... THE BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE IN BALLAD AND HISTORY THE BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE IN BALLAD AND HISTORY BY CHARLES B GALBREATH Perry's victory on Lake Erie stands out pre-eminent among the naval exploits of the War of 181 2 And this is true not only by virtue of the comparative importance of the battle and its results but because it combined in an unusual degree the elements of intrepidity patriotic fervor and personal valor that captivate the imagination live in legend and story and song and make up what ...
... WILLIAM H WILLIAM H WEST BY WILLIAM Z DAVIS The following is an address in memory of Judge William H West delivered by Hon William Z Davis of the Ohio Supreme Court at the meeting of the Ohio Bar Association Cedar Point July 12 1911 This writing is not a biography but an appreciation of one of the most notable members of the Ohio Bar in his generation As a counsellor as a trial lawyer and advocate in the halls of 404 William H William H West 405 legislation as attorney general as judge of ...
... OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY--PRE-CIVIL WAR OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY--PRE-CIVIL WAR PERIOD THE FIRST YEAR OF THE SECOND EPIDEMIC OF ASIATIC CHOLERA IN COLUMBUS OHIO--1849 By JONATHAN FORMAN Cholera because of its sudden appearance its high mortality and the frightfulness of its dead has always been a dramatic character in the history of the human race Some years ago the writer told the story of the first cholera epidemic in Columbus that of 18331 This was the great epidemic surpassing any pestilence that ...
... JOHN CHAPMAN'S LINE OF DESCENT FROM JOHN CHAPMAN'S LINE OF DESCENT FROM EDWARD CHAPMAN OF IPSWICH Compiled by FLORENCE E WHEELER With an Introduction by ROBERT PRICE Who Was Johnny Appleseed--Introduction Even before the death of John Chapman in 1845 the Johnny Appleseed story growing out of the man's colorful life had begun to break away from the roots of fact and to flower purely as a popular myth In the years since the apocryphal addenda aided and abetted by much fiction poetry and ...
... WILLIAM CHAMBERS IN AMERICA 1853 WILLIAM CHAMBERS IN AMERICA 1853 by W H G ARMYTAGE University of Sheffield America through British eyes has thrown up an enormous amount of comment and historical writing since the times of Mrs Trollope and the waspish Captain Basil Hall The recent reissue of an anthology bearing that title1 affords an excuse for adding yet a few more pages to that subject by calling attention to a work which is very often ignored when the subject is being studied It is a ...
... Big Bottom and Its History Big Bottom and Its History 27 This was the first massacre and the principal one during the Indian war then just opening Marietta had been settled two years before and Big Bottom as this place was then known was an overflow from that place and comprised altogether thirty-six persons The year before several other settlements were established from Marietta but thus far this was the most remote No state in the Union was settled by a more worthy or enterprising class of ...
... SAMUEL ROBINSON CHAMPION OF THE SAMUEL ROBINSON CHAMPION OF THE THOMSONIAN SYSTEM By PHILIP D JORDAN PHD Thomsonian medicine as a system of medical botany created a decided stir both among physicians and the laity during the nineteenth century when so many curious panaceas were being sponsored by scientific groups and by social organizations The Thomsonian school was represented in Ohio not only by scores of physicians but also by medical journals dedicated to the dictum that the flora of our ...
... Specimens of Ante-Bellum Specimens of Ante-Bellum Buckeye Humor By GEORGE K UM MER Native American humor that is humor which by reason of its subject matter and technique possesses an emphatic native quality1 flourished vigorously in the backwoods of the United States for several decades before the Civil War Produced by the folk and recorded by rural doctors lawyers preachers and journalists it portrayed the comedy of character and background as seen in various parts of the country From it ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 66 NUMBER 1 J ANUARY 1957 Faith vs Economics The Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad 1845-1883 By JOHN E PIXTON JR In the 1850's Cincinnati was Queen of the American West and eastern railroad builders pressed eagerly toward the prize of her commerce1 And even before the rails reaching westward from New York Philadelphia and Baltimore breached the Appalachian barrier Ohio promoters were building lines to connect with them By 1857 ...
... LUCY E LUCY E KEELER Death came to Miss Lucy E Keeler at the Memorial Hospital in Fremont on Tuesday morning March 11 1930 She had been ill since October and had sought relief in a number of hospitals but finally returned to Frement where she gradually grew weaker until her death Funeral services were conducted in the Presbyterian Church of Fremont on the following Thursday Some years before her death a newspaper friend had requested that she prepare a brief sketch of her life and activities ...
... GEORGE WELLS KNIGHT GEORGE WELLS KNIGHT Dr George Wells Knight joined the Faculty of the Ohio State University in 1885 He served as teacher of History in that institution to within a short time of his death which occurred Wednesday morning February 10 1932 In this long and uninterrupted service his teaching and personality left an impression upon a large number of students who in their turn will transmit it in an ever widening circle of influence When he came to accept a position in the ...
... ROBERT A ROBERT A TRENNERT JR William Medill's War with the Indian Traders 1847 William Medill's tenure as Commissioner of Indian Affairs in the Polk administration came at the critical time of continental expansion which resulted in forceful removal of the Indian from lands desired by white settlers Soon after he took office Medill attempted to make some basic reforms in policy governing relations with the Indians One of the most controversial aspects of his reforming activities as ...
... John A John A Bingham 331 JOHN A BINGHAM ADDRESS OF HON J B FORAKER ON THE OCCASION OF THE UNVEILING OF MONUMENT IN HONOR OF HON JOHN A BINGHAM AT CADIZ OHIO OCTOBER 5 1901 Mr Chairman and Fellow Cit izen s The private life and character of John A Bingham were the special possessions of this community You were his neighbors and friends He came and went in your midst You were in daily contact with him You knew him under all the varying circumstances of his long and eventful career You saw him ...
... The Nomination of The Nomination of Ru t herford Hayes for the Presidency by KENNETH E DAVI S ON 96 OHIO HISTORY 96 OHIO HISTORY The Nomination of Rutherford Hayes for the Presidency For the first time since the Civil War the Republican party faced the possibility of defeat in 1876 so strong was public sentiment against the corruption of Grant's administration The Republican candidate would have the handicap of representing the scandal-torn party in power his Democratic opponent would ...
... HERBERT SHAPIRO HERBERT SHAPIRO The Herbert Bigelow Case A Test of Free Speech in Wartime On October 28 1917 Cincinnati minister the Reverend Herbert Bigelow was kidnapped in Newport Kentucky shortly before he was to address a Socialist antiwar meeting there He was forced into a waiting automobile and driven across the county line into Kenton County where he was severely beaten After being turned loose by the vigilantes Bigelow made his way to a nearby house and was taken back across the Ohio ...
... Historical News Historical News THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE MORMON CHURCH has microfilmed all military records of the division of soldiers' claims of the Ohio adjutant general's office The microfilmed records include grave registration data on Ohio veterans of all wars in which Ohioans participated rosters of Ohio soldiers in these wars and indexes to the rosters original hand-written muster rolls of the Ohio units in the Civil War records of payment to Squirrel Hunters rosters of Ohio ...
... edited by edited by WILLIAM F STROBRIDGE California Letters of Major General James McPherson 1858-1860 Alcatraz Island in the middle of San Francisco Bay was two thousand miles from Sandusky County the Ohio home of James Birdseye McPherson Second Lieutenant Army Engineers The West Point-educated Lieutenant arrived in California late in 1857 on the wooden side-wheeler Golden Gate His assignment was to supervise construction of fortifications on rocky windy Alcatraz None foresaw then that in ...
... JOURNAL OF CYRUS P JOURNAL OF CYRUS P BRADLEY INTRODUCTORY NOTE BY GEORGE H TWISS A history in the co m mon acceptation of the term means a relation of facts and important dates a chronological record of battles sieges revolutions coronations and rebellions while no account is generally looked for of the moral and mental condition of the people whose action form the s u bject of the work and an account would doubtless if introduced be thought irrelevant out of place This is not as it should be ...
... Historical News Historical News Eventful Years and Experiences by Bertram W Kom has recently been published by the American Jewish Archives Cincinnati These studies deal with the life of the American Jew and include an essay on Isaac M Wise among others with Ohio connections Richard C Knopf historian of the Anthony Wayne Parkway Board has had several articles published recently Wayne's Western Campaign The Wayne-Knox Correspondence appeared in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography ...
... EXPLORATION OF THE TREMPER MOUND EXPLORATION OF THE TREMPER MOUND WILLIAM C MILLS The Tremper mound is situated five miles north of the city of Portsmouth on the west side of the Scioto river in Rush township Scioto county Ohio The land upon which it is located is a part of the estate of Senator William D Tremper Portsmouth which consists of more than seven hundred acres of the rich bottom lands at the confluence of the Pond creek and Scioto valleys The immediate site of the mound is a level ...