... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments and awards within the professional community of Ohio historians include Carolyn Komer joined the Bowling Green State University Center for Archival Collections as a part-time conservatorbookbinder Reuben G Bullard and Willard W Winter of the Cincinnati Bible College recently served as core staff members of the Tel Abila excavations in Jordan Wilson Hoffman began his tenure as Thorn and Frances Pendleton Professor of History at ...
... 232 Ohio Arch 232 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications PRESIDENT WILLIAM McKINLEY MAIN EVENTS IN HIS LIFE William McKinley was born at Niles Trumbull County Ohio and was descended from Scotch and Irish ancestry James and William McKinley the heads of the two branches of the McKinley family in this country one in the Southern the other in the Northern States came from the north of Ireland James was the father of David McKinley the great-grandfather of the late President James McKinley settled ...
... JOSEPH B JOSEPH B FORAKER AND THE STANDARD OIL CHARGES1 by EARL R BECK Instructor in History Ohio State University In 1908 Joseph Benson Foraker then serving his second term in the United States Senate was one of the outstanding figures in politics in the nation Foraker had won national notice for his aggressive uncompromising fight against the Hepburn Rate Bill of 1906 and for his strident attacks upon the executive action of President Theodore Roosevelt which led to the discharge without ...
... MORUS MULTICAULIS OR SILKWORMS MUST EAT MORUS MULTICAULIS OR SILKWORMS MUST EAT By ROBERT PRICE Acres of mulberry trees--multitudes of silkworms--mills booming--a corner on the world's silk market It would be a fantastic dream indeed for an Ohioan today a vision such as this of wealth to be derived from a monopoly on raw silk but in 1836 such hopes were stirring hundreds of people not only in Ohio but throughout the East and South By 1838 at least seven states Massachusetts Pennsylvania ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORIOHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION AND PROCEEDINGS FOR THE YEAR 1885 WITH ABSTRACTS OF ADDRESSES AND PAPERS PRESENTED BEFORE THE SOCIETY PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE A PRELIMINARY conference to take steps towards the organization of a State Archaeological and Historical Society was held at Columbus on the evening of February 12 1885 Prior to this time there had been in existence a State Archaeological Association which had however ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR Ohio Art and Artists By Edna Maria Clark MA Richmond Garrett and Massie pp XIII 509 750 In the second paragraph of this attractive interesting and informing volume the author Mrs Clark makes the following statement The need of a volume of this kind was brought forcefully to the author's attention during an eight-year period of service as chairman of art for the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs when club women made frequent ...
... HAL W HAL W BOCHIN Tom Corwin's Speech Against the Mexican War Courageous But Misunderstood On May 12 1846 by votes of 174 to 14 in the House and 40 to 2 in the Senate Congress granted President James K Polk's request for permission to enroll 50000 volunteers in a war begun by the act of the Republic of Mexico1 Despite the overwhelmingly favorable vote opposition to the war formed quickly especially among Whig abolitionists in New England who viewed the war as a southern plot to increase ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The bicentennial of Daniel Drake 1785-1852 pioneer physician-educator of the Ohio Valley occurs on October 20 1985 The University of Cincinnati which he founded in 1819 is planning to celebrate Drake and his accomplishments during the calendar year 1985 with essays and reviews of some of his major works It is planned to assemble a number of his unpublished orations in a small commemorative volume The Drake Bicentennial will culminate in a symposium on ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Organized for Prohibition A New History of the Anti-Saloon League By K Austin Kerr New Haven Yale University Press 1985 xvii 293p illustrations notes note on sources index 2500 The vineyards of temperance history have been well worked Since its organized beginnings in the 1820s temperance reform has appealed to countless thousands of Americans old and young female and male wealthy and poor liberal and conservative Consequently the movement has had a diversity a ...
... THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND FUTURE PROGRAM THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND FUTURE PROGRAM OF THE OHIO HISTORICAL RECORDS SURVEY PROJECT By JAMES H RODABAUG H Beginnings The Ohio Historical Records Survey Project began operations in February 1936 It was organized and operated by the supervisors of the Writers' Project until November 1936 when it became an independent part of Federal Project No 1 In September 1939 Congress abolished the Federal projects after which the Ohio survey was established as a State ...
... PROCEEDINGS 241 PROCEEDINGS 241 Joint Session Saturday April 2 1000 A M Ohio State Museum Harlow Lindley Presiding The first speaker of the Saturday morning session was the executive director of the Federal Government's Northwest Territory Celebration Commission Mr E M Hawes A resume of his extemporaneous remarks follows THE HISTORICAL PROGRAM OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY CELEBRATION COMMISSION By E M HAWES I have had to qualify as an expert on oxen building of boats and as a pilot trying to get ...
... TRAILING ADAM'S ANCESTORS TRAILING ADAM'S ANCESTORS BY HENRY C SHETRONE Lest the above title may not be readily intelligible to the reader it may be explained that this paper has to do solely with the origin and antiquity of the human race It goes without saying that humans through the ages have concerned themselves with queries as to the genesis significance and destiny of their kind It is equally true that every race and every people from the lowest savagery to highest civilization have ...
... Ohio Day at the Jamestown Exposition Ohio Day at the Jamestown Exposition 175 thusiastic way which ever distinguishes Southern hosts in receiving their guests Governor Swanson's remarks entirely extemporaneous were among the most brilliant and eloquent which the writer has ever heard upon a similar occasion The Governor dwelt at some length upon the respective histories of Ohio and Virginia their ties of relationship Ohio being practically the first born child of Virginia and in periods of ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 349 Reviews Notes and Comments 3 49 officers in the allied service There were also citations and high honors conferred upon him Ohioans will experience genuine pride in reading this interesting record of the World War service of one of her distinguished sons The Journal is supplemented by the official reports of General Dawes and the work as a whole deserves a place in every library with a department devoted to World War history We must add of course that these ...
... THE INTRODUCTION OF FARM MACHINERY INTO OHIO THE INTRODUCTION OF FARM MACHINERY INTO OHIO PRIOR TO 1865 by ROBERT LESLIE JONES Professor of History Marietta College Ohio agriculture in the fifth decade of the twentieth century is a highly mechanized industry with almost every farmer having a heavy investment in devices ranging from tractors to milking machines and pressure sprayers Contemporary mechanization however is less the product of recent innovations than it is the culmination of a long ...
... A Northern Businessman A Northern Businessman Opposes the Civil War EXCERPTS FROM THE LETTERS OF R G DUN edited by JAMES D NORRIS A number of rather prominent northern businessmen opposed the Civil War and the Lincoln administration for both sound business reasons and personal political commitments Robert Graham Dun's letters to his family and friends in Ohio during the Civil War present an excellent portrait of one such businessman Imbued with a deep-seated hostility toward both Lincoln and ...
... BOOK R EVIEWS THE MAKING OF URBAN AMERICA A HISTORY OF CITY PLANNING IN THE UNITED STATES By John W Reps Princeton N J Princeton University Press 1965 xv574p illustrations maps bibliography and index 2500 This massively documented beautifully illustrated book is a masterful historical survey of a long-neglected subject John Reps professor of city and regional planning at Cornell University has successfully traced from European antecedents through colonial and nineteenth-century experiments the ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTOROHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS FOR THE YEAR 1887 WITH ABSTRACTS OF ADDRESSES AND PAPERS PRESENTED BEFORE THE SOCIETY COLUMBUS January 14th 1887 The Society met in the Senate Chamber in the State House F C Sessions First Vice President in the chair The Secretary reported that four active members had been received since the last meeting and that several donations had been made to the museum Among the donations were a surveyor's ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Segments of Southern Thought By Edd Winfield Parks Athens The University of Georgia Press 1938 392p This aptly titled volume was one of the first to be issued by the University of Georgia Press recently established to care for the literary output of southern thinkers and writers on subjects of regional interest and importance Admittedly informal the articles which compose the book are written from a point of view which the author calls the distributistagrarian one and ...
... THE NORTHEASTERN RELIGIOUS PRESS AND THE NORTHEASTERN RELIGIOUS PRESS AND JOHN BROWN by WILLIAM S ROLLINS Analyst National Research Council On October 16 1859 long-smoldering passions in North and South which within a year and a half would burst into the flame of civil war were thrown new fuel On that day John Brown and eighteen staunch followers raided Harper's Ferry Virginia to free the slaves1 After more than twenty-four hours of havoc Colonel Robert E Lee commanding a handful of United ...