... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA REUBEN GOLD THWAITES Reuben Gold Thwaites whose work in the field of Western history has made his name familiar to every American historical student died in Madison Wis on October 22 He was born in Dorchester Mass in 1853 and in 1866 removed to Wisconsin From 1876 to 1886 he was managing editor of the Wisconsin State Journal published in Madison In 1886 he was elected Secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and editor of the society's collections which ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries ABC-CLIO recently released Historical Abstracts and America History and Life on the World Wide Web During the development of the Web version of these large databases ABC-CLIO sought recommendations for interface improvements from an extensive network of librarians and historians Their suggestions helped create an easy-to-navigate database on the Web that meets the needs of history and library users For more than 40 years ABC-CLIO has been an industry leader ...
... -- 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 ...
... THE INDIAN MOUND MIAMISBURG OHIO THE INDIAN MOUND MIAMISBURG OHIO This mound is located on the upland about a mile southeast of town and is the largest of its kind in the world It was originally about eighty-five feet in height but was reduced to sixty-five feet by digging of exploring parties It measures about three hundred feet in diameter at the base In 1869 a number of citizens sunk a shaft from the top to two feet below its base So far as startling revelations are concerned the ...
... Minutes of the Annual Meeting 567 Minutes of the Annual Meeting 567 of the earth my people urged me to make four requests-First that the flame of their fireplace may not sway to and fro sickness Second that their weapon may be sharpened on both sides Success in war Legends say that there was once a race that had a sharp bony structure growing out on both sides of their forearms for use in war Third that the number of days I left behind me may be proportionately divided among my relatives ...
... 498 Ohio Arch 498 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications clay Coppoc His relationship to the Coppocs may have led Hinton into an error which has been repeated by many subsequent writers Barclay Coppoc however was in Kansas about this time and was closely associated with those who were aiding negroes to escape from Missouri Whether he actually had any part in this particular raid is a question Chaulkley T Lipsey was born at Mount Pleasant Ohio in 1838 Ball came from Springdale Iowa to Kansas ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue DONALD D SHIRA MD Columbus O is Assistant Secretary Ohio Public Health Association Associate Editor Ohio Public Health and Lecturer School of Social Administration Ohio State University FREDERICK C WAITE PHD Cleveland O is Professor of Histology and Embryology School of Medicine Western Reserve University and author of many articles on medical history and an authority on the history of Western Reserve University HOWARD C DITTRICK MD Cleveland O is Senior ...
... 296 Ohio Arch 296 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications This is a little volume just issued from the press in which the author recounts A tale of the Mound Builders The location of the events of the story is mainly at Serpent Mound and Marietta at which latter place the author locates the capital or abiding place of the king of the Mound Builders whom he calls Oko The story is not intricate and is simply and speedily told It is an imaginative portrayal of the life and character of the Mound ...
... 284 Ohio Arch 284 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications MINUTES OF ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO October 10 1925 -- 1245 P M Present Messrs Johnson Prince Furniss Orton Wood Goodman Bareis Florence and Mrs Dryer Mr Bareis moved that Arthur C Johnson be elected President of the Society On motion of General Florence the nominations were closed and the Secretary was instructed to cast the unanimous ...
... Dedicatory Exercises May 30 1914 Dedicatory Exercises May 30 1914 357 REPORT OF LEWIS F SCHAUS Chairman Building Committee Mr President and Members of the Society In June 191 2 the contract for the erection of this beautiful building was let at which time the plans and specifications prepared for its erection were placed in the hands of your building committee with instructions to carry out the designs to a successful completion How well this duty has been performed the building speaks for ...
... 100 Ohio Arch 100 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications NOAH'S ARK The construction and voyage of Noah's Ark is not exactly material pertinent to Ohio history or archaeology but as a matter of universal curiosity we herewith republish from very recent popular press items the following M V Millard archaeologist and distinguished excavator along the Nile who was recently at Indianapolis declared that he had discovered the place where Noah built the ark Millard for a year past was engaged in ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue RUSSEL B NYE is in the Department of English of Michigan State College East Lansing GEORGE W RIGHTMIRE is President Emeritus of the Ohio State University Columbus WILLIAM MARION MILLER is Associate Professor of Romanic Languages Miami University Oxford Ohio WILLIAM D OVERMAN is Curator of History and Archivist of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society of Columbus JAMES H RODABAUGH is Associate Director of Research Hayes Memorial Fremont Ohio ...
... Centennial Tribute to Ohio Centennial Tribute to Ohio 181 Oh the tasseled corn for the whole broad land For the Union no power can sever But the buckeye brown for the Buckeye State Shall be our badge forever CENTENNIAL TRIBUTE TO OHIO BY JOHN HOPLEY Hail fair O HIO from the great Northwest The first established free state and the best Where bounteous Nature spread with lavish hand A fertile soil throughout this favored land And filled the tree-crowned hills with varied stores Of inexhaustible ...
... Notes and Queries Summer-Autumn 2003 pp 113 PDF of Notes and Queries CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2003 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Robert L Daugherty PhD the tenth editor of Ohio History retired August 8 2003 Bob a native of West Virginia earned his undergraduate and masters degrees from West Virginia University and his doctorate in military history from The Ohio State University in 1974 He served in the United States Army and was a member of the history faculties of ...
... Preface Preface With the publication of Volume 96 Ohio History marks its 100th year of publication The oldest ongoing program of the Ohio Historical Society the journal was during the early decades of the Society's existence synonymous with the institution Early issues contained the scholarly articles documents and book notes which constitute our present fare as well as papers and proceedings of Society meetings and lists of notable collection acquisitions Issued quarterly 1887-1981 Volumes ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue WELLINGTON G FORDYCE is instructor in history at Euclid Central High School Cleveland ALICE McGUFFEY MORRILL RUGGLES granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton McGuffey graduate of University of Cincinnati and Radcliffe College is interested in the social history of the Middle West a writer of prose and verse JOHN I KOLEHMAINEN Ph D in history Western Reserve University is at present educational director of the Cooperative Trading Company a producer-consumer ...
... 630 Ohio Arch 630 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications 1 A circular letter to members of the Society asking them to submit names of prospective members 2 A blank form for the names and addresses of prospective members 3 A stamped envelope for the return of the list of prospective members 4 A circular entitled Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society--Notes on Present Activities Past Achievements and Future Prospects This material will be mailed from the office of the Secretary of ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue FREDERICK COYNE HAMIL is instructor in history at Wayne University Detroit FLORENCE E WHEELER is librarian of Leominster Public Library Leominster Massachusetts ROBERT PRICE is instructor in the Department of English Ohio State University HARRY WILLIAMS is instructor of history in the University of Omaha JOHN GILLIN is assistant professor of sociology Ohio State University ALFRED J WRIGHT is professor of geography Ohio State University FREDERICK C WAITE ...
... EDITOR'S NOTE EDITOR'S NOTE With the exception of Professor Terrill's article on An Economic Aspect of the Spanish-American War which emphasizes a heretofore unused document in regard to President McKinley's motivation for war all the articles in this edition of Ohio History center around the theme of sectionalism and the Civil War Although Frederick Grimke as Professor Bloomfield points out philosophized optimistically on American institutions in his early writings he was compelled in his ...
... Comments Notes and Reviews Comments Notes and Reviews 531 dead A chart was shown delineating the bundled bones of Indians at the surface of the ground at Mille Lacs with mounds of earth built over them James W Lynd historian of the Sioux nation was quoted showing that the Dakota people were at Mille Laces at a very ancient period in fact so long ago that no tradition remained to show where they came from or how long they had been there No trace of two distinct classes of stone implements and ...