... THE OHIO G THE OHIO G A R AND POLITICS FROM 1866 TO 1900 By EDWARD NOYES The Grand Army of the Republic was founded in Illinois by Dr B F Stephenson in early April 1866 and its First National Encampment was held in Indianapolis in November of the same year under the direction of the founder At the first meeting eleven departments were represented two years later when the Second National Encampment was convened in Philadelphia evidence of growth of the organization was noted in the fact that ...
... MARVIN FLETCHER MARVIN FLETCHER War in the Streets of Athens On an August evening in 1904 terror struck the citizens of the small southeastern Ohio town of Athens Thousands of Ohio National Guard and regular army troops were on joint maneuvers in the area On the evening of August 19 some of the regulars marched into town with the aim of freeing one of their comrades who had been arrested by some national guardsmen and locked in the county jail When the military police tried to stop them the ...
... ATTEMPTS TO PRESERVE NATIONAL CULTURES ATTEMPTS TO PRESERVE NATIONAL CULTURES IN CLEVELAND By WELLINGTON G FORDYCE Historically the social activities of the foreign born in Cleveland present a somewhat confused picture Certain of their activities represent an attempt to preserve their native culture Some of these have the active support of native Americans for the purpose of exploiting the wealth of culture represented in the various nationality groups in the city A second purpose of this ...
... 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 ...
... PRESS NOTICES OF GOVERNOR CLINTON'S PRESS NOTICES OF GOVERNOR CLINTON'S VISIT TO OHIO COLUMBUS GAZETTE JULY 14 1825 Governor Clinton left here on Friday morning last accompanied by Governor Morrow several of the canal commissioners ex-Governor Brown and a number of our fellow citizens and arrived at Springfield in the evening He dined at Dayton on Saturday where he would remain until Monday From thence he would proceed to Cincinnati by way of Hamilton and etc where he would arrive on Tuesday ...
... A Northern Businessman A Northern Businessman Opposes the Civil War EXCERPTS FROM THE LETTERS OF R G DUN edited by JAMES D NORRIS A number of rather prominent northern businessmen opposed the Civil War and the Lincoln administration for both sound business reasons and personal political commitments Robert Graham Dun's letters to his family and friends in Ohio during the Civil War present an excellent portrait of one such businessman Imbued with a deep-seated hostility toward both Lincoln and ...
... FINANCING OHIO'S PRE-CIVIL WAR RAILROADS FINANCING OHIO'S PRE-CIVIL WAR RAILROADS by EUGENE 0 PORTER Associate Professor of History College of Mines and Metallurgy University of Texas The financial history of early railroads in the United States is nowhere better illustrated than in the history of railroad building in Ohio The lack of trained engineers and the consequent indefiniteness of plans the insufficiency of the original capitalization the use of state county and municipal credit and ...
... THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY IN THE THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY IN THE WORLD WAR BY PROFESSOR WILBUR H SIEBERT THE UNIVERSITY'S CONNECTION WITH THE NATIONAL DEFENSE ACT In 1920 the War Records Committee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published a large and handsomely illustrated volume of nearly 750 pages entitled Technology's War Record In March 1922 the Harvard University Press issued the second volume of Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany which covers the period ...
... THE CINCINNATI BIBLE WAR 1869-1870 THE CINCINNATI BIBLE WAR 1869-1870 by HAROLD M HELFMAN Instructor in History Ohio State University James M O'Neill in his able exposition of Religion and Education Under the Constitution has hurled a challenge to the historian The ending of the use of the public schools as substantially Trinitarian Protestant schools at public expense is a story in which there are doubtless many chapters yet to be written1 The present study of a decision by the Cincinnati ...
... BLAST-FURNACES OPERATED BY THE BLAST-FURNACES OPERATED BY THE SEPARATIST SOCIETY OF ZOAR OHIO BY E J BOGNAR A most important contribution to the success of the Separatist Society of Zoar was iron ore The village of Zoar was founded in 1817 by 300 or more Separatists who had embarked early that spring from Wurtemburg1 Germany The party was led by one Joseph M Bimeler2 and the desire for religious freedom brought them to this country where they settled in the inviting wooded region of the ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Threat of Peace James F Byrnes and the Council of Foreign Ministers 1945-1946 By Patricia Dawson Ward Kent Kent State University Press 1979 x 227p notes bibliography index 1250 The story goes that once when Lyndon Johnson was extolling the virtues of John F Kennedy's Harvard-educated government appointees to Sam Rayburn the venerable Speaker of the House replied You may be right but I wish some of them had at least run for sheriff The story might be apocryphal but ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 64 NUMBER 1 JANUARY 1955 The Correspondence of George A Myers and James Ford Rhodes 1910-1923 Edited by JOHN A GA RR ATY In the eighteen eighties when James Ford Rhodes was still a Cleveland ironmaster he was in the habit of being shaved and having his formidable Picadilly Weepers trimmed by a young Negro barber named George A Myers Later after Rhodes had retired from business to take up his distinguished career as a historian ...
... THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTHE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN A CHANGING WORLD By JAMES H RODABAUGH These are critical times when every institution must look well within itself and ask Are we necessary Is our purpose worthy Do we contribute to the welfare of a people at war Have we fulfilled our social obligations Are our plans for the future well considered and in step with social transformations Reduced to its simplest terms the purpose of the Ohio State ...
... MEMBERSHIP IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEMBERSHIP IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF OHIO BY B H PERSHING Professor in Wittenberg College Since pure democracy is not possible in any country with a numerous population every republic finds itself under the necessity of devising some system of representation The emergence in America of geographical areas having in every case a historical background and a political consciousness has made the problem more complex here than in lands in which artificial ...
... LAURA RUSSELL LAURA RUSSELL Book Notes Choose You This Day The Legacy of the Hanbys By Dacia Custer Shoemaker Edited by Harold B Hancock and Millard J Miller Westerville Ohio The Westerville Historical Society 1983 xv 137p illustrations notes appendix selected bibliography index The publication of this book represents the final realization of Dacia Custer Shoemaker's dream to rescue the Hanbys from obscurity by preserving and recording many heretofore unknown facts about the famous father and ...
... 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 ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Letters of Delegates to Congress 1774-1789 Volume 25 March 1 1788-July 25 1789 with Supplement 1774-87 Edited by Paul H Smith and Ronald M Gephart Washington DC Library of Congress 1998 xxx 843p editorial method and apparatus acknowledgments chronology of Congress list of delegates illustrations appendix notes index 5600 It is a great thing to finish a great work And the Letters of Delegates to Congress series is a great work one of the greatest editorial projects of ...
... ADDRESS AT THE GRAVE OF JOHNNY APPLESEED ADDRESS AT THE GRAVE OF JOHNNY APPLESEED By ROBERT C HARRIS Here in the Archer graveyard at the north edge of Fort Wayne Indiana is the grave of Johnny Appleseed whose real name was John Chapman born September 26 1774 died March 18 1845 Johnny Appleseed won renown by a few simple and helpful acts 1 He was a peacemaker between the Indians and white settlers 2 He was a missionary for the church of New Jerusalem founded by Emanuel Swedenborg 3 Perhaps the ...
... Minutes of the Annual Meeting 561 Minutes of the Annual Meeting 561 listened to some arguments I made there and now he will get even by forcing me to listen to him He holds a policy in the same life insurance company in which I hold a policy but I will not give the name of the company myself but I will say that this man has a great gift of getting into good company and I want to congratulate him this afternoon on getting into this company here He belongs to a race that is a hundred per cent ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Losing Our Souls The American Experience in the Cold War By Edward Pessen Chicago Ivan R Dee 1993 255p notes index 2495 Assigning responsibility for the Cold War has long been one of the indoor sports of American scholars Led by those favorably inclined toward American motives in general and those of the Truman administration in particular the majority of historians one can safely say have placed major blame on the Soviet Union and Joe Stalin Fueled by its World War ...