... CHIEF LITTLE JIM GREAT-GRANDSON CHIEF LITTLE JIM GREAT-GRANDSON OF TECUMSEH In volume XXXIV of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly pages 143-153 appeared a contribution entitled Tecumseh and His Descendants gleaned from authentic records furnished by Thomas Wildcat Alford scholarly and cultured gentleman one of the great-grandsons of the famous chieftain Tecumseh born in Ohio and later one of the most intrepid and resourceful leaders of the confederate tribes in their campaigns ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS ennsylvania Agriculture and Country Life 1640-1840 By Stevenson Whitcomb Fletcher Harrisburg Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission 1950 xiv605p Paper 250 cloth 300 For two centuries prior to 1840 agriculture dominated the economic life f Pennsylvania and during much of that period the breadbasket of America was replenished from the abundant harvests of her fields In e years that followed 1840 the raising of wheat ceased to be the farmers' ainstay and the dairy ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Organizations CRESTLINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY Crestline Ernest G Hesser President The guest speaker for the April 28 meeting was Edward S Thomas curator of natural history of the Ohio Historical Society He spoke on the subject Outdoor Ohio in Natural Color and illustrated the talk with his own colored slides of landscapes birds wild flowers insects and other wild life The society plans a historical pilgrimage to Schoenbrunn and also a ...
... PROFESSOR EDWARD ORTON PROFESSOR EDWARD ORTON 1829-1899 A MEMORIAL ADDRESS BY WASHINGTON GLADDEN The genealogical history of The Orton Family in America a book of which Dr Edward Orton was the author begins with this paragraph The surname ORTON is neither a common nor an unusual one It is a name that could be heard without surprise in any community of English descent It occurs in the directories of many cities of the country and can probably be found in many towns of the United States that ...
... THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY AN ADDRESS BY BISHOP BENJAMIN WILLIAM ARNETT D D WEDNESDAY EVENING OCT 11 1899 AT MUSIC HALL CHICAGO We have been called together by the authorities of the Autumnal Festival Celebration First we are to give thanks for the achievements of the present century for the triumph of mind over matter as well as the success that has attended the labors of our workmen the harvest of our farmers and the dividends that have accrued to our financiers It is ...
... SURVEY OF THE SEVEN RANGES SURVEY OF THE SEVEN RANGES After the immigration into the Western Reserve of the advance columns of the Connecticut Land Company it was several years before the survey of the new Western Reserve Empire was completed The base lines of the survey were the western boundary of Pennsylvania as determined ten years before 1786 and the parallel 41 latitude north was now 1796 run for the first time and extending west from Pennsylvania 1 20 miles From this base line lines ...
... 344 Ohio Arch 344 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications PIONEER DAY At the close of a very imposing Pioneer and Industrial parade the people gathered at LaBelle park and on the beautiful lawns that terrace the immediate neighborhood at the intersection of Fourth street and LaBelle avenue in full view of the Ohio river and under the shade of hundreds of trees they crowded to listen to the addresses Hon J J Gill a descendant of an old and honorable Mt Pleasant family as chairman of the day ...
... WILLIAM CORLESS MILLS WILLIAM CORLESS MILLS IN MEMORIAM The founder of an institution of merit with an assured future is peculiarly fortunate Through the early years of its growth he may struggle onward with meager means to overcome indifference and more serious obstacles but when success at last crowns a life devoted to a worthy purpose when the founder lives to see his work recognized and on every side accorded the meed of praise the satisfaction of such a triumph is more gratifying than a ...
... MICHAL R MICHAL R BELKNAP The Fight for the Right to Counsel Too often the American bar has been as Adolf Berle once lamented an intellectual jobber and contractor rather than a moral force but there have been times when the bar has provided the country with highly principled and badly needed leadership1 In the early 1950s an era troubled by the anti-Communist excess known as McCarthyism many civil liberties and constitutional guarantees were in danger among them the right to counsel In order ...
... KATHLEEN A KATHLEEN A LAUGHLIN Sisterhood Inc The Status of Women Commission Movement and the Rise of Feminist Coalition Politics in Ohio 1964-1974 Phyllis Schlafly's STOP ERA organization campaigned vigorously against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment ERA in Ohio during the early 1970s Armed with loaves of bread tied with pink ribbons bus loads of STOP ERA supporters came to the state capitol in Columbus to lobby against the Amendment when the Ohio House of Representatives' State ...
... Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting 623 Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting 623 diers of Ohio who served in the World War also a similar resolution adopted October 18 1921' The approval of the State Architect has been secured to this partial construction Bids for the erection of this building are being opened at 1000 A M today Plans for the completed building and for that portion to be built at once are submitted for the inspection of the Society Studies for the proposed sculptural features of the front ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Anthony Wayne Trouble Shooter of the American Revolution By Harry Emerson Wildes New York Harcourt Brace and Co 1941 514 p Illus and maps 375 This volume is a biography written by one who knows intimately the Pennsylvania background of the famous Revolutionary hero The author was born in the neighboring state of Delaware holds a degree from the University of Pennsylvania and has served as literary editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger He moreover has lived for many ...
... Rutherford B Rutherford B Hayes and JOHN SHERMAN b y JEANNETTE PADDOCK NICHOLS At noon on Wednesday January 18 1893 the United States Senate convened and according to custom heard a brief opening prayer by the Chaplain When Dr J G Butler had finished the senior Senator from Ohio John Sherman addressed his colleagues Mr President it becomes my painful duty to announce to the Senate the death of Rutherford Birchard Hayes at his residence in Fremont Ohio last evening at 11 o'clock It was my good ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Kensington Stone A Mystery Solved By Erik Wahlgren Madison University of Wisconsin Press 1958 xiv228p illustrations bibliography and index 500 Few artifacts of American history have aroused as much interest as the Kensington stone This stone with its runic inscriptions supposedly discovered by a Minnesota farmer in 1898 has been the subject of several books by Hjalmar Holand No American scholar has taken the trouble to examine in detail the case which Holand has ...
... THE WRITING OF HISTORY IN OHIO 1935-1945 THE WRITING OF HISTORY IN OHIO 1935-1945 By FRANCIS P WEISENBURGER Ten years ago in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the organization of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society an endeavor was made by the present writer to summarize what had been accomplished in Ohio in the field of historical writing during that half century of the life of the Society 188519351 Now at the end of another decade it seems fitting to carry through the ...
... Negro Self-Improvement Negro Self-Improvement Efforts in Ante-Bellum Cincinnati 1836-1850 by Richard W Pih In recent years various historians particularly Leon F Litwack in his North of Slavery have focused on the speciousness of the North Star Legend of Yankee tolerance and benevolence toward the free Negro prior to the Civil War Numerous state studies on this subject have been made but work on the local urban level appears neglected Even though Carter G Woodson admirably pioneered an ...
... GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME LI GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME LI ABBREVIATION use of by Americans 106 American Colonization Soc Shunk Abolition and abolitionists 1837 in E W Ohio in Africa79-88 Ill 53 hinder Ohio in Africa American Journal of Dental Science 295 plan 87 American Journal of Dental Surgery 296 Academies in early Ohio 93 American Library Assoc 194 Accessions to Society's Library pamAmerican Medical Assoc 290 phlets periods and vols 216 American Medical Botany 313 Accommodations of travel in ...
... Index Index ABOLITIONISM The Southern Strategy of the Liberty Party by Stanley C Harrold Jr 21-36 books on rev 97-99 Academic freedom The 1951 Speaker's Rule at Ohio State by Steven P Gietschier 294-309 Action journal of the Ohio Farmer-Labor party 427 Adrian Michigan temperance crusade in 399 Aeschbacher WD book rev 463 Affairs of State Public Life in Nineteenth Century America by Morton Keller rev 102 Afro-American and the Second World War The by Neil A Wynn rev 111 Age of Urban Reform New ...
... 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 The French in the Mississippi Valley 17 401750 By Norman Ward Caldwell Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences Vol XXVI No 3 Urbana University of Illinois Press 1941 113p Map bibliography The author has used for this study the rich photostatic collection of documents relating to French and Indian affairs in the Illinois country made by the Illinois Historical Survey Most notable perhaps is his use of the expense bills of the western posts from the colonial records in ...