... EXCAVATION OF THE COON MOUND AND AN EXCAVATION OF THE COON MOUND AND AN ANALYSIS OF THE ADENA CULTURE E F GREENMAN CURATOR OF ARCHAEOLOGY EXCAVATION OF THE COON MOUND AND AN EXCAVATION OF THE COON MOUND AND AN ANALYSIS OF THE ADENA CULTURE TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Introductory Note 369 General Features of the Coon Mound 370 Contents of the Mound 375 The Burial 375 The Tomb 379 The Gravel Circle 387 The Horizontal Log-Molds 392 The Passage 397 Reconstruction 4 00 Conclusion 408 The Adena ...
... THE POSSIBLE CULTURAL AFFILIATION OF THE POSSIBLE CULTURAL AFFILIATION OF FLINT DISK CACHES By H HOLMES ELLIS Over a period of some seventy-five years archaeological publications have carried occasional references to finds of unused circular or ovoid flat roughly-chipped blanks of flint buried in what have been termed ceremonial or storage caches The Lithic Laboratory for the Eastern United States at the Museum of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society has been able to locate by ...
... TWO PREHISTORIC VILLAGES NEAR CLEVELAND TWO PREHISTORIC VILLAGES NEAR CLEVELAND OHIO By EMERSON F GREENMAN Foreword During the field season of 1930 four sites in northern Ohio were excavated for the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society The two forming the subject of this paper were on the Cuyahoga River six and seven miles south of the Public Square of the city of Cleveland Excavations were under the direction of the writer and Mr Robert Goslin field assistant Tuttle Hill was ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue DONALD D SHIRA MD Columbus Ohio is Assistant Director of the Ohio Public Health Association FREDERICK C WAITE PhD Dover N H was before his recent retirement Professor of Histologic Anatomy at the Western Reserve University School of Medicine LUCY STONE HERTZOG MD Chardon Ohio is Vice-president of the American Institute of Homeopathy HOWARD D ITTRICK MD Cleveland Ohio is Curator of the Museum of Historical and Cultural Medicine and Editor of Current ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries A number of scholarly meetings of interest to Ohio History readers will be held in April The Ohio Academy of History holds its annual spring meeting April 28-29 at the Fawcett Center for Tomorrow on the Ohio State University campus Ashland College hosts the regional-state meeting of the history honorary society Phi Alpha Theta on April 22 and a week later on April 29 the Ohio Academy of Medical History holds its annual meeting at the Howard Dittrick Museum ...
... COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS THE CIVIL WAR LITHOGRAPHS OF ALFRED EDWARD MATHEWS by ELIZABETH R MARTIN THE CIVIL WAR lithographs of the Ohioan THE CIVIL WAR lithographs of the Ohioan Alfred Edward Mathews in the Ohio Historical Society collections are representative of the contribution made by the soldier artist to the pictorial record of the Civil War No war before or since has been so fully portrayed by amateurs and professionals in the art media of its time--oil water color ...
... 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 ...
... The Ohio Canal Movement 1820-1825 The Ohio Canal Movement 1820-1825 By HARRY N SCHEIBER NO SINGLE ACT of the Ohio General Assembly prior to the Civil War had so profound an effect upon the state's economic development as did the bill of February 4 1825 by which construction of the state's canal system was first authorized On the eve of the bill's passage Alfred Kelley one of its eading exponents sought to explain to De Witt Clinton of New York the reasons why the Ohio legislature had agreed to ...
... BRUCE A BRUCE A ROSENBERG Another Look at George Armstrong Custer Cu st er in the Civil War His Unfinished Memoirs Compiled and edited by John M Carroll San Rafael CA Presidio Press 1977 233p illustrations bibliographic checklist index 2750 Centennial Campaign The Sioux War of 1876 By John S Gray Fort Collins CO The Old Army Press 1976 392p bibliography maps index 2000 Lie in Custer's Ca valr Diaries and Letters of Albert and Jennie Barnitz 1867-1868 Edited by Robert M Utley New Haven Yale ...
... McKINLEY MONUMENT McKINLEY MONUMENT DEDICATED SEPTEMBER 30 1907 Soon after the tragic death of President William McKinley many leading citizens of the nation such as Senator Hanna Justice Day Governor Herrick Hon George B Cortelyou and other prominent state and national officials united in the organization of The McKinley National Memorial Association The purpose was the erection at Canton Ohio of a monument suitable to the memory of the beloved and noble President Subscriptions poured in from ...
... THE OHIO ROAD EXPERIMENT 1913-1916 by WAYNE E FULLER In December 1914 the Signal a Zanesville Ohio newspaper carried a story captioned Jacob Johnson of the West Pike Died Thursday The story was interesting not because Jacob Johnson was renowned but because he was at the time of his death eighty-seven years old and had lived his entire life west of Zanesville near the famous highway which the American people knew as the old National Road but which the people of Zanesville called the West Pike ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABBOTT Grace 107 10 8 112 117 134 Abolitionism Newspapers in Battle The Dayton Empire and the Dayton Journal During the Civil War by Carl M Becker 29-50 Towards a National Antislavery Party The Giddings-Sumner Alliance by Beverly Wilson Palmer 51-71 Accidents of pregnancy 119-120 Action 40 Adams Charles Francis 56 66 Adams John Quincy 54-55 58 60 61 Administration Division Ohio State Department of Health 114 Agricultural Extension Service OSU 127 Alexander ...
... CHARLES BURLEIGH GALBREATH CHARLES BURLEIGH GALBREATH BY HENRY C SHETRONE Charles Burleigh Galbreath--1858-1934 A simple statement this of itself but on second thought it becomes much more than a mere epitaph For a human life to span three-quarters of a century is sufficiently unusual but when the life of a Charles Burleigh Galbreath parallels the most remarkable threequarter century period the world has known the result is epochal Time of itself like an unheard sound in the wilderness means ...
... GENERAL EDWARD ORTON JR GENERAL EDWARD ORTON JR In 1865 Dr Edward Orton and his family came to Yellow Springs Ohio where he had accepted the position of Professor of Natural History in Antioch College From that date until the year 1932 a period of sixty-seven years the name Edward Orton has become widely known in Ohio and has stood for worthy effort and eminent achievement None has continuously and longer held a more honorable place in the public esteem and in the educational scientific and ...
... 132 Ohio Arch 132 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications Mrs Bishop sang again Her glorious voice was heard first in Handel's I Know That My Redeemer Liveth and then in Comin' Thro' the Rye THESE ARE MY JEWELS Hon Emmett Thompkins Congressman-elect from the 12th Ohio District Columbus delivered an address replete with most interesting historical and statistical information Out of the days devoted to the exposition of the arts and the products of the two Americas this one is dedicated to Ohio ...
... FINNEY'S FIGHT AGAINST THE MASONS FINNEY'S FIGHT AGAINST THE MASONS by CHARLES C COLE JR Assistant Dean Columbia College Columbia University Mention antimasonry and the historian and scholar think immediately of the famous Morgan affair of 1826 The story of the abduction of William Morgan a bricklayer of Batavia New York after he had published a book revealing the secrets of Freemasonry is a familiar one in American history The resultant wave of ill-feeling against Masons which culminated in ...
... FISH-HOOKS FOUND AT THE BAUM VILLAGE SITE FISH-HOOKS FOUND AT THE BAUM VILLAGE SITE A COMPARISON WITH THOSE FOUND AT MADISONVILLE AND OTHER PARTS OF THE STATE BY W C MILLS The Baum Prehistoric Village Site is situated in the western part of Ross County Ohio near the small village of Bournville and is located upon one of the gravel terraces in the valley of Paint Creek For two years during the months of July and August the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society has been exploring in ...
... Dedication of the Hayes Memorial Dedication of the Hayes Memorial 4 39 ask each and every one of you to register here on this consecrated spot a solemn vow to preserve this nation forever and forever to the American - peaceably if we can forcibly if we must but for America America forever and forever Mr Charles R Williams of Princeton biographer of Rutherford Birchard Hayes then delivered the following address ADDRESS OF CHARLES R WILLIAMS We are met today to signalize the formal dedication of ...
... JOHN SHERMAN JOHN SHERMAN GEORGE U HARN Mr Harn is a native Ohioan having been born at Wooster where he was trained in the printing and journalistic profession When a mere lad he became the Columbus correspondent for the Cincinnati TimesChronicle now the Times-Star Later he became one of the owners of the Mansfield Herald with the business and editorial control of which he was connected for many years Under President McKinley Mr Harn was agent of the United States Internal Revenue Commission ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Organized for Prohibition A New History of the Anti-Saloon League By K Austin Kerr New Haven Yale University Press 1985 xvii 293p illustrations notes note on sources index 2500 The vineyards of temperance history have been well worked Since its organized beginnings in the 1820s temperance reform has appealed to countless thousands of Americans old and young female and male wealthy and poor liberal and conservative Consequently the movement has had a diversity a ...