... Report of the 44th Annual Meeting 637 Report of the 44th Annual Meeting 637 associated with not only academic work but state historical work in years past an officer of the Indiana Historical Society and editor of the Indiana Magazine of History who for a time left the state of Indiana and was engaged in educational work in one of the colleges of Pennsylvania It was an opportunity that came to me a few years ago when leaving the state historical work in Indiana to recommend Dr Coleman as my ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies BRECKSVILLE EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION Mrs Bertha C Fosnocht President The Association is cooperating with the Brecksville Board of Library Trustees in making a canvass of community sentiment regarding housing facilities for the town library a historical museum and other community activities An invitation was extended to about 24 organizations to send representatives to a meeting called for that purpose Friday evening September 1 9 DAYTON ...
... AARON D AARON D PURCELL Pursuing Peace Arthur Morgan and Ohio's League to Enforce Peace 1915-1920 From the beginning of World War I in 1914 until the United States entered the war in 1917 a significant number of domestic peace societies emerged These organizations raised funds influenced politicians cultivated public interest and by the end of the war in many cases rallied for President Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations proposal During the war years the largest most effective and best ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 64 NUMBER 3 JULY 1955 The Correspondence of George A Myers and James Ford Rhodes 1910-1923-III Edited by JOHN A GARRA TY MYERS TO RHODES Cleveland March 16 1917 My Dear Mr Rhodes I was awful glad to receive your favor of the 5th1 It is indeed a source of much pleasure to receive a letter from you and its very considerate for you to write me as you do I know that you are a very busy man and the demands upon you from a social ...
... 360 Ohio Arch 360 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications dresses followed by Hon Geo E Pomeroy of Toledo Past Governor of Society Colonial Wars Prof G F Frederick Wright Hon James M Richardson of Cleveland President General Sons of the American Revolution and Colonel Webb C Hayes To all who attended the exerices were of great interest and made the day memorable while the hospitality of Port Clinton's patriotic people to all the visiting delegates will long be gratefully remembered Prof Wright ...
... 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 Ohio and Indiana and southwestern Michigan While a ...
... 434 EXPLORATIONS OF THE CAMPBELL ISLAND VILEXPLORATIONS OF THE CAMPBELL ISLAND VILLAGE SITE AND THE HINE MOUND AND VILLAGE SITE BY H C SHETRONE Curator of Archaeology TRANSMITTAL OF REPORT JUNE 11 1923 PROFESSOR WILLIAM C MILLS Director Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Museum MY DEAR PROFESSOR MILLS I have the honor to submit for your approval a condensed report of the examination of the Campbell Island Village Site and Hine Mound and Village Site located near Hamilton Butler County ...
... SUNSET COX OHIO'S CHAMPION OF COMPROMISE IN SUNSET COX OHIO'S CHAMPION OF COMPROMISE IN THE SECESSION CRISIS OF 1860-1861 by DAVID LINDSEY Associate Professor of History Baldwin-Wallace College Among the political leaders of the blundering generation of 1860-61 no one deplored the tragic drift of events toward armed conflict more than Samuel Sullivan Cox of Ohio Son of a pioneer printer from New Jersey Cox had been born and reared in Zanesville and schooled at Ohio University and Brown ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE AVERY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES A philosophical essayist on the study of history tritely remarks that a historian should be possessed of industry conscience and imagination Industry and patience to faithfully exhume the facts conscience to truthfully and impartially exploit them and imagination to vividly portray the scenes and events involved that the reader in his mind's eye may perceive them realistically reproduced Such is the ideal historian Such an one to ...
... A ROCK WITH A HISTORY A ROCK WITH A HISTORY BASIL MEEK FREMONT The accompanying cut represents a large granitic boulder believed to be the largest in Sandusky County and which possesses local historic associations worthy to be published for preservation with other interesting facts connected with the early history of the Sandusky river region It is located in the north and south road on the line dividing Sections 14 and 15 between the farms of W J Havens and Hugh Havens in Jackson township 7 ...
... PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED UNDER this caption each quarter will be acknowledged all books and periodicals received All such works will be deposited in the library A A GRAHAM Secretary CALENDAR OF THE VIRGINIA STATE PAPERS Six volumes Published by authority of the State under direction of the Superintendent of Public Printing Volume I printed in 1875 begins with a Land Pattent to Henry Palin and John Swingleton issued December 6th 1652 by I Richard Bennett Efq Governour and ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Between Indian and White Worlds The Cultural Broker Edited by Margaret Connell Szasz Norman University of Oklahoma Press 1994 xii 386p illustrations maps notes bibliography index 4500 Frontier history has been redefined within the last fifteen years Between Indian and White Worlds The Cultural Broker is a reflection both of emerging interests and shifting perspectives within the field In 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner described the American frontier as the westward ...
... 9 0 FLINT RIDGE FLINT RIDGE BY WILLIAM C MILLS INTRODUCTORY NOTE The explorations and studies recorded in this paper on Flint Ridge were undertaken for the purpose of securing for exhibition in the State Museum a complete collection of the various kinds of flint found at Flint Ridge as well as the implements used in quarrying the flint from its natural bed A preliminary examination of Flint Ridge beginning at its western edge in Hopewell Township Licking County Ohio extending eastward and ...
... THE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION OF PIONEER THE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION OF PIONEER OHIO PHYSICIANS By FREDERICK C WAITE PHD The early location of physicians for practice in Ohio was coincident with the establishment of settlements and since these settlements began on the Ohio River it was in that region that were found the first resident physicians late in the eighteenth century The northern part of the state was settled somewhat later the northwestern area last of all In the Western Reserve of ...
... Rev Rev L B Gurley D D 21 REV L B GURLEY D D Pioneer Poet and Preacher BY N B C LOVE D D Rev L B Gurley was born in Norwich Conn He lived there seven and a half years and learned his A B C's in the school house where Lydia Sigourney the poetess conned her earliest lessons His father was a silversmith and a Methodist local preacher He worked in his fathear's shop and on the farm until he entered the ministry During this time he had the advantages of winter schools and a comprehensive library of ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS HISTORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ORAGNIZATION IN THE NORTHWEST 1824-184 0 BY HOMER J WEBSTER PH D Department of History University of Pittsburgh NOTE In the preparation of this work the writer has received very helpful suggestions from Professor Frederic L Paxson of the University of Wisconsin while in every part of the work he has received invaluable assistance from his wife-Edith Francisco Webster To both of these he desires to express here ...
... DOCUMENT DOCUMENT THE SPRUCE RUN EARTHWORKS A FORGOTTEN ADENA SITE IN DELAWARE COUNTY OHIO by JAMES B GRIFFIN Director Museum of Anthropology University of Michigan The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society has published many papers on Ohio archaeology for the purpose of preserving the history of the State's first inhabitants This short paper is a contribution to that end It should perhaps be a joint paper since the writer of the excavation report was one of Ohio's early historians ...
... THE TRUTH ABOUT CINCINNATI'S FIRST LIBRARY THE TRUTH ABOUT CINCINNATI'S FIRST LIBRARY By DOROTHY V MARTIN This essay proposes to lay a ghost--not a very important one but in its day its brief day a ghost that aroused partisans and parties and involved men in high places It is the ghost of Cincinnati's first library We might doubt that it ever existed even as a mere proposition outside of legend except for three meager records which have managed to survive for more than a century Two of these ...
... A HALF CENTURY OF THE WRITING OF HISTORY A HALF CENTURY OF THE WRITING OF HISTORY IN OHIO By FRANCIS P WEISENBURGER Slightly more than a century ago Mrs Frances Trollope returned to her home in England after two years of residence in Cincinnati Thereupon she published her Domestic Manners of the Americansl a somewhat ironical commentary upon life in the United States Thus she became one of the earliest representatives of a ubiquitous tribe of Europeans that from time to time has contrasted the ...
... PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL OHIO HISTORY PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE Including the Fifty-third Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History and the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Columbus Genealogical Society Held at Columbus April 6-8 1939 in Cooperation with Ohio State University the Ohio Committee on Medical History and Archives and Local Historical Societies throughout the State Columbus ...