... Executive Mansion Executive Mansion 271 such recommendation into effect had been taken or attempted by the general assembly On February 16 1917 a resolution was adopted authorizing the appointment of a committee to investigate the cost of purchasing a residence already erected and also the cost of purchasing a site and causing a proper residence to be erected thereon in Columbus to be used as a home for future governors of the state 107 0 L 7 60 On March 30 1917 the governor approved an act ...
... DR DR JOHN LO CKE EARLY OHIO SCIENTIST 1792-1856 by ADOLPH E W AL LER Associat e P rofessor and Curator of the Botan ic Gard en Oh io S ta te University The nineteenth century in the United States suddenly swung into its expanding programs of research and education No one was prepared for the impact of the increasing realization of the power over nature which man now possessed The illusion of the perfectibility of all men through knowledge stretched undimmed The inherent weaknesses of man and ...
... GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME LIV GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME LIV ABBOTT LYMAN 51 Allen William 329 Abolition movement and Granville O Allison Charles M 255 223 literature 238 Allison Mrs Jessie 255 Abolitionists Rev John Rankin 234 Amanda see Fort Amanda Academy of Natural Science 198 Amber routes 10 Ackerknecht Erwin H Malaria in the Amendments to Society's constitution Upper Mississippi Valley 1760-90 provisions for 260 rev by Jonathan Forman 413-16 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Ackley Horace ...
... 106 Ohio Arch 106 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications historical library building at Pittsburgh though delivered for the promotion of a purely local enterprise are so replete with information and suggestion pertinent to historical libraries in general that we take pleasure in producing them in full WHAT AN HISTORICAL LIBRARY BUILDING SHOULD DO FOR PITTSBURGH BY REUBEN GOLD THWAITE S LL D Superintendent of the Wisconsin Historical Society and Lecturer in American History in the University ...
... 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 ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR CATHERINE FAY EWING ORIGINATOR OF CHILDREN'S HOMES Children's Homes throughout the country have attracted deserved attention as child-saving institutions They not only save life they educate to usefulness The Ohio law is simple It was enacted in 1866 and in 1871 thirty-seven homes were organized under it They were established and conducted by counties and intrusted ...
... THE COXEY MOVEMENT IN OHIO THE COXEY MOVEMENT IN OHIO BY OSMAN C HOOPER The Coxey movement of 1894 was a fantastic expression at a critical moment of the industrial unrest prevalent for a period centering about that date It was an Ohio product sprung from a Western seed Named for its Ohio patron Jacob S Coxey its real author and promoter was Carl Browne a lieutenant of Denis Kearney in the days of sand-lot politics The number of unemployed men was large and discontent was widespread so that ...
... Warren King Moorehead Warren King Moorehead And His Papers By JOHN W WEATHERFORD The enduring love of Warren King Moorehead 1866-1939 may be summed up in one word Indians When not busied with their ancient remains he was struggling with the manifold problems they face in this century Penobscot and Pueblo alike shared his attention When through the generosity of Ludwig King Moorehead and Singleton Peabody Moorehead the Ohio Historical Society acquired his papers it was principally because he ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 603 DEATH OF CALEB H GALLUP Hon Caleb Hathaway Gallup for many years a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and Trustee by election of the members for a period of six years from 1909 to 1915 died at Norwalk his home on Saturday October 16 1915 He was a man of unusual ability endowed with a strong determined character His life was a busy and fruitful one He was born in Norwalk Ohio May 10 1834 and had therefore passed his eighty-first ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 221 manding why Rogers and his men had come thither without his permission and what was their errand Up to this time the shrewd and ambitious chieftain had been the firm ally of the French but when Rogers informed him that Canada had been surrendered to the English and that he was on his way to take possession of Detroit the calumet was smoked and harmony seemed established Then follow the details of the Pontiac conspiracy Pontiac the great Ottawa Chief may be ...
... PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL OHIO HISTORY PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE Including the Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History and the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Columbus Genealogical Society Held at Columbus April 4-6 194 0 in Cooperation with Ohio State University the Committee on Archives and Medical History of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and Local ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 349 Reviews Notes and Comments 3 49 officers in the allied service There were also citations and high honors conferred upon him Ohioans will experience genuine pride in reading this interesting record of the World War service of one of her distinguished sons The Journal is supplemented by the official reports of General Dawes and the work as a whole deserves a place in every library with a department devoted to World War history We must add of course that these ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Life and Times of Daniel Lindley 1801-80 Missionary to the Zulus Pastor of the Voortrekkers Ubebe Omhlope By Edwin W Smith New York Library Publishers 1952 xxx456p illustrations end-paper maps biographical table glossary and index 550 This is a record of the colorful and adventurous career of one of the first American missionaries in South Africa The name of Daniel Lindley has been perpetuated in the name of a town in South Africa and a large airplane has been ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 247 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 247 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY APRIL 5 1940 The regular April meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Ohio State Museum Friday noon April 5 1940 Trustees present were Messrs Eagleson who presided Florence Rightmire Spencer Spetnagel Weygandt and Wolfe Director Shetrone ...
... KOSSUTH COMES TO CLEVELAND KOSSUTH COMES TO CLEVELAND by ANDOR M LEFFLER Pastor First Hungarian Lutheran Church Cleveland At Cleveland's University Circle stands the unpretentious statue of Louis Kossuth Hungarian patriot It is one of the many thousands of typical nineteenth-century creations found in public gardens in almost any city of the Old World Indeed this statue was shipped from Hungary and is the exact replica of the one standing in a public garden at Nagy Szalonta1 It was a gift to ...
... CAPTAIN T W RATHBONE'S BRIEF DIARY OF IMPRISONMENT JULY 1 - NOVEMBER 21 1864 edited by LOUIS BARTLETT Thomas W Rathbone of Amelia Ohio was thirty-nine years old and a captain in an Ohio National Guard regiment on one hundred days' service when he was taken prisoner after a skirmish near North River Mills West Virginia on July 3 1864 Two months later while a patient in the Roper Hospital at Charleston South Carolina he began writing the diary which appears in the following pages To make it a ...
... The Civil War had been fought out and peace had returned to the land when a group of churchmen and reformers led by the Rev Charles G Finney of Oberlin who had long served as president of Oberlin College turned to make war on secret societies and the Masonic order in particular The crusade mildly agitated a part of the country for some years but lacking as it did the frenzy hysteria and political potency of the anti-Masonic movement of the 1820's and 1830's it eventually fell of its own ...
... BACKGROUND AND YOUTH OF THE SEVENTH OHIO BACKGROUND AND YOUTH OF THE SEVENTH OHIO PRESIDENT1 BY RAY BAKER HARRIS News still traveled slowly in the 1860's Although the telegraph was by that time in use between principal cities news to a large degree continued to be transmitted by stagecoach by trains such as they were by boats and by human carriers However belated its appearance in print the news in the public press during the week of October 30 1865 was of considerable historic importance In ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA A RUSSELL AAAS See American Association for the Advancement of Science Abbott Charles Conrad 133-134 135 Works by and Frederick Ward Putnam Paleolithic Remains in new Jersey 136 Abolition Movement The Two Lives of Frances Dana Gage by Carol Steinhagen 22-38 Acker Betty W and Nettie G Watson Stonemasons o f Muskingum County Ohio in the I00's bk note 118 Adair James 164 Adena Indians 125-170 Adena tables 150-157 Aiming at Targets The Autobiography of Robert C ...
... INTRODUCTORY REMARKS INTRODUCTORY REMARKS By PHILIP C NASH LADIES AND GENTLEMEN It is my very great pleasure and honor to declare open the sessions of the Maumee Valley International Historical Convention It was 146 years ago that the Battle of Fallen Timbers was fought and all the events that we are commemorating in this Convention occurred more than a century ago There has been an orderly and gradual development of civilization in this neighborhood and in this country ever since those days ...