... EXPLORATIONS OF THE SEIP MOUND EXPLORATIONS OF THE SEIP MOUND WILLIAM C MILLS The Seip Mound is located within the largest prehistoric earthworks of the Paint Creek Valley known as the Seip Group1 One very large mound and another half its size enclosed with earthworks which form a combination of two circles and a square and five mounds situated outside the earthworks but in close proximity to them constitute the Seip Group This group is located in Paxton Township Ross County about 3 miles east ...
... AN EARLY AMERICAN CRUSADER AN EARLY AMERICAN CRUSADER NORTON STRANGE TOWNSHEND1 By JOH N F CUNNINGHAM Writing to G Sprague corresponding secretary of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture in 1854--just ninety years ago--a young physician of Lorain County Ohio said I send you facts and observations relating to agricultural education also a brief notice of an attempt to establish an agricultural college in Ohio We will not stop to demonstrate but will take it for granted that agricultural ...
... Ohio Agriculture in History Ohio Agriculture in History By ROBERT LESLIE JONES The history of agriculture in Ohio is on the surface a subject prosaic enough Indeed only once and that long ago did it ever possess anything of the implausibly romantic Timothy Flint tells us that the New England settlers who came in the beginning to the lands of the Ohio Company were attracted not only by the unparalleled fertility of the soil but according to the wags of the day by springs of brandy and flax that ...
... PROCEEDINGS 375 PROCEEDINGS 375 Mr Sherman a musical program of three numbers was given by Mr Franklin Price of Circleville He sang Until by Sanderson Lift Thine Eyes by Logan and To Horse to Horse by Stephens Following the musical program Mr John F Carlisle gave the following address appropriate to the occasion his subject being The Society--a Half Century of Progress There are doubtless persons in this audience who have gathered here as to their father's house They salute their Society on ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 87 But a recognition wider and even more highly prized was that written in the hearts of those who knew and loved him During his college days at Ithaca Mr Randall met Miss Mary A Coy the lady who later became his wife To her and their two sons and daughter we of the Kit-Kat Club offer our sympathy We too have suffered a grievous loss We knew his genial companionship his ready helpfulness and his continuing friendship His sterling scholarship his ...
... DANIEL PRESTON DANIEL PRESTON Thomas Kelsey Hardluck Entrepreneur In the years following the close of the War of 1812 a wave of economic speculation swept through the West The Treaty of Ghent which ended the war offered nothing in concrete terms beyond a much desired peace But if the United States had not won the war against the powerful British Americans could at least revel in the knowledge that they had not lost it either They quickly forgot the many near-disasters that the nation ...
... A Toledo Trade Union and A Toledo Trade Union and The Arizona Constitution of 1910 By PAUL G HUBBARD THE PERSISTENT DEMAND FOR REFORM in American government was running strong in 1911 On the local level many cities were experimenting with the commission form of government which was supposed to eliminate some of the weaknesses of the mayor-council system and to thwart the bosses Following the lead of South Dakota in 1898 several states adopted the initiative and referendum to afford the people ...
... WASHINGTON'S OHIO LANDS WASHINGTON'S OHIO LANDS BY E O RANDALL Secretary Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society On June 15 1775 the Continental Congress passed the enactment establishing the Continental army and after fixing the pay of the commander-in-chief at five hundred dollars a month proceeded by ballot to elect that officer Washington was unanimously chosen and this result was formally announced to him on the next day when the newly elected general had taken his seat Rising in ...
... DIARY OF IMPRISONMENT 51 DIARY OF IMPRISONMENT 51 Saturday 29 Very cold night--heavy frost No ax to be had My mess tried to make an apology for last nights treatment but I told them that I had been with my friend--out upon such selfishness Such is the action of a large portion of the prisoners Cannot send letters through without a CS stamp on them Wrote yesterday to wife but am waiting to get a stamp Lt Thos Hare gave me a stamp and I put the letter in the box Slept with Lt Anderson 3rd Iowa ...
... BYRON D BYRON D FRUEHLING AND ROBERT H SMITH Subterranean Hideaways of the Underground Railroad in Ohio An Architectural Archaeological and Historical Critique of Local Traditions During the decade that preceded the Civil War the underground railroad became increasingly active in Ohio and elsewhere in the north1 Although underground originally may have had much the same figurative connotation that it has today in expressions such as underground newspaper it was almost inevitable that the term ...
... JOHN L JOHN L NETHERS Driest of Drys Simeon D Fess The struggle was long and hard fought but the final victory was short-lived for the national prohibition movement in the United States Temporary success came with the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919 but the drys had to admit defeat with adoption of the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933 One contemporary historian has noted that the most importunate of all the crusades of this generation was that against Demon Rum1 Many persons and ...
... Musking um C ol le g e S tudent Rebels in the Jazz Age by A WILLIAM HOGLUND During the 1920's Muskingum College of New Concord Ohio experienced student unrest similar to that which engulfed many campuses Never before had the student body challenged so threateningly the school's traditional code of behavior which embodied certain prescribed social moral and spiritual values known as the Muskingum Spirit Originally founded by Presbyterians as a small liberal arts college without formal church ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA WILLIAM McKINLEY Elsewhere in this Quarterly we report at some length the interesting ceremonies held on Ohio Day July 18 at the Pan-American Exposition Little did we suspect on that joyful day that in two brief months a terrible tragedy would transform the bright banners bedecking the buildings into the trappings and suits of woe On Friday September 6 President McKinley attended the Exposition and in the afternoon while holding a public reception in the Temple of ...
... THE EQUIPMENT INSTRUMENTS AND DRUGS OF THE EQUIPMENT INSTRUMENTS AND DRUGS OF PIONEER PHYSICIANS OF OHIO BY HOWARD DITTRICK MD In the equipment instruments and drugs of the Ohio physicians prior to 1835 there was exhibited a wide divergence depending on differences in training financial means and on contact with medical supplies as well as with educational stimulation Nor is this strange the same factors operate today in the same directions it is only a question of degree Those few pioneer ...
... COMMENTS NOTES AND REVIEWS COMMENTS NOTES AND REVIEWS OTHER STATE SOCIETIES During the month of August last the Editor of the Quarterly enjoyed a tour of visitation to many of the State Historical Societies of the Eastern and Middle states A stop of two or three days was made at Washington D C where arrangements were perfected with the Publication Department securing for our Library all government documents pertinent to the purposes and work of our Society We were greatly delighted with ...
... Ohio Valley Hist Ohio Valley Hist Ass'n Fifth Annual Meeting 27 with after the first half of the year 1818 the state grant remaining on the statute book a dead letter and the whole matter receiving adjudication by the decision of Chief Justice Marshall in 1824 in the well known case of Gibbons vs Ogden Even before the trials of April 1817 boats had been springing up everywhere By 1819 there were over sixty in western waters and from this period the west with the changes wrought by the ...
... LEWIS L LEWIS L GOULD Chocolate Eclair or Mandarin Manipulator William McKinley the Spanish-American War and the Philippines A Review Essay The Spanish War An American Epic-1898 By GJA O'Toole New York W W Norton 1984 447p photographs notes bibliography index 1995 Sitting in Darkness Americans in the Philippines By David Haward Bain Boston Houghton Mifflin 1984 464p notes bibliography index photographs 2495 The Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection that followed were significant ...
... Ohio Valley Hist Ohio Valley Hist Assn Fifth Annual Meeting 10 1 that will stop short of nothing that is humanly possible China is arousing herself to a new national life that contains possibilities of the most tremendous scope America and China are natural complements to each other The Yangtse and Mississippi Valleys have more in common than any other two equal tracts of country in the world The concluding paper of the morning was read by George Cowles Lay of New York The portion relating to ...
... JOHN BROWN'S OHIO ENVIRONMENT JOHN BROWN'S OHIO ENVIRONMENT by MARY LAND Graduate Student Western Reserve University The stormy years John Brown spent in Kansas and the insurrection at Harper's Ferry have all but obscured the 38 years of his life spent in northern Ohio In 1805 when he was five years old he was brought from Connecticut to Hudson Ohio a small town near Akron He continued to live in the vicinity of Akron except for a decade in Pennsylvania two years in Springfield Massachusetts ...
... TOM D TOM D CROUCH Thomas Kirkby Pioneer Aeronaut in Ohio The decade of the 1830's marked the dawn of American aeronautical history Although the first American balloon ascent had been made on June 24 1784 when Edward Warren a thirteen year old Baltimore lad made a captive flight in a homemade balloon the citizens of the young republic remained aloof from so impractical an enterprise as free ballooning1 The American tour of Jean Pierre Blanchard in 1793 demonstrated that even a highly ...