... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President The society has recently acquired a Kodagraph film reader a gift from the president James A MacDonell Several old Lima newspapers have been microfilmed up to 1912 Current papers have been filmed since January 1 1947 During recent months the society has been engaged in a campaign to collect unpaid pledges for the proposed 175000 museum A large percentage of the necessary funds ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 633 Forty-First Annual Meeting 633 President Johnson stated that the reports of the Committees on the various Parks should be given great attention On last Sunday he attended the Ohio History Day celebration at Logan Elm Park and was absolutely amazed by the number -- literally thousands -- in attendance The celebration lasted practically all afternoon and great interest was displayed by those present The American people are turning to outdoor life -- picnics camping ...
... strikes in Ouray and strikes Worse close observers noted that while silver production was still rising the market value of the metal was dropping ominously the price of a fine ounce in New York averaged 1112 cents in 1884 979 cents in 188728 Production of silver lost its fascination William Hope Harvey decided to abandon his mine superintendency He took up real estate development combining ...
... BOOK REVIEWS INDEPENDENT HISTORICAL SOCIETIES AN ENQUIRY INTO THEIR RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION FUNCTIONS AND THEIR FINANCIAL FUTURE B y W alter Muir Whitehill Boston The Boston Athenaeum 1962 Distributed by Harvard University Press xviii593p index 1250 For some years now historical-society journals one after another have been undergoing a transformation of format style and content into imitation popular magazines declared the New-York Historical Society annual report for 1961 Ohioans concerned ...
... 126 Ohio Arch 126 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications VALUABLE DONATIONS OF MSS The museum and library of the Society have been greatly increased by donations from friends interested in the progress and enlargement of the institution It is but a matter of justice to note the contributions recently made by Prof J P MacLean one of the trustees who has been a very active member ever since he joined the Society At different times he has given books on various subjects besides quite a selection ...
... Volume 111 Index Summer-Autumn 2002 pp 229-256 PDF of Index and Contents to Volume 111 CONTENTS of Summer-Autumn 2002 issue Index for Volume 111 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Abraham Lincoln Man of Sorrow 24 Acid mine drainage 48-49 50 Adams administration 123-124 Adams John Quincy 124 125 Addams Jane 186 187 190 191 Works by The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements 187 Addison Evert E 53-54 African Americans Class Conflicts over Residential Space in an African ...
... FREDERICK J FREDERICK J BLUE Chase and the Governorship A Stepping Stone to the Presidency In January of 1854 Senator Salmon P Chase of Ohio wrote what he would soon refer to as the most valuable of my works1 The Appeal of the Independent Democrats helped to set in motion a series of events that led to the formation of the Republican party It also played a major role in Chase's own career as the new party soon offered him its nomination for Governor of Ohio For Chase however election as ...
... 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 Literature of the Middle Western Frontier by Ralph ...
... THE FIRST PURELY REPUBLICAN FORM OF THE FIRST PURELY REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA BY WILLIAM M PETTIT The historical political controversy that raged in the years 1636-37 was over the demand of Anne Hutchinson that women be accorded equal political rights with men in Massachusetts Sir Harry Vane was elected governor in 1636 being a representative of the Hutchinson faction but in 1637 he was defeated by John Winthrop The General Court of Massachusetts tried the famous Hutchinson ...
... Big Bottom and Its History Big Bottom and Its History 27 This was the first massacre and the principal one during the Indian war then just opening Marietta had been settled two years before and Big Bottom as this place was then known was an overflow from that place and comprised altogether thirty-six persons The year before several other settlements were established from Marietta but thus far this was the most remote No state in the Union was settled by a more worthy or enterprising class of ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Howells and the Age of Realism By Everett Carter Philadelphia and New York J B Lippincott Company 1954 307p index 500 Mr Carter's scholarly study of William Dean Howells and his fellow realists is a sound valuable chapter in our literary and social history It is not a definitive biography such as Leon Edel's Henry James or Dixon Wecter's Sam Clemens of Hannibal but an intellectual portrait of Howells drawn by careful analysis and interpretation Mr Carter ...
... The Black Hand The Black Hand 449 doubtless be a matter of regret to everyone that the railroad has recently changed the name of the station and the brakeman no longer calls out Black Hand but Toboso It is to be hoped that commercial as well as historic interest will induce the new electric line to perpetuate the name of Black Hand In a beautiful introduction to her legend among other things Mrs Gebhart says The Indian legend pertaining to this relic of a prehistoric race was told me by ...
... BRIAN P BRIAN P BIRCH Taking the Breaks and Working the Boats An English Family's Impressions of Ohio in the 1830s While the frontier was a great leveler of people in putting them back into log cabins and deerskins it was also a zone of increasingly varied economic opportunities as the new settlements created a demand for services and communications Not only was there a need as the frontier moved across an area for farmfolk to occupy land to clear the forests and to till the soil Opportunities ...
... Dedication of the Hayes Memorial Dedication of the Hayes Memorial 425 instructed in the orderly management of public business All are on their best behavior a fraternal friendship is cultivated virtuous and temperate habits are encouraged and the best of our social instincts are called into play The festive organizations convivial clubs and the like are not safe places of resort for all natures No man can be worse for the associations of Odd Fellowship and their kindred organizations Most men ...
... 2 8 6 GEORGE W RIGHTMIRE President of the Ohio State University GEORGE W GEORGE W RIGHTMIRE PRESIDENT OF OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY When Professor George W Rightmire of the College of Law Ohio State University was notified after the resignation of Dr W O Thompson that he had been chosen as Acting President of the University he was perhaps more completely surprised than any other member of the faculty or teaching force of this great institution The notification of his selection was the first ...
... COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS EARLY OHIO PAINTERS THE PREWAR YEARS by DONALD R MacKENZIE HIGHER standards in painting characterized the pre-Civil War period of art in Ohio Improved transportation encouraged artists to travel and almost every painter visited New York frequently touring Boston and Philadelphia as well There they had the opportunity to see a limited number of imported European paintings and a variety of notable American works Most established painters who desired it were ...
... strike our camp I could but be impressed with its beauty and great evidance of industry that existed on every hand A nice residence clad in a snow white robe stood monarch of the scence scene And I could well enlarge and dwell here upon the sacredness of such a home but such is not my province It was enclosed by well laid and finely built pailing fence and 9 Anderson to W Thomas Anderson December 1864 42 Ohio State Archaeological and ...
... SIMEON PORTER OHIO ARCHITECT by ERIC JOHANNESEN Of the many carpenters and master builders who gave the Western Reserve villages in northern Ohio their characteristic look of colonial New England in the first decades of the nineteenth century only a handful are known today Similarly the architects of the great era of urban growth in the United States during the two decades before the Civil War are largely anonymous Yet a few known builders belonged to both periods and spanned the transition ...
... edited by edited by JOHN B GABEL Medical Education in the 1890s An Ohio Woman's Memories The material presented here is drawn from the unpublished papers of a long-time Columbus physician the late Ida May Wilson Written in 1941 when she was in her seventy-seventh year this excerpt records Dr Wilson's memories of her medical education during the years 1894-1896 at the Ohio Medical University1 Her description of the primitive training provided as late as the 1890s by an accredited medical school ...
... STANLEY C STANLEY C HARROLD JR The Southern Strategy of the Liberty Party The great debate among American abolitionists prior to the Civil War centered upon the question of the proper method of ending slavery How was a movement with negligible support outside of the northern states to abolish an institution that existed in the southern states The alternatives appeared to be convince southerners to voluntarily give it up take federal action against it or use indirect methods to make ...