... REPORT OF THE FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY HELD IN THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING OF THE SOCIETY MARCH 26 1931 The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met in annual meeting March 26 1931 at 10 o'clock a m in the auditorium of the Museum and Library Building On motion of the Secretary Mr Arthur C Johnson President of the Society was chosen President of the meeting The minutes of the previous ...
... GOVERNOR OTHNIEL LOOKER AND HIS GOVERNOR OTHNIEL LOOKER AND HIS DESCENDANTS In the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly volume 31 pages 215-217 there is a sketch of Governor Othniel Looker In it is copied a previous sketch in which the statement was made that Governor Looker left no records relative to his life succeeding his service in the governorship and that he died unmarried The sketch at that time furnished from reliable sources by the present writer gave additional information ...
... DONALD J DONALD J RATCLIFFE Captain James Riley and Antislavery Sentiment in Ohio 1819-1824 Captain James Riley had an unusually powerful reason for hating slavery he had himself been a slave Riley was born in 1777 in Middletown Connecticut the fourth child of a humble farming family Between the ages of eight and fourteen he attended common school while earning his keep by working for local farmers At the age of fifteen tired of hard work on the land he decided to turn to a seafaring life ...
... TRAVEL NOTES OF A MID-NINETEENTH TRAVEL NOTES OF A MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY FRENCHMAN By BERTHA RUTH LEAMAN Extended travel and a great variety of experience had left the curiosity of Jean Jacques Ampere a learned Frenchman of the mid-nineteenth century unsatisfied consequently in search of new information he came to America1 Landing in New York the French visitor traveled through the New England States went to Montreal and Quebec journeyed to Niagara Buffalo and Detroit and then proceeded to ...
... John Bailhache John Bailhache A British Editor in Early Ohio By WILLIAM L FISK THE WESTERN PRESS was one of the chief formative inf l uences upon public opinion in early ninteenth-century Ohio Cut off by time and distance from eastern standards and eastern inhibitions it might apprise its readers of the imminent threat of British interests in the Old Northwest and at the same time vigorously promote regional or sectional interests or gleefully involve itself in internecine warfare with other ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Historic Contact Indian People and Colonists in Today's Northeastern United States in the Sixteen Through Eighteenth Centuries By Robert S Grumet Norman amp London University of Oklahoma Press 1995 xxx 514p illustrations maps appendix conspectus bibliography index 4750 cloth The process of cultural contact between Europeans and North America's native peoples has become the focus of a growing body of recent historical and anthropological scholarship The publication of ...
... JOHN M JOHN M MULDER The Heavenly City and Human Cities Washington Gladden and Urban Reform Historians have generally viewed the rise of the social gospel during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a response to the problems posed by industrialization immigration and urbanization Ever since the publication of Arthur M Schlesinger's pioneering analysis in 19321 historians have examined American religious groups especially American Protestants to determine the ways in which they ...
... Young Charley Dawes Goes to the Young Charley Dawes Goes to the Garfield Inauguration A Diary Edited by ROBERT H FERRELL CHARLES GATES DAWES vice president of the United States under Calvin Coolidge 1925-29 was a youth of fifteen when he left his home in Marietta Ohio and with his father--just elected to congress--went off to Washington early in 1881 to see James A Garfield inaugurated as president Young Charley was impressionable His interests were properly those of a person of his years ...
... GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME L GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME L Aberdeen O 118 American Periodical Literature Index Abolitionists 262 to Early 316 Aboriginal Man 141-4 American Philosophical Society336 Ackley Horace 340 American Public Health Association Adams Co250 365 382 Adams John 58 American Republicans 20 Adams John Quincy 21 American Revolution 4 17 25 31 33 Adams Randolph G12 47 99 36 37 44 60 66 71 72 74 85 86 87 Adams Samuel 186 88 244 274 Adena Mounds 203 American State Papers 317 Adena Plain ...
... OBERLIN AND CO-EDUCATION OBERLIN AND CO-EDUCATION By ROBERT S FLETCHER Early Oberlin is best understood as the experimental college of its day For the most part the colleges of the middle third of the nineteenth century sternly resisted the assaults of innovation A monastic unworldliness and timelessness characterized the great majority they stood barrenly and stubbornly isolated amidst the pounding surf of romantic reformism Even newly-established institutions of the always-innovating West ...
... JOHN SMITH FIRST SENATOR FROM OHIO AND HIS JOHN SMITH FIRST SENATOR FROM OHIO AND HIS CONNECTIONS WITH AARON BURR By M Avis PITCHER John Smith United States Senator from Ohio 1803-1808 was a Virginian by birth and education1 Because of the double misfortune of name and locality there is apt to be considerable uncertainty as to the early career of this gentleman in relation to all the other John Smiths of Virginia2 In 1790 Smith was definitely located on the Forks of the Cheat River Monongalia ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA HISTORY OF THE MAUMEE RIVER BASIN There has just appeared from the press of Bowen amp Slocum Indianapolis and Toledo a History of the Maumee River Basin from the earliest account to its organization into counties The author is Dr Charles Elihu Slocum a life member of the Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society he has contributed many interesting and valuable articles to its Quarterly and for many years has been an indefatigable and enthusiastic student of ...
... GALLIPOLIS AS TRAVELERS SAW IT 1792-1811 GALLIPOLIS AS TRAVELERS SAW IT 1792-1811 By JOHN FRANCIS MCDERMOTT On the fourth of June 1790 Major John Burnham then at Marietta was instructed by General Rufus Putnam to proceed with the people engaged in the service of the trustees of the Scioto proprietors to a place on the Ohio next Chickamaga creek which will be shown to you by Col Meigs where you will begin operations The letter of instructions specified that the object is to erect four block ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Midwest Pioneer--His Ills Cures and Doctors By Madge E Pickard and R Carlyle Buley Crawfordsville Indiana R E Banta 1945 346p Frontispiece 500 At the time of the celebration in Columbus of the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Medical College at the Willoughby University of Lake Erie 1834-1934 a group of those who are interested in local medical history began cooperative work in this field First there appeared a source book in which was chronicled ...
... Ohio Day at Pan-American Exposition Ohio Day at Pan-American Exposition 123 OHIO DAY AT PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION JULY 18 1901 Never was the Rainbow City more radiant attractive or active than on Ohio Day July 18 1 901 when thousands of Buckeyes made pilgrimage from their native state to Buffalo and proudly participated in the ceremonies and festivities of the formal dedication of the Ohio Building OHIO BUILDING The Ohio Building one of the finest and most admired state edifices on the ground ...
... The Chillicothe Germans by LA VERN J RIPPLEY For nearly a century an element of German culture could be observed in the community life of Chillicothe Ohio Until World War I brought an abrupt end to the general use of their language the Germans developed their own churches schools publications cultural societies and special activities on a scale comparable with other Ohio localities Now however half a century later the Chillicothe Germans as an ethnic group are little more than a dim memory ...
... UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF DR UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF DR DANIEL DRAKE By ALICE MCGUFFEY RUGGLES In the winter of 1847-48 Dr Daniel Drake then professor at the Louisville Medical Institute dashed off late at night after strenuous days of teaching and research the Reminiscential Letters to His Children published in 1879 in the Ohio Valley Historical Series under the title Pioneer Life in Kentucky This little book is the most vivid first-hand account of a pioneer boyhood in that region ever written ...
... Romance Rides the Circuit Romance Rides the Circuit By PAUL H BOASE Romantic love--unpredictable capricious and mercurial at its best--survived precariously for the mounted Methodist parson on the American frontier His salary when paid provided scarcely a living wage for one person limiting his bride's prospective dowry to little more than a horse saddle bags and blanket His ecclesiastical superior often cast an unfriendly even malignant eye toward his romantic endeavors His parish often ...
... THE INDIAN'S HEAD THE INDIAN'S HEAD HENRY BANNON The white man when he first crossed the Allegheny Mountains and entered the Ohio Valley found many crude drawings of the figures of men and beasts on the rocks along the Guyandotte and Ohio rivers Of course it is not positively known whether these pictures were the work of Indians or of some tribes that preceded the Indians On the Kentucky shore about opposite the foot of Bond Street Portsmouth Ohio there still stands one of these inscribed ...
... GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME LIV GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME LIV ABBOTT LYMAN 51 Allen William 329 Abolition movement and Granville O Allison Charles M 255 223 literature 238 Allison Mrs Jessie 255 Abolitionists Rev John Rankin 234 Amanda see Fort Amanda Academy of Natural Science 198 Amber routes 10 Ackerknecht Erwin H Malaria in the Amendments to Society's constitution Upper Mississippi Valley 1760-90 provisions for 260 rev by Jonathan Forman 413-16 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Ackley Horace ...