... NEWS and NOTES TH R OUGH the efforts of a group of Columbus citizens organized as the Kelley House Committee Inc and the Franklin County Historical Society the famous Alfred Kelley mansion located at 282 East Broad Street has been carefully dismantled and removed to Franklin Park where it is to be reconstructed and restored At Franklin Park the stonework of each wall has been laid out on the ground in the same position it had vertically Each of the three thousand stone blocks in the structure ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA HISTORICAL STUDIES The value of historical knowledge and study is being more and more appreciated especially as relates to the beginning and career of our own illustrious country and state Concerning this subject Professor Wallace N Stearns of Wesleyan University Delaware Ohio makes some most timely suggestions which we herewith publish cordially approving the same and recommending their consideration by our readers and especially by all educators In endeavoring to ...
... JOHN MORGAN RAID IN OHIO JOHN MORGAN RAID IN OHIO The following article was written by a veteran of the Civil War now a resident at the Dayton Soldiers' Home and was printed recently in the Lima Times Democrat with notes and comments by the editor of that paper The history of the raid and the efforts to head off the bold leader and his band of daredevils is believed to be authentic - EDITOR The Army of the Cumberland under General Rosecrans was preparing for the advance on the campaign which ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR OHIO STATE HISTORY OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION This is the title of a substantially bound appropriately illustrated and carefully indexed volume of 643 pages compiled and edited by Mrs Annie Jopling Lester Ohio State Historian of the Daughters of the American Revolution The dedication is to Mrs Lowell Fletcher Hobart State Regent of Ohio 1923-1926 There is an opening sketch of three compact pages giving full ...
... INDEX INDEX COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABZUG Robert H Passionate Liberator Theodore Dwight Weld amp the Dilemma of Reform rev 350-351 Access to the Past Museum Programs and Handicapped Visitors A guide to Section 504-making existing programs and facilities accessible to disabled persons by Alice P Kenney 260 Accounting systems Buckeye Steel Castings Company 246-247 Acheson David C and David S McLellan editors Among Friends Personal Letters of Dean Acheson rev 93-94 Acheson Dean Among Friends ...
... THE MOUND BUILDERS OF CINCINNATI THE MOUND BUILDERS OF CINCINNATI MARIE PAULA DICKORE' A M History's tales have inspired the great artist to his magnificent pictures the bard to lofty epics the composer to stirring national hymns Her illustrious name calls forth a brilliant array nation follows upon nation--Assyrian and Egyptian Greek and Roman Celt and Gaul Teuton and AngloSaxon We hear of primitive peoples and the highest civilizations of the rise and the fall of nations History has set her ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 64 NUMBER 4 OCTOBER 1955 The Correspondence of George A Myers and James Ford Rhodes 1910-1923-IV Edited by JOHN A GARRATY RHODES TO MYERS Boston May 22 1920 Dear George I have yr two valued favors of Apr 30 and May 12 the latter enclosing two editorials from the P D which I have read with great interest Senator Lodge is a very able man The contest has been between him and the President The President has had a stroke of ...
... ROBERT W ROBERT W McCORMICK A Union Army Medical Inspector Norton Townshend Over 350000 Union soldiers lost their lives in the Civil War but only one-third of these deaths were combat related The remaining 225000 soldier deaths resulted from six million cases of illness from disease and accidents As shocking as these figures are they represent a marked improvement over the Mexican War where seven men died of disease for every man killed by the enemy Before the fighting began the Medical ...
... SURVEY OF THE SEVEN RANGES SURVEY OF THE SEVEN RANGES After the immigration into the Western Reserve of the advance columns of the Connecticut Land Company it was several years before the survey of the new Western Reserve Empire was completed The base lines of the survey were the western boundary of Pennsylvania as determined ten years before 1786 and the parallel 41 latitude north was now 1796 run for the first time and extending west from Pennsylvania 1 20 miles From this base line lines ...
... THE TEACHING OF PHARMACY IN OHIO THE TEACHING OF PHARMACY IN OHIO by B V CHRISTENSEN Dean of the College of Pharmacy Ohio State University The early development of pharmacy in the United States went hand in hand with the development of medical practice As a matter of fact up until about 1800 there was no appreciable separation between medicine and pharmacy and in many instances both medicine and pharmacy were practiced by the same individuals Not infrequently neither medicine nor pharmacy was ...
... A Granville Cooper's Experience A Granville Cooper's Experience With Barter in the 1820's By PETER FOX SMITH I N 1805 A COMPANY OF NEW ENGLANDERS from Granville Massachusetts journeyed over the mountains to the west crossed the Ohio River and settled near the center of the infant state of Ohio Today Granville Ohio which is populated by some two thousand villagers and fourteen hundred students of Denison University still retains some characteristics of her eastern heritage One of the oldest ...
... 626 Ohio Arch 626 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications trees which are greatly in need of expert attention and care Some of these fine old trees have already died and others are dying for want of proper attention The appropriations for Fort Meigs have never been adequate to care properly for the most necessary things and it is utterly impossible to even think of taking care of trees much as we would like to do so Our appropriation for this year for all purposes at Fort Meigs is 62500 We ...
... GEORGE C GEORGE C CROUT Albert B Graham School Days of a Schoolmaster Albert B Graham was born March 13 1868 or as he expressed it in his own wry sense of humor came up between two stalks of corn on the last farm on Route 36 west of St Paris in Champaign County1 From as early as he could remember he had aspirations of being a schoolmaster When he first revealed his secret ambition his Scotch-Presbyterian father remarked What a thing for a lad to decide when there is a mortgage on the farm2 ...
... MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT IN AN AVERAGE CITY MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT IN AN AVERAGE CITY CLEVELAND 1876-1900 by JAMES B WHIPPLE Instructor in History Western Reserve University I Studies of municipal politics have tended to emphasize the best governed city or the worst In many ways this may be an accurate reflection of the national scene where contemporaries were preoccupied with the same extremes Cleveland between 1876 and 1900 does not fall into either of these classifications Nevertheless taken as ...
... THE GERMAN PIONEERS THE GERMAN PIONEERS ADDRESS BY BERNARD PETERS OF BROOKLYN N Y LADIES AND GEN TL EMEN By the committee who have had the arrangements for these centennial exercises in charge I have been requested to speak on this occasion of the German pioneers who settled in this county during the first half of the present century The Governor of Ohio who has just introduced me as a native of this city must stand corrected in this particular I am not a native of this city nor of this State ...
... Historical News Historical News The Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation of Pittsburgh has made a grant of fifteen thousand dollars to the Harmonie Associates Inc for their use in a program of aid to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in the restoration of Old Economy at Ambridge Pennsylvania a commission property The money will be used to refurbish the document room and four administrative research rooms and to install proper microfilm equipment files and stacks Provisions in the ...
... HARRY G HARRY G ENOCH One Man's Experience in a One Hundred Day Regiment Barzilla R Shaw and the 143d Ohio Volunteer Infantry Like many other young Union soldiers Barzilla R Shaw of the 143d Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry OVI kept a diary of his experiences during the Civil War Although his unit was a late entry it saw action in the crucial Petersburg Campaign in the summer of 1864 which led to the end of the Confederacy In April Governor John Brough had called Shaw's home guard unit to the ...
... POLITICO-ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS IN THE POLITICO-ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS IN THE WESTERN RESERVE'S EARLY SLAVERY CONTROVERSY By EDWARD C REILLEY With the advent of the Panic of 1837 the people of that northeastern section of Ohio known as the Western Reserve seemed for the first time to have suspected that the southern labor system was in some degree responsible for producing their economic woes This viewpoint was but slowly accepted and was not emphasized by its proponents until after the ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA OHIO DAY IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS At the regular monthly meeting of the Executive Committee of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical society held Friday July 18 1902 Professor C L Martzolff trustee presented a scheme to have the public schools throughout the state celebrate the admission of Ohio into the Union on March 1 1903 He proposed that the Society through a committee prepare a program of exercises for that occasion such program to consist of historical ...
... FRANK L FRANK L KLEMENT Ohio and the Dedication of the Soldiers' Cemetery at Gettysburg Ohioans had more than a passing interest in the dedication of the Soldiers' Cemetery at Gettysburg on November 19 1863 A decisive three-day battle fought in the surrounding countryside on July 1-3 1863 had claimed the lives of many of the state's soldiers some of whom were hurriedly buried in shallow graves or merely covered with spadefuls of dirt where they had fallen No other governor not even ...