... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Detroit's First American Decade 1796-1805 By F Clever Bald University of Michigan Publications History and Political Science Vol XVI Ann Arbor Mich University of Michigan Press 1948 276p including bibliographical essay and index 450 This is far more than a study of a few neglected years in the early history of a great metropolis interesting only to the local pride school of history enthusiasts the zealous antiquarians and the patient genealogists Here is local history ...
... settlement on a north bend of settlement of the new lands settlement had been laid out settlements He was elected to settlements and on the rivers Flint later made Cincinnati his home for a number of years and there he published The ...
... BRIAN M BRIAN M LINN Pretty Scaly Times The Ohio National Guard and the Railroad Strike of 1877 The employment of the Ohio National Guard at Newark during the railroad strike of 1877 represents an effective use of military force during a potentially explosive labor dispute In contrast to West Virginia Maryland Pennsylvania Illinois Missouri and Indiana the state authorities of
... Reviews Notes and Comments 215 Reviews Notes and Comments 215 OTHNIEL LOOKER For many years the biographies that have appeared from time to time of Governor Othniel Looker have been far from satisfactory The text of the sketch which has appeared in many publications is reproduced in the note below As will be seen it is incorrect in almost every particular The editor recently learned that Governor Looker died in the village of Palestine Illinois A very obliging correspondent was found in the ...
... settlement on the site of Tremper mound At any rate if not the same people or parts of the same people the builders of the two sites must have been very closely related DESCRIPTION OF ARTIFACTS In the following pages the various implements and ornaments found in the two caches of the Tremper mound are described in detail and wherever possible comparisons are made with like objects from other mounds TOBACCO PIPES One hundred and forty-five ...
... settlements which were made settlement of international difficulties The next step said he is to create a judicial body to which we may submit international issues I know there are objections to the proposal to establish an international court but I know that America cannot do anything better And when the international court is considered in the December meeting of Congress take it from me ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA WILLIAM HENRY HUNTER William H Hunter Trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society died suddenly at his residence Chillicothe Ohio in the early morning of Wednesday June 19 1906 after an illness of only five days' duration Mr Hunter closed his earthly career as he had often expressed a desire to do in the very ...
... northwestern Nevada and given the Indian name Thocmetony meaning shell flower While living with the family of a stage coach agent Sarah and her sister assumed English names From an early age Sarah evinced more interest and understanding of white people's institutions and culture than most of the Indians Her grandfather Winnemucca I had served as a guide for Captain John C Fremont in 1845-1846 and conveyed to his favorite granddaughter ...
... northwest central Algonquin that the existence of such a secret medical brotherand sisterhood can be safely inferred not only for the Lenni Lenape of the 1770's but also as a basic Algonquian institution of the Eastern Forest area without a doubt the oldest American Medical Association In another statement presently to be quoted Heckewelder clearly implied that not a few of the rituals attending the collecting bundling storage and even ...
... THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LA W in the Eastern Ohio Valley by LARRY GARA The fugitive slave law of 1850 was an essential part of the sectional compromise of that year1 As such it had ramifications that went far beyond the mere question of returning runaway bondsmen to their southern claimants At times the symbolic significance of the enactment overshadowed its real impact on the lives of those whom it touched Nevertheless there were some Americans of ...
... settlement of disputes over property and the administration of public revenue depend upon them But as historical sources the importance of local archives is adequately appreciated except by students of history It is true that local archives have been used by searchers after biographical and genealogical information but within recent years a new conception of local history has developed and a wider kind of research is in progress which is ...
... settlement that called for the settlement applied the Sidney settlement It was dissuaded settlement did not however settlement Indeed when the settlement which had not
... northwestern states The chief political events of the year were the election of a governor57 and a member of congress The term of Mr Crary in congress had expired in March and the legislature appointed a special election for August 2 1 and 22 to choose a successor in time for him to attend the special session of congress called for September58 The election of governor was held later The party was divided by a small State Rights faction which ...
... ROBERT W ROBERT W McCORMICK A Union Army Medical Inspector Norton Townshend Over 350000 Union soldiers lost their lives in the Civil War but only one-third of these deaths were combat related The remaining 225000 soldier deaths resulted from six million cases of illness from disease and accidents As shocking as these figures are they represent a marked improvement over the Mexican War where seven men died of disease for every man killed by the enemy Before the fighting began the Medical ...
... settlements along the upper settlement of western land claims of the eastern states Connecticut gave up its sovereignty over this territory but retained the ownership of the land This was divided into two parts The westernmost land was given to Connecticut people whose homes were destroyed usually by fire by the enemy during the Revolution and this area therefore was called The Firelands The ...
... settlement of Ohio though he settlement of the State is settlement should be mature enough to support such a program To seek to guide the future by an adequate understanding of the years that lie behind would seem to be merely a wise and prudent course ...
... settlements in Illinois We found in the home of a Delaware County farmer a diary begun in New Hampshire in 1816 and continuously kept by mother and son up to within a year ago a series of letters by Colonel James Denny who commanded a regiment under General Hull in 1812 written to his wife which gave a frank account of the expedition and of the General a story of the early life in Germany emigration by sailing ship canal journey to
... 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 ...
... settlement could be developed settlement which after selling settlement When Kurtz and his settlement in Pennsylvania settlement was to be located A settlement of the Rappites in ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 65 NUMBER 3 JULY 1956 A New Horizon in History By BRUCE CATTON When Ulysses the wise old man of Greek mythology prepared to take off on his final voyage beyond the sunset he summed up his knowledge of life in the one remark I am a part of all that I have met By this I suppose Ulysses was simply saying that history was not a ...