... JOSEPH TOSSO THE ARKANSAW TRAVELER JOSEPH TOSSO THE ARKANSAW TRAVELER by OPHIA D SMITH The man who made Arkansaw Traveler famous was not an ordinary country fiddler He was a courtly Italian gentleman a musical genius who might have become one of the great violinists of all time The melody as well as the story of the Arkansaw Traveler was attributed to Joseph Tosso over and over in the Cincinnati press during the sixty years he lived in that city He was renowned for his inimitable rendition of ...
... ANTECEDENT EXPERIENCE OF WILLIAM ANTECEDENT EXPERIENCE OF WILLIAM MAXWELL OHIO'S FIRST PRINTER BY DOUGLAS C McMURTRIE The facts regarding the first printing in Ohio are well known and clearly established William Maxwell set up a printing office in Cincinnati and published the first issue of the Centinel of the North-Western Territory on November 9 17931 But where Maxwell came from and what his previous experience was are points of information which have never been dealt with in any of the ...
... MEDICAL JOURNALS OF PIONEER DAYS MEDICAL JOURNALS OF PIONEER DAYS By JONATHAN FORMAN MD We are going back today to a time when entrance into our profession was largely through apprenticeship when operations were done without anesthesia and without antiseptics when mistakes in diagnosis errors in judgment or lack of dexterity in operating were published with every accompaniment of insult and derision which malice could suggest when nursing in hospitals was done by women of the charwomen class ...
... 452 Ohio Arch 45 2 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications EXCAVATIONS OF THE ADENA MOUND BY WILLIAM C MILLS B SC Curator Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society The Adena mound so named by Governor Worthington and owned by his estate until a few years ago was thoroughly examined by the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society under the direction of its curator during the summer of 1901 The mound is located 112 miles from the northwestern part of the city of Chillicothe in the ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 547 Reviews Notes and Comments 547 Senator Fess then delivered an eloquent address on the origin and achievements of the government of the United States He paid a glowing tribute to the Revolutionary fathers and the framers of our institutions This he followed with a survey of the progress under our republican form of government His address was received with frequent applause by the attentive and appreciative audience Mr Henry Williams recited the famous message of ...
... JOHN BROWN JOHN BROWN ADDITIONAL NOTES BY C B GALBREATH JOHN BROWN'S FRIENDS IN WASHINGTON The following letter to John Brown Jr which so far as we know has never before been published states clearly whom the writer regarded as friends in Congress This letter is now of historic interest only Had it been published at the time it was written it would doubtless have created some commotion and have made trouble for some of the congressmen named The letter is here reproduced literally ROCHESTER N Y ...
... JUDSON HARMON JUDSON HARMON BY HUGH L NICHOLS Judson Harmon forty-fourth governor of Ohio 1909-1913 was born at Newtown Hamilton County Ohio on the 3rd of February 1846 He was the eldest son of Rev Benjamin Franklin Harmon one of the pioneer preachers of the Baptist faith who extended the field of his spiritual ministrations through the medium of the old-time circuit-riding to the adjoining County of Clermont Judson Harmon was of English ancestry His lineage has been authentically traced to ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 65 NUMBER 3 JULY 1956 A New Horizon in History By BRUCE CATTON When Ulysses the wise old man of Greek mythology prepared to take off on his final voyage beyond the sunset he summed up his knowledge of life in the one remark I am a part of all that I have met By this I suppose Ulysses was simply saying that history was not a thing apart from him He had lived he had contributed his bit to the life of his times and in turn had ...
... BEHIND LINCOLN'S VISIT TO OHIO IN 1859 BEHIND LINCOLN'S VISIT TO OHIO IN 1859 by EARL W WILEY Professor of Speech Ohio State University The wheels of Buckeye politics were set spinning on September 1 1859 That was the day when the Ohio Statesman published in Columbus tardily and reluctantly released the announcement that Senator Stephen A Douglas would barnstorm in Ohio during the Ranney-Dennison campaign then off to a running start Its editor George W Manypenny was chairman of the Democratic ...
... Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting 623 Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting 623 diers of Ohio who served in the World War also a similar resolution adopted October 18 1921' The approval of the State Architect has been secured to this partial construction Bids for the erection of this building are being opened at 1000 A M today Plans for the completed building and for that portion to be built at once are submitted for the inspection of the Society Studies for the proposed sculptural features of the front ...
... VIRGINIA E VIRGINIA E AND ROBERT W MCCORMICK Agricultural Trains An Innovative Educational Partnership Between Universities and Railroads The handbill said 110 PM Thursday October 26 19111 but by one o'clock a crowd had collected and was greeting each farm wagon or buggy as neighbors arrived A stranger might have described the gathering as festive not the exuberance of a 4th of July celebration but an expectant air akin to a farm auction or the county fair Beside the Hocking Valley Railroad ...
... Report of the Forty-eighth Annual Meeting 301 Report of the Forty-eighth Annual Meeting 301 JOINT COMMITTEE PLANS FOR ARCHIVAL SURVEYS By T R SCHELLENBERG It is quite obvious to research students that in the past thirty years the amount of printed matter has increased in geometric ratio Today students are literally engulfed with a mass of materials many of which are printed on a cheap wood-pulp paper which crumbles to dust after a few decades but which reflect quite accurately the passing ...
... 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 OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 64 NUMBER 4 OCTOBER 1955 The Correspondence of George A Myers and James Ford Rhodes 1910-1923-IV Edited by JOHN A GARRATY RHODES TO MYERS Boston May 22 1920 Dear George I have yr two valued favors of Apr 30 and May 12 the latter enclosing two editorials from the P D which I have read with great interest Senator Lodge is a very able man The contest has been between him and the President The President has had a stroke of ...
... WHISTLE-STOPPING Through Ohio by RICHARD O DAVIES Ohio played an important role in returning Harry S Truman to the White House in 1948 Prior to the election he had been foredoomed to defeat by all reputable political seers Ohio was seen as being safely within the Republican fold and was supposedly prepared to take part in a nationwide Republican blitz Elmo Roper for example quit taking samples of voter preference as early as September 9 with the comment that only a political convulsion could ...
... JUDGE TOURGEE AND RECONSTRUCTION JUDGE TOURGEE AND RECONSTRUCTION By RUSSEL B NYE Albion Winegar Tourgee Ohioan novelist political thinker soldier editor jurist and diplomat was a man whose comments upon the political and social questions of the late nineteenth century form an interesting chapter in the development of American thought Born in Williamsfield Ohio in 1838 of Huguenot German and Yankee stock he spent a normal boyhood amid the farms and villages of northern Ohio1 After study at ...
... DORAMAE O'KELLEY DORAMAE O'KELLEY Late Nineteenth Century Courthouse Architecture in Northwestern Ohio As one drives through northwestern Ohio the most impressive object to be seen on the skyline of many communities might be the massive towered form of the county courthouse Often the city's largest and most distinguished example of architecture these courthouses were all built in the last thirty years of the nineteenth century The importance these structures held for the people of the county ...
... REMINISCENCES OF A SURVEYOR1 REMINISCENCES OF A SURVEYOR1 By JAMES T WEED In November 1888 I was elected county surveyor of Gallia County Ohio and on the first Monday of January 1889 I assumed the duties of the office In the forty-five years since then I have done a great deal of surveying of land and city lots and highways and a little in mines Most of this work has been in Gallia County though I have practiced a little in the adjoining counties of Jackson and Vinton in nearby West Virginia ...
... Fortieth Annual Meeting 263 Fortieth Annual Meeting 263 healthy condition even though it carries the scars of the damage caused by storm three years ago The General Gibson Grove that was planted a year ago is growing with few losses and they are being replaced Thousands of people continue to visit this historic old tree annually On October 4th the Ohio History Day Association held its annual meeting at the Park and with most unfavorable weather conditions had more than 3000 people present Mr ...
... edited by edited by ARNOLD SHANKMAN Vallandigham's Arrest and the 1863 Dayton Riot--Two Letters A noteworthy political event of 1863 was the arrest and subsequent exile of Clement Laird Vallandigham A former Democratic United States Representative from Dayton and one of the most eloquent speakers in the North Vallandigham was Ohio's leading Peace Democrat He sincerely believed that the Confederacy could not be subdued by force and although he never advocated permanent separation of the North ...