... FINNEY'S FIGHT AGAINST THE MASONS FINNEY'S FIGHT AGAINST THE MASONS by CHARLES C COLE JR Assistant Dean Columbia College Columbia University Mention antimasonry and the historian and scholar think immediately of the famous Morgan affair of 1826 The story of the abduction of William Morgan a bricklayer of Batavia New York after he had published a book revealing the secrets of Freemasonry is a familiar one in American history The resultant wave of ill-feeling against Masons which culminated in ...
... DEDICATION OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DEDICATION OF THE OHIO STATE ARCH A EOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING MAY 30 1914 On the afternoon of Saturday May 30th Memorial Day following the annual meeting of the Society which was held in the morning the Society celebrated the dedication of the new building located on the campus 0 S U corner High Street and 15th Ave First President of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society The building facing the east ...
... 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 ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY EDWARD LENSE AND NANCY SUMMERS ABA See American Bar Association Abbot David and Tappan 136 136n 137-38 139 140 Abolition of slavery 49 50 56 abolitionism in Western Reserve 50 56 and Benjamin Tappan 109 111 ACLU See American Civil Liberties Union Adams John 121 220 Adger John B American delegate to World Evangelical Alliance 302 Aeschbacher W D book rev 338 Alexander Charles C book rev 342-43 Alexander James 148 Alien and Sedition Acts 224 Allen Frederick Lewis quoted ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Men of Good Hope A Story of American Progressives By Daniel Aaron New York Oxford University Press 1951 xiv321p 400 Men of Good Hope is a sympathetic but considered analysis of the social philosophies of nine men whom the author believes have shaped or expressed progressive thought in America Emerson Theodore Parker Henry George Edward Bellamy Henry Demarest Lloyd William Dean Howells and Thorstein Veblen-precursors and prophetic agitators-and Theodore Roosevelt and ...
... HARRY N HARRY N SCHEIBER Alfred Kelley and the Ohio Business Elite 1822-1859 In a rare moment of freedom from the pressures of his work as an Ohio canal commissioner and legislator Alfred Kelley wrote to his wife in Cleveland from his rooms at Columbus in January 1825 I think it is not altogether vanity which induces me to say that my services and advice have been important in settling the plan of operations and the details of the canal system which have produced so great unanimity in the ...
... THE MIAMI CANAL THE MIAMI CANAL BY JOHN J GEORGE JR Much of the politics and planning of the early decades of the nineteenth century centered around internal improvements a topic made possible and popular by the expansion of the West This expansion and development the tidewater political leader recognized the representative of the frontier capitalized it Fruitless appeals for aid were made to a central government whose executive laboring under strict construction denied the constitutionality ...
... PREHISTORIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN OHIO PREHISTORIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN OHIO BY MARY HUBBELL OSBURN The prehistoric era of the Indians in North America is an episode in the chronology of man in which Ohio and other portions of the Mississippi Valley play an important role It is in these regions that some of the finest examples of Indian cultures of that period are found Among the many thousands of other art objects found in the Ohio area the remnants of prehistoric musical instruments are ...
... Ohio Valley Hist Ohio Valley Hist Ass'n Fifth Annual Meeting 79 main opponents Clark to President Reed August 4 1781 post p Marshall advised the people to pay no attention to the drafts ordered for Clark and offered protection to those who refused He had told Clark that while he could do nothing for the expedition as an official that as a private person he would give every assistance within his power Penna Archives 1781-1783 p 318 71 See post p 72 See post p 73 See post p 74 Mich Pioneer and ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Mrs Harry B Longsworth Secretary and Editor The October and December issues of the Reporter Nos 33 and 34 are devoted to an article on the Faurot Opera House in Lima The story was prompted by the contemplated razing of the Faurot Block The Opera House constructed in 1881 at a cost of 22500000 was said to have been the finest between New York and Denver The Society opened the season's meetings on October 30 ...
... INTER-STATE MIGRATION AND THE MAKING OF INTER-STATE MIGRATION AND THE MAKING OF THE UNION BY DR EDWIN ERLE SPARKS President Emeritus of the Pennsylvania State College I hear the far-off voyager's horn 1 see the Yankee's trail -- His foot on every mountain-pass On every stream his sail Behind the scared squaw's birch canoe The steamer smokes and raves And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be The first low wash of waves where ...
... DANIEL PRESTON DANIEL PRESTON Thomas Kelsey Hardluck Entrepreneur In the years following the close of the War of 1812 a wave of economic speculation swept through the West The Treaty of Ghent which ended the war offered nothing in concrete terms beyond a much desired peace But if the United States had not won the war against the powerful British Americans could at least revel in the knowledge that they had not lost it either They quickly forgot the many near-disasters that the nation ...
... BOOK REVIEWS THE WESTERN BOOK TRADE CINCINNATI AS A NINETEENTH-CENTURY PUBLISHING AND BOOK TRADE CENTER CONTAINING A DIRECTORY OF CINCINNATI PUBLISHERS BOOKSELLERS AND MEMBERS OF ALLIED TRADES 1796-1880 By Wa l ter Sutton Columbus Ohio State University Press for the Ohio Historical Society 1961 xv360p illustrations bibliography and index 800 On November 9 1793 there came from the crude hand press of William Maxwell the first issue of the Centinel of the North-Western Territory--Open to all ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 655 Forty-First Annual Meeting 655 of the Museum and Library Building together with all the addresses and a number of illustrations To this has been added a brief history of the Society by the Secretary It is intended to use this material in part in an intensive campaign for an increase in the membership of the Society The fifth and final volume of the Diary and Letters of Rutherford B Hayes is now in type and will soon be ready for distribution There is an ...
... HOMER D HOMER D BLANCHARD Lenau's Ohio Venture It is not often that we find in America documentary source material relating to events in the lives of German men of letters In the case of the poet Nikolaus Lenau however we do have such sources because he spent some time in the United States and purchased land in Crawford County Ohio This writer has discovered new documentary evidence which dispels the old legends about Lenau's visit to America and his speculation in Ohio land The time ...
... DEDICATION OF THE JAMES E DEDICATION OF THE JAMES E CAMPBELL ELM On October 20 1923 very interesting exercises were held in the State House Grounds at Columbus on the occasion of the dedication of the James E Campbell Elm a seedling from the famous Logan Elm in Pickaway County under which the speech or message of the Indian chief Logan was dictated and sent to Lord Dunmore who was holding a peace conference with the Indians at Camp Charlotte seven miles distant October 1774 These exercises ...
... STORY OF THE FIRST GEOLOGICAL SURVEY STORY OF THE FIRST GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF OHIO 1835 - 18 42 BY PAUL WAKELEE STODDARD INTRODUCTORY NOTE The purpose of this paper is conceived to be the story of the First Geological Survey of Ohio not the findings of the Survey or the discoveries made It deals with the rise and fall of popular sentiment and the corresponding reaction in legislative halls Moreover this is legislative history--not social for the latter although far more valuable is subtle and ...
... 126 Ohio Arch 126 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications VALUABLE DONATIONS OF MSS The museum and library of the Society have been greatly increased by donations from friends interested in the progress and enlargement of the institution It is but a matter of justice to note the contributions recently made by Prof J P MacLean one of the trustees who has been a very active member ever since he joined the Society At different times he has given books on various subjects besides quite a selection ...
... 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 ...
... CINCINNATI-A CIVIC ODE CINCINNATI-A CIVIC ODE WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE Professor William Henry Venable ranks among the first of Ohio's most honored educators and authors For many years he was professor in the High Schools of Cincinnati His published works embrace history poetry literature and fiction He has been a devoted student of the literature of the Ohio Valley He delivered the address on Ohio Literary Men and Women at the Ohio Centennial celebration Chillicothe May 20 1903 His splendid ode ...