... edited by edited by ARNOLD SHANKMAN Vallandigham's Arrest and the 1863 Dayton Riot--Two Letters A noteworthy political event of 1863 was the arrest and subsequent exile of Clement Laird Vallandigham A former Democratic United States Representative from Dayton and one of the most eloquent speakers in the North Vallandigham was Ohio's leading Peace Democrat He sincerely believed that the Confederacy could not be subdued by force and although he never advocated permanent separation of the North ...
... POLITICO-ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS IN THE POLITICO-ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS IN THE WESTERN RESERVE'S EARLY SLAVERY CONTROVERSY By EDWARD C REILLEY With the advent of the Panic of 1837 the people of that northeastern section of Ohio known as the Western Reserve seemed for the first time to have suspected that the southern labor system was in some degree responsible for producing their economic woes This viewpoint was but slowly accepted and was not emphasized by its proponents until after the ...
... INDEX TO MINUTES OF THE FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL INDEX TO MINUTES OF THE FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY AND THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Accessions to Museum 600-605 Braden James A 584 599 Allyn M Q 645 Braun Herman Sr 599 Amos Frank C 584 Brundage Dr H M 645 Archaeological and Historical Society Buchwalter Captain E L 636 holds Annual Meeting 584-683 new Burr Karl E 645 policies 647-651 change in fiscal year Burroughs John Address on by G amendments to Constitution ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Historical Society is reprinting Scoouwa James Smith's Indian Captivity Narrative 595 the eighth edition of Colonel Smith's 1799 journal and the first annotated reprint in seventy years The journal Smith kept is an important document reflecting Indian-white relations in the late eighteenth century as well as struggles between colonists and representatives of the king William M Darlington's annotations from the 1870 edition are included with ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent appointments retirements and awards within the professional community of Ohio historians include H Roger Grant of The University of Akron has been appointed to the editorial board of Railroad History Warren F Kuehl who joined the history department of The University of Akron in 1964 has retired Roberta S Alexander of the University of Dayton received an NEH-Project '87 Grant to attend a conference on the Constitution Erving Beauregard of the ...
... THE EXPEDITION OF CELORON THE EXPEDITION OF CELORON BY C B GALBREATH The journals of Celoron and Bonnecamps with the paper by O H Marshall are here published in order to bring together in convenient form the accounts of this remarkable expedition sent by the Marquis de la Galissoniere Governor-General of New France and the Country of Louisiana to establish more firmly the French claims to the Ohio country particularly that portion of it which lies within the present boundary of our state A ...
... 128 Ohio Arch 128 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Pu blications ows slept the heroic dead of two armies-stood forth as the more appropriate and fitting monument Fort Recovery therefore became the future landmark for treaties and state lines Every age has its peculiar problem The pioneers dealt with the problems of poverty They struggled for the future They laid the foundations of a new state And as we look about in this day of plenty we should remember the sacrifices and suffering of those who ...
... Dedication of Ohio's World War Memorial 501 Dedication of Ohio's World War Memorial 501 It is particularly appropriate that the address of welcome with which the program proper is to begin should be delivered by His Excellency the Governor of Ohio that staunch friend of the Society neighbor and fellow-citizen Vic Donahey May I present the Governor of Ohio The audience rose and extended a very cordial greeting to Governor Donahey When the applause concluded he spoke as follows Mr Chairman ...
... EXPLORATION OF THE TREMPER MOUND EXPLORATION OF THE TREMPER MOUND WILLIAM C MILLS The Tremper mound is situated five miles north of the city of Portsmouth on the west side of the Scioto river in Rush township Scioto county Ohio The land upon which it is located is a part of the estate of Senator William D Tremper Portsmouth which consists of more than seven hundred acres of the rich bottom lands at the confluence of the Pond creek and Scioto valleys The immediate site of the mound is a level ...
... PROSPECTUS FOR A HISTORY OF THE STATE OF PROSPECTUS FOR A HISTORY OF THE STATE OF OHIO CARL WITTKE Edit o rin -C h ief EDITORIAL COMMITTEE HARLOW LINDLEY C hairm an CARL W I TTKE WILLIAM T UTTER An Announcement Ohio has been strangely backward in the preservation of her historical material and in the writing of her history With the exception of Roseboom and Weisenburger's History of Ohio published in 1934 there is not a single history of the state which meets the standards of scientific and ...
... James R Garfield the making of a progressive by JACK M THOMPSON One of the leaders in the movement to bring Theodore Roosevelt back to the presidency in 1912 was a now rather obscure Ohioan named James R Garfield The second son of President James A Garfield he was Roosevelt's secretary of the interior from 1907 to 1909 and the Progressive candidate for governor of Ohio in 1914 A prominent figure on the Ohio and national scenes at the height of the progressive movement he found the ascent to ...
... Big Bottom and Its History Big Bottom and Its History 17 ADDRESS OF C L MARTZOLFF It is said that a minister's text is but a peg upon which to hang his sermon If I were a minister the peg upon which I would hang this speech would be found among the jewels of the wonderful mines of King Solomon - The Book of Proverbs Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set Man has ever been a monument builder When the Israelites fought with the hosts of Amalek when the hands of Moses were ...
... 106 Ohio Arch 106 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications historical library building at Pittsburgh though delivered for the promotion of a purely local enterprise are so replete with information and suggestion pertinent to historical libraries in general that we take pleasure in producing them in full WHAT AN HISTORICAL LIBRARY BUILDING SHOULD DO FOR PITTSBURGH BY REUBEN GOLD THWAITE S LL D Superintendent of the Wisconsin Historical Society and Lecturer in American History in the University ...
... ROBERT M ROBERT M MENNEL AND STEVEN SPACKMAN Origins of Welfare in the States Albert G Byers and the Ohio Board of State Charities For the past fifteen years government programs to aid poor and dependent people have been attacked by both liberals and conservatives In the 1960s a coalition of academics and social workers formed the welfare rights movement to criticize the inadequacy of New Deal and Great Society programs and to propose various strategies to bring about a guaranteed national ...
... Edilorialana Edilorialana 121 order the numerous and important historical events that transpired in his county The little book is illustrated and has a large folding map of the territory which it treats Auglaize county was a sort of geographical and historical pivotal point in Ohio It was the chief gate way for Indians and whites between Lake Erie and the Ohio river for sixtyfive years 1749-1814 The reader should remember that the Maumee rises in the southern part of our county Auglaize south ...
... HISTORICAL SOCIETY BUILDINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY BUILDINGS COMPILED BY THE EDITOR On the following pages are presented brief statements of what Illinois Wisconsin and Minnesota all younger states than Ohio have done for their historical societies Half-tone cuts of the New Hampshire and Ohio buildings are also shown Other states and a number of cities have erected buildings not less notable The Historical Society of Buffalo has a building of which any state might be proud The work of this ...
... CHARLES DICKENS IN OHIO CHARLES DICKENS IN OHIO by ALFRED R FERGUSON Assistant Professor of English Ohio Wesleyan University Soon after his arrival in the United States in January 1842 Dickens wrote to an English friend There is a great deal afloat here in the way of subjects for description I keep my eyes open pretty wide and hope to have done so to some purpose by the time I come home1 That he kept his eyes open is evidenced by his vivid letters to Forster2 his friend and biographer and by ...
... COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS The ITINERANT ARTIST In Early Ohio by DONALD R MacKENZIE THE PAINTING collection of the Ohio Historical Society represents all phases of midwestern painting in the nineteenth century Since the opening of the Hall of Paintings at the Ohio State Museum in 1953 a new emphasis has been placed on the Society's permanent collection and its contribution to knowledge of the cultural heritage of the state Today the native American quality of early nineteenth century paintings ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR THE NATION'S HISTORY A new edition of The Nation's History by two Ohio authors Arthur R Leonard head of the Department of History in the Central High School and Bertha E Jacobs of the North High School of Columbus Ohio has just been issued by Henry Holt and Company of New York City The content of the volume of 648 pages with addenda including 37 pages of biography a list of important dates in 1789 and a copy of the ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 249 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 249 AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL MOBILIZATION FOR WAR 1917-1918 By H A DE WEERD Admiral A T Mahan once described his fellow Americans as being aggressive combative and war-like but he added they are the reverse of military being out of sympathy with military tone and feeling1 A neglect of the study of military history and economy in the United States developed partly as a result of an ingrained American distaste for and ...