... WILLIAM THOMAS MATHEWS WILLIAM THOMAS MATHEWS The following sketch of William T Mathews one of the most distinguished painters of our state and generation was prepared by his brother Major Charles H Mathews New Philadelphia Ohio and is a sympathetic tribute to the memory of the notable citizen who was known as the Buckeye ArtistEDITOR William T Mathews bachelor artist was a resident of Washington D C for ten or fifteen years previous to his death which occurred at the Emergency Hospital ...
... GENERAL SIMON PERKINS GENERAL SIMON PERKINS BY WALTER W SPOONER From advance proofs of the sixth volume of Randall and Ryan's History of Ohio By permission of the publishers the Century History Company New York Simon Perkins of Warren was one of the earliest and most influential promoters of settlement and progress in northeastern Ohio and a citizen of distinguished reputation and usefulness in varied activities and affairs A native of Connecticut he first came to Ohio in the summer of 1798 on ...
... edited by WILFRED W BLACK The Fifty-First Ohio Volunteer Infantry a Tuscarawas County regiment was organized in September and October of 1861 at Camp Meigs near Canal Dover More than one-half of its members were citizens of the county and Companies A B C E G and K were composed almost exclusively of Tuscarawas County men The Fifty-First had re-enlisted on January 1 18641 and following a furlough it returned to the front at Blue Springs near Cleveland Tennessee where on April 10 it was ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Banks or No Banks The Money Issue in Western Politics 1832-1865 By WILLIAM GERALD SHADE Detroit Wayne State University Press 1972 328p maps tables notes bibliography and index 1595 Banks or No Banks develops a new thesis from which to view the banking controversies of the mid-nineteenth century and the role of the bank issue in state politics Mr Shade looks at the social roots and proposes a broad social interpretation of the significance of the issue He also tries to ...
... OHIO'S CONTRIBUTION TO NATIONAL CIVIL OHIO'S CONTRIBUTION TO NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE REFORM BY C B GALBREATH Ohio is great in many ways The achievements of her sons are not confined to the spectacular vocations of statesmanship and war Piatt and Howells and other writers have given her a respectable place in the literature of the republic The Darling Nelly Gray of our Hanby the Dixie of our Emmett and the Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling of our Thompson have gone round the world and found ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA HISTORY OF JEROME TOWNSHIP UNION COUNTY OHIO In this interesting addition to the local history of Ohio the author Colonel W L Curry has preserved the facts and traditions in the life of a typical American community He has given to the third generation from the pioneer a thrilling account of Indian warfare and interesting stories of that period of settlement The record will be invaluable to the historian of the future It presents with vivid detail the life trials and ...
... 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 ...
... The Early Historical Writings of The Early Historical Writings of James Ford Rhodes 1885-1886 By ROBERT CRUDEN JAMES FORD RHODES the Cleveland-born historian of the Civil War and Reconstruction periods is perhaps Ohio's most significant contribution to American historiography His seven-volume History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the Final Restoration of Home Rule at the South in 1877 New York 1892-1906 written in a spirit of sectional reconciliation remains an impressive ...
... GENERAL JOSHUA WOODROW SILL GENERAL JOSHUA WOODROW SILL BY ALBERT DOUGLAS FOREWORD With some sixty years intervening since the Civil War and with the generation of men and women to whom it was a fearful reality almost all gone from earth it cannot be hoped that many who knew him personally will read this slight memoir of one of Ohio's great and best soldiers of that war But to these few and especially to those who have urged me to use the letters and memoranda in my hands for the preparation ...
... ORIGIN OF SOME EARLY BELMONT COUNTY ORIGIN OF SOME EARLY BELMONT COUNTY NEWSPAPERS By FRANCIS C HIBBARD The history of the early newspapers of Belmont County Ohio is to some extent confused and contradictory Much that has been written on the subject is based apparently upon tradition and second-hand information An attempt will herewith be made to clear up some of the confusion and rectify at least some of the errors Two of the present-day papers of the county--the St Clairsville Gazette and ...
... WINFIELD SCOTT'S VISIT TO COLUMBUS WINFIELD SCOT T' S VISIT TO COLUMBUS BY GEN H B CARRINGTON U S A General Henry Beebee Carrington is one of the very few su viving generals of the Civil War He has led a distinguished ar eventful life Born in Wallingford Conn March 2 1824 he is now the age of eighty-six hale and hearty a writer of clearness and precisio and a speaker forceful and entertaining He graduated at Yale 1845 and in November 1848 arrived in Columbus to there take up his pe manent ...
... BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTHWORKS OF BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTHWORKS OF OHIO THE following bibliography was prepared by Mrs Cyrus Thomas under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution and is published by permission from the manuscript copy Its publication will serve two ends In the first place to impart information already obtained and in the second place to solicit information supplementary to what is here contained Any observers in the State who have facts concerning the earthworks of Ohio in ...
... SIMON KENTON -- THOMAS W SIMON KENTON - - THOMAS W CRIDLAND PIONEERS BY WALTER D MCKINNEY Today it is my great privilege to place in the custody of this Society the framed portrait of a man This I might do in short form which would be forgotten at the conclusion of the ceremony but the subject of the portrait and the portrait itself -- and the maker of the frame and the frame itself -- are deserving of greater consideration by the society and myself The subject of the portrait is Simon Kenton ...
... Commerce and Culture Commerce and Culture The Pattern in Ohio An Address By HARLAN HATCHER I extend my most cordial personal greetings to my fellow members of the Ohio Historical Society with which I had the pleasure of working for so many years and which has done me honor in the past and which has especially honored me today by inviting me to come once more and share in this annual meeting of our Society I am pleased indeed to do so In fact any reasonable excuse that brings me back to a place ...
... 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 ...
... THE POSSIBLE CULTURAL AFFILIATION OF THE POSSIBLE CULTURAL AFFILIATION OF FLINT DISK CACHES By H HOLMES ELLIS Over a period of some seventy-five years archaeological publications have carried occasional references to finds of unused circular or ovoid flat roughly-chipped blanks of flint buried in what have been termed ceremonial or storage caches The Lithic Laboratory for the Eastern United States at the Museum of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society has been able to locate by ...
... Race Principles and Policy of Rutherford B Hayes by GEORGE SINKLER When Rutherofrd B Hayes came to the presidency the race problem was waiting in all its urgency The subject was by no means new to him As an Ohio Congressman at the very beginning of his political career he endorsed the Radical program of reconstruction In unemotional terms this meant having a penchant for Negro rights and the preservation of the political power of the Republican party though not necessarily in that order1 A ...
... JOHN GRAY WASHINGTON'S LAST SOLDIER JOHN GRAY WASHINGTON'S LAST SOLDIER BORN NEAR MT VERNON VA JANUARY 6TH 1764 DIED NEAR HIRAMSBURG O MARCH 29TH 1868 BY PRIVATE DALZELL Read at the Marietta Centennial Celebration One by one the severed links have started Bonds that bound us to the sacred past One by one our patriot sires departed Time hath brought us to behold the last Last of all who won our early glory Lonely traveler of the weary way Poor unknown unnamed in song or story In his western ...
... LETTERS OF THOMAS BUCHANAN READ LETTERS OF THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Edited by ALICE E SMITH Thomas Buchanan Read was less than twenty years old when he wrote the letters printed below yet he had experienced many and strange adventures At the age of fourteen he had rebelled at the life of a tailor's apprentice and escaped to Philadelphia Here for a time he had clerked in a cellar grocery then served as apprentice to a cigar maker and finally made his way on a flatboat to Cincinnati For three years ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 119 BLENNERHASSET REDIVIVUS The Century for July 1901 contains an article by Therese Blennerhassett Adams on The True Story of Harman Blennerhassett The author very briefly recites the history of the Blennerhassetts who built that magnificent mansion on the historic island in the Ohio near Belpre in the year 1798 The article is valuable historically as authentically stating that the main if not sole cause of the departure from Ireland and emigration to America of the ...