... A FAMILIAR TALK ABOUT MONARCHISTS A FAMILIAR TALK ABOUT MONARCHISTS AND JACOBINS AN ADDRESS BY WILLIAM HENRY SMITH WHEN I received an invitation to address the Historical Society here to-night the suggestion was made by a member of your committee that I take the life and public services of John Brough for my theme Born within the limits of your city the son of one of the pioneer fathers it were fitting that he should be remembered on an occasion of such historical interest It was gratifying to ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 109 Then with my waking thoughts Bright with Thy praise Out of my stony griefs Bethel I'll raise So by my woes to be Nearer my God to Thee Nearer to Thee The meeting was concluded with prayer BENEDICTION BY DR JOSEPH S KORNFELD To the departed Emilius Oviatt Randall whom we now affectionately remember may peace and bliss be granted in the realm of eternal life There may he find grace and mercy before the Lord of Heaven and earth May his soul ...
... edited by edited by THOMAS E HACHEY Cincinnati Through English Spectacles A British Diplomat's Confidential View in 1945 In the months immediately following the Second World War British consuls stationed throughout the United States forwarded to the London Foreign Office a substantial number of telegrams memoranda and dispatches regarding the climate of American opinion toward England What Winston Churchill had called the Grand Alliance seemed in the judgment of many of these diplomats to be ...
... THOMAS BEALS FIRST FRIENDS MINISTER THOMAS BEALS FIRST FRIENDS MINISTER IN OHIO BY HARLOW LINDLEY Thomas Beals was born in Chester County Pennsylvania in 1719 He was the son of John and Sarah Beals formerly Sarah Bowater of an English family of Friends Thomas Beals had two brothers John and Bowater and four sisters Prudence who married Richard Williams Sarah who married John Mills Mary who married Thomas Hunt and after his death William Baldwin and Phebe who married Robert Sumner John Beals ...
... 644 Ohio Arch 644 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications NECROLOGY Since the last Annual Meeting of the Society five alphabetically arranged lists of our membership have been prepared and mailed to members in various parts of the state with a request that the Secretary be notified of the death of any member A card-index list of the members has also been prepared for the use of the President During the year the Society lost by death the following members LIFE MEMBERS Mr A M Woolson Toledo Ohio ...
... AN EARLY REPORT ON OBERLIN COLLEGE AN EARLY REPORT ON OBERLIN COLLEGE by GEORGE PEIRCE CLARK Among the most copious diarists of nineteenth-century America though certainly not among the best known was the Rev John Pierce AB Harvard 1793 Congregational pastor of Brookline Massachusetts Nineteen manuscript volumes deposited in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society1 testify at once to the industry and the limitations of Pierce as a chronicler of the res gestae of his time In the ...
... HERE IS LA FAYETTE HERE IS LA FAYETTE BY JOHN ME RRILL WEED La Fayette we are here said General Pershing as he stood beside the tomb in Picpus Cemetery one historic day in 1917 It was a dramatic incident It shows that Pershing had a quality that would scarcely have been suspected in a doughty warrior a flair for capturing the popular imagination of two nations It is not a legend it is too recent for that Moreover we have a statement from the General's headquarters staff attesting the words ...
... DR DR WILLIAM OXLEY THOMPSON HONORED Dr William Oxley Thompson was the recipient of distinguished honors at the Scioto Country Club in Columbus Friday evening June 6 1924 The occasion was a silver jubilee dinner in celebration of the completion of his twenty-five years of service as president of the Ohio State University Guests to the number of 420 including trustees faculty alumni fellow college presidents and prominent citizens of the state and city were present and a spokesman from each ...
... JAMES BACKUS CITIZEN OF MARIETTA 1788-1791 JAMES BACKUS CITIZEN OF MARIETTA 1788-1791 By JOSEPHINE E PHILLIPS There are about 150 Horses Sixty Cows amp Seven Yoak of Oxen here The Emigrants that pass down the river for Kentucky amp other parts of the Western Country are amazing We have a militia formed who assemble every Sunday amp are fined for not attending We have preaching or service read regularly once a week likewise a school Thus wrote James Backus1 from Marietta to his parents in ...
... 174 Ohio Arch 174 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications of Ohio had ever received He pointed out that the convention allowed two weeks discussion on the proposition of a bond issue for good roads and permitted without limitation a discussion for nearly three weeks of the liquor question 18 In spite of this appeal for fairness the convention gave less than two days to the question which most delegates considered the most important one before them19 Lastly most of the delegates were of the ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 227 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 227 planned with Ohio State University Broadcasting station and is being offered each Tuesday afternoon over WOSU This series which is professional in caliber has attracted wide attention and is being rebroadcast by several additional stations Dr William D Overman as historian deserves credit for the exhaustive research which has made these broadcasts unique up to the present time As of January 1 1940 two members of ...
... The Beef Cattle Industry in Ohio The Beef Cattle Industry in Ohio Prior to the Civil War By ROBERT LESLIE JONES I Introduction The beef cattle industry in Ohio prior to the Civil War could not be described as the one most important branch of agriculture in the state as a whole though it was significant almost everywhere and dominant in certain regions Neither was it to be regarded as unique in its methods for these were in principle at least borrowed from older parts of the country and were ...
... STANTON -THE PATRIOT STANTON -THE PATRIOT ANDREW CARNEGIE At Gambier Ohio April 26 1906 there occurred an event deserving of more than a passing notice It was the occasion of the presentation to Kenyon College by Colonel John J McCook of New York one of the Ohio Family of the famous fighting McCooks of an oil portrait of Edwin M Stanton who was a student at Kenyon The painting was from the brush of the distinguished artist Charles P Filson Steubenville Ohio At the same time formal announcement ...
... Putting Aircraft to Work The First Air Freight by ROGER E BILSTEIN Orville and Katherine went to Simms to see Mr Phil o Parmelee sic start to Columbus with several bolts of silk in an aeroplane He flew there in 61 minutes and delivered the goods From BISHOP MILTON WRIGHT'S Diary November 7 1910 NOTES ON PAGE 277 248 OHIO HISTORY 248 OHIO HISTORY Milton Wright a bishop of the United Brethren in Christ church in Dayton Ohio maintained a keen interest in the activities of his lively family ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA A CHAPTER OF CORRECTIONS R W MCFARLAND History is never free from imperfections Particularly is this true of the collected and collated records and data of pioneer periods--the beginnings of history This is most natural as the memoranda are furnished by different authorities who discern the events recorded from various points of view or who are not accurate in their method of statement The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society endeavors to gather and ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR LIFE OF A NOTABLE SCHOLAR AND UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT William Watts Folwell The Autobiography and Letters of a Pioneer of Culture Edited by Dr Solon J Buck The University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis Minnesota 1933 An autobiography of more than usual interest and value has recently come to our library It is entitled William Watts Folwell The Autobiography and Letters of a Pioneer of Culture It is edited by the wellknown ...
... THE MIAMI PURCHASE OF JOHN CLEVES THE MIAMI PURCHASE OF JOHN CLEVES SYMMES BY R PIERCE BEAVER I INTRODUCTION The Miami Country1 includes about five thousand square miles in southwestern Ohio with a small adjoining portion of Indiana2 in the main the basins and valleys of the two Miami rivers extending more than a hundred miles inland from a fifty-mile base on the Ohio The region holds a most important place in the history of Ohio and the Northwest In the days before the settlement of Ohio it ...
... ADDRESS AT FORT MEIGS ADDRESS AT FORT MEIGS By W J CAMERON The best proof a nation can give that it is gro w ing up is a lively interest in its history From the records of what they have done a people can form an estimate of what they are and from that they may draw an augury of their future Not only does history recall the past it also explains the present This pilgrimage to scenes immortalized in early northwestern history arranged by the historical societies in Ohio Indiana Michigan and ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...