... edited by edited by JOHN B GABEL Medical Education in the 1890s An Ohio Woman's Memories The material presented here is drawn from the unpublished papers of a long-time Columbus physician the late Ida May Wilson Written in 1941 when she was in her seventy-seventh year this excerpt records Dr Wilson's memories of her medical education during the years 1894-1896 at the Ohio Medical University1 Her description of the primitive training provided as late as the 1890s by an accredited medical school ...
... JAMES E JAMES E HANEY Blacks and the Republican Nomination of 1908 Theodore Roosevelt's decision not to seek the Republican presidential nomination in 1908 left the field open to several Republican hopefuls but his influence in the party and control of its machinery made it clear that the candidate he supported would win the nomination as well as the national election that followed This was especially important when it is remembered that national politics during the first decade of the ...
... 580 Index 580 Index PART i 1 l History of Ohio Indians A Arizofia Cliff Dwellers in 290 293 InAdams county prehistoric earthworks in dian tribes in 299 471 508 Arkansas Indians built mounds in 503 Adena Mound Socie-ty explores 466 culArmstrong Col John expedition against ture of builders 467 471 472 485 Indians 1756 337 496-498 Articles of Confederation North West Agriculture prehistoric 482 Territory organized under 410 Alabama Tecumseh visits Creeks in Ashland county earthworks in 471 435 ...
... LORLE A LORLE A PORTER The Lecompton Issue in Knox County Politics Division of the Democracy 1858 The division of the Democratic party in 1857-58 over the issue of the Lecompton Constitution for Kansas proved to be a decisive turning point in American history President James Buchanan by accepting this semi-fradulent attempt to admit Kansas into the Union as a slave state bitterly divided the only remaining national party Senator Stephen A Douglas the Little Giant opposed the constitution and ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent retirements within the professional community include Ruth Helmuth Case Western Reserve University Archivist William D Aeschbacher teacher and administrator at the University of Cincinnati and Lenore R O'Boyle and Leon C Soule of Cleveland State University The 1986 Northern Great Plains History Conference will be held September 25-27 For details contact Jack M Lauber University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Department of History Eau Claire Wisconsin 54701 ...
... AN ECONOMIC ASPECT OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR by TOM EDWARD TERRILL In the early months of 1898 the McKinley administration confronted a mounting crisis with Spain over the Cuban revolution Domestic pressures exerted by the press and politicians especially in the month of March placed heavy demands upon President McKinley to intervene to pacify Cuba One of the President's closest advisers thought war was possible in February By March 28 he believed it was probable1 The report on the sinking ...
... EDGAR C EDGAR C REINKE Meliorem Lapsa Locavit An Intriguing Puzzle Solved Adorning the handsome facade of The Ohio State University's William Oxley Thompson Library in Columbus are four central halfcolumns of a piano nobile that encloses a shallow balcony in three bays Supporting the half-columns are four inscribed stone corbels each in the form of a shield The figures on these shields depict respectively from left to right the Great Seal of the United States the Great Seals of the Northwest ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 1 23 ALFRED R M cI NTIRE Hon Alfred R McIntire died on Monday September 21 1903 near Jewelsburg Colorado while a passenger upon a train from Emmett Idaho to his home at Mt Vernon He was born July 14 1840 on a farm near Mt Hope Holmes county Ohio and at the age of fourteen removed with his parents to Knox county and settled upon a farm near Fredericktown His ancestors on both the paternal and maternal sides were Irish His grandfathers emigrated to America and his ...
... AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HARDING PAPERS by DONALD E PITZER April 25 1964 marked the beginning of an opportunity for a new perspective in telling the story of the life and times of Warren G Harding On that date The Ohio Historical Society opened to the public a collection of Harding papers which it had received in the preceding six months from the Harding Memorial Association at Marion Ohio1 Material never before available for scholarly research thus began to shed a clearer light upon Harding and ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR DEATH OF HONORABLE DANIEL J RYAN Early Friday morning June 15 1923 Daniel Joseph Ryan Vice President of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society breathed his last He had been in poor health for some time but the end came unexpectedly He passed without pain from the repose of sleep to the repose of death This announcement brings sadness to the members of ...
... THE ORIGIN OF THE CLEVELAND CLINIC THE ORIGIN OF THE CLEVELAND CLINIC by HOWARD DITTRICK MD Editorial Director the Cleveland Clinic Cleveland At the request of Dr Jonathan Forman I have prepared an historical resume of the origin of the Cleveland Clinic beginning with the time when the founders began to work together professionally and ending with the opening of the institution which they created Much will be said about a figure that drew the first founders together and after that events will ...
... THE CHALLENGE OF THE TIMES TO THE HISTORIAN1 THE CHALLENGE OF THE TIMES TO THE HISTORIAN1 by CARL WITTKE Professor of History and Dean of the Graduate School Western Reserve University The question is frequently asked nowadays Why do historians have so little influence in public affairs and why have men and women who have been especially trained to study and distill conclusions from the long experience of the past so little status as counselors and molders of public opinion in present-day ...
... ARCHAEOLOGICAL MAP OF OHIO ARCH A EOLOGICAL MAP OF OHIO The accompanying map of Ohio showing the distribution of prehistoric Mounds and Enclosures in the state is reproduced on a reduced scale from the Archaeological Atlas of Ohio This map will be of special interest to the public as it shows at a glance the centers of occupation and the relative distribution of prehistoric man in the territory included The valleys of the larger rivers-the Miamis the Scioto the Muskingum the Hocking and their ...
... -- Drawings by HR Goodwin 638 TYPICAL SPECIMENS FROM THE SPETNAGEL CACHE NATURAL SIZE THE SPETNAGLE CACHE OF FLINT THE SPETNAGLE CACHE OF FLINT SPEAR-POINTS Few better examples of ceremonial offerings of chipped flint artifacts than the Spetnagel cache of flint spear-points recently placed on exhibition in the Museum of the Society by Mr Albert C Spetnagel of Chillicothe have been found in Ohio or elsewhere This remarkable cache-lot of upwards of 200 ceremonial spears was unearthed in the ...
... Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 633 Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 633 us to give the names of the members of most of the households The first log cabin is nearly completed and is attracting a large number of visitors Most of the logs have been hewn for the Schoolhouse and the hand-split shingles are ready Through the personal interest of Mr C B Galbreath we have secured from Dr W N Schwarze Archivist of the Moravian Church in Bethlehem Pennsylvania over 100 pages of translation ...
... ADDRESSES BEFORE THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEADDRESSES BEFORE THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY AT MARIETTA APRIL 5 AND 6 IN CONNECTION WITH THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION ANNUAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT F C SESSIONS THE invitation to hold the third annual meeting of this Society in Marietta came with singular appropriateness It is certainly gratifying to those of us who have seen the movement to celebrate this occasion properly to be permitted to participate in these exercises The few ...
... TABLET TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN AT MANSFIELD TABLET TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN AT MANSFIELD WHERE THE ORGANIZED MOVEMENT BEGAN TO MAKE HIM PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES SPEECH BY HONORABLE CHARLES II WORKMAN I arise on behalf of the Abraham Lincoln Association of Richland county We meet to give proper recognition to our forebears in 1858 in this city and in this country for their political acumen sagacity and intuition We meet to commemorate an important fact or event in the political history of the United ...
... THE EARLY USE OF THE MICROSCOPE IN OHIO THE EARLY USE OF THE MICROSCOPE IN OHIO By RUSSELL L HADEN MD The compound microscope invented in 1 59 0 made possible the observation of a new world of minute things The practical application of this instrument however developed very slowly No field of science for instance has profited more from the revelations of the microscope than medicine Bacteria protozoa and many animal parasites were observed by the early microscopists yet the microscope was not ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The National Historical Publications and Records Commission is pleased to announce that The Ohio Historical Society is one of more than 10000 institutions and organizations throughout the country participating in the production of a Directory of Repositories of Historical Records The guide which will provide summary information on historical records of all types in as many repositories as possible is expected to include many more institutions than any prior ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 2 63 program was divided into a Religious Day upon which was celebrated the origin of the churches and religious organizations The Formal Opening Day on which addresses were made upon A Century of Commercial Life the Incorporation of Springfield and its Government and upon Its Manufacturing Interests on Pioneer Day the histories of the Bench and Bar and the Medical profession were presented by able representatives upon Military Day addresses were made by Gen Keifer ...