... settlement in Indiana-- and in 1853 Horace Mann the great educational reformer had come to Yellow Springs to take charge of the newly opened Antioch College a school excluding sectarianism and discrimination on account of sex or color which was ambitious to become the Harvard of the West4 Here in Yellow Springs surely thought the Nicholses they would find broad-minded neighbors receptive to their message of health reform and harmony Thus it ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 219 they have been exterminated by war disease and failure of accustomed food supply consequented upon the advent of the whites The simple and primitive existence and the peculiar characteristics of these children of the forest are entertainingly depicted This chapter is followed by a valuable and full appendix of statistics concerning the Indians-treaties of the United States with the tribes the cost to the government in the case of these aboriginal wards the ...
... Howells' Campaign Biography Howells' Campaign Biography Of Rutherford B Hayes A Series of Letters Edited by LEO P COYLE In 1860 William Dean Howells wrote the campaign Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin his first venture in the field of biography Sixteen years later his literary position assured Howells again projected a campaign biography This time the subject was Rutherford B Hayes who occupied the White House from 1877 to 18811 The second campaign book avowedly ...
... settlement of differences between the President and himself to the verdict of history23 Subsequent to this letter of Aldrich Foraker made several speeches in behalf of Taft appearing with him in love-feast at Toledo on September 2 and concluding arrangements shortly thereafter to act as chairman of a Taft meeting at Music Hall in Cincinnati on September 22 at which Taft was to deliver the principal address24 Although Taft assured Roosevelt ...
... CHASE AND THE ELECTION OF 1860 CHASE AND THE ELECTION OF 1860 BY DONNAL V SMITH Continued from July QUARTERLY CHAPTER IV THE CHASE BOOM On New Year's Day 1864 the New York World lamented that the dawn of the last year of the most mournfully memorable presidential term in the annals of the Nation should still find the country rent asunder by civil convulsions It gave no hint of support for the President and his Cabinet they would have to be enlightened by the unmistakable voice of the people ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY AUGUST 1946--JULY 1947 Compiled by JAMES H RODABAUGH and S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE ALEY Howard C First Hundred Years the Centennial History of the Mahoning County Agricultural Society Youngstown Ohio the Author 1946 113p BEACH F H The First 100 Years for the
... THE ARCHAIC CULTURES AND THE ADENA PEOPLE THE ARCHAIC CULTURES AND THE ADENA PEOPLE by WILLIAM S WEBB Head Department of Anthropology University of Kentucky The Early Hunters Early man in America cannot boast a record of great antiquity There is no evidence to suggest his development from more primitive ancestors in very ancient times as is the case of man's record in the Old World Early man in America was a migrant coming to this continent from Siberia as a hunter of big game some time ...
... FISH-HOOKS FOUND AT THE BAUM VILLAGE SITE FISH-HOOKS FOUND AT THE BAUM VILLAGE SITE A COMPARISON WITH THOSE FOUND AT MADISONVILLE AND OTHER PARTS OF THE STATE BY W C MILLS The Baum Prehistoric Village Site is situated in the western part of Ross County Ohio near the small village of Bournville and is located upon one of the gravel terraces in the valley of Paint Creek For two years during the months of July and August the
... settlements of the settlement Everybody had a settlement for the township in which I lived was just beginning to emerge from the farm-clearing log-cabin days and the simple manner of living of those times still prevailed Our clothes were hand-woven and home-made we raised our own wool and flax and prepared these for the loom the wool by ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 353 Reviews Notes and Comments 353 The amount of money provided in the different states for additional compensation to World War veterans varies from 2500000 in Rhode Island to 45000000 in New York TABLET FOR CAMPUS MARTIUS The Ohio Daughters of the American Revolution will have placed upon the old Campus Martius house at Marietta a tablet marking this as an important historic point in our state It will be unveiled ...
...settlement and improved land settlement Administration when that agency was created to incorporate the work of earlier agencies in rural development And on December 30 1935 the property was purchased by the Ohio Rural Rehabilitation Corporation which intended to develop it as an experimental urban community68 Despite these changes in ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Crigler Mounds Sites Be 20 and Be 27 and the Hartman Mound Site Be 32 Boone County Kentucky By William S Webb With Chapter on Physical Anthropology By Charles E Snow University of Kentucky Reports in Anthropology and Archaeology Vol V no 6 Lexington University of Kentucky 1943 74p 20 figs 10 tables This new report on the Adena Complex in Kentucky is the sixth in a series of eight bulletins describing mound explorations of an important prehistoric Indian culture ...
... northwestern part of the State which was last to be settled The numbers born in each of the leading counties are Hamilton 67 Muskingum 12 Cuyahoga 26 Portage 11 Licking 22 W arren 10 Jefferson 16 Washington 10 Butler 14 Montgomery 10 Franklin 14 Clark 9 Belmont 13 Ross 8 Trumbull 12 Medina 8 Columbiana 12 Ashtabula 8 The most conspicuous feature is one which does not appear on the map at all There is no
... settlement of these problems the Negro would have to leave the South34 Scarborough also contributed articles on the Negro question to the New York Tribune and other papers During these years Booker T Washington with his program of industrial education at Tuskegee Institute strongly supported by leading philanthropists was receiving wide acclaim Some earnest advocates of Negro rights believed that by his emphasis on the manual arts Washington ...
... settlement inhabited primarily by small farmers and laborers For centuries the area belonged to the Miami Indian tribe but after the Indian Wars ended in 1795 whites began to settle the area Several rivers flow through the countryside making the land fertile for the cultivation of corn wheat and tobacco Two major canal junctions grew up on the Miami River Hamilton in Butler County and Dayton in Montgomery County Both cities increased rapidly ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President The meeting of the society on May 5 was addressed by John H Davison on the subject How We Came To Be Where We Are a review of the conquest of the Ohio Country Recent issues of the Reporter have carried a record of soldiers of the War of 1812 buried in Allen County Persons having additional information on such soldiers are ...
... settlements founded by native Americans hold the status of institutions among the foreign born Alta House in the center of a colony of 20000 Italians is one Its activities include educational classes for men women and children a gym and pool playgrounds music art and dramatic clubs a branch library kindergarten and a clinic conducted by a visiting nurse Eighteen Italian lodges meet here and it has been the scene of weddings christenings and ...
... northwestern Ohio where the Kountz crowd had been running Grand Army politics131 Squire complained too that the rank and file of the Grand Army was used as mop rags for some fellow to climb over132 His position may be considered as somewhat extreme he himself was not reticent in informing Department Commander Warner in 1891 that before any appointments were made by Warner in the neighborhood ...
... JOHN E JOHN E MOSER Principles Without Program Senator Robert A Taft and American Foreign Policy When it came to domestic policy there was very little that was confusing about Senator Robert Alfonso Taft of Ohio 1889-1953 A die-hard conservative Taft remained up until his death a convinced enemy of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and the assault on the Constitution which he believed it to represent So solid were his political credentials that ...
... 104 Ohio Arch 104 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications OHIO HISTORY DAY AT THE LOGAN ELM A large and appreciative audience assembled in Logan Elm Park near the grand old tree which gives it its name to celebrate Ohio History Day on October 7 1923 The local papers gave generous space to ...