... NOTES ON CHOLERA IN SOUTHWESTERN OHIO NOTES ON CHOLERA IN SOUTHWESTERN OHIO By DAVID A TUCKER JR M D The first invasion of the North American continent by epidemic or Asiatic cholera occurred in 1832 The disease appears to have been carried across the Atlantic by emigrants from Ireland who landed during April and May at Gross Isle thirtytwo miles below the city of Quebec Cholera had appeared in a serious epidemic at Jessore India on the Delta of the Ganges in 1816-1817 It had spread slowly ...
... AndersonBertaux Summer-Autumn 2002 pp 145-182 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Poor Men But Hard-Working Fathers The Cincinnati Orphan Asylum and Parental Roles in the Nineteenth-Century Working Class By M Christine Anderson and Nancy E Bertaux Male laborers such as these were the fathers of children institutionalized at the Cincinnati Orphan Asylum Image copyright the Cincinnati Historical Society Library Introduction ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 68 NUMBER 1 JANUA R Y 1 959 Friedrich Hassaurek Cincinnati's Leading Forty-Eighter By CARL WITTKE THE ABORTIVE GERMAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1848 and 1849 led to an exodus of political refugees from Europe to the United States which was unique in the history of American immigration Among the German immigrants who crossed the Atlantic in the 1850's in quest of greater economic opportunities and political liberty there were a significant ...
... THE FINNS IN OHIO THE FINNS IN OHIO BY EUGENE VAN CLEEF The United States has been developed by motley groups of peoples from numerous divergent lands principally from European countries Among the representatives from these foreign nations are stalwart migrants from fascinating Finland In the course of a century or more the Finns have settled largely in our northern tier of states Their numbers today including those born in this country but of foreign or mixed parentage total 320536 Slightly ...
... 676 Ohio Arch 676 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications tiers of imperishable renown such as our Millikans Eliots Burbanks Fords Shapleys and Grenfells have given the world Professor Hulbert was generously applauded at the conclusion of his address Dr Thompson then introduced the second speaker of the afternoon Dr G Clyde Fisher Curator of Visual Instruction in the American Museum of Natural History New York City Dr Fisher is a native Ohioan whose scholarly attainments and enviable record ...
... JEPTHA H JEPTHA H WADE AND THE CLEVELAND AND CINCINNATI TELEGRAPH COMPANY by RUSSELL H ANDERSON Director Western Reserve Historical Society Jeptha H Wade was the organizer moving spirit and principal owner of the Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company and the story of his activities in building and operating its line leads into his career in the nation-wide telegraph field especially as a principal in the Western Union Telegraph Company It was with this Ohio line that Wade capitalizing ...
... MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY APRIL 4 1941 The Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met at noon Friday April 4 1941 in the Trustees Room of the Ohio State Museum President Johnson presided over the meeting attended by the following trustees Messrs Eagleson Fleischmann Florence Rightmire Spencer Spetnagel Wittke and Wolfe Director Shetrone ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 3 31 Mrs Tuttle is a writer of great merit being a lady of unusual culture and scholarship Her husband was the late Prof Herbert Tuttle the distinguished historical writer and lecturer at Cornell University With her husband Mrs Tuttle spent some years abroad and became proficient as a linguist and an artist She not only writes in a delightful manner but wields the artist's brush both in portraiture and landscape with equal talent and charm That she is deeply ...
... Do the Job He Left Behind Summer-Autumn 2000 pp 144-166 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 Copyright 2000 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Do the Job He Left Behind The Cleveland Womanpower Committee 1943-1945 By Julieanne Phillips We feel you just haven't come to grips with the manpower problem or realized that there is a problem ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Spring Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held April 21-22 1995 at Otterbein College in Westerville Ohio For further information contact Donna L Van Raaphorst History Department Cuyahoga Community College Western Campus Cleveland Ohio 44130-5199 The Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies of Saint Mary's University will be holding its 7th North American Fur Trade Conference in Halifax Nova Scotia on May 24-28 1995 The ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments awards and retirements within the professional community of Ohio historians include John N Sobczak has replaced Von Hardesty as chairperson at Bluffton College for the 1978-79 academic year and Delbert Gratz is on sabbatical in Switzerland during 1979 at Antioch College Hanna Goldberg has been appointed Interim Executive Dean at the Yellow Springs campus and Irwin Abrams has been elected to the council of the Conference on ...
... 668 ' Index 668 ' Index Trimble Rachel donation to Museum Westerville 272 535 Williams Charles R Prof edits Trustees Society's 551 Hayes diaries 518 Tuscarawas County 516 531 Willoughby C C visits Serpent Mound Tuttle Judson Asiatic butterfly collec534 tion 535 U Wilmington 535 Wilson J A interest in Logan monuUpper Sandusky Indian Mission at 535 ment 518 546 547 W Wilson Woodrow autograph-photograph 537 Wagner R E 537 Wittenberg College 536 Walker William 511 W a ll W D 9' 21Wittke Carl 5 38 ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Guarding the Frontier A Study of Frontier Defense from 1815 to 1825 By Edgar Bruce Wesley Minneapolis Minnesota University of Minnesota Press 1935 217p 250 The author who is head of the history department of the University High School and associate professor of education in the University of Minnesota gives in this volume a study of the frontier defenses from 1815 to 1825 He treats particularly of the defensive military measures adopted against various Indian tribes ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR SOLDIERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BURIED IN OHIO This is the title of a book which has long been in demand by citizens of Ohio and many beyond the borders of that state who have learned through tradition or otherwise that their Revolutionary ancestors came to this state and are probably buried here The arduous work of collecting material for this volume was undertaken by the Daughters of the American Revolution under the ...
... THREE IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS RELATING THREE IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS RELATING TO WESTERN LAND CESSIONS AMONG the documents relating to western land cessions brought before Congress that are not found in the Journals are the three printed below They are all of great interest and all difficult of access I am not aware that the last one has ever been printed The first two are found in Hening's Statutes of Virginia Vol X the third is printed from a copy furnished by the Secretary of State of the State of ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue ROB ERT S FLETCHER is associate professor of history at Oberlin College Oberlin Ohio W SHERMAN SAVAGE PhD Ohio State University 1934 is head of the Department of History at Lincoln University Jefferson City Missouri ALTA HARVEY HEISER who has done work at the University of Cincinnati writes nature and historical articles for the Hamilton Ohio Journal-News and does genealogical research JOSEPHINE E PHILLIPS of Marietta Ohio is a research worker in early ...
... Montrie Winter-Spring 2002 pp 44-63 Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page with footnotes according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page Agriculture Christian Stewardship and Aesthetics Ohio Farmers' Opposition to Coal Surface Mining in the 1940s By Chad Montrie In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries more than a few American farmers took up coal ...
... THE MICHIGAN-INDIANA-OHIO MUSEUMS THE MICHIGAN-INDIANA-OHIO MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION Edited by HARLOW LINDLEY In the autumn of 1927 at the invitation of Mr George R Fox of the Chamberlain Memorial Museum of Three Oaks Michigan a small group of museum workers from Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan met in Three Oaks for a conference and round table discussion Mr Charles E Brown chief of the Wisconsin Historical Museum at Madison was in attendance and led some of the discussions At the close of ...
... VERNON L VERNON L VOLPE Benjamin Wade's Strange Defeat Benjamin Wade is known to countless thousands of undergraduates as Bluff Ben a grim outspoken advocate of equal justice for freed Southern slaves The memorable but not completely flattering portrait of Wade found in most college textbooks sometimes obscures the prominent part the Ohio Senator played in national politics during the great crisis of the Civil War and Reconstruction A leading radical Republican he chaired the powerful Joint ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 3 29 and that the meeting could then adjourn to such time or in such way that it could be reconvened for the further business of the Annual Meeting After some discussion of this matter a resolution was offered that when the present meeting concludes such business as is necessary for its present consideration and is prepared to recess that it recess to a second session which is to be called at such date and place as shall be determined by the present President and ...