... REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR To the Officers Trustees and Members of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Herewith is submitted in condensed form the sixteenth annual report of the undersigned as Director of the Society Presumably you are not so much concerned with past accomplishments of the organization which speak for themselves as with the future The temper of the times appears to demand that the Society along with others of its kind should conscientiously ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 65 NUMBER 4 OCTOBER 1956 Carl Schurz and Rutherford B Hayes By CARL WITTKE The German Revolution of 1848 ended in the emigration of large numbers of political refugees to the United States Among them were men of substance social standing and education young intellectual radicals fresh from the universities and older more reserved agitators for reform whose dreams of a united republican Germany were shattered by the military ...
... 452 Ohio Arch 45 2 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications EXCAVATIONS OF THE ADENA MOUND BY WILLIAM C MILLS B SC Curator Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society The Adena mound so named by Governor Worthington and owned by his estate until a few years ago was thoroughly examined by the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society under the direction of its curator during the summer of 1901 The mound is located 112 miles from the northwestern part of the city of Chillicothe in the ...
... compiled by compiled by PATRICIA B GATHERUM Checklist of Major Research-in-Progress and Completed Masters and Doctors Degrees on Topics Relating to Ohio REFERENCE WORKS AR NOLD G ARY J An Inventory to the Microfilm Edition of the Washington Gladden Papers at the Ohio Historical Society MSS Processor Ohio Hist Society CHACE LAURA L and ALICE M VESTAL Guide to Manuscripts at the Cinci nn ati Histo ri cal Society Librarians Cincinnati Hist Society DITTBRENNER CURTIS H and PAU L D YON Guide to ...
... THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1864 THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1864 IN OHIO BY ELIZABETH F YAGER M A B A B S IN EDUCATION INTRODUCTION A brief resume of early Ohio politics serves to show that the state had been for the most part Democratic 30 far as national politics were concerned The Democrats who drew up the first constitution controlled the electoral vote until 1836 in 1836 and in 1840 William Henry Harrison carried the state and Henry Clay secured the electoral vote in 1844 Ohio went ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 289 Reviews Notes and Comments 289 in his Cincinnati speech Later on March 21 1864 he quoted from this message to a labor delegation that called upon him in Washington stating in conclusion that he had not changed his views on this subject DOCTOR HENRY SOLOMON LEHR A great educator to whom Ohio owes much has passed away At four o'clock on Monday morning January 29 1923 Dr Henry S Lehr aged eighty-five founder and former president of Ohio Northern University died at ...
... John A John A Bingham 331 JOHN A BINGHAM ADDRESS OF HON J B FORAKER ON THE OCCASION OF THE UNVEILING OF MONUMENT IN HONOR OF HON JOHN A BINGHAM AT CADIZ OHIO OCTOBER 5 1901 Mr Chairman and Fellow Cit izen s The private life and character of John A Bingham were the special possessions of this community You were his neighbors and friends He came and went in your midst You were in daily contact with him You knew him under all the varying circumstances of his long and eventful career You saw him ...
... WASHINGTON GLADDEN WASHINGTON GLADDEN FIRST CITIZEN OF COLUMBUS by C GEORGE FRY The story is told that Washington Gladden was once a guest at a downtown businessmen's luncheon in Columbusl A stranger was present and was introduced to Doctor Gladden Assuming him to be a physician he asked Sir where do you practice Gladden smiled and replied Oh I don't practice I just preach2 Friends and admirers of Washington Gladden knew however that he did practice as well as preach in many areas He was ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments and awards within the professional community of Ohio historians include Arnold Snyder PhD candidate at McMaster University has joined Bluffton College as an assistant professor of history and philosophy Gary A Hunt formerly of Boston University replaced Richard W Ryan as Department Head of the Ohio University Library's Archives and Special Collections Department as of July 1 1979 David E Kyvig Associate Professor at the ...
... Report of the Forty-eighth Annual Meeting 307 Report of the Forty-eighth Annual Meeting 307 SOME EXPERIENCES IN MAKING A STATE HISTORICAL SURVEY By W D OVERMAN The Historical Survey now in progress in Pennsylvania was started in December 1933 and is under the direction of the State Archivist The survey was carried on as a state CWA project until March 29 1934 and since that time has been continued with a greatly reduced quota of workers as a project under the FERA At its inception the director ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS ennsylvania Agriculture and Country Life 1640-1840 By Stevenson Whitcomb Fletcher Harrisburg Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission 1950 xiv605p Paper 250 cloth 300 For two centuries prior to 1840 agriculture dominated the economic life f Pennsylvania and during much of that period the breadbasket of America was replenished from the abundant harvests of her fields In e years that followed 1840 the raising of wheat ceased to be the farmers' ainstay and the dairy ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Old Northwest as the Keystone of the Arch of American Federal Union A Study in Commerce and Politics By A L Kohlmeier Bloomington Indiana The Principia Press Inc 1938 257p This interesting if somewhat tedious monograph is a study of the economic or commercial development and political importance of the Old Northwest down to the Civil War The Old Northwest with its vast expanse of fertile soil and its other resources soon attracted a large population In the course ...
... GENERAL KEIFER HONORED GENERAL KEIFER HONORED BY C B GALBREATH General Joseph Warren Keifer Ohio's grand old man celebrated the ninetieth anniversary of his birth on January 31 of this year On that day he received congratulations from men eminent in many walks of life The House of Representatives at Washington paused in its deliberations in honor of his services Tributes were spoken by Representatives Charles Brand of Urbana Ohio Martin B Madden of Illinois Chairman of the House Appropriations ...
... Book Notes Book Notes For the General Welfare Essays in Honor of Robert H Bremner Edited by Frank Annunziata Patrick D Reagan and Roy T Wortman New York Peter Lang 1989 xiv 390p notes This is a collection of articles published by historians who feel professionally indebted to their mentor Bob Bremner Professor Bremner while at The Ohio State University was indeed a unique scholar one who could at the same time devote himself to the classroom and teaching research and publishing and the ...
... Shevitz Winter-Spring 2003 pp 4-18 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2003 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved 147Richest and Best Is the Wine of the West148 The Ohio River Valley and the Jewish Frontier By Amy Hill Shevitz On July 3 1825 the small Jewish community of Cincinnati Ohio sent a fund-raising letter to the long-established congregation in Charleston South Carolina Appealing for financial assistance in the erection of a House to worship the God of our ...
... Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting 619 Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting 619 upright so as to add moisture and supply fertilizer to the unexposed and growing roots is also recommended For all the purposes stated we ask an appropriation of 400 40 only now being available Respectfully submitted Signed FRANK TALLMADGE Mr Booth drew attention to the fact that previous recommendations of the committee on the Logan Elm had not been acted upon President Campbell stated that before the desired improvements ...
... SPECULATIVE INTEREST IN OHIO LANDS IN 1829 SPECULATIVE INTEREST IN OHIO LANDS IN 1829 AS REVEALED IN A LETTER FROM HENRY FARMER TO SAMUEL J BROWNE Edited by WILLIAM D OVERMAN The following letter from Henry Farmer to his brother-in-law Samuel J Browne of Cincinnati affords a detailed account by an observant and well-informed Englishman of the unsettled political economic and social conditions in England just prior to the Era of Reform 18321 The statistical data on the cost of poor relief ...
... LETTER OF HON LETTER OF HON GEORGE B LORING READ AT THE C ELE BRATION BY R R DAWES WASHINGTON D C April 5 1888 SIR I have been requested by His Excellency Gov ernor Ames of Massachusetts to represent that Commonwealth at the Centennial Celebration of the first settlement of the Northwest Territory under the Ordinance of 1787 at Marietta Ohio I regret exceedingly that at a late hour I am compelled to deny myself the pleasure of being present on the occasion I feel it to be my duty however to ...
... Annual Report for 1958 Annual Report for 1958 FOR A DOZEN YEAR S OR MOR E the annual report of this Society has regularly recorded significant advancements in our operations Since World War II we have acquired nine properties including Adena Glendower Fort Meigs and the W P Snyder Jr visitation to the State Memorials has increased by over 1000000 collections have expanded and the educational research publication exhibit library and other services have recorded growing programs The year 1958 ...
... THE ORGANIZATION OF THE OHIO STATE MEDICAL THE ORGANIZATION OF THE OHIO STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY AND ITS RELATION TO THE OHIO MEDICAL CONVENTION By DONALD D SHIRA MD The endeavor during the period of 1811-1833 to establish a satisfactory method of medical licensure under the aegis of the law and which turned out to be such a dismal failure has been recounted in various articles published in the Historian's Notebook o f the Ohio State M edical Journal and in the QUARTERLY of the Ohio State ...