... 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 ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Mrs Harry B Longsworth Secretary and Editor The October and December issues of the Reporter Nos 33 and 34 are devoted to an article on the Faurot Opera House in Lima The story was prompted by the contemplated razing of the Faurot Block The Opera House constructed in 1881 at a cost of 22500000 was said to have been the finest between New York and Denver The Society opened the season's meetings on October 30 ...
... THE ODYSSEY OF PETROLEUM VESUVIUS NASBY by DAVID D ANDERSON After more than a century the American Civil War remains garbed in tragedy and pathos heroes and hero worship sentiment and cynicism as it has been since the guns fell silent and the printing presses began to pour out a still unabated torrent of memoirs histories and biographies As an age of heroes it is resplendent with the names of Lincoln Grant Lee Sherman Sheridan -- and Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby Perhaps the least remembered of ...
... WILLIAM GIFFIN WILLIAM GIFFIN Black Insurgency in the Republican Party of Ohio 1920-1932 An extraordinary change in Negro voting patterns has occurred between the postCivil War period and the present The black vote was remarkably consistent for the party of Lincoln from the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment to the New Deal period but this solidly Republican bloc vote was broken during the 1930's The black vote became more and more overwhelmingly Democratic following the New Deal A misleading ...
... FUNERAL OF ADAM WILLIS WAGNALLS FUNERAL OF ADAM WILLIS WAGNALLS September 24 1843 Adam Willis Wagnalls first opened his eyes to the light in the village of Lithopolis Fairfield County Ohio On Wednesday evening September 3 1924 at the close of a life rich in good works and meritorious achievements Adam Willis Wagnalls closed his eyes for the last time on earthly scenes at Doremi Manor Northport Long Island New York the home of his daughter Mrs Mabel Wagnalls Jones Lithopolis the little village ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XLII INDEX TO VOLUME XLII Abels A 71 Bicentennial commission for Ohio Names Abroader the better 392 of 8-9 Adams S E 114 Bicentennial commission for West VirAlexander W L quoted 128-129 ginia Names of 7 American Colonists in English Records Blaine James G Speech in Cincinnati Ser 1 reviewed 241-242 385-386 his affability 387-388 American Legion 64 Blazier Ann 39 Anchor iron 171 180 Blumenberg Hugo 29 Ashmun George 108 Bolles Col William M 169 Atkinson L A 176 Boone Col E A 223 ...
... Big Bottom and Its History Big Bottom and Its History 17 ADDRESS OF C L MARTZOLFF It is said that a minister's text is but a peg upon which to hang his sermon If I were a minister the peg upon which I would hang this speech would be found among the jewels of the wonderful mines of King Solomon - The Book of Proverbs Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set Man has ever been a monument builder When the Israelites fought with the hosts of Amalek when the hands of Moses were ...
... CATHERINE M CATHERINE M ROKICKY Lydia Finney and Evangelical Womanhood In May of 1835 Lydia Andrews Finney bade farewell to her husband as he headed for his first look at Oberlin College in Oberlin Ohio Mrs Finney and their three children would stay in Cleveland with her parents until the Reverend Charles Grandison Finney settled himself as the professor of theology in Oberlin1 Separation between the couple was far from a new experience because of the position of the Reverend Finney as the ...
... 330 Ohio Arch 330 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications Wayne's Expedition against the Indians The awards were made to Irma Shupe Robert Cowden and Wilbur Conover as first second and third respectively The one by Miss Shupe was published in the Dayton Daily Journal of May 5th It is a most scholarly and comprehensive account of that dramatic dashing campaign by the intrepid Wayne No campaign in early American history is more thrilling in its character or more potent in its results It was ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 65 NUMBER 4 OCTOBER 1956 Carl Schurz and Rutherford B Hayes By CARL WITTKE The German Revolution of 1848 ended in the emigration of large numbers of political refugees to the United States Among them were men of substance social standing and education young intellectual radicals fresh from the universities and older more reserved agitators for reform whose dreams of a united republican Germany were shattered by the military ...
... Montrie Winter-Spring 2002 pp 44-63 Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page with footnotes according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page Agriculture Christian Stewardship and Aesthetics Ohio Farmers' Opposition to Coal Surface Mining in the 1940s By Chad Montrie In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries more than a few American farmers took up coal ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY EDWARD LENSE AND NANCY SUMMERS ABA See American Bar Association Abbot David and Tappan 136 136n 137-38 139 140 Abolition of slavery 49 50 56 abolitionism in Western Reserve 50 56 and Benjamin Tappan 109 111 ACLU See American Civil Liberties Union Adams John 121 220 Adger John B American delegate to World Evangelical Alliance 302 Aeschbacher W D book rev 338 Alexander Charles C book rev 342-43 Alexander James 148 Alien and Sedition Acts 224 Allen Frederick Lewis quoted ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies DELAWARE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Delaware Wilbur Main President The society has been holding regular monthly meetings on the third Monday of each month At the meeting in February R B Powers gave a paper on genealogy Mrs John J Swickheimer spoke at the March meeting on the early history of Radnor Township In April the first number of a mimeographed bulletin was published for the purpose of publicizing the society by describing its aims and ...
... TABLET TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN AT MANSFIELD TABLET TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN AT MANSFIELD WHERE THE ORGANIZED MOVEMENT BEGAN TO MAKE HIM PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES SPEECH BY HONORABLE CHARLES II WORKMAN I arise on behalf of the Abraham Lincoln Association of Richland county We meet to give proper recognition to our forebears in 1858 in this city and in this country for their political acumen sagacity and intuition We meet to commemorate an important fact or event in the political history of the United ...
... Book Notes Book Notes The Synagogues of Kentucky History and Architecture By Lee Shai Weissbach Lexington The University Press of Kentucky 1995 xiv 184p illustrations tables appendices notes index In this second volume in the Perspective's on Kentucky's Past series professor Weissbach provides a comprehensive survey on Kentucky's Jewish communities and synagogues and one of the first works that studies small Jewish communities outside the major American urban centers Presenting information ...
... DANIEL DRAKE AND THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE IN DANIEL DRAKE AND THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE IN THE OHIO VALLEY1 By DAVID A TUCKER JR Biographical Sketch This is the story of a man of whom few of you have heard Such is fame For Daniel Drake was in his day the greatest physician of the West the founder of sound medical education in the Ohio Valley and one of the most unique and picturesque figures in the history of American medicine He was born on a farm in New Jersey October 20 1785 His parents were ...
... THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF OHIO By LEE SHEPARD In the space of a short sketch it is impossible to write a comprehensive history of this 113-year-old society When it is realized that the first effort to form a historical society in Ohio was made in 1822 only 27 years after the signing of the Treaty of Greenville one can only wonder at the temerity of the scattered residents whose ambitions at that time were doomed to failure Ohio was ...
... THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF THE THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF THE TOLEDO BLADE By DOUGLAS C MCMURTRIE The Toledo Blade is approaching its one hundredth birthday--a long life for a mid-western newspaper-- and it occupies still as it did during its infancy a commanding position in the life of its community In view of its long service the history of its beginnings becomes of special interest There is here presented a detailed record of the first decennium of its existence The Blade was not the first ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Howells and the Age of Realism By Everett Carter Philadelphia and New York J B Lippincott Company 1954 307p index 500 Mr Carter's scholarly study of William Dean Howells and his fellow realists is a sound valuable chapter in our literary and social history It is not a definitive biography such as Leon Edel's Henry James or Dixon Wecter's Sam Clemens of Hannibal but an intellectual portrait of Howells drawn by careful analysis and interpretation Mr Carter ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY On August 19 1904 a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the conference room of the Public Library with the following members present Mr Geo F Bareis Col John W Harper Prof B F Prince Hon D J Ryan Secretary E O Randall and Mr E F Wood representing Mr S S Rickly Letters of regret on account of inability to attend were received from Mr W H Hunter Chillicothe Hon ...