... OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY 1835-1858 OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY 1835-1858 FURTHER ASPECTS CONTRIBUTION OF OHIO PHYSICIANS TO THE MEXICAN WAR By LEON GOLDMAN MD One of the wars least interesting to and least popular with the people of the United States was of course the Mexican War of 1846 Yet this war should be of some interest to the physician for it was at this time that in spite of great difficulties definite advances were made by medical officers in the army Their conduct in the field went far to ...
... Historical News Historical News The Alexander Hamilton Bicentennial Commission established by congress in 1954 for the celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of Hamilton's birth in 1957 is pursuing a comprehensive program of memorial exercises publications activities in the field of education and public affairs commemorative exhibitions and the issuance of special coins stamps and medals Its publication program is well under way with Columbia University undertaking to edit and publish a ...
... 64 Ohio Arch 64 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications Vo L 4 BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN OHIO AND VIRGINIA INTRODUCTORY Previous to 1783 Virginia never laid any claim to the Ohio River--or in fact to any territory west of the Alleghenies because this region was originally a part of the vast district claimed by the French and known as Louisiana The Mississippi River was discovered by French missionaries and was subsequently explored to its mouth by LaSalle who according to the customs of the nations ...
... LEONARD SCHLUP LEONARD SCHLUP The Sage of Athens Charles H Grosvenor and Presidential Politics in Ohio in 1908 Now largely forgotten by Ohioans Charles H Grosvenor 1833-1917 was an important political figure in Ohio during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries An Athens lawyer and veteran of the Civil War Grosvenor entered state politics in 1873 upon his election to the Ohio House of Representatives where he served as speaker from 1876 to 1878 He reached the pinnacle of his ...
... Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association 415 may be mentioned Hugh Henry Brackenridge the author of a satirical romance entitled Modern Chivalry in which he sarcastically depicts the political conditions of his time The Pittsburgh Gazette the first newspaper printed west of the Alleghany mountains contains in its early columns a number of contributions from the pen of this versatile son of Princeton who had been a classmate of James ...
... EDWIN M EDWIN M STANTON AT KENYON by WYMAN W PARKER Librarian Kenyon College Stanton the secretary of war in Lincoln's cabinet is still a controversial figure Stanton the youthful school boy is even more elusive but recently-located early letters written in college and in the years directly afterwards have cast more light upon the picture The letters give an impression slightly at variance with the published reminiscences of his contemporaries but such were tempered by time and the fact that ...
... 406 Ohio Arch 406 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications TERMS EXPIRE IN 1917 Col Webb C Hayes Fremont Dr W O Thompson Columbus Dr G Frederick Wright Oberlin APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR Hon J W Harper Cincinnati 1915 Hon J W Yeagley New Philadelphia 1915 Hon James E Campbell Columbus 1916 Hon Myron T Herrick Cleveland 1916 Prof B F Prince Springfield 1917 Mr E O Randall Columbus 1917 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES SOCIETY BUILDING JUNE 29 1914 The annual meeting of the trustees of the Society ...
... 578 Ohio Arch 578 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications proceedings and looked forward with pleasure to his closer connection with its work There being no further business before the Society upon motion it adjourned The president announcing that the annual meeting of the trustees would immediately follow ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES SOCIETY BUILDING SEPTEMBER 24 1915 There were present Messrs G F Wright E O Randall E F Wood D J Ryan B F Prince H E Buck L P Schaus G F Bareis J E Campbell W ...
... DENTAL EDUCATION IN OHIO DENTAL EDUCATION IN OHIO 1838-1858 By EDWARD C MI LLS DDS With the unprecedented tide of immigration to Ohio during the early decades of the nineteenth century came the physician as a necessary adjunct to the widely scattered communities for the preservation of health and the consequent prosperity of those sturdy pioneers His praises have been largely unsung because in addition to his administrations to the medical needs of the community his attention was necessarily ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Society members might be interested in adding this information to their list of little known facts During 1895 this Society did not publish Ohio History's predecessor The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly but instead subsidized a two-year-old journal published in Waterloo Indiana The Archaeologist The publication moved to Columbus Ohio and for the next nine monthly issues it became the official organ of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical ...
... Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting 533 Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting 533 with the history of Fort Laurens Therefore a brief synopsis along historical lines may be of interest to many citizens The fort was erected by command of General Washington and is located in Tuscarawas county Ohio about one mile below the village of Bolivar on the west bank of the Tuscarawas river and was erected in November and December 1778 General McIntosh superintended the construction and had under his command 1 200 troops of ...
... OLD FORT SANDOSKI OF 1745 OLD FORT SANDOSKI OF 1745 G FREDERICK WRIGHT President Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Mr Charles A Hanna's criticism of the inscription on the tablets placed on the site of Old Fort Sandusky and of the addresses made at the unveiling of these tablets are too serious to be permitted to pass without correction First-Mr Hanna's loose habit of observation may be inferred from his first statement that the bronze tablet on the West Face was erected under ...
... LITERARY PERIODICALS OF THE OHIO VALLEY LITERARY PERIODICALS OF THE OHIO VALLEY IN a course of investigations concerning Western literary undertakings the writer has given some attention to the history of periodical publications particularly those devoted to literature There have been many such publications in the valley of the Ohio River some of great merit others of little or no value Comparatively few of our Western magazines have been well supported by the public or have lived longer than ...
... DAVID FRENCH DAVID FRENCH Elizur Wright Jr and the Emergence of Anti-Colonization Sentiments on the Connecticut Western Reserve Probing the origins of reform sentiment is the sort of sleuthing particularly attractive to students of social history The Connecticut Western Reserve has evoked considerable scholarly discussion much of which vastly over-simplified the interaction of reformers with their environment The origins of sentiments in the Western Reserve in opposition to schemes for ...
... McCormick Summer-Autumn 2001 pp 136-152 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page with footnotes according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page An Entrepreneurial Enterprise and the Financial Crisis of 1819 The Worthington Manufacturing Company By Virginia and Robert W McCormick James Kilbourn Photo Courtesy the Worthington Hisorical Society The Worthington ...
... NORRIS F NORRIS F SCHNEIDER The National Road Main Street of America A way to the West-where was the best route George Washington pondered that question anew in September 1784 as he sat in a land agent's cabin near present-day Morgantown West Virginia Gathered about him were settlers from that near-wilderness area on the Cheat River who had come at his request to offer their opinions on the best route for a portage between the upper waters of the Potomac and a tributary of the Ohio River Land ...
... 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 ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY THE OHIO VALLEY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Fifth Annual Meeting Pittsburgh Pa October 30-November 1 1911 THE NEW ORLEANS CENTENNIAL Robert Fulton who had profited by the experiments and experiences of John Fitch and James Rumsey a score or more years before made a successful trial with the steamboat Clermont on the Hudson River in 1807 The success of the Clermont on the New York river inspired her owners Fulton Livingston and Roosevelt with the ...
... RIVER NAMESAKES OF THE STATE OF OHIO RIVER NAMESAKES OF THE STATE OF OHIO by CAPT FREDERICK WAY JR It is quite probable that no one will know precisely how many steamboats of the western rivers were named to honor the state of Ohio A share at least of those named Ohio honor the river they plied and not the state Actually in only one isolated case is it possible to be sure the state of Ohio was honored and not the river That is the steam towboat Ohio built in 1930 for the Standard Unit ...
... NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENCE NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENCE LETTERS TO THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE TOPEKA KANSAS July 14 1856 Do you know for what Mr J Speer Editor of The Kansas Tribune and a dozen or more others -- some of the best men in Kansas--have been compelled to flee from their families and homes and become exiles in a strange land If you do not the sub-joined letter will initiate you into the secret How the original letter was obtained I know not but I have seen it and the following is a verbatim et ...