... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS OHIO IN THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTIONS BY CHARLES A JONES Since the organization of the Republican party in 1854 there have been nineteen national conventions of the party Only two of these have been held within the borders of Ohio but in their proceedings taken as a whole no other state has even approximately played the prominent part that has been given to sons of the Buckeye State The nineteen volumes which officially record ...
... JOHN CHAPMAN'S LINE OF DESCENT FROM JOHN CHAPMAN'S LINE OF DESCENT FROM EDWARD CHAPMAN OF IPSWICH Compiled by FLORENCE E WHEELER With an Introduction by ROBERT PRICE Who Was Johnny Appleseed--Introduction Even before the death of John Chapman in 1845 the Johnny Appleseed story growing out of the man's colorful life had begun to break away from the roots of fact and to flower purely as a popular myth In the years since the apocryphal addenda aided and abetted by much fiction poetry and ...
... 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 ...
... Cleveland's Johnson First Term Cleveland's Johnson First Term By EUGENE C MURDOCK BACK IN THE EIGHTEEN FORTIE S a number of railroads had purchased from the city of Cleveland a strip of lakefront land one hundred and fifty feet wide between East Ninth Street and the Cuyahoga River In the decades that followed a valuable area of made land was built up on the lake side of the original strip The Union Depot erected in Civil War times and the adjacent railroad yards were located on this made land ...
... Ohio Agriculture in History Ohio Agriculture in History By ROBERT LESLIE JONES The history of agriculture in Ohio is on the surface a subject prosaic enough Indeed only once and that long ago did it ever possess anything of the implausibly romantic Timothy Flint tells us that the New England settlers who came in the beginning to the lands of the Ohio Company were attracted not only by the unparalleled fertility of the soil but according to the wags of the day by springs of brandy and flax that ...
... BookReviews Summer-Autumn 2003 pp 93-112 PDF of Book Reveiws CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2003 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved and Book Notes Alphabetical List of Titles All for the Regiment The Army of the Ohio 1861-1865 By Gerald J Prokopowicz Reviewed by Brian D McKnight Architecture in the United States By W Barksdale Maynard Reviewed by Richard Francaviglia Birchbark Canoes of the Fur Trade Volumes I and II By Timothy J Kent Reviewed by David A Simmons A Brilliant ...
... by WILLIAM R BARLOW By the spring of 1812 the little delegation of three that represented Ohio in the national congress could easily have agreed with ex-President John Adams that a black Cloud of War with England hangs over us1 Senator Thomas Worthington had thought war probable for some time and after the twelfth congress was called into early session in November 1811 to deal with weighty foreign problems he was convinced that hostilities were almost inevitable2 Yet when the fateful decision ...
... THE HOSKINSVILLE REBELLION THE HOSKINSVILLE REBELLION By WAYNE JORDAN1 A corporal four privates from the Union Army and a deputy United States marshal sloshed through mud all day and neared Hoskinsville Ohio on the evening of March 11 1863 They did not enter the village immediately but stopped at a house about a mile away The posse had come to get two Noble County boys who were in bad with the Government The deputy marshal Samuel Colby had a warrant for the arrest of Tertullus W Brown who was ...
... OHIO IN NATIONAL POLITICS 1865-1896 OHIO IN NATIONAL POLITICS 1865-1896 By CLIFFORD H MOORE PH D Professor of History in Ripon College Ripon Wisconsin CHAPTER I SOME DETERMINING FACTORS The sectional conflict which ended in 1865 contributed a number of conflicting elements to the new era of national life Prominent was the suspicion engendered by four years of struggle and it persisted throughout the period of the next generation as a barrier to a true sense of national unity Men easily ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 66 NUMBER 3 JULY 1957 Social History A Nation Announcing Itself By PHILIP D JORDAN Twenty-odd years ago when the series entitled A History of American Life seemed a shining new constellation in the heavens of historiography a caravan of wise men journeyed by day and by night to Providence Rhode Island to stargaze These priests of Clio ministering to a general session of the American Historical Association were carried away with ...
... ATTEMPTS TO PRESERVE NATIONAL CULTURES ATTEMPTS TO PRESERVE NATIONAL CULTURES IN CLEVELAND By WELLINGTON G FORDYCE Historically the social activities of the foreign born in Cleveland present a somewhat confused picture Certain of their activities represent an attempt to preserve their native culture Some of these have the active support of native Americans for the purpose of exploiting the wealth of culture represented in the various nationality groups in the city A second purpose of this ...
... DENNIS K DENNIS K BOMAN Conduct and Revolt in the Twenty-fifth Ohio Battery An Insider's Account On August 10 1861 in the town of Canfield Ohio twenty-eight year old Robert T McMahan enlisted as a private in the Second Ohio Volunteer Cavalry1 On September 3 the date of his muster he began a journal in which he noted the experiences and impressions of his service in the United States military2 McMahan first served as a cavalryman and then as a gunner for the Twenty-fifth Ohio Light Artillery ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY AUGUST 1963 -- JULY 1964 compiled by s WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE DURAND Loyal Jr The Major Milksheds of the Northeastern Quarter of the United States Economic Geography XL 1964 9-33 Ohio areas shown in twenty milksheds STOVER Stephen L Ohio's Sheep Year 1868 Agricultural History XXXVIII 1964 102-107 ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT McPHERSON James M The Fight Against the Gag Rule Joshua Leavitt and Antislavery Insurgency in the Whig Party 1839-1842 ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Social Ideas of the Northern Evangelists 1826-1860 By Charles C Cole Jr New York Columbia University Press 1954 268p bibliography and index 425 Charles C Cole Jr has written an objective and well-balanced account of the relation between leading evangelical clergymen and the reform movements which characterized the several decades before the Civil War The author recognizes that the evangelists were above all concerned with the problem of individual salvation Their ...
... SPECULATIVE INTEREST IN OHIO LANDS IN 1829 SPECULATIVE INTEREST IN OHIO LANDS IN 1829 AS REVEALED IN A LETTER FROM HENRY FARMER TO SAMUEL J BROWNE Edited by WILLIAM D OVERMAN The following letter from Henry Farmer to his brother-in-law Samuel J Browne of Cincinnati affords a detailed account by an observant and well-informed Englishman of the unsettled political economic and social conditions in England just prior to the Era of Reform 18321 The statistical data on the cost of poor relief ...
... BOOK REVIEWS THE WESTERN BOOK TRADE CINCINNATI AS A NINETEENTH-CENTURY PUBLISHING AND BOOK TRADE CENTER CONTAINING A DIRECTORY OF CINCINNATI PUBLISHERS BOOKSELLERS AND MEMBERS OF ALLIED TRADES 1796-1880 By Wa l ter Sutton Columbus Ohio State University Press for the Ohio Historical Society 1961 xv360p illustrations bibliography and index 800 On November 9 1793 there came from the crude hand press of William Maxwell the first issue of the Centinel of the North-Western Territory--Open to all ...
... PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT OF THE OHIO STATE PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVISED MAY 1 1936 By HARLOW LINDLEY Adams Jacob Private in Company F 21st O V V I Diary Introduction by H M Povenmire 1929 99p 025 Anderson James H Colonel William Crawford 34p 25 Anderson James H Life and Letters of Judge T J Anderson and Wife 535p 150 Written and compiled during the Civil War Contains much valuable source material on local Ohio history Backus Emma S ...
... 486 Ohio Arch 486 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications NOTES - GEOGRAPHICAL BY R W MCFARLAND LL D These notes are intended to draw attention to errors or slips which manage sometimes to get into print and which may mislead the unwary Attention is called to four such points FIRST It has been stated in the OHIO STATE AR CH A E OLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY that the United States military tract extended to the Ohio river This is an error See Vol 2 U S Laws page 565 act of June 1 1796 The ...
... THE SALE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE THE SALE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE AT the beginning of the Revolutionary War the State of Connecticut claimed the strip of land lying within her charter limits forty-one degrees and forty-two degrees two minutes north latitude extending from the Delaware River to the Mississippi River The State of Pennsylvania also claimed so much of this strip as lay within her charter limits that is east of a meridian line five degrees west of the Delaware A bitter controversy ...
... A Toledo Trade Union and A Toledo Trade Union and The Arizona Constitution of 1910 By PAUL G HUBBARD THE PERSISTENT DEMAND FOR REFORM in American government was running strong in 1911 On the local level many cities were experimenting with the commission form of government which was supposed to eliminate some of the weaknesses of the mayor-council system and to thwart the bosses Following the lead of South Dakota in 1898 several states adopted the initiative and referendum to afford the people ...