... ROBERT BUTLER ROBERT BUTLER Book Notes The Journal of Dr William Schooley Edited by George A Schooley Baltimore Gateway Press 1977 261p illustrations index As Dr Schooley noted his intention in writing this journal was not merely to record his life but at the same time to instruct Hence personal recollection is kept to a minimum a large part of the journal is composed of didactic letters and newspaper articles from the early nineteenth century by the liberal Quaker doctor Though he wrote ...
... WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS AND THE WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS AND THE ASHTABULA SENTINEL By EDWIN HARRISON CADY Few facts about the formative years of William Dean Howells are known except what the author himself left in the form of personal reminiscence Books such as A Boy's Town My Literary Passions My Year in a Log Cabin and Years of My Youth are mellow and interesting autobiography Mildred Howells' Life in Letters of her father contains a few early letters and two revealing photographs The amount of ...
... 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 ...
... SAMUEL FURMAN HUNT SAMUEL FURMAN HUNT CHARLES W HOFFMAN Under the dome of the church of St Paul in London lies its builder the great Christopher Wren on his tomb is the modest inscription Reader if you seek his monument look around The memory of Hunt will not be perpetuated like that of Wren in magnificent buildings beautiful in architecture and symmetrical in their proportions but it will endure for generations in that temple of respect and affection intangible yet real that he erected in the ...
... THE ZOAR SOCIETY APPLICANTS THE ZOAR SOCIETY APPLICANTS FOR MEMBERSHIP By EDGAR B NIXON The Society of Separatists of Zoar Ohio was one of the more successful of the many cooperative communities which appeared in this country during the last century Zoar was founded by German peasants and artisans who emigrated from Wurtemburg in 1817 to escape the civil and ecclesiastical persecution to which they had been subjected as members of the Separatist faith The Separatists were dissentients from the ...
... Book Notes Book Notes For the General Welfare Essays in Honor of Robert H Bremner Edited by Frank Annunziata Patrick D Reagan and Roy T Wortman New York Peter Lang 1989 xiv 390p notes This is a collection of articles published by historians who feel professionally indebted to their mentor Bob Bremner Professor Bremner while at The Ohio State University was indeed a unique scholar one who could at the same time devote himself to the classroom and teaching research and publishing and the ...
... THE PILLARS OF HARRISON COUNTY THE PILLARS OF HARRISON COUNTY BY JOSEPH T HARRISON There are three native pillars of stone in Harrison County Ohio which if their age is reckoned from the date when they first reared their heads above the surrounding landscape are older than Rome older than the Pyramids and older than the Sphinx itself They are located in the north central and southern parts of the county the first two on the tops of hills and the third well down from the top of the adjacent ...
... Minutes of the Meeting Minutes of the Meeting Of the Ohio Academy of History Columbus April 14 1956 The Ohio Academy of History held its spring meeting at the Ohio State Museum on Saturday April 14 1956 The morning session devoted to American history was conducted by Clarence P Gould of Youngstown College George W Knepper of the University of Akron presented a paper entitled Policemen or Protectors The British Standing Army in America 1760-1768 and Virginia B Platt of Bowling Green State ...
... MARIUS ROBINSON A FORGOTTEN ABOLITIONIST MARIUS ROBINSON A FORGOTTEN ABOLITIONIST LEADER By RUSSEL B NYE Marius Racine Robinson one of the more important figures of the antislavery movement in Ohio has been more or less lost from public view Neither the Dictionary of American Biography the National Cyclopaedia of Biography nor any of the standard biographical dictionaries list his name yet in the rise of abolitionism in Ohio he played a great part as agent editor organizer and propagandist -- ...
... DOCUMENTS DOCUMENTS EARLY OHIO POSTAL ROUTES by WILLIAM D O VERMAN Director Library and Archives Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Akron Ohio Editor's Note Considerable interest has been indicated in Dr Overman's article on Early Ohio Postal Routes published in the January-March 1946 issue of the Quarterly pp 21-29 Particularly philatelists who specialize in early stampless covers have expressed appreciation for the article It has been suggested that the publication of the postal routes ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOI XXVI No 1 JANUARY 1917 TARHE AND THE ZANES The Editor of the QUARTERLY has seen occasional references to the tradition or fact if it be the latter that Isaac Zane married a daughter of Tarhe the Crane Learning that General Robert P Kennedy was familiar with and an authority on this matter having gotten his information at first hand from members of the Zane family we wrote the General concerning the same and received the following reply which we regard worthy of ...
... THE The collection of manuscripts letters books and other items of literary and historical interest listed in this catalog was presented to the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society in memory of Dolores Cameron Venable by her husband Emerson Venable and her daughter Evelyn Venable THE DOLORES CAMERON VENABLE MEMORIAL COLLECTION Correspondence Boxes 2-16 Letters from William Henry Venable1 to Coates Kinney2 and from Coates Kinney to William Henry Venable 238 letters covering the ...
... ECHOES OUT OF THE PAST ECHOES OUT OF THE PAST BY CAROLINE M ZIMMERMAN The museum of the Clark County Ohio Historical Society houses many objects worthy of song or story many objects around which cluster a wealth of romantic lore fit to inspire a modern saga of great worth and beauty Of all these objets d'art there is doubtless none that carries a greater feminine appeal than a quaint little piano more than a century old the first in fact to have been brought into the county There it stands ...
... Ohio Valley Hist Ohio Valley Hist Ass'n Fifth Annual Meeting 119 of its officers which is confined to matters purely historical I congratulate the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania upon its wonderful opportunities It has a fertile field of operations hitherto but little cultivated it has enlisted an interest in its reorganization which is almost national it is surely destined to a prosperous and brilliant future THE RELATION OF NEW ENGLAND TO THE OHIO VALLEY BY CARL RUSSELL FISH PH D ...
... Brand Whitlock's Macochee Brand Whitlock's Macochee Puritan Theo-Politics in the Midwest By ABE C RAVITZ TO BE REGARDED as an American Hardy or an American Turgenev was a lifelong ambition of Brand Whitlock wellknown midwest political figure and diplomat who to his everlasting disappointment failed in his ambitious quest for such literary renown1 Held in high esteem however by political scientists and historians alike for his successful methods in the administration of local government and ...
... NEGRO RIGHTS AND WHITE BACKLASH IN THE CAMPAIGN OF 1920 by RANDOLPH C DOWNES I believe in equality before the law You can't give rights to the white man and deny them to the black man But while I stand for that great great principle I do not mean that the white man and the black man must be forced to associate together in the acceptance of their rights Harding address in Oklahoma City October 9 1920 as reported in The Daily Oklahoma October 10 1920 The greatest indignity suffered by Harding in ...
... DANIEL NELSON DANIEL NELSON The Great Goodyear Strike of 1936 It was the first CIO strike a stepping stone toward the automobile industry an affirmation of the potentialities of the sit-down strike a case study of rank and file militancy and a remarkable example of the effects of non-violent agitation' Its beginnings were obscure its consequences uncertain The circumstances in which the strike was carried on and the method used rather than the immediate causes or results made it a turning ...
... 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 ...
... AN EDDY IN THE WESTERN FLOW OF AMERICAN AN EDDY IN THE WESTERN FLOW OF AMERICAN CULTURE The History of Printing and Publishing in Oxford Ohio 1827-1841 By JESSE H SHERA 103 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It is I am well aware not customary to append to a study as brief as this a lengthy list of acknowledgments Nevertheless there are in this instance certain major obligations the public recognition of which I am convinced is not an act of supererogation Accordingly I would express my ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Missouri Valley History Conference will be held in Omaha Nebraska March 14-16 1991 For information concerning the meeting contact William C Pratt Program Coordinator MVHC University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha Nebraska 68182 The Oral History Association will hold its 1991 Annual Meeting on October 10-13 1991 at Snowbird near Salt Lake City Utah Proposals for papers panels and speakers particularly on such themes as women ethnic topics and the region of ...