... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Territorial Papers of the United States Compiled and edited by Clarence Edwin Carter Vol X The Territory of Michig an 180 51 820 Vol XI T h e Territory of M ic h iga n 1 820182 9 Washington Government Printing Office 1 94 2 1943 Vol X xii948p 200 Vol XI viii1372p 325 Here are two more volumes in the splendid Territorial Series Volume I is still to be printed Volumes II and III embodied the official records of the Northwest Territory Volume IV contained the papers ...
... THE ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART THE ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART BY MARY MCMULLIN JONES In 1925 the Exeter Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Hampshire published a small book entitled The Order of Military Merit the Honor Badge of the Continental Army In this book is given all that is known about the oldest decoration for valor in existence except the Cross of St George of Russia This brief sketch was compiled with great difficulty as the Book of Merit provided for in General ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies BRECKSVILLE EARLY SETTLERS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Brecksville Ernest M Green President Present officers of the society are Ernest M Green president Alice Green Lewis vice president and Mrs Minnie Bartlett Jones historian secretary and treasurer Trustees are Betty Teter Barrett Susie McCreery Birdsall Benjamin P Forbes Raymond J Thayer Raymond B Perry and Harriet A Wright CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Springfield Orton G Rust President The ...
... ROBERT F ROBERT F HOROWITZ James M Ashley and the Presidential Election of 1856 When the name James M Ashley of Toledo Ohio is mentioned one usually thinks of the vindictive impeacher of President Andrew Johnson but Ashley's contributions to the history of mid-nineteenth century America transcend this one event This becomes evident from studying his activities in connection with the 1856 presidential election Ashley played a prominent part in ...
... SURVEY OF THE SEVEN RANGES SURVEY OF THE SEVEN RANGES After the immigration into the Western Reserve of the advance columns of the Connecticut Land Company it was several years before the survey of the new Western Reserve Empire was completed The base lines of the survey were the western boundary of Pennsylvania as determined ten years before 1786 and the parallel 41 latitude north was now 1796 run for the first time and extending west from Pennsylvania 1 20 miles From this base line lines ...
... SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL XLIX For Index of Authors see Contents page iii PAGE ALLEE M H--Runaway Linda Book review by L R Hiestand 217-218 ALLEN CO O--GENEALOGY Gratz Delbert L Historical and Genealogical Sketch of the Swiss Mennonites of Allen and Putnam Counties Ohio 282-288 ALTROCCHI J C--Wolves Against the Moon Book review by E S Ballis 408-409 America in Midpassage by C A Beard and M R Beard--Book review by John O Marsh 307-308 American Industrial ...
... ANTHONY GENE CAREY ANTHONY GENE CAREY The Second Party System Collapses The 1853 Maine Law Campaign in Ohio As he sat at his desk in Cincinnati in late September 1852 Rutherford B Hayes recorded his thoughts on the apparent disintegration of a party system that had held the loyalties of Americans for a generation Government no longer has its ancient importance he wrote Its duties and its powers no longer reach to the happiness of the people The people's progress progress of every sort no ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABRIDGMENT of the Laws by Nathan Dane 72 Academic Seal of The Ohio State University 68 Achenbaum W Andrew Shades of Gray Old Age American Values and Federal Policies since 1920 rev 112-13 Acreage Owned by 43 French Persons in the District of Gallipolis in Washington County July 1 1800 65-67 Table 66 Adams John Quincy 6 Adams Robert 130 Adult education 34-45 Aeneid by Vergil 73 Agricultural Experiment Station 39 Agricultural extension service 34-45 ...
... The Rubber Industry in Ohio The Rubber Industry in Ohio By WILLIAM D OVERMAN Many of us think of the rubber industry in terms of tire sizes and a system of retail distribution centers It is this But for the past half century or longer it has also been one of the moving factors in the life not only of the United States but of the entire world Also when many of us think of rubber we think in terms of a few large companies and a few well-known products which they manufacture But the rubber ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY JULY 1945 -- JULY 1946 Compile d by J AM ES H RODABAUGH an d S W INIFRED SMITH ANTI-SLAVERY LANDON Fred Over Lake Erie to Freedom in Northwest Ohio Q u arterly XVII 1945 1 32-8 QUARLES Benjamin Sources of Abolitionist Income in Mississippi Valley Historical Review XXXII 1945 63-76 ARTS AND CRAFTS ANDERSON Irma Pilling Ohio Coverlets in Antiques XLIX 1946 56-7 Cleveland Print Club in Hobbies LI No ...
... THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY A J BAUGHMAN One of the most noted stations of the old Underground Railway in its time was at Uncle John Finney's in Springfield township Richland county four miles west of Mansfield Ohio about a half mile north of the Mansfield-Crestline trolley line From the windows of the swiftly moving car passengers can see the place where many runaway slaves found rest and succor while enroute to Canada in the ante-bellum days But few persons however who ...
... THE HERO THE HERO OF THE SANDY VALLEY JAMES A GARFIELD'S KENTUCKY CAMPAIGN OF 1861-1862 -- -- -- -- II by ALLAN PESKIN In the closing weeks of 1861 the customary quiet of the isolated Sandy Valley in eastern Kentucky was disturbed by a ragged column of Confederate soldiers which marched into the state from Virginia headed by an obese general with a famous Kentucky name Humphrey Marshall who vowed to free his state from the grip of northern tyranny Don Carlos Buell the Union commander in the ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 655 Forty-First Annual Meeting 655 of the Museum and Library Building together with all the addresses and a number of illustrations To this has been added a brief history of the Society by the Secretary It is intended to use this material in part in an intensive campaign for an increase in the membership of the Society The fifth and final volume of the Diary and Letters of Rutherford B Hayes is now in type and will soon be ready for distribution There is an ...
... MINUTES OF MINUTES OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Columbus Ohio April 7 1951 The Ohio Academy of History met in Columbus April 7 at 1000 A M with Dr Raymond W Bixler of Ashland College in the chair Grover C Platt of Bowling Green State University opened the morning session with a discussion of The Civilization Course in the Ohio College History Curriculum and Frederick B Joyner of Miami University spoke on The Basic American History Course in Ohio Colleges Donald R Tuttle of Fenn College ...
... strikes this reviewer as iconoclastic nonsense Should a German-American historian perhaps devote his research energies and writing talents to negation or the new objectivity Our most sacred book is historical and the authors certainly do not hesitate to practice ancestor worship and only those who depart from the ways of the Chosen of Jehovah are chastized just as Pastor Helmuth of Philadelphia in Revolutionary times castigated those ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Kensington Stone A Mystery Solved By Erik Wahlgren Madison University of Wisconsin Press 1958 xiv228p illustrations bibliography and index 500 Few artifacts of American history have aroused as much interest as the Kensington stone This stone with its runic inscriptions supposedly discovered by a Minnesota farmer in 1898 has been the subject of several books by Hjalmar Holand No American scholar has taken the trouble to examine in detail the case which Holand has ...
... strike for the interior of Kentucky and rouse the country as I go or fall in the effort At all costs he had to avoid the humiliation of a retreat from his native state for I know that if I am driven over the mountains again he told his commander our cause in Kentucky is lost36 Garfield too was in a quandary From the reports of his scouts and spies he had pieced together a reasonably accurate picture of the forces moving against him He knew ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS And Then the Storm By Sister M Monica New York Longm ans Green amp Co 1937 231 p 250 Few foreigners have been privileged to study Spain from so many and widely different viewpoints as the author of And Then the Storm and little escaped her discerning and compassionate eyes Chaperoned by the two charming sisters of Don Juan de Cardenas the then Spanish ambassador at Washington Sister Monica had intimate contact with the old aristocracy and found the Spanish women kind ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 67 NUMBER 1 JANUARY 1958 Woodrow Wilson's First Romance By GEORGE C OSBORN MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN about Abraham Lincoln's romance with Ann Rutledge Although Ann first aroused Lincoln's romantic emotions very few facts are known about this love affair Indeed nearly all that has been written about Ann and Abe's romance is conjecture Although most Americans have heard of Lincoln's first romance not many realize that Woodrow ...
... strike the lakes without some such dash I can never be a free agent or see anything worth the telling12 Fortunately for Dickens' comfort Henry Clay dissuaded him from his rashness urging him rather to follow the more normal routes to Pittsburgh and then take a river boat down the Ohio and Mississippi to St Louis From there he could cut across the prairies to Chicago or return to the Ohio and drive north to Canada and the lakes13 After many ...