... 668 ' Index 668 ' Index Trimble Rachel donation to Museum Westerville 272 535 Williams Charles R Prof edits Trustees Society's 551 Hayes diaries 518 Tuscarawas County 516 531 Willoughby C C visits Serpent Mound Tuttle Judson Asiatic butterfly collec534 tion 535 U Wilmington 535 Wilson J A interest in Logan monuUpper Sandusky Indian Mission at 535 ment 518 546 547 W Wilson Woodrow autograph-photograph 537 Wagner R E 537 Wittenberg College 536 Walker William 511 W a ll W D 9' 21Wittke Carl 5 38 ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS HISTORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ORAGNIZATION IN THE NORTHWEST 1824-184 0 BY HOMER J WEBSTER PH D Department of History University of Pittsburgh NOTE In the preparation of this work the writer has received very helpful suggestions from Professor Frederic L Paxson of the University of Wisconsin while in every part of the work he has received invaluable assistance from his wife-Edith Francisco Webster To both of these he desires to express here ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 655 Forty-First Annual Meeting 655 of the Museum and Library Building together with all the addresses and a number of illustrations To this has been added a brief history of the Society by the Secretary It is intended to use this material in part in an intensive campaign for an increase in the membership of the Society The fifth and final volume of the Diary and Letters of Rutherford B Hayes is now in type and will soon be ready for distribution There is an ...
... Elias Loomis and the Loomis Observatory Elias Loomis and the Loomis Observatory By BONNIE S STADELMAN ON APRIL 14 1836 the trustees of Western Reserve College in Hudson Ohio made some very significant decisions Their meeting opened with prayer as usual and eventually the discussion turned to the vacancy in the mathematics and natural philosophy department The Rev Jarvis Gregg had been filling this position but he was appointed to the chair of sacred rhetoric making it necessary to appoint a ...
... Lincoln and His Ohio Friends Lincoln and His Ohio Friends By FRANCIS P WEISENBURGER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE VIEWPOINTS which helped to mold the political career of Abraham Lincoln1 a major influence was Joshua R Giddings antislavery congressman 1838-59 from Jefferson Ohio2 Over a period of years Lincoln and his Springfield Illinois law partner William Henry Herndon read abolitionist literature together and Lincoln became a careful student of Giddings' speeches3 Professor Elbert J Benton has ...
... AN EXAMPLE OF POLITICAL ORATORY IN AN EXAMPLE OF POLITICAL ORATORY IN 1855 BY MRS ARTHUR G BEACH Mr Albert Beveridge has painted a vivid picture of the decade 1850-1860 as a background to his study of Abraham Lincoln There have been preserved at Marietta Ohio a border town some letters and papers written during those years by a student at Marietta College Search through them brought to light an account of one of the stump speeches of Mr Henry A Wise of Virginia which furnishes evidence that ...
... 96 Ohio Arch 96 Ohio A rch a nd Hist Society Publications A YOUTHFUL HISTORIAN Sometime before the holidays 1907 The Daily News of Springfield Ohio offered three prizes for the best three essays on some local historical subject essays to be written by the pupils of the public schools and to be confined to one thousand words each The judges selected as the awarding committee were Prof B F Prince professor in history in Wittenberg College ex-President Clark County Historical Society and for many ...
... medicines Not listed either in title or subtitles was an offering that would have astounded many a pioneering fundamentalist that of organic evolution What Hart's reaction to Darwin's progressive thinking could have been we will probably never know Yet had he read his Darwin with care he could hardly have overlooked the concept Coldly however he merely listed this pioneer eye opener as Zoonamia two volumes valued at 40014 The interests of ...
... DAVID G DAVID G THOMPSON Ohio's Best The Mobilization of the Fourth Infantry Ohio National Guard in 1917 In World War I the United States created and sent to France a massive army which effectively turned the tide of the conflict against Germany Although the American forces were built up from an indispensable cadre of Regular US Army troops and professional officers the National Guard also played an important part Two of the first four American divisions to reach France in 1917 and eventually ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Territorial Papers of the United States Compiled and edited by Clarence Edwin Carter Washington United States Government Printing Office 1934 Vol I preliminary printing 15 V ol s II and III 200 each Of the projected volumes of this monumental work the ones now published are especially important to those interested in the history of Ohio The series deals with certain western tracts of land which were governed by Congress and the National Executive as colonies or ...
... Liedel Summer-Autumn 2003 pp 68-86 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2003 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Property and Power Women Religious Defend Their Rights in Nineteenth-Century Cleveland By Leslie Liedel During the first half of the nineteenth century Catholics fought over concerns of power and authority in the local church that often appeared in debates addressing the ownership of church property In the early history of American Catholicism church ...
... TOM L TOM L JOHNSON by ROBERT H BREMNER Instructor in History Ohio State University In 1901 the voters of Cleveland Ohio chose as their mayor a resourceful and unconventional man newly retired from a successful business career who was the best known American follower of Henry George Tom L Johnson remained in office for eight exciting and enlightening years Born in 1854 into an aristocratic southern family which was impoverished during the Civil War Johnson had to go to work while still a child ...
... 260 Ohio Arch 260 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications believing that the people should be accommodated The well is not quite finished The number of people who visit the fort on the Sabbath day runs from 1500 to 2000 Even on last Sabbath dark and gloomy and rainy there were one hundred automobiles present perhaps with five hundred people Our Society must take care of them in the best possible way The present graveled road was built about twenty-five years ago when only poky horses drawing ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Colonel Dick Thompson the Persistent Whig By Charles Roll Indiana Historical Collections XXX Indianapolis Indiana Historical Bureau 1948 xvi 315p illustrations and index 250 Richard Wigginton Thompson the grand old man of Indiana politics was 22 years of age when he migrated to Bedford Indiana from his birthplace in Culpeper County Virginia where he was born June 9 1809 In Bedford he taught school briefly worked in a store studied law in his spare time founded with ...
... Thirty-Second Annual Meeting Thirty-Second Annual Meeting 569 Col Curry stated that he would start the collection by presenting the Society a full roster of Ohio soldiers in the civil war On motion the meeting adjourned ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES SOCIETY BUILDING SEPTEMBER 28 1917 Present Messrs Wright Cole Buck Prince Ryan Bareis Moore Treadway Schaus Randall Wood and Thompson Absent Messrs Hayes Palmer and Campbell The meeting was called to order by President Wright Secretary Randall ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS BUCYRUS CENTENNIAL The centennial of the city of Bucyrus Ohio was most appropriately celebrated in a program of exercises extending from October 2 to 5 1921 There were addresses by Honorable Harry L Davis Governor of Ohio Honorable Hugh L Nichols former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio Honorable Benson W Hough Judge of the Supreme Court Mrs Frank H Alfred great-granddaughter of Samuel Norton one of the founders of Bucyrus Nevin O ...
... BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT by JOHN SCHLEBECKER Hiram College One of the things with which the reader of early American history is most impressed is the remarkable courage and wisdom of the American soldier The Europeans it seems just did not understand the ins and outs of forest fighting Only the American seemed to know that effective fighting on the frontier was by necessity done from behind trees History books are full of pictures of minute men shooting redcoats but they do not have ...
... THE BALLAD OF 'JAMES BIRD THE BALLAD OF 'JAMES BIRD ITS AUTHORSHIP BY C B GALBREATH In a contribution entitled The Battle of Lake Erie in Ballad and History the writer of this article in 1911 related the story of James Bird and reproduced the old ballad commemorating his heroic service on board the Lawrence and his tragic death a year later for desertion on the Niagara In commenting on this quaint pathetic ballad it was assumed to have been written by a bard unlearned and unknown but not ...
... OHIO IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1824 OHIO IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1824 INTRODUCTORY NOTE The characterization of the period of Monroe's presidency as the Era of Good Feeling has done much to obscure the true nature of the decade 1815-1825 It has been rather generally thought of as a period in which the Jeffersonian Republican party so completely dominated that the rival presidential candidates of 1 824 represented substantially the same principles and policies Recent scholarship ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR CATHERINE FAY EWING ORIGINATOR OF CHILDREN'S HOMES Children's Homes throughout the country have attracted deserved attention as child-saving institutions They not only save life they educate to usefulness The Ohio law is simple It was enacted in 1866 and in 1871 thirty-seven homes were organized under it They were established and conducted by counties and intrusted ...