... Ohio Researches into Archaeology Ohio Researches into Archaeology 151 incidentally in correcting a number of errors with regard to the ancient monuments of Ohio due to the superficial nature of the examinations and measurements made by different writers and the errors deliberate or otherwise in their descriptions The book is a most valuable contribution to archaeology and the state society is to be congratulated upon its enterprise in securing its preparation and publication OHIO RESEARCHES ...
... A Century of Voting A Century of Voting In Three Ohio Counties By I RIDGWAY DAVIS BECAUSE VOTING IS OF KEY IMPORTANCE in a democracy analyses of voting behavior on the national and state levels in the United States have been of major interest to students of history and government Comparatively little research however has been forthcoming on the local level In this study the voting records of three Ohio counties Ross Pike and Scioto have been examined for the period 1859-1959 a century of ...
... CINCINNATI-A CIVIC ODE CINCINNATI-A CIVIC ODE WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE Professor William Henry Venable ranks among the first of Ohio's most honored educators and authors For many years he was professor in the High Schools of Cincinnati His published works embrace history poetry literature and fiction He has been a devoted student of the literature of the Ohio Valley He delivered the address on Ohio Literary Men and Women at the Ohio Centennial celebration Chillicothe May 20 1903 His splendid ode ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 70 NUMBER 1 J A N U A R Y 1961 The Corwin Amendment In the Secession Crisis By R ALTON LEE THE ELECTION of a Republican president in November 1860 on a platform opposed to further extension of slavery sparked the secession of South Carolina from the United States Between December 20 1860 and February 1 1861 the other six cotton states followed South Carolina out of the Union Never since the world began was there a more ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Alexandra Gripenberg's A Half Year in the New World Miscellaneous Sketches of Travel in the United States 1 888 Translated and edited by Ernest J Moyne Newark University of Delaware Press 1954 xv225p frontispiece and index This volume recounts the observations of Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg distinguished Finnish journalist author feminist and temperance advocate during a six months' visit to the United States in 1888 The baroness came to America as a delegate to an ...
... Thirty-First Annual Meeting Thirty-First Annual Meeting 111 meeting shall be mailed by the Secretary to all members of the Society at least ten days before such annual meeting is held The following were duly elected to life membership Mr Clay Barnes Waverley Dr H E Twitchell Hamilton Mr A J Rayner Piqua Prof A M Schlesinger Columbus Mr H C Shetrone Columbus Hon Harry L Goodbread Nevada Ohio Dr Wm D Tremper Portsmouth Mr W O Feurt Portsmouth Mr Geo H Heinisch Portsmouth Mr Wilbur Stout ...
... THE PROBLEM OF THE PROBLEM OF THE HISTORIC INDIAN IN THE OHIO VALLEY THE HISTORIAN'S VIEW by DWIGHT L SMITH Sometime early in the morning of October 12 land having been sighted a party debarked for shore Presently they descried people who were naked Possession of the island was taken in the presence of witnesses from the ship and a number of the people of the island who had collected there1 As I saw that they were very friendly to us and perceived that they could be much more easily converted ...
... THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY In the Ohio Centennial at Columbus September 4 to October 19 1888 THIS department was organized to embody a distinctive feature in the Ohio Centennial i e to exhibit in one place articles illustrative of the growth made in Ohio's history To do this properly it was decided to group all articles into classes regardless of ownership each class typical of a distinct idea This made a collective exhibit and hence all ...
... Brief Biography of William Henry Holmes 513 Brief Biography of William Henry Holmes 513 Holmes to the log and skin the bear The only note regarding the adventure found in my report of the day's doing was my bear skin is a beauty AN ADVENTURE WITH THE INDIANS AUGUST 4TH AND 5TH 1 875 BY W H HOLMES August 4th Moved 14 miles down the San Juan Valley in south-western Colorado within a few miles of our western line -- 109 30' Passed by the mouth of the Montezuma a deep valley with a dry bed but ...
... BAUM PREHISTORIC VILLAGE BAUM PREHISTORIC VILLAGE WILLIAM C MILLS The Baum Prehistoric Village site is situated in Twin Township Ross County Ohio just across the river from the small borough of Bourneville upon the first gravel terrace of Paint Creek The Paint Creek valley is drained by Paint Creek a stream of irregular turbulence flowing in a northeasterly direction and emptying into the Scioto River south of Chillicothe The Valley at the site of this village upwards of two miles in width is ...
... CARL W CARL W ALBRECHT Book Notes The Papers of Henry Bouquet Volume 5 September 1 1760-October 31 1761 Edited by Louis M Waddell John L Tottenham and Donald H Kent Harrisburg The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission 1984 xxx 875p illustrations bibliography chronology index Henry Bouquet born in Switzerland in 1719 passed his early military training and experience in the service of several European states In 1756 he was recruited to serve as a lieutenant colonel in the Royal American ...
... NOEL FISHER NOEL FISHER Groping Toward Victory Ohio's Administration of the Civil War The American Civil War posed a vast challenge to the limited administrative capacities of the national and state governments both North and South As the chaos of 1861 painfully revealed recruiting large numbers of men supplying them with weapons uniforms and equipment and transporting them to the field were tasks initially beyond the ability of any American government to perform efficiently To sustain a long ...
... OHIO IN KNEE PANTS OHIO IN KNEE PANTS by VIRGINIUS C HALL Director Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio Mr Chairman Ladies and Gentlemen Here in Columbus on December 31 1831 there was formed the first historical society west of the mountains That Society the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio later removed to Cincinnati So in coming to Columbus as the representative of that Society I am coming back to the birthplace back to the old home town back to our raising It seemed to ...
... VERNON L VERNON L VOLPE The Ohio Election of 1838 A Study in the Historical Method Historians are not immune from occasionally making minor errors such as misreading the results of a state election Unfortunately due to the nature of the craft one historian's lapse may assume the status of historical fact once it finds its way into the secondary literature where the original slip suddenly takes on a life of its own Through sheer repetition by other scholars a historical myth is created that is ...
... REPORT OF ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF REPORT OF ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY HELD IN THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING OF THE SOCIETY MARCH 26 1 931 The Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met in annual meeting March 26 1931 at 2 o'clock p m in the trustees' room of the Museum and Library Building The following members were present Johnson Bareis Florence Orton Spetnagel Goodman and Hinkle ...
... AN UNKNOWN GRAVE AN UNKNOWN GRAVE JOHN JAMES PIATT The following poem with preface was read by Mr Piatt at the Annual Banquet of the Ohio Society S A R held at the Columbus Club on the evening of April 19 1904 On the title page of an interesting volume of family history recently published at Columbus I read two sentencesthe first from Edmund Burke Those who do not treasure up the memory of their ancestors do not deserve to be remembered by posterity The other is from the Bible Children's ...
... ADDRESSES OF APRIL SEVENTH ADDRESSES OF APRIL SEVENTH ADDRESS OF WELCOME BY GOVERNOR J B FORAKER FELLOW-C IT IZENS The duty that has been assigned to me in connection with this occasion is very simple in its character It does not require nor even allow me to enumerate much less elaborate any of the many interesting and important suggestions which a consideration of the event we celebrate is calculated to start in every intelligent mind Neither does it authorize me to recount the progress and ...
... KRISTE LINDENMEYER KRISTE LINDENMEYER Saving Mothers and Babies The Sheppard-Towner Act in Ohio 1921-1929 In 1985 the year for which the latest statistics are available 106 American babies died for every 1000 live births in the United States This is a dramatic improvement over the country's 1921 infant mortality rate of 76 per 1000 but as in 1921 the United States' rate continues to compare poorly with many other industrialized countries In 1921 the United States rate ranked seventeenth out of ...
... JOHN BROWN'S LAST LETTER JOHN BROWN'S LAST LETTER BY CLARENCE S GEE John Brown of Harper's Ferry fame sat in his prison cell in Charlestown Virginia now West Virginia on the morning of December 2nd 1859 well aware that he had not long to live His trial had resulted in a verdict against him and he was sentenced to die on this date In papers recently restored to the files of the Circuit Court in Charlestown we find the original verdict We the Jury find the defendant John Brown the prisoner at ...
... 344 Ohio Arch 344 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Of which we too may but a portion b e In that sum-total solidarity Of human beings spread across the earth In generations birth succeeding birthThe living who raise the citadels we know The dead whose bones earth bosomed long ago And this good company that meets today Proves the large truth of what I've sought to say For why should we whose daily tasks alone So press upon us that we scarcely own The present hour still take on us to gaze ...