... 55 4 WARREN GAMALIEL HARDING WARREN GAMALIEL HARDING BY C B GALBREATH Since the founding of our government six Presidents of the United States have died in office Three of these were native sons of Ohio and one William Henry Harrison when elected to that high office was and for twenty-six years had been a citizen of this state Three of the six fell at the hands of assassins and two of these Garfield and McKinley were Ohioans The passing of all these was attended with widespread and sincere ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY JUNE 1887 THE BEGINNINGS OF THE COLONIAL SYSTEM OF THE UNITED STATES1 THE formation of this society comes at an opportune moment In a little more than three years a century will have elapsed since the first permanent white settlement was made within the limits of the great region Northwest of the River Ohio That settlement was the beginning not only of this good State of Ohio but also of Indiana Illinois Michigan and Wisconsin which have all ...
... HENRY BOUQUET HENRY BOUQUET HIS INDIAN CAMPAIGNS BY J C REEVE MD LL D W R UNIV A little book in the French language has recently come to hand which deserves more than a passing notice It is the brief life of a man of high character and fine achievement and it records service of the greatest value which he rendered to our country in one of the darkest periods of its early history It is a book of about one hundred pages printed at Geneva in 1 909 and is one of a series published under the ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Midwest Pioneer--His Ills Cures and Doctors By Madge E Pickard and R Carlyle Buley Crawfordsville Indiana R E Banta 1945 346p Frontispiece 500 At the time of the celebration in Columbus of the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Medical College at the Willoughby University of Lake Erie 1834-1934 a group of those who are interested in local medical history began cooperative work in this field First there appeared a source book in which was chronicled ...
... LEWIS L LEWIS L GOULD Chocolate Eclair or Mandarin Manipulator William McKinley the Spanish-American War and the Philippines A Review Essay The Spanish War An American Epic-1898 By GJA O'Toole New York W W Norton 1984 447p photographs notes bibliography index 1995 Sitting in Darkness Americans in the Philippines By David Haward Bain Boston Houghton Mifflin 1984 464p notes bibliography index photographs 2495 The Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection that followed were significant ...
... LINCOLN'S MINISTER TO MEXICO LINCOLN'S MINISTER TO MEXICO by J JEFFERY AUER Associate Professor of Speech Oberlin College Among the incongruities facing Abraham Lincoln in 1861 was the fact that his minister to Mexico would hold America's most important diplomatic post1 Although France and England the chief consumers of southern cotton were powerful nations possessed of great maritime strength in the event of a Union blockade of the South they could continue the cotton trade only through the ...
... The Soldier's Creed The Soldier's Creed By LESTER J CAPPON Patriotism is an essential factor in waging war and shaping its outcome Since the causes of a war as fixed in the minds of the participants affect both the deeper and shallower feelings of patriotism and are in turn influenced by it loyalty and the will to fight are closely interrelated The concern of the military in recent years with the soldier's ideas of war aims has aroused interest in his attitudes during previous conflicts Among ...
... GERALD W GERALD W WOLFF Mark Hanna's Goal American Harmony 'A man who won't meet his men half-way is a G d fool' declared Mark Hanna one day in 1894 He was referring to the Pullman strike and the fact that troops had been sent to end it That terse profane comment tells a great deal about Hanna He was above all else a pragmatist with a canny ability to successfully adjust to changing conditions Twenty years previously when his coal mines were struck troops had been brought in--with disastrous ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS SETH ADAMS A PIONEER OHIO SHEPHERD By Charles Sumner Plumb Among the pioneers of the Northwest Territory along the Ohio border on the east were many men of sterling worth and rather unusual administrative ability Notably among these men in Ohio history was Seth Adams The following pages will briefly discuss his ancestry review his movements as a citizen and pioneer and set forth his relationship to early day American sheep husbandry The ...
... 98 Ohio Arch 98 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications STORY OF THE FIRELANDS The following interesting account of the Firelands is taken from the West Liberty Banner Unnumbered native Ohioans not to speak of hundreds of thousands of residents of the state from foreign lands and other states of the union must have wondered why a fertile and productive tract in northern Ohio a district which in no way hints of the ravages of fire should be called the Firelands Among all the vicissitudes of ...
... Captain Brown Outfits the Mount Vernon Blues For the Toledo War by PAUL L MASSA The Mount Vernon Blues a militia rifle company was organized in 1835 when Ohio mobilized its military forces in preparation for possible hostilities with Michigan This dispute between the state of Ohio and the territory of Michigan over the location of their common boundary line is known as the Toledo War In Mount Vernon Ohio General William Bevans a former Knox County sheriff authorized Benjamin L Brown to ...
... TOM D TOM D CROUCH Thomas Kirkby Pioneer Aeronaut in Ohio The decade of the 1830's marked the dawn of American aeronautical history Although the first American balloon ascent had been made on June 24 1784 when Edward Warren a thirteen year old Baltimore lad made a captive flight in a homemade balloon the citizens of the young republic remained aloof from so impractical an enterprise as free ballooning1 The American tour of Jean Pierre Blanchard in 1793 demonstrated that even a highly ...
... 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 ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTOROHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS FOR THE YEAR 1887 WITH ABSTRACTS OF ADDRESSES AND PAPERS PRESENTED BEFORE THE SOCIETY COLUMBUS January 14th 1887 The Society met in the Senate Chamber in the State House F C Sessions First Vice President in the chair The Secretary reported that four active members had been received since the last meeting and that several donations had been made to the museum Among the donations were a surveyor's ...
... BRIAN M BRIAN M LINN Pretty Scaly Times The Ohio National Guard and the Railroad Strike of 1877 The employment of the Ohio National Guard at Newark during the railroad strike of 1877 represents an effective use of military force during a potentially explosive labor dispute In contrast to West Virginia Maryland Pennsylvania Illinois Missouri and Indiana the state authorities of Ohio did not have to call on federal troops to enforce civil authority During the strike relations between the militia ...
... MAJOR GEORGE W MAJOR GEORGE W RUE THE CAPTOR OF GENERAL JOHN MORGAN By WILLIAM MARION MILLER Few persons even those whose formal education ended with elementary schooling are unaware of the name and deeds of General John Morgan the famous Confederate raider of Civil War days practically no one even teachers of history in colleges and universities knows the name of the man to whom he surrendered near East Liverpool Ohio on a hot July afternoon in 1863 The reason is not hard to explain his ...
... INDEX VOLUME XXI INDEX VOLUME XXI Adams County Petroglyphs found in 213 Articles-Concluded Alder Jonathan Indians capture 266 The Indian village of Cush-og-wenk Anderson Judge Jas H - 432 Consul at Hamburg 490 The library at Paddy's Run 462 Political life of 490 Twenty-seventh annual meeting of Relations with Pres Lincoln 490 Society 468 Sketch of 489 Ashland CountySociety interest in 491 Hill's history of 383 Animals - Indians in 380 Bones of found in Jackson Co 192 Pioneer settlers of 384 ...
... FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHI FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHI STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO Wednesday October 6 1926 900 A M The meeting was called to order by Secretary C B Galbreath There were present B F Prince Arthur C Johnson C B Galbreath Mrs C B Galbreath Edward Orton Jr H R McPherson Mrs H R McPherson Mrs Howard Jones Mrs Anna M Keirn Dr J M Dunham E F Wood Dr F C Furniss Dr William C Mills Theodore A Wegener Joseph C Goodman B ...
... PROCEEDINGS OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE MAUMEE VALLEY INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL CONVENTION SEPTEMBER 27-29 1940 EDITORIAL By HARLOW LINDLEY Because of the uniqueness of the Maumee Valley International Historical Convention organized to commemorate the place of the Maumee Valley in American history it seems eminently proper that its records should be permanently preserved and since the heart of the valley is within the limits of the State of Ohio it is logical that the Ohio State Archaeological ...
... 530 Ohio Arch 530 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications accompanied him on all his travels and he died the father of grown-up children He is described as a wisp of a man lank red-haired with a reddish mustache His hobby was a large peach orchard which his busy life gave him little time to enjoy Not only was he a great correspondent but he was a voluminous writer of books Here is a list said to be approximately complete Carpenter's Geographical Readers -- Asia 1897 North America 1898 South ...