... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY AUGUST 1952-JULY 1953 Compiled b y S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE MICK J R 4-H Club Golden Anniversary Marking the First Half Century of Boys' and Girls' Club Work in Ohio Being a History of the Movement in Williams County To Make the Best Better N p n d 16p POWER Richard Lyle Settlers on Corn Belt Soil Indiana Magazine of History XLIX 1953 161-172 RICKARD Anne M The University and ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Adena People No 2 By William S Webb and Raymond S Baby with chapters by Charles E Snow and Robert M Goslin Columbus Ohio State University Press for the Ohio Historical Society 1957 xi123p illustrations map chart tables bibliography and index Paper 300 This attractive well organized and well executed volume summarizes the current views of the authors concerning the Adena people and their culture in the Ohio Valley Data from forty-nine new Adena sites for the most ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA The recent appointments to the Board of Trustees of the Society have added strength and dignity to that body Governor Cox on June 24 1913 appointed ex-Governor Myron T Herrick of Cleveland and ex-Governor James E Campbell of Columbus for the terms of three years from the date of their appointment Mr Herrick was originally appointed by Governor Harmon The high character of the personnel of the Board has been unbroken in the twenty-eight years of its history This is ...
... Ohio Valley Hist Ohio Valley Hist Ass'n Fifth Annual Meeting 119 of its officers which is confined to matters purely historical I congratulate the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania upon its wonderful opportunities It has a fertile field of operations hitherto but little cultivated it has enlisted an interest in its reorganization which is almost national it is surely destined to a prosperous and brilliant future THE RELATION OF NEW ENGLAND TO THE OHIO VALLEY BY CARL RUSSELL FISH PH D ...
... 255 255 GENERAL ARTHUR ST CLAIR The Columbus Dispatch contained the following editorial in its issue of April 5 1934 Tuesday was the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of a man closely connected with the early history of Ohio whose life was a pitiable tragedy--Gen Arthur St Clair governor of the Northwest Territory when Ohio formed the body of it He was born in Scotland April 3 1734 and came to America in his young manhood With ability as a soldier he served with the British forces in ...
... THE OHIO ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION OF 1836 THE OHIO ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION OF 1836 By ROBERT PRICE The Rev Jacob Little pastor of the Granville Presbyterian church for over thirty-nine years beginning in 1827 once recorded1 that during the year 1834 the village of Granville was beset by seven distinct evils namely 1 embarrassing financial conditions 2 a killing frost on May 15 3 a serious drought following the frost 4 a torrential rain at midnight of July 1 followed by a great flood 5 an ...
... OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY--PART 6 OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY--PART 6 THE VAULTING IMAGINATION OF JOHN L RIDDELL By ADOLPH E WALLER Whatever makes the past or future predominate over the present exalts us in the scale of thinking beings--Johnson The name of John Leonard Riddell is perhaps best remembered today for his Synopsis of the Western Plants In 1835 when this was published Cincinnati was the western-most city of great size with around 35000 inhabitants and with immediate perhaps daily expansion in ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Preliminary Inventory Record Group 10 Indian Affairs Compiled by Manuscript Division Public Archives of Canada Ottawa King's Printer and Controller of Stationery 1951 14xiiip appendices and index The manuscript division of the Public Archives of Canada has launched a series of inventories to describe in some detail all its collections Each of the publications will be concerned with a particular section of the manuscripts in the public archives Record Groups are ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Organizations CRESTLINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY Crestline Ernest G Hesser President The guest speaker for the April 28 meeting was Edward S Thomas curator of natural history of the Ohio Historical Society He spoke on the subject Outdoor Ohio in Natural Color and illustrated the talk with his own colored slides of landscapes birds wild flowers insects and other wild life The society plans a historical pilgrimage to Schoenbrunn and also a ...
... MICHAEL J MICHAEL J DEVINE The Historical Paintings of William Henry Powell In 1865 the Ohio General Assembly commissioned William Henry Powell to paint a large historic picture depicting the heroic naval victory of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and his men over the British in the Battle of Lake Erie in 1813 A former resident of Cincinnati Powell had won fame in the eastern urban centers of the United States as well as European capitals and his majestic Perry's Victory hung in Ohio's capitol ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY AUGUST 1953-JULY 1954 compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE KAATZ Martin R The Settlement of the Black Swamp of Northwestern Ohio Pioneer Days Northwest Ohio Quarterly XXV 1953 134-156 KAATZ Martin R The Settlement of the Black Swamp of Northwestern Ohio Later Days Northwest Ohio Quarterly XXV 1953 201-217 LIPP Frederick J The Home Place Being 150 Years of Ohio Farming Inside ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Government and Administration of Ohio By Francis R Aumann and Harvey Walker American Commonwealth Series edited by W Brooke Graves New York Thomas Y Crowell Company 1956 xiv489p frontispiece appendix bibliography and index 595 Students of Ohio's government have had their task greatly facilitated in the 1950's by the publication of two volumes In 1953 Professor Albert Rose of the University of Dayton published his Ohio Government State and Local In 1956 Professors ...
... THE MIAMI COUNTRY 1750-1815 THE MIAMI COUNTRY 1750-1815 AS DESCRIBED IN JOURNALS AND LETTERS by ELIZABETH FARIES Senior Assistant Reference and Catalog Department Dayton Public Library During the late 1700's and the early 1800's the Miami Country was a definite geographic area in the Northwest Territory This area has been defined as a region of approximately 5000 square miles in southwestern Ohio with a small adjoining wedge of southeastern Indiana It was particularly the land that forms the ...
... 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 ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Anthony Wayne Trouble Shooter of the American Revolution By Harry Emerson Wildes New York Harcourt Brace and Co 1941 514 p Illus and maps 375 This volume is a biography written by one who knows intimately the Pennsylvania background of the famous Revolutionary hero The author was born in the neighboring state of Delaware holds a degree from the University of Pennsylvania and has served as literary editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger He moreover has lived for many ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Kensington Stone A Mystery Solved By Erik Wahlgren Madison University of Wisconsin Press 1958 xiv228p illustrations bibliography and index 500 Few artifacts of American history have aroused as much interest as the Kensington stone This stone with its runic inscriptions supposedly discovered by a Minnesota farmer in 1898 has been the subject of several books by Hjalmar Holand No American scholar has taken the trouble to examine in detail the case which Holand has ...
... EDGAR C EDGAR C REINKE Meliorem Lapsa Locavit An Intriguing Puzzle Solved Adorning the handsome facade of The Ohio State University's William Oxley Thompson Library in Columbus are four central halfcolumns of a piano nobile that encloses a shallow balcony in three bays Supporting the half-columns are four inscribed stone corbels each in the form of a shield The figures on these shields depict respectively from left to right the Great Seal of the United States the Great Seals of the Northwest ...
... compiled by compiled by HELEN M THURSTON A Survey of Publications on the History and Archaeology of Ohio 1971 to 1972 ARCHAEOLOGY Central States Archaeological Journal 1971 published by several archaeological societies CERAM C W The First American A Story of North American Archaeology New York Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc 1971 357p Ohio archaeology MILLER JEFFERSON J II and LYLE M STONE Eighteenth-Century Cer a mics fr om Fort Michilimackinac A Study in Historical Archaeology Washington DC ...
... Edilorialana Edilorialana 121 order the numerous and important historical events that transpired in his county The little book is illustrated and has a large folding map of the territory which it treats Auglaize county was a sort of geographical and historical pivotal point in Ohio It was the chief gate way for Indians and whites between Lake Erie and the Ohio river for sixtyfive years 1749-1814 The reader should remember that the Maumee rises in the southern part of our county Auglaize south ...
... THE EVOLUTION OF OHIO COUNTIES THE EVOLUTION OF OHIO COUNTIES By J F LANING It is probable that the people who read this article will all know that the State of Ohio was not always divided into the number of counties there now are and that to evolve the present map a long period of time and many mutations of county outlines were necessary But few people however know the extent of the evolution that has been going on in bringing Ohio counties within their present environments From the erection ...