... FINANCING OHIO'S PRE-CIVIL WAR RAILROADS FINANCING OHIO'S PRE-CIVIL WAR RAILROADS by EUGENE 0 PORTER Associate Professor of History College of Mines and Metallurgy University of Texas The financial history of early railroads in the United States is nowhere better illustrated than in the history of railroad building in Ohio The lack of trained engineers and the consequent indefiniteness of plans the insufficiency of the original capitalization the use of state county and municipal credit and ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President The society has recently acquired a Kodagraph film reader a gift from the president James A MacDonell Several old Lima newspapers have been microfilmed up to 1912 Current papers have been filmed since January 1 1947 During recent months the society has been engaged in a campaign to collect unpaid pledges for the proposed 175000 museum A large percentage of the necessary funds ...
... AN ACT AN ACT For the r e li e f of the families of volunteers in the State or United States service SE CTION 1 Be it enacted by t h e General Assembly of the State of Tax levied Ohio That for the reli ef of the necessities of the families of volunthree-fifths of a teers who now are or hereafte r may be in the service of this st at e mill on the or the United S tates there be and hereby is levied and assessed for dollar valuathe ye a r 1862 three-fifths of one mill on the dollar v aluation on ...
... McCormick Summer-Autumn 2001 pp 136-152 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page with footnotes according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page An Entrepreneurial Enterprise and the Financial Crisis of 1819 The Worthington Manufacturing Company By Virginia and Robert W McCormick James Kilbourn Photo Courtesy the Worthington Hisorical Society The Worthington ...
... 404 Ohio Arch 404 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications respondence with local authorities compilers of family histories contributors to historical magazines and members of historical and patriotic societies If this somewhat lengthy list be exhausted without result we may at last resort obtain some information from present day officials of the locality especially those connected with the County Clerk's or Recorder's offices The latter at least will be able to suggest some clue that may lead ...
... 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 ...
... McKinley's Attempt to Avoid War 135 McKinley's Attempt to Avoid War 135 tional sovereignty22 In effect Spain still clung to sovereignty over Cuba and autonomy for the island At the same time that McKinley was dealing with the Spanish minister he made a final attempt to get the Cuban Junta to cooperate Rubens later explained that just before McKinley's message went to Congress the president's emissary told him that if the Cubans agreed to the armistice McKinley would place a reference to Cuban ...
... 394 Ohio Arch 394 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications productive but Fact as related to this venture may well congratulate itself that here the richest of soil only awaits cultivation The Ohio Magazine will endeavor to afford the people of this state a monthly medium for their enlightenment and entertainment with the aid of the pen brush and camera It will try to stand for Ohio character and represent what is best in Ohio manhood and womanhood It will seek a special sphere in which it ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABRIDGMENT of the Laws by Nathan Dane 72 Academic Seal of The Ohio State University 68 Achenbaum W Andrew Shades of Gray Old Age American Values and Federal Policies since 1920 rev 112-13 Acreage Owned by 43 French Persons in the District of Gallipolis in Washington County July 1 1800 65-67 Table 66 Adams John Quincy 6 Adams Robert 130 Adult education 34-45 Aeneid by Vergil 73 Agricultural Experiment Station 39 Agricultural extension service 34-45 ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR NEWLY ELECTED OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES HENRY CLYDE SHETRONE Henry Clyde Shetrone was born in Millersport Fairfield County Ohio August 10 1876 He was edu cated in the public schools and attended Denison University At an early age he became interested in archaeology and museums and soon began gathering the literature relating to these In 1913 the opportunity came to ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Genesis of Dental Education in the United States By Van B Dalton Columbus Spahr amp Glenn c1946 216p illus Visiting foreign lecturers are often heard to remark to their admiring audiences that the United States' only contributions to the culture of the world are the modern bathrooms and the comic strip They would no doubt admit however that they had been guilty of one omission and that is the Art and Science of Modern Dentistry In The Genesis of Dental Education ...
... array labor against capital On the platform Cooke had this comment Their policy was one of bitterness hate and wild agrarianism without a single Christian principle to give it consistency except the sole idea of universal suffrage Henry Cooke to Jay Cooke October 12 1867 in Ellis P Oberholtzer Jay Cooke Financier of the Civil War Philadelphia 1907 II 27-28 50 THE OHIO HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 50 THE OHIO HISTORICAL QUARTERLY White House by an ...
... RIVER NAMESAKES OF THE STATE OF OHIO RIVER NAMESAKES OF THE STATE OF OHIO by CAPT FREDERICK WAY JR It is quite probable that no one will know precisely how many steamboats of the western rivers were named to honor the state of Ohio A share at least of those named Ohio honor the river they plied and not the state Actually in only one isolated case is it possible to be sure the state of Ohio was honored and not the river That is the steam towboat Ohio built in 1930 for the Standard Unit ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 69 NUMBER 3 JULY 1960 The Underground Railroad A Re-evaluation By LARRY GARA FOR MANY YEARS discerning scholars have suspected the inadequacy of traditional accounts of the underground railroad yet the elusive nature of source material for re-evaluating the history of the mysterious institution has apparently discouraged such reinterpretation1 Even some recent encyclopedia articles textbooks and monographs describe the ...
... OHIO'S CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1912 OHIO'S CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1912 by LANDON WARNER Assistant Professor of History and Political Science Kenyon College A constitutional mandate requires the submission to Ohio's electorate in 1952 of this question Shall there be a convention to revise alter or amend the constitution1 Provision for periodic review dates from the constitution of 1851 It was introduced as a democratic reform based on Thomas Jefferson's oft-quoted dictum that no law ...
... COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS THE CIVIL WAR LITHOGRAPHS OF ALFRED EDWARD MATHEWS by ELIZABETH R MARTIN THE CIVIL WAR lithographs of the Ohioan THE CIVIL WAR lithographs of the Ohioan Alfred Edward Mathews in the Ohio Historical Society collections are representative of the contribution made by the soldier artist to the pictorial record of the Civil War No war before or since has been so fully portrayed by amateurs and professionals in the art media of its time--oil water color ...
... 276 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 27 6 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Mr Frank A Livingston President of the first-named organization presided Dr Harold J Grimm of the Ohio State University presented a paper on The Genealogist as Historian and Dr Harlow Lindley of the Ohio State Museum read a paper prepared by Mr Delbert L Gratz of Bluffton Ohio on The Swiss Mennonites of Alien and Putnam Counties THE GENEALOGIST AS HISTORIAN By HAROLD J GRIMM The genealogist ...
... array of writers from whom the material is drawn Lincoln Field Sandburg Cartwright Sarett White Lindsay Clemens Lewis Lardner Anderson Darrow Ferber Ade Riley Masters and half a hundred others appear accompanied by brief but invaluable biographical sketches by the editor As the reader finally lays aside the book he looks about him with a new understanding of his homeland and holds a new sympathy for those who have lived there Wellington Ohio ...
... AN OHIO DOCTOR IN THE EARLY NAVY AN OHIO DOCTOR IN THE EARLY NAVY by HOWARD D K RA MER Assistant Professor of History Western Reserve University Recently the journals of Lewis A Wolfley an Ohio doctor who served in the United States Navy from 1832 to 1844 were lent to the writer by a representative of Wolfley's descendants The manuscript material in the Wolfley Collection consists of the surgeon's journals on four cruises and his diary in Paris where he studied medicine under world-famous ...
... array of big busi- BOOK REVIEIWS 317 BOOK REVIEIWS 317 nessmen like J P Morgan Jay Gould and Henry Villard whose financial careers were intricately interwoven with that of the great inventor Edison emerges from this biography as a transitional figure in the world of science He was not a lonely figure in a small workshop who stumbled half accidentally onto some great boon to mankind He worked rather in a large laboratory supervising a team of ...