... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Long Meadows By Minnie Hite Moody New York Macmillan Co 194 1 657p 3 00 Genealogy as genealogy makes mighty dry reading to any but members of the family treated history may be but often is not written with suppressed excitement but when both genealogy and history are molded in the form of fiction by the hand of an artist then we get a masterpiece transcending both genealogy and history That is the result Mrs Minnie Hite Moody has achieved in Long Meadows which is the ...
... Governor Rutherford B Hayes NOTES ON PAGE 191 GOVERNOR RUTHERFORD B GOVERNOR RUTHERFORD B HAYES 59 by DANIEL R PO R TER The spirits of a discontented Congressman from Cincinnati were decidedly lifted late in January 1867 by a letter from William Henry Smith Ohio's Secretary of State The letter sounded out Representative Rutherford B Hayes as a possible gubernatorial candidate This was the first indication Hayes received that he was being considered instead of incumbent Governor Jacob D Cox ...
... Array Columbus Ohio 1931 and Europe--Its History and Its World Relationships 1789-1933 Boston 1934 He also cooperated with Jonathan French Scott of New York University and Albert Hyma of the University of Michigan in the issuing of Readings in Medieval History New York 1933 Pahlow of the College of Education Ohio State University has written Man's Great Adventure an Introduction to World History Boston 1932 Howard Robinson for many years ...
... THE KIRTLAND PHASE OF MORMONISM THE KIRTLAND PHASE OF MORMONISM By W J MCNIFF Kirtland Ohio was but a stepping stone for the Mormons as they restlessly pushed on towards the setting sun Somewhere in the West they planned a city of Zion Their leader prophesied a land of milk and honey gleaming with alabaster towers where righteousness would reign in the hearts of man The Kirtland phase came as an interlude between the future Zion of Missouri and the scornful attitude of the New Yorker In 1 827 ...
... THE ROLE OF THE DISTRICT AS A UNIT IN ORTHE ROLE OF THE DISTRICT AS A UNIT IN ORGANIZED MEDICINE IN OHIO1 By ROBERT G PATERSON PHD Use of the district as a basic unit of medical organization and administration is historically the oldest in the State It antedates the county city and state medical societies A district in the sense in which it is used here includes within its area two or more counties From 1811 to 1 90 2 the history of medical organization in Ohio is full of the trial and error ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Baseball The Early Years By Harold Seymour New York Oxford University Press 1960 viii373p illustrations bibliographical note and index 750 The author of this important volume started as a bat boy with the Brooklyn Dodgers earned a PhD in history at Cornell and now is an associate professor in a New York college He knows and loves his baseball and he knows his American history and so he has given us what is without question the best book on the subject In the present ...
... BOOK REVIEWS THE LIBERTY LINE THE LEGEND OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD By Larry Gara Lexington University of Kentucky Press 1961 xi201p index 500 Although the underground railroad was a reality much of the material relating to it belongs in the realm of folklore rather than history Most legends have many versions and the story of the underground railroad is no exception Few people can provide details when asked about the institution Specific information is usually crowded out by vague ...
... A HISTORY OF LOCAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES A HISTORY OF LOCAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES IN OHIO TO 1865 BY ROBERT LESLIE JONES Local agricultural societies are among the victims of the present war To cooperate in conserving rubber and in eliminating unnecessary travel many of them cancelled their fairs in 1942 and doubtless most if not all will do so in 194 3 The disappearance of the fairs even if it is temporary emphasizes their significance as an institution and makes it worth while to trace the ...
... LAWRENCE GROSSMAN LAWRENCE GROSSMAN In His Veins Coursed No Bootlicking Blood The Career of Peter H Clark Peter H Clark was one of the most prominent black leaders of the nineteenth century Working as a schoolteacher he emerged as a champion of the antebellum Negro community in Cincinnati achieved recognition after the Civil War as one of the leading black men of Ohio and became a figure of national importance in racial matters by the 1880s Though Clark's fame proved ephemeral an understanding ...
... TRAVEL TO CINCINNATI IN 1853 TRAVEL TO CINCINNATI IN 1853 EDITED BY WILLIAM D HOYT JR Writers have described the hardships of travel in the middle of the nineteenth century when railroads were in their infancy but few accounts are as expressive or as vivid as that penned by the Honorable Peter Vivian Daniel Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States while on his way to the Mississippi Valley to hold judicial sessions in his circuit A letter written to his daughter from the ...
... NATIONALITY GROUPS IN CLEVELAND POLITICS NATIONALITY GROUPS IN CLEVELAND POLITICS By WELLINGTON G FORDYCE The importance of the immigrant in the political life of Cleveland was recognized at an early date both by their own leaders and by native born politicians The foreigner realizes the value of team play and may organize for spoils but he has frequently shown independence and has voted a split ticket With the increase in naturalization which has taken place since the war the foreign vote has ...
... DOUGLAS A DOUGLAS A GAMBLE Joshua Giddings and the Ohio Abolitionists a Study in Radical Politics Much recent scholarship on American abolitionism emphasizes its role as part of a general antebellum reform movement' Perceptive and valuable though this work is its broad focus necessarily blurs important distinctions within and among different factions of abolitionism In spite of recent contrary opinion there is still much to learn by studying the diversity of abolitionism Identifying the social ...
... 258 Ohio Arch 258 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Bishop Memoirs of Rev David Rice and History of the Church in Kentucky 118-140 Hoffman The Story of a Country Church 36-59 8 McNemar The Kentucky Revival with a Brief Sketch of Shakerism 1808 73-105 Morrow History of Warren County Ohio 267-274 Otterbein Home Annual 9 Centennial History of the Sugar Creek United Presbyterian Church History of Greene County Ohio 10 The Articles of Faith Constitution and History of the Congregational ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Historic Contact Indian People and Colonists in Today's Northeastern United States in the Sixteen Through Eighteenth Centuries By Robert S Grumet Norman amp London University of Oklahoma Press 1995 xxx 514p illustrations maps appendix conspectus bibliography index 4750 cloth The process of cultural contact between Europeans and North America's native peoples has become the focus of a growing body of recent historical and anthropological scholarship The publication of ...
... PIONEER PHYSICIANS AND THEIR PARTICIPATION PIONEER PHYSICIANS AND THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN OHIO By ROBERT G PATERSON PhD Participation of the pioneer physicians in the establishment of social institutions in Ohio during the period 1788-1835 was sporadic without long term vision and was born of the immediate necessities of the times Almost without exception such participation was confined to a few outstanding medical men They were as a rule men of ...
... JOHN E JOHN E MOSER Principles Without Program Senator Robert A Taft and American Foreign Policy When it came to domestic policy there was very little that was confusing about Senator Robert Alfonso Taft of Ohio 1889-1953 A die-hard conservative Taft remained up until his death a convinced enemy of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and the assault on the Constitution which he believed it to represent So solid were his political credentials that he came to be known widely as Mr Republican defining ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION Washington D C Carl Bode Chairman Steering Committee The sponsoring committee of the association held its first meeting at the Library of Congress on March 22 1951 and adopted a constitution for the association The organization has as its aim the encouragement of the study of American civilization by improving communications across those disciplines which deal with phases of American civilization and by fostering ...
... 414 Ohio Arch 414 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications introduce the speaker of the occasion Dr Benjamin Franklin Shambaugh and I will merely give you a few of his titles sufficient to enable you to judge of his ability for this occasion Superintendent of the State Historical Society of Iowa Editor of the Iowa Journal of History and Politics Head of the Department of Political Science State University of Iowa Editor of the publications of the State Historical Society of Iowa and President ...
... WILLIAM THOMAS MATHEWS WILLIAM THOMAS MATHEWS The following sketch of William T Mathews one of the most distinguished painters of our state and generation was prepared by his brother Major Charles H Mathews New Philadelphia Ohio and is a sympathetic tribute to the memory of the notable citizen who was known as the Buckeye ArtistEDITOR William T Mathews bachelor artist was a resident of Washington D C for ten or fifteen years previous to his death which occurred at the Emergency Hospital ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments Reviews Notes and Comments 153 A PIONEER LETTER The letter here presented was written by Miss Rachel R Lockwood great aunt of George R Lockwood Editor of the Natio n al Republic published in Washington D C She emigrated from Sussex County Delaware to Preble County Ohio In 1845 she moved with other members of the family to Miami County Indiana where she became the wife of Jonathan Potterfield Dr Dingle to whom the letter was addressed was a member of the State Senate ...