... DOCUMENT DOCUMENT FROM PITTSBURGH TO SHAWNEE TOWN 1819 Edited by WILLIAM D HOYT JR Maryland Historical Society The people living along the Ohio River are miserably deficient in morals principles and manners and much addicted to drinking profanity and idleness Thus wrote Joseph Proud to Nathaniel G Maxwell from Shawnee Town Illinois December 22 1819 The letter containing these sentiments provides an interesting picture of travel down the Ohio at the close of the second decade of the nineteenth ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORTS Due to the fact that the annual meetings of the various Ohio educational conferences usually held the first week in April and the meetings of the Columbus Genealogical Society and the Committee on Medical History and Archives were not held this year the annual History Conference was cancelled for 1943 and arrangements were made only for the annual business meeting of the Society scheduled ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Social Ideas of the Northern Evangelists 1826-1860 By Charles C Cole Jr New York Columbia University Press 1954 268p bibliography and index 425 Charles C Cole Jr has written an objective and well-balanced account of the relation between leading evangelical clergymen and the reform movements which characterized the several decades before the Civil War The author recognizes that the evangelists were above all concerned with the problem of individual salvation Their ...
... AN EDDY IN THE WESTERN FLOW OF AMERICAN AN EDDY IN THE WESTERN FLOW OF AMERICAN CULTURE The History of Printing and Publishing in Oxford Ohio 1827-1841 By JESSE H SHERA 103 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It is I am well aware not customary to append to a study as brief as this a lengthy list of acknowledgments Nevertheless there are in this instance certain major obligations the public recognition of which I am convinced is not an act of supererogation Accordingly I would express my ...
... 444 Ohio Arch 444 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Again page 279 The French settlers did not locate at the mouth of the Scioto but at Gallipolis See Laws of the U S Vol 2 page 503 On page 276 it is stated that Mount Logan is on Paint Creek Mount Logan is on the east side of the Scioto nearly two miles northeast of the Court House in Chillicothe and is miles away from Paint Creek which is west of the Scioto Page 286 College Hill is named from two colleges College Corner with similar ...
... RUSSELL D RUSSELL D PARKER The Philosophy of Charles G Finney Higher Law and Revivalism As it related to the antislavery crusade in the United States the higher law doctrine involved an insistence that slavery was contrary to the principles upon which the nation was established in that there were rules of right existing in the public mind prior to the framing of the Constitution These rules were expressed in the Declaration of Independence the true basis of government In American history the ...
... THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY A J BAUGHMAN One of the most noted stations of the old Underground Railway in its time was at Uncle John Finney's in Springfield township Richland county four miles west of Mansfield Ohio about a half mile north of the Mansfield-Crestline trolley line From the windows of the swiftly moving car passengers can see the place where many runaway slaves found rest and succor while enroute to Canada in the ante-bellum days But few persons however who ...
... THE GATEWAYS TO FORT ANCIENT THE GATEWAYS TO FORT ANCIENT BY THOS J BROWN During a recent visit to Fort Ancient after a period of several years I was greatly impressed by the improvements that have taken place there since I have been acquainted with the fort My visits to it were begun forty-seven years ago and have been repeated at short intervals until late years then not so often When I first saw it and continuing until about the time the State acquired title to it it was one of the most ...
... FINNEY'S FIGHT AGAINST THE MASONS FINNEY'S FIGHT AGAINST THE MASONS by CHARLES C COLE JR Assistant Dean Columbia College Columbia University Mention antimasonry and the historian and scholar think immediately of the famous Morgan affair of 1826 The story of the abduction of William Morgan a bricklayer of Batavia New York after he had published a book revealing the secrets of Freemasonry is a familiar one in American history The resultant wave of ill-feeling against Masons which culminated in ...
... OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY--PART 6 OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY--PART 6 THE VAULTING IMAGINATION OF JOHN L RIDDELL By ADOLPH E WALLER Whatever makes the past or future predominate over the present exalts us in the scale of thinking beings--Johnson The name of John Leonard Riddell is perhaps best remembered today for his Synopsis of the Western Plants In 1835 when this was published Cincinnati was the western-most city of great size with around 35000 inhabitants and with immediate perhaps daily expansion in ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Miracle at Kittyhawk The Letters of Wilbur and Orville Wright Edited by Fred C Kelly New York Farrar Straus and Young 1951 ix482p frontispiece illustrations and index 600 The publisher of this volume of letters has chosen to call Wilbur and Orville Wright two of the greatest and most fabulous figures of modern times Those who have been closest to the lives and the work of these men will probably approve that characterization for history can identify few notable ...
... ROBERT A ROBERT A WHEELER The Literature of the Western Reserve The northeastern portion of Ohio known variously as New Connecticut as the Western Reserve of Connecticut or simply as the Western Reserve has been viewed as a unique area by observers from the eighteenth century to the present The region's distinctiveness stems from its homogenous founding population of transplanted New Englanders whose firm hold determined its culture Writers often agreed these migrants implanted a set of values ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Intimate Letters of John Cleves Symmes and His Family Including Those of His Daughter Mrs William Henry Harrison Wife of the Ninth President of the United States Edited by Beverley W Bond Jr Cincinnati Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio 1956 xxxiii174p frontispiece and index 450 The more-public papers of John Cleves Symmes founder of the Miami Purchase and one of the three high judges of the Northwest Territory were edited by Dr Bond in 1926 This new ...
... THE GENEALOGICAL SECTION THE GENEALOGICAL SECTION REPORTED BY HELEN S FULLER The joint session of the Columbus Genealogical Society and the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society took place at 7 PM April 1 in the auditorium of the Ohio State Museum Frank A Livingston presided and John F Carlisle presented a paper on William Holmes McGuffey His History and Genealogy in which he pointed out McGuffey's position concerning the selection of reading material adapted to the minds of ...
... A Salvation Army Prelude The Christian A Salvation Army Prelude The Christian Mission in Cleveland Ohio By HERBERT A WISBEY JR At the corner of North Fourth and Oxford streets in Philadelphia a small inconspicuous plaque in the sidewalk declares Here on Sunday October 5 1879 was begun the work of the Salvation Army in the United States Although Philadelphia may be credited as the birthplace of the Salvation Army in America Salvation Army work actually was introduced in the United States at ...
... Ben Wade and the Negro Ben Wade and the Negro By HANS L TREFOUSSE IT HAS LONG BEEN A MATTER OF DISPUTE whether the radical Republicans of one hundred years ago were really sincere in their professions of friendship for the Negro Were they merely interested in economic gains for their followers and political preferment for themselves making use of the Negro question simply to hide their true objectives or were they genuinely concerned with uplifting the downtrodden race This question of ...
... HARDING ADMINISTRATION HARDING ADMINISTRATION AND RECOGNITION OF MEXICO by EUGENE P TRANI A long period of turmoil in Mexico temporarily came to an end in December 1920 with the assumption of the presidency by General Alvaro Obregon It thus seemed to be a ripe time for the reopening of diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States and settlement of American claims against the Mexican government President Woodrow Wilson however by this time in his lame-duck period in office reacted ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 397 tive of the cereal native to the American Continent But one of the most interesting of the displays brought here by Mr Mills clearly proves that these mound builders a race very different from the Indian grew this corn before the Indian drove them South It had been a question said the Ohio man whether the mound builders were agriculturists Now see these charred remains of grain They were dug from an old village site adjacent to one of the principal Ohio mounds ...
... Public Opinion and the Chinese Question 1876-1879 by GARY PENNANEN Diplomatic problems are not considered to have been of much consequence during the presidency of Rutherford B Hayes While not many preWorld War I judgments concerning the history of the period have escaped revisionism an assessment of Hayes's diplomacy made by Charles R Williams in 1914 has withstood the test of time Few subjects of large importance in the foreign relations of the Government demanded action or attention during ...
... 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 ...