... THE OHIO BOUNDARY OR THE ERIE WAR THE OHIO BOUNDARY OR THE ERIE WAR1 WHEN the great Ordinance of 1787 was passed by Congress it was agreed by all the States present that six of the articles known as the articles of compact should not be repealed except by the joint consent of Congress and the States concerned The fifth of these irrevocable articles provided that not less than three nor more than five States should be formed out of the region of country known as the Northwest Territory In case ...
... You have been in politics long enough to know that no man in public office owes the public anything In these or closely similar words Mark Hanna is alleged to have advised the attorney general of Ohio in 1890 to drop an antitrust suit against the Standard Oil Company Historians looking for a succinct illustration of how the late nineteenth century's robber barons and their vassals operated in the political field have found the alleged remark invaluable It first did duty in the Democratic ...
... Book Reviews Winter-Spring 2001 pp 85-115 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page BOOK REVIEWS and Book Notes Battle For The Soul Meacutetis Children Encounter Evangelical Protestants at Mackinaw Mission 1823-1837 By Keith R Widder East Lansing The Michigan State University Press 1999 xxiv 254p illustrations ...
... BOOK REVIEWS SCHLIEMANN IN INDIANAPOLIS Edited by Eli Lilly Indianapolis Indiana Historical Society 1961 ix95p illustrations appendix and index 500 Heinrich Schliemann is known to all lovers of ancient Greece for his excavations of the site of ancient Troy and for other diggings which established his reputation as the first modern archaeologist Relatively few however know of his visits to the United States and his sojourn in Indianapolis The latter is the main theme of the diary and letters ...
... HISTORIANS AND THEIR HELPERS HISTORIANS AND THEIR HELPERS by JOHN HALL STEWART Associate Professor of History Western Reserve University For far too many years far too many people have been calling themselves--or permitting others to call them--historians I have been conscious of this ever since I first entered the ranks of what we academic folk like to think of as the professional historians But I was never as fully aware of the dangers inherent in this common practice until I began to ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Early Maps of the Ohio Valley A Selection of Maps Plans and Views Made by Indians and Colonials from 1673 to 1783 By Lloyd Arnold Brown Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press 1959 xiv 132p illustrations maps plans and bibliography 1200 This handsome volume edited by Lloyd A Brown for the Eavenson Cartography Fund is an attractive picture book which summarizes the cartographic history of the Ohio River region from 1673 to 1783 It features a brief introductory ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XXXVIII INDEX TO VOLUME XXXVIII Adams Adaline G 721 Badger Rev Joseph 478 482-486 Adams Belle Phillip 721 Bailey Gamaliel 87 126 127 Adams Jacob-Diary 1861-1865 627Baker Reverend Joel 479 719 biographical sketch 719-721 Ball Flamen 161 Adams John Q 78 Barker L A 123 Adams Margaret D 721 Barlow Joel 224 Adams Paul 719-721 Barney Hiram H 410 427 436 Adams Sarah L 721 Barrett Joseph H 13 Ake H Ross 575 Address at Dedication Bartley Governor Mordecai defeats Tod of Monument to ...
... 10 OHIO HISTORY 10 OHIO HISTORY TO CINCINNATI by EDWARD A M'LAUGHLIN Fair is thy seat in soft recumbent rest Beneath the grove-clad hills whence morning wings The gentle breezes of the fragrant west That kiss the surface of a thousand springs Nature her many-colored mantle flings Around thee and adorns thee as a bride While polished Art his gorgeous tribute brings And dome and spire ascending far and wide Their pointed shadows dip in thy Ohio's tide So fair in infancy -- O what shall be Thy ...
... THE CINCINNATI BIBLE WAR 1869-1870 THE CINCINNATI BIBLE WAR 1869-1870 by HAROLD M HELFMAN Instructor in History Ohio State University James M O'Neill in his able exposition of Religion and Education Under the Constitution has hurled a challenge to the historian The ending of the use of the public schools as substantially Trinitarian Protestant schools at public expense is a story in which there are doubtless many chapters yet to be written1 The present study of a decision by the Cincinnati ...
... GENERAL INDEX TO VOL GENERAL INDEX TO VOL XLV Abingdon Ill 348 Abingdon Press 231 Abolition movement 174 367 Abolitionists175 366 867 Aborigines 8357 358 Accounts 162 209 Adams Henry--History of the United States 76 Adams John Quincy 78 81 83 84 85 86 302 304 305 316 317 --Memoirs 76 79 81 85 87 Adams R E W 187 Adams County La 351 Adams County O 182 186 220 229 235 259 311 --Bibliography 95 Adams Syndicate 231 Addison O 153 Adelphi O Marietta371 372 Aerial photography in archaeology 189 193 ...
... MICHAEL J MICHAEL J DEVINE The Historical Paintings of William Henry Powell In 1865 the Ohio General Assembly commissioned William Henry Powell to paint a large historic picture depicting the heroic naval victory of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and his men over the British in the Battle of Lake Erie in 1813 A former resident of Cincinnati Powell had won fame in the eastern urban centers of the United States as well as European capitals and his majestic Perry's Victory hung in Ohio's capitol ...
... Taft MacArthur and the Establishment Taft MacArthur and the Establishment Of Civil Government in the Philippines By RALPH ELDIN MINGER ON APRIL 17 1900 a brilliant golden sunny day the United States Army Transport Hancock with the Second Philippine Commission on board pulled away from the crowded dock at San Francisco California while whistles shrieked a shrill farewell and the air rang with enthusiastic cheers1 The boat had barely passed through San Francisco Harbor when the commissioners ...
... Minutes of the Annual Meeting 691 Minutes of the Annual Meeting 6 91 An aye and nay vote being taken the Chairman was in doubt as to the result and called for a standing vote The result of this vote was Aye 16 nay 11 The resolution was duly adopted Colonel Hayes moved and it was seconded that a committee be appointed to revise the constitution The Chairman being in doubt as to result of an aye and nay vote called for a standing vote The vote resulted as follows Aye 7 nay 14 The motion was ...
... FROM CINCINNATI'S WESTERN MUSEUM TO FROM CINCINNATI'S WESTERN MUSEUM TO CLEVELAND'S HEALTH MUSEUM by BRUNO GEBHARD MD Director Cleveland Health Museum Cleveland prides itself in having the first health museum in the United States opened November 13 1940 But in 1820 Cincinnati established the first public science museum west of the Alleghenies the Western Museum Both were started by physicians who seem to have a natural affinity for museums Perhaps this is because a good physician must be a ...
... A PIONEER AUTHOR TO A PIONEER EDITOR A PIONEER AUTHOR TO A PIONEER EDITOR ONE of the most interesting books relating to pioneer days is John McDonald's Sketches a small volume of 267 pages reprinted from a series of articles contributed to the Western Christian Advocate The author was born in 1775 and died in Ross county Ohio in 1853 He passed through the rough wild experience of frontier life-was in turn boatman hunter surveyor military officer and state legislator Colonel McDonald was a ...
... THE EARLY THEATER IN COLUMBUS OHIO THE EARLY THEATER IN COLUMBUS OHIO 1820-1840 by LUCILE CLIFTON Associate Professor of English Ball State Teachers College Muncie Indiana The citizens of Columbus Ohio which was founded one hundred and forty some years ago have attended plays for at least one hundred and thirty of those years and had a flourishing theater as early as the mid-1830's The first western theatrical circuits followed the natural trade routes down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers As ...
... THE POSSIBLE CULTURAL AFFILIATION OF THE POSSIBLE CULTURAL AFFILIATION OF FLINT DISK CACHES By H HOLMES ELLIS Over a period of some seventy-five years archaeological publications have carried occasional references to finds of unused circular or ovoid flat roughly-chipped blanks of flint buried in what have been termed ceremonial or storage caches The Lithic Laboratory for the Eastern United States at the Museum of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society has been able to locate by ...
... DANIEL HOSMER GARD DANIEL HOSMER GARD At the close of the American Revolution when the Great West was still an unknown vastness save from the tales brought out by leather and fur clothed traders or scouts fortune and fancy invited and beckoned the settlers of the Colonies to come and partake of its virgin fertility The Continental Congress which was without funds desiring to strike the popular chord pleasing to the ear of those who had fought and starved in this dismal battle for Freedom ...
... PROCEEDINGS 241 PROCEEDINGS 241 Joint Session Saturday April 2 1000 A M Ohio State Museum Harlow Lindley Presiding The first speaker of the Saturday morning session was the executive director of the Federal Government's Northwest Territory Celebration Commission Mr E M Hawes A resume of his extemporaneous remarks follows THE HISTORICAL PROGRAM OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY CELEBRATION COMMISSION By E M HAWES I have had to qualify as an expert on oxen building of boats and as a pilot trying to get ...
... THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY IN THE THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY IN THE WORLD WAR BY PROFESSOR WILBUR H SIEBERT THE UNIVERSITY'S CONNECTION WITH THE NATIONAL DEFENSE ACT In 1920 the War Records Committee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published a large and handsomely illustrated volume of nearly 750 pages entitled Technology's War Record In March 1922 the Harvard University Press issued the second volume of Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany which covers the period ...