... THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LA W in the Eastern Ohio Valley by LARRY GARA The fugitive slave law of 1850 was an essential part of the sectional compromise of that year1 As such it had ramifications that went far beyond the mere question of returning runaway bondsmen to their southern claimants At times the symbolic significance of the enactment overshadowed its real impact on the lives of those whom it touched Nevertheless there were some Americans of the 1850's who viewed the law as concerned ...
... THE OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE THE OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE In order to formally launch the new and enlarged program of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society particularly as it concerns local and county historical societies colleges and universities and juvenile interests a state-wide Conference was called for Friday February 7 to which all members of the Society and all others interested were invited Special invitations were extended to all the local historical societies in the ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Union amp Emancipation Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era Edited by David W Blight and Brooks D Simpson Kent Ohio The Kent State University Press 1997 x 231p illustrations notes selected bibliography index 3500 Examining the impact of slavery and race on American politics and culture during the decades surrounding the Civil War this collection of essays is especially useful for scholars of northern party politics in the 1850s In the first of three essays ...
... 530 Ohio Arch 530 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications ing the records with innumerable brief sketches of the leading settlers This material will be of great value to genealogists and biographers It is rich in concise descriptions of pioneer life its perils and hardships and detailed accounts of the settlement and growth of the older communities and institutions of the county and it is perhaps not too much to say that this book contains more information and data relative to the history of ...
... edited by WILFRED W BLACK The Fifty-First Ohio Volunteer Infantry a Tuscarawas County regiment was organized in September and October of 1861 at Camp Meigs near Canal Dover More than one-half of its members were citizens of the county and Companies A B C E G and K were composed almost exclusively of Tuscarawas County men The Fifty-First had re-enlisted on January 1 18641 and following a furlough it returned to the front at Blue Springs near Cleveland Tennessee where on April 10 it was ...
... DANIEL PRESTON DANIEL PRESTON Thomas Kelsey Hardluck Entrepreneur In the years following the close of the War of 1812 a wave of economic speculation swept through the West The Treaty of Ghent which ended the war offered nothing in concrete terms beyond a much desired peace But if the United States had not won the war against the powerful British Americans could at least revel in the knowledge that they had not lost it either They quickly forgot the many near-disasters that the nation ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS PUBLIC PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES LYNDON B JOHNSON Two Volumes Washington DC Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Service General Services Administration 1968 Vol 1 January 1 to June 30 1967 lix 670p A-78p index 875 Vol II July 1 to December 31 1967 liii p671-1228 A-78p index 800 In 1957 acting on a recommendation of the National Historical Publications Commission the Office of the Federal Register began work on a uniform ...
... 30 Ohio Arch 30 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications HOLMES COUNTY REBELLIONFORT FIZZLE J R VANCE I was born in a log cabin situated in Knox Township Holmes County Ohio almost three-quarters of a century ago and have lived here on the farm ever since My information in regard to the events I am about to narrate comes from various sources I heard my father and mother discuss events as they had happened As I grew older I began to ponder on these discussions and to ask questions Many times I ...
... SONG WRITERS OF OHIO SONG WRITERS OF OHIO ALEXANDER COFFMAN ROSS AUTHOR OF TIPPECANOE AND TYLER TOO I am a Buckeye from the Buckeye State This was the proud declaration of the author of Tippecanoe and Tyler too as he faced a large and enthusiastic audience in New York City just before he gave to fame that political campaign song-the most effective ever sung in the history of the Republic Alexander Coffman Ross first opened his eyes to the light in Zanesville O May 31 1812 His father Elijah ...
... Big Bottom and Its History Big Bottom and Its History 21 the rocky fortresses of the Appalachians Puritan and Cavalier looked down together upon the fair valley of the Ohio To them it was as the revelation to the prophet on Pisgah - the Promised Land They were permitted to enter But to hold it they fought with stubborn tenacity Every foot was contested But forward went this army across the prairies of Indiana and Illinois until the smoke curled from the settler's cabin on the banks of the ...
... THE REPORT OF THE FORTY-SEVENTH THE REPORT OF THE FORTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MORNING SESSION The annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society convened at 10 o'clock a m Tuesday April 25 1933 in the auditorium of the Museum and Library Building of the Society There were present Miss Helen Bareis Mrs George U Marvin Mr M B Binning Mr O F Miller Mr O J Demuth Mr H M Povenmire Mr Jerry Dennis Mrs George D Reah Mrs ...
... LINCOLN IN OHIO LINCOLN IN OHIO BY JOHN H CRAMER I The Cincinnati Speech of September 1859 Did Dayton Hear It First The words which Abraham Lincoln spoke in Cincinnati upon the seventeenth of September 1859 are well known to careful students of his addresses and writings They were the words of one of the most important speeches which the famous Illinoisan made upon his brief but important excursion into Ohio The address was given in answer to a previous speech made by the then more noted ...
... SIGNIFICANCE OF PERRY'S VICTORY SIGNIFICANCE OF PERRY'S VICTORY BY ISAAC J COX On the evening of February 23d 1910 the Ohio Perry's Victory Commission appointed by the Governor of Ohio to make suitable arrangements for the celebration of Perry's Victory on Lake Erie September 10 1913 had a hearing before a special joint meeting of both houses of the Ohio Assembly On this occasion Dr Isaac J Cox professor of American History in the Cincinnati University and President of the Ohio Valley ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Social Ideas of the Northern Evangelists 1826-1860 By Charles C Cole Jr New York Columbia University Press 1954 268p bibliography and index 425 Charles C Cole Jr has written an objective and well-balanced account of the relation between leading evangelical clergymen and the reform movements which characterized the several decades before the Civil War The author recognizes that the evangelists were above all concerned with the problem of individual salvation Their ...
... PRESENTATION OF McGUFFEY READERS PRESENTATION OF McGUFFEY READERS On Tuesday evening February 15 1927 a meeting of unusual interest was held in the audience room of the Museum and Library Building on the Ohio State University Campus The program announced a joint session of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and the McGuffey Society of Columbus Ohio The purpose of the meeting is indicated in the following announcement The McGuffey Society of Columbus Ohio presents to the Ohio ...
... THE PEOPLE OF OHIO'S FIRST COUNTY THE PEOPLE OF OHIO'S FIRST COUNTY By WAYNE JORDAN Colonel John May of Boston writing from Pittsburgh to his wife on May 12 1788 remarked I wish there were more New England people going to Muskingum1 By Muskingum he meant the newly founded Marietta colony which had not yet been named for France's queen2 The colonel had been impressed by the number of boats laden with whites and blacks which kept floating by en route to Kentucky Against such competition ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XXXI INDEX TO VOLUME XXXI Abbott Julius D tells of the last visit tobacco pipes 513-522 bone impleof Grant to Clermont County 245 ments 522-523 chipped flint impleAbbott Louise her paper on The Grants ments 523-525 implements made of at Bethel 241-245 copper 525-528 ornaments of copper Adams Charles Francis Jr 83 his let529-555 bead necklaces 555-556 beads ter urging Carl Schurz to take part in of metal 556-557 objects made of Ohio political campaign of 1875 83-84 shell 557-559 ...
... 96 Ohio Arch 96 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications so on Professor Siebert is a careful and painstaking student and has exercised discriminating judgment as to what is necessary for the proper educidation of his subject He gives under each chapter the list of authorities which he has consulted or which may be further examined by those who desire more exhaustive study of the various topics The book is accompanied by an excellent appendix giving a chronological outline of the historical ...
... A BUCKEYE BOARDING-SCHOOL IN 1821 A BUCKEYE BOARDING-SCHOOL IN 1821 BY ALICE MCGUFFEY RUGGLES The early free schools of the West have been described many times often sentimentally But of the pioneer private schools little has been written In the unpublished autobiography of Charles Daniel Drake only son of Dr Daniel Drake there is an account of the author's experiences at a boarding-school for boys at Worthington Ohio conducted by the Right Reverend Philander Chase first Episcopal Bishop of ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Genesis of Dental Education in the United States By Van B Dalton Columbus Spahr amp Glenn c1946 216p illus Visiting foreign lecturers are often heard to remark to their admiring audiences that the United States' only contributions to the culture of the world are the modern bathrooms and the comic strip They would no doubt admit however that they had been guilty of one omission and that is the Art and Science of Modern Dentistry In The Genesis of Dental Education ...