... GILBERT D GILBERT D SCHNEIDER Daniel Emmett's Negro Sermons and Hymns An Inventory Daniel Decatur Emmett author of the immortal Dixie was born in Mt Vernon Ohio on October 29 1815 the oldest child of Abraham and Sarah Emmett During the 1840s and 1850s he became a major figure in the development of Negro minstrelsy His natural abilities as singer fiddler banjoist and black-face comedian found favor with audiences across the United States and overseas Emmett if alive today would be part of the ...
... BAKER ON THE FIFTH BALLOT THE DEMOCRATIC ALTERNATIVE 1932 by ELLIOT A ROSEN A study of history's might-have-beens is often more interesting and informative than one would suspect from the bare recital of what happened For in addition to the zest of narrative it has the delight of speculation Very often the threads which lead to a great decision are intertwined with other strands which if they had prevailed might have brought about an entirely different aftermath What would have been the ...
... JOHN CHAPMAN'S LINE OF DESCENT FROM JOHN CHAPMAN'S LINE OF DESCENT FROM EDWARD CHAPMAN OF IPSWICH Compiled by FLORENCE E WHEELER With an Introduction by ROBERT PRICE Who Was Johnny Appleseed--Introduction Even before the death of John Chapman in 1845 the Johnny Appleseed story growing out of the man's colorful life had begun to break away from the roots of fact and to flower purely as a popular myth In the years since the apocryphal addenda aided and abetted by much fiction poetry and ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Ohio History is pleased to announce the reestablishment of an editorial advisory board Listed on the inside front cover of the journal are the names of twelve distinguished historians representing a wide variety of interests and perspectives who have agreed to serve for an initial two-year term Working closely with the editor these scholars will review many of the manuscripts submitted to the journal suggest books for review and perhaps most importantly ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 127 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 127 William D Overman Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was elected secretary Mr Cook's paper on Judge John Tyler--Pioneer Jurist will be published in the QUARTERLY later if not published otherwise Professor A T Volwiler's paper on Harrison Blaine and American Foreign Policy 1889-1893 will be published in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Vol 79 no 4 Mr Garrison's paper follows A ...
... THE FOUNDING OF FRANKLINTON THE FOUNDING OF FRANKLINTON ITS SIGNIFICANCE TODAY1 by HAROLD J GRIMM Associate Professor of History Ohio State University The citizens of Columbus owe a debt of gratitude to the Honorable James A Rhodes mayor of Columbus and his Franklinton Sesquicentennial Committee under the chairmanship of Mr Erwin C Zepp for setting aside these two days in commemoration of the founding of the village of Franklinton By inviting us to pause in our busy work-a-day lives to give ...
... Rev Rev L B Gurley D D 21 REV L B GURLEY D D Pioneer Poet and Preacher BY N B C LOVE D D Rev L B Gurley was born in Norwich Conn He lived there seven and a half years and learned his A B C's in the school house where Lydia Sigourney the poetess conned her earliest lessons His father was a silversmith and a Methodist local preacher He worked in his fathear's shop and on the farm until he entered the ministry During this time he had the advantages of winter schools and a comprehensive library of ...
... 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 ...
... THE ROUSH FAMILY IN THE MAKING OF AMERICA THE ROUSH FAMILY IN THE MAKING OF AMERICA By LESTER LEROY ROUSH Introductory Remarks To present the history of so large a family in so small a compass and make the story interesting and attractive and useful to the large posterity of its common ancestors is a most difficult task Two questions the writer certainly must face are first what to choose from the large accumulation at hand and second how to present it The wider man's realistic knowledge of ...
... ORATION OF HON ORATION OF HON JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER LL D The last decades of our century bristle with centennial anniversaries the landmarks of human progress in the free institutions of a Christian civilization The Old World with its crowded populations with its social orders and castes and its despotic forms of government was stagnant and unhealthful Commerce reached forth its bold and eager arms for new fields for human enterprise and a larger and freer civilization Motives of gain mingled ...
... Bigelow Winter-Spring 2001 pp 5-25 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page and footnoted according to the original print version If a sentence appears to be incomplete scroll down to continue with the next page Columbus's Pioneer Doctor John M Edmiston The Fabric of His Life and Death By Ann Clymer Bigelow My Poor Father was a man of fine fealing but the Cold hand of death Laid him low from the journal of Evan Edmiston1 Dozens of ...
... GOOD WILL IN FIELDS OF PEACE GOOD WILL IN FIELDS OF PEACE By Louis BLAKE DUFF We hear in these September days the clock of destiny click the clock of your destiny the clock of Canadian destiny the clock of world destiny A momentous month draws to a close In it your role and ours has been changed By one stroke there has been made a new relationship and may no evil fate ever disturb it There sprang up overnight almost a new doctrine that the defense of the North American continent is one single ...
... ADDRESSES BEFORE THE OHIO STATE ADDRESSES BEFORE THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY The public meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the House of Representatives Columbus Ohio at eight o'clock p m March 3 1898 General Brinkerhoff presiding ADDRESS OF GENERAL BRINKERHOFF LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-Before introducing the speakers of the evening it is proper for me as chairman perhaps to say a few words in regard to the origin and purpose of the Ohio State ...
... ROBERT BUTLER ROBERT BUTLER Book Notes The Journal of Dr William Schooley Edited by George A Schooley Baltimore Gateway Press 1977 261p illustrations index As Dr Schooley noted his intention in writing this journal was not merely to record his life but at the same time to instruct Hence personal recollection is kept to a minimum a large part of the journal is composed of didactic letters and newspaper articles from the early nineteenth century by the liberal Quaker doctor Though he wrote ...
... 432 Ohio Arch 432 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications blood in his veins Senator Curtis of Kansas also points with pride to his Indian ancestry HISTORIC MEDALLIONS The Greenville Advocate of February 22 contains an extended article by Mr George A Katzenberger announcing the moving of the Second National Bank of Greenville to its new building on the 24th of that month The new home of the bank has appropriate medallions prints of which were distributed on post cards These are described in ...
... THE EVOLUTION OF THE OHIO-ERIE BOUNDARY THE EVOLUTION OF THE OHIO-ERIE BOUNDARY BY REGINALD C M'GRANE D A R Fellow University of Cincinnati The question of boundaries has always been a source of trouble Nations have been arrayed against each other wars have been fought diplomats have argued and demagogues have harrangued over such disputed points Sometimes Providence in its unaccountable way has helped to solve the question by placing natural limits between race and race or between nation and ...
... 420 Ohio Arch 420 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications between Fort St Clair and Fort Jefferson the following is an authentic account of that affair Lieut Lowrie of the second and Ensign Boyd of the first and second sub legions with a command consisting of about ninety noncommissioned officers and privates having under their convoy twenty wagons loaded with grain and commissaries' stores were attacked between daylight and sunrise seven miles advanced of Fort St Clair on the morning of 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 ...
... edited by edited by MARVIN R ZAHNISER John W Bricker Reflects Upon the Fight for the Bricker Amendment John W Bricker long a prominent name in the politics of Ohio and the United States will forever be known to students of American history as the author of a proposed amendment to the Constitution1 Popularly called the Bricker Amendment this Senate Joint Resolution was first introduced on September 14 1951 as Senate Joint Resolution 102 Following extensive consultation Senate hearings and much ...
... David Zeisberger Centennial David Zeisberger Centennial 17 5 A SCENE AT ZEISBERGER'S GRAVE C L MARTZOLFF From The Ohio Teacher January 1908 A beautiful November day it is One of those rare last days of the autumn time whose minutes pass too lightly for you want to keep them by you One of those days when you are watching the sun and calculate mentally how much of it you have yet to enjoy You know that you cannot have many more such glorious days and you want every bit of this one This is the ...