... span p --- tr AGRICULTURE Heigh-Ho Come to the Fair Ohio Historical Society Echoes I No 9 September 1962 1 Brief discussion of agricultural fairs in Ohio and the founding of the state fair PORTER Thomas E A Letter Concerning the Early Maple Sugar Industry of Paint Creek Valley Paint Creek Valley Folk Publications No 14 Chillicothe Ohio Paint Creek Valley Folk Research Project 1963 6p Mimeographed ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT ABER Mina E The Rankin House Stop on Underground Railroad Negro History ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 397 tive of the cereal native to the American Continent But one of the most interesting of the displays brought here by Mr Mills clearly proves that these mound builders a race very different from the Indian grew this corn before the Indian drove them South It had been a question said the Ohio man whether the mound builders were agriculturists Now see these charred remains of grain They were dug from an old village site adjacent to one of the principal Ohio mounds ...
... Lincoln and His Ohio Friends Lincoln and His Ohio Friends By FRANCIS P WEISENBURGER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE VIEWPOINTS which helped to mold the political career of Abraham Lincoln1 a major influence was Joshua R Giddings antislavery congressman 1838-59 from Jefferson Ohio2 Over a period of years Lincoln and his Springfield Illinois law partner William Henry Herndon read abolitionist literature together and Lincoln became a careful student of Giddings' speeches3 Professor Elbert J Benton has ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Constitutional History of the United States 1826-1876 A More Perfect Union By Homer C Hockett New York Macmillan Company 1939 405p 300 The first volume of this series The Blessings of Liberty was reviewed in the QUARTERLY XLIX 1940 292-94 In it Professor Hockett discussed the colonial background the Revolutionary Period and the first third of a century under the new Constitution Here he treats of the slavery controversy but to minimize the boredom of readers who ...
... Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association 415 may be mentioned Hugh Henry Brackenridge the author of a satirical romance entitled Modern Chivalry in which he sarcastically depicts the political conditions of his time The Pittsburgh Gazette the first newspaper printed west of the Alleghany mountains contains in its early columns a number of contributions from the pen of this versatile son of Princeton who had been a classmate of James ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 127 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 127 William D Overman Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was elected secretary Mr Cook's paper on Judge John Tyler--Pioneer Jurist will be published in the QUARTERLY later if not published otherwise Professor A T Volwiler's paper on Harrison Blaine and American Foreign Policy 1889-1893 will be published in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Vol 79 no 4 Mr Garrison's paper follows A ...
... M M PAUL HOLSINGER Timothy Walker Blackstone For the New Republic In the generation before the Civil War few persons within the state of Ohio were as nationally renowned as Timothy Walker of Cincinnati During the so-called Golden Age of American Law between 1820 and 1860 Walker from his adopted home on the banks of the Ohio River wrote probably the most widely read legal treatise of nineteenth century America the Introduction to American Law A founder of the Cincinnati Law School the first ...
... 262 Ohio Arch 262 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Fort Miami -- We regret to report that this property is still in the hands of owners who do not seem much interested in its historic value Fallen Timbers-- At this writing the State Architect is engaged in landscaping the site chosen for the future monument to honor the memory of a great soldier and mark an historic spot It will be recalled that two years ago the Legislature appropriated 2000 for this purpose We had asked for 40000 for ...
... THE ELECTION OF 1848 IN OHIO THE ELECTION OF 1848 IN OHIO BY ERWIN H PRICE CHAPTER I THE LEGISLATIVE AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND In the year 1848 in Ohio the Whig administration under Governor William Bebb was drawing to a close In the Legislature there was a Whig majority whose efforts were sometimes embarrassed by an energetic group of Democrats This opposition moreover had the advantage of working with the party in power in national politics at Washington The Ohio representation in Congress ...
... Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting 533 Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting 533 with the history of Fort Laurens Therefore a brief synopsis along historical lines may be of interest to many citizens The fort was erected by command of General Washington and is located in Tuscarawas county Ohio about one mile below the village of Bolivar on the west bank of the Tuscarawas river and was erected in November and December 1778 General McIntosh superintended the construction and had under his command 1 200 troops of ...
... JOHN BROWN'S LAST LETTER JOHN BROWN'S LAST LETTER BY CLARENCE S GEE John Brown of Harper's Ferry fame sat in his prison cell in Charlestown Virginia now West Virginia on the morning of December 2nd 1859 well aware that he had not long to live His trial had resulted in a verdict against him and he was sentenced to die on this date In papers recently restored to the files of the Circuit Court in Charlestown we find the original verdict We the Jury find the defendant John Brown the prisoner at ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY Since the annual meeting of the society held on June 5 1903 the proceedings of which were published in volume twelve pp 187-218 the meetings of the trustees have been as follows that of the executive committee held June 30 1903 in the rooms of the society Page Hall Ohio State University After the determination of the compensation to be accorded the different salaried officers of the society the standing committees for the year were agreed ...
... 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 ...
... JOSEPH RAY1 JOSEPH RAY1 By JERRY DENNIS Joseph Ray was born in Ohio County Virginia now Ohio County West Virginia on November 25 1807 His ancestry was of English origin and can be traced back to John Ray the naturalist William Ray his father was born in Ireland in 1782 and had settled with his parents near West Liberty Virginia in 1789 On February 25 1807 William married Margaret Graham a native of Westchester County Pennsylvania They were among the early pioneers of the Upper Ohio Valley The ...
... ROBERT L ROBERT L DAUGHERTY Problems in Peacekeeping The 1924 Niles Riot On November 1 1924 Niles Ohio was the scene of one of the state's most famous riots Replete with violence the riot was characterized by beatings overturned automobiles and even shootings Bands of armed men freely roamed the streets of Niles meeting with little or no opposition from law enforcement agencies Local civil authority in the Niles area-both municipal and county-had all but evaporated in the face of violence and ...
... 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 APRIL 4 1941 The Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met at noon Friday April 4 1941 in the Trustees Room of the Ohio State Museum President Johnson presided over the meeting attended by the following trustees Messrs Eagleson Fleischmann Florence Rightmire Spencer Spetnagel Wittke and Wolfe Director Shetrone ...
... 596 Ohio Arch 596 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications for regret nor yet a wrongful act although the methods employed were not always beyond reproach It was not in the scheme of things that such a vast and fertile country should remain the abode of a handful of savages -- perhaps never more than 50000 in number the advance of civilization demanded the change and the Indian gave way to civilization and today But he was an Ohioan just the same who lived loved fought and died on Ohio soil ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABOLITION Emigrant Aid Society of Montgomery County 16 Abolition issues 5-30 passim Administrative issues Ohio House of Representatives Partisanship in the Ohio House of Representatives 19001911 An Analysis of Roll-Call Voting by John M Wegner 146-170 Agriculture The Carmichael Case Animal Science At The Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station 1905-1921 by Chris Cumo 31-41 Ahlers John F 131n 19 Air Commerce Act 125 Airmail Act Kelly Law 126 127 Airmail False ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Frontier America The Story of the Westward Movement By Thomas D Clark New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1959 xi832p illustrations maps appendix bibliography tables and index 675 This is not an easy kind of book to write It is the history of a movement of population that affects every section of the country It covers frontier areas and periods with no exact terminal points and with no two alike It embraces political social economic military and diplomatic history and it ...
... Rise and Decline of Private Rise and Decline of Private Academies in Albany Ohio by Ivan M Tribe The nineteenth century witnessed the establishment of numerous private educational institutions commonly known as academies These academies were especially widespread in states north of the Ohio River and could be found both in the cities and in rural villages1 One Ohio town which boasted a succession of these schools was Albany incorporated in 1842 a small farm village in southwestern Athens ...