... ARNOLD SHANKMAN ARNOLD SHANKMAN Soldier Votes and Clement L Vallandigham in the 1863 Ohio Gubernatorial Election The Ohio gubernatorial election of 1863 was a hotly contested election with overtones extending to the national level The nation was engaged in a bitter civil war which showed no signs of terminating and many citizens of the Buckeye State were rapidly tiring of the conflict A large number of Ohio Democrats were dissatisfied with the Lincoln administration's handling of the war and ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Spring Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held Friday and Saturday 23-24 April 1993 at Wittenberg University The Oral History Association will hold its 1993 Annual Meeting on November 4-7 1993 at the Birmingham Raddison Hotel in Birmingham Alabama For more information write to Kim Lacy Rogers Department of History Dickinson College Carlisle Pennsylvania 17013-2896 The Forest History Society announces the availability of Alfred D Bell Jr ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Organizations ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President A Shay engine built by the Lima Locomotive works in 1925 and used at the National Lime and Stone Company quarry until 1947 has been renovated by the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation It is to be placed on a concrete foundation on the society's property as a permanent exhibit Contracts have been awarded for construction of the Allen County Museum building to be located at ...
... strike the vast power of Great Britain in the Northwest and save that magnificent territory to American independence His plans were appreciated and approved but troops could not be spared him from the Continental army they were needed to a man in the East Clark gathered two hundred Virginia and Pennsylvania backwoodsmen and while the sun of spring was melting the snows of Valley Forge and hope and courage were again animating the heart of ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 95 ENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICANA The latest and one of the best encyclopedias to appear is that known as the Encyclopedia Americana published under the auspices of the Scientific American Company and edited by Frederick Converse Beach and a corps of competent assistants It comprises sixteen large volumes and is produced in the best mechanical and typographical form with copious illustrations maps tables etc One of its excellent features is that the articles on leading ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President The meeting of the society on May 5 was addressed by John H Davison on the subject How We Came To Be Where We Are a review of the conquest of the Ohio Country Recent issues of the Reporter have carried a record of soldiers of the War of 1812 buried in Allen County Persons having additional information on such soldiers are requested to communicate with the society so as to make ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Organizations ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President The society now has about 134000 in cash and a quantity of bricks on hand for its proposed museum building The estimated cost of the structure is 150000 The society would like to lay the cornerstone in Ohio's sesquicentennial year but definite plans have not been made ALLIANCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Alliance Mrs Fred R Donaldson President A marker has been placed by the society ...
... 520 Ohio Arch 520 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications but they love it more because they have seen its crimson colors reproduced in the blood of America We love this country but they love it more because they have seen the sacrifices which have made it what it is and while we hope that we will have peace we are going to claim our right and recognize our right under any circumstance at any time to protect our homes our loved ones our country and our flag to maintain American institutions ...
... THE OPENING SCENES OF THE REBELLION THE OPENING SCENES OF THE REBELLION BY COLONEL S K DONAVIN In the spring of 1861 I was a reporter and traveling correspondent on the Daily Exchange newspaper of the City of Baltimore When the telegraph announced that Mr Lincoln had reached Pittsburg en route for Washington City to be inaugurated President of the United States I left Baltimore by the Northern Central Railway for the purpose of meeting him and noting the incidents of his journey When I reached ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 219 Reviews Notes and Comments 219 who lies buried at Bethel will be held in connection with the Grant Memorial Services On the following day April 29 the services will be held at Georgetown Brown County Ohio where Senator Atlee Pomerene will be the principal speaker A detachment of the United States Army will be present on all three occasions accompanied by the Camp Knox Kentucky military band A great many distinguished men and women will be present on all three ...
... The MacGahan Monument The MacGahan Monument 235 Ladies and gentlemen of New Lexingtonyou who are the neighbors and the kin of MacGahan-you do well to dedicate on this the natal day of your country's freedom a monument to your great apostle of freedom You do well to set up a reminder to the coming generations of the glory and the human kindliness of the liberator of a people But yours is not the power nor the privilege of building the most enduring monument to MacGahan That monument is to be ...
... THE HAYDN SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI THE HAYDN SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI 1819-1824 BY HARRY R STEVENS When Theodore Thomas the famous German orchestra conductor came to Cincinnati in 1869 he found the finest musical center of inland America The community he discovered here had a long and rich musical background Twenty years of German musical activity had been preceded by more than half a century of native growth Near the beginning of this development was the Haydn Society one of the earliest musical ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA GEORGE BOHAN WRIGHT General George B Wright one of the oldest most widely known and highly esteemed citizens of Ohio died at the residence of his daughter Mrs Frank C Eaton Columbus Ohio on September 11 1903 General Wright's life was one save in his last years of incessant and intense activity and most successful achievement His parents were of the best New England stock and emigrated from Massachusetts to Ohio in 1808 Both his grandfathers were soldiers in the ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA FORT STEPHENSON CELEBRATON August 2d 1906 was the ninety-third anniversary of the gallant defense of Fort Stephenson the site of which is now the center of the attractive and enterprising city of Fremont The heroic and unparalleled holding of the little stockade fort by Major George Croghan on August 2d 1813 against some two thousand British troops under General Proctor and an equal number of Indian braves under Chief Tecumseh is one of the most memorable events not ...
... Minutes of the Meeting of the Minutes of the Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History Columbus April 8 1961 T HE OHIO ACADEMY o f History held its twenty-eighth annual meeting at the Ohio State Museum on April 8 1961 Two concurrent sessions were held in the morning and two in the afternoon Robert L Gilmore of Ohio University presided over the Latin American history section at which Father Charles E Ronan SJ of Xavier University delivered a paper entitled Clavigero Eighteenth Century Voice of ...
... 518 Ohio Arch 518 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Following Mr Burton's address President Johnson said We may well hope that a million radio listeners scattered from lakes to gulf and from coast to coast have been sitting at their instruments listening to these lessons of truth and magnetism We are greatly indebted to Mr Burton for the message which he has brought us I am sure you will all join in a vote of thanks to him for coming to Columbus and appearing before this assembly Mr ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 221 Society Wednesday evening and a reception Thursday afternoon by President and Mrs Harper at their residence corner of Fifty-ninth street and Lexington avenue President Harper is an Ohio man and was formerly connected with Muskingum College at New Concord His wife is also a Buckeye and when a girl lived in Mansfield She is the daughter of the Rev David Paul who was the pastor of the Mansfield United Presbyterian Church from 1858 until 1864 when he resigned to ...
... 532 Ohio Arch 532 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications Ulysses S Grant born April 27 1822 at Point Pleasant Clermont Co Nominated from Illinois at Chicago May 20 1868 Inaugurated March 4 1869 Renominated Philadelphia June 5 1872 Inauguarted March 4 1873 Died at Mount Gregor N Y July 23 1885 Buried Riverside Park New York August 8 1885 Rutherford B Hayes born October 4 1822 Delaware Delaware Co Nominated at Cincinnati June 14 1876 Inaugurated March 5 1877 Died Fremont Ohio January 17 1893 ...
... MEDICAL JOURNALS OF PIONEER DAYS MEDICAL JOURNALS OF PIONEER DAYS By JONATHAN FORMAN MD We are going back today to a time when entrance into our profession was largely through apprenticeship when operations were done without anesthesia and without antiseptics when mistakes in diagnosis errors in judgment or lack of dexterity in operating were published with every accompaniment of insult and derision which malice could suggest when nursing in hospitals was done by women of the charwomen class ...
... As the secession crisis in the Old Dominion approached its climax in May 1861 the Unionists of northwestern Virginia looked anxiously to the state of Ohio for deliverance from tyranny On May 26 1861 only three days after Virginia formally seceded from the Union Major General George B McClellan commander of the department of the Ohio launched his invasion to preserve western Virginia for the Union To his troops McClellan issued the first in a series of colorful if exaggerated manifestoes that ...