... PATRICIA A PATRICIA A CARTER Housing the Women Who Toiled Planned Residences for Single Women Cincinnati 1860-1960 The Lawrence Home stands as a barrier to sickness and evil she opens her doors and invites the young unprotected girl to come in and make her home here-not that she may be rescued as a brand from the burning but that she may not even get near enough to the fire to be scorched She does not consider herself nor is she considered a charity inmate Her independence and self-respect are ...
... 10 OHIO HISTORY 10 OHIO HISTORY TO CINCINNATI by EDWARD A M'LAUGHLIN Fair is thy seat in soft recumbent rest Beneath the grove-clad hills whence morning wings The gentle breezes of the fragrant west That kiss the surface of a thousand springs Nature her many-colored mantle flings Around thee and adorns thee as a bride While polished Art his gorgeous tribute brings And dome and spire ascending far and wide Their pointed shadows dip in thy Ohio's tide So fair in infancy -- O what shall be Thy ...
... 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 ...
... Lincoln and His Ohio Friends Lincoln and His Ohio Friends By FRANCIS P WEISENBURGER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE VIEWPOINTS which helped to mold the political career of Abraham Lincoln1 a major influence was Joshua R Giddings antislavery congressman 1838-59 from Jefferson Ohio2 Over a period of years Lincoln and his Springfield Illinois law partner William Henry Herndon read abolitionist literature together and Lincoln became a careful student of Giddings' speeches3 Professor Elbert J Benton has ...
... PETER S PETER S ONUF From Constitution to Higher Law The Reinterpretation of the Northwest Ordinance The Northwest Ordinance is one of the most celebrated texts in American constitutional history During the state-making era in the Old Northwest Territory it was also a controversial document Treated reverently by some speakers and writers it was dismissed with contempt by others Promoters claimed that the Ordinance was a constitution for the territories and future states of the Northwest ...
... PROCEEDINGS PROCEEDINGS OF THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE CITY OF GALLOPOLIS OHIO October 16 17 18 and 19 1890 PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS As early as April 1890 the citizens of Gallipolis through their Board of Trade took action to secure a proper celebration of the approaching centennial of the city's settlement On April 22 1890 at a meeting of the Board of Trade the following named gentlemen were elected an Executive Committee of arrangements John L Vance Chairman C Fred Henking W B Shober ...
... 250 Ohio Arch 250 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications 1878 chairman of its trustees since 1878 and also its treasurer since 1901 a life member of the Firelands Historical Society since 1876 a member of its board of trustees librarian and editor of its publications since 1888 member of the National Geographical Society member of Huron County Children's Home Association member of its board of trustees since 1889 and its treasurer since 1902 member of the Young Men's Library and Reading Room ...
... LEGISLATURE OF THE NORTHWESTERN LEGISLATURE OF THE NORTHWESTERN TERRITORY 1795 The legislative authority in the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio was vested in the governor and judges of that territory by the Ordinance of 1787 The minutes of the meeting of the Legislature held in Cincinnati in the summer of 1795 have been preserved in the Centinel of the Northwestern Territory where they were published in that year Only one copy of the file of this paper containing these ...
... AN EARLY AMERICAN CRUSADER AN EARLY AMERICAN CRUSADER NORTON STRANGE TOWNSHEND1 By JOH N F CUNNINGHAM Writing to G Sprague corresponding secretary of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture in 1854--just ninety years ago--a young physician of Lorain County Ohio said I send you facts and observations relating to agricultural education also a brief notice of an attempt to establish an agricultural college in Ohio We will not stop to demonstrate but will take it for granted that agricultural ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Broken Circle By Carl G Doney New York Fleming H Revell Company 1943 187p Written as a memorial volume to a beloved son who when living had exerted a wide and beneficent influence on many people The Broken Circle tells the story of Paul H Doney minister and teacher who died at the early age of forty-one Its writing was a labor of love done by a sorrowing father who wished to present the faith which animated his son's life and the philosophy which underlay his ...
... FAVORABLE ACTION OF THE GENERAL ASFAVORABLE ACTION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON BUDGET OF THE SOCIETY The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is gradually coming into full recognition as one of the important educational agencies of the state Evidence of this fact is found in the recognition accorded it by the General Assembly of the state at its last regular session Its place among the institutions of the state was recognized when the trustees of the Ohio State University granted ...
... VIRGINIA E VIRGINIA E McCORMICK Butter and Egg Business Implications From the Records of a NineteenthCentury Farm Wife Few stereotypes have a clearer image or more persistent endurance than that of the nineteenth-century married woman who devoted herself to home and family and relied upon her husband as the economic provider This image produces the perspective that a dramatic increase has occurred in the labor force participation of women of all income levels including married women who ...
... THE REFORM MOVEMENT IN OHIO AT THE TURN THE REFORM MOVEMENT IN OHIO AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY By JAME S H RODABAUGH The end of the nineteenth century in a very real sense sounded the knell of the frontier or pioneer period of American development and opened the doors upon a new era in which industrialization and its concomitant social and economic reorganization and readjustments and political bewilderment were the dominant forces Frederick Jackson Turner opened his remarkably perceptive ...
... JANET A JANET A MILLER Urban Education and the New City Cincinnati's Elementary Schools 1870 to 1914 In 1903 Richard G Boone the Superintendent of Schools in Cincinnati announced that schools in the city were gradually workng toward the modern idea The elementary course he stated had been enriched treatment of children was more humane and reasonable and teachers were awakened to what was being done elsewhere in the nation1 While still plagued with traditional problems of finance facilities and ...
... 90 OHIO HISTORY 90 OHIO HISTORY Three books by Louis Filler have recently been re-published Horace Mann on the Crisis in Education and Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom Second Edition with New Preface both by the University Press of America and A Dictionary of American Social Change by the Robert E Krieger Publishing Company Other books of interest are Social Action Collections at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin A Guide issued by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA NEW TRUSTEES OF THE SOCIETY REV WILLIAM HENRY RICE D D Among the historic characters who played a thrilling and imperishable part in the early annals of Ohio were the three Moravian missionaries Christian Frederick Post David Zeisberger and John Heckewelder From the last named in direct descent is the Rev W H Rice for many years past a life and active member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and at the last annual meeting February 26 elected a ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR DR WILLIAM H ALLEN'S REPORT ON THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Dr William H Allen head of the Institute of Public Service New York was employed by the Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative Reorganization to make an examination of all state educational agencies In his report on the work of the Society he sketches briefly the aims and ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS FROM CHARTER TO CONSTITUTION BEING A COLLECTION OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO THE TERRITORY OF THE NORTHWEST AND THE STATE OF OHIO FROM THE CHARTERS OF JAMES I TO AND INCLUDING THE FIRST CONSTITUTION OF OHIO AND THE STATE PAPERS RELATING TO ITS ADMISSION TO THE UNION SHOWING THEREBY THE HISTORICAL CHAIN OF TITLE OF SAID STATE FROM 1606 TO 1803 BY DANIEL J RYAN THE FIRST CHARTER OF VIRGINIA TO SIR THOMAS GATES SIR GEORGE SOMERS AND OTHERS ...
... The National Negro Convention 1848 The National Negro Convention 1848 By HOWARD H BELL ON SEPTEMBER 6 1848 a small but determined group of men gathered at Cleveland Ohio to discuss the peculiar problems facing them and to lay plans for improving their position in the land of their birth They were mainly men of the Old Northwest but there were also representatives from Canada where the escaped slave was finding a haven of refuge in ever increasing numbers1 They were carpenters editors barbers ...
... THE OPENING SCENES OF THE REBELLION THE OPENING SCENES OF THE REBELLION BY COLONEL S K DONAVIN In the spring of 1861 I was a reporter and traveling correspondent on the Daily Exchange newspaper of the City of Baltimore When the telegraph announced that Mr Lincoln had reached Pittsburg en route for Washington City to be inaugurated President of the United States I left Baltimore by the Northern Central Railway for the purpose of meeting him and noting the incidents of his journey When I reached ...