... SIMEON PORTER OHIO ARCHITECT by ERIC JOHANNESEN Of the many carpenters and master builders who gave the Western Reserve villages in northern Ohio their characteristic look of colonial New England in the first decades of the nineteenth century only a handful are known today Similarly the architects of the great era of urban growth in the United States during the two decades before the Civil War are largely anonymous Yet a few known builders belonged to both periods and spanned the transition ...
... GENERAL KEIFER HONORED GENERAL KEIFER HONORED BY C B GALBREATH General Joseph Warren Keifer Ohio's grand old man celebrated the ninetieth anniversary of his birth on January 31 of this year On that day he received congratulations from men eminent in many walks of life The House of Representatives at Washington paused in its deliberations in honor of his services Tributes were spoken by Representatives Charles Brand of Urbana Ohio Martin B Madden of Illinois Chairman of the House Appropriations ...
... Think Kindly of Think Kindly of Us of the South A LETTER TO WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN edited by LEE N NEWCOMER The following letter to William Tecumseh Sherman dates from a short and almost forgotten era of United States history the few years following the Civil War in which the South thought well of General Sherman Southern liking for Sherman though short-lived was well-grounded in fact Before the war Sherman taught at what later became Louisiana State University he liked the southerners and ...
... The Black Hand The Black Hand 453 tablet that was as a guide to their faith and then put the hand on the rock pointing to the place of his burial THE MINGO CAPTIVE AND THE WYANDOT MAIDEN AND THE NEUTRAL GROUND H C COCHRAN An Indian sat at the door of a settler's cabin and told this story Many years ago the red men in the eastern part of the state were at war with those in the middle and northwestern part Chief among the former were the Mingos and among the latter the Wyandots In one of the ...
... PROFESSOR ROBERT WHITE McFARLAND'S PROFESSOR ROBERT WHITE McFARLAND'S HISTORY OF THE ASTRONOMICAL PIER AT MIAMI UNIVERSITY A recent issue of the Alumni News Letter of Miami University published the history of the Astronomical Pier at Miami University Oxford Ohio as it was written by Professor Robert White McFarland with a quill pen in 1904 and sent to Dr Clyde Fisher an alumnus of that institution and now curator of astronomy and visual instruction at the American Museum of Natural History New ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Historical Society is reprinting Scoouwa James Smith's Indian Captivity Narrative 595 the eighth edition of Colonel Smith's 1799 journal and the first annotated reprint in seventy years The journal Smith kept is an important document reflecting Indian-white relations in the late eighteenth century as well as struggles between colonists and representatives of the king William M Darlington's annotations from the 1870 edition are included with ...
... SUMNER -- BROOKS -- BURLINGAME SUMNER -- BROOKS -- BURLINGAME --or-- THE LAST OF THE GREAT CHALLENGES BY JAMES E CAMPBELL The purpose of this paper is to throw light upon one of the most famous of the many thrilling episodes which preceded the Civil War -- thereby reversing some accepted history to mark the finish of the long congressional quarrel between Massachusetts and South Carolina and incidentally to note the collapse of the Duello When the thirty-fourth Congress met on the third day of ...
... 392 Ohio Arch 392 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications and honor is not deserving of praise The historical data are heavily conclusively against Burr Burr was a man with the inordinate ambition of Bonaparte and equally unscrupulous cold blooded and selfish There was no sacrifice of friends or country or honor or truth or morality he would not make for self-gratification and self-glorification Burr was a born intriguer and was associated with Lee and Gates in their schemes against Washington ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Pony Wagon Town--Along U S 1890 By Ben Riker Indianapolis Bobbs-Merrill Co 1948 312p illustrations 350 This book is an account of the carriage-building trade in western Ohio in the last decade of the nineteenth century but by the author's own admission he has not been greatly interested in writing a social or economic document My concern has been chiefly to set down the facts of my father's achievements and the way in which he and his neighbors lived a number of very ...
... 326 Ohio Arch 326 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications main and spacious entrance to the campus of the Ohio State University A structure imposing and attractive in architectural form it is therefore the first of the many handsome buildings that dot and adorn the college grounds to greet the view not only of the visitors to the university but to all those who pass by on the chief thoroughfare of the capital city Certainly the trustees of the Ohio State University were generous when they ...
... SAMUEL J SAMUEL J TAMBURRO Frances Jennings Casement and the Equal Rights Association of Painesville Ohio The Fight for Women's Suffrage 1883-1889 The history of the national struggle for women's suffrage is well chronicled1 While the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 is generally accepted as the starting point of the campaign for women's voting rights women's civil and political rights advanced slowly Although several states granted women the right to vote in municipal and school elections only ...
... FLAT BOATING ON THE OHIO RIVER FLAT BOATING ON THE OHIO RIVER BY REV ISAAC F KING In the early settlement of Ohio the pack horse was first used on which to transport merchandise The American Indian left us no high-way for wheeled vehicles A wagon road is a thing he never made and if given to him he seldom used As soon as the white-faced Emigrant reached the Northwest territory he projected wagon roads to bring his goods and supplies from the East These roads were hard to make over the ...
... Report of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting 345 Report of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting 345 The bicentennial of the birth of George Washington was extensively celebrated within the past year An extended account of the pageant representing Washington's journey on the Ohio River in 1770 was published in the QUARTERLY for January 1933 The Ohio History Conference at a meeting here went on record in favor of the preparation of a check-list of newspapers Within the past year through the ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Indian Arts in North America By George C Vaillant New York and London Harper amp Brothers 1939 63p 96pl 500 This book is essentially a volume of plates illustrating the arts of the North American Indians Each of the ninety-six plates is a photograph of an actual specimen from either a prehistoric or historic Indian group The illustrations were selected with three factors in mind the tribal style the potential interest to a modern audience and the susceptibility of the ...
... THE CASE OF THE CASE OF Sara Lucy Bagby A LATE GESTURE by JOHN E VACHA Four southern states had seceded when John Goshorn and his son William S Goshorn set out from Wheeling Virginia for Cleveland Ohio in January of 1861 for the purpose of reclaiming Sara Lucy Bagby an escaped slave who had found temporary refuge doing domestic work in Cleveland Even though the nation was in the midst of its climactic crisis over the slavery issue the Goshorns planned to invoke the invidious Fugitive Slave law ...
... THE HERO THE HERO OF THE SANDY VALLEY JAMES A GARFIELD'S KENTUCKY CAMPAIGN OF 1861-1862 -- -- -- -- II by ALLAN PESKIN In the closing weeks of 1861 the customary quiet of the isolated Sandy Valley in eastern Kentucky was disturbed by a ragged column of Confederate soldiers which marched into the state from Virginia headed by an obese general with a famous Kentucky name Humphrey Marshall who vowed to free his state from the grip of northern tyranny Don Carlos Buell the Union commander in the ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 429 Reviews Notes and Comments 429 REV NATHANIEL BARRETT COULSON LOVE Rev Nathaniel Barrett Coulson Love was born in Rushville Ohio October 29 1830 He died at his home in Perrysburg Ohio December 29 1922 He had therefore passed his ninety-second birthday He was one of the pioneer ministers of Ohio His father William Love was Scotch-Irish his mother Susannah Force was of English and Scotch-Irish descent Rev Love was educated in the common schools and privately taught ...
... LANGSTROTH THE BEE MAN OF OXFORD LANGSTROTH THE BEE MAN OF OXFORD by OPHIA D SMITH A revolution in beekeeping began on a summer day in 1838 when Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth saw a large glass globe filled with honey on the parlor table of a friend He was so fascinated by the beautiful sight that he went with his friend to visit his bees in an attic chamber In a moment all the intense curiosity of his childhood and boyhood seemed to burst into full flame When he went home that evening he took ...
... 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 ...
... Report of the Forty-eighth Annual Meeting 307 Report of the Forty-eighth Annual Meeting 307 SOME EXPERIENCES IN MAKING A STATE HISTORICAL SURVEY By W D OVERMAN The Historical Survey now in progress in Pennsylvania was started in December 1933 and is under the direction of the State Archivist The survey was carried on as a state CWA project until March 29 1934 and since that time has been continued with a greatly reduced quota of workers as a project under the FERA At its inception the director ...