... OHIO IN THE MEXICAN WAR OHIO IN THE MEXICAN WAR BY DANIEL J RYAN This article is a chapter from Volume IV of the History of Ohio by Messrs Randall and Ryan It is printed by permission of the publishers The Century History Company 54 Dey St New York N YEDITOR The office of Governor did not prove attractive to Mr Corwin It afforded no opportunity to display either his talents or abilities In those days it was a position more of dignity than of power He used to say that his principal duties were ...
... DAVID G DAVID G TAYLOR Hocking Valley Railroad Promotion in the 1870's The Atlantic and Lake Erie Railway Industrialization had begun in Ohio before the Civil War and after a war-imposed delay promised to accelerate rapidly thereafter The Panic of 1873 however stalled the process substantially and destroyed many small industrialists and businessmen With the elimination of the financially weaker businessmen the way was paved for reorganization of the state's railroad coal mining and iron ...
... JAMES LEFFEL DOUBLE TURBINE WATER WHEEL INVENTOR by CARL M BECKER Though the evolution of steam engines in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was a dramatic advance in the development of prime movers waterpower mechanisms retained substantial importance in the industrial growth of western Europe and the United States Indeed European and American inventors were substantially improving conventional water wheels and developing new kinds of fluid mechanisms Much of NOTES ARE ON ...
... 600 Ohio Arch 600 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications He was community-minded He was proud of his city He loved his neighbor He was devoted to his friends He was so unselfish gracious thoughtful and kind as Governor Cox said that he exalted the thing we too casually call friendship He found good in everything and was always of good cheer--a kindhearted courteous high-minded cultured gentleman the like of which we shall not look upon again soon CLAUDE MEEKER AS MEMBER OF THE KIT-KAT CLUB ...
... CALEB ATWATER CALEB ATWATER CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF It is as Ohio's first historian that Caleb Atwater is best known But had he never written his History of Ohio his efforts to provide an educational system for the state and the record he made in Archaeology might in themselves be sufficient reason for placing his name in Ohio's Hall of Fame Caleb Atwater was a versatile peculiar eccentric and visionary individual From the world's material point of view his life might not be reckoned a success He ...
... ORIGIN RISE PROGRESS AND DECLINE OF THE ORIGIN RISE PROGRESS AND DECLINE OF THE WHITEWATER COMMUNITY OF SHAKERS LOCATED IN HAMILTON COUNTY OHIO BY J P MAC LEAN While engaged in collecting the material for the article on West Union I engaged in a correspondence with Elder Charles H Sturr general manager of the Whitewater community He invited me to make him a visit and I should have the freedom of all the archives of the society I determined at once to accept the invitation and although the ...
... CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF ULYSSES S GRANT BY C B GALBREATH CELEBRATION AT POINT PLEASANT CLERMONT COUNTY OHIO Of all citizens of the United States born in Ohio the most famous in his day and generation as Judge Hugh L Nichols has observed was General Ulysses S Grant That he still holds that high place among the distinguished sons that Ohio has given to the Republic and the world was attested by the outpouring of people to celebrate the ...
... MEMORIAL TO THOMAS WILSON MEMORIAL TO THOMAS WILSON W C MILLS This memorial was submitted by the writer at the annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society June 6 1902EDITOR It is my sad duty to record for the annals of our Society the decease of our esteemed friend Dr Thomas Wilson late curator of Archaeology in the Smithsonian Institution Washington D C whose death occurred early Sunday morning May 4th 1 90 2 Dr Wilson was a great friend of our Society and was also ...
... OBERLIN'S PART IN THE SLAVERY CONFLICT OBERLIN'S PART IN THE SLAVERY CONFLICT WILBUR GREELEY BURROUGHS A M OBERLIN OHIO Little did the Rev John J Shipherd pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Elyria Ohio realize that in the founding of Oberlin he was to change the destiny of a nation He originated the plan in 1832 In November of the same year with his associate Philo P Stewart formerly a missionary to the Cherokees in Mississippi and at this time living with Shipherd at Elyria he selected the ...
... WHIG CONVENTION COLUMBUS OHIO 1840 WHIG CONVENTION COLUMBUS OHIO 1840 Letter of JOHN M W OODBRIDGE COLUMBUS Feb 21 1840 DEAR UNCLE The object of this communication is to inform you of the movements in this city at the present time I do wish you were here to participate with us in the festivities of the occasion Columbus is already filled to overflowing It is computed that there will be between fifteen and twenty thousand Whigs in the city before the close of the week Truly this is a movement ...
... NOTES NOTES Preston Slosson is professor of history at the University of Michigan Mrs Raymond C Mary H Osburn of Columbus Ohio is the author of Twentieth Century Music in Volume VI of the History of the State of Ohio William D Overman is director of the Library and Archives of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Akron Ohio Alfred G Wright is associate professor of geography Ohio State University Bertha E Josephson is head of the Department of Documents and editorial associate of this Society ...
... THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DERMATOLOGY AND SYPHILOLTHE ESTABLISHMENT OF DERMATOLOGY AND SYPHILOLOGY AS MEDICAL SPECIALTIES IN NORTHERN OHIO1 Dr William T Corlett and the Renaissance of the 1890's by WILLARD L MARMELZAT MD Department of Dermatology and Syphilology University Hospitals of Cleveland The rise of dermatology as a medical specialty in Ohio is of particular medico-historical interest for the evolution of the treatment of skin diseases with which this paper deals is not only of local and ...
... The Black Hand The Black Hand 457 thyself be beaten by the cunning right hand of a boy Disgraced thou art and no longer shalt thou be numbered among the members of my frame And the hand clung to the rock and turned black and spread and grew until it was as the hand of a giant and while the chief Ahyomah and the tribe stood silently watching the wonder the defeated warrior wrapped his robe about him spoke no word of farewell and striding swiftly into the dark depths of the forest was seen no ...
... THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOC I ETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO September 25 1918 The meeting was called to order by President G Frederick Wright There were present G Frederick Wright George F Bareis W H Cole B F Prince W L Curry E F Wood Mrs Howard Jones J S Roof J E Campbell H F Burket D J Ryan A M Schlesinger J M Henderson William Walker E O Randall D H Gard W C Mills H C Shetrone L P Schaus J ...
... THE FIRST REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNTHE FIRST REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA BY EX-JUDGE DAVID DAVIS Mr William M Pettit in the Archaeological and Historical Quarterly of July 1931 has written an able article setting forth that Rev John Wheelwright of Boston and later of Exeter Massachusetts was the first man to form a Republican Government in America The records and history of the Colonies by many authors attribute that honor to Rev Roger Williams Rev Wheelwright came to the Colonies ...
... ROBERT L ROBERT L DAUGHERTY Book Notes The Overland Journal of Amos Piatt Josselyn Zanesville Ohio to the Sacramento Valley April 1849 to September 11 1849 Edited by J William Barrett II Baltimore Gateway Press 1978 129 p illustrations appendices bibliography index The principal value of this brief work is that Josselyn was one of the few forty-niners to record his experiences As told through his journals and letters Josselyn's description of his three-year affliction with gold fever recounts ...
... THE ADMISSION OF OHIO TO THE UNION THE ADMISSION OF OHIO TO THE UNION by BENJAMIN H PERSHING BRUTAL TRUTH DISCOVERED NEAR 150TH BIRTHDAY OHIO ASKS STATEHOOD With this alarming headline a metropolitan Ohio newspaper on January 14 1953 announced the most unique episode in the history of the admission of territories into the federal Union The article stated that congress had taken no action on the constitution prepared at Chillicothe in 1802 Consequently Ohio had legally been a territory and ...
... WAYNE'S PEACE WITH THE INDIANS OF THE OLD WAYNE'S PEACE WITH THE INDIANS OF THE OLD NORTHWEST 1795 by DWIGHT L SMITH Instructor in History Ohio State University Far from being the least of the many problems with which the United States had to contend at its beginning was the settling of difficulties between the Indians and whites on the frontier If the new nation were to grow in size as apparently it was doing the native Indians would have to be removed absorbed or extirpated either ...
... Minutes of Fifth Annual Meeting Minutes of Fifth Annual Meeting 241 THE PIONEER PHYSICIANS OF THE MUSKINGUM VALLEY BY EDMUND CONE BRUSH A M M D A Paper Read at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society in the Hall of the House of Representatives at Columbus March 6 1890 Generation after generation of pioneers have gradually carried the star of empire westward until it would seem as if the work of the pioneer was nearly done As these hardy and adventurous men and women have gradually opened up ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XXVL No 3 JUNE 1917 COLONEL JOHN W HARPER IN MEMORIAM In the death of John W Harper The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society lost a Trustee and loyal member of long standing conspicuous for his fidelity and support of historical and archaeological research He materially aided in the progress of the Society Colonel Harper was born February 11 1830 in Indianapolis the son of an old English family distinguished for its patriotism and loyalty to this ...