... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY AUGUST 1953-JULY 1954 compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE KAATZ Martin R The Settlement of the Black Swamp of Northwestern Ohio Pioneer Days Northwest Ohio Quarterly XXV 1953 134-156 KAATZ Martin R The Settlement of the Black Swamp of Northwestern Ohio Later Days Northwest Ohio Quarterly XXV 1953 201-217 LIPP Frederick J The Home Place Being 150 Years of Ohio Farming Inside ...
... A New Home--Who'll Follow A New Home--Who'll Follow Letters of a New England Emigrant Family in Ohio 1831-1842 By CHARLES L SANFORD A dominant characteristic of the fifty-year period following the American Revolution was the rise of national self-consciousness reflected by patriotic experiments in literature in fine arts in science and in other areas of culture Cultural nationalism was whetted by the War of 1812 and by the end of the period had made its way into foreign policy with the Monroe ...
... School and Other Days 1859 School and Other Days 1859 Selections from the Diaries of Robert and Sylvester Bishop Edited by JOHN WEATHERFORD ROBERT WAS ELEVEN and Sylvester nine when they began their diaries in the Christmas season of 1858 They kept them with fair regularity during 1859 except for summer vacation Their father Robert Hamilton Bishop II encouraged journals among those of his twelve children who were the right age Professor of Latin at Miami University and son of its first ...
... THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY IN THE THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY IN THE WORLD WAR BY PROFESSOR WILBUR H SIEBERT THE UNIVERSITY'S CONNECTION WITH THE NATIONAL DEFENSE ACT In 1920 the War Records Committee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published a large and handsomely illustrated volume of nearly 750 pages entitled Technology's War Record In March 1922 the Harvard University Press issued the second volume of Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany which covers the period ...
... DIARY OF AARON MILLER DIARY OF AARON MILLER WRITTEN WHILE IN QUEST OF OHIO WHEAT LANDS Aaron Miller the author of the following diary was born in Louden County Virginia in 1784 died in Highland County Ohio in 1872 -- at the age of 88 years He had five brothers Moses Daniel Jesse Peter and Jacob all natives of Louden County Virginia In the spring of 1832 Aaron Miller together with his brother Daniel made the trip as narrated in the diary on horseback into Ohio for the purpose of seeking new ...
... GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER BY C B GALBREATH Grant Sherman and Sheridan This is the group of Civil War generals which is usually put forward as Ohio's unrivalled contribution to leadership in the great struggle between the North and the South These three have been honored with statues on the famous monument Ohio's Jewels at the northwest corner of the Capitol building of that State in Columbus Grant and Sherman were each born in Ohio and received their appointment to ...
... THE CLEVELAND CONFERENCE OF 1861 THE CLEVELAND CONFERENCE OF 1861 by WILLIAM B HESSELTINE Professor of History University of Wisconsin and HAZEL C WOLF Instructor in History Manual Training High School Peoria Illinois The outbreak of the Civil War found a nation completely unprepared for the conflict The federal government had neither plans for conducting the war nor an organizational structure for implementing the plans In the first few weeks after Fort Sumter chaos mingled with confusion ...
... 18 Ohio Arch 18 Ohio Arch and Hist Society P ublications Time like an ever-rolling stream Bears all its sons away They fly forgotten as a dream Dies at the opening day 0 God our help in ages past Our hope for years to come Be Thou our Guard while troubles last And our eternal home Thou who hearest prayer for Jesus' sake give ear to these our prayers and praises which we sum up in the words of our Lord Our Father Who art in heaven Hallowed be Thy name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done on earth ...
... FRUIT OF THE FRUIT OF THE RESTLESS SPIRIT OHIO'S CONFEDERATE GENERALS by CHARLES M CUMMINGS The restlessness and constant mobility of the American have impressed a legion of students before and since de Tocqueville1 and to these factors much has been attributed in the story of the nation's development Generally interpreters have turned their inquiries westward in the direction taken by the bulk of the emigrants Less attention has been given to an offshoot the strong North-to-South movement of ...
... THE OPENING SCENES OF THE REBELLION THE OPENING SCENES OF THE REBELLION BY COLONEL S K DONAVIN In the spring of 1861 I was a reporter and traveling correspondent on the Daily Exchange newspaper of the City of Baltimore When the telegraph announced that Mr Lincoln had reached Pittsburg en route for Washington City to be inaugurated President of the United States I left Baltimore by the Northern Central Railway for the purpose of meeting him and noting the incidents of his journey When I reached ...
... GENERAL EDWARD S GENERAL EDWARD S GODFREY By HON CALVIN POMEROY GODFREY It sadly befalls one this week as of April fifteenth to record in fidelity the demise of a noble man Putnam County's greatest military figure another of the distinguished martial sons of Ohio--Brigadier General Edward S Godfrey USA Retired That mortal and painless end of a quite meritorious and notable career occurred at the home in Cookstown Burlington County New Jersey at seven o'clock the evening of Friday April 1 1932 ...
... Fremont in History Fremont in History 49 FREMONT IN HISTORY BY JULIA M HAYNES The Sandusky country in aboriginal history possesses a peculiar charm and fascinating interest During that period of years which fills western annals with the story of intrigue and bloody conflict the plains and prairies of the Sandusky valley were the home of the most powerful and most generous of the savage nations Less than a century ago these plains now covered by a thriving city presented an interesting variety ...
... 72 Ohio Arch 72 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications vindication of national honor and the only certain protection of vital interests is in respecting the nationality of others and in trusting for justice to the growing conscience of the race codified in international law and expressing itself through international arbitration On that as on a sure foundation rests the hope of the world's peace Once men dreamed of peace through the world sovereignty of some master mind like Alexander or some ...
... GENERAL WILLIAM HULL AND HIS CRITICS GENERAL WILLIAM HULL AND HIS CRITICS By M M QUAIFE The Detroit campaign of 1 812 lasted in all but little over two months June 10-August 16 a century and a quarter has passed since its conclusion during which General William Hull's countrymen have continued to load upon him the heavy measure of condemnation which was meted out to him by his contemporary associates and critics This attitude has been perpetuated by three generations of historians most of whom ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Western Reserve Historical Society is sponsoring a Bicentennial Conference of American Genealogy and Family History August 8-12 1976 The conference will center on the people and records of the American Revolution migrations to and within the United States following the Revolution the preparation and printing or publishing of genealogical material and the nature and use of some major genealogical collections and family history studies in American ...
... WILLIAM M WILLIAM M DONNELLY Disappointments and Distresses The 37th Infantry Division During the Korean War The Ohio National Guard's 37th Buckeye Infantry Division had a short and unhappy Korean War A division with a proud record in two world wars it did not enter Federal service until early 1952 and it never deployed overseas Indeed by the end of the war in July 1953 the 37th had ceased to exist both as an Ohio National Guard division and as a tactical unit To provide individual ...
... 432 Ohio Arch 432 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications FIFTH SESSION At the Saturday afternoon session under the direction of Professor A E Morse of Marietta College the following papers were read and at the conclusion the members of the Association extended a most hearty vote of thanks to the President and officers of instruction of Marietta College where the meetings were held and to the people of the city of Marietta whose thoughtful care and attention had resulted in so successful a ...
... FORTS MIAMI AND FORT INDUSTRY FORTS MIAMI AND FORT INDUSTRY With Mention of Other Forts in and Near the Maumee River Basin BY CHARLES E SLOCUM M D PH D DEFIANCE OHIO There were at least five forts or stockades of defense in the Territory Northwest of the Ohio River in its earlier history that were called Fort Miami namely 1 The first one was built in November 1679 by ReneRobert Cavelier Sieur de la Salle by the River St Joseph of Lake Michigan on rising ground near its mouth Parkman's La Salle ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA BY BERTHA E JOSEPHSON The effort to catalog the manuscript collections in this department thoroughly according to the unit card method has proceeded slowly with the following collections now completed MANUSCRIPT CATALOG ABB TO CAMP 1 Abbott Mary--Scrapbook Mechanicsburg O--1889 Miscellaneous collection of short stories and poems from newspapers and magazines 1914--4 2 Abstractor's Records--Property Titles Columbus O-- 1840's to 1870's Will of Henry Patch etc ...
... 52 Ohio Arch 52 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The name Croghansville for the village was probably first suggested by Josiah Meigs Commissioner of the General Land Office in a letter from Washington City April 12 1816 in which among other words are these If it were left to me to name the town at Lower Sandusky I should name it in honor of the gallant youth Col Croghan -and should say it should be Croghansville The name is still preserved in that of the school on the hill on the East ...