... THE LONG MEMORY OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE by DONALD WALTER CURL Shortly after his inauguration in March 1889 President Benjamin Harrison sent to the Republican-controlled Senate a list of nominees for first class diplomatic appointments Among those named were Robert Todd Lincoln the former president's son to London Frederick D Grant another former president's son to Vienna Allen T Rice the publisher to St Petersburg Whitelaw Reid of the New York Tribune to Paris and Murat Halstead editor of ...
... CHRONOLOGY AND ROSTER OF THE OHIO CHRONOLOGY AND ROSTER OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY By HARLOW LINDLEY CHRONOLOGY 1822 Feb 1 Act passed to incorporate the Historical Society of Ohio 1831 Feb II Act passed incorporating the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio The Society was formally organized in Columbus Dec 21 Resolution adopted to change the place of meeting to Cincinnati in December 1848 Afterwards this Society was united with the Cincinnati Historical ...
... The International Institute The International Institute First Organized Opposition To the Metric System By EDWARD F Cox SWEEPING AROUND THE GLOBE in the nineteenth century was a new reform bidding for universal acceptance the metric system of weights and measures Coming into a world burdened with a fantastic metrological diversity it arose in answer to the articulate needs of an emerging modern science an expanding world economy of commerce and industry and a growing trend of international ...
... Civil War Letters of Darwin Cody Civil War Letters of Darwin Cody Edited by STANLEY P WASSON CLEVELAND TOOK ITS RECRUITING SERIOUSLY in August 1862 after Lincoln had issued his second call for 300000 men Ohio's quota was 74000 Each county was to provide its portion of soldiers before September 1 when Governor David Tod was to draft the remainder To encourage recruiting stores closed early during August local bounties were offered Regiments seeking to fill their rosters advertised in newspapers ...
... The Wisconsin Archaeological Society The Wisconsin Archaeological Society 341 about Madison describing the locations of the camps trail and fur-trade stations as described by early travelers He was followed by Mr Emilius O Randall secretary of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society who protested that he was not a professional archaeologist history being his bent if he had any bent at all and regretted that his place on the program was not filled by Prof W C Mills the successful ...
... 34 Ohio Arch 34 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications search history other than that of our own state for noble ideas The story of the foundation of our state and its progress is like a romance Well did Washington say in the dark days of the Revolution when he was questioned as to what he would do if he met defeat that he would come out here and settle in the valley of the Muskingum Several years ago a friend of mine a lady of Ohio met an English woman whose whole idea of America was based ...
... Historical News Historical News THE SIXTH ANNUAL SUMMER Institute on Historical and Archival Management will be offered by Radcliffe College with the co-sponsorship of the department of history of Harvard University during the six weeks June 29 through August 7 1959 Lawrence W Towner editor of the William and Mary Quarterly and director of graduate studies at the College of William and Mary will direct the course The staff will consist of eighteen or more experts in the fields covered by the ...
... GRANT TABLET DEDICATION GRANT TABLET DEDICATION ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR ANDREW L HARRIS At Point Pleasant Ohio the birth place of Ulysses S Grant there was dedicated on Wednesday October 2d 1907 a tablet to the memory of the great general and president Many distinguished citizens participated and of the several speeches that of Governor Harris was especially in sympathy with the occasion-EDITOR On this occasion I am doubly honored It is my privilege to respond to an inspiring address of welcome ...
... CHARACTER SKETCH OF GENERAL ULYSSES S CHARACTER SKETCH OF GENERAL ULYSSES S GRANT BY JUDGE HUGH L NICHOLS Chairman of the U S Grant Memorial Centenary Association My earlier life was spent at New Richmond Clermont County Ohio on the banks of the Ohio River five miles west of Point Pleasant where Ohio's greatest son first saw the light of day As a youth I was greatly interestd in General Grant always having regarded him - and it would seem rightlyas Ohio's most famous citizen and since he was ...
... 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 ...
... Lucy Lucy Webb Hayes and her Family by EMILY APT GEER The public life of Rutherford Birchard Hayes has been studied by many historians but little has been written about the friendly sparkling woman he married and their large and active family of eight children Lucy Webb Hayes's concern for people helped her develop a lively interest in politics that served her equally well as the wife of a city solicitor in Cincinnati and as mistress of the White House while her husband was President Their ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews PR Politics in Cincinnati Thirty-Two Years of City Government Through Proportional Representation By Ralph A Straetz New York New York University Press 1958 xvii312p bibliography and appendix 500 From an early day the political history of Cincinnati has been a study in contrasts The home of such notable national figures as Edward McLean Joseph B Foraker William Howard Taft Nicholas Longworth Judson Harmon and Robert A Taft it also numbers among its sons such divergent ...
... DR DR WILLIAM OXLEY THOMPSON HONORED Dr William Oxley Thompson was the recipient of distinguished honors at the Scioto Country Club in Columbus Friday evening June 6 1924 The occasion was a silver jubilee dinner in celebration of the completion of his twenty-five years of service as president of the Ohio State University Guests to the number of 420 including trustees faculty alumni fellow college presidents and prominent citizens of the state and city were present and a spokesman from each ...
... THE OHIO THE OHIO Archaeological and Historical Society ORGANIZED MARCH 13 1885 Articles of Incorporation Synopsis of By-Laws and List of Members FROM DATE OF ORGANIZATION UNTIL FEBRUARY 19 1891 317 ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION The undersigned citizens of Ohio having associated themselves together and desiring to form a corporation not for profit under the laws of said State of Ohio do hereby subscribe and acknowledge the following articles of incorporation 1 The ...
... strike serious financial problems and an adverse referendum vote in October 1908 marked its early demise Yet within the following year and a half a modified version of Johnson's three cent plan was hammered into shape Although the Cleveland's Johnson 329 Cleveland's Johnson 329 mayor opposed this compromise known as the Tayler Plan it adequately served the needs of the Forest City for a generation Another of Johnson's great campaigns was ...
... strike and thousands of the unemployed on the tramp And who does not remember the song - on the lips alike of sturdy workman and street urchincelebrating the sadly picturesque character to be met on almost every public highway We were not a little surprised in looking over a collection of sheet music to find that this old favorite was written by our own Thompson Here it is I'm only a poor old wanderer I've no place to call my home No one to ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 431 Reviews Notes and Comments 431 SENATOR ROBERT L OWEN AT THE LOGAN ELM Mr E L Spetnagel a life member of our Society writes an interesting letter to Mr Tiffin J Gilmore thanking him for a circular containing a cut of the Logan Elm and the text of the speech of Chief Logan that made the tree famous He speaks of a family reunion last June and the enjoyment of two brothers and other members of his family in making a visit to this grand old tree Continuing Mr ...
... BENJAMIN F BENJAMIN F WADE AND THE ATROCITY PROPAGANDA OF THE CIVIL WAR By HARRY WILLIAMS The atrocity propaganda issued in the North during the Civil War flowered in bewildering abundance from a variety of persons and agencies Heads of governmental departments semi-official bodies editors members of Congress and private individuals devoted their efforts to the dissemination of tales of cruelties and barbarisms practiced by the Confederate Government and its soldiery1 Although these ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABOLITIONIST movement 8 23 85-100 Adult education Newton D Baker and the Adult Education Movement by Rae Wahl Rohfeld 119-32 AEF See American Expeditionary Force University Albrecht Carl W book rev 157-58 Alexander Charles C book rev 64-65 Alexander Roberta Sue North Carolina Faces the Freedmen Race Relations During Presidential Reconstruction 1865-67 134 Alice Hamilton A Life in Letters by Barbara Sicherman rev 57-58 Allen Florence Ellinwood First Lady of ...
... LETTERS OF THOMAS BUCHANAN READ LETTERS OF THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Edited by ALICE E SMITH Thomas Buchanan Read was less than twenty years old when he wrote the letters printed below yet he had experienced many and strange adventures At the age of fourteen he had rebelled at the life of a tailor's apprentice and escaped to Philadelphia Here for a time he had clerked in a cellar grocery then served as apprentice to a cigar maker and finally made his way on a flatboat to Cincinnati For three years ...