... TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY May 23 1913 The twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Hunter Society Room Page Hall Ohio State University Columbus Ohio at 2 o'clock P M Friday May 23 1913 The following members were present Mr E H Archer Columbus Mr George F Bareis Canal Winchester Mr T B Bowers Columbus Mr H E Buck Delaware Hon Albert ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Johnny Appleseed Source Book By Robert C Harris Old Fort News Vol IX Nos 1 -2 The Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society Fort Wayne Ind March-June 1945 31p Secretary of the Johnny Appleseed Memorial Commission of Fort Wayne vice-president of the Allen County Historical Society principal of the James H Smart School author inventor and civic leader Robert C Harris of Fort Wayne has for nearly fifteen years been doing a major service to Middle Western folklore by ...
... COLONEL JAMES KILBOURNE COLONEL JAMES KILBOURNE BY C B GALBREATH Colonel James Kilbourne one of the founders of Bucyrus was a prominent pioneer of Ohio He was born at New Britain Connecticut October 19 1770 He was descended from an ancient Scottish family but his ancestors for many years had lived in England before emigrating to America His father who was a farmer encouraged his son to make his home with Mr Griswold the father of Bishop Griswold of the Protestant Episcopal Church in order that ...
... LETTERS OF SENATOR H LETTERS OF SENATOR H B PAYNE OF OHIO CONTRIBUTED BY DUANE MOWRY MILWAUKEE WIS The original of the following letters are in the possession of the contributor They treat of interesting political events interesting particularly to residents of the Buckeye state and to students of the history of the Middle West They would seem to have something more than passing significance because of the prominence of the author of them and of the public men and public measures considered It ...
... REPORT OF ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF REPORT OF ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY HELD IN THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING OF THE SOCIETY MARCH 26 1 931 The Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met in annual meeting March 26 1931 at 2 o'clock p m in the trustees' room of the Museum and Library Building The following members were present Johnson Bareis Florence Orton Spetnagel Goodman and Hinkle ...
... 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 ...
... 190 Ohio Arch 190 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications the beginning to within a few years it was the headquarters of that Order in America From its halls its preachers went into all parts of the country We now find our time gone and we are only getting into out subject Other events are quite as interesting and valuable but we have restricted ourselves to the very first as closely as possible and the half has not been told Some one ought to write a history of the first forty years of ...
... The Ohio Canal Movement 1820-1825 The Ohio Canal Movement 1820-1825 By HARRY N SCHEIBER NO SINGLE ACT of the Ohio General Assembly prior to the Civil War had so profound an effect upon the state's economic development as did the bill of February 4 1825 by which construction of the state's canal system was first authorized On the eve of the bill's passage Alfred Kelley one of its eading exponents sought to explain to De Witt Clinton of New York the reasons why the Ohio legislature had agreed to ...
... 0 0 K J WARREN KEIFER The above is the most used form of expression in the Commercial world and is used in the United States oftener perhaps in conversation than any other purely arbitrary expression in the English language It has no classic origin or derivation it has no linguistic Greek or Latin root it cannot be claimed for it even the dignity of an American slang birth nor is it an abbreviation of an established expression or form of words properly found in any language Its universally ...
... OHIO IN NATIONAL POLITICS 1865-1896 OHIO IN NATIONAL POLITICS 1865-1896 By CLIFFORD H MOORE PH D Professor of History in Ripon College Ripon Wisconsin CHAPTER I SOME DETERMINING FACTORS The sectional conflict which ended in 1865 contributed a number of conflicting elements to the new era of national life Prominent was the suspicion engendered by four years of struggle and it persisted throughout the period of the next generation as a barrier to a true sense of national unity Men easily ...
... TERRY A TERRY A BARNHART James McBride Historian and Archaeologist of the Miami Valley James McBride of Hamilton Ohio was a man of many parts At various junctures of his busy life McBride's multifarious activities embraced merchandising architecture banking civil engineering and several avenues of public service As respectable as those attainments were however his most enduring contributions were made as an amateur historian and archaeologist McBride is a prime example of the antiquarian ...
... 40 Ohio Arch 40 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ring a man's relationship to the God who made him and the home over which he presides has a political significance You might as well talk of removing politics from business as to talk of asking the sun to stop shining as long as a human being votes upon the election of a man who will vote for a law there is always politics and there always should be politics Instead of there being too much politics in this country there is too little ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Best Intentions The Triumph and Failure of the Great Society Under Kennedy Johnson and Nixon By Irwin Unger New York Doubleday 1996 399p notes index 2795 Guns or Butter The Presidency of Lyndon Johnson By Irving Bernstein New York The Oxford University Press 1996 x 606p illustrations notes index 3500 Irwin Unger's The Best of Intentions and Irving Bernstein's Guns or Butter offer timely accounts of the Johnson years tracing the ideas programs and agencies that ...
... REFUGEES TO AND FROM CANADA AND THE REFUREFUGEES TO AND FROM CANADA AND THE REFUGEE TRACT BY EDWARD LIVINGSTON TAYLOR All that part of the City of Columbus which lies east of the Scioto River and between Fifth Avenue on the north and Steelton on the south a distance of four and one-half miles is on what is known in law and history as the Refugee Tract which was as we shall hereafter see set apart by the government for the benefit of Refugees from Canada and Nova Scotia This territory comprises ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 333 And now Mr Speaker having covered the points I think necessary I submit for an immediate vote of the House a bill which urges that Groundhog Day be set back from February 2d to January 2d so that we may have an earlier spring THE HEROES OF FORT MEIGS We cheerfully publish the circular sent out by the Wives and Daughters of the Boys in Blue to the soldiers of the United States and all others interested in behalf of the laudable purpose of purchasing and preserving ...
... SONG WRITERS OF OHIO SONG WRITERS OF OHIO ALEXANDER COFFMAN ROSS AUTHOR OF TIPPECANOE AND TYLER TOO I am a Buckeye from the Buckeye State This was the proud declaration of the author of Tippecanoe and Tyler too as he faced a large and enthusiastic audience in New York City just before he gave to fame that political campaign song-the most effective ever sung in the history of the Republic Alexander Coffman Ross first opened his eyes to the light in Zanesville O May 31 1812 His father Elijah ...
... THE MANUFACTURE AND USE OF ABORIGINAL THE MANUFACTURE AND USE OF ABORIGINAL STONE IMPLEMENTS PROBABLY no other equal area in the Union has furnished so great a number and variety of the so-called Indian Relics as has been found within the southern half of Ohio and the adjacent portions of Kentucky and West Virginia Although few persons have made any particular study of them curiosity in regard to them is active among all classes and the successful collector often finds life made a burden by ...
... 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 ...
... JAMES E JAMES E HANEY Blacks and the Republican Nomination of 1908 Theodore Roosevelt's decision not to seek the Republican presidential nomination in 1908 left the field open to several Republican hopefuls but his influence in the party and control of its machinery made it clear that the candidate he supported would win the nomination as well as the national election that followed This was especially important when it is remembered that national politics during the first decade of the ...
... William McKinley and the Tariff William McKinley and the Tariff by H WAYNE MORGAN Two issues the currency and the tariff dominated national party politics in the years after the election of 1876 had eased the major conflicts of Reconstruction Historians generally tend to dismiss the tariff issue or to argue that politicians used it to divert public attention from more important problems It was far from irrelevant however since it involved the two most basic problems of the time the nature of ...