... Index Index COMPILED BY EDWARD LENSE AND NANCY SUMMERS ABA See American Bar Association Abbot David and Tappan 136 136n 137-38 139 140 Abolition of slavery 49 50 56 abolitionism in Western Reserve 50 56 and Benjamin Tappan 109 111 ACLU See American Civil Liberties Union Adams John 121 220 Adger John B American delegate to World Evangelical Alliance 302 Aeschbacher W D book rev 338 Alexander Charles C book rev 342-43 Alexander James 148 Alien and Sedition Acts 224 Allen Frederick Lewis quoted ...
... URINALYSIS INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION THE URINALYSIS INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION THE STETHOSCOPE ET CETERA OF THE PERIOD 1835-1858 By HOWARD DITTRICK M D The period 1835 to 1858 was one during which there was little or no advance in the scientific side of medicine According to F H Garrison the scientific movement did not start until well after the middle of the nineteenth century Medicine of the early half was with a few exceptions only part and parcel of the stationary theorizing of the preceding ...
... NOTES NOTES PRESERVATION OF OHIO MOUNDS--Three years ago Professor F W Putnam in a letter to one of the editors of the QUARTERLY said The State of Ohio has an important trust in her keeping and one which has been neglected too long Even now many of the important works of the peoples who formerly lived in her beautiful valleys have been leveled by the plough or thoughtlessly destroyed in building towns and cities At the annual meeting for 1886 of the State Archaeological and Historical Society ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Old Favorites from the McGuffey Readers Ed by Harvey C Minnich With Illustrations from the McGuffey Readers New York American Book Company 1936 482p 350 William Holmes McGuffey and His Readers By Harvey C Minnich With Photographs and Old Drawings New York American Book Company 1936 203p 225 The set boxed 500 One hundred years ago the first McGuffey Readers made their appearance in Cincinnati Ohio They found immediate popularity in the West In the course of a few years ...
... ROBERT M ROBERT M MENNEL The Family System of Common Farmers The Early Years of Ohio's Reform Farm 1858-1884 In late January 1858 the Hocking Cottage the first family building of the Ohio Reform Farm was pronounced perfectly dry and ready for occupancy Soon thereafter Acting Commissioner Superintendent Charles Reemelin escorted the first inmates nine of the better disposed boys from the Cincinnati House of Refuge to the Lancaster institution1 The school proposed to reform juvenile delinquents ...
... 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 ...
... TERRY A TERRY A BARNHART A Question of Authorship The Ephraim George Squier-Edwin Hamilton Davis Controversy In 1848 Ephraim George Squier a young ambitious eastern journalist and Dr Edwin Hamilton Davis a prominent western physician and antiquarian laid claim to world attention with publication of their classic monograph Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley As the first scholarly publication of the fledgling Smithsonian Institution the appearance of this Great American Work1 was a ...
... MARILYN VAN VOORHIS WENDLER MARILYN VAN VOORHIS WENDLER Doctors and Diseases on the Ohio Frontier Nineteenth century Ohio historian Samuel Hildreth observed that As a class no order of men have done more to promote the good of mankind and develop the resources and natural history of our country than the physicians Hildreth likely referred to professional contributions in the field of natural science yet doctors also played an integral part in bringing civilization to the frontier Whether drawn ...
... BOOK REVIEWS INDEX TO THE WILLIAM McKINLEY PAPERS The Library of Congress Presidents' Papers Index Series Washington Manuscript Division Reference Department Library of Congress 1963 x482p introduction and appendices 325 An index often is thought of as merely a finding list but this one functions in numerous ways Its most important functions are three-fold it testifies it terrifies and it teaches First as to its testimony It testifies to a growth in recognition of historical needs --by ...
... Bigelow Winter-Spring 2001 pp 48-82 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page and footnoted according to the original print version If a sentence appears to be incomplete scroll down to continue with the next page The 1848 Diary of Daniel Kent By Cherilyn A Walley Tucked away in the special collections of Brigham Young University are fourteen legal-sized photocopies of diary pages identified only as Manuscript 1090 These few pages ...
... THE HISTORY OF PENAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE HISTORY OF PENAL INSTITUTIONS IN OHIO TO 1850 BY CLARA BELLE HI CKS M A THE EARLY TERRITORIAL PERIOD The History of Penal Institutions in Ohio properly begins with the first settlements in the great Northwest Territory The development of institutions in a frontier colony naturally depends to a large extent upon the character of the settlers and the need for such institutions The first settlers arrived at Marietta the first permanent settlement in Ohio ...
... ANDREW R ANDREW R L CAYTON A Quiet Independence The Western Vision of the Ohio Company Speculative schemes and idealistic visions merged in postRevolutionary America to produce many new towns in the rapidly expanding Northwest Territory A group of New England veterans of the American Revolution organized as the Ohio Company of Associates established the first such community on April 7 1788 at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers some 200 miles downstream from Pittsburgh They called ...
... GENERAL MASON AND HIS LETTER ON RAILROADS GENERAL MASON AND HIS LETTER ON RAILROADS B F PRINCE Almost every community of considerable size and age has furnished one or more characters who have been prominent for a life and acts that were for the good of that special locality and often for the state or nation at large One who stood in this threefold relation was Hon Samson Mason of Springfield Ohio Mr Mason was born in the state of New York in 1793 He attended the public schools of the day ...
... Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting 5 23 the historical society a suitable site for the monument to commemorate the Battle of Fallen Timbers We are pleased to report that a beautiful spot has been selected by your full committee and the representative of the owner complete typographical surveys and maps have been prepared as has also a description of the property for incorporation in the deed The owner is an elderly lady whose brother a local real estate agent is ...
... John A John A Bingham and Reconstruction The Dilemma of a Moderate by DONALD C SWIFT Congressman John A Bingham of Ohio was one of the foremost Republican politicians in the period following the Civil War Yet he is almost unknown to historians and students not primarily concerned with the Reconstruction era The names of Thaddeus Stevens Benjamin Butler Charles Sumner or Benjamin Wade more readily come to mind As a spokesman for moderation Bingham occupied a place of equal importance to that of ...
... THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OF 1875 IN OHIO THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OF 1875 IN OHIO BY FORREST WILLIAM CLONTS M A SIGNIFICANCE OF CAMPAIGN As a purely state contest the political campaign of 1875 in Ohio was of more than ordinary significance It was unusually long intensely conducted bitterly fought and the conclusion might be interpreted to have decided at least one very important question for the people of the entire country Widespread attention served to arouse the citizens of Ohio to the meaning ...
... THE RISE OF HOMEOPATHY THE RISE OF HOMEOPATHY By LUCY STONE HERTZOG M D In the course of correspondence concerning this paper Dr Frederick Waite wrote me One of the questions is What was the previous relation of those who became homeopaths in the early era All the homeopathic histories stress the point that many of the homeopaths had previously been in regular medicine but he was unable to prove this true except of only a small minority Dr Waite also raised the question Whence come the ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Land That I Show You Three Centuries of Jewish Life in America By Stanley Feldstein Garden City Anchor PressDoubleday 1978 xi 512 p illustrations selected bibliography index 1295 Together with Henry Feingold's Zion in America Twayne 1974 there now exist two full-length histories of the American Jewish experience While Zion in America is an exceptionally sophisticated and scholarly survey wrestling with most of the enigmas of American Jewish history Feldstein has ...
... VALLANDIGHAM AS AN EXILE IN CANADA 1863-1864 by FRANK L KLEMENT While Clement L Vallandigham lived in Canada for nearly a year during the Civil War as an exile from the United States his path crossed those of a number of men well-known in Canadian history Thomas D'Arcy McGee emerging as a critic of the Canadian government befriended and defended the exile Charles J Brydges superintendent of the Grand Trunk Railroad gave a dinner in Vallandigham's honor and presented him with a pass on his ...
... 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 ...