... EARLY FORGES IN OHIO EARLY FORGES IN OHIO BY WILBER STOUT The forge was the forerunner of the rolling mill and as such deserves some attention in the history of the iron industry in Ohio Forging was the method used by the pioneers in the refining and the shaping of crude iron into wares usable by the blacksmiths and mechanics of that day Although simple in design and small in output the forge was distinctly one of the early steps that led through many changes and advancements to the immense ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Constitutional History of the United States 1826-1876 A More Perfect Union By Homer C Hockett New York Macmillan Company 1939 405p 300 The first volume of this series The Blessings of Liberty was reviewed in the QUARTERLY XLIX 1940 292-94 In it Professor Hockett discussed the colonial background the Revolutionary Period and the first third of a century under the new Constitution Here he treats of the slavery controversy but to minimize the boredom of readers who ...
... HENRY T HENRY T HUNT AND CIVIC REFORM IN CINCINNATI 1903-1913 by LANDON WARNER Associate Professor of History Kenyon College One April day in 1903 two law students were watching with interest and curiosity the voting processes during a municipal election in their native city Cincinnati1 Stationed near a polling booth in one of the notorious precincts along the river front they witnessed a long line of Negro voters shuffle from the Silver Moon flophouse through the polling place and with ...
... SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL XLVI PAGE For Index of Authors see Contents PAGE Abstract of the Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Held April 20 1937 290-292 Annual Report of the Secretary of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society April 21 1936--April 20 1937 271-278 ARCHAEOLOGY Greenman Emerson F Two Prehistoric Villages near Cleveland Ohio 305-366 ART--ANECDOTES FACETIAE ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The fourteenth annual Duquesne University History Forum will be held on October 27 28 and 29 1980 at the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Well established as one of the major professional meetings of its type having sessions in all fields of history the Forum is the largest annually held meeting in the northeastern United States Those interested in submitting proposals for papers andor complete sessions or who desire to serve as a moderator or ...
... 576 Ohio Arch 576 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications FORT MEIGS FORT AMANDA FORT MIAMI AND THE BATTLEFIELD OF FALLEN TIMBERS The Chairman of the Committee Mr W J Sherman read the report as follows FORT MEIGS The Fort Meigs Commission has continued improvements at this historic spot during the past year devoting particular attention to the landscaping and planting of the grounds where the Pittsburg Blues are buried and where the Pennsylvania Historical Society has recently erected a ...
... JUDGE TOURGEE AND RECONSTRUCTION JUDGE TOURGEE AND RECONSTRUCTION By RUSSEL B NYE Albion Winegar Tourgee Ohioan novelist political thinker soldier editor jurist and diplomat was a man whose comments upon the political and social questions of the late nineteenth century form an interesting chapter in the development of American thought Born in Williamsfield Ohio in 1838 of Huguenot German and Yankee stock he spent a normal boyhood amid the farms and villages of northern Ohio1 After study at ...
... A Public Official A Public Official as a Muckraker BRAND WHITLOCK by NEIL THORBURN One would not expect to find the name of Brand Whitlock on a list of muckrakers Yet several articles he wrote while mayor of Toledo and his most successful novel The Turn of the Balance are so typical of the muckraking literature popular in the first decade of the twentieth century that the resemblance cannot be a coincidence Whitlock thought of himself primarily as an author not a politician although today he ...
... James Ford Rhodes And the Negro A STUDY IN THE PROBLEM OF OBJECTIVITY by ROBERT CRUDEN The continuing debate among historians as to the scientific nature of their discipline involves as a basic element the problem of objectivity Is it possible for history to be objective in the sense that the physical and biological sciences are objective namely that its findings do not depend in any important sense on the personal idiosyncrasies or private feelings of those who reach them but are marked by a ...
... JOHN BROUGH JOHN BROUGH OSMAN CASTLE HOOPER John Brough is generally thought of as the last of Ohio's war governors the sturdy Union man who as a candidate for the executive office in 1863 defeated Clement L Vallandigham by the then unheard of majority of more than 100000 votes He was all that but he was more than that and it is the duty as well as the pleasure of Ohioans to recognize it If ever a masterful man sat in Ohio's executive chair it was John Brough No general in the field was more ...
... 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 ...
... G G WALLACE CHESSMAN Town Promotion in the Progressive Era The Case of Newark Ohio On July 8 1910 an angry mob stormed the county jail at Newark Ohio seized a young white dry detective being held there carried him off to the courthouse square and lynched him1 That violent act stunned local leaders who had long promoted their booming industrial town in Licking County as the best place in Ohio to live and work At the same time it dramatized the inter-city struggle that had long engaged business ...
... TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING O F THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY May 13 1910 The twenty-fifth annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Hunter Society Room Page Hall Ohio State University Columbus Ohio at 230 P M Friday May 13 191O The following members were present Prof Martin R Andrews Marietta Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Mr A J Baughman Mansfield Mr T B Bowers Columbus Mr H E ...
... Taft MacArthur and the Establishment Taft MacArthur and the Establishment Of Civil Government in the Philippines By RALPH ELDIN MINGER ON APRIL 17 1900 a brilliant golden sunny day the United States Army Transport Hancock with the Second Philippine Commission on board pulled away from the crowded dock at San Francisco California while whistles shrieked a shrill farewell and the air rang with enthusiastic cheers1 The boat had barely passed through San Francisco Harbor when the commissioners ...
... VICTOR GILBREATH VICTOR GILBREATH BY C B GALBREATH The war with Mexico like all others had its sidelights its personal triumphs privations and tragedies among the men in the ranks Of course for the most part these are lost to history Occasionally however through some accidental circumstance these are lifted to the public view and endued with a degree of enduring fame not usually accorded to the central figure of the story The War of 1812 had its James Bird1 the war with Mexico had its Victor ...
... THE KENDAL COMMUNITY THE KENDAL COMMUNITY WENDALL P FOX MASSILLON The following article concerning the Kendal Community was secured for publication through the courtesy of Mr Wendall P Fox of Massillon Ohio Mr Fox in an explanatory letter to the Editor makes the statement a portion of which we use as a preface to the article itself-E 0 R PREFACE According to the History of Stark County the first settlers came to Perry township in the summer of 1806 Perry township included the territory ...
... MICHAEL J MICHAEL J DEVINE The Historical Paintings of William Henry Powell In 1865 the Ohio General Assembly commissioned William Henry Powell to paint a large historic picture depicting the heroic naval victory of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and his men over the British in the Battle of Lake Erie in 1813 A former resident of Cincinnati Powell had won fame in the eastern urban centers of the United States as well as European capitals and his majestic Perry's Victory hung in Ohio's capitol ...
... THE LEBANON CENTENNIAL THE LEBANON CENTENNIAL ORATION OF WILLIAM H VENABLE NOTE--On Thursday September 25 1902 the people of Lebanon Warren county Ohio held appropriate exercises celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the settlement of that time honored town The exercises were held in the opera house Mr John E Smith acting as President There were many distinguished speakers present who made addresses Our space in this Quarterly will not permit of the extended report which we would like ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Ohio in Homespun and Calico By I T Frary Richmond Virginia Garrett and Massie 1 942 1 48 p 200 This is a saga of common people says the author of Ohio in Homespun and Calico in presenting his latest literary product to the reader I T Frary does not sing of arms and the hero but of the sturdy pioneering Ohioans who bore the burden of building a commonwealth and of whom as a bearer of their tradition he is justly proud I like those simple people who were mine a few ...
... MINUTES OF MINUTES OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Deshler-Wallick Hotel Columbus Ohio April 21 1950 The Ohio Academy of History met in Columbus April 21 in connection with the Ohio College Association The morning session at 1000 A M was attended by nearly one hundred persons This session was devoted to a panel discussion conducted by the members of the committee on the teaching of history in Ohio colleges of which Frank L Esterquest of Western College is the chairman Robert L Jones of Marietta ...