... THE REFORM MOVEMENT IN OHIO AT THE TURN THE REFORM MOVEMENT IN OHIO AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY By JAME S H RODABAUGH The end of the nineteenth century in a very real sense sounded the knell of the frontier or pioneer period of American development and opened the doors upon a new era in which industrialization and its concomitant social and economic reorganization and readjustments and ...
... THE WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY THE WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY By ELBERT J BENTON As the Western Reserve Historical Society has passed the three score and ten commonly allotted as the span of human life having recently celebrated its seventy-fifth birthday it would seem to have attained a respectable age The record however shows that there are twenty-two historical societies in the United States which were founded more than one hundred years ago One who is familiar with the ...
... KENNETH W KENNETH W ROSE John D Rockefeller's Philanthropy and Problems in Fundraising at Cleveland's Floating Bethel Mission and the Home for Aged Colored People In discussing attempts to organize charity and philanthropy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries historians have devoted much attention to the institutions being organized-to the charity organization societies to philanthropic clearing houses or to the new foundations created by such wealthy public-spirited citizens ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Organizations ANTHONY WAYNE PARKWAY BOARD Columbus J Richard Lawwill Director In the past few months the Anthony Wayne Parkway Board has partic ipated in the dedication of several markers in the parkway district On June 21 a marker sponsored by the local businessmen's association and the Amer ican Legion post was dedicated at Fort Loramie Shelby County It describe the Miami and Erie Canal and the Greene Ville Treaty line which cross at that point J ...
... Slavery and the Ohio Circuit Rider Slavery and the Ohio Circuit Rider By PAUL H BOASE There can be no doubt about John Wesley's hatred of slavery Both the trade and practice were condemned as the execrable sum of all villainies and if ranked in order of precedence few if any sins surpassed the buying and selling the bodies and souls of men women and children with the intention to enslave ...
... 246 Ohio Arch 246 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Mississippi Their bones are heaped in trenches where the leaden hail fell thickest and bleach unfound in prison pens where ghastly famine stalked The turbulent waves of the Atlantic and the tepid waters of the Gulf flow over the iron ships in which they are forever coffined They are the Unknown Dead -peace to their ashes These ...
... Cleveland's Johnson The Cabinet Cleveland's Johnson The Cabinet By EUGENE C MURDOC K Anyone who studies the life of Tom L Johnson always is impressed by the close ties of love and loyalty that bound his co-workers to him Even stout enemies conceded that Johnson had a compelling personal appeal Tempestuous Charles A Otis Jr who spent over a million dollars trying to unseat the mayor recalls Johnson's thrilling personableness You couldn't know him without liking him Otis observed William R ...
... settlement of differences with settlement Reliable statistics settlement of the property settlement of Germans did not settlement movements and financial and economic histories as well as from a variety of special analyses like Gordon ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 591 Reviews Notes and Comments 591 THE DUNMORE TREATY In the hope that some trace might be discovered of the Dunmore Treaty to which references were made in the meeting of the McGuffey Society at the Logan Elm an account of which is published in this issue Governor James E Campbell President of the Society on August 3 addressed a letter to the American Ambassador at London England to which he has received the following answer DEAR SIRI have been instructed by the ...
... settlement came to be called Locke's Mills Here young John grew up and received his early schooling which was supplemented by the varied assortment of books that his father's library offered As the community prospered a Methodist Meet i ng House and other establishments were added For all of his skill as a machine builder in a young country hungry for machines the senior Locke found time to teach handicrafts mathematics and some languages to ...
... settlements in the forests of the west It will not only be a tribute to those who perished on that January day over a century ago but it will be an ever present testimonial of the opportune thoughtfulness and the generosity of the man who has erected it OHIO IN THE CHINESE UPRISING We have been frequently asked the question whether it be true as often reported in the public press that the ...
... 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 ...
... settlements the author bases settlements of southwestern settlement to checkmate the settlement This reader missed the sights and sounds and smells of the Ohio woods and the brawling sinning raw humor religious revivals and other ...
... THE REPORT OF THE FORTY-SEVENTH THE REPORT OF THE FORTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MORNING SESSION The annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society convened at 10 o'clock a m Tuesday April 25 1933 in the auditorium of the Museum and Library Building of the Society There were present Miss Helen Bareis Mrs George U ...
... settlements in Kentucky were 1 settlements frontier economy transportation domestic and community life and religion The value of the work is enhanced by more than 125 maps and illustrations and a bibliographic essay of 42 pages The latter was prepared not merely to indicate sources of information used by the authors but to assist those who may be desirous of doing further work in the field ...
... ROGER D ROGER D BRIDGES John Sherman and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson In Irving Brant's recent study of the impeachment process by the United States Congress he characterized the Radical Republican attempt to remove Andrew Johnson from the presidency in 1868 as the most insidious assault on constitutional government in the nation's history It was Brant charged carried on in direct violation of the limitations deliberately placed in the Constitution to prevent such a happening If it had ...
... THEBATTLE OF PICARDY THEBATTLE OF PICARDY HEROIC SERVICE OF THREE OHIO SOLDIERS In an article of absorbing interest Frank H Simonds in the Review of Reviews for March 1920 describes the great German offensive which began March 21 1918 The Germans called this the Kaiser's Battle the English have named it the Second Battle of the Somme but it will probably be more generally and permanently known as the Battle of Picardy In the number of men ...
... settlement two were semiofficial in nature two were on religious subjects two fraternal one was a partisan political address one a book of poetry and one the constitution of the Cincinnati Humane Society The volume grew from year to year until the cumulative total reached 118 by 1810 287 by 1815 and 590 by 182 0 Cincinnati led in the latter year with 143 of the total to that date Chillicothe came next with 121 and then Columbus 58 Zanesville ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR DR THOMAS CORWIN MENDENHALL Dr Thomas Corwin Mendenhall died at his home in Ravenna Saturday March 22 He was a member of the first faculty of the Ohio State University and a life member of the
... LETTERS OF THOMAS BUCHANAN READ LETTERS OF THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Edited by ALICE E SMITH Thomas Buchanan Read was less than twenty years old when he wrote the letters printed below yet he had experienced many and strange adventures At the age of fourteen he had rebelled at the life of a tailor's apprentice and escaped to Philadelphia Here for a time he had clerked in a cellar grocery then served as apprentice to a cigar maker and finally made his way on a flatboat to Cincinnati For three years ...