... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 65 NUMBER 2 APRIL 1956 From England to Ohio 1830-1832 The Journal of Thomas K Wharton-- II Edited by JAME S H RODABAUGH This is the second and final installment of the Wharton journal the first having appeared in the January issue pages 1-27 along with a brief sketch of Wharton Wharton as a boy of sixteen sailed with his mother brothers and sisters from Hull May 3 1830 to join his father who had acquired a farm near Piqua Ohio ...
... 352 Ohio Arch 352 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications EAGLE EFFIGY Largest Indian mound of its type in Wisconsin Body 131 feet Wing spread 624 feet Marked by the Wisconsin Archaeological Society July 30 1910 ADDRESS OF REV F A GILMORE Archaeology and theology have sometimes been grouped together since both are said to deal with subjects of no interest to modern men As a theologian I should be glad to refute this idea but though I know you are all eager to hear me discourse on theology you ...
... THE OHIO HERITAGE THE OHIO HERITAGE by WALTER HAVIGHURST Research Professor of English Miami University The past is a short word with a long meaning Once a tropic ocean covered Ohio and now the limestone ledges of our rivers are crusted with sea shells skeletons of fish and stems of coral from the profuse life of that ancient sea Three times a continental glacier crept over Ohio covering as much as three-fourths of the state with a vast carpet of ice Once a race of men raised burial mounds ...
... Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 581 Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 581 FORT ST CLAIR Mr H R McPherson read the report of the Committee as follows As chairman of The Fort St Clair Committee I have the honor to report as follows Since securing possession of Fort St Clair December 1923 the following work has been performed on the grounds Purchased 280 rods of wire for fence and new posts for 80 rods of old wire fence A total of 360 rods of fence has been erected Four hundred and ninety-one steel posts ...
... MEDICAL SOCIETIES IN CLEVELAND FROM 1890 TO 1945 MEDICAL SOCIETIES IN CLEVELAND FROM 1890 TO 1945 by CLYDE L CUMMER MD Part I THE REVOLUTIONARY NINETIES Since 1810 when Dr David Long moved to Cleveland from Hebron New York and became Cleveland's first physician there was no decade in its medical history so fraught with change as that extending from 1893 to 1903 This development in medicine was but a part of the times Although preparing to celebrate its centennial in 1896 Cleveland as a city ...
... THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS The committee found that limitations of time made it necessary to rely on questionnaires in compiling a bibliography of the historical writings of Ohioans during the year 1949 Members of the Ohio Academy of History staff members of departments of history in the state's colleges and universities and officials of local historical societies were asked to list their writings In relying on the use of the ...
... INTER-STATE MIGRATION AND THE MAKING OF INTER-STATE MIGRATION AND THE MAKING OF THE UNION BY DR EDWIN ERLE SPARKS President Emeritus of the Pennsylvania State College I hear the far-off voyager's horn 1 see the Yankee's trail -- His foot on every mountain-pass On every stream his sail Behind the scared squaw's birch canoe The steamer smokes and raves And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be The first low wash of waves where ...
... LAWRENCE GROSSMAN LAWRENCE GROSSMAN In His Veins Coursed No Bootlicking Blood The Career of Peter H Clark Peter H Clark was one of the most prominent black leaders of the nineteenth century Working as a schoolteacher he emerged as a champion of the antebellum Negro community in Cincinnati achieved recognition after the Civil War as one of the leading black men of Ohio and became a figure of national importance in racial matters by the 1880s Though Clark's fame proved ephemeral an understanding ...
... 302 Ohio Arch 302 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications it to go beyond what is now the confines of Pickaway Township Further the Cresaps of the present are of the opinion that Logan should have been consistent with the words of his message by his attendance at the Treaty when only six miles distant notwithstanding his threatening note of July 1774 to Captain Michael Cresap tied to a War Club and left in the house of Roberts after Logan had massacred the family Also Logan was inconsistent ...
... DAVID FRENCH DAVID FRENCH Elizur Wright Jr and the Emergence of Anti-Colonization Sentiments on the Connecticut Western Reserve Probing the origins of reform sentiment is the sort of sleuthing particularly attractive to students of social history The Connecticut Western Reserve has evoked considerable scholarly discussion much of which vastly over-simplified the interaction of reformers with their environment The origins of sentiments in the Western Reserve in opposition to schemes for ...
... NEGRO RIGHTS AND WHITE BACKLASH IN THE CAMPAIGN OF 1920 by RANDOLPH C DOWNES I believe in equality before the law You can't give rights to the white man and deny them to the black man But while I stand for that great great principle I do not mean that the white man and the black man must be forced to associate together in the acceptance of their rights Harding address in Oklahoma City October 9 1920 as reported in The Daily Oklahoma October 10 1920 The greatest indignity suffered by Harding in ...
... MINUTES OF THE FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETMINUTES OF THE FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO SATURDAY OCTOBER 8 1927 FORENOON SESSION 1000 A M The meeting was called to order by Secretary C B Galbreath There were present Dr B F Prince Arthur C Johnson Dr W O Thompson Gen Edward Orton Jr George F Bareis Dr Frank C Furniss C B Galbreath Mrs C B Galbreath Mrs Orson D Dryer Edwin F Wood Joseph C Goodman Fred J ...
... COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS EARLY OHIO PAINTERS CINCINNATI 1830-1850 by DONALD R MacKENZIE WHEN AN 1840 editor of the New York Star wrote Cincinnati What is there in the atmosphere of Cincinnati that has so thoroughly awakened the arts of sculpture and painting he was expressing an outsider's appraisal of the Queen City The famous Mrs Trollope after three years in Cincinnati had come nearer the truth with her observation on the indigenous American artist With regard to the fine arts ...
... JOHN PHILLIPS RESCH JOHN PHILLIPS RESCH Ohio Adult Penal System 1850-1900 A Study in the Failure of Institutional Reform Throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century Ohio prison reformers tried to recast the state's penal system so that it would rehabilitate criminals and restore them to productive citizenship By 1884 reformers succeeded in their efforts to secure legislation to rehabilitate adult criminals through classification job training moral and academic classes reduction of ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY AUGUST 1950-JULY 1951 Compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE Centennial Souvenir of the Ohio State Fair A Century of Agricultural Progress in Ohio Columbus Columbus Chamber of Commerce and Franklin County Historical Society 1950 11p DODDS Gilbert F Centennial of the First Franklin County Fair Franklin County Historical Society Bulletin III 1950-51 50-52 DODDS Gilbert F The ...
... FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHI FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHI STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO Wednesday October 6 1926 900 A M The meeting was called to order by Secretary C B Galbreath There were present B F Prince Arthur C Johnson C B Galbreath Mrs C B Galbreath Edward Orton Jr H R McPherson Mrs H R McPherson Mrs Howard Jones Mrs Anna M Keirn Dr J M Dunham E F Wood Dr F C Furniss Dr William C Mills Theodore A Wegener Joseph C Goodman B ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 2 53 'Your house is going up on Tuesday If Wadsworth can't raise it Norton will We will meet at Norton Center for a game of base-ball prepared with wagons and horses if warned by one o'clock that we will be wanted Then when we come every Wadsworth man must stand back and see Norton men put up the frame' The same messenger then slyly told the leading men of the whisky party the plan being to bring all Wadsworth to see Norton's triumph The day came Being myself the ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 99 George H Pepper Am Museum Nat History New York Harlan I Smith Am Museum Nat History New York Cecilie Seler Berlin Germany Hjalmar Stolpe Stockholm Sweden Luis A Herrera Uruguay Marshall H Saville New York Adelaf Breton London England C T Hartman Stockholm Sweden At the station before departure Mr Saville made a neat little speech in behalf of the guests thanking their hosts for the pleasure and profit of the day and three cheers were given by each party in behalf ...
... COLONEL JOHN MURRAY COLONEL JOHN MURRAY DAVID E PHILLIPS The readers of the Archaeological and Historical Quarterly can hardly fail to be interested in any matter intimately associated with the very beginnings of our Great Commonwealth The famous old mansion in Rutland Mass now owned by The Rufus Putnam Memorial Association and called The Cradle of Ohio has become one of the Shrines of American Patriotism and few have had so romantic an origin and history It was built about the year 176 0 and ...
... OHIO AND WESTERN EXPANSION OHIO AND WESTERN EXPANSION BY PROFESSOR WILLIS ARDEN CHAMBERLIN DENISON UNIVERSITY Wonderful opportunity matched by daring enterprise - that is the formula to account for the marvelous development of the Buckeye State The growth of Ohio is the epitome of national expansion Its transformation from the wilderness in which roamed savage Redmen and wild beasts prowled to the present well-ordered commonwealth is the epic of American civilization Ohio was the first orderly ...