... GENERAL SIMON KENTON GENERAL SIMON KENTON By ALBERT L SLAGER Introduction By ORTON G RUST There are Homeric men in every age men filled with the spring of life superabundant a perpetually flowing fountain of youth men whose every action attracts the attention of their fellow men and whose lives count for human progress Simon Kenton was such a man Tradition as well as history has placed him among the strong the swift the brave an explorer of hitherto unexplored regions and a pathfinder for the ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS List of Documents Concerning the Negotiation of Ratified Indian Treaties 1801-1869 Compiled by John H Martin Special List No 6 Washington National Archives 1949 iii 175p appendix One of the most ambitious archival endeavors in progress today is being conducted by the United States through its National Archives The methods of record keeping employed are efficiently designed to make possible a maximum use by scholars and government officials To obviate the necessity of ...
... THE CHINESE QUESTION 143 THE CHINESE QUESTION 143 gent of California which in the form finally adopted by the House on June 17 recommended that the President open negotiations with China to secure a change or abrogation of existing treaties that permitted the unlimited immigration of its citizens 29 Evarts had to await the arrival of two Chinese ministers in Washington Chen Lan Pin and Yung Wing on September 21 before he could even act upon the demands of Congress Then he hesitated until ...
... PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED UNDER this caption each quarter will be acknowledged all books and periodicals received All such works will be deposited in the library A A GRAHAM Secretary CALENDAR OF THE VIRGINIA STATE PAPERS Six volumes Published by authority of the State under direction of the Superintendent of Public Printing Volume I printed in 1875 begins with a Land Pattent to Henry Palin and John Swingleton issued December 6th 1652 by I Richard Bennett Efq Governour and ...
... MINUTES OF THE FORTIETH ANNUAL MEETING MINUTES OF THE FORTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO Saturday October 10 1925 900 A M The meeting was called to order by Secretary C B Galbreath There were present B F Prince George F Bareis W H Pengelly James S Hine E F Wood Joseph C Goodman W C Mills A E Domoney F C Furniss Dean M Hickson H O Whitaker Miss Martha J Maltby T B Alexander Mrs T B Alexander Mrs Charles A Covert Mrs ...
... FOUR BUCKEYE ARGONAUTS IN CALIFORNIA FOUR BUCKEYE ARGONAUTS IN CALIFORNIA by SCHUYLER C MARSHALL President Polk's message to congress in December 1848 set of the gold mania in the East The following year thousands of young men left their farms to follow one of the overland trails or perhap go round the Horn or across the isthmus of Panama to the dig gings While we often speak of those who went to California a Forty-Niners the Gold Rush was by no means limited to tha year Early in 1850 many ...
... Story of the First Geological Survey in Ohio 135 Story of the First Geological Survey in Ohio 135 Among the other books which contained useful reference material were Hasse's Economic Material in the Documents of the States Ohio II Ohio Second Geological Survey Columbus 1869 G P Merrill's The First Hundred Years of American Geology New Haven 1924 and for the biographical information Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography New York 1900 In the periodical and newspaper field the most ...
... 476 Ohio Arch 476 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The Functions of Museums and the Question of Special Exhibitions by Frederic A Lucas American Museum of Natural History The Museum Point of View in Botany by E L Morris Brooklyn Institute Museum A Celestial Sphere-An Appartus Installed to Promote Interest in Astronomy by Dr W W Atwood Chicago Academy of Sciences The Educational Work of a Natural History Museum by W W Atwood Chicago Academy of Sciences The Deutaches Museum at Munich by ...
... THE NAMING OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI THE NAMING OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI By EDGAR ERSKINE HUME Dr William Holland Wilmer the famous ophthalmologist of Johns Hopkins and president of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati tells of a traveling salesman in a Pullman smoking car who interrupted another passenger reading his paper What's that pale blue silk button you are wearing he asked The other told him that it was the rosette of the Society of the Cincinnati Fine replied he I'm from ...
... HISTORIC WORTHINGTON HISTORIC WORTHINGTON MIRA CLARKE PARSONS One hundred years ago in the month of October the quiet of the wilderness where Worthington now stands was broken by the arrival of forty families under the leadership of James Kilbourne The journey had occupied more than six weeks They came from Granby and Simsbury Conn representing many trades and occupations and bringing the hope and courage needed in founding a new home in a strange land The previous year their leader and Nathan ...
... PIONEER DAYS IN CENTRAL OHIO PIONEER DAYS IN CENTRAL OHIO1 IT is pleasant my friends to realize the sentiment that not only peace has its triumphs as well as war but that domestic and home life hath its excitements and enjoyments as well as the political arena In this day of public strife-in the middle of a campaign in which the embattling squadrons of the several political parties of the day are arrayed against each other in the contest for civil power-we rest on our arms and come together as ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA NEW TRUSTEES On February 28 1907 Governor Harris appointed Hon Myron T Herrick Trustee of the Society to serve for three years This appointment will certainly meet the hearty approval of the members of the Society as few governors have taken the active interest in the progress and welfare of our Society that Governor Herrick did during his encumbency The readers of the QUARTERLY will doubtless be interested in a brief sketch of Mr Herrick as his career is an ...
... ESSAY AND COMMENT 49 ESSAY AND COMMENT 49 The True Profile of the Harding administration will emerge only as the new historiography is joined with a modification of the old DAVID H JENNINGS Professor of History Ohio Wesleyan University ESSAY AND COMMENT Oral History in Ohio During the past half century as the telephone and computer are replacing the personal letter and the telegraph a new era in historical research is emerging No longer does the detailed letter serve as the major source of ...
... THOMAS WORTHINGTON THOMAS WORTHINGTON BY FRANK THEODORE COLE Secretary of The Old Northwest Genealogical Society About the middle of the seventeenth century two brothers of the ancient Lancashire family of Worthington1 arrived in Philadelphia bringing with them some fair amount of property After some time one of them went to New England and the other Robert with his son Robert a mere lad went to Maryland where he bought land in the neighborhood of Baltimore and established iron works which in ...
... THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND FUTURE PROGRAM THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND FUTURE PROGRAM OF THE OHIO HISTORICAL RECORDS SURVEY PROJECT By JAMES H RODABAUG H Beginnings The Ohio Historical Records Survey Project began operations in February 1936 It was organized and operated by the supervisors of the Writers' Project until November 1936 when it became an independent part of Federal Project No 1 In September 1939 Congress abolished the Federal projects after which the Ohio survey was established as a State ...
... GOOD WILL ON ANCIENT BATTLEGROUNDS GOOD WILL ON ANCIENT BATTLEGROUNDS By CARL WITTKE In Dr Quaife's announcement of plans for the Maumee Valley International Historical Convention I found the title and the theme for my address this evening The purpose of the Convention in the words of its general chairman is to cultivate and deepen our pride in the historical heritage which is the common possession of four great commonwealths and to assemble in pleasant association men and women of good will ...
... MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Board of Trustees of The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met in annual session in the Trustees' Room of the Museum and Library Building at 1 o'clock p m Tuesday April 24 1934 The following trustees were present Mr Arthur C Johnson Sr President Messrs Goldman Eagleson Miller Goodman Florence Sater and Mrs Dryer Director Shetrone ...
... THE MEDICAL TRAINING OF MATTHEW SIMPSON THE MEDICAL TRAINING OF MATTHEW SIMPSON 1830-1833 by ROBERT D CLARK Assistant Dean College of Liberal Arts University of Oregon Among the sources which give some insight into the medical and general education of the early Ohio physician are the papers of Matthew Simpson Simpson after a brief period as a physician became in the middle of the nineteenth century a bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church and one of the most eloquent pulpit and platform ...
... GEORGE WILL AND GEORGE WILL JR GEORGE WILL AND GEORGE WILL JR HE following address was delivered by Grace Reah Johnson on October 26 1 93 0 dedicating a bronze memorial which marks the final resting place of George Will and George Will Junior in the cemetery at McArthur Ohio George Will was a soldier of the American Revolution and George Will Junior served with Anthony Wayne in the campaign of 1794 and also in the second war with Great Britain 181 2-14 They had lain buried in a neglected ...
... edited by edited by MICHAEL SPEER Autobiography of Adam Lowry Rankin At a time when American historians are turning more toward quantitative techniques and psychological analyses of individuals the autobiography of Adam Lowry Rankin provides a refreshing first-person account from a man who partook of some of the most important activities of his day1 This work is an interesting commentary on nineteenth century America and provides insight into the motives activities and methods of those ...