... MARIETTA CENTENNIAL NUMBER MARIETTA CENTENNIAL NUMBER OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY Vol II JUNE 1888 No 1 THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AT MARIETTA APRIL SEVENTH 1888 PRELIMINARY MOVEMENTS THE Washington County Pioneer Association as early as their annual meeting held April 7th 1881 decided to undertake a Centennial Celebration of the first organized and permanent settlement of the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio to be observed in Marietta April seventh 1888 Further attention ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORTS Due to the fact that the annual meetings of the various Ohio educational conferences usually held the first week in April and the meetings of the Columbus Genealogical Society and the Committee on Medical History and Archives were not held this year the annual History Conference was cancelled for 1943 and arrangements were made only for the annual business meeting of the Society scheduled ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Segments of Southern Thought By Edd Winfield Parks Athens The University of Georgia Press 1938 392p This aptly titled volume was one of the first to be issued by the University of Georgia Press recently established to care for the literary output of southern thinkers and writers on subjects of regional interest and importance Admittedly informal the articles which compose the book are written from a point of view which the author calls the distributistagrarian one and ...
... CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF ULYSSES S GRANT BY C B GALBREATH CELEBRATION AT POINT PLEASANT CLERMONT COUNTY OHIO Of all citizens of the United States born in Ohio the most famous in his day and generation as Judge Hugh L Nichols has observed was General Ulysses S Grant That he still holds that high place among the distinguished sons that Ohio has given to the Republic and the world was attested by the outpouring of people to celebrate the ...
... Volume 111 Index Summer-Autumn 2002 pp 229-256 PDF of Index and Contents to Volume 111 CONTENTS of Summer-Autumn 2002 issue Index for Volume 111 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Abraham Lincoln Man of Sorrow 24 Acid mine drainage 48-49 50 Adams administration 123-124 Adams John Quincy 124 125 Addams Jane 186 187 190 191 Works by The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements 187 Addison Evert E 53-54 African Americans Class Conflicts over Residential Space in an African ...
... shakers in the form of a woman's breasts or a crockery container for false teeth that plays The Shadow of Your Smile Some are simply ordinary although it must say something about our jaded sensibilities that gardens of plastic flowers or imitation-brick fireplaces with electric logs arouse only a faint nausea But just what Vergil is it who guides us through this hell One who feels our powers to discern kitsch are so feeble that we must be told ...
... 420 Ohio Arch 420 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications between Fort St Clair and Fort Jefferson the following is an authentic account of that affair Lieut Lowrie of the second and Ensign Boyd of the first and second sub legions with a command consisting of about ninety noncommissioned officers and privates having under their convoy twenty wagons loaded with grain and commissaries' stores were attacked between daylight and sunrise seven miles advanced of Fort St Clair on the morning of the ...
... edited by edited by FRANK R LEVSTIK Life Among the Lowly An Early View of an Ohio Poor House The care of the poor in Ohio during the early nineteenth century was largely based on English legislation of the sixteenth seventeenth and eighteenth centuries In 1795 statutes of the Northwest Territory provided a means whereby the poor could be employed through a system of annual farming-out to the lowest bidder The farmers were thus authorized to keep the poor at moderate labor For the next two ...
... REPORT OF THE FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF REPORT OF THE FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Forenoon Session--10 A M In the absence of the president and first vice-president the fifty-first Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was called to order by its secretary Dr Harlow Lindley who asked for nominations for a chairman A motion was made by Oscar F Miller that Dr Carl Wittke act as chairman of the meeting This ...
... Lake County and its Founder Lake County and its Founder 361 LAKE COUNTY AND ITS FOUNDER BY WILLIAM STOWELI MILLS LL B OF BROOKLYN N Y HISTORICAL ADDRESS DELIVERED IN PAINESVILLE LAKE COUNTY 0 JULY 21 1901 AT THE CEREMONIES OF THE UNVEILING OF THE STATUE OF EDWARD PAINE Mr President Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-- It is related that when the residents of a New England town proposed to pay homage to a former townsman in a ceremony similar to this a good old ...
... WASHINGTON GLADDEN WASHINGTON GLADDEN FIRST CITIZEN OF COLUMBUS by C GEORGE FRY The story is told that Washington Gladden was once a guest at a downtown businessmen's luncheon in Columbusl A stranger was present and was introduced to Doctor Gladden Assuming him to be a physician he asked Sir where do you practice Gladden smiled and replied Oh I don't practice I just preach2 Friends and admirers of Washington Gladden knew however that he did practice as well as preach in many areas He was ...
... THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE REMOVAL OF THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE REMOVAL OF GOVERNOR ST CLAIR IN 1802 BY RANDOLPH CHANDLER DOWNES M A Instructor in History and Economics Marietta College While going through the papers of Thomas Jefferson at the Library of Congress and the Territorial Papers in the State Department last summer seeking to determine the relationship of Jefferson to the political situation in the Northwest Territory from 1800-1802 I obtained among other things copies of several ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews A Signal Victory The Lake Erie Campaign 1812-1813 By David Curtis Skaggs and Gerald T Althoff Annapolis Maryland Naval Institute Press 1997 x 244p illustrations notes appendix glossary glossary of nautical terms bibliographic essay index 3495 The battle of Lake Erie in which an American naval squadron annihilated its British counterpart on 10 September 1813 was one of two defining engagements of the War of 1812 in the Old Northwest The British-Indian capture of ...
... MARIAN J MARIAN J MORTON Temperance Benevolence and the City The Cleveland Non-Partisan Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1874-1900 Here they come now fifty redoubtable and respectable women prayer books in one hand and umbrellas in the others for it looks like rain on this March morning of 1874 in Cleveland Ohio They are striding vigorously down Euclid Avenue headed for the several saloons on Public Square which they intend to close down with their hymns and fervent prayers They are the ...
... KENNETH E KENNETH E DAVISON President Hayes and the Reform of American Indian Policy The closing of the frontier by the white man's unbridled expansion into the transMississippi West during the post-Civil War years created the most critical period of Indian-white relations in American history No longer could the Indians simply retreat or be removed to lands farther west beyond the pale of white culture A majority of Uncle Sam's 300000 stepchildren lived directly in the path of two advancing ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 69 NUMBER 3 JULY 1960 The Underground Railroad A Re-evaluation By LARRY GARA FOR MANY YEARS discerning scholars have suspected the inadequacy of traditional accounts of the underground railroad yet the elusive nature of source material for re-evaluating the history of the mysterious institution has apparently discouraged such reinterpretation1 Even some recent encyclopedia articles textbooks and monographs describe the ...
... BENTLEY'S LAKE BENTLEY'S LAKE A J BAUGHMAN MANSFIELD Secretary of the Richland County Historical Society The Bentley Lake seven miles east of Mansfield was created in 1846 and had a peculiar origin In 1821 Jonas Ballyet entered the northwest quarter of section 15 Mifflin township Richland county and near the center of this tract there was a circular marsh of eight or ten acres surrounded by a rim of elevations of gentle slope giving a bowl-like appearance in the place At the east side or end ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA TABLET ON SERPENT MOUND It will be recalled that during the visit of Prof F W Putnam of Harvard University to the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held in Columbus August 1899 that gentleman stated to the officers of our Society that if we would accept repair and suitably preserve and guard the property known as Serpent Mound then in the possession of the Peabody Museum that the trustees of that institution would transfer to us said ...
... THE RESCUE CASE OF 1857 THE RESCUE CASE OF 1857 BENJ F PRINCE Trustee Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society President Clark County Historical Society and Professor of History and Political Science Wittenberg College Springfield Ohio The years between 1830 and 1860 brought great strain to the people of the United States The long border line between the slave and free states stretching from the Atlantic on the east to a great distance beyond the Mississippi River was crossed by many ...
... JOSEPH RAY1 JOSEPH RAY1 By JERRY DENNIS Joseph Ray was born in Ohio County Virginia now Ohio County West Virginia on November 25 1807 His ancestry was of English origin and can be traced back to John Ray the naturalist William Ray his father was born in Ireland in 1782 and had settled with his parents near West Liberty Virginia in 1789 On February 25 1807 William married Margaret Graham a native of Westchester County Pennsylvania They were among the early pioneers of the Upper Ohio Valley The ...