... LOUIS WEEKS LOUIS WEEKS John P Parker Black Abolitionist Entrepreneur 1827-1900 As historians attempt to set the record straight--to recite for Americans the involvement of black people in all aspects of our national life--they will since the recovery of his Autobiography now be able to include more on the contributions of yet another outstanding Negro John P Parker of Ripley Ohio1 To be sure a few students of American history have already mentioned Parker Henry E Baker of the United States ...
... ROBERT A ROBERT A TRENNERT JR William Medill's War with the Indian Traders 1847 William Medill's tenure as Commissioner of Indian Affairs in the Polk administration came at the critical time of continental expansion which resulted in forceful removal of the Indian from lands desired by white settlers Soon after he took office Medill attempted to make some basic reforms in policy governing relations with the Indians One of the most controversial aspects of his reforming activities as ...
... 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 ...
... SEED HUMBUGGERY AMONG THE WESTERN FARMERS SEED HUMBUGGERY AMONG THE WESTERN FARMERS 1850-1888 by EARL W HAYTER Professor of Social Sciences Northern Illinois State Teachers College The development of American agriculture as it unfolded from the pioneer subsistence level to that of a diversified enterprise was marked by the general characteristic of change-change from old practices to new ones There were several factors responsible for this inconstancy one of which was a growing necessity for ...
... 492 Ohio Arch 492 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ZACHARIAH T SMITH The following article is the expression of respect to the memory of Z T Smith by J L Lewis and published in an Upper Sandusky newspaper Mr Smith was for many years a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and was potently interested in securing the proper legislation for the appropriation for the erection of a building for the Society's Museum and Library It has oft been said that 'Tis not ...
... DONALD F DONALD F DURNBAUGH Strangers and Exiles Assistance Given by the Religious Society of Friends to the Separatist Society of Zoar in 1817-1818 The Religious Society of Friends popularly known as Quakers has rarely been ranked among the leading denominations when measured by membershipl Despite their lack of numbers Friends have enjoyed notable recognition and exerted influence out of proportion to their size Several reasons can be given for this For one thing from their inception in ...
... ARNOLD SHANKMAN ARNOLD SHANKMAN Soldier Votes and Clement L Vallandigham in the 1863 Ohio Gubernatorial Election The Ohio gubernatorial election of 1863 was a hotly contested election with overtones extending to the national level The nation was engaged in a bitter civil war which showed no signs of terminating and many citizens of the Buckeye State were rapidly tiring of the conflict A large number of Ohio Democrats were dissatisfied with the Lincoln administration's handling of the war and ...
... medicines The ensuing eighteen months were though not very remunerative nor spent in the most desirable of environs rich in experience and the development of self-reliance They were interrupted only by two cruises to the upper Great Lakes as a ship surgeon With his appointment as demonstrator of anatomy at his alma mater in 1879 young Dr Corlett seemed well on his way to establishing permanent professional roots in Cleveland but other things ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Woodland Sites in Nebraska By Marvin F Kivett Nebraska State Historical Society Publications in Anthropology No 1 Lincoln Nebraska State Historical Society 1952 102p 30 plates maps and bibliography Paper 200 This is a report on previously unpublished excavations in sites generally assignable to the Woodland Pattern in Nebraska as well as a discussion and summary of existing evidence on the place of Woodland in the Plains area The presence of Woodland manifestations in ...
... PHILIP BEVAN--MINOR POET OF OHIO PHILIP BEVAN--MINOR POET OF OHIO BY PHILIP B JORDAN That portion of the history of the United States known as the Middle Period spanning the years 18121850 is remarkable among other things for the conception and development of an intense pride in the nation itself and in the cultivation of a spirit of nationalism which preserved its intensity until well past the Civil War period Politically this pride and affection for country expressed itself in the ...
... HARLEY J HARLEY J McKEE Original Bridges on the National Road in Eastern Ohio The approach to this subject is purely descriptive and is based on observations made during 1971 while the author was inspecting structures which had been recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey1 Among the records in question were a number of photographs of bridges on the old National Road taken late in 1933 for which the locations had not been as clearly given as HABS standards require A part of the ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR A LIFE OF WILLIAM ALLEN William Allen A Study in Western Democracy By Reginald C McGrane Columbus Ohio The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1 925 279 p William Allen was one of those political luminaries who never quite attained the brilliance of a star of the first magnitude in the political firmament of his state and nation Very nearly but never ...
... BENJAMIN F BENJAMIN F WADE AND THE ATROCITY PROPAGANDA OF THE CIVIL WAR By HARRY WILLIAMS The atrocity propaganda issued in the North during the Civil War flowered in bewildering abundance from a variety of persons and agencies Heads of governmental departments semi-official bodies editors members of Congress and private individuals devoted their efforts to the dissemination of tales of cruelties and barbarisms practiced by the Confederate Government and its soldiery1 Although these ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Prehistoric Antiquities of Indiana By Eli Lilly Indianapolis Indiana Historical Society 1937 293p illus Within the past few years there has been a renewed and intensified interest in the study of archaeology in the United States As a result much new evidence has been brought to light and new methods and techniques have been evolved for securing and interpreting archaeological facts In the Middle West the Indiana Historical Society has played a leading part in the ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Baseball The Early Years By Harold Seymour New York Oxford University Press 1960 viii373p illustrations bibliographical note and index 750 The author of this important volume started as a bat boy with the Brooklyn Dodgers earned a PhD in history at Cornell and now is an associate professor in a New York college He knows and loves his baseball and he knows his American history and so he has given us what is without question the best book on the subject In the present ...
... compiled by compiled by HELEN M THURSTON A Survey of Publications on the History and Archaeology of Ohio 1972-1973 ANTISLAVERY COFFIN LEVI Reminiscences of Levi Coffin New York AMS Press 1971 Reprint of 1876 ed 712p Reputed president of the Underground Railroad F LAD E LAND BETTY Men and Brothers Ang l o-American Antislavery Cooperation Urbana University of Illinois Press 1972 480p GARRISON WILLIAM LLOYD ed by Louis Ruchames Letters of William Lloyd Garrison A House Dividing Against Itself II ...
... AUGUSTUS NEWTON WHITING AUGUSTUS NEWTON WHITING FRANK THEODORE COLE Mr Whiting was of the Massachusetts family of that name his grandfather's home being in Westford near Lowell Only two children of this grandfather William Whiting had families These were Augustus Whiting who married a daughter of Judge Gustavus Swan of Columbus 0 and lived in New York City and Isaac Newton Whiting who was a book-seller and publisher in Columbus for many years He married September 7 1835 Orrel daughter of Col ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 111 gave the name of Marietta to the new town in honor of Mary Antoinette and France Generals St Clair of Pennsylvania and Putnam of Massachusetts Samuel Holden Parsons of Connecticut and James M Varnum of Rhode Island were the leaders in the work of establishing the settlement aided by Winthrop Sargent secretary of the Territory and by the noble Manasseh Cutler who was a frequent visitor and a powerful advocate in the East Parsons Varnum and John Cleve Symmes Chief ...
... 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 Ohio to live and work At the same time it dramatized the inter-city struggle that had long engaged business ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments Reviews Notes and Comments 46 5 This quotation is a gem and the reader will thank the author for including it A wrong impression is left on page 288 by the statement that the senate finally voted 'yea' unanimously on this bill Seven senators at one time voted against it including Senator Brown from Ohio who opposed it in a speech While the author uses the correct spelling of the name of Lafayette she makes a mistake in the spelling of another name that occurs very ...