... CHOLERA IN CINCINNATI CHOLERA IN CINCINNATI By E W MITCHELL MD A worldwide epidemic of cholera beginning in far-off India in 1826 reached Russia in 1829 England in 1831 and was brought to this country in 1832 by immigrants landing in Quebec Dr Daniel Drake with characteristic foresight published early in 1832 a paper on cholera its causes symptomology and its treatment The first case in Cincinnati was that of a passenger on a steamboat from Portsmouth He had left Kingston Canada nine days ...
... 546 Ohio Arch 546 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications this loyal public would ever especially enjoy the St Clair park of seventy-seven acres embracing the site of Fort St Clair the battle field burial place and the scenic lands surrounding The old flag of thirteen stars and many scars which now drapes the form of our darling dead she greatly prized on account of the hallowed remembrances thereof to herself personally relating This old flag was her talisman it tenderly thrilled her ...
... 96 Ohio Arch 96 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications so on Professor Siebert is a careful and painstaking student and has exercised discriminating judgment as to what is necessary for the proper educidation of his subject He gives under each chapter the list of authorities which he has consulted or which may be further examined by those who desire more exhaustive study of the various topics The book is accompanied by an excellent appendix giving a chronological outline of the historical ...
... LLOYD SPONHOLTZ LLOYD SPONHOLTZ The 1912 Constitutional Convention in Ohio The Call-up and Nonpartisan Selection of Delegates Until recently little scholarly interest has been shown in the nonpartisan system and its place in the American election process neither advocates of the reform nor students of politics have examined the actual effect of elimination of partisanship from the ballot in Ohio1 In the 1910-1911 period an opportunity for an analysis of the nonpartisan system and the resulting ...
... Specimens of Ante-Bellum Specimens of Ante-Bellum Buckeye Humor By GEORGE K UM MER Native American humor that is humor which by reason of its subject matter and technique possesses an emphatic native quality1 flourished vigorously in the backwoods of the United States for several decades before the Civil War Produced by the folk and recorded by rural doctors lawyers preachers and journalists it portrayed the comedy of character and background as seen in various parts of the country From it ...
... 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 ...
... DAVID G DAVID G TAYLOR Hocking Valley Railroad Promotion in the 1870's The Atlantic and Lake Erie Railway Industrialization had begun in Ohio before the Civil War and after a war-imposed delay promised to accelerate rapidly thereafter The Panic of 1873 however stalled the process substantially and destroyed many small industrialists and businessmen With the elimination of the financially weaker businessmen the way was paved for reorganization of the state's railroad coal mining and iron ...
... 330 Ohio Arch 330 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications Wayne's Expedition against the Indians The awards were made to Irma Shupe Robert Cowden and Wilbur Conover as first second and third respectively The one by Miss Shupe was published in the Dayton Daily Journal of May 5th It is a most scholarly and comprehensive account of that dramatic dashing campaign by the intrepid Wayne No campaign in early American history is more thrilling in its character or more potent in its results It was ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Kensington Stone A Mystery Solved By Erik Wahlgren Madison University of Wisconsin Press 1958 xiv228p illustrations bibliography and index 500 Few artifacts of American history have aroused as much interest as the Kensington stone This stone with its runic inscriptions supposedly discovered by a Minnesota farmer in 1898 has been the subject of several books by Hjalmar Holand No American scholar has taken the trouble to examine in detail the case which Holand has ...
... JOHN WHITE GEARY JOHN WHITE GEARY As Kagi in his letters to the press severely criticized Governor Geary it is but fair to state here that the Governor went to Kansas Territory as he afterwards freely admitted with erroneous opinions as to conditions there He was sincerely desirous to do justice to the contending parties but his preconceived prejudices were in favor of the pro-slavery party This led to severe criticism on the part of the free state men It was not long however until the ...
... THE SEMI-COLON CLUB THE SEMI-COLON CLUB OF CINCINNATI by LOUIS L TUCKER Among the holdings of the Cincinnati Historical Society1 is a box of manuscripts containing 126 documents and a single volume of a shortlived magazine titled The Semi-Colon which consists of three numbers2 These two source materials represent the sole remains of the Semi-Colon Club a literary society that flourished in Cincinnati during the 1830's and 1840's 3 The activities of this club constitute a significant chapter in ...
... Report of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting 353 Report of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting 353 and expectancy the action of the Legislature and the administration on the forthcoming permanent budget REGISTRAR'S REPORT During the past year a number of accessions have been made to museum collections as per attached list In each case the proper acknowledgment has been made and the various items catalogued placed on exhibition or stored as seemed advisable As Staff Artist I take pleasure in ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 577 PRE-HISTORIC MAP Concerning the archaeological atlas of Ohio now being prepared by The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society under the direction of W C Mills Curator of the Society the Associated Press has given out the following statement Work on the archaeological atlas of Ohio a work unique of its kind in the history of literature is about one-fourth completed but so quietly has it been in progress that few if any persons outside the membership of ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABOLITION Friends of Freedom Lincoln Chase and Wartime Racial Policy by Frederick J Blue 85-97 Subterranean Hideaways of the Underground Railroad in Ohio An Architectural Archaeological and Historical Critique of Local Traditions by Byron D Fruehling and Robert H Smith 98-117 Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution by James McPherson 86-87 Accomac County Virginia 21 Adam Clayton Powell Jr The Political Biography of an American Dilemma by Charles ...
... THE EVANGELIST AS THEOLOGICAL DISPUTANT THE EVANGELIST AS THEOLOGICAL DISPUTANT CHARLES GRANDISON FINNEY AND SOME OTHERS by CHARLES C COLE JR Assistant Dean Columbia College Columbia University Interpreting the word of God defining dogma and disputing against heretical views have been primary tasks of religious leaders for many centuries A glance at the countless succession of theological battles from Augustine's condemnation of Pelagius through Wycliffe Hus Luther and Savonarola suggests that ...
... THE WEST IN AMERICAN HISTORY THE WEST IN AMERICAN HISTORY JOHN LEE WEBSTER President Nebraska Historical Society History is to a nation what the faculty of memory is to individuals the basis of all our experience and by means of experience the source of all improvement History knows all things contains all things teaches all things not in winged words which strike the ear without impressing the mind but in great and striking actions The spirit of the world itself is but a great and unending ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... AndersonBertaux Summer-Autumn 2002 pp 145-182 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Poor Men But Hard-Working Fathers The Cincinnati Orphan Asylum and Parental Roles in the Nineteenth-Century Working Class By M Christine Anderson and Nancy E Bertaux Male laborers such as these were the fathers of children institutionalized at the Cincinnati Orphan Asylum Image copyright the Cincinnati Historical Society Library Introduction ...
... THE INTRODUCTION OF ANESTHESIA INTO OHIO THE INTRODUCTION OF ANESTHESIA INTO OHIO By HOWARD DITTRICK MD Since the practical application of anesthesia for the relief of dental and surgical pain originated in the United States it is not strange that early Ohio practitioners followed closely along the trails blazed by colleagues in the Eastern States and in foreign centers of science Even the name anesthesia was coined by our own Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes directly following William Thomas Green ...