... Editorialana Editorialana 393 following device A shield in form a circle On it in the foreground on the right a sheaf of wheat on the left a bundle of seventeen arrows both standing erect in the background and rising above the sheaf and arrows a mountain range over which shall appear a rising sun SEC 2 The great seal of the state shall be two and one-half inches in diameter on which shall be engraved the device as described in the preceding section and it shall be surrounded with these words ...
... A FLIGHT ACROSS OHIO THE ESCAPE OF A FLIGHT ACROSS OHIO THE ESCAPE OF WILLIAM WELLS BROWN FROM SLAVERY by W EDWARD FARRISON Chairman Department of English North Carolina College at Durham It was January 1 1834 On the previous night Captain Enoch Price a commission merchant and steamboat owner of St Louis Missouri had arrived on his steamer The Chester in Cincinnati This was a pleasure as well as a business trip and on it the captain had brought his family and also several of his house slaves ...
... KATHLEEN A KATHLEEN A LAUGHLIN Sisterhood Inc The Status of Women Commission Movement and the Rise of Feminist Coalition Politics in Ohio 1964-1974 Phyllis Schlafly's STOP ERA organization campaigned vigorously against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment ERA in Ohio during the early 1970s Armed with loaves of bread tied with pink ribbons bus loads of STOP ERA supporters came to the state capitol in Columbus to lobby against the Amendment when the Ohio House of Representatives' State ...
... Lincoln and His Ohio Friends Lincoln and His Ohio Friends By FRANCIS P WEISENBURGER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE VIEWPOINTS which helped to mold the political career of Abraham Lincoln1 a major influence was Joshua R Giddings antislavery congressman 1838-59 from Jefferson Ohio2 Over a period of years Lincoln and his Springfield Illinois law partner William Henry Herndon read abolitionist literature together and Lincoln became a careful student of Giddings' speeches3 Professor Elbert J Benton has ...
... 206 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 20 6 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY it is a job well done It is really only in its beginning The opportunity for service to the State of Ohio has been multiplied many times beyond that we ever hoped for in years gone by As I remarked at the opening of the meeting this is a sort of birthday for the director He is today joining the quarter century group in service In lieu of the report of the director I am going to ask him to say ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Guide to the Material in The National Archives Washington D C Government Printing Office 194 0 303p Paper 40 cloth 70 The first general guide to the materials in The National Archives made its appearance in 1938 as an Appendix to the Third Annual Report of the Archivist of the United States The present work is the successor to that initial guide and constitutes a key to some 320000 linear feet of records or those accessioned up to December 31 1939 It must be kept in ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 101 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 101 for the purpose of recapturing the lost arts of prehistoric man in the utilization of flint and other lithic materials and for the establishment of a laboratory of actual materials to be used for purposes of comparison This project it will be recalled was financed by Messrs Arthur C Johnson and H Preston Wolfe pending other sources of support The Director had hoped that the Lithic Laboratory might become a ...
... RICHARD M RICHARD M BUDD Ohio Army Chaplains and the Professionalization of Military Chaplaincy in the Civil War While the study of military chaplains is fascinating if only because of the apparent incongruity of peacemakers serving in an institution of warmakers military chaplaincy during the American Civil War is of particular interest because of the insight it offers into the development of the office of chaplain While chaplains had been appointed by Congress as far back as 1775 their role ...
... THE The collection of manuscripts letters books and other items of literary and historical interest listed in this catalog was presented to the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society in memory of Dolores Cameron Venable by her husband Emerson Venable and her daughter Evelyn Venable THE DOLORES CAMERON VENABLE MEMORIAL COLLECTION Correspondence Boxes 2-16 Letters from William Henry Venable1 to Coates Kinney2 and from Coates Kinney to William Henry Venable 238 letters covering the ...
... BLENNERHASSETT BLENNERHASSETT1 I BLENNERHASSETT TRUTH is not only stranger than fiction but often sadder than the grimmest fancy can portray Few pages of American history present more of the picturesque and none offer so much of the pitiful as do those that tell the story of Blennerhassett This man whom Parton the would-be whitewasher of Aaron Burr calls eccentric romantic idle and shiftless descended from choice Irish stock The source of his blood is traced to the times of King John Harman ...
... Executive Mansion Executive Mansion 271 such recommendation into effect had been taken or attempted by the general assembly On February 16 1917 a resolution was adopted authorizing the appointment of a committee to investigate the cost of purchasing a residence already erected and also the cost of purchasing a site and causing a proper residence to be erected thereon in Columbus to be used as a home for future governors of the state 107 0 L 7 60 On March 30 1917 the governor approved an act ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Midwest Pioneer--His Ills Cures and Doctors By Madge E Pickard and R Carlyle Buley Crawfordsville Indiana R E Banta 1945 346p Frontispiece 500 At the time of the celebration in Columbus of the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Medical College at the Willoughby University of Lake Erie 1834-1934 a group of those who are interested in local medical history began cooperative work in this field First ...
... Book Notes Book Notes For the General Welfare Essays in Honor of Robert H Bremner Edited by Frank Annunziata Patrick D Reagan and Roy T Wortman New York Peter Lang 1989 xiv 390p notes This is a collection of articles published by historians who feel professionally indebted to their mentor Bob Bremner Professor Bremner while at The Ohio State University was indeed a unique scholar one who could at the same time devote himself to the classroom and teaching research and publishing and the ...
... 172 Ohio Arch 172 Ohio Arch and His Society Pub li ca ti ons VoL 3 REMARKS OF R D MARSHALL ESQ Your presiding officer has called on me owing to some delay in the arrival of trains which has delayed the forming and moving of the procession to address you for a few minutes and has charged me with being a speaker of some note and as he has placed me on trial before you on that charge I feel pretty certain that when you have heard me you will promptly acquit me of the charge as it was not my ...
... Annual Meeting of Board of Trustees 659 Annual Meeting of Board of Trustees 659 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO OCTOBER 8 1927 1100 A M The meeting was called to order by President Johnson There were present Messrs Johnson Thompson Wood Furniss Orton Bareis Laylin Goodman and Florence and Mrs Dryer Trustee Emeritus Prince Secretary Galbreath and Director Mills were also ...
... MAJOR GEORGE W MAJOR GEORGE W RUE THE CAPTOR OF GENERAL JOHN MORGAN By WILLIAM MARION MILLER Few persons even those whose formal education ended with elementary schooling are unaware of the name and deeds of General John Morgan the famous Confederate raider of Civil War days practically no one even teachers of history in colleges and universities knows the name of the man to whom he surrendered near East Liverpool Ohio on a hot July afternoon in 1863 The reason is not hard to explain his ...
... edited by edited by HENRY J YEAGER Nouvelles du Scioto The Story of a Fraud The original settlement of what is now southern Ohio at the end of the eighteenth century was marred by scandalous treatment of the French immigrants by the promoters of the Scioto Land Company Through its agency in Paris the company using misleading information sold land to Frenchmen eager to settle in America The Parisians suffered considerable physical hardship on their voyage to say nothing of the mental anguish in ...
... BAKER ON THE FIFTH BALLOT THE DEMOCRATIC ALTERNATIVE 1932 by ELLIOT A ROSEN A study of history's might-have-beens is often more interesting and informative than one would suspect from the bare recital of what happened For in addition to the zest of narrative it has the delight of speculation Very often the threads which lead to a great decision are intertwined with other strands which if they had prevailed might have brought about an entirely different aftermath What would have been the ...
... ABORIGINAL HISTORY OF BUTLER COUNTY ABORIGINAL HISTORY OF BUTLER COUNTY AFTER a brief popular discussion of the evidences of pre-glacial man in France England and New Jersey Mr MacLean spoke of the analogy between the situation of the gravel terraces along the Miami in Butler county and those in which the remains of man have been found in the other places referred to Like the terraces on the Delaware at Trenton New Jersey where Dr C C Abbott had found rough stone implements of pre-glacial age ...
... COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS THE CIVIL WAR LITHOGRAPHS OF ALFRED EDWARD MATHEWS by ELIZABETH R MARTIN THE CIVIL WAR lithographs of the Ohioan THE CIVIL WAR lithographs of the Ohioan Alfred Edward Mathews in the Ohio Historical Society collections are representative of the contribution made by the soldier artist to the pictorial record of the Civil War No war before or since has been so fully portrayed by amateurs and professionals in the art media of its time--oil water color ...