... BOOK REVIEWS INDEX TO THE WILLIAM McKINLEY PAPERS The Library of Congress Presidents' Papers Index Series Washington Manuscript Division Reference Department Library of Congress 1963 x482p introduction and appendices 325 An index often is thought of as merely a finding list but this one functions in numerous ways Its most important functions are three-fold it testifies it terrifies and it teaches First as to its testimony It testifies to a growth in recognition of historical needs --by ...
... OLD OHIO RIVER STEAMBOAT DAYS OLD OHIO RIVER STEAMBOAT DAYS MEMORIES OF UPPER OHIO RIVER ACTIVITIES BETWEEN 1860 AN D 1890 BY W G SIBLEY A great river is a powerful influence over the lives of all who dwell on its banks just as lofty hills or mountains seen day after day finally come to have meaning in a man's life as does any other striking natural environment When a river is intimately associated with the affairs of a small community its whole population becomes conscious of it So it was ...
... Historical News Historical News THE ELEUTHERIAN MILLS-HAGLEY FOUNDATION in c ooperation with the University of Delaware is again offering two fellowships in American history and museum training The fellowships carry an annual stipend of 1800 renewable for the second year and lead to a master's degree The fourteenth annual spring exhibition at the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio The Turn of the Century Cincinnati from 1890 to 1910 will be held from April 22 through June 26 Leslie H ...
... EXPLORATIONS OF THE SEIP MOUND EXPLORATIONS OF THE SEIP MOUND WILLIAM C MILLS The Seip Mound is located within the largest prehistoric earthworks of the Paint Creek Valley known as the Seip Group1 One very large mound and another half its size enclosed with earthworks which form a combination of two circles and a square and five mounds situated outside the earthworks but in close proximity to them constitute the Seip Group This group is located in Paxton Township Ross County about 3 miles east ...
... WILLIAM THOMAS MATHEWS WILLIAM THOMAS MATHEWS The following sketch of William T Mathews one of the most distinguished painters of our state and generation was prepared by his brother Major Charles H Mathews New Philadelphia Ohio and is a sympathetic tribute to the memory of the notable citizen who was known as the Buckeye ArtistEDITOR William T Mathews bachelor artist was a resident of Washington D C for ten or fifteen years previous to his death which occurred at the Emergency Hospital ...
... 598 Ohio Arch 598 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Zane by W O McCluskey Unveiling of Monument by Mrs Catherine Long granddaughter of Elizabeth Zane followed by addresses by Howard F Sedgwick and Major H A Dargue both of Washington D C The program concluded with the singing of America CELEBRATION AT CAMPUS MARTIUS In 1917 the General Assembly of Ohio passed an act authorizing the purchase from Miss Minerva Tupper Nye of the portion of the old Campus Martius site in Marietta on which the ...
... LEGISLATURE OF THE NORTHWESTERN LEGISLATURE OF THE NORTHWESTERN TERRITORY 1795 The legislative authority in the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio was vested in the governor and judges of that territory by the Ordinance of 1787 The minutes of the meeting of the Legislature held in Cincinnati in the summer of 1795 have been preserved in the Centinel of the Northwestern Territory where they were published in that year Only one copy of the file of this paper containing these ...
... SUMNER -- BROOKS -- BURLINGAME SUMNER -- BROOKS -- BURLINGAME --or-- THE LAST OF THE GREAT CHALLENGES BY JAMES E CAMPBELL The purpose of this paper is to throw light upon one of the most famous of the many thrilling episodes which preceded the Civil War -- thereby reversing some accepted history to mark the finish of the long congressional quarrel between Massachusetts and South Carolina and incidentally to note the collapse of the Duello When the thirty-fourth Congress met on the third day of ...
... 40 Ohio Arch 40 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ring a man's relationship to the God who made him and the home over which he presides has a political significance You might as well talk of removing politics from business as to talk of asking the sun to stop shining as long as a human being votes upon the election of a man who will vote for a law there is always politics and there always should be politics Instead of there being too much politics in this country there is too little ...
... 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 ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Woodland Sites in Nebraska By Marvin F Kivett Nebraska State Historical Society Publications in Anthropology No 1 Lincoln Nebraska State Historical Society 1952 102p 30 plates maps and bibliography Paper 200 This is a report on previously unpublished excavations in sites generally assignable to the Woodland Pattern in Nebraska as well as a discussion and summary of existing evidence on the place of Woodland in the Plains area The presence of Woodland manifestations in ...
... 36 Ohio 36 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications This state was the thoroughfare for all the races and all the people in their struggle to reach the west Its foundations were laid by the very best brains of this country when that great American stream of settlers founded this composite Ohio Wherever you look you will find the Ohio man and as long as we have The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society to perpetuate the greatness of the Ohioan and mark the places where they have ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 68 NUMBER 3 JULY 1959 The Apathetic Foxes By ALONZO FINLEY KERCHEVAL FOXES ARE LIKE HUMANS in many ways Few folks realize that foxes once lived in this country under organized governments of their own and attended their own schools and churches just like human folks Many years ago the first red foxes were brought to America to supply the hunting needs of wealthy Virginia planters The red fox thrived and multiplied and soon ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies BRECKSVILLE EARLY SETTLERS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Brecksville Ernest Green President Harold E Wallin of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History has been appointed curator of the museum maintained by the association in the Squire Rich house The secretary Mrs Walter S Lister reports that the society sponsored this year a contest for the junior class of the local high school for one-act plays on early Brecksville CLAR K COUNTY HISTORICAL ...
... BENJAMIN F BENJAMIN F WADE AND THE ATROCITY PROPAGANDA OF THE CIVIL WAR By HARRY WILLIAMS The atrocity propaganda issued in the North during the Civil War flowered in bewildering abundance from a variety of persons and agencies Heads of governmental departments semi-official bodies editors members of Congress and private individuals devoted their efforts to the dissemination of tales of cruelties and barbarisms practiced by the Confederate Government and its soldiery1 Although these ...
... NOTEHISTORICAL NOTEHISTORICAL R W M'FARLAND OXFORD OHIO People familiar with the early annals of the West know something of Simon Kenton They know also of the rivalry between him and Leitchman for the hand of a young lady-that Kenton was unsuccessful in his suite-that there was a fight in consequence and that in the first encounter Kenton again lost but in the second by wrapping Leitchman's long hair about a sapling Kenton won and so severely beat his opponent that thinking him fatally injured ...
... ADDRESS AT MARIETTA OHIO 1858 ADDRESS AT MARIETTA OHIO 18581 BY HON THOMAS EWING EDITED BY C L MARTZOLFF ATHENS OHIO Ladies and GentlemenWe meet to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the first landing of our Pioneer Fathers on the shores of the Ohio in the North Western Territory An age-the full age allotted to men has elapsed since that hardy band of brave men and brave women fresh from the war of the Revolution a few of the boldest and most adventurous of the relics of that war through ...
... GENERAL MASON AND HIS LETTER ON RAILROADS GENERAL MASON AND HIS LETTER ON RAILROADS B F PRINCE Almost every community of considerable size and age has furnished one or more characters who have been prominent for a life and acts that were for the good of that special locality and often for the state or nation at large One who stood in this threefold relation was Hon Samson Mason of Springfield Ohio Mr Mason was born in the state of New York in 1793 He attended the public schools of the day ...
... Index Index ABBOT W W book rev 389-390 Arizona constitution of 1910 and Toledo Addes George and Toledo Chevrolet trade union 109-128 strike 335 350 355 Arizona Constitutional Petition League of The Adena People No 2 by William S Typographical Union No 63 Toledo Webb and Raymond S Baby rev 158Ohio 111 128 organized 112-113 159 activities of 114 115 119 120 124 Administration of the Historic Sites by 125 Richard S Fatig 261-263 Ashley Henry W 115 Agriculture crops in early northeastern Atlanta ...
... THE MORGAN RAID IN OHIO THE MORGAN RAID IN OHIO R W MCFARLAND In the article under the above heading published in the January number there are several errors which ought not to pass unnoticed The paragraph to which reference is made is as follows viz The Ohio Raid practically ended at Buffington Island although Morgan himself was not captured there but with a small portion of his men escaped and fled to Lake Erie being captured at New Lisbon in Columbiana county Ohio within one day's ride of ...