... Scharlott Winter-Spring 2004 pp 4-17 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2004 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Communication Technology Transforms the Marketplace The Effect of the Telegraph Telephone and Ticker on the Cincinnati Merchants' Exchange By Bradford W Scharlott O n the night of August 20 1847 the tireless telegraph promoter Henry O'Reilly installed a Morse telegraph instrument in a small room above the meeting hall of the Cincinnati Merchants' ...
... LORLE A LORLE A PORTER The Lecompton Issue in Knox County Politics Division of the Democracy 1858 The division of the Democratic party in 1857-58 over the issue of the Lecompton Constitution for Kansas proved to be a decisive turning point in American history President James Buchanan by accepting this semi-fradulent attempt to admit Kansas into the Union as a slave state bitterly divided the only remaining national party Senator Stephen A Douglas the Little Giant opposed the constitution and ...
... 554 Ohio Arch 554 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications the Hopewell Mounds during the explorations of Professor Moorehead in 1 89 1 It is the further plan of the Director to place on exhibition objects illustrating the various cultural peoples of prehistoric times in Ohio It is further anticipated that the south exhibition hall on the second floor will be devoted to collections illustrating the various types of artifacts used by prehistoric man in Ohio ACCESSIONS TO MUSEUM COLLECTIONS ...
... Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association 16 1 commemorated in our own beautiful memorial building holding his library and numerous family relics while his remains with those of his wife lie beneath the family monument on the beautiful knoll in Spiegel Grove which is approached only by traversing the original Harrison trail of the war of 1812 As coworkers in this field of historic investigation we welcome you to our capital and lay open ...
... Some Memoranda of the Locust Some Memoranda of the Locust Season in Ohio 1855 Edited by RENDELL RHOADES THE FIRST CHATTEL I ever remember buying at a public sale was a bushel of books This was in August 1931 at the John L West farm about three miles north of Hillsboro in Highland County Ohio The lot consisted of such choice items as a history of the modern world up to 1828 a volume of funereal poetry a running account of Greek mythology and an old-fashioned bound copybook containing a few ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Ohio Handbook of the Civil War By Robert S Harper Columbus Ohio Historical Society for the Ohio Civil War Centennial Commission 1961 78p illustrations map and bibliography Paper 100 This compact work is crammed with highly useful information Beginning with Abraham Lincoln's earliest appearances in Ohio before the disruption of the Union it covers in rapid-fire fashion a wide range of topics Ohio's reaction to secession to the firing on Fort Sumter and the state's ...
... Dedication of Ohio's World War Memorial 501 Dedication of Ohio's World War Memorial 501 It is particularly appropriate that the address of welcome with which the program proper is to begin should be delivered by His Excellency the Governor of Ohio that staunch friend of the Society neighbor and fellow-citizen Vic Donahey May I present the Governor of Ohio The audience rose and extended a very cordial greeting to Governor Donahey When the applause concluded he spoke as follows Mr Chairman ...
... 130 OHIO HISTORY 130 OHIO HISTORY not to be bound by the result23 Under these circumstances talk of a Hayes Garfield or other candidacy persisted Hayes lightened the tension perhaps by giving a reception Monday evening for the incoming Republican governor General Edward F Noyes It was attended by the warring factions and described by Hayes as A very lively happy thing24 Late on Tuesday evening two Republicans--a state senator and a representative--rang Hayes's doorbell They assured him that ...
... CINCINNATI-A CIVIC ODE CINCINNATI-A CIVIC ODE WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE Professor William Henry Venable ranks among the first of Ohio's most honored educators and authors For many years he was professor in the High Schools of Cincinnati His published works embrace history poetry literature and fiction He has been a devoted student of the literature of the Ohio Valley He delivered the address on Ohio Literary Men and Women at the Ohio Centennial celebration Chillicothe May 20 1903 His splendid ode ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 69 NUMBER 2 APRIL 1960 Governor McKinley's Misfortune The Walker-McKinley Fund of 1893 By H WAYNE MORGAN ONE BALMY SPRING-LIKE DAY in February 1893 Governor William McKinley of Ohio boarded a train for a trip to New York The tang of spring in the air was matched by the bright carnation in his lapel and the genial smile he gave the well-wishers who saw him off In his pocket he had the outline of a speech he was to make to the ...
... 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 ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Life Journals and Correspondence of Rev Manasseh Cutler LLD Volume I By William Parker Cutler and Julia Perkins Cutler Athens Ohio University Press 1987 xii 524p notes 4000set Volume II By William Parker Cutler and Julia Perkins Cutler Athens Ohio University Press 1987 iv 495p notes appendices index 4000set Manasseh Cutler was a community builder of the first rank during a very formative era in our nation's history To mark the Centennial of the Northwest Ordinance his ...
... THE PIONEER PHYSICIANS OF OHIO THE PIONEER PHYSICIANS OF OHIO THEIR LIVES AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE 1788-1835 THE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS FOR MEDICAL PRACTICE--AN ATTEMPT TO REGULATE BY LAW AND THE PURPOSE BEHIND THE MOVEMENT By DONALD D SHIRA AB MD In discussing the legal requirements for medical practice during the period from the first official settlement of the Northwest Territory to the repeal of all laws designed to regulate the practice of physic and surgery in ...
... 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 ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR HISTORY OF THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTYSECOND FIELD ARTILLERY AND SKETCH OF ITS COLONEL History of the 322nd Field Artillery Yale University Press New Haven The Society is under obligations to Colonel A B Warfield who commanded the 322nd Field Artillery of the National Army in the World War made up almost entirely of Ohio troops The frontispiece of this interesting and ...
... DANIEL F DANIEL F RING The Cleveland Public Library and the WPA A Study in Creative Partnership The dole is a narcotic a subtle destroyer of the human spirit I am not willing that the vitality of our people be sapped by the giving of cash1 In a large way this statement of President Franklin D Roosevelt summarizes the philosophy and emphasis of the New Deal which was a desire to substitute work for relief2 Expressions of this philosophy were the proliferation of federal agencies and the ...
... BookReviews Winter-Spring 2004 pp 31-51 PDF of Book Reveiws CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2004 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved See also Book Notes and Books Received ALPHABETICAL LIST OF BOOKS Builders of Ohio A Biographical History Edited by Warren Van Tine and Michael Pierce Reviewed by David C Hammack The Collected Works of William Howard Taft Vols 5 and 6 Reviewed by Clarence E Wunderlin Jr Vol 5 Popular Government amp The Anti-trust Act and the Supreme Court Edited ...
... The Taylor-Livingston Centenary Etc The Taylor-Livingston Centenary Etc 489 Jr of a paper prepared by his father Edward L Taylor Sr address by ex-Governor George K Nash address by Col James Kilbourne address by Hon Phil H Bruck recitation of poem by Mrs William Sprague address by Hon Thomas E Powell The program as carried out was from first to last impressive instructive and entertaining characterized by sentiment wit and humor Immediately upon the conclusion of the exercises supper was served ...
... OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Vol XLIII OCTOBER 1934 No 4 COLUMBUS OHIO THE F J HEER PRINTING CO 1934 PREFACE PREFACE Charles Hammond as a lawyer politician and editor was a commanding figure in the life of the pioneer West Under his direction the Cincinnati Gazette was one of the most influential newspapers in the country An able journalist of a later period asserted that among all the editors of Ohio--indeed of the Great West--he is the chief object of ...
... REMINISCENCES OF A SURVEYOR1 REMINISCENCES OF A SURVEYOR1 By JAMES T WEED In November 1888 I was elected county surveyor of Gallia County Ohio and on the first Monday of January 1889 I assumed the duties of the office In the forty-five years since then I have done a great deal of surveying of land and city lots and highways and a little in mines Most of this work has been in Gallia County though I have practiced a little in the adjoining counties of Jackson and Vinton in nearby West Virginia ...