... Book Reviews Book Reviews Early Maps of the Ohio Valley A Selection of Maps Plans and Views Made by Indians and Colonials from 1673 to 1783 By Lloyd Arnold Brown Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press 1959 xiv 132p illustrations maps plans and bibliography 1200 This handsome volume edited by Lloyd A Brown for the Eavenson Cartography Fund is an attractive picture book which summarizes the cartographic history of the Ohio River region from 1673 to 1783 It features a brief introductory ...
... CHARLES WILLING BYRD CHARLES WILLING BYRD BY W H BURTNER JR The second secretary and acting governor of the Northwest Territory the first United States judge for Ohio district has had almost nothing printed of his life and endeavors Not ten lines can be found in the histories of Ohio His bones now lie forgotten in a little township cemetery back of the new school house at Sinking Springs Highland County Ohio He was born at Westover Charles County Virginia July 26 1770 He came to Kentucky in ...
... edited by edited by JACK S BLOCKER JR Annie Wittenmyer and the Women's Crusade The Women's Temperance Crusade a spontaneous non-violent movement against the saloon involved at least 56000 women in 912 places in 26 states 5 territories and the District of Columbia It came to a focus in the creation of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Cleveland Ohio 18-20 November 1874 At that convention Annie Turner Wittenmyer also spelled Wittenmeyer of Philadelphia was elected the ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Mrs Harry B Longsworth Secretary The society is making a drive for the collection of old family records Bible records diaries account books journals and correspondence ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NEGRO LIFE AND HIISTORY William F Savoy State Director The general program is to collect and preserve the valuable documents of the Negro's history to form intercultural study groups for the proper intergrated study ...
... OLD FORT INDUSTRY OLD FORT INDUSTRY BY S S KNABENSHUE Editorial in Toledo Blade January 24 1903E O R Fort Industry existed that is there are men still living who can recall its remains But that is all we know about it In boyhood they saw the clay bluff afterward cut down which occupied the site of the block bounded by Summit Water Monroe and Jefferson streets On its summit some six or eight doors north of Monroe street was an excavation which had apparently been a cellar under a cabin and at ...
... Taft MacArthur and the Establishment Taft MacArthur and the Establishment Of Civil Government in the Philippines By RALPH ELDIN MINGER ON APRIL 17 1900 a brilliant golden sunny day the United States Army Transport Hancock with the Second Philippine Commission on board pulled away from the crowded dock at San Francisco California while whistles shrieked a shrill farewell and the air rang with enthusiastic cheers1 The boat had barely passed through San Francisco Harbor when the commissioners ...
... FREDERICK J FREDERICK J BLUE Friends of Freedom Lincoln Chase and Wartime Racial Policy Historians have long differed over what motivated Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation They have also disagreed over what place the President believed blacks should occupy after emancipation In failing to reach a consensus on what led Lincoln to the most important decision of his administration they have debated over what factors and persons may have influenced him1 Among those individuals ...
... MARC LEE RAPHAEL MARC LEE RAPHAEL The Industrial Removal Office in Columbus A Local Case Study Historical studies of American institutions and organizations have overwhelmingly concentrated on the national headquarters of such groups and generally ignored personalities and activities on the local level A look from the bottom-up might clarify the effect of national decisions on local branches the pressures local groups exerted upon national organizations the actuality of national policies and ...
... 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 ...
... 260 Ohio Arch 260 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications believing that the people should be accommodated The well is not quite finished The number of people who visit the fort on the Sabbath day runs from 1500 to 2000 Even on last Sabbath dark and gloomy and rainy there were one hundred automobiles present perhaps with five hundred people Our Society must take care of them in the best possible way The present graveled road was built about twenty-five years ago when only poky horses drawing ...
... 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 ...
... NATIONALITY GROUPS IN CLEVELAND POLITICS NATIONALITY GROUPS IN CLEVELAND POLITICS By WELLINGTON G FORDYCE The importance of the immigrant in the political life of Cleveland was recognized at an early date both by their own leaders and by native born politicians The foreigner realizes the value of team play and may organize for spoils but he has frequently shown independence and has voted a split ticket With the increase in naturalization which has taken place since the war the foreign vote has ...
... THE EARLY THEATER IN COLUMBUS OHIO THE EARLY THEATER IN COLUMBUS OHIO 1820-1840 by LUCILE CLIFTON Associate Professor of English Ball State Teachers College Muncie Indiana The citizens of Columbus Ohio which was founded one hundred and forty some years ago have attended plays for at least one hundred and thirty of those years and had a flourishing theater as early as the mid-1830's The first western theatrical circuits followed the natural trade routes down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers As ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 615 Reviews Notes and Comments 615 Judged impartially at this distance it looks a little as though neither Brooks nor Burlingame was eager to fight a duel Of course each naturally desired the public to think that he was not lacking in courage to meet the other in mortal combat While it would doubtless have been dangerous for Brooks to travel through the hostile North direct to Canada had the public been advised of his going a journey to the point designated seems not ...
... 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 ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Politics of Community Migration and Politics in Antebellum Ohio By Kenneth J Winkle New York Cambridge University Press 1988 xiii 239p notes tables bibliography index 3250 This interesting but ultimately unsatisfying book probes an apparent contradiction in the findings of modern political and social historians of the mid-nineteenth century Studies of electoral behavior in various constituencies in Ohio and elsewhere show an amazing stability in the proportion of ...
... THE AMERICAN VETERANS OF FOREIGN SERVICE THE AMERICAN VETERANS OF FOREIGN SERVICE AND THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS by GEORGE T TRIAL National Historian Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States The oldest and largest organization in this country comprised solely of overseas ex-servicemen grew out of events in Columbus Ohio That organization is the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States often identified as the VFW The nearly 2000000 members of the VFW are all campaign-medal men who ...
... THE EXPLORATIONS OF THE EDWIN HARNESS THE EXPLORATIONS OF THE EDWIN HARNESS MOUND WILLIAM C MILLS The Edwin Harness Mound is the largest of the fourteen mounds which are located within the earthworks of the Harness groupl and in close proximity to them and it would equal in dimensions more than all the other mounds of this group combined and perhaps the largest mound in the Scioto Valley proper although not equal in size to the great Hopewell Mound located on the north fork of Paint Creek and ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY AUGUST 1963 -- JULY 1964 compiled by s WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE DURAND Loyal Jr The Major Milksheds of the Northeastern Quarter of the United States Economic Geography XL 1964 9-33 Ohio areas shown in twenty milksheds STOVER Stephen L Ohio's Sheep Year 1868 Agricultural History XXXVIII 1964 102-107 ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT McPHERSON James M The Fight Against the Gag Rule Joshua Leavitt and Antislavery Insurgency in the Whig Party 1839-1842 ...
... 538 Ohio Arch 538 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The Secretary Mr Galbreath closed the afternoon session with an account of the capture imprisonment and execution of Edwin Coppoc who was with John Brown at Harper's Ferry dwelling particularly on the plan of Cook and Coppoc to escape from jail at Charleston and the story of the coffin of Coppoc which is now in the museum of the Society This account in ampler form is found elsewhere in the present issue of the QUARTERLY ANNUAL MEETING ...