... HUGH T HUGH T LOVIN The Ohio Farmer-Labor Movement in the 1930s Throughout the 1930s a generation of American radicals sought unsuccessfully to build a viable third party on the considerable political terrain that lay to the left of the New Deal coalition Their failure in the greatest of all American depressions has long been accounted either a tribute to the resiliency of the two-party system and the political skill of Franklin Roosevelt or a confirmation of the utopian chiliastic character ...
... 98 Ohio Arch 98 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications and employment in the State Library based only upon recognized qualification and efficient service Following this excellent address remarks were made by Hon E O Randall reporter of the Supreme Court of Ohio and Secretary of the State Archaeological and Historical Society Hon J H Newman former State Librarian Mr John J Pugh libbrarian of the Columbus Public Library Miss Olive Jones librarian of the Ohio State University Miss Julia W ...
... OHIO STATE LIBRARY CENTENNIAL OHIO STATE LIBRARY CENTENNIAL The one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Ohio State Library was observed on the evening of August 10 1917 No special significance attached to this particular date It is not known just when the State Library first opened It was doubtless available for the use of the general assembly at the regular session which began December 1 1917 Provision had been made for it and the initial supply of books purchased by Governor ...
... THE HUMILIATION OF HENRY WARD BEECHER IN THE HUMILIATION OF HENRY WARD BEECHER IN THE WEST by DAVID MEAD Assistant Professor of English Michigan State College In the columns of Ohio's newspapers of nearly a century ago lies the dramatic account of Henry Ward Beecher's rejection as a lecturer by the indignant citizens of the West a story which has not been revealed by the biographers of the great Eastern divine Not that Beecher was the first celebrity to be humiliated by Ohio's lecture public ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Barber and the Historian The Correspondence of George A Myers and James Ford Rhodes 1910-1923 Edited by John A Garraty Columbus Ohio Historical Society 1956 xxiv156p illustrations and index Paper 300 The publication of this correspondence first in successive issues of the Ohio Historical Quarterly during 1955 and now in book form is a noteworthy event on several counts In the first place the letters give an intimate view of James Ford Rhodes which adds to our ...
... MAJOR CALEB STARK IN OHIO MAJOR CALEB STARK IN OHIO GEORGE H TWISS A biography of Governor Lucas and the outlining of an important and fiercely contested case through the Courts of Ohio in the form of a petition to the legislature by the plaintiff Major Caleb Stark appears in this issue of the Quarterly They appear in conjunction since they both came from the same source and are unquestionably of the same authorship The unique character and vigorous ability the distinguished and valuable ...
... SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL XLIV For Index of Authors see Contents Abstract of the Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society April 23 1935 374 Address at the Unveiling of the Galbreath Memorial Plaque by Harold G Simpson 391-392 Afternoon Session of the Forty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 374-392 Annual Report of the Secretary of the Ohio State ...
... WILLIAM E WILLIAM E SCHEUERMAN Canton and the Great Steel Strike of 1919 A Marriage of Nativism and Politics Prior to 1900 the production of iron and steel in the United States was primarily the domain of the skilled English-speaking worker1 By the turn of the century however the skilled worker was becoming extraneous Technological innovations in the production of steel deskilled the labor force and immigrants from southern and eastern Europe flocked to America's steelmills to assume the bulk ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR CATHERINE FAY EWING ORIGINATOR OF CHILDREN'S HOMES Children's Homes throughout the country have attracted deserved attention as child-saving institutions They not only save life they educate to usefulness The Ohio law is simple It was enacted in 1866 and in 1871 thirty-seven homes were organized under it They were established and conducted by counties and intrusted ...
... DEDICATION OF THE JAMES E DEDICATION OF THE JAMES E CAMPBELL ELM On October 20 1923 very interesting exercises were held in the State House Grounds at Columbus on the occasion of the dedication of the James E Campbell Elm a seedling from the famous Logan Elm in Pickaway County under which the speech or message of the Indian chief Logan was dictated and sent to Lord Dunmore who was holding a peace conference with the Indians at Camp Charlotte seven miles distant October 1774 These exercises ...
... GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME LII GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME LII Abbreviations to Centinel Index 218 American Association for the AdvanceAbolition 153 ment of Science 325 328 332 343 Abrading stones 17 18 American Association of Dental Schools Academy in Columbus 1817 p 72 364 Accessions Catalogue to Society's MSS American Association of Museums Coun211 cil of the 208 Acquisitions to Society's Library 210 American Dental Association 364 Adams C T 366 368 American Historical Association 86 209 Adams ...
... OLD OHIO RIVER STEAMBOAT DAYS OLD OHIO RIVER STEAMBOAT DAYS MEMORIES OF UPPER OHIO RIVER ACTIVITIES BETWEEN 1860 AN D 1890 BY W G SIBLEY A great river is a powerful influence over the lives of all who dwell on its banks just as lofty hills or mountains seen day after day finally come to have meaning in a man's life as does any other striking natural environment When a river is intimately associated with the affairs of a small community its whole population becomes conscious of it So it was ...
... HOWELLS' BLISTERING AND CAUTERIZING HOWELLS' BLISTERING AND CAUTERIZING by Louis J BUDD Assistant Professor of English Duke University As a sexagenarian describing his early manhood William Dean Howells reminisced If there was any one who had his being more wholly in literature than I had in 1860 I am sure I should not have known where to find him1 Such testimony cannot be ignored Yet it has encouraged our accepting too hastily the trite picture of still another introverted lad who quietly ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 297 Section 2 That the care and control of the site of Fort Laurens located in Tuscarawas county Ohio and being the first fort established west of the Ohio river shall be vested in the board of trustees of the Ohio archaeological and historical society who shall hold the lands and property thereon subject to such use as the general assembly may by law direct Section 3 That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act and defraying the expenses of the ...
... THE INTRODUCTION OF FARM MACHINERY INTO OHIO THE INTRODUCTION OF FARM MACHINERY INTO OHIO PRIOR TO 1865 by ROBERT LESLIE JONES Professor of History Marietta College Ohio agriculture in the fifth decade of the twentieth century is a highly mechanized industry with almost every farmer having a heavy investment in devices ranging from tractors to milking machines and pressure sprayers Contemporary mechanization however is less the product of recent innovations than it is the culmination of a long ...
... THE REPORT OF THE FORTY-EIGHTH THE REPORT OF THE FORTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY The forty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was called to order by President Arthur C Johnson Sr on April 24 1934 with sixty members present MR JO H NSON This is a business meeting of the Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society I promise not to keep you long this morning because I know ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS A History of Kentucky By Thomas D Clark Prentice-Hall History Series Ed by Carl Wittke New York PrenticeHall Inc 1937 702p 500 To present in one volume a general history of Kentucky was the purpose of this book In a concise narrative of the political economic and social development of the state Kentucky has been viewed as an important factor in the larger life of the Nation and especially as a factor in the settlement of the South and West Each chapter has been well ...
... DONALD J DONALD J RATCLIFFE The Experience of Revolution and the Beginnings of Party Politics in Ohio 1776-1816 The American Revolution would scarcely be worth the name if it signified nothing more than separation from Great Britain In fact it was the beginning of an experiment to create a republic in which a free people could be governed justly without resort to the traditional sources of state power hereditary right and ancient prescription The new republic however did not take shape ...
... SEVEN PREHISTORIC SITES IN NORTHERN OHIO SEVEN PREHISTORIC SITES IN NORTHERN OHIO By EMERSON F GREENMA N Description of the Sites In the summer of 1 929 during excavation of the Reeve village site near Willoughby1 other sites were located mapped and examined Some were found by the use of William C Mills' Archaeological Atlas of Ohio Columbus Ohio 1914 while others have not been mentioned heretofore in archaeological literature Four of these sites are on the tops of hills and the occupied areas ...
... Dedicatory Exercises May 30 1914 Dedicatory Exercises May 30 1914 339 who were following us in the retreating continental Ice Sheet in Ohio as the Eskimo are still doing in Alaska and Greenland Thus geology and archaeology join hands in our state to shed light on the earliest conditions under which man struggled to maintain his existence in this world of thorns and thistles of earthquakes and volcanoes and of waxing and waning ice sheets The contrast between those conditions and those in which ...