... NEWS and NOTES ONE OF THE BETTER results of the effort to recognize the centennial of the Civil War has been the establishment of a project to collect and publish the correspondence and other papers of Ulysses S Grant supreme commander of the Union armies and eighteenth president of the United States To accomplish this end the Ulysses S Grant Association was created through the efforts of the Civil War centennial commissions of Ohio where Grant was born and lived his early years Illinois which ...
... 34 Ohio Arch 34 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications search history other than that of our own state for noble ideas The story of the foundation of our state and its progress is like a romance Well did Washington say in the dark days of the Revolution when he was questioned as to what he would do if he met defeat that he would come out here and settle in the valley of the Muskingum Several years ago a friend of mine a lady of Ohio met an English woman whose whole idea of America was based ...
... CINCINNATI AS A FRONTIER PUBLISHING CINCINNATI AS A FRONTIER PUBLISHING AND BOOK TRADE CENTER 1796-1830 by WALTER SUTTON Department of English University of Rochester Cincinnati was a frontier village with one newspaper and a population of 500 when the first book published in the territory lying north and west of the Ohio River came from the press of William Maxwell in 1796 The log-cabin settlement on a north bend of the Ohio River was only six years old Six more years were to pass before it ...
... EXPLORATIONS OF THE GARTNER MOUND AND EXPLORATIONS OF THE GARTNER MOUND AND VILLAGE SITE WM C MILLS CURATOR OF THE STATE ARCH AND HIST SOCIETY The Gartner mound located partly upon the land of Mr Adam Gartner and partly upon that of Miss Elizabeth Lievy is situated about six miles north of Chillicothe on the east side of the Scioto river The river bank at this point is quite high upward of 70 feet above low water mark and is very irregular with here and there spurs running up to the river ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 215 Reviews Notes and Comments 215 OTHNIEL LOOKER For many years the biographies that have appeared from time to time of Governor Othniel Looker have been far from satisfactory The text of the sketch which has appeared in many publications is reproduced in the note below As will be seen it is incorrect in almost every particular The editor recently learned that Governor Looker died in the village of Palestine Illinois A very obliging correspondent was found in the ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR CONFERENCE OF PARK SUPERINTENDENTS The first annual conference of superintendents of parks under the custody of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Museum and Library building August 7 and 8 1929 The work of the conference is set forth in the following PROGRAM FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF PARK SUPERINTENDENTS Ohio State Museum August 7 and 8 1929 WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AUGUST 7 I 5 Introduction and ...
... NEWSPAPERS AND HISTORY NEWSPAPERS AND HISTORY By RAYMOND F FLETCHE R Time's out of joint when a newspaper man ventures to speak at an annual gathering of a great state historical society Whenever a member of the Fourth Estate appraises history he must agree with the sages that it is at the root of all science the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature the unrolled scroll of prophecy the record of man in quest of complete living What possible connection can there be between proud ...
... THE OHIO ROAD EXPERIMENT 1913-1916 by WAYNE E FULLER In December 1914 the Signal a Zanesville Ohio newspaper carried a story captioned Jacob Johnson of the West Pike Died Thursday The story was interesting not because Jacob Johnson was renowned but because he was at the time of his death eighty-seven years old and had lived his entire life west of Zanesville near the famous highway which the American people knew as the old National Road but which the people of Zanesville called the West Pike ...
... 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 ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Organizations AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES Cincinnati Jacob R Marcus Director Herbert Bronstein has been appointed assistant to the director His appointment became effective in June In celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the arrival of the first Jews in America the archives has published a special large tercentenary issue of the American Jewish Archives a second part to which will appear in January 1955 In the next few weeks the first of a ...
... 114 Ohio Arch 114 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications THE LATEST PREHISTORIC NEWS The actual results of archaeological explorations in Ohio and elsewhere in this country are sufficient to arouse interest and curiosity in the life and world of the lost and unrecorded people But what the newspapers say concerning these explorations surpasses the tales of Arabian Nights or Baron Munchausen For instance concerning the exhumations by Prof W C Mills at Fort Ancient the past summer 1908 a leading ...
... 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 ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews American Business and Foreign Policy 1920-1933 By JOAN HOFF WILSON Lexington University Press of Kentucky 1971 xvii 339p notes bibliography and index 1250 Since 1929 the preoccupation of historians with the role and ideology of business in American life has been intense Studies of the Gilded Age such as those by Matthew Josephson and Charles Beard looked upon businessmen as robber barons in domestic affairs During the isolationist decade capitalists became those ...
... OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY--PRE-CIVIL WAR OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY--PRE-CIVIL WAR PERIOD THE FIRST YEAR OF THE SECOND EPIDEMIC OF ASIATIC CHOLERA IN COLUMBUS OHIO--1849 By JONATHAN FORMAN Cholera because of its sudden appearance its high mortality and the frightfulness of its dead has always been a dramatic character in the history of the human race Some years ago the writer told the story of the first cholera epidemic in Columbus that of 18331 This was the great epidemic surpassing any pestilence that ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Organizations ANTHONY WAYNE PARKWAY BOARD Columbus J Richard Lawwill Director In the past few months the Anthony Wayne Parkway Board has partic ipated in the dedication of several markers in the parkway district On June 21 a marker sponsored by the local businessmen's association and the Amer ican Legion post was dedicated at Fort Loramie Shelby County It describe the Miami and Erie Canal and the Greene Ville Treaty line which cross at that point J ...
... 586 Ohio Arch 586 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications REPORT OF THE SECRETARY The Secretary submitted the following reports of officers and committees The past year has been one of unusual activity in every department of the work of the Society Evidence of this fact is detailed in the reports of the officers and committees herewith submitted It is hoped that the members of the Society will read at least once each of these reports They exhibit generous and devoted effort and substantial ...
... 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 ...
... FOLK MUSIC ON THE MIDWESTERN FRONTIER 1788-1825 FOLK MUSIC ON THE MIDWESTERN FRONTIER 1788-1825 by HARRY R STEVENS Duke University Since the days when Frederic L Ritter and Oscar G T Sonneck established modern musicology in the United States between 1883 and 1910 two simple but rigid traditions have dominated the writing of American musical history One is made up of the lives of composers and performers and descriptions of their work The second and more important one is the chronicle 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 ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Frontier Republic Ideology and Politics in the Ohio Country 1780-1825 By Andrew RL Cayton Kent Kent State University Press 1986 xii 197p map notes essay on sources index 2700 The intellectual history of the early republic has undergone considerable revival in recent years Led by Bernard Bailyn at Harvard whose The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution 1967 was a classic when published and continued by his pupil Gordon Wood of Brown University in the ...