... Historical News Historical News A number of cities are taking steps to preserve protect and in some cases reconstruct historical areas the American Society of Planning Officials has reported Such programs the society suggests are to the benefit of the cities because they stimulate tourist trade and save certain areas from declining into slums Charleston South Carolina has established by law a zone known as the old and historic Charleston district which comprises the area in which there is the ...
... CRAW FO RD COUNTY A Study of Midwestern Copperheadism by THOMAS H SMITH The Copperhead movement in the Middle West during the Civil War was not the simple case of pro-Southern sympathy and treason that the Republican propagandist charged but rather it was a complex of social economic and political antagonism to the Lincoln administration As diverse as its motives was the geographic heterogeneity of the movement no one specific locality or region held its nucleus Its strongest support however ...
... The President and the Deacon in the Campaign of 1912 The Correspondence of William Howard Taft and James Calvin Hemphill 1911-1912 edited by WILLARD B GATEWOOD The reform impulse of the progressive movement strong and virile after a decade of growth dominated the political atmosphere in which the presidential campaign of 1912 took place So pervasive was its influence that the election turned out to be more of an intramural competition among various schools of progressive thought than a contest ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 241 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 241 item of which was a diary 1821-1826 of Charles Willing Byrd the last Secretary of the Northwest Territory The Clark County Historical Society under the direction of Mr Arthur R Altick sent in a most interesting report of the year's activities giving an account of additions to their collections and a summary of exploration and field work Mr Altick feels that the major accomplishment during the past year was the ...
... Cleveland's Johnson Elected Mayor Cleveland's Johnson Elected Mayor By EUGENE C MURDOCK One day in the early fall of 1897 thirty friends of Henry George closeted themselves with the great single-taxer in Tom L Johnson's New York offices The question before them was Should George be a candidate in the approaching New York mayoralty election Some of those present observed that their leader's health was not good and that an exhausing campaign could render permanent damage to him An eminent doctor ...
... CLEMENT L CLEMENT L VALLANDIGHAM BY W H VAN FOSSAN LISBON OHIO In my library is a pencil-marked volume of the miscellaneous works of Sir Philip Sidney Knt It is not the contents of this book however that leads me to refer to it but the carefully punctuated autograph of its purchaser C L Vallandigham London Canada West April 22 1 864 Fifty years after it may be of interest to ask Who was this man his followers called the martyr in exile the man who in part at least occasioned the writing of ...
... A HISTORY OF LOCAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES A HISTORY OF LOCAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES IN OHIO TO 1865 BY ROBERT LESLIE JONES Local agricultural societies are among the victims of the present war To cooperate in conserving rubber and in eliminating unnecessary travel many of them cancelled their fairs in 1942 and doubtless most if not all will do so in 194 3 The disappearance of the fairs even if it is temporary emphasizes their significance as an institution and makes it worth while to trace the ...
... ULYSSES S ULYSSES S GRANT A CHARACTERIZATION SKETCH BY JOHN BEATTY There is more than a grain of truth underlying the notion that what the world calls greatness in men is the outgrowth of accident rather than of any exceptional physical moral or intellectual excellence Nobody certainly can win victories and gain martial renown who lives in a period of profound peace In civil life however it may be said that by change of scene or of occupation men can seek congenial or profitable employment and ...
... SAMUEL MEDARY--JOURNALIST AND SAMUEL MEDARY--JOURNALIST AND POLITICIAN 1801-1864 BY HELEN P DORN Ohio has produced some of the most interesting and challenging and certainly the most virile journalists in the United States Nevertheless the memory of man is short and prominent figures are soon forgotten unless their achievements are recreated by future generations Samuel Medary was such a man He was born of Quaker parents in Montgomery County Pennsylvania at the beginning of the nineteenth ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR Ohio Art and Artists By Edna Maria Clark MA Richmond Garrett and Massie pp XIII 509 750 In the second paragraph of this attractive interesting and informing volume the author Mrs Clark makes the following statement The need of a volume of this kind was brought forcefully to the author's attention during an eight-year period of service as chairman of art for the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs when club women made frequent ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 655 Forty-First Annual Meeting 655 of the Museum and Library Building together with all the addresses and a number of illustrations To this has been added a brief history of the Society by the Secretary It is intended to use this material in part in an intensive campaign for an increase in the membership of the Society The fifth and final volume of the Diary and Letters of Rutherford B Hayes is now in type and will soon be ready for distribution There is an ...
... 370 Ohio Arch 370 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications MILITARY DAY The third day was Military day and no other county has better right to commemorate the memory of the soldier than Jefferson whether he be of the Revolutionary war of the Second War for Independence the Mexican war or the War Between the States Jefferson county furnished thousands of the bravest men in the Federal army during the War Between the States It is not necessary to mention their names - the mere mention of this ...
... JAY D JAY D GREEN Nothing to Advertise Except God Christian Radio and the Creation of an Evangelical Subculture in Northeast Ohio 1958-1972 How I praise God for friends like you exclaimed an excited Elise Marshall in a 1961 letter There have been times in my life when I felt very lonely Now I have many friends who love my precious Lord the same as I do and I have sweet fellowship with each one of you even though I may never see you1 Testimonials like this were frequent in the 1960s among an ...
... CLEVELAND'S JOHNSON AT HOME CLEVELAND'S JOHNSON AT HOME by EUGENE C MURDOCK In an earlier article published in this Quarterly the present author made an attempt to summarize the accomplishments of Cleveland's Tom L Johnson and to point out his contributions to the growth and development of the lake city1 As mayor of Cleveland from 1901 to 1910 Johnson established and maintained high administrative standards while pushing through a broad program of municipal reform He attracted wide attention ...
... 558 Ohio Arch 558 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications and counter-charges on issues growing out of this subject Those interested are referred to this literature and the newspapers for the attitude of men and parties toward workmen's compensation No good purpose can be subserved by the publication in the QUARTERLY of the views of representatives of political parties on this subject It should be sufficient to record here the fact that a protest has been made The Society desires the interest ...
... Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association 401 that I know of in Columbus still resting in the old desk where its owner a distinguished scientific man of Ohio left it over thirty years ago still undisturbed unless it be by the prying fingers of curious little grandchildren The men who settled this region preserved the letters received by them and in cases of importance copies of their own letters These should be found published or copied ...
... THE BIRTHPLACE OF PRESIDENT HAYES THE BIRTHPLACE OF PRESIDENT HAYES A STUDY IN ORAL TRADITION by C E VAN SICKLE Professor of History Ohio Wesleyan University and JAMES T MAY The people of Delaware Ohio have long pointed with pride to the fact that their city is the birthplace of President Rutherford B Hayes A Delaware tradition so old that no one now living seems to remember anything about its origin marks as his birthplace a two-story brick house which it asserts his father had built and ...
... 538 Ohio Arch 538 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The Secretary Mr Galbreath closed the afternoon session with an account of the capture imprisonment and execution of Edwin Coppoc who was with John Brown at Harper's Ferry dwelling particularly on the plan of Cook and Coppoc to escape from jail at Charleston and the story of the coffin of Coppoc which is now in the museum of the Society This account in ampler form is found elsewhere in the present issue of the QUARTERLY ANNUAL MEETING ...
... BOOK REVIEWS INDEPENDENT HISTORICAL SOCIETIES AN ENQUIRY INTO THEIR RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION FUNCTIONS AND THEIR FINANCIAL FUTURE B y W alter Muir Whitehill Boston The Boston Athenaeum 1962 Distributed by Harvard University Press xviii593p index 1250 For some years now historical-society journals one after another have been undergoing a transformation of format style and content into imitation popular magazines declared the New-York Historical Society annual report for 1961 Ohioans concerned ...
... Book Reviews Summer-Autumn 2000 pp 190-224 Copyright 2000 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 The National Road Edited by Karl Raitz Baltimore Maryland The Johns Hopkins University Press 1996 xviii 489p illustrations maps notes references appendices contributors index 3495 A Guide to the National Road Edited by ...