... 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 ...
... array of other reforms In addition to prohibition the WCTU supported research into the causes of alcoholism established kindergartens paid the salary of municipal police matrons and aligned itself with the farmer and labor insurgencies of the 1880s and 1890s28 More than any other single event in nineteenth-century American history the Woman's Temperance Crusade touched the lives of tens of thousands of women and legitimized for them a new and ...
... 288 Ohio Arch 288 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications erected their temple on the hilltop to the day of the traction car But that car like the one of Juggernaut is the irresistible chariot of the present that ruthlessly rolls over the veneration for the past The pamphlet prospectus in question devotes several pages to the history and description of the mound and properly presents it as one of the leading features which will make the proposed traction line a valuable and paying institution ...
... 236 Ohio Arch 236 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications GENEALOGY OF WILLIAM McKINLEY BY REV A STAPLETON The following genealogical sketch of President McKinley was prepared by the Rev A Stapleton of Carlisle Pa We give it as it was originally published in the New York Sun-EDITOR It should be a matter of regret to all true historians that the campaign histories of President McKinley were erroneous in several important genealogical details The data herein given may be relied on as correct as ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Organizations ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President The society now has about 134000 in cash and a quantity of bricks on hand for its proposed museum building The estimated cost of the structure is 150000 The society would like to lay the cornerstone in Ohio's sesquicentennial year but definite plans have not been made ALLIANCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Alliance Mrs Fred R Donaldson President A marker has been placed by the society ...
... BELLAMY NATIONALISM IN OHIO 1891 TO 1896 BELLAMY NATIONALISM IN OHIO 1891 TO 1896 by WILLIAM F ZORNOW Instructor in History Case Institute of Technology One aspect of the Progressive movement which is of special interest is the growth of native radicalism as distinct from imported Marxism In this movement Edward Bellamy became one of the chief spokesmen He was a utopian socialist who believed in planning regimentation efficiency and the nationalization of all industry but he also hoped to ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Saving the Waifs Reformers and Dependent Children 1890-1917 By LeRoy Ashby Philadelphia Temple University Press 1984 xiii 336p notes bibliographical notes index 3795 This fine book reflects the current interest in dependent children private philanthropy and public policy and shares the hypothesis of other recent works that since child welfare is somehow at the heart of Progressive reformism understanding the child savers is key to understanding Progressivism In these ...
... 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 ...
... HARLEY J HARLEY J McKEE Original Bridges on the National Road in Eastern Ohio The approach to this subject is purely descriptive and is based on observations made during 1971 while the author was inspecting structures which had been recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey1 Among the records in question were a number of photographs of bridges on the old National Road taken late in 1933 for which the locations had not been as clearly given as HABS standards require A part of the ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Abolitionists amp the South 1831-1861 By Stanley Harrold Lexington The University of Kentucky Press 1995 x 245p illustrations notes bibliography index 2995 Did the struggle to end slavery cause the Civil War Twentieth-century theories of the war from Charles Beard's economic interpretation to the currently fashionable cultural split between North and South have relegated abolitionist radicals to the sidelines as a causative factor in the war and by implication ...
... Annual Report for 1958 Annual Report for 1958 FOR A DOZEN YEAR S OR MOR E the annual report of this Society has regularly recorded significant advancements in our operations Since World War II we have acquired nine properties including Adena Glendower Fort Meigs and the W P Snyder Jr visitation to the State Memorials has increased by over 1000000 collections have expanded and the educational research publication exhibit library and other services have recorded growing programs The year 1958 ...
... Fortieth Annual Meeting 259 Fortieth Annual Meeting 259 REPORT OF THE MUSEUM COMMITTEE Vice President George F Bareis Chairman of the Committee read the following report The Museum Committee held one well-attended meeting on June 17 1925 Director Mills outlined his plans for the occupation of the new building as to departments and space Professor Hine the new Curator of Natural History was present and made a report as to his plans and progress The committee heartily approved the plans and ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... A Survey of Publications A Survey of Publications In Ohio History and Archaeology August 1960 - July 1961 Compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE HENLEIN Paul C Early Cattle Ranges of the Ohio Valley Agricultural History XXXV 1961 150-154 The Jackson Cut-Off Northwest Ohio Quarterly XXXII 1960 187-191 A ditch in Wood County to drain the Black Swamp built in 1878 and 1879 RHOADES Rendell ed Some 'Memoranda of the Locust Season in Ohio 1855' Ohio Historical Quarterly LXX 1961 152-156 ...
... A Report on the First Ohio Institute A Report on the First Ohio Institute on Local and State History By ROBERT C WHEELER Imagine turning people away from a meeting on history Yet it actually happened at Newark this fall on October 30 at the first Ohio Institute on Local and State History One hundred fifty persons from forty-two Ohio communities representing thirty-five local and county historical societies and museums squeezed and elbowed their way into the Newark Mound Builders Country Club ...
... 460 Ohio Arch 460 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications technic Institute the Brooklyn Institute the Missouri Historical Society the Florida State Museum the president of Tufts College the National Society of D A R etc ADDRESS OF CONGRESSMAN OVERMYER Congressman A W Overmyer of the 13th Ohio District who came from Washington D C expressly to take part in the dedicatory exercises then delivered the following address Fortunate indeed are all of us who have been permitted to witness this ...
... HUGH T HUGH T LOVIN The Ohio Farmer-Labor Movement in the 1930s Throughout the 1930s a generation of American radicals sought unsuccessfully to build a viable third party on the considerable political terrain that lay to the left of the New Deal coalition Their failure in the greatest of all American depressions has long been accounted either a tribute to the resiliency of the two-party system and the political skill of Franklin Roosevelt or a confirmation of the utopian chiliastic character ...