... settlements from watercourses settlements in Indiana during settlement other Owenite groups attempted to continue their experiments in social reform in Ohio at Nevillsville Macluria Yellow Springs and Kendall Ohio War History Commission ...
... M M PAUL HOLSINGER Timothy Walker Blackstone For the New Republic In the generation before the Civil War few persons within the state of Ohio were as nationally renowned as Timothy Walker of Cincinnati During the so-called Golden Age of American Law between 1820 and 1860 Walker from his adopted home on the banks of the Ohio River wrote probably the most widely read legal treatise of ...
... northwestern Pennsylvania--a region dear to the heart of evangelists seeking crowded revival meetings and eager amenable converts Kirtland and the Western Reserve area was not entirely insulated from the electric tensions passing through these neighboring regions One Sidney Rigdon a frontier orator of the first rank was thundering Campbellite doctrines up and down the Mahoning Valley In addition to the ideas of salvation in the next world ...
... Life was hard and toilsome in the early years of Ohio statehood for those souls who left warm eastern firesides and crossed the Alleghenies into the new western land In the first years of their settling long hours of work and the necessities of bare existence left little time for correspondence with family and friends The letters that have been preserved show the writers to be unusually literate for the time and place and they take on added ...
... THE ARKANSAS TRAVELLER THE ARKANSAS TRAVELLER By THOMAS WILSON U S NATIONAL MUSEUM WASHINGTON D C Some years of my teens were passed in the town of Salem Columbiana county Ohio This was before any railroads passed through that country I remember the first meeting of citizens ever held there under the direction of Mr Zadok Street for the purpose of securing subscriptions of money or right-of-way for the construction of what was then to be the ...
... BENJAMIN D BENJAMIN D RHODES An Ohio Kitchen Inspector and the Soviet Famine of 1921-1922 The Russian Odyssey of Henry C Wolfe Persistence paid off for Henry C Wolfe of Coshocton Ohio when he sought a job as a relief worker in Russia during the famine of 1921-1922 Wolfe eventually was to become internationally known as a writer and lecturer on foreign affairs one of his claims to fame was ...
... settlement beyond the settlement of the western country After the more adventureous and less content had moved on Kentuckians settled down to the serious business of developing the best horses the best whiskey the best food and the most beautiful women--all this while the rest of the country bothered itself with such things as railroads and manifest destiny This of course was illustrative of ...
... 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 ...
... settlements at Marietta the settlement and this study was settlements and immigration to Ohio from the East or Kentucky when land was cheaper than it was in the more-developed areas of Virginia's frontier Camp meeting revivalists clergy and lay moved to
... DR DR WILLIAM A GALLOWAY Dr William A Galloway a life member of the Archaeological and Historical Society a scholarly gentleman long interested in the local history of his section of the State a public-spirited citizen and prominent physician died at his home in Xenia early in the afternoon of November 7 1931 He had been ill for almost a year as a result of ptomaine poisoning which left him with a weakened heart He seemed to rally from the attack in the early autumn This buoyed the hopes of ...
... settlement on the continent settlement a dance was got up if possible which all the boatmen would attend14 The music of the boatmen is not entirely unknown One pioneer mentioned Blue Bells of Scotland and Virginia reels15 and another describing his visit with Thomas Kennedy the Cincinnati ferryman wrote Before we had finished our breakfast Mr Kennedy drew a fiddle from a box and struck up ...
... northwest from sea to sea including all of the five states that were to become the Northwest Territory Virginia was the last of several states to accept a more modest definition of its western boundary and the Articles were finally ratified in 1781 The Confederation's financial problems continued however since an amendment to give the central government financial support failed for lack of ...
... THE BIRTHPLACE OF PRESIDENT HAYES THE BIRTHPLACE OF PRESIDENT HAYES A STUDY IN ORAL TRADITION by C E VAN SICKLE Professor of History Ohio Wesleyan University and JAMES T MAY The people of Delaware Ohio have long pointed with pride to the fact that their city is the birthplace of President Rutherford B Hayes A Delaware tradition so old that no one now living seems to remember anything about ...
... NEWS and NOTES SEVERAL LANDMARKS in American history which are of importance to Ohio historiography and which were published many years ago have been reprinted in a series called American Classics in Political Economic and Literary History being issued by Frederick Ungar Publishing Co Inc of New York They are My Autobiography by S S McClure The Acquisition of Political Social and Industrial Rights of Man in America by John Bach McMaster The ...
... SOME OHIO ASPECTS OF MILITARY NURSING 1861-1945 SOME OHIO ASPECTS OF MILITARY NURSING 1861-1945 by MARY JANE RODABAUGH Managing Editor Ohio Nurses Review The history of modern nursing in the United States has its beginnings in the Civil War At the outbreak of the Civil War there was no group of trained nurses in the United States but after ...
... GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME L GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME L Aberdeen O 118 American Periodical Literature Index Abolitionists 262 to Early 316 Aboriginal Man 141-4 American Philosophical Society336 Ackley Horace 340 American Public Health Association Adams Co250 365 382 Adams John 58 American Republicans 20 Adams John Quincy 21 American Revolution 4 17 25 31 33 Adams Randolph G12 47 99 36 37 44 60 66 71 72 74 85 86 87 Adams Samuel 186 88 244 274 Adena Mounds 203 American State Papers 317 Adena Plain ...
... WILLIAM THOMAS MATHEWS WILLIAM THOMAS MATHEWS The following sketch of William T Mathews one of the most distinguished painters of our state and generation was prepared by his brother Major Charles H Mathews New Philadelphia Ohio and is a sympathetic tribute to the memory of the notable citizen who was known as the Buckeye ArtistEDITOR William T Mathews bachelor artist was a resident of Washington D C for ten or fifteen years previous to his ...
... settlement by English settlement of Jamestown 1 60 7 the all-important enterprise naturally was the securing of wealth After sending a ship-load of mica-bearing sand to England only to find it worthless the colonists decided that gold must be secured if at all in a less direct manner And so they turned to tobacco The beginning of tobacco cultivation on a commercial scale is popularly ...
... settlement than you are now23 Instead of a full-scale invasion of the South Scott advised McClellan it was his intention that the government would impose a complete blockade of the Atlantic and Gulf ports combined with a powerful movement down the Mississippi to the ocean with a cordon of posts at proper points to envelop the insurgent States The movement on the Mississippi in which he advised McClellan it is not improbable you may be invited ...
... 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 ...