... JOHN STEWART JOHN STEWART PIONEER MISSIONARY OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH N B C LOVE DD The Methodist Episcopal Church from its organization in 1773 was missionary in its spirit It made continuous efforts towards the conversion of the w hites and blacks but the red men of the forest were passed by The minutes of the annual conferences at the beginning of the last century reported in separate columns the numbers of whites and blacks in each society but no figures for the Indians The ...
... Science and Democracy Science and Democracy A History of the Cincinnati Observatory 1842-1872 by Stephen Goldfarb The Spy Glass out on the hill Is now enti re ly finished Th e distance t w ixt u s and th e moon Is s ensibly diminished When Mitchel looks it comes near He sees th e h ills and tr ees Which most conclusively doth prove That 'tis no t made of cheese --Cincinnati Enquirer 18451 The Cincinnati Observatory housing an eleven-and-one-half-inch refractor telescope was opened for viewing ...
... GERALD S GERALD S GREENBERG Literary Bequests in Early Ohio Wills Introduction It is not surprising that besides the family Bible few books or libraries are mentioned in early Ohio wills for life on the frontier demanded that one devote full attention to life's essentials For most this meant the acquisition of a piece of land and the construction of a home It is such proprietary bequests therefore that dominate early Ohio wills One does discover however that the early doctors and lawyers of ...
... ROBERT HAMILTON BISHOP1 ROBERT HAMILTON BISHOP1 PIONEER EDUCATOR By JAMES H RODABAUGH One hundred and twenty-five years ago in 1809 the Legislature of the State of Ohio granted the charter which led to the organization of Miami University at Oxford Ohio This institution was built on lands granted in trust by the Federal Government to the State of Ohio for use primarily by the inhabitants of the John Cleves Symmes' Purchase For fifteen years after its founding Miami University remained ...
... JUDGE JAMES HALL JUDGE JAMES HALL A Literary Pioneer of the Middle West DAVIS L JAMES In the preparation of this sketch acknowledgment should be made of the writer's indebtedness to the Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley by our fellow member Dr W H Venable This volume published in 1891 is of the greatest importance and value to the student of early literary history and an indispensable book of reference It is a matter for much regret that it is out of print and only to be found ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XLII INDEX TO VOLUME XLII Abels A 71 Bicentennial commission for Ohio Names Abroader the better 392 of 8-9 Adams S E 114 Bicentennial commission for West VirAlexander W L quoted 128-129 ginia Names of 7 American Colonists in English Records Blaine James G Speech in Cincinnati Ser 1 reviewed 241-242 385-386 his affability 387-388 American Legion 64 Blazier Ann 39 Anchor iron 171 180 Blumenberg Hugo 29 Ashmun George 108 Bolles Col William M 169 Atkinson L A 176 Boone Col E A 223 ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Woodland Sites in Nebraska By Marvin F Kivett Nebraska State Historical Society Publications in Anthropology No 1 Lincoln Nebraska State Historical Society 1952 102p 30 plates maps and bibliography Paper 200 This is a report on previously unpublished excavations in sites generally assignable to the Woodland Pattern in Nebraska as well as a discussion and summary of existing evidence on the place of Woodland in the Plains area The presence of Woodland manifestations in ...
... BLENNERHASSETT BLENNERHASSETT1 I BLENNERHASSETT TRUTH is not only stranger than fiction but often sadder than the grimmest fancy can portray Few pages of American history present more of the picturesque and none offer so much of the pitiful as do those that tell the story of Blennerhassett This man whom Parton the would-be whitewasher of Aaron Burr calls eccentric romantic idle and shiftless descended from choice Irish stock The source of his blood is traced to the times of King John Harman ...
... FINANCING OHIO'S PRE-CIVIL WAR RAILROADS FINANCING OHIO'S PRE-CIVIL WAR RAILROADS by EUGENE 0 PORTER Associate Professor of History College of Mines and Metallurgy University of Texas The financial history of early railroads in the United States is nowhere better illustrated than in the history of railroad building in Ohio The lack of trained engineers and the consequent indefiniteness of plans the insufficiency of the original capitalization the use of state county and municipal credit and ...
... MITCHENER'S LEGEND OF THE WHITE MITCHENER'S LEGEND OF THE WHITE WOMAN AND NEWCOMERSTOWN BY GEORGE F SMYTHE Mr C W Butterfield in his History of Ohio says1 Mark Kuntz upon the Tuscarawas with an Indian wife and Mary Harris upon the Walhonding with an Indian husband were it may be proper here to mention the first white settlers of Ohio so far as any authentic records disclose My interest at present is concerned with this Mary Harris There may indeed have been white women in Ohio before Mary ...
... THE CINCINNATI LANCET-CLINIC THE CINCINNATI LANCET-CLINIC by DAVID A TUCKER JR MD Professor of the History of Medicine University of Cincinnati The Cincinnati Lancet-Clinic was formed in 1878 by the merger of the Lancet and Observer 1842 with the Clinic 1871 It was known as the Lancet and Clinic until 1888 when the hyphenated title was assumed The Lancet and Observer was founded by L M Lawson in 1842 as the Western Lancet a monthly journal It was issued in Cincinnati under his direction for ...
... A Granville Cooper's Experience A Granville Cooper's Experience With Barter in the 1820's By PETER FOX SMITH I N 1805 A COMPANY OF NEW ENGLANDERS from Granville Massachusetts journeyed over the mountains to the west crossed the Ohio River and settled near the center of the infant state of Ohio Today Granville Ohio which is populated by some two thousand villagers and fourteen hundred students of Denison University still retains some characteristics of her eastern heritage One of the oldest ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY THE OHIO VALLEY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Fifth Annual Meeting Pittsburgh Pa October 30-November 1 1911 THE NEW ORLEANS CENTENNIAL Robert Fulton who had profited by the experiments and experiences of John Fitch and James Rumsey a score or more years before made a successful trial with the steamboat Clermont on the Hudson River in 1807 The success of the Clermont on the New York river inspired her owners Fulton Livingston and Roosevelt with the ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 99 ican Revolution and of the Benjamin Franklin the local chapter He served as an officer in both organizations and spoke upon many occasions on patriotic subjects at their meetings and banquets Col W L Curry a charter member of the State Society a Past President and for many years State Registrar and an active executive of the Society will speak RANDALL SON OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BY COL W L CURRY Emilius Oviatt Randall to whom we pay tribute ...
... JOHN OFFNER JOHN OFFNER President McKinley's Final Attempt to Avoid War With Spain By April 1 1898 war between the United States and Spain seemed certain Rebellious Republican congressmen had forced President William McKinley's diplomatic pace by threatening to join Democrats in declaring war and were kept in line only by promises that the president would shortly turn over the Cuban issue to Congress McKinley had informed the Spanish government of his terms for a settlement and Madrid's March ...
... ROBERT M ROBERT M MENNEL The Family System of Common Farmers The Early Years of Ohio's Reform Farm 1858-1884 In late January 1858 the Hocking Cottage the first family building of the Ohio Reform Farm was pronounced perfectly dry and ready for occupancy Soon thereafter Acting Commissioner Superintendent Charles Reemelin escorted the first inmates nine of the better disposed boys from the Cincinnati House of Refuge to the Lancaster institution1 The school proposed to reform juvenile delinquents ...
... THE BEGINNINGS OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH THE BEGINNINGS OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH IN OHIO by OPHIA D SMITH The doctrines of Emanuel Swedenborg were introduced in America near the close of the eighteenth century twelve years after Swedenborg's death In 1784 James Glen a Scottish Newchurchman came to Philadelphia to deliver the first Swedenborgian lectures ever heard in this country This was three years before Robert Hindmarsh in London organized the first New Jerusalem society in the world ...
... THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY AN ADDRESS BY BISHOP BENJAMIN WILLIAM ARNETT D D WEDNESDAY EVENING OCT 11 1899 AT MUSIC HALL CHICAGO We have been called together by the authorities of the Autumnal Festival Celebration First we are to give thanks for the achievements of the present century for the triumph of mind over matter as well as the success that has attended the labors of our workmen the harvest of our farmers and the dividends that have accrued to our financiers It is ...
... WILLIAM E WILLIAM E GIENAPP Salmon P Chase Nativism and the Formation of the Republican Party in Ohio Accounts of the formation of the Republican party traditionally emphasize the political upheaval of 1854 In this year the party first took shape in Michigan and Wisconsin and in several other states fusion anti-Nebraska coalitions which are often viewed as protoRepublican organizations contested the fall elections1 Certainly the momentous political events of that year unleashed forces that ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 99 A daughter of Mr Nichols the anti-slavery man is yet living and gives in a letter to me interesting facts She says My father and mother became earnest anti-slavery advocates in 1841 and from that time until the war the colored people knew my parents as friends and our home was a refuge When old enough probably about the year '48 or '49 I became greatly interested in the black people who came quietly to our kitchen door after dark and left before daylight often we ...