... compiled by compiled by CHARLES A ISETTS A Survey of Publications on the History of Ohio 1974 to 1976 ANTISLAVERY Cardinal Eric J Antislavery Sentiment and Political Transformation in the 1850's Portage County Ohio Old Northwest 1 1975 223-238 Harrold Stanley C Jr Forging an Antislavery Instrument Gamaliel Bailey and the Foundation of the Ohio Liberty Party Old Northwest 2 1976 371-387 Ludwig Charles Levi Coffin and the Underground Railroad Scottdale Pennsylvania Herald Press 1975 184p Lupold ...
... THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OF 1875 IN OHIO THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OF 1875 IN OHIO BY FORREST WILLIAM CLONTS M A SIGNIFICANCE OF CAMPAIGN As a purely state contest the political campaign of 1875 in Ohio was of more than ordinary significance It was unusually long intensely conducted bitterly fought and the conclusion might be interpreted to have decided at least one very important question for the people of the entire country Widespread attention served to arouse the citizens of Ohio to the meaning ...
... OLD FORT INDUSTRY OLD FORT INDUSTRY BY S S KNABENSHUE Editorial in Toledo Blade January 24 1903E O R Fort Industry existed that is there are men still living who can recall its remains But that is all we know about it In boyhood they saw the clay bluff afterward cut down which occupied the site of the block bounded by Summit Water Monroe and Jefferson streets On its summit some six or eight doors north of Monroe street was an excavation which had apparently been a cellar under a cabin and at ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments and awards within the professional community of Ohio historians include Carolyn Komer joined the Bowling Green State University Center for Archival Collections as a part-time conservatorbookbinder Reuben G Bullard and Willard W Winter of the Cincinnati Bible College recently served as core staff members of the Tel Abila excavations in Jordan Wilson Hoffman began his tenure as Thorn and Frances Pendleton Professor of History at ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 215 Reviews Notes and Comments 215 OTHNIEL LOOKER For many years the biographies that have appeared from time to time of Governor Othniel Looker have been far from satisfactory The text of the sketch which has appeared in many publications is reproduced in the note below As will be seen it is incorrect in almost every particular The editor recently learned that Governor Looker died in the village of Palestine Illinois A very obliging correspondent was found in the ...
... TERRY A TERRY A BARNHART A Question of Authorship The Ephraim George Squier-Edwin Hamilton Davis Controversy In 1848 Ephraim George Squier a young ambitious eastern journalist and Dr Edwin Hamilton Davis a prominent western physician and antiquarian laid claim to world attention with publication of their classic monograph Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley As the first scholarly publication of the fledgling Smithsonian Institution the appearance of this Great American Work1 was a ...
... TERRY A TERRY A BARNHART In Search of the Mound Builders The State Archaeological Association of Ohio 1875-1885 If the State Archaeological Association of Ohio is at all remembered today it is as the forerunner of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society That organization emerged from the wreckage of the earlier state archaeological association on March the 12th and 13th 1885 and has been known as the Ohio Historical Society since 1954 The significance of Ohio's first state ...
... OHIO'S CONTRIBUTION TO NATIONAL CIVIL OHIO'S CONTRIBUTION TO NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE REFORM BY C B GALBREATH Ohio is great in many ways The achievements of her sons are not confined to the spectacular vocations of statesmanship and war Piatt and Howells and other writers have given her a respectable place in the literature of the republic The Darling Nelly Gray of our Hanby the Dixie of our Emmett and the Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling of our Thompson have gone round the world and found ...
... Editorialania Editorialania 285 mortal enemies Five of their chief Werowances came aboard us and crossed the bay in their barge The picture of the greatest of them is signified in the mappe The calfe of whose leg was three-quarters of a yard about and all of the rest of his limbs so answerable to that proportion that he seemed the goodliest man we ever beheld His hayre the one side was long the other close shore with a ridge over his crown like a cockes comb His arrows were five quarters long ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Teach the Freeman The Correspondence of Rutherford B Hayes and the Slater Fund for Negro Education 1881-1887 Edited by Louis D Rubin Jr Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press 1959 Two volumes lv236302p index 1000 Through the philanthropy of a textile manufacturer of Norwich Connecticut the John F Slater Fund for the Education of Freedmen was established for the purpose of uplifting the lately emancipated population of the Southern States and their posterity by ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL AGRICULTURAL export trade Thomas Kelsey Hardluck Entrepreneur by Daniel Preston 127-141 Akers William J 28 Allen County Memorial Hall Lima Ohio 17 American Pharmaceutical Association 42-84 American Railroad Freight Car From the Wood-Car Era to the Coming of Steel The by John H White Jr rev 201-203 And Gently He Shall Lead Them Robert Parris Moses and Civil Rights in Mississippi by Eric R Burner rev 198-199 Announcement Ohio Medical University 76 ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS And Then the Storm By Sister M Monica New York Longm ans Green amp Co 1937 231 p 250 Few foreigners have been privileged to study Spain from so many and widely different viewpoints as the author of And Then the Storm and little escaped her discerning and compassionate eyes Chaperoned by the two charming sisters of Don Juan de Cardenas the then Spanish ambassador at Washington Sister Monica had intimate contact with the old aristocracy and found the Spanish women kind ...
... 128 Ohio Arch 128 Ohio Arch and His Society Pub li cations the citizens of all the states and the republics to the south of us may spend many pleasant hours and may find rest and comfort It is my duty to turn our building over to the Pan-American and in doing so I express the sincere hope that your exposition may have the great success which always should accompany efforts so earnest so able and so magnificent and wonderful in results as are those made by the officials of the exposition and ...
... William D William D Gallagher Champion of Wester Literary Periodicals By JAM ES A TAGUE DURING THE 1830's a number of attempts were made in Ohio to create a successful literary journal one that would be devoted to subjects other than the predominant interests of the majority of the newspapers and magazines of the day The existing media for the most part published articles on religion politics and growth of the area and there were few local outlets for the aspiring author if he did not write on ...
... 74 OHIO HISTORY 74 OHIO HISTORY and midwestern conditions4 Moreover there survives an excellent combination of materials describing the topic in the state documents which outline the structure of public finance and inspection in the BOSC reports written by Byers which graphically portray conditions in the institutions and conflicts between local governments and the state authorities and in Albert Byers's own diaries and a brief but interesting file of letters sent to him in his official ...
... LEE SOLTOW LEE SOLTOW Inequality Amidst Abundance Land Ownership in Early Nineteenth Century Ohio As the great trans-Appalachian West opened to settlement in the years after the founding of the Republic Americans saw in the virtually unlimited lands of the interior the promise of a prosperous citizenry and a healthy body politic Most believed that those rights declared self-evident in the ringing words of the Declaration of Independence must be firmly grounded in a social fabric characterized ...
... AARON D AARON D PURCELL Pursuing Peace Arthur Morgan and Ohio's League to Enforce Peace 1915-1920 From the beginning of World War I in 1914 until the United States entered the war in 1917 a significant number of domestic peace societies emerged These organizations raised funds influenced politicians cultivated public interest and by the end of the war in many cases rallied for President Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations proposal During the war years the largest most effective and best ...
... BRIAN M BRIAN M LINN Pretty Scaly Times The Ohio National Guard and the Railroad Strike of 1877 The employment of the Ohio National Guard at Newark during the railroad strike of 1877 represents an effective use of military force during a potentially explosive labor dispute In contrast to West Virginia Maryland Pennsylvania Illinois Missouri and Indiana the state authorities of Ohio did not have to call on federal troops to enforce civil authority During the strike relations between the militia ...
... ULYSSES S ULYSSES S GRANT A CHARACTERIZATION SKETCH BY JOHN BEATTY There is more than a grain of truth underlying the notion that what the world calls greatness in men is the outgrowth of accident rather than of any exceptional physical moral or intellectual excellence Nobody certainly can win victories and gain martial renown who lives in a period of profound peace In civil life however it may be said that by change of scene or of occupation men can seek congenial or profitable employment and ...
... THE MOUNDS OF FLORIDA AND THEIR BUILDERS THE MOUNDS OF FLORIDA AND THEIR BUILDERS REV J F RICHMOND Mr Richmond now resident of McConnelsville Ohio was born and educated in New York in which city he was for many years pastor of a prominent Methodist Episcopal Church He is the author of several books For twenty years he made his home in Florida where he improved the opportunity of giving thoughtful investigation to the so-called Indian Mounds and the various theories concerning the race that ...