... Comments Notes and Reviews Comments Notes and Reviews 139 heartedness Many incidents occurred during his stay to evidence the gentleness of his nature and the breadth of his sympathy with the unfortunate and the oppressed THE BOERS IN OHIO On Monday evening June 12 but a few days after the departure of Admiral Dewey the city for a few hours was the host as Mr Dooley would say inofficially of two other distinguished guests namely Messrs Wessells and Fischer Boer representatives of the Transvaal ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS List of Documents Concerning the Negotiation of Ratified Indian Treaties 1801-1869 Compiled by John H Martin Special List No 6 Washington National Archives 1949 iii 175p appendix One of the most ambitious archival endeavors in progress today is being conducted by the United States through its National Archives The methods of record keeping employed are efficiently designed to make possible a maximum use by scholars and government officials To obviate the necessity of ...
... 648 Ohio Arch 648 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications It is planned to visit the industrial plants of Dayton and the wonderful flood-prevention work If Mr Wright accompanies the visitors on their tour it may be a profitable day for the Society -- we may secure the first successful airship of the Wright brothers This plane while not in Dayton has not been sent to England If the Society secures the airplane and the mastodon skeleton a place to exhibit them must be provided and the Society ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments and awards within the professional community of Ohio historians include Carolyn Komer joined the Bowling Green State University Center for Archival Collections as a part-time conservatorbookbinder Reuben G Bullard and Willard W Winter of the Cincinnati Bible College recently served as core staff members of the Tel Abila excavations in Jordan Wilson Hoffman began his tenure as Thorn and Frances Pendleton Professor of History at ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA HISTORICAL STUDIES The value of historical knowledge and study is being more and more appreciated especially as relates to the beginning and career of our own illustrious country and state Concerning this subject Professor Wallace N Stearns of Wesleyan University Delaware Ohio makes some most timely suggestions which we herewith publish cordially approving the same and recommending their consideration by our readers and especially by all educators In endeavoring to ...
... Johnny Appleseed Johnny Appleseed 313 To-day the events which stirred the souls and tried the courage of the pioneers seem to come out of the dim past and glide as panoramic views before me A number of the actors in those scenes were of my kith and kin who have long since crossed over the river in their journey to the land where Enoch and Elijah are pioneers while I am left to exclaim Oh for the touch of a vanished hand And the sound of a voice that is still While the scenes of those pioneer ...
... FLATBOATING DOWN THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI FLATBOATING DOWN THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI 1867-1873 Correspondence and Diaries of the William Dudley Devol Family of Marietta Ohio PART II edited by ROBERT LESLIE JONES Professor of History Marietta College V More material remains from William Dudley Devol's fourth flatboating expedition than from the other three put together In addition to the letters which passed back and forth it includes two diaries covering the first six weeks of his trip printed ...
... SOME OHIO ASPECTS OF MILITARY NURSING 1861-1945 SOME OHIO ASPECTS OF MILITARY NURSING 1861-1945 by MARY JANE RODABAUGH Managing Editor Ohio Nurses Review The history of modern nursing in the United States has its beginnings in the Civil War At the outbreak of the Civil War there was no group of trained nurses in the United States but after the first battles the demand for nursing service became imperative Secretary of War Cameron appointed Dorothea Lynde Dix-already well known for her work as ...
... strikes In any history of strike and the Populist strikes me Grant has gone up like a rocket amp will come down like a stick I rather think notwithstanding all the blow amp bluster he is rather stuck14--instead of walking into Richmond this week it is reported that he has deferred the time to 4th July--Maybe he'll get there then I shall be ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Papers of Ulysses S Grant Volume III October 1 1861-January 7 1862 Edited by JO HN Y SIMON Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press 1971 xxv 479p chronology maps illustrations calendar and index 1500 The Papers of Ulysses S Grant Volume IV January 8-March 31 1862 Edited by JOHN Y SIMON Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press 1972 xxv 520p chronology maps illustrations calendar and index 1500 Like their subject these volumes of Ulysses S Grant's personal ...
... strike Visiting for some days in the suburbs and in Manchester at last they sailed from Liverpool once again on the Carmania At Halifax where recoaling became necessary some damage was done to the vessel in entering the small harbor but after several days' delay the ship proceeded to New York Early in 1912 he contributed an article to the African Times and Orient Review In July he went as a delegate to the Negro National Educational Conference ...
... SUNSET COX OHIO'S CHAMPION OF COMPROMISE IN SUNSET COX OHIO'S CHAMPION OF COMPROMISE IN THE SECESSION CRISIS OF 1860-1861 by DAVID LINDSEY Associate Professor of History Baldwin-Wallace College Among the political leaders of the blundering generation of 1860-61 no one deplored the tragic drift of events toward armed conflict more than Samuel Sullivan Cox of Ohio Son of a pioneer printer from New Jersey Cox had been born and reared in Zanesville and schooled at Ohio University and Brown ...
... strikes us as being one of the best things of the kind which we have ever seen The Pennant man must certainly have been in error in reporting the views as lithographic prints The Missouri Republican in its stories of April 8 and 28 mentioned paintings only The Daily Evening Gazette of April 28 carried a similar report We have seen some beautifully colored drawings of scenes in St Louis executed by Mr J C Wild which are so very accurate and ...
... BookReviews Summer-Autumn 2002 pp 202-228 PDF of Book Reveiws CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved The American Midwest Essays on Regional History Edited by Andrew R L Cayton and Susan E Gray Reviewed by Terry A Barnhart Henry Ford and the Jews the Mass Production of Hate By Neil Baldwin Reviewed by Terry A Cooney The Goodyear Story An Inventors Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly By Richard Korman Reviewed by K Austin Kerr Still ...
... DANIEL DRAKE AS A PIONEER IN MODERN DANIEL DRAKE AS A PIONEER IN MODERN ECOLOGY by ADOLPH E WALLER Associate Professor and Curator of the Botanic Garden Ohio State University When in 1895 Warming of Copenhagen summarized his studies of the coastal dunes of the North Sea he wakened biologists to a new point of view He wrote the word oecology into the record It soon became widely used as a tool to aid in the understanding of the complex relations existing between organism and environment As a ...
... strike hard blows but it was always an open antagonism He never fired from behind a masked barricade There was no mistaking his attitude or views While he could be an uncompromising enemy he never harbored any personal bitterness and his friendships were warm and firm His home life was tender kind and sympathetic Mr Hunter may not have been without his faults - few men are - but as men come and go he was far above the average in ability ...
... JOHN L JOHN L NETHERS Driest of Drys Simeon D Fess The struggle was long and hard fought but the final victory was short-lived for the national prohibition movement in the United States Temporary success came with the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919 but the drys had to admit defeat with adoption of the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933 One contemporary historian has noted that the most importunate of all the crusades of this generation was that against Demon Rum1 Many persons and ...
... strike Governor Altgeld of strike Lieutenant Dickman strike did not rate very highly Here is his summary of the results professionally speaking Military service nil Instruction nil Experience in camping limited Show of force afterwards spectacular displays pleasant social affairs unlimited newspaper gush6 When Lieutenant Dickman's period ...
... EMINENT REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SARGENT EMINENT REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SARGENT FAMILY CHARLES SPRAGUE SARGENT The Sargent family somewhat extensively noted in a previous issue of the QUARTERLY is one of the most continuously and favorably noted in American History The definite genealogy of this family begins with William Sargent who married Mary daughter of Peter Duncan and Mary Epes of Gloucester June 21 1678 The marriage ceremony was performed by Deputy Governor Samuel Symonds of Ipswich ...
... DOWN SOUTH BEFORE THE WAR DOWN SOUTH BEFORE THE WAR RECORD OF A RAMBLE TO NEW ORLEANS IN 18 58 ON the second day of December 1857 in company with my friend and fellow-student Alexis E Holcombe of Ravenna Ohio I started on an unpremeditated journey through Kentucky Tennessee Mississippi and Louisiana A tolerably complete diary kept during the six months of our sojourn in the South furnishes the material of the following narrative We set out from Lebanon Ohio by stage-coach for Cincinnati from ...