... 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 Marvin Mr M B Binning Mr O F Miller Mr O J Demuth Mr H M Povenmire Mr Jerry Dennis Mrs George D Reah Mrs ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Three Virginia Frontiers By Thomas P Abernethy University La Louisiana State University Press 194 0 96p 150 In recent years various historical writers including Louis Hacker Benjamin F Wright Jr Murray Kane and Fred A Shannon have challenged or minimized the importance of Frederick Jackson Turner's famous interpretation of the democratizing influence of the frontier upon American life and institutions Professor Abernethy's short volume is an additional contribution to ...
... FOLK MUSIC ON THE MIDWESTERN FRONTIER 1788-1825 FOLK MUSIC ON THE MIDWESTERN FRONTIER 1788-1825 by HARRY R STEVENS Duke University Since the days when Frederic L Ritter and Oscar G T Sonneck established modern musicology in the United States between 1883 and 1910 two simple but rigid traditions have dominated the writing of American musical history One is made up of the lives of composers and performers and descriptions of their work The second and more important one is the chronicle of ...
... COMMENTS NOTES AND REVIEWS COMMENTS NOTES AND REVIEWS OTHER STATE SOCIETIES During the month of August last the Editor of the Quarterly enjoyed a tour of visitation to many of the State Historical Societies of the Eastern and Middle states A stop of two or three days was made at Washington D C where arrangements were perfected with the Publication Department securing for our Library all government documents pertinent to the purposes and work of our Society We were greatly delighted with ...
... JOSEPH B JOSEPH B FORAKER AND THE STANDARD OIL CHARGES1 by EARL R BECK Instructor in History Ohio State University In 1908 Joseph Benson Foraker then serving his second term in the United States Senate was one of the outstanding figures in politics in the nation Foraker had won national notice for his aggressive uncompromising fight against the Hepburn Rate Bill of 1906 and for his strident attacks upon the executive action of President Theodore Roosevelt which led to the discharge without ...
... Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 585 Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 585 umes of which was completed some time ago is still passing through the press As originally planned this work was to have been completed in four volumes When the fourth volume was in type it was found that enough manuscript remained for a fifth volume This we learn from the printer is in type awaiting the index to the entire work Increased appropriations for the Publications of the Society were allowed by the last General Assembly ...
... BOOK BOOK REVIEWS THREE YEARS IN CHILE BY MRS GEORGE G MERWIN Edited with an introduction by C Harvey Gardiner Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press 1966 xviii102p 450 Not widely recognized for what it really is an interesting early Ohio book has been published as the fourth in a valuable series of Latin American Travel reprints The book is presented as a New York publication of Follett Foster amp Company in 1863 and the editor neither mentions the fact that it first came out two years ...
... Ohio Agriculture in History Ohio Agriculture in History By ROBERT LESLIE JONES The history of agriculture in Ohio is on the surface a subject prosaic enough Indeed only once and that long ago did it ever possess anything of the implausibly romantic Timothy Flint tells us that the New England settlers who came in the beginning to the lands of the Ohio Company were attracted not only by the unparalleled fertility of the soil but according to the wags of the day by springs of brandy and flax that ...
... THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTHE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN A CHANGING WORLD By JAMES H RODABAUGH These are critical times when every institution must look well within itself and ask Are we necessary Is our purpose worthy Do we contribute to the welfare of a people at war Have we fulfilled our social obligations Are our plans for the future well considered and in step with social transformations Reduced to its simplest terms the purpose of the Ohio State ...
... THE EXPLORATIONS OF THE EDWIN HARNESS THE EXPLORATIONS OF THE EDWIN HARNESS MOUND WILLIAM C MILLS The Edwin Harness Mound is the largest of the fourteen mounds which are located within the earthworks of the Harness groupl and in close proximity to them and it would equal in dimensions more than all the other mounds of this group combined and perhaps the largest mound in the Scioto Valley proper although not equal in size to the great Hopewell Mound located on the north fork of Paint Creek and ...
... JOHN F JOHN F SHINER The 1937 Steel Labor Dispute and the Ohio National Guard The spring and early summer of 1937 were troubled times in northeastern Ohio On May 25 in an effort to gain company recognition the Steel Workers Organization Committee SWOC of the newly created Congress of Industrial Organization CIO struck the plants of two of Ohio's major steel producers Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Both of these corporations had numerous mills in Trumbull Mahoning and Stark ...
... 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 ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS PUBLIC PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES LYNDON B JOHNSON Two Volumes Washington DC Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Service General Services Administration 1968 Vol 1 January 1 to June 30 1967 lix 670p A-78p index 875 Vol II July 1 to December 31 1967 liii p671-1228 A-78p index 800 In 1957 acting on a recommendation of the National Historical Publications Commission the Office of the Federal Register began work on a uniform ...
... DAVID TOD AND THE GUBERNATORIAL CAMPAIGN DAVID TOD AND THE GUBERNATORIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1844 by DELMER J TRESTER Historian Wright Air Development Center The sound of twenty-six cannon shots rolled across Columbus on the morning of January 8 1844 noisily signaling the beginning of a lively day in the capital At 9 o'clock the Columbus Guards met the Dayton Artillery east of the Scioto river just as the most splendidly beautiful brass piece of the Dayton Artillery sent forth several rounds In half ...
... EXPLORATION OF THE HOPEWELL GROUP OF EXPLORATION OF THE HOPEWELL GROUP OF PREHISTORIC EARTHWORKS PREFATORY The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society's examination of the Hopewell Group of Prehistoric Earthworks if set down in detail would more than fill the allotted space and yet such a report without some mention of two former partial explorations would lack much of being a complete story Moreover should anything like a full review of previous explorations be included the resultant ...
... Cleveland's Johnson First Term Cleveland's Johnson First Term By EUGENE C MURDOCK BACK IN THE EIGHTEEN FORTIE S a number of railroads had purchased from the city of Cleveland a strip of lakefront land one hundred and fifty feet wide between East Ninth Street and the Cuyahoga River In the decades that followed a valuable area of made land was built up on the lake side of the original strip The Union Depot erected in Civil War times and the adjacent railroad yards were located on this made land ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 87 But a recognition wider and even more highly prized was that written in the hearts of those who knew and loved him During his college days at Ithaca Mr Randall met Miss Mary A Coy the lady who later became his wife To her and their two sons and daughter we of the Kit-Kat Club offer our sympathy We too have suffered a grievous loss We knew his genial companionship his ready helpfulness and his continuing friendship His sterling scholarship his ...
... MARK PITCAVAGE MARK PITCAVAGE Burthened in Defence of our Rights Opposition to Military Service in Ohio During the War of 1812 The War of 1812 has long been famous as a war to which substantial opposition existed in the United States The nearness of the Congressional vote over the declaration of war the refusal of several New England states to provide militia for the invasion of Canada and the Hartford Convention in 1814 are all notable examples of the degree to which the nation divided over ...
... Fowke's Book Reviewed Fowke's Book Reviewed 143 which seem to be very real and very correct This should also be the case with the person who studies the earthworks of Ohio He should be so familiar with ancient Society as to make the monuments speak and interpret the works and relics so that they will be suggestive of the people who used them A negative criticism does not serve any good purpose Every writer should rise to a plane higher than the ordinary observer and should put into the works ...