College as an assistant professor of history and philosophy Gary A Hunt formerly of Boston University replaced Richard W Ryan as Department Head of the Ohio University Library's Archives and Special Collections Department as of July 1 1979 David E Kyvig Associate Professor at the ...
... The McGuffey Society at the Logan Elm 357 The McGuffey Society at the Logan Elm 357 3 Speech of Logan reading by John R Horst of the McGuffey Society from McGuffey's Fourth Reader Edition of 1853 4 Singing of Songs from the McGuffey Readers by members of the Society 5 Short talks by residents of vicinity 6 Picnic dinner followed by toasts and responses from the McGuffey readers Mr John F Carlisle the president of the McGuffey Society in an appropriate address explained the purpose of the ...
... WILLIAM D WILLIAM D ANDREWS William T Coggeshall Boosterof Western Literature Students of nineteenth-century America have long been familiar with a type of person that intellectual historian Daniel Boorstin precisely labeled the booster1 Typically he was a small-town midwestern newspaper editor or dry-goods entrepreneur anxious to make a killing for himself and a reputation for his town--the order of his desires was never clear Promotion was his method the most insignificant occurrence in his ...