... CHASE AND THE ELECTION OF 1860 CHASE AND THE ELECTION OF 1860 BY DONNAL V SMITH Continued from July QUARTERLY CHAPTER IV THE CHASE BOOM On New Year's Day 1864 the New York World lamented that the dawn of the last year of the most mournfully memorable presidential term in the annals of the Nation should still find the country rent asunder by civil convulsions It gave no hint of support for the President and his Cabinet they would have to be enlightened by the unmistakable voice of the people ...
... 598 Ohio Arch 598 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Zane by W O McCluskey Unveiling of Monument by Mrs Catherine Long granddaughter of Elizabeth Zane followed by addresses by Howard F Sedgwick and Major H A Dargue both of Washington D C The program concluded with the singing of America CELEBRATION AT CAMPUS MARTIUS In 1917 the General Assembly of Ohio passed an act authorizing the purchase from Miss Minerva Tupper Nye of the portion of the old Campus Martius site in Marietta on which the ...
... edited by edited by PAUL C BOWERS JR GOODWIN F BERQUIST JR James Kilbourne New Light on his Story James Kilbourne played an important if not widely known role in the settlement and development of Ohio Born in Farmington Connecticut in 1770 Kilbourne became a prosperous merchant and land owner as well as a lay reader and clergyman in the Protestant Episcopal Church He was a man of stature in both the business and spiritual affairs of central Connecticut by the turn of the century In 1800 ...
... Commerce and Culture Commerce and Culture The Pattern in Ohio An Address By HARLAN HATCHER I extend my most cordial personal greetings to my fellow members of the Ohio Historical Society with which I had the pleasure of working for so many years and which has done me honor in the past and which has especially honored me today by inviting me to come once more and share in this annual meeting of our Society I am pleased indeed to do so In fact any reasonable excuse that brings me back to a place ...
... 386 Ohio Arch 386 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications who with two sons now grown to manhood Philip C and Wm J survive the decease of husband and father His demise was universally and sincerely mourned by his fellow-citizens for he had done much for the commercial and intellectual advancement of Chillicothe Ohio's honored first capital His funeral was attended by all classes of citizens and he was buried on Friday morning June 22 in the beautiful little cemetery upon the hill where lie the ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS ennsylvania Agriculture and Country Life 1640-1840 By Stevenson Whitcomb Fletcher Harrisburg Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission 1950 xiv605p Paper 250 cloth 300 For two centuries prior to 1840 agriculture dominated the economic life f Pennsylvania and during much of that period the breadbasket of America was replenished from the abundant harvests of her fields In e years that followed 1840 the raising of wheat ceased to be the farmers' ainstay and the dairy ...
... The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly Published by THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY BOARD OF EDITORS WILLIAM CHARVAT Ohio State University HENRY C SHETRONE Ohio State Museum WILLIAM E SMITH Miami University ALBERT T VOLWILER Ohio University FRANCIS P WEISENBURGER Ohio State University CARL W I TTKE Western Reserve University Editor JAMES H RODABAUGH Associate Editor HENRY J CAREN Assistant Editor S ...
... KATHLEEN M KATHLEEN M DILLON Painters and Patrons The Fine Arts in Cincinnati 1820-1860 In short we should foster western genius encourage western writers patronize western publishers augment the number of western readers and create a western heart1 -Daniel Drake 1833 Dr Daniel Drake a Cincinnati physician and public benefactor made his plea for a distinctly western culture at a gathering of Ohio and Kentucky teachers in 1833 If the arts received public support Drake believed Cincinnati and ...
... 206 Ohio Arch 206 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications V O L 3 But still its mission is to the regions beyond its position in the advancing columns is on the front line Its business is to find and drive the enemy leaving to the slower-moving forces the work of fortifying and garrisoning the conquered provinces Its muster roll begins with those of Caesar's household and ends not until it includes the faithful Onesimus Quenchless zeal for souls is and must forever be its characteristic a ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments Reviews Notes and Comments 469 COLONEL FREDERICK W GALBRAITH JR NEWLY ELECTED NATIONAL COMMANDER OF THE AMERICAN LEGION Colonel Galbraith enjoys the distinction of having been both sailor and soldier in the course of his career He was born at Watertown Massachusetts May 6 1874 and later attended grammar school in Springfield that state He was graduated from a nautical training school at Boston in 1893 and served in various positions aboard American sailing ships ...
... LOCAL HISTORY-FOUNDATION OF OUR FAITH IN LOCAL HISTORY-FOUNDATION OF OUR FAITH IN DEMOCRACY by S K STEVENS State Historian Commonwealth of Pennsylvania It is not merely a pleasure but a genuine honor to be with you this evening at the capital of the first great state to be carved out of the Northwest Territory with its government framed in accordance with the principles of that outstanding charter of liberties-the Northwest Ordinance Ohio has come a long way since 1803 when its state ...
... PRESS NOTICES OF GOVERNOR CLINTON'S PRESS NOTICES OF GOVERNOR CLINTON'S VISIT TO OHIO COLUMBUS GAZETTE JULY 14 1825 Governor Clinton left here on Friday morning last accompanied by Governor Morrow several of the canal commissioners ex-Governor Brown and a number of our fellow citizens and arrived at Springfield in the evening He dined at Dayton on Saturday where he would remain until Monday From thence he would proceed to Cincinnati by way of Hamilton and etc where he would arrive on Tuesday ...
... RELIGION AND THE WESTWARD MARCH RELIGION AND THE WESTWARD MARCH By WILLIAM W SWEET When the Treaty of Peace was signed with Great Britain in the year 1783 which gave independence to the United States of America the Congregational Church was the largest and most influential religious body in the land Though confined almost exclusively to New England the Congregationalists were at the same time nationally important because of their cultural and educational leadership They had come through the ...
... You have been in politics long enough to know that no man in public office owes the public anything In these or closely similar words Mark Hanna is alleged to have advised the attorney general of Ohio in 1890 to drop an antitrust suit against the Standard Oil Company Historians looking for a succinct illustration of how the late nineteenth century's robber barons and their vassals operated in the political field have found the alleged remark invaluable It first did duty in the Democratic ...
... HENRY B HENRY B CURTIS A MEMORIAL ADDRESS1 AT the re-organization of this Society in March 1885 Hon Henry B Curtis of Mt Vernon was elected as its First Vice President It is now our sad duty formally to announce the death of Mr Curtis which occurred on the fifth day of last November at the residence of his grand-daughter Mrs Charles D Seeberger in the City of Chicago Ill where he was stopping for a few days on his way home from a business trip farther West Upon this occasion it is eminently ...
... NINETEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE NINETEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY JUNE 3 1904 The Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Achaeological and Historical Society was held in Page Hall Ohio State University Columbus Ohio at 2 30 P M June 3 1 90 4 The following members were present Judge J H Anderson Columbus Prof M R Andrews Marietta Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Gen R Brinkerhoff Mansfield Hon M D Follett Marietta Hon M S ...
... AN ILLUSTRATED FIELD KEY FOR THE IDENTIFICATION AN ILLUSTRATED FIELD KEY FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF MAMMAL BONES By GEORGE W BRAINERD The key given here is designed for the identification of mammal bones in the field by persons who have not had specialized training in the subject Identifications made under such conditions are of course not always accurate and of necessity often cannot be specific When accurate identifications to species or subspecies are required the material should be checked ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The National Historical Publications and Records Commission is pleased to announce that The Ohio Historical Society is one of more than 10000 institutions and organizations throughout the country participating in the production of a Directory of Repositories of Historical Records The guide which will provide summary information on historical records of all types in as many repositories as possible is expected to include many more institutions than any prior ...
... FRANK P FRANK P VAZZANO The Feud Renewed Martin Davey John Bricker and the Ohio Campaign of 1940 They were old enemies Democrat Martin L Davey and Republican John W Bricker two fierce rivals posed against each other for the second time in a contest for Ohio's governorship Their first race in 1936 degenerated into a barrage of accusations and mudslinging Their second in 1940 promised more of the same If anything as Davey's local newspaper the Ravenna Evening Record and Daily Courier-Tribune ...
... PRESIDENT HARDING AND HIS CABINET by ROBERT K MURRAY Among the many controversial facets involving the life of the twenty-ninth president of the United States few have prompted more conjecture and analysis than the choosing of his cabinet The fact that one of his selections achieved the distinction of being the only cabinet officer to go to jail that another resigned under a cloud of suspicion and still a third narrowly missed criminal conviction places Warren Gamaliel Harding in a unique ...