... WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER BY W H VENABLE WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER poet editor and public official was born in Philadelphia August 21 1808 His father Bernard Gallagher familiarly called Barney was an Irishman a Roman Catholic a participant in the rebelli on that in 1 80 3 cost Robert Emmett his life Barney Gallagher migrated to the United States landing at the city of brotherly love where by the aid of John Binns editor of the Shamrock he obtained work Some time afterward ...
... WHITELAW REID IN COLUMBUS WHITELAW REID IN COLUMBUS EDWARD L TAYLOR Whitelaw Reid's first experience as a correspondent for a newspaper was in Columbus It began late in April or in May 1861 Before that time he had been for a few years the proprietor and editor of the Xenia Torchlight a paper published weekly at Xenia Ohio In the fall or early winter of 1860 his health not being good he disposed of that paper and went to Minnesota where he spent the winter for his health It is my recollection ...
... PRESIDENT HARDING AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION by DAVID H JENNINGS Even as President-elect Warren Gamaliel Harding was bidding his Marion neighbors a tender moist-eyed farewell1 world affairs engulfed him With the exception of Lincoln said The Nation never have there been so many pressing and unsolved problems The New Republic described the pressures as truly awful2 Each problem was individually intense and was made more so from the neglect occasioned by Woodrow Wilson's illness ...
... KEEP THE RECORD STRAIGHT KEEP THE RECORD STRAIGHT by ROBERT H BAHMER Every time I am introduced as an archivist I am reminded of the story that was written back in 1935 by one of the Washington newspaper columnists who writes about government people The story appeared shortly after the National Archives was established and our big building at Seventh and Pennsylvania Avenue was constructed The first archivist of the United States had just been appointed and there was some publicity about the ...
... 486 Ohio Arch 486 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications where they fell at the hands of the Indians This I think should be one of the first things to be done by the Commissioners The pioneer history of Ohio is filled with soul-stirring events and I know our posterity will read with grateful hearts the story of the builders of the great foundation on which now stands in high esteem in all lands of the world our great State of Ohio Good-night COLONEL WILLIAM LEONTES CURRY Colonel William ...
... DARD HUNTER THE MOUNTAIN HOUSE AND DARD HUNTER THE MOUNTAIN HOUSE AND CHILLICOTHE By LLOYD EMERSON SIBERELL It is interesting to note that Dard Hunter was born in the little manufacturing town of Steubenville on the majestic Ohio River This town's chief bid for noteworthiness so the inhabitants and historians say lies in the fact that it was one of the very first settlements in the great Northwest Territory some claim it is second only to Marietta Fort Steuben having been erected there in 1789 ...
... THE HOPEWELL CULTURE THE HOPEWELL CULTURE by RAYMOND S BABY Curator of Archaeology Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society This prehistoric culture named by William C Mills from the Hopewell mound group in Ross County closely followed Adena in time and like the Adena people the Hopewell people lived along the principal streams emptying into the Ohio River Valley Sites and centers of occupation of the Hopewell people are located in the main along or in the valleys of the Scioto Little ...
... WARREN KING MOOREHEAD WARREN KING MOOREHEAD Warren King Moorehead noted archaeologist and director of the Department of American Archaeology of Phillips Academy Andover Massachusetts for thirty-one years died in the Massachusetts General Hospital Thursday January 5 1939 Dr Moorehead who had retired from Phillips Academy in June 1938 was taken ill while on a European tour and had been in poor health following his return Dr Moorehead was a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 249 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 249 AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL MOBILIZATION FOR WAR 1917-1918 By H A DE WEERD Admiral A T Mahan once described his fellow Americans as being aggressive combative and war-like but he added they are the reverse of military being out of sympathy with military tone and feeling1 A neglect of the study of military history and economy in the United States developed partly as a result of an ingrained American distaste for and ...
... VERNON L VERNON L VOLPE Benjamin Wade's Strange Defeat Benjamin Wade is known to countless thousands of undergraduates as Bluff Ben a grim outspoken advocate of equal justice for freed Southern slaves The memorable but not completely flattering portrait of Wade found in most college textbooks sometimes obscures the prominent part the Ohio Senator played in national politics during the great crisis of the Civil War and Reconstruction A leading radical Republican he chaired the powerful Joint ...
... WHIG CONVENTION COLUMBUS OHIO 1840 WHIG CONVENTION COLUMBUS OHIO 1840 Letter of JOHN M W OODBRIDGE COLUMBUS Feb 21 1840 DEAR UNCLE The object of this communication is to inform you of the movements in this city at the present time I do wish you were here to participate with us in the festivities of the occasion Columbus is already filled to overflowing It is computed that there will be between fifteen and twenty thousand Whigs in the city before the close of the week Truly this is a movement ...
... ROBERT F ROBERT F HOROWITZ James M Ashley and the Presidential Election of 1856 When the name James M Ashley of Toledo Ohio is mentioned one usually thinks of the vindictive impeacher of President Andrew Johnson but Ashley's contributions to the history of mid-nineteenth century America transcend this one event This becomes evident from studying his activities in connection with the 1856 presidential election Ashley played a prominent part in establishing the machinery for a national ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 68 NUMBER 4 OCTOBER 1959 Washington Gladden and The Labor Question By JOHN L SHOVER WHEN THE REV WASHINGTON GLADDEN of Springfield Massachusetts published a book called Working People and Their Employers in 1876 he was invading a controversial field considered the domain only of opportunists like Ben Butler or radicals like Wendell Phillips In a day when influential religious periodicals could label organized laborers ...
... A Visit to the Ohio State Prison in 1837 A Visit to the Ohio State Prison in 1837 Edited by MERTON L DILLON ONE OF THE MANY SOCIAL PROBLEMS that demanded solution in the early nineteenth century was how best to deal with convicted criminals The answer provided by the system inaugurated in 1823 at the state prison at Auburn New York enjoyed great vogue among penal reformers and set the fashion in American prison administration for the next half century The Auburn system required the isolation ...
... GEORGE B GEORGE B COTKIN Strikebreakers Evictions and Violence Industrial Conflict in the Hocking Valley 1884-1885 In 1904 Boston trade unionist Frank K Foster called the strikebreaker an industrial excresence the Iscariot of the industrial world That same year novelist Jack London coined his famous definition of the scab A strikebreaker wrote London is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul a water-logged brain and a combination backbone made of jelly and glue Where others have hearts he ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews PR Politics in Cincinnati Thirty-Two Years of City Government Through Proportional Representation By Ralph A Straetz New York New York University Press 1958 xvii312p bibliography and appendix 500 From an early day the political history of Cincinnati has been a study in contrasts The home of such notable national figures as Edward McLean Joseph B Foraker William Howard Taft Nicholas Longworth Judson Harmon and Robert A Taft it also numbers among its sons such divergent ...
... 626 Ohio Arch 626 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications trees which are greatly in need of expert attention and care Some of these fine old trees have already died and others are dying for want of proper attention The appropriations for Fort Meigs have never been adequate to care properly for the most necessary things and it is utterly impossible to even think of taking care of trees much as we would like to do so Our appropriation for this year for all purposes at Fort Meigs is 62500 We ...
... BENJAMIN D BENJAMIN D RHODES An Ohio Kitchen Inspector and the Soviet Famine of 1921-1922 The Russian Odyssey of Henry C Wolfe Persistence paid off for Henry C Wolfe of Coshocton Ohio when he sought a job as a relief worker in Russia during the famine of 1921-1922 Wolfe eventually was to become internationally known as a writer and lecturer on foreign affairs one of his claims to fame was that he predicted in a Harper's magazine article the August 1939 alliance between Hitler and Stalin But in ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS A Handbook to Aid in the Study of State amp Local History A Comprehensive Reference Book of Special Interest to Teachers in Ohio Schools Compiled by George F Jenny Columbus Ohio Sesquicentennial Commission 1953 124p 050 A Handbook to Aid in the Study of State amp Local History is at once the most comprehensive and the most challenging publication of its nature that has come to our desk Inspirational seems a misnomer for a work of this sort but it is just that Surely ...
... FOUR BUCKEYE ARGONAUTS IN CALIFORNIA FOUR BUCKEYE ARGONAUTS IN CALIFORNIA by SCHUYLER C MARSHALL President Polk's message to congress in December 1848 set of the gold mania in the East The following year thousands of young men left their farms to follow one of the overland trails or perhap go round the Horn or across the isthmus of Panama to the dig gings While we often speak of those who went to California a Forty-Niners the Gold Rush was by no means limited to tha year Early in 1850 many ...