... TOM L TOM L JOHNSON by ROBERT H BREMNER Instructor in History Ohio State University In 1901 the voters of Cleveland Ohio chose as their mayor a resourceful and unconventional man newly retired from a successful business career who was the best known American follower of Henry George Tom L Johnson remained in office for eight exciting and enlightening years Born in 1854 into an aristocratic southern family which was impoverished during the Civil War Johnson had to go to work while still a child ...
... B B W COLLINS Economic Issues in Ohio's Politics During the Recession of 1857-1858 Historians are just beginning to integrate the study of local and state issues with the study of national issues in American politics For some periods federal issues are so important and interesting that state history tends to be reduced to a batch of mere case studies detailing the local impact of great national questions One period suffering acutely from such neglect is the 1850s Recently however state and ...
... HENRY B HENRY B CURTIS A MEMORIAL ADDRESS1 AT the re-organization of this Society in March 1885 Hon Henry B Curtis of Mt Vernon was elected as its First Vice President It is now our sad duty formally to announce the death of Mr Curtis which occurred on the fifth day of last November at the residence of his grand-daughter Mrs Charles D Seeberger in the City of Chicago Ill where he was stopping for a few days on his way home from a business trip farther West Upon this occasion it is eminently ...
... OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY--PART 6 OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY--PART 6 THE VAULTING IMAGINATION OF JOHN L RIDDELL By ADOLPH E WALLER Whatever makes the past or future predominate over the present exalts us in the scale of thinking beings--Johnson The name of John Leonard Riddell is perhaps best remembered today for his Synopsis of the Western Plants In 1835 when this was published Cincinnati was the western-most city of great size with around 35000 inhabitants and with immediate perhaps daily expansion in ...
... PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL OHIO HISTORY PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE Including the Fifty-third Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History and the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Columbus Genealogical Society Held at Columbus April 6-8 1939 in Cooperation with Ohio State University the Ohio Committee on Medical History and Archives and Local Historical Societies throughout the State Columbus ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Illinois Census Returns 1 80 -1818 Edited by Margaret Cross Norton Illinois State Historical Library Collections XXIV Statistical Series II Springfield Illinois Illinois State Historical Library 1935 32 9p Illinois Cens u s Ret urn s 1820 Edited by Margaret Cross Norton Illinois State Historical Library Collections XXVI Statistical Series III Springfield Illinois Illinois State Historical Library I934 466p The first volume of the Statistical Series Illinois Election ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 219 Reviews Notes and Comments 219 who lies buried at Bethel will be held in connection with the Grant Memorial Services On the following day April 29 the services will be held at Georgetown Brown County Ohio where Senator Atlee Pomerene will be the principal speaker A detachment of the United States Army will be present on all three occasions accompanied by the Camp Knox Kentucky military band A great many distinguished men and women will be present on all three ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE VANISHED BISHOPRIC-AN INTERESTING BIT OF OHIO HISTORY The Catholic Historical Review for July contains for people of Ohio a vastly interesting paper A Vanished Bishopric of Ohio dealing the rile French settlement at Scioto or Gallipolis on the Ohio River and the proposition to establish thereat a Catholic bishopric some time about the year 1789 the year that Bishop John Carroll was appointed to the See of Baltimore with jurisdiction over all the United States It ...
... OHIO GENERALS AND FIELD OFFICERS IN THE OHIO GENERALS AND FIELD OFFICERS IN THE CIVIL WAR BY COLONEL W L CURRY In every crisis through which our Nation has passed since the firing of that shot at Concord April 19 1775 that was heard around the world there seem to have been men born to meet every emergency statesmen and men of military genius called from the walks of civil life to carry the ship of State safely through both in peace and war Therefore when the first gun of the War of the ...
... SHAKER EDUCATION SHAKER EDUCATION by SHERMAN B BARNES Professor of History Kent State University On August 27 1810 a body of some five hundred armed men threateningly descended upon the Shaker community at Union Village near Lebanon Ohio The crowd eventually withdrew however without committing any act of violence In explaining this withdrawal official Shaker historians gave credit not only to the calm peaceable and harmless deportment of the believers but also to the orderly and flourishing ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 26 7 Defiance has better claims for such a monument as is proposed The beauty of the site here situated in the heart of the city should give Defiance the precedence The Maumee Valley Pioneer Association wishes to save Roche de Boeuf from being used as a pier for a bridge to be built across the river at that point by the Cincinnati Northern Traction Co Secretary J L Pray said the association would probably first attempt to persuade the electric company to change its ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE MOUND BUILDERS AND THE LOST TRIBES THE HOLY STONES OF NEWARK The following article from The Daily Oklahoman published at Oklahoma City Oklahoma of the date Sunday May 3 1908 was forwarded to us with the inquiry whether the statements therein contained concerning the Holy Stones of Newark or Jackstown were authentic To this we reply that the statements as to the finding of such alleged relics are correct but as to the genuineness of the relics we are compelled to ...
... The Black Hand The Black Hand 449 doubtless be a matter of regret to everyone that the railroad has recently changed the name of the station and the brakeman no longer calls out Black Hand but Toboso It is to be hoped that commercial as well as historic interest will induce the new electric line to perpetuate the name of Black Hand In a beautiful introduction to her legend among other things Mrs Gebhart says The Indian legend pertaining to this relic of a prehistoric race was told me by ...
... J J C WILD WESTERN PAINTER AND LITHOGRAPHER by JOHN FRANCIS MCDERMOTT Professor of English Washington University On the 8th of April 1840 the St Louis Missouri Republican announced that Mr C Wild of this city proposes to publish in the course of a few weeks a set of views of this city The paintings from which the engravings will be taken are ready for examination at his painting office on Locust Street between Main and Second Streets to which the attention of the public is invited All those ...
... THE SOCIETY OF SHAKERS THE SOCIETY OF SHAKERS RISE PROGRESS AND EXTINCTION OF THE SOCIETY AT CLEVELAND O BY J P MACLEAN PH D I PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS The communistic societies of the United States continue to elicit more or less attention and receive profound consideration from those engaged in sociological philosophy Whatever religious or sociological problem these communities seek to solve their progress or failure is carefully noted even by those who have not come in immediate contact ...
... OHIO'S RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS AND THE WAR OHIO'S RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS AND THE WAR MARTHA L EDWARDS 'LAKE ERIE COLLEGE What have the churches of Ohio had to do with the war The answer to this question must of necessity await investigation since the source material upon which final judgments are to be based cannot now be assembled There is however evidence already at hand in the collections of the Historical Commission of Ohio which permits a tentative sketch of what the churches of the ...
... An Ohioan's Letter from the California GOLD Fields in 1850 The discovery of gold at Sutter's mill in California's lower Sacramento Valley in 1848 precipitated one of the most massive and spontaneous westward migrations in American history Responding to the avalanche of propaganda emanating from the California gold fields and spurred on by numerous exaggerated newspaper and magazine accounts of the alleged untapped and unlimited yellow treasure of the Far West thousands of easterners left ...
... AN INDENTURE OF 1831 IN PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO AN INDENTURE OF 1831 IN PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO By FREDERICK C WAITE The procedure of apprenticeship in the crafts as a method of preparing for a vocation is of ancient origin It was firmly established in Europe when the American Colonies were settled and was prevalent in these colonies and in the United States until well into the nineteenth century Although the method is familiar to all that are acquainted with the history of the crafts comparatively ...
... THOMAS S THOMAS S MACH George Hunt Pendleton The Ohio Idea and Political Continuity in Reconstruction America The severe defeat of the Democrats in the 1866 election in Ohio and across the country left some of the party's political positions meaningless With a Republican majority in Congress and Reconstruction issues under its control the Democratic Party pinned its future on the ideas of a politician in the throes of resurrecting a political career George Hunt Pendleton a leading Democrat ...
... Big Bottom and Its History Big Bottom and Its History 27 This was the first massacre and the principal one during the Indian war then just opening Marietta had been settled two years before and Big Bottom as this place was then known was an overflow from that place and comprised altogether thirty-six persons The year before several other settlements were established from Marietta but thus far this was the most remote No state in the Union was settled by a more worthy or enterprising class of ...